I avoid this day like the plague. I hate getting my hair cut. If you're like most of us, getting a haircut feels like the worst decision of your life. I go through a range of emotions that are just so draining. So today I want to talk about my experience and hopefully get over my heartbreak with all the things we're thinking, but don't want to say.
For my day off, I thought I would go in and get my hair cut at a very well known hair salon. I don't want to mention names because I'm not in the business of ruining anyone's reputation, especially if many people have great experiences there. This year I wanted to grow out my hair so I could style it with these luscious curls all these women have. I thought, yeah.... I want that too! Here I am, early July, and I'm dying with this hair. I decided I would go back to the A-Line Bob. Definitely one of my favorites. It makes me feel cute and it thins my hair out. I happen to have EXTREMELY thick hair. It sucks BAD! My hair was also past my shoulders at this point.
The woman who wasn't my usual stylist (because my usual stylist doesn't work there anymore) asked me what I wanted. I told her an A-Line Bob. I began to tell her, my hair is extremely thick so I'd also like it thinned out quite a bit. I told her usually my hair goes through what people call hair cut shock. After a cut, my hair puffs out at the ends and it gets even thicker. I told her my previous stylist used the razor to avoid that. She asked if I had a picture of what I wanted. I told her yes and proceeded to show her. The hair of the model in the picture had a pretty drastic A-line bob. It was gorgeous. She asked me if I wanted it shorter or longer than the picture. I said, just like the picture. She said it would be easy to do with the length of my hair. I thought, perfect!
She washed my hair and began cutting. She was friendly, made casual chit chat, and made sure she didn't yank my hair when she combed it. So she finally finished the cut and I thought, huh... that doesn't look right. However, I assumed it would look better as soon as she began styling it. However, she did not. I asked, were you going to style it? And she looked at me confused and said, "No, we don't do that here." I asked that if I paid more, if she could. She refused and sent me on my way. That should have been my first red flag!!! I paid for my cut coming out pretty bummed out. I tipped her well over 20%. I wasn't quite sure if the hair was correct or not since it wasn't styled. And, I can't really take it out of her tip if they don't style the hair. I gave her the benefit of the doubt there. Besides, when my hair starts drying, it starts to curl up. So, it's difficult to tell exactly what happened.
I got home and styled my own hair. As I straightened and styled it myself, the dread doomed in. My hair was far from that beautiful A-line bob I wanted. Instead, I had received a short hair cut and she had cut it completely straight. I think she made a mistake, but didn't want to own up to it. Recalling the experience, she never gave me a mirror to look at the back. Perhaps she didn't know how to do the A-line bob and didn't want me to know? Either way, it was disappointing. At least I don't look like crap.
The next day, I realized how ugly my haircut was. It felt heavy when it should have felt lighter. It was a complete furball even after brushing it. I was pretty butt hurt when I went to work and my friends were telling me, holy shit she fucked up bad! They said the cut looked nothing like an A-Line and on top of that, it wasn't even on both sides with length. I went to the salon and asked for a refund. It was actually kind of a hassle because they wanted to make sure the cut was indeed messed up. After 3 hairdressers checked my hair, they offered to fix it. I told them no. I said, you guys messed up it once, I can't afford to look like crap. They reluctantly said okay, never apologized and sent me on my way. I ended up going to get it fixed with another hairdresser the following day. Even she told me the cut was pretty messed up. In order to fix it and give me the dramatic A-Line I wanted, she needed to take it up higher. I told her okay. It was pretty short but it finally looked cute and thin!
Now, for some hairdressers, their response would be, you should have said something at the beginning. Here's the reason we lowly people do not let you guys know we hate our hair cut. For one, you've already cut our hair shorter than what it was. "Fixing" the haircut will require re-cutting it and making it even shorter than it already was! If we wanted it that short, we would have said so at the beginning. Another thing, you may become upset (we're all human, don't deny it doesn't happen) and think "Well, I messed this up, there goes my tip. Why even bother now." We're not trying to make you feel that way. Hence, why I still tipped well even though I wasn't 100% happy.
So this happens very often in our lives. It really sucks. The nice thing to take away from this is that hair will always grow back. So while we may hate our hair for the time being, it will grow back and we can always try again. Sometimes your end up loving it the next day. But, when you don't, don't be afraid to go back, get it fixed or ask for a refund. Many people want to shame you, but the fact of the matter is that they don't have to go around feeling unhappy due to a shitty haircut. So do what makes you happy!
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