This is a long story, with a question for stylists at the end. You can skip the question if you like.. but please, stylists, answer.
I got my hair cut today. My usual hairstylist has been sick in the hospital for months and I've gotten my hair done at Fantastic Sam's for good value by nice people before, so I figured, what the hey, lets give them a shot...
So a girl I had never seen before at Fantastic Sam's (mind you I haven't been there in two years) is assigned to me. I just wanted my hair relayered and to get my side-bangs (which had grown out) back. A little warning flag popped up in my head as I watched her take 10 minutes to snip tiny ends off my longest hair. I figured she was just being careful and wanted to give me a healthy trim.
Then another flag popped up as she decided to stop with the back of my hair without layering and move on to the bangs. I ignored my common sense and let her continue. She took the front of my hair from my forehad and pulled it to the side... and then she cut my bangs blunt and straight in one motion.
I sh*t you not, she basically swept hair down all of my forehead.. and she cut it straight and blunt in one snip!!! She asked me if I wanted it shorter, now at this point I THOUGHT she was going to make them sideswept still, so I said yes, BUT I WANTED THEM FEATHERED/SIDESWEPT. So she somewhat attempts to give me side bangs ... by cutting the end that was supposed to be longer short (the end that point downward). Which means the other part of my bangs would have to be even shorter to actually be side bangs. (Sorry if that makes no sense).
sh*t, I'm no hairstylist, but I've done my own bangs before and even I know not to do that! I was slightly in denial and I told myself, no, this girl probably knows what she's doing lets just see what she'll do. She assured me she would feather out my bangs and make them go to the side, and then decides to move to the back and finish the layers in back of my head first. Then, without finishing that, she goes back to my bangs and cuts them even shorter in an attempt to make them side-swept. They didn't get more sideswept, as again, she cut my bangs all across in one snip!! I was really starting to panic on the inside, especially when she promised me she would fix it before again, doing the layers in back of my head and leaving my bangs looking like a mess.
My hair isn't long. My hair isn't all that thick or poofy. It usually takes a stylist 20 or 30 minutes to layer all my hair. She spent about 10 minutes snipping away ohhhh soooooo slowwwwwly... before she dropped everything and said "I'll be back".
She didn't come back. The manager came back and tried to fix my hair. This was when I FINALLY realized what a disaster I was in. My bangs were cut blunt straight across and short (I have NEVER had my bangs so short in my life... they were a good inch and a half above my eyebrows and straight across my forehead!!!) I am used to feathery, side-swept bangs!
I feel so stupid. Common sense should told me to ask for a different stylist, but I didn't want to be rude or mean just because she was new and I had faith and let that girl hack away... The manager was very nice and whispered to me that she wouldn't charge me anything and that when my hair grew out she would fix it for me free of charge. And thats I started crying.
I have never ever cried in a salon before over bad hair (I rarely cry in front of other people), but I just couldn't believe I put my faith in this girl who obviously used me as her "training" and as a "learning experience"... she waited until it was far too late to save my bangs before she found her manager. She KNEW she didn't know how to cut bangs, but she still tried anyways! The manager gave me a really beautiful cut in the back in about 10 minutes. Basically the original stylist did NOTHING and the manager did everything, but my bangs had been cut so short there was basically nothing the manager could so, exept for sweept a little bit more hair in front and cut me longer bangs to cover up the mess. She gave me a bunch of pomade and spray and showed me how to curl the longer bangs to hide the short ones... but even then it was terrible.
If there are any hairstylists on this board... has anyone ever cried over a haircut you gave, and how did that make you feel? I don't know if I should feel this way, but I feel guilty about crying. I know she is inexperienced, but I really wish she didn't use me as her learning tool. If she wanted to use me for practice, she could have AT LEAST had someone else do the bangs while she watched. I didn't yell at her or say anything mean to her (in fact she never came to apologize, she just watched from afar as her manager did my hair). I actually didn't start crying until the manager acknowledged that yes, they had screwed up beyond repair. I'll probably see her again when I go back to get my bangs fixed... I don't know.. should I be feeling bad or should she be feeling bad? Input would be nice. :)
graceee2007-07-27 23:57:40
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