Hair thread?

trishasaffron

Is there a hair thread already? if not would it be worth thinking about?

I for one would really appreciate it. Just back from another disastrous hair event - ignorant looking colour and ugly blow dry and fit to bawl my eyes out.

carasbars

I feel your pain! Been there and done that, thankfully not in quite a while now though. I don't know if there is a specific hair thread but if you look further down the threads, you'll find a good few recommendations for good stylists ( if thats what you're looking for?)

But first of all, ring the salon and tell them you're not happy, at least they might be able to fix your blow dry. There is nothing worse than feeling cr*p about your hair when you leave a salon - especially when you;ve paid good money for it:mad::mad:.



I've seen plenty of recommendations on this site for salons, take a good look through the forum and you'll find one that sounds good and suits your location. Personally, I have recommended Khaki in Tallaght to lots of people and I know that they've been happy ( they're all still going there!). Great cuts, fantastic colour, they LISTEN to you and don't rush you out the door. They have got a lot busier recently but I always still feel like they value my custom.

Anyway, best of luck - get yourself a nice hat for the weekend or something

eth0_

What's an "ignorant colour"?

trishasaffron

"Ingorant looking colour" - maybe the "looking" helps a bit? Anyway I suppose I mean "crude" . In my case that means lots of big patches of blonde highlights instead of very few narrow highlights in the midst of dark hair that I asked for. I paid a fortune too!

Everyone who has seen it has told me to go back. But that's like telling someone who's afraid of flying to get back in the plane after a crash. It was a miserable experience in the first place and I do not want to go through it again.

Perhaps I need to do a course on how to communicate with a hairdresser - there seems to be a secret code that I cannot crack. I tell them what I want for colour or drying and they say "yes I know exactly what you mean" (sometimes I even bring a photo) and then proceed to give me the same blonde highlights and big blowdry that everyone else has.

Beonce

carasbars wrote: »

I feel your pain! Been there and done that, thankfully not in quite a while now though. I don't know if there is a specific hair thread but if you look further down the threads, you'll find a good few recommendations for good stylists ( if thats what you're looking for?)

But first of all, ring the salon and tell them you're not happy, at least they might be able to fix your blow dry. There is nothing worse than feeling cr*p about your hair when you leave a salon - especially when you;ve paid good money for it:mad::mad:.



I've seen plenty of recommendations on this site for salons, take a good look through the forum and you'll find one that sounds good and suits your location. Personally, I have recommended Khaki in Tallaght to lots of people and I know that they've been happy ( they're all still going there!). Great cuts, fantastic colour, they LISTEN to you and don't rush you out the door. They have got a lot busier recently but I always still feel like they value my custom.

Anyway, best of luck - get yourself a nice hat for the weekend or something

A girl in our office had her hair done in Khaki last week, her hair looks fab, she was talking about the salon at lunch today. ( I didn't even know they existed beforehand). I'll be giving them a visit before Chrismas methinks.

You really have to go back. I was very unhappy with my highlights earlier in the year and I just went back and asked them to please fix them. They still weren't what I wanted but at least they didn't look sh!t. I too just don't understand what is so damn hard about giving someone the cut and colour they asked for. I'm not demanding, I just want something at least along the lines of what I wanted, not brassy orange highlights where I said subtle light brown and not a frigging Rachel haircut when I asked for a long bob. I mean, in my local hairdressers, no matter what you ask for, they do that horrible layering around your face.....WHY, like? It's unflattering, not in fashion and takes forever to grow out. I was so annoying the last time the girl did it to me, after I explicitly told her not to (it took me a minute to realise what she was doing, I thought she was cutting my side fringe), that I refused to pay. I'm sick of them not listening.

nesbitt

I think if more people told the hairdressers that the brassy highlights were crap and refused to pay unless they are fixed etc than the overall service in this sector would improve overnight.

I too have had my share of bad hair cuts/colours over the years. I do wonders sometimes are they thick and incapable of doing what you ask or is it done on purpose to just ruin your look. Sometimes I did feel that it was done on purpose. I would always be friendly and polite and never all bossy like.

However I changed hairdressers recently and went in with a different attitude stated exactly what I wanted and did not want etc. with a bit of a 'don't mess me around attitude' and hey presto got best service, cut colour in absolute ages.

If you find a good hairdresser stick with them loyally, worth their weight in gold

Beonce

Beonce wrote: »

A girl in our office had her hair done in Khaki last week, her hair looks fab, she was talking about the salon at lunch today. ( I didn't even know they existed beforehand). I'll be giving them a visit before Chrismas methinks.

A huge thumbs up for Khaki, I'm just back at work having had my cut and colour this morning and I'm only delira and excira with my hair.
Nice bunch of people in there and couldn't do enough for me, cut and colour are both fab, first time in ages that I've loved my hair. My pal who sits beside me booked an appointment with them 5 minutes after I sat back down at my desk ha ha ha ha!
The salon is lovely too, I could have sat at the wash basin thingies forever

I'm off to flick my hair a bit at the cofee machine