Visited this salon a week ago for starter locs. Not gonna lie, I was a little late cause I got the location confused, but the person doing my hair--Tiff--didn't really seem all that bothered. I told her I was new to locs and I just wanted to have a conversation on loc maintence/how she's retwisting, what she retwists with, how long locs can take to dread etc. Right off the bat, she tells me: "didn't you do any research beforehand about locs?" Um yeah, I did, but I'd think a loctician would know more than some internet article?
Anyway, she starts doing my hair and instead of navigating me through the process of what she's doing, she goes right in and starts comb coiling my hair with GEL. I'm not a fan of gel, nor was I aware that she was doing coils; nevertheless, I figured gel would be helpful for the sake of maintaining the locs and I thought that coils would look like locs so it wasn't all that bad.
The REAL kicker was the fact that she would DRY DETANGLE my hair. Immediately sirens went off in my mind; like , you're combing dry hair without product/water? Hair breakage central. I asked her, "hey, could you apply water or product first and THEN detangle?" Her response was dismissive, that she was "already" doing it, mind you, she was only using water and gel for the comb coils NOT the detangling portion.
Also she had apparently ordered food because when it came to the office, she immediately stopped doing my hair, went to the back of the salon to munch on her chicken and I KNOW it was chicken because she started eating it while doing my hair. I don't know about you, but chicken grease and hair grease doesn't sound like a good combination.
After about two hours, she finishes my head, I leave and about a few days later, I start noticing the back start to unravel. Now from my research, I knew this would happen but when I asked her about the potential of my hairstyle unraveling, she said that it "wouldn't unravel any more than a normal style". Sure. Whatever you say.
Only reason why I'm giving three stars is because my hair smelled really good after leaving the salon; she used rose water I believe and tea tree oil on my head so I looked and felt good. The parting was good too, but that's about it. If you're looking for a decent starter loc place and you're comfortable with a little unprofessionalism, then this is your place. Though for $95, maybe more professionalism should've been present. read more