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to be pissed of with hairdressers

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memoo · 16/09/2008 22:36

who won't kids kids hair at the weekend!!

I phoned up 3 to try and make any appointment for myself and DD age 9 on Saturday. I can't take her in the week because of work. 2 of them said they don't do kids hair at all at the weekend and the other said they would do it but I would have to pay full price, £27!!!!!

I would be getting my hair done too and all I want is for her to have a bit trimmed off the ends, just a dry cut.

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platypussy · 17/09/2008 18:06

I am sorry but I do think that to refuse to do a £15 full price haircut on a 9 year old just because it's Saturday amounts to age discrimination. I hate the way our young people are sometimes treated.

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memoo · 17/09/2008 18:08

No squecky pop!

Two of the hairdressers charge £15 on saturdays for adults.

I am willing to pay this full £15 for DD but even though they would be getting paid the same amount as if they had cut an adults hair they just won't cut kids hair on saturdays!

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aGalChangedHerName · 17/09/2008 18:16

Memoo YANBU.

I went to a hairdresser near me and paid £70 for half head and cut and gave a £10 tp. Wanted to make next appt for me and the 2 dd's who would be £15 each.

They said no to doing it on a Saturday which i kind of understood. Tried to make an appt for me on a Sat and them on a weekday.

Sorry can't make appts on a weekday either snotty receptionist said. WTF???

I would have to just walk in and if they are not too busy they might try to squeeze them in.

Yeah like i am going to take my dd's aged 2 and 4 and mindees who are 17 months and 6 and 8 to a hairdressers on the off chance we get their hair done.

So we now all go to another who does mine DH's,the dd's and the ds's too whenever we wnat.

Not good business sense to turn down families of 6 imo. I hear they are letting staff go in the 1st salon cos they are not getting the business. Shame eh?

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memoo · 17/09/2008 18:21

aGalChangedHerName, its unreal isn't it!!

I just don't see the logic behind it. Don't they realise that by turning down appointments for kids they are also losing the custom of their parents.

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aGalChangedHerName · 17/09/2008 18:29

If all 6 of us go on together it costs me about £160-180 depending on whether or not ds1 is getting colours done.

Twiglett · 17/09/2008 18:31

ROFL at 'age discrimination' .. do you listen to yourselves ever?

aGalChangedHerName · 17/09/2008 18:34

I don't think it's discrimination,just shite business sense. If i went with my lot every 6 weeks they would have regular money coming in.

Imagine how many women they have pissed off and how much business they have lost.

platypussy · 17/09/2008 18:34

Twiglett - you must be referring to me. I hate young people being treated like dirt.

Joolyjoolyjoo · 17/09/2008 18:39

Wow- I feel lucky now! we have a little salon up the road who trimmed both my dds hair for a total of £7 (yup, £3.50 each!) I was quite stunned myself at the time, but will definitely be going back! And, as they were nice to my kids, I might just leave my overpriced snooty hairdresser and start going there myself.

I'm a bit shocked that hairdressers would refuse to kids on a Saturday! I'm a vet, and that would be like us refusing to see small furries (guinea pigs etc) on a Saturday, as a consultation for them costs less than a cat or dog. if you are going to offer a service, it should be comprehensive, to my mind. Surely they could even just say they had no appts left, or even only have a limited no of kids appts on Saturdays?

TinkerBellesMum · 17/09/2008 18:44

Refusing someone service on grounds of something like age, colour, gender is discrimination.

I would ring up and make an appointment and not say it's for a child, just tell them it's a dry trim. Once you have an appointment for her then what can they say? You're still paying them for their time as much as if it was the adult they were expecting.

Twiglett · 17/09/2008 18:59

They said they would cut the kid's hair if she paid full adult price. It is not discrimination.

I love MN Militancy

Twiglett · 17/09/2008 19:00

age discrimination does not count below the age of majority

loobeylou · 17/09/2008 19:00

My DDs age 7 and 9 get done in an "old ladies" type hair dresser and its £7 each, even Saturdays, when they never seem totally full - obviously that will depend a bit where you live. When they were smaller they would trim for just £3-£4, and give them a biscuit for being good!!

Lots of my friends use mobile hairdressers who come to the home and do all the kids in one go while those waiting play / watch a DVD. No behaviour probs and dead cheap!! I kow one lady has DD, DS and DH all done for £20

loobeylou · 17/09/2008 19:02

sorry, I know - not I kow!!!

TinkerBellesMum · 17/09/2008 19:05

No 1/3 said they'd cut at adults price 2/3 said they wouldn't cut a child's hair at the weekend.

pointydog · 17/09/2008 19:13

You must go to a hairdressers which is too upmarket. I have never had this problem. Go to a cheap local one.

AllieBongo · 17/09/2008 19:16

when i worked in a salon ages ago they would not generally cut kids hair at the weekend. this was because the appointments generally took longer and they earned less money than they would for an adults cut. this was their busiest day of the week and they would go bonkers if you booked a child in..

SqueakyPop · 17/09/2008 19:21

Jooly,

If you are like my vet, you will no doubt have most of your consultation hours in the evening (eg 5-8pm) and on Saturdays, ie working around everyone else's working hours.

Hairdressers don't typically do this.

lovecat · 17/09/2008 19:25

PMSL at 'in those five minutes they could be doing something essential for their paying customers'

Like flicking through Heat magazine and giving a post-mortem on Friday night at the pub??

Highlights? In 5 minutes???

I second the 'old lady' hairdressers, most of them I can just walk in with DD on a Saturday - the most it's cost me has been a fiver, the least £2.50 (and she even put in a few layers for me!).

My 'salon' hairdressers will do kid's hair but charges £10 a time for what is literally 3 minutes' work (I've timed them).

Sadly I can't do her hair myself as she would end up looking like this...

AllieBongo · 17/09/2008 19:29

my dd looks a little like that after tending her mane with some nail scissors the other day

SqueakyPop · 17/09/2008 19:32

I was thinking doing things like stock taking their colourants and making some orders...

I know that hairdressers are not the pinnacle of what society has to offer, but they have their own level of complexity, which is not to be poo-poo'd at.

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memoo · 17/09/2008 20:00

""They said they would cut the kid's hair if she paid full adult price. It is not discrimination""

No twiglet, I said I was willing to pay the full adult price of £15, they just won't do kids on saturady even if they pay the full price

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mamhaf · 17/09/2008 21:53

Memoo - I realised a few years ago that the only way to avoid this sort of hassle was to find a mobile hairdresser.

She comes to us, does my cut and colour and cuts dc and dh's hair while I'm washing the colour out myself.

It's not as nice as sitting in a salon and having the head massage etc, but it's a lot less expensive and a much less stressful way of getting everyone's hair done (except the time when she found nits in dd2's hair, but that's another story...)

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