Vicki in Oregon
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On March 10th I went to a hairstylist requesting Malibu treatment to try to fade the black color another stylist hag given me after requesting a nice medium brown. Prior to that a stylist bleached my hair orange when I again had requested a lighter brown than my normally dark brown hair I was born with. I told the stylist my entire hair history including that it was previously bleached and that I did not want to bleach again precisely because I did not want more damage to my hair. At that point I had not had any hair breakage but my hair was not as healthy as it once was and she could tell by looking and feeling it as well. She told me that my black hair would never ever fade. I asked, “not even a little?†She said no. I believed her. Yet today, my once level 1 black hair is easy a level 5. Had I known it would fade on its own I would have patiently waited a few months. She said the Malibu would not work so I was about to leave but she tried hard to convince me to do what she called a "10 hair test strand." Stupidly I agreed to the tiny piece of hair she had in her hand. She taunted me and said, C'mon, you can't handle 10 little hair with that huge head of hair?" She swore up and down I would not lose the hair and that she would use the lightest % bleach. Against my better judgment I agreed to the 10 hairs due to the pressure of this alleged expert. Except that the "10 hair test strand" turned out to be 30,000 hairs!!! She put the bleach on so fast and pushed me under the dryer so fast I had no idea what hit me. When she finally removed the bleach under the sink I tried to turn my head to see what was going on and she roughly turned my head back. When she finished and I saw all the tons of bright brassy orange and yellow sections I felt sick. She said, "look at how well your hair took the bleach, I could have used a much lower % bleach!" She also claimed I lost no hair while she was rinsing it but she did not let me see at the time. I said I cannot walk around with yellow and orange sections in my hair mixed with the black I came in! I asked why she did so much hair and to cover it up. I said please use a semi perm NO ammonia NO peroxide Semi permanent solution to cover up the mess. Her response was, I don’t want to do that because I want to be able to gage how much hair you lose!" She said she was curious to see how much I would lose! This was the same person who said I would lose none! The same person who would only treat 10 individual hairs! I took pictures of the hair the day after the incident but before I showered that day. When I got out of the shower, the hair had broken off! The bleached parts were 99% gone! Went to see the owner a couple days later when he was there. He called me a liar and literally pushed me out the door. And yet I not only showed him pics of my hair with the yellow and orange BUT also showed him the current breakage right before him. I showed him tons of breakage, massive amounts of hair that was broken near the root. I had no choice but to cut nearly a foot of hair! It was terrible. I use to have hair past my waist. I got so many compliments on my hair for years. It was so long, thick and pretty that people would come up to me and ask me if it was real because they thought it was extensions. Today it is shorter, thinner, frizzy, and so hard to comb because the short pieces get tangled. I even have a half dollar size bald spot where she applied bleach as well. I have spent a lot of money trying to find something to grow my hair faster by seeing dermatologists who also did expensive blood tests to show it was all chemical breakage. I bought tons of supplements and topicals. Spent hundreds so far trying to find answers. But there is no price I would put on the emotional pain and even physically this vindictive incident has taken its toll on my health. Turned out too that at the time she was not licensed and the owner was not registered as the owner after acting as owner for the place for so long. She has recently become licensed.
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