very bad haircut

bobbin...it doesn't sound good to me...damn it. I don't know why she thought you needed your ends shattered like that....maybe she could have ASKED YOU if you thought you needed so called bulk removed. One persons idea of bulk is anothers idea of georgous thick hair.

I CANNOT STRESS THIS POINT ENOUGH....PLEASE get out there and find a stylist you can TRUST. We do exist.....but we usually don't work at the chain salons in the mall. You defintely, usually can't walk in, we usually have to make our new clients wait a couple or even 3 to 4 weeks to see us......There is good reason for this. OUR CLIENTS KEEP COMING BACK TO US, because we listen to them.

Sorry, for the caps, and I know this is advise too little too late....but really, even if you only see a stylist once or twice a year, You need a stylist you can trust. Karen has a great article on finding a good stylist....I'lll try to link it here.

Back to your hair, your right, there is little you or she can do now. When it's cut it's cut....You could try asking for your money back. Speak to the manager about it. I know it's not what you want to hear.....let us know.

well i did contact the lady today. and after wearing her down a bit she did confess that she went overboard on the thinning and even admitted that when she was drying it that it was uneven and very thin in the back. she has agreed to compensate for the damages. now i feel a little guilty because she said that she didnt have any income and she just left her husband. hmmm what to do?

OK....You don't feel guilty, please don't. Look at it this way....If she listened to her clients, focused on her work and cutting skills, she wouldn't be soooo broke, because her clients would come back to her.

I don't want to sound bi!@#y and anyone out there may disagree....But she won't make it unless she gets her poop in a group. And what she should be doing is apologizing to you and being straight forward with the fact that it will NOT happen again , thereby letting you know that at least she learned something from her mess up.
Insted, all she can think about, are her personal problems.....and on a side note, THAT was the LAST thing she should have been discussing with you, laying on you, guilting you with.

I'm proud of you Bobbin, for going back and making her take responsability for her inattention to what you were paying her for.

OMG....all you wanted was a simple trim on your ends.....she would have made the same money either way. And what you asked her to do was so much easier, Plus as a bonus if you had liked what she had done you would possibly have gone back to her...you may have told all of your long haired friends about this great Stylist you found that really bent over backward NOT to cut you long hair....and maybe she would have had a few NEW Clients calling her....and so on, and so on. THAT, is how it works. In fact she could have offered you an awesome relaxing conditioning scalp massage to treat you....just because.

OK, I'm on a bit of a jag this morning....but what are you going to do about next time you need a trim?

You have my deepest sympathies. I think we must have the same stylist.

After growing my hair out for six months, I thought it would be fairly simple for my regular hairdresser to cut my hair into a photograph that I found. All that needed to be done was for the sides to be trimmed half an inch and the back to be scissor tapered (giving a sort of half ear preppie style).

I showed her the picture, she examined it carefully, then she started on the back. After a few minutes she commented "You probably don't need all this depth at the back" and started whacking away with the clippers and then went berzerk with the thinning scissors. She did this weird technique where she'd take little sections from the top lengths, twist them around, and chop them up with the thinning scissors, until I was left with thinned out strands were just over the tops of my ears.

I did go back to complain, but she said that my hair was too fine for the style that I wanted.

After going to another place to get the chopped up ends cut out, it's going to take me at least three months to regrow the sides out, and six months to grow the top lengths out.

I say if anyone does something like using thinning scissors, or shaving off your sideburns without permission, find somewhere else.

Thanks. I've been bouncing being hyper-ballistic and completely zonked out for the past four weeks. It really annoys me that someone I thought I could trust decided to lose self-control and go "creative", (I found a picture that matches exactly what she did give me), so that cheeses me off even more.

Maybe January is a bad time to get a haircut.

At least in six weeks, I'll have something I feel comfortable with.

hi, what a shocker!
anyone who uses thinning scissors must be nuts.
ok, maybe there are some styles they are needed for (like the bald guy sweep over maybe!).

seriously tho, i would go right up to her face to face, and DEMAND my money back, don't ask - demand. You asked for a creative service and she gave you neither creativity nor service.

And ask her for a free conditioning treatment on top of it (unless you think she's so hostile now she'd rather stab you with her darn thinning scissors). then i would tell everyone in the neighbourhood what a lousy stylist she is.

I would say you are not the first person she has done this too.

One good rule i know for choosing a stylist is to look at their own hair. Is it in a cut/color/condition you can appreciate as being good, even if you wouldn't choose that look for yourself? if not, look elsewhere!