Yeah they can, and my mother almost killed one of them in return lol. When she first start dating my step-father, who is a retired army sergeant, he told her about a salon on base that could probably deal better with my "type of hair".
Not caring much either way (I was 7 and hair was the last thing on my mind), I went along with him one weekend where he dropped me off at the small salon where he and the stylist discussed what she was going to do to my hair (well at least I think that's what they were discussing the way she was pulling and tugging at my hair, but IDK I didn't speak english back then).
After he left, she headed straight for a huge tub of relaxer and began explaining what she was doing after she saw my expression which was universal for: "Lady, I know you're not planning on putting that stinky stuff on
my head!" But she did it anyway, and since I didn't want to be disrespectful, and figured that as a stylist she must know what she's doing, I just kept my mouth closed until she was finished.
At this point the story becomes a blur...all I remember is my mother cursing out my step-father in two languages, throwing random household objects at him, and him driving us all the way back to Stuttgart so that my mother could give the stylist a piece of her mind too, in broken english nonetheless. lol
Needless to say, a relaxer (although we really had no idea what that was back then, we just knew that my hair wouldn't curl anymore) was not what my mother had in mind, and so my first hair horror story came to be. However, looking back at it now, I have to say that was the best damn relaxer I ever had, no matter what we tried or how often we washed it, my hair stayed bone-straight.
Definitely. I would love to help