I went in with complete virgin hair. I was wanting something to help blend in my natural grays and showed an inspiration picture that I thought would work to the stylist. She said she can definitely get close to what the pic showed without using the bayalge technique, and I put complete trust in her. My end result was NOTHING close to the picture I had showed her. The highlights she had given me were not to the roots, there was absolutely no blending and looked like she had stuck foil down and brushed straight lines sideways and not to mention, they were CHUNKY and uneven which made it worse.
I had messaged her immediately when I got home and realized how wrong it looked and she said I could come in if noright then.
NoWhen I arrived, I'm assuming the manager said she saw absolutely nothing wrong with it and that I was just "not use to having highlights". I'm sorry, but use to it or not, I KNEW it was not done correctly. She offered to do some root shadowing and some other things but with how my hair was done, I had no trust. I opted for an all over color to blend on the orange yellow highlights and was told they would 100% blend in with the allover color they did. (Was supposed to be dark brown but was definitely black).
They decided to use toner insead of actual color and once they finished rinsing and dried me in a rush, they asked if I was okay with it (which in their lighting, looked to be a match to the color). Once I got home and carefully checked, unfortunately, once again, it was not correct. They ended up looking like dark mocha streaks and didn't match at all. I decided to email the owner, or person in charge, (whatever email was on the site) and politely asked if I could get a refund of my services as they were not to any satisfactory standards. I was then offered again to come in to give them a second chance (which I had already,this would my third) with a seasoned stylist who could properly do it. (I was told my stylist had been doing hair more than 10 years by her, herself, I'd consider that seasoned). I was also told that she was told that I came in "not liking what I wanted" when that was far from the case since what I got was nowhere near what I wanted TWICE. I kindly declined to come in and once again asked for a full refund. I was told I could get a partial refund and I'd still have to pay for my cut which was fine. Two days later I emailed on an update for the refund and was told that she had processed a full refund and that a partial refund was not doable and if I would "like to be honest about it and come in and pay for the cut".
Let me add during this time...I went to TWO different salons for a quote on how to fix my hair and was told they should have been ashamed to let me walk out they way they let me and to order to do even more damage on top of what they had already . My hair is now SEVERELY damaged, dry, brittle and my scalp is constantly peeling in nickel size chunks and I can't do anything for 6 weeks minimum and that's questionable if it'll be ready to be fixed by then. So safe to say, with how much I will have to spend to fix THEIR double mistake over multiple sessions and months, and to walk around with what I'm left with, I will NOT be paying them anything especially since they couldn't be honest with me about their skills. The nerve they had to tell me to be honest and come pay when they weren't honest with their experience and skills, blows my mind.
My FIRST hair experience in 8 years after having complete virgin hair went to hell within 3 hours and will now take months to a year to repair. I would never recommend this salon to my worst enemy.
Pics attached are my natural hair with the grays, what I wanted and what I first left with.
I also have emails I can post if any information is needed for anyone wanting proof of my statements. I would HATE for anyone to leave with results close to this. read more