I have been going to Couture 360 for about four years now and I have never really had a good experience. Every time, I leave either feeling neutral or negative about the services provided. I keep going back mostly out of convenience and due to the fact that finding a stylist is difficult and I'd rather get a so-so haircut than go to the trouble of finding someone new. I have been looking for an excuse to stop going there and I finally got one (which I'll get to later).
The main service I have had there is haircuts. I hear good things about the colorists, but I can't speak to that. I have had four different people cut my hair and, again, I have never been impressed, especially for the price.
As I said earlier, I was looking for an excuse to officially stop going there (as if I needed one), and it finally came. I had made an appointment for a blow dry / style a few days out. The night before, I needed to wash my hair and also figured that whatever products my stylist wanted to put in my hair would hold better on the second day as opposed to immediately after washing it. I arrived to my appointment with clean, dry hair and told my stylist I didn't need it washed. She responded, "Oh, good, that will give me more time to style it." She asked me what I wanted done and I told her I basically just wanted her to curl it and make it look smooth. I asked multiple times if that was OK, especially since I didn't have it washed and dried. She kept saying, absolutely, that curling was easy, and continued on.
She jokingly said a couple of times that she liked a "grungier, messier" look and I laughed and said, "I guess there's a time and a place for that, but today I definitely want smooth." As she continued, my hair kept looking rattier and rattier and I should have said something, but by the end, I had decided I was going to have to go home and redo the whole anyway and I didn't trust her to continue going or to try and fix what she had done. I wanted simple, smooth, basic curls and she gave me a ratty, grungy, hairspray-laden mess. She put a few bobby pins in the back, I said, "Looks great!" so that I could leave, and I went to check out.
When I got to the front, the "computers were down," which is hilariously not the first time that has happened to me or to the other people I know that go to this salon. I was starting to get impatient at this point because I had somewhere I needed to be and now I had to add in an extra 45 minutes to redo my hair. A woman finally helped me and said my total would be $65. I was shocked, as I had clearly scheduled a "blow dry / style," which is listed on their website as $30. I was also there for maybe 25 minutes, didn't even have my hair washed (yes, at my request, but still), and they were trying to charge me more than twice the price.
A woman who I assume is the owner explained to me that if they even "touch" a curling iron to my head, the service doubles in price. If the price was going to double, my stylist should have told me that, knowing full and well and I had scheduled a blow dry / style (not sure what the word "style" even means here, according to them). I told them I should actually pay $0 because of how bad my hair looked, but I was willing to take responsibility for the fact that I didn't stop my stylist sooner, so I was willing to pay $30. Long story short, they finally honored the $30, but only after wasting an extra 25 minutes of my time. The owner also offered to fix it, which I opted out of because a) I didn't have time and b) I didn't want to give this salon any more money.
I FaceTimed a couple of people on my way home to see if I was being dramatic and if my hair actually looked bad. Both of them agreed that it looked terrible. One of them saying, "my first grader could have done a better job," to which I agreed.
The hype about this salon doesn't match the services. The prices don't match the quality. Goodbye, Couture 360. The only reason I gave two stars instead one one is because the interior is well-decorated, they play feel-good music, and they don't push a particular line of products quite as hard as other salons do. Other than that, do yourself and favor and find somewhere else to go. read more