What are the reasons why you leave your hairdresser?

At the beginning of the year I was seeing this stylist, and everything was going just fine. She seemed to have a lot of knowledge about keeping hair healthy which is my ultimate goal. However the last time that she relaxed my hair, she must not have washed it out properly in the back, and my hair started falling out. I lost just about all the hair by the back of my head in the bottom by my neck.

Thank God the hair is growing back now.

Then I started going to this dominican salon that one of my aunts go to. They do a good job, except that they use the round brush and that broke my hair alot, especially around the edges.

I am now content with my current hair stylist, who happens to be a good friend of mine, that just graduated from cosmetology school. She styles, and cuts my hair exactly the way that I want it. And my hair has been in much better condition also.

Happy growing!!!

I saw this thread at another hair message board and I thought it was a good topic. For those of you with experience on this, please feel free to share. This is a learning process. Okay, I`ll go first:

I`ve been to so many stylists in my young 19 years, but for every stylist I leave to go to the next one, it usually revolves around these reasons:

1. Once they get familiar with you, they get sloppy. It seems that once they get to know you, after you`ve been going to them for a while, your hair just doesn`t look as good anymore, like when it first did.

2. Scissor happy. Everything is okay, until they tell you that you have damaged ends and you need a trim. I`m fine with a trim, but if half of my hair has to come off for a trim, then it is not a trim. It is a cut. They should tell you that they are going to cut it beforehand, not say they`re going to trim it.

3. Money, money, money. I am almost on the verge of leaving the stylist that I go to now. The reason is that now when she charges me, for instance if she charges me $55.00, she`ll say "Actually, it should`ve been $60.00" for whatever reason. If it should`ve been that amount, then charge me that amount, don`t make me feel guilty. I don`t mind paying for a service. She`s done this twice in the last two visits, and it doesn`t sit well with me.

4. Some just don`t listen. Okay, the one that I go to now, well, I told her that I wanted an upsweep with curls, you know, gelled up in the back with curls at the top (I wanted that style especially because Easter was on that Sunday). Well, when she got through with my head,I saw that she had made a little teeny french roll in the back where there should`ve been a nothing but the hair going up. I didn`t like it at all, but I didn`t say that because I didn`t want to hurt her feelings. I had really liked her up till then. I decided to try and forget about it. The next time that I went to her, I requested the same style that I had asked for the first time, because it does look beautiful when it`s done right. Do you know that she was about to put a french roll back there again. I caught her that time and I said, "NO!"

She`s really been getting on my nerves recently. Then I asked for a cut, and she did not do it the way that I had requested it to be done. I told her I wanted the front gradually layered in the front (I explained it to her many times before it was time to get it done, and she understood what I wanted), and what she ended up doing was layering the front so that each layer sat on top of each other, not gradually come down alongside my face like I wanted it. Is that a good reason to leave her? I discuss the styles that I want beforehand, and I had discussed the cut with her ahead of time, but it still wasn`t what I wanted. I`m fed up.