I was planning a day in Muskegon and decided I wanted to get my hair cut. It had been at least six…read moremonths since I'd gotten a cut since I was trying to grow out a short style and after reading about the salons in the area, I decided to give this salon a try.
First of all, I showed Holly (my hairdresser), two pictures with the style of bangs I wanted. A thick, blunt bang that came long on the sides, very lightly layered. One was just past the shoulders, only maybe an inch max longer than mine, the other was actually cropped so you could only really see the woman's face and neck but she appeared to have longer hair.
I am the kind of person who researches exactly what I want my hair cut to look like, spending hours pouring over pictures. After telling my hairdresser what I wanted, she told me she didn't think my hair was long enough (despite my first picture featuring a shoulder length cut), and that the longer angles on the side would actually make my face look rounder (the opposite of what allure, Redbook and Glamour said; I'm inclined to believe them over a random hair stylist - and regardless, give me what I want, dammit!).
She talks me into doing a normal straight bang and takes me to the sink. Their hair washing sinks are highly uncomfortable but I was willing to forgive this minor thing. To make it more fun though, I listen as the supervisor or whomever talks to Holly basically the entire time she's washing my hair about how this whole family will be coming in. As someone who works in customer service, I would never talk over a customer when I'm supposed to be paying attention to them. I know she's just washing my hair but I still feel pretty unimportant as they go on for a few minutes about how she'll have to stay late, etc etc.
Now, the actual cut. After trying to bring up my bang idea a few more times once she's done talking to scheduling lady and being shot down, I've kind of given up and decided it's in her hands. She cuts my bangs it a straight line, then trims my ends. She takes off a bit in between these two weird layers I have left over from my short chop and texturizes it. A total of five minutes of cutting later, we're done. It's cute but I look like I'm in high school again, the very thing I was trying to avoid with a more sophisticated bang style. Now I understand why mothers and their children come to her.
This is the first time I've ever left a tip smaller than ten dollars and I'm a poor college student. Now that my hair isn't blown out and freshly cut, my bangs are so thin they're like little pieces of hair over my face. I remember now why I stopped getting bangs - because every time I get the same, frustrating straight line across the eyebrow. Sorry for the ridiculously lengthy review but I'm just so disappointed. I'm going to end up having to thicken and layer my bangs myself, which is the very thing I was trying to avoid. Sadly, though, I'm confident I'll do better than this salon did. I feel bad leaving a poor review because Holly did seem like a genuinely nice person but this cut is just so two dimensional.
