fatimablush
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That is what happened to me...and let's not forget the scalp burns that itch really bad as they are healing..
.Never again.
You know you're seeing a bad stylist when....
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That is what happened to me...and let's not forget the scalp burns that itch really bad as they are healing..
.Never again.
Sade'
Well-Known Member
When the shampoo girl has completed 85% of the styling process b/c the actual stylist is LATE. By the time he/she shows up all she doing is the finishing touch and removing my cape and STILL looking to get paid plus a tip.
When your stylist is SO chronically late that u surely expect some sort of discount.....still waiting....
When he/she keeps pausing and talks to u with the curling iron in her had waving it around and in ur head u say PLEASE CURL AND TALK!!
When the neighborhood junkies are in there selling socks, batteries and sheets. A bunch of random stuff I don't want and wouldn't buy from them if I did.
When they stop and take dinner orders for everyone. Then u know it's gonna be a long night.
When there is a big tub of relaxer lying around and no one can identify a def expiration date.
When your stylist is SO chronically late that u surely expect some sort of discount.....still waiting....
When he/she keeps pausing and talks to u with the curling iron in her had waving it around and in ur head u say PLEASE CURL AND TALK!!
When the neighborhood junkies are in there selling socks, batteries and sheets. A bunch of random stuff I don't want and wouldn't buy from them if I did.
When they stop and take dinner orders for everyone. Then u know it's gonna be a long night.
When there is a big tub of relaxer lying around and no one can identify a def expiration date.
natura87
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Sade'
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LOL!! IT blows my mind b/c these stylists will use it til it's gone no matter if its old.
That's crazy!
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?
This happened to me so many times when I was a young girl. Being skipped, along with the stylist waiting until my mom LEFT to suggest that I need a trim. My mom would come to pick me up and ask me, "Why did you let that woman cut your hair again?" I used to think to myself, "Why did you leave me?"
The last time I ever went to a braid stylists, I left with my head hurting so bad from 4 different people braiding (twisting) my hair at the same time. I gave up on braids, period. I took those out after only 2 weeks. They were way too tight and I didn't want to lose a patch of hair.
LMAO. For years, I thought my hair was just getting lighter from the sun.
So sad that just about everything in this list has happened to me, including having a home hair braider ask me to give her a ride to go get some Chinese food before she got started on my cornrows.
amerAKAn_dream
New Member
When you're sitting in the styling chair getting your hair done at a salon for the first time, and all of a sudden a woman bursts through the door and hurls a brick at the stylist that's THIS close to hitting you in the head, all because the stylist did her braids wrong. 
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la mosca
New Member
- Your stylist gossips/talks trash about her other clients;
- Your stylist is evasive when you ask about the products she uses;
- Your stylist disregards or mocks your requests;
- Your stylist attempts to shame you into cutting your hair; and
- Your stylist's only suggestion regarding how you can improve the condition of your hair is, "Come see me every week."
ms.blue
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1. When they ask for the payment upfront b4 she works on your head
2. When she braids one cornrow & needs a break to smoke a cig or weed or both b4 she can do another. Taking 3 hours to cornrow 8 braids. Wth!
3. Charges you again to do the install that she jacked up.
4. Braids too tight and says it cause your hair to grow but it does is give bald spots.
5. Talks to you about every single problem they got and you care about is getting your hair done.
6. When your mom ask you if the stylist was high when she was doing your hair
7. Has to get high b4 doing your hair b/c it makes her more creative
2. When she braids one cornrow & needs a break to smoke a cig or weed or both b4 she can do another. Taking 3 hours to cornrow 8 braids. Wth!
3. Charges you again to do the install that she jacked up.
4. Braids too tight and says it cause your hair to grow but it does is give bald spots.
5. Talks to you about every single problem they got and you care about is getting your hair done.
6. When your mom ask you if the stylist was high when she was doing your hair
7. Has to get high b4 doing your hair b/c it makes her more creative
Krymsonkween
New Member
When the hair dryer is set on HELL in u have to turn it with plyers.
When the stories come on they stop doing your hair.
When u go in they are selling clothes, perfume, pocketbooks, wingbags, n the hot sauce is beside the hair spray.
When the shampoo bowel is proped up with a 2/4.
When you getting your hair done they try to sell u a used dvd of Friday.
When you walk in n wait for a minute and ask them how much longer and They say just a second n 30min pass.
When they send you home with conditioner in your hair in a plastic cap on n tell u they will finish in the moring they are tired.
When they are teaching their kids to work in the shop n they have them trying to shampoo your hair in they are digging their nails in your head then they proceed to finish and the mama says scratch the scalp n rewash.
Relaxer base is baby vaseline.
When they start telling yo mama jokes.
When the stories come on they stop doing your hair.
When u go in they are selling clothes, perfume, pocketbooks, wingbags, n the hot sauce is beside the hair spray.
When the shampoo bowel is proped up with a 2/4.
When you getting your hair done they try to sell u a used dvd of Friday.
When you walk in n wait for a minute and ask them how much longer and They say just a second n 30min pass.
When they send you home with conditioner in your hair in a plastic cap on n tell u they will finish in the moring they are tired.
When they are teaching their kids to work in the shop n they have them trying to shampoo your hair in they are digging their nails in your head then they proceed to finish and the mama says scratch the scalp n rewash.
Relaxer base is baby vaseline.
When they start telling yo mama jokes.
Hairsofab
Well-Known Member
- She doesnt fully neutralize the hair she just does 2 quick wash/rinses then sends you under the dryer for a DC
When I went to salons and got my hair relaxed, I never had a stylist properly neutralize my hair. They always did the quick 2 minute wash. Not just at one salon but basically every salon I went to. It was only after I came to LHCF that I realized how important the neutralizing process is, and it should take several minutes among several washes.
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When they are crackin, smackin and chewin that gum in your ear!
When they literally push your head down in order to get to the back instead of asking you to hold your head down.
When the shampoo girl and the stylist all have fried chicken breath and they want to hold conversations with you.
When they take you in the back (after a two hour wait) to get shampooed and leave the conditioner on for another hour so you can't walk out and leave.
When you leave the shop with hair stuck to your sandals cause they hadn't swept all day!
When they literally push your head down in order to get to the back instead of asking you to hold your head down.
When the shampoo girl and the stylist all have fried chicken breath and they want to hold conversations with you.
When they take you in the back (after a two hour wait) to get shampooed and leave the conditioner on for another hour so you can't walk out and leave.
When you leave the shop with hair stuck to your sandals cause they hadn't swept all day!
shopgalore
New Member
Nope, I have never seen anyone inspect this salon ( In fact I dont think I have seen any salon get inspected in the UK). I remember when I went 3 months prior to the ceiling collapse I saw serious damp all along the walls and where we put our jackets, it should have been a sign
Krymsonkween
New Member
When they take ur weave out n ur hair. Now u havr bald spoke n she acts like u had to do something to have this happen.
When she shows up with pj on and tell u she has to take a shower give her a minute.
When the young child says my mama don't like you she told Mrs. Shelia that when u went to the bathroom!
When she shows up with pj on and tell u she has to take a shower give her a minute.
When the young child says my mama don't like you she told Mrs. Shelia that when u went to the bathroom!
lolascurls
New Member
WHEN THEIR HAIR IS BUUUUSSSSTTTTTTEEEEEDD!!
I mean would you go see a dentist with awful teeth? An esthetician with bad skin? LOL....[/QUOTE]
ITA with the above.
1) When they look at your hair before retouching the new growth and say, "you whole head looks like it's reverted!" This is after you've told her you just took out some braids a day before.....
2) When they spend more time talking to their friend who just sits in the shop doing nothing the whole time their doing your hair.
3) When they say, " your hair is so long.....you need a trim" *with a gleam in their eyes!
RUN, RUN, RUN!!!!!!
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Janet'
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That's just HAM!!!!
Those bolded ones, I have personally experienced...And that's just a MESS!!!!
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)
Ugh...Been there 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)
Had this happen, too...So, you mean to tell me that all I need for 2 weeks for moisture is some hair polisher?!
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.
Try 100% Natural 3c/mostly 4a hair
Stylist refuses to detangle your hair properly even after given instruction. (This is when I leave, I don't have time.)
Good for you...Someone was thinking clearly...
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?"
This stylist needs her license revoked...That's just crazy!!!
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.
Definitely have dealt with this one!
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.
All the bolded have happened to me as well...I should have had the good sense to leave but didn't...hence braid-"gate" 98...
[QUOTE=Pretty Brown Eyes;7512801]~ when you've been there so long that they have ordered lunch AND dinner....separately
~ when they run 'quick' errands to pick up their kids from school (who you know is gonna want to stop at the store for something to eat)
~when you arrive at the shop and call them at home only to find out they're still sleep[/QUOTE]
Yes ma'am--all of those were a regular for my stylist and I had gone to her for years before I just had to walk away...
All of the bolded remind me of my old salon in Atlanta off Memorial drive...don't forget about DVD's, fruit, oh, and even hair supplies
When you're sitting in the styling chair getting your hair done at a salon for the first time, and all of a sudden a woman bursts through the door and hurls a brick at the stylist that's THIS close to hitting you in the head, all because the stylist did her braids wrong.
Now...
this is just a dern shameYep, yep...at the bolded...
When the hair dryer is set on HELL in u have to turn it with plyers.
When the stories come on they stop doing your hair.
When u go in they are selling clothes, perfume, pocketbooks, wingbags, n the hot sauce is beside the hair spray.
When the shampoo bowel is proped up with a 2/4.
When you getting your hair done they try to sell u a used dvd of Friday.
When you walk in n wait for a minute and ask them how much longer and They say just a second n 30min pass.
All THE time!!!
When they send you home with conditioner in your hair in a plastic cap on n tell u they will finish in the moring they are tired.
When they are teaching their kids to work in the shop n they have them trying to shampoo your hair in they are digging their nails in your head then they proceed to finish and the mama says scratch the scalp n rewash.
Relaxer base is baby vaseline.
When they start telling yo mama jokes.
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BostonMaria
Well-Known Member
These have happened to me....
1. You wait and wait for the stylist to finish your hair and nobody knows where she went... then she finally shows up after she's done with her laundry.
2. You stop seeing the stylist and she blows up your phone like an angry ex-boyfriend.
3. The stylist puts super strength relaxer (without your consent) on your hair only to have it all fall off a few days later.
4. When the stylist tells you not to bother going natural, but later find out her pretty long hair IS natural and she just said that cuz she wanted your money.
5. When this so called stylist charges you a different amount every week depending on her mood.
6. Since I used to frequent Dominican stylists - when they are more interested in dancing Merengue than they are doing your hair
1. You wait and wait for the stylist to finish your hair and nobody knows where she went... then she finally shows up after she's done with her laundry.
2. You stop seeing the stylist and she blows up your phone like an angry ex-boyfriend.
3. The stylist puts super strength relaxer (without your consent) on your hair only to have it all fall off a few days later.
4. When the stylist tells you not to bother going natural, but later find out her pretty long hair IS natural and she just said that cuz she wanted your money.
5. When this so called stylist charges you a different amount every week depending on her mood.
6. Since I used to frequent Dominican stylists - when they are more interested in dancing Merengue than they are doing your hair
brebre928
Well-Known Member
This happened to me
1. When the stylist has her 9 year old shampooing your hair
2. When she tells YOU to sit yourself under the dryer and set your own time.
3. When your appointment is at 10:00 am and it's noon a your still sittin in the waiting area.
4. When you already set up your appointment the week before and when you arrive to the Salon, she isn't there the lights are off and when you call she won't answer her phone.
1. When the stylist has her 9 year old shampooing your hair
2. When she tells YOU to sit yourself under the dryer and set your own time.
3. When your appointment is at 10:00 am and it's noon a your still sittin in the waiting area.
4. When you already set up your appointment the week before and when you arrive to the Salon, she isn't there the lights are off and when you call she won't answer her phone.
chelleypie810
Well-Known Member
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?
I used to go to miami to get my hair done! I went to the dominicans, I live in palm beach. I hated those saturday drives
but i loved my hair
BostonMaria
Well-Known Member
Oh man I can't stop laughing at all these posts!!!!
This one happened to me in November....
When the stylist has 4 inch fake nails and proceeds to scratch the ish out of your scalp after not one, not two, not three, but FOUR shampoos! Then gets mad when you tell her to STOP. I was like how does she wash her private parts with them long a** nails? LMAO!!!
This one happened to me in November....
When the stylist has 4 inch fake nails and proceeds to scratch the ish out of your scalp after not one, not two, not three, but FOUR shampoos! Then gets mad when you tell her to STOP. I was like how does she wash her private parts with them long a** nails? LMAO!!!
Foufie
New Member
1. Call, book the appointment and tell them exactly what you want and when you get there they ask you for a ride to the BSS to get the supplies WTF
2. Call yourself being the first appt to beat the rush in which you arrive at 6AM (as instructed) for them to show an hour later!!
3. when you book the first appt and on the way to the salon your phone rings, and its the stylist asking for a ride to the shop because his boyfriend broke out his windows.
4. last but not least ...when your hair was dyed a particular color and each time you go for a touch up it turns out a different color!
2. Call yourself being the first appt to beat the rush in which you arrive at 6AM (as instructed) for them to show an hour later!!
3. when you book the first appt and on the way to the salon your phone rings, and its the stylist asking for a ride to the shop because his boyfriend broke out his windows.
4. last but not least ...when your hair was dyed a particular color and each time you go for a touch up it turns out a different color!
zzirvingj
New Member
When you go to a hair braider and they tell you they ran out of hair glue to finish your braids and that you would have to go down the block to buy some more glue.
And when you get in your car (to leave and not come back...which you don't mention to them), you see said hairstylist in the back eating lunch and chattin it up with the other stylists. Hmph.
Now that I think about it I don't even think that person could be called a stylist...just wouldn't be fair.
True story.
And when you get in your car (to leave and not come back...which you don't mention to them), you see said hairstylist in the back eating lunch and chattin it up with the other stylists. Hmph.
Now that I think about it I don't even think that person could be called a stylist...just wouldn't be fair.
True story.
Sunrise
Ugh
Gosh, how can I forget!
The only time that happened to me was in New York!
Apart from that annoyance, hair turned out good!
mrsjohnson75
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yardyspice
Well-Known Member
When they start telling you other people's business. Unprofessional in one area usually means unprofessional in others and I don't want that kind of person over my head.
natura87
Well-Known Member
When she sends her 10 year old son to buy w##% because she says it will make her braid faster.
When the baby with the s#^&&% diaper is crawling in your lap thinking you are going to do her hair.
When you leave her house with a contact high...and you have asthma.
When your entire weekend goes up in smoke becuase she decides that visiting the babydaddy in jail that broke her wrist is more important than doing hair and earning money.
When you have to bring snacks and toys for her kids to keep them out of your face.
When the baby with the s#^&&% diaper is crawling in your lap thinking you are going to do her hair.
When you leave her house with a contact high...and you have asthma.
When your entire weekend goes up in smoke becuase she decides that visiting the babydaddy in jail that broke her wrist is more important than doing hair and earning money.
When you have to bring snacks and toys for her kids to keep them out of your face.
brownelovely
Well-Known Member
zzirvingj
New Member
Hair glue for braids?
Yep...I was getting the type of braids where they were loose on the ends. Instead of knotting where the braided part meets the loose part, this braider was using a tiny bit of "glue" to hold the braid at that point.
I'd had it done like that before with a different braider...
Sade'
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Sade'
Well-Known Member
OMG I can't STAND when they shampoo my hair THREE and FOUR times. I am like WTF!!! U are stripping every oil I ever had in my life out of my hair.
