It was nice that they proposed a hot drink when I came to the salon on a winter day. However, they missed the most important thing for a hair salon: the haircut. I was the hairdresser's last client of the day. I got the impression that he was in a hurry to leave work, and wasn't paying enough attention to what he was doing. After I showed him some pictures of the cut that I wanted, he said that he got the idea, and started to cut quickly. At some point, I saw that he was not cutting much on the top, even though the styles that I showed him had short hair on the top. He replied, don't worried, I'll get there. But he didn't.
Today a friend saw my new haircut, the first things she said to me was: "Your new haircut looks too heavy! It doesn't have a light feeling at all! It's far worse that your last haircut!" We agreed that it was because he didn't give a good structure of layers to my hair. The top part is too long all together.
Perhaps good layers are too much to expect from a mediocre hairdresser. However, I thought I could at least expect the basics. But I was wrong. When the hairdresser showed me his final results, I couldn't believe that it was final. Because after some rusty cutting, the left side above my ear was clearly different from the right side. The shape was not refined, and hair on the left side was clearly longer than the right side, while it was not meant to be an unsymmetrical style. The hairdresser said, "Right, I'll cut a bit more" when I pointed this out. However, when I went back home, I saw that the two sides in front of my ears were still not of the same length! I had to trim them my self!! The reason why I didn't see it before leaving the salon was that the hairdresser even forgot to show me the haircut from behind and both sides. He was already going to pack up his tools immediately after the work was done. I needed to ask him to do so. Then he went like "oh, I forgot to show you the cut from behind!" He showed me very quickly with a mirror behind my head, I didn't get to see the profile from both sides.
Yet another surprise before I finish this comment. When it was time to pay, I was asked to pay more than 70 euros for the haircut. On their website it says that "coup à sec" costs 65 euros; only when you do shampooing and brushing will it be 73 euros. That evening, they didn't do any of these extra services. The hairdresser just cut my hair dry, even without passing a comb or a brush through my hair. But they still wanted to charge a higher price, the receptionist claimed it to be a "transformation" haircut, which would cost more. Well, if it was a transformation, I have to admit that it was definitively a very disappointing one. read more