You know you're seeing a bad stylist when....

[hair_rehab]

- She never remembers your name even though you've been going to her for months

-You're embarrassed because you were nice enough to refer someone to her and they call you complaining about her bad service

-you have to hear about her personal life whether you want to or not.

-She asks you to run errands for her

-She wants you to pay with cash after she specifically told you ahead of time that you could write a check, and you have to run to the ATM.

-Even her kid says that your hair looks bad when she's finished

-You leave her a message to schedule an appointment and she never returns your call.

I could go on for days...

 

[xosha1]

When she tells you she knows how to grow hair, but..

When you realize you have known the woman for a year and have never seen her real hair.

When you finally see what's under the wig it's thin super short and has no edges.

When you tell her the relaxer is burning and she says you shouldn't have been scratching, and proceeds to do someone else's hair.

 

[exoticmommie]

My experiences with different bad stylists :

Here's a twist. When her hair looks super shiny and full and healthy and all or most of her clients have thin, damaged and brittle hair, including you. (now she know better)

When you come in to get your hair done, and because you are young and your moms not there, she lets other people who came after you go before you, and then about the time your mom is supposed to come and get you, she starts doing you hair. And when your mom gets there she says, "your hair ain't done yet?"

(different stylist then the one above) Day of the prom you come in early to try and beat all the people, and again, since you are young and your mom just dropped you off, she proceeds to let other people who came after you go before you. You fall asleep cause it's been so long. She doesn't start doing your hair till your mom calls to find out if you are ready. My mom never took me back there again.

She tells you she can't do your SL hair with all this damage, and if she can't cut it off she will not do it. Then you walk out looking like Moe from the three stooges. I swear this happened, she basically gave me soup bowl cut, and I had to come up with different ways of styling it so I didn't look that way. my aunt recommended her(raved about her) needless to say I never went back.

Your stylist is already over booked, and yet she is also taking walk ins.

And of course, you ask for a trim and get a cut.


I swear because of all the problems I had with a stylist skipping me when I was young, any stylist who does that to my girls, is gonna get a ear load from me.

 

[lonelysky]

Why would a stylist skip anyone? You're still paying...

 

[msdevo]

When your stylist leaves you sitting in the chair(hair half done) to run around the corner to a funeral parlor to do the hair of a recently deceased person she did not know.

It was my 1st and last time there. I mean come on. She had a chance to have a repeat customer that tips!!!!!!!

She said I'll be right back. I waited a good hour and she still had not returned. I kindly got up, put my wig back on and used the money she would have gotten to got to the casino.

 

[lonelysky]

When your stylist leaves you sitting in the chair(hair half done) to run around the corner to a funeral parlor to do the hair of a recently deceased person she did not know.

It was my 1st and last time there. I mean come on. She had a chance to have a repeat customer that tips!!!!!!!

She said I'll be right back. I waited a good hour and she still had not returned. I kindly got up, put my wig back on and used the money she would have gotten to got to the casino.

NO SHE DIDN'T!

 

[exoticmommie]

Why would a stylist skip anyone? You're still paying...

I wasn't paying my mother was, and they would skip me until they felt my mom would be due back...

 

[lonelysky]

I wasn't paying my mother was, and they would skip me until they felt my mom would be due back...

That still doesn't make sense...were they afraid that they weren't going to get their money?

 

[MizzCoco]

when she insists that my hair is underprocessed, and proceeds to pull the relaxer all the way thru to the ends of my beautiful, thick, nearly APL hair. I was young and didn't know any better. my hair WAS a little frizzy but thts because I needed a good DC. needless to say, after my hair broke off, I cancelled my next appt!

 

[exoticmommie]

That still doesn't make sense...were they afraid that they weren't going to get their money?

I am from southern Miami, and whenever I would go to a salon, if my mom was not there, they would skip me. They did this to all the young girls who's parents weren't there with them, they would let the older women go before us. Basically they were giving them preferential treatment because they knew that we would most likely not say anything. A lot has changed since then, but back then we didn't say anything or talk back to our elders. And they knew this....

Does it make sense now?

 

[theprototype]

That still doesn't make sense...were they afraid that they weren't going to get their money?

when i was in my early teens, my hairdresser used to do that to me too. i think it's because she was running so late in her "appointments" (a term used way too loosely), that she would skip the children to try to get the adult clients out as soon as possible. the adult clients are more likely to get upset about the delay and call her out about it, whereas the most likely won't be assertive enough to say anything.

 

[exoticmommie]

when i was in my early teens, my hairdresser used to do that to me too. i think it's because she was running so late in her "appointments" (a term used way too loosely), that she would skip the children to try to get the adult clients out as soon as possible. the adult clients are more likely to get upset about the delay and call her out about it, whereas the most likely won't be assertive enough to say anything.

Exactly!

 

[msdevo]

YES!!! She did.

NO SHE DIDN'T!

 

[that_1_grrrl]

When your stylist lives next door and after seeing their house, you ask them to do your hair in your own house.

 

[Sunrise]

When the salon you usually visit are suddenly full of staff "Straight from Yard". You full well know that they didn't study for their NVQ in Hairdressing.

 

[LovinLea]

when you ask for a DC, and she ends up trying to leave you under there for an hour and a half while she eats and does her other clients

when you've been in there so long, that while you're there you need a lunch break (and don't forget to pick her up something, too)

when you ask her what you should be doing at home between visits she tells you to only put IC hair polisher on your hair everyday, even though you only see her every TWO WEEKS (after about the 5th day, the hair polisher starts making your hair feel sticky/hard)

 

[SlantedEyezMiss2003]

Ladies I'm so sorry yall have had these bad experiences.....I don't have nothing to add, but those stylists need to get turned in.....cuz these are horror stories!

 

[Luscious850]

1. She tells you stretching for over 4 weeks is bad for your hair
2. She doesn't realize when she is hurting you because shes too busy worried about the other 5 people who have the same appointment time as you (ex. when using an iron or when leaving the relaxer in too long)
3. She doesnt fully neutralize the hair she just does 2 quick wash/rinses then sends you under the dryer for a DC
4. Every time you come she demands that you clip those ends
5. You end up leaving with more than what you really wanted and have to pay all kinds of extra charges

 

[lonelysky]

...when no matter what the hairstyle, she always ends up using that nasty brown gel...

 

[bellezanegra826]

why have i had all of the aforementioned experiences except for the wedding and the funeral stories? what in the world?!?!

 

[adi687]

- when she does 10 thousand other things while doing your hair (ordering supplies, answering her friends' call)
- when she tells you it'll only take 2 hours and at the end you realize you spent close to 4 hours there.

 

[SheenaVee]

Wow I guess I was very lucky with my stylist then coz I never had these problems. I had never been to a stylist before in my life and my hair grew down to my brastrap. Then I thought it was invincible and did everything under the sun to it so it broke and shed to armpit length and continued shedding and breaking badly. I didn't know what to do so I went to a salon.

The one I was originally gonna go wasn't open so I had to go another one. (thank God it wasn't open!) The one I went to was very organised, all the female stylists in there had healthy hair, the longest was about shoulder length but their hair was still healthy. When I came in for my appoinment I only had to wait a few mins while my stylist finished up the person before me and during that time they would put the cloak on me and towel round my shoulders and offer me tea or coffee and then I would sit and read a magazine.

The were friendly and polite, not too expensive and had good products. My stylist was great, he was very gentle with my hair, advised me to relax every 8-10 weeks, when I brought in Bigen hair colour so I could dye my hair after he relaxed he was hesitant to use it and checked to make sure that it was safe to do.

He did always want to trim after I relaxed but if I said I didn't want a trim he didn't do it. He remembered me and what my hair needed and how he normally did my hair. They were great! But my stylist moved to Antigua and the salon moved and the place its in now is too far from me so I stopped going.

(Sorry I know this is off topic and not the point of the thread lol)

 

[msdevo]

This is exactly why I decied to start doing it myself. I have had so much progress. Plus I'd rather spend my money on delicious hair products than a
stylist thats gonna jack my hair up.

why have i had all of the aforementioned experiences except for the wedding and the funeral stories? what in the world?!?!

 

[msdevo]

When he/she...

drops a comb on the floor and puts it right back in your hair.
the only relaxers you see are in a box.
you can see weave tracks and black glue in her hair.

 

[CAPlush]

Horrible thing that happened to me at a beauty school, but this is a sign of a horrible stylist. She washed my hair, conditioned, rinsed, and my head itched like crazy. I reached up only to feel a thick coating of conditioner or shampoo or both STILL on my scalp. She called the instructor over, and the instructor said it was dandruff. I told the girl to re-wash my hair with a clarifier, then I left.

Stylist reaches for a rattail comb to detangle your BSL texlax hair.

Stylist refuses to detangle your hair properly even after given instruction. (This is when I leave, I don't have time.)

When she can't speak a word of English, goes over to talk to another stylist, then comes back to you and only says "Touch up?"

 

[kiarai]

-When you go in the first time and she charges you £40, the next time £65 and the time after that £55. When you bring this to their attention you get told off for causing trouble. You ask for a definate price and its not the same as anything you've paid before!

-When you reluctantly get bullied into having a trim and she stars shaving the back of your head (tru story, the day before I was starting my new life at University, I was devastated)

-When you ask for a treatment and she washes ur hair but then wont do anything else unless you let het colour and cut it. (had to walk out with wet hair)

-When she decides she doesnt like the length of your hair and cuts far too much off then sees the disappointment/shock in your face then screams and shouts at you and tells you to get out of her salon because shes been cutting hair for years and is a great hairdresser

 

[oooop2]

When the sound of hair sizzling is a normal sound...

 

[jazzyto]

When you have been going to the salon every week and then a you experience breakage and she asks you "what have you been doing to your hair"

When she has 3 8:00 appts and doesnt show up to work until 9:30 and she has an attitude.

She charges clients 10.00 for a "deep treatment" that was QP elasta intense that she left on their head for all of 5 mins.

 

[that_1_grrrl]

When you have been going to the salon every week and then a you experience breakage and she asks you "what have you been doing to your hair"

When she has 3 8:00 appts and doesnt show up to work until 9:30 and she has an attitude.

She charges clients 10.00 for a "deep treatment" that was QP elasta intense that she left on their head for all of 5 mins.

Oh c'mon! A whole bottle/jar of Elasta QP Intense isn't worth 10.00, let alone a little bit smoothed on your head.

 

[melodies815]

Mine are for braid stylists...you know you are seeing a bad stylist when

• ...when you arrive for an afternoon braiding appt, they finish their lunch by eating some form of thick gumbo with their hands, lick their fingers clean and then walk towards your head to start braiding (true story in Fayetteville, NC on Skibo Road...and I jumped out of the chair and left!)
• ...when they leave to walk down to the chicken place three hours into doing your hair and don't come back for an hour.
• ...when three people are braiding your head, and you have four or five different sizes and textures of box braids in your head when you leave.
• ...when they have to re-do your entire head over again with different hair because the braids have started slipping out - like seeing a braid on the floor while you are out at dinner!!! (Personal experience!)
• ...when they ask, "Now, what is a box braid?"
• ...when they stop braiding your hair to braid someone else's and then get back to you later.
• ...when your 4 hour braid session takes 10 hours.
• ...when you speak to your braider over the phone to make the appointment and then arrive to be braided by someone who doesn't understand your language. (Personal experience!!!) I left.

This is why I learned to do my own braids...


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