Why don some hairdressers listen and/or use a guide for cutting long hair?
I completely and totally empathize with you hun…however, I am on the other end of the spectrum…I am a hair stylist….and some people out there have NO BUSINESS being hair dressers…they give us a bad wrap….I, as a stylist, wont even touch a persons hair if I dont know exactly what I am doing…If a woman comes in and has long hair, I will go into cut mode and just take a piece off and show her exactly how much will be coming off…since its so small a piece, I can adjust the length after to be more or less, however she chooses…however, I am just one stylist, I hardly ever get any complaints from my customers, cause I stand in front of them, give them my full attention by looking in their eyes, and explain back to them what I am gonna be doing….I have a huge clientele base, cause I LISTEN….if a stylist doesnt give you their full attention when you are explaining to them what you want, then you can bet you arent going to get what you want…..for all you people out there wh
This has happened to me also. The first time, I got pizzed and almost punched the dog (they won’t let me say b*itch), in the mouth. The place I went to was right up the road from me, about two blocks and had several other stylists in it. I went back, but I refused to let the same woman cut it again and told them, loud enough that the whole place could hear me, but not yelling, that she didn’t know the difference between 2″ and 6″ and she wouldn’t be chopping on my hair again. If I couldn’t get a different one as a ‘walk in’ then I’d either go away or make an appointment with a different one. A few years ago, there was a new one and she took off almost 8″ for a two inch trim. I’d actually told her to trim it about even with the bra strap, which was about 2 or 3″, but it ended up being just a little longer than shoulder length. Being older and calmer, I informed her that either I’d forgotten to wear and bra that day, and I snapped it in the front just to prove I’d remembered it, or she n
