Ever walked out of the hair dresser in tears

Yes! On my wedding day. My hairdresser was on vacation, so I had to book with someone else who didn't know my hair...the sheer volume of it was too much for her. I came out not looking anything like my hairdresser and I had planned. Instead, she gave up and braided the back into a single long braid and poofed up the top making me look like a blonde Lyle Lovett from the front. It was hideous. I cried. My sister took a valium and called her neighbor for help. My sister's neighbor came over and did some sort of magic with it. It still wasn't what I wanted, but it was far better than what the professional hair stylist could accomplish.
 
Yes. Years ago a friend that I worked with told me that she always got her hair done at the beauty school. She said they always did a great job and the haircuts were only like $5. I went and the "student" that I got was a lady who had to be at least 70 years old. Her hands were so shaky, she could hardly hold the scissors. The instructor kept coming over to help her, but she just couldn't do it. After her hacking on it for a while. I finally just told her to stop cutting and I left in tears. I ended up going to Great Clips just to have them finish the cut and make it look like something presentable.

I guess the Beauty School was willing to let anyone who would pay the tuition go there, but this lady should not have been cutting the hair of customers.
 
No, but I had a stylist get into a screaming fight with the salon manager who fired her right in the middle of my haircut. I thought she was going to go after her with a pair of scissors. That was a fun day :sad2:
 
When I was a teenager, I went to the beauty school for a perm. The student stylist decided to set my hair instead of just working the curls into something pretty.

I cried walking out of the school with my hands and arms covering my head and face. Teenagers don't want to look like their grandmothers.

I went home and did the unthinkable after a perm. I washed my hair!
 


I waited until i got in the car, but yes.
I was very clear about what I wanted but unfortunately she didn't listen. I don't have a regular hair person, I just get it cut when it annoys me. I'm pretty sure she was drunk. I didn't realize at first, just thought she was a little kooky. She was already cutting by the time i thought I smelled booze on her breathe. I didn't really know what to do so I just let her finish.
 
Is there a stylist in your area who specializes in bridal hair or prom hair? Maybe go for a consult and see if there is something special that can be done to your hair for the wedding without having to resort to the expense of extensions.

Your confidence really suffers when you hate your hair, so I feel for you, OP. Been there many times.
 
Speaking of beauty schools . . . I had a good friend utterly destroy my hair during a beauty school class/exam sort of thing. It took over a year before my hair--very long, btw--returned to normal.

But, OP--you need to find a new hairdresser. I know that breaking up with a hairdresser is traumatic, but yours clearly isn't interested in letting you grow your hair out. I had the same problem many years ago. Great hairdresser when my hair was short, but when I was growing it out and went to her for trims so it'd look okay, she always cut too much off. So I stopped going to her. You are probably going to give your hairdresser another chance since you've been with her for so long. Maybe she'll get the message. Mine didn't.
 


Yes - I used to go to this hairdresser in our town that *everyone* goes to. I asked her to dye my hair a natural red color, and she ended up turning it black. It was awful. I ended up buying stuff at Sally Beauty to strip the color out myself and redoing it from a box, and I never went back to her again. Unfortunately I have to see her all the time in town and it's awkward. I think she's a terrible hairstylist but everyone else thinks she's spectacular.
 
YES! A couple of months ago. Haircuts are really expensive here so I went to a cheaper place. Never again! You really do get what you pay for. I was in tears when I got in my car. I then decided to go back in to see if it could be fixed. She kept cutting and cutting and I was finally like JUST STOP CUTTING! The manager then tried to clean it up as best she could. I went back to the manager for a cut a few weeks later to continue to try to fix the awfulness that had been done. It has been 4 months and my hair is now almost how I wanted it to begin with. I felt silly crying over hair but I was so upset.
 
larissawbb said:
You only need about four inches in length to work with. Ideally six but a good stylist can work with four. I don’t know how much you were left with. I would definitely try someone else if for no other reason than to avoid the awkwardness.
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I agree with the extensions. I saw an older woman who had a relatively short bob getting extensions in to make it thicker and a little longer. It was wonderful. My hair is too short for them, but I think extensions are a great add in expecially if you are trying to grow your hair out.
 
Yep, I was a teenager.

I went in with medium long hair, just wanted a trim and long layers. (bra strap length)

I walked out with a very short bob.

I was in the middle of the cut, when the manager walked over to the stylist asking what she was doing.

Ended up that the stylist had just lost her boyfriend and was taking it out on my hair. The stylist was fired, on the spot, and the manager took over cleaning up what she could. According to the manager, the stylist was just hacking away at my head. I was pissed because I had, like the OP, spent months growing it out after having a pixie cut for years. By the time I saw it, I was sobbing.
 
Yes, I had hair half-way down my back (this was 15 years ago) I asked for it to be cut to shoulder length ( a dramatic change for me) .
She gave me a bob.
DRAMATICALLY different than what I asked for. (not even a good bob either just a boring/lazy straight cut 4-5 inches shorter than I indicated)
I was literally sobbing.
My hair is flat and thin so the bob just lay limp and stuck to my face...Looked terrible on me.
Also my hair grows SLOWLY
It took a couple of years to recover the length
 
Its why I only get my haircut every 10 months. And go to a different person each time. Cant find someone to even cut evenely straight across the bottom. Its like there are no good stylists anymore. And I try the most expensive places and still...thumbs down.
 
Yes. I had very thick, naturally curly, long hair. I wanted it trimmed up and styled (I had a picture and everything- it was a style I'd had before I grew it out, so I knew it'd work) but wasn't sure about who to go to. A friend gave me a gift certificate to her very expensive hairdresser for a birthday present. He cut/styled it but then said "let me just do this, so you can see how else it can look." He cut the top/crown very short, then let it dry under lights, so it frizzed like crazy. I looked like a French poodle, and there was no fixing it. I was in tears when I left, and didn't leave a tip. Why would I tip a guy who destroyed my hair?
 
lovin'fl said:
Its why I only get my haircut every 10 months. And go to a different person each time. Cant find someone to even cut evenely straight across the bottom. Its like there are no good stylists anymore. And I try the most expensive places and still...thumbs down.
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When my hair was really long, like down to my butt long, my husband cut it.

I would stand there and he would cut straight across the bottom. He was great. And we saved a ton of money.
 
Yes after I had my first baby I went to a salon to get my very long hair cut into something more manageable. I told her I wanted it shoulder length or a little longer. Showed her where I wanted it to hit on me and about how much should come off etc. When she was done and showed me I burst into tears because it was a chin length bob! She said I didn’t specify that I wanted it shoulder length or longer when dry so I needed to be more clear next time I go for a haircut. @@. It was a good 5” shorter than what I showed her but I wasn’t facing the mirror when she was cutting so I had no clue.
 
Yep. Went to get my hair dyed a brown/red shade. I specifically said that I worked in a conservative office and it couldn't come out pink or purple. She supposedly mixed a custom color that ended up a magenta color. I was so upset I went home and dyed it with some box dye from Walgreens to cover it.
 
Another beauty school story. Long layered haircut. But then the hairdresser decided to style my hair to look exactly like Carol Burnett's character Eunice in "Mamma's Family". I'm not even kidding here, not at all. To make things worse, he used tons and tons of hair spray to set it (he had to to keep that shape). I was about 18 years old. I don't think I cried, but was mortified to have people looking at me all the way home. It was just AWFUL!
 
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My DH made the hairdresser cry! Does that count?

DH was getting his hair cut, and the lady sneezed directly onto his head! She didn't turn her head away or even cover her face at all!

DH was livid! He yelled at her in front of everyone in the salon. Demanded that someone else finish the haircut.
The "sneezer" sat crying in a corner....
 
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