went here with a groupon yesterday and saw bill, who i was told is the stylist who does the groupon haircuts when i phoned in ahead of time to set my appointment, which i recommend doing if you have a groupon. the girl at the front desk was courteous on the phone and answered all my questions. also, when i arrived, she offered me something cold to drink. bill was really attentive when i explained what i wanted done, which admittedly was pretty simple - trim the ends, put some layers back in, take a lot of the bulk out. as usual i showed up with photos, because i've had so many bad experiences, regardless of where i've gone. he did exactly what i asked him to do, which i really appreciate. he didn't insist on doing anything to my hair that would require me to do any work to it every day, as i'm a wash-and-go person. he did the shampooing/conditioning himself, and after the cut he didn't put any gunk in it or blow dry it, since despite that being included in the groupon, i requested my hair not be blown dry. he cut it while wet, which is really what you should do if you have wavy/curly hair. he also made sure i could still get it into a pony tail. the only thing i find amusing is that hair stylists seem to have their own version of math, where a half-inch trim always equals a 2" trim. it's some sort of crazy phenomenon. but i'm not upset about it, i have long enough hair now that losing an extra 1.5" doesn't bother me. he didn't use thinning shears, which was what i had suggested doing to remove the bulk, and instead did something called brick cutting, and individually snipped into the hair in different spots to thin it out so it wasn't in lines. he had to do this a couple of times though to remove enough bulk. i would have felt bad about making him do this a second time if i wasn't a grown-up who had received enough bad haircuts in her lifetime to know that you speak up when you want something done or changed or don't like something.
after nearly four entire years of living in texas i have finally found a hair stylist i actually like! this is marvelous! a straight older man seemed to do the trick. he gets it. he understands that not everyone wants to spend 2 hours getting ready to leave the house every day. and he studied with toni & guy, and traveled quite a bit as well, so i felt like i was more "at home" there. i'm pretty positive you could get any awesome high-maintenance cut from him or anyone else there too. but if you don't want one of those, and just want to shampoo, condition, towel dry and leave your house, i highly recommend seeing bill. plus their prices, even without the groupon, are what i would consider standard and not extravagant at all. i would spend fifty five for a haircut normally anyway. but yeah, i definitely recommend this place and next time i need anything done to my hair i'm going here. read more