What is up wit all them haters man

Hairbraider-

I just posted in another thread about a stylist in my small town, who has bleasched and permed hair that is barely to her chin. IMO, her hair looks horribly damaged. The scary thing is, is that alot of people go to her. I always wonder if they are completly satisfied with their hair. The general thought is," I live in a small town and don't have alot of choices." Ok, yah we don't have alot of choices, but you deal with. I never go to a salon, They always hack my hair off. People are always complementing me on how good my hair looks. I don't color, bleach, blow dry, straighten, curl, perm, or in any way purposely damage my hair. I also do not use any products on my hair. I use jojoba oil. Every time I have a conversation about hair with the one who cut my hair ( I babysit for her), she is always talking about a new product.Her hair is darkened, and then highlighted.

Edited by Alisa06 - January 10 2007 at 9:32am

my goodness, this "stylist's" attitude seems to be exactly the kind of "hater" attitude that SugarCube was upset about in her "friend"!

people should be allowed to have their hair how they want. If that means "natural" and no straightening, so be it! I'm trying to start a revolution in which dark blonde haired women stop bleaching their hair, so that our hair color gets seen more often!   I think what nature gave you is often what fits you best -it's what makes us all so interesting in our diversity!

Now to the salon BS - that attitude - and all the "professionals" with fried hair - is why I will not ever go to a salon again. If I did see someone in a salon with natural, healthy, long hair, I might, however, reconsider.     I used to give a lot of money to "professionals" who told me my hair would never grow past shoulder - because they HAD NEVER LEARNED how to deal with my kind of hair.   Now that my hair is natural it looks much better, in fact, more well-cared for, healthier, and thus - ta DA - "professional!" Piling all of my fine hair on top of my head and scrubbing it like they are trying to get a stain out is NOT, in my mind, professional. But perhaps my notion of professional does not include just trying to make money off people...

Many people on the internet seem to hide behind their screens and say things they would never say in person. It represents a serious degradation in human interaction that I think is very bad for the society at large.



Edited by Katze - January 08 2007 at 8:35am

My husband's boss told him he'd pay him 100 dollars to cut his long hair short once. My husband did eventually do it,not because he needed the 100 dollars so much,but that working in the heat with long hair seemed to be a pain for him.
Now it is winter and getting longer again though (his hair grows extremely FAST,I'am so jealous) So if he keeps up it will be pretty long again by summer.


Edited by julesyjul88 - December 30 2006 at 4:26pm

I agree,and I might add that when the stylist actually listens to me and does what I like that I tip ALOT more! If they dont listen,I may not not tip at all.

Alisa06 wrote: I can not tell you how many times I have gone to a salon wanting a trim. You know, mabye an inch off the ends. Every single time I have come out with at least 3 inches off. This last time, ( when it was at my waist) I asked for 1 inch off the bottom, and 3 in up layered. She took off 8 - 12 inches!!! My mom has so many horror stories that are the same. I have decided to start cutting my own hair, since every single stylist I have met has no respect for me. I tried 4 different places. My mom also has resorted to doing her own hair. You would think that someone in this kind of profession, that depends on clientel, would want to make sure that he/she was listening to his/her client. Mabye if people just stop going to these " I know better than you" professionals, they might get a hint.     Alisa06

DaveDecker wrote: A new aspect of the stylist's game... criticize and riducule the "ass-length" hair to break the client down and acquiesce to a haircut, donate the ponytail to some so-called charity which sells it (because they get too much of the stuff) to extension makers, who in turn sell it back to the now-short-haired client who misses her hair and wants it long again, but doesn't want to wait 3 years to grow it back.  What a racket!

Wow....  what a discussion!  (I won't say everything I feel like saying. ) 

Edited by hairbraider - December 22 2006 at 10:17am

A new aspect of the stylist's game... criticize and riducule the "ass-length" hair to break the client down and acquiesce to a haircut, donate the ponytail to some so-called charity which sells it (because they get too much of the stuff) to extension makers, who in turn sell it back to the now-short-haired client who misses her hair and wants it long again, but doesn't want to wait 3 years to grow it back.  What a racket!

Thisisniccy wrote: Like it or not....Truth be told, ALOT of women with "ass-length" hair do end up cutting it off when going into this buisness....IT DOES effect their clienteil.

Ah, okay, you are speaking about the appearance of professionalism within the realm of the salon industry.  I was thinking about professionalism within the context of the greater world of corporations and smaller companies (not in the salon business).

Thisisniccy wrote: If I wanted a color job I would not want someone with long, blunt-cut, uncolored hair to touch my tresses and many feel the same.

At first that might make some sense.  Until you consider that, in all likelihood, the hair (dye and cut) would have been applied by an unknown third party.  So what the savvy client (who wants well-dyed and cut hair) should be doing is asking the stylists (whose hair they like) who colored and cut their hair... and go to that person/those people for the services. 

And wouldn't it be ironic if the sought-out experts had ass-length hair? 

Thisisniccy wrote: In my cosmotology school it used to be a RULE that each attendant had to have hair shoulder-length or shorter and chemically processed.

An informal, unwritten "rule?"  Or in the contractual obligation for the schooling provided and/or the granting of certificate of completion?  I would guess only the former.  And what of the student who happens to like having ass-length hair, but simultaneously wants to be a technically competent (and sought-after!) stylist?  Is he/she precluded from even trying to complete the course of study?  And is this part of the reason why the industry is stagnant, because candidates with long hair styling  ideas are rejected (or forced to conform to the Borg)?



Edited by DaveDecker - December 20 2006 at 9:23pm