Tl;dr don't go to this salon if you have ethnic hair, DO NOT get it cut here. They don't listen to you when you tell them to dry cut and can't seem to get it evenly cut.
Let me start off by saying, I get a hair cut like once a year. I don't care about regular hair upkeep much, but I was looking to make a big change so I decided to splurge and go to an upscale salon.
I sat down with the stylist who insisted on washing my hair before she cut it. This was a problem for two reasons: 1. I had gotten a babysitter so I could get my hair cut, and washing wasn't something I had accounted for. Plus, I had washed it before I came. 2. I have ethnic hair, but straighten in so often times people can't tell. Washing, blowdrying, and straightening would take way too long and usually hair stylists don't even do it right. The hair stylist insisted anyways and I thought she must know better. Come to find out, the charge by the minute for blowdrying and straightening. How convenient.
After almost an hour and a half of washing, drying, and straightening (two people going at it at once), we moved on to the cut. I had long hair and wanted a significant amount cut off as well as an undercut with a simple design cut into it. I confirmed this with the stylist before we started and she said she could do it no problem. When she finished cutting and trimming down my hair in the back, she informed me she had cut it too short and wouldn't be able to do a design. I took a look at the back of my head in a mirror to find she had basically shaved me bald. It looked so bad, not at all what I had asked for.
The undercut grows out, it's not visible unless my hair is up, so I figured it wouldn't be a huge deal. I was disappointed, but continued. She cut my hair and went on to trim in layers as I had asked but couldn't seem to cut the sides evenly. She cut and cut and cut until I finally stopped her because I wasn't going to have hair left by the time she was done. It was uneven, choppy, and I was out $60.
I got home and even my boyfriend was shocked at how bad it was. I decided it wasn't anywhere close to what I wanted and called to get a refund. They said they would have the manager call me back when she got back into town. I waited the three days and heard nothing. When I finally got in touch with her, it was a full week later. She was nice enough on the phone, but told me they wouldn't be able to give me a refund because the stylist had "done the best she could to fix it." She said they could offer to have me come back in to fix it, but I told her that wasn't possible because she had already cut off all my hair. There wasn't anything left to cut. She then offered store credit, but by that point I was pissed and didn't want their salon to have any of my business. After a lot of arguing, she finally agreed to a refund, but it had to be in cash. I'm not sure why, but that's the way it had to be. I got my cash refund and that was the end of it.
I was really dissatisfied with the cut, but the service was maddening. I wish the manager had been more accommodating and respected my wishes in the first place. read more