I am so upset today, I had an appointment to have my hair cut and colored. I got there early for my 11:15 appointment so I could look through books and choose all the right things to show. I want this look long in the front and short in the back only I want the back to look like this not like that. I want the color to be blonde like this not like bleach blonde not brown chunky and not grey looking just natural pretty blonde. We talked about it all and we brought the books to the station. They first take me back for a "treatment" to prime my hair and rinse some of the red out but it is not a stripper I was told. Ok. Then they cut some hair off as they didn't want to waste product since they knew how short I was going and they wanted to get the product in all the right important places so they don't have to put it in unnecessary places. Fine. Then they blow dry my hair, I told her before hand that it was curly and I'm not sure why no one believes me when I tell them things (it is kind of like when I go to the dentist and talk about using the strongest numbing meds because my body metabolizes them so quickly they have to use the special one well it is like I'm making it up bc they never use it until I'm crying bc I can feel everything they say you are so small we didn't think you needed it) she says while drying it as if she was surprised wow! You DO have curly hair (yeah remember we just went over that about 4 seconds ago where were you?) so they then have to flat iron my hair to apply the color evenly. They have to go to the back 4.... Count them 4! Times to mix more color.... Haven't you done this before?
Idk maybe it dries up if they make too much all at one time. So then we wait. The back processes quicker than the front so they have me go to the sinks and get washed in the back half. Then we wait some more the front gets washed out and I go to the mirror and immediately say, this is not blonde enough, I pulled up the pics of the blonde hair and I said this is way darker than this (keep in mind my hair was still wet, so I said you know what go ahead and dry it or whatever bc maybe it will be different once it is dry sorry maybe I'm getting ahead of myself) my hair was then cut I kept telling her after a few little snips... That's way not short enough and so she would clip the tiniest snip off and inside of myself I was screaming look lady listen to me!!! This is not my first rodeo and it isn't my first time to have short hair either cut that junk off!!! I let her do her job and just waited I thought maybe she is going to go around the whole head then come back and do it again to get it all even... Nope. She got put the blow dryer and so I ha to stop her I said none of this is short enough... None of it. I wanted to cut it short to cut off all of the parts that are too dry. Anyway a bunch of back ad forth about how much to cut she got scared and said why don't you go home and play with it and come back if you need me to cut off more. This time it was me who wasn't listening to myself bc I was yelling at her in my head, no I don't want to come back I've been here for 4 hours already and you haven't even dried and styled my hair!! I just realized I need to share the fact that I keep saying "they" because it was a stylist and an intern taking turns starting and finishing...so she dries it then fixes it and I said yeah we are going to have to do this again because it is way not the right color and the cut feels weird too (sorry I know what I want for one thing in my life and it's my hair, don't ask me what I want to eat.....) so she gives me this as a reason for the color being wrong. Well what we did today is what in our industry is called a corrective color so it is hard to know exactly what it is going to look like when you have to start from nothing. Oh really? Because in my industry you know the consumer one we call this a highlight and low light with a haircut. I go to check out and find that it will be 188.00 (I had a 15.00 coupon thank god! Please notice the sarcasm in each letter of every word within that sentence) so I now only needed to tip!! 160 whatever plus tip I kind of wanted to just go high five them and tell them that 5 hours company with me will cost them each 95.00 that would cover the absurd cost of the hair cut and color plus enough to clean up all the bullshit from the floor around the hair cut station. So I have to say I will be asking the mom who said that this place was and I quote "reasonable" what her idea of reasonable is. I also asked about the keratin treatment I thought that since now my hair is short it will maybe be less expensive now, I don't know how much it costs any other day of the week but she tried to make me feel like this was a steal at 260.00 for a straightening treatment that will last NEARLY 4-5 months!!!! What are you serious that's outstanding... What the he'll are people thinking I could buy the best flat iron they have at Sallys for that and still have money for lunch and starbucks (without coupons!!) so I can not WAIT to find someone to do my hair well within my budget. This is as hard as finding a pediatrician and a gynecologist. I should have walked out of there feeling like hot snot on a silver platter but I only felt like a cold bugger on a paper plate.....
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