Last year In August I called to book an appt right before my wedding and asked (begged) for them to connect me with the "best haircutter" on their floor. Dolce Lusso stylists can do amazing color, so I wasn't worried about my highlights. But it has been my experience there (with three stylists) that my hair is always still too thick, e.g. not thinned out enough, after my haircuts. but the color services have been so good, I was holding out hope. They scheduled me with Britney (sp?) whose haircuts are $100 so I was hopeful that I would get an amazing cut. You get what you pay for, right? Britney is the color instructor, I would come to find out. She over texturized my hair on my right side and actually cut one of my highlights in half. Noticeably. Neither she nor her assistant pointed this out while they blow dried and styled my hair, perhaps they didn't see it, but I found it the very next time I dried and styled my hair. I had to go back to the salon and have them cover it with a lowlight, but not with Britney since she was at Fashion Week. I was very disappointed because a haircut for that price should not be problematic, right?? So I waited until the end of December, my hair was a bit longer (shoulder length at this point) to get some lowlights and get my hair thinned out without hapless over-texturization (fingers crossed). This time they scheduled me with the same lady who did my color correction, Christine. My appt started at 6pm; I asked her to thin me out a bit, leave the ends more whispy, not blunt, Jennifer Anniston-esque (my hair is essentially the same color and falls the same way as JA, always has). Christine, for lack of a better expression, scalped me. Half of my hair was on the floor by the time she was done (at 9:30pm). Oh it definitely resembled JA, but not a recent haircut of hers: her shag from the 90's!!! I kept telling her it wasn't right, I started crying, and felt like I couldn't breathe because I could see the damage done and yet she kept cutting. I texted my wife to come and help! She had cut super short, choppy layers on top, and left the bottom long. I looked like a mushroom, with two very different haircuts on the same head. but there was no manager on duty, and the receptionist either didn't know or didn't care that I was having a full on panic attack in both the chair and then, later, their bathroom. I was the only client in the salon at that point. My wife was beside herself; she didn't know what to do, at one point even asking for Christine to stop cutting and she wouldn't. Another stylist who happened to notice my panicked expression and my pleas, Robbie - the Angel, walked over and finally intervened. Christine said "well I don't know what she wants. Do you have any suggestions?" AFTER SHE CUT ALL OF MY HAIR OFF. And Robbie said, "Um, yes." He gets his own shears and starts to tweak the mushroom shaped haircut Christine left in her wake. Robbie was SO NICE to me, so gentle. He asked me what it is I initially asked for, he assessed the 'damage', made a few adjustments, but then gave it to me straight. He said too much hair had been cut off to achieve what I wanted, but that with some regrowth, the haircut could be tweaked and eventually look the way I wanted it to. I have had this type of haircut before, years ago, by rookie stylists who had no clue how to thin out/layer thick hair. I knew that it would take 6 months to a year to grow out. I was devastated, and I still am. While I was in the bathroom, Christine actually made some snide comments TO MY WIFE about me, despite she being the cause of my terrible experience, something to the affect of "well I can't glue it back on," and "she needs to figure out what she wants because it's already 9:30pm. The salon is closed." She even called my hair a mullet...TO ME. I have been inconsolable ever since. I called manager Amanda not long after that fateful night, and her offer to remedy the situation was a free trim in two months and a free one hour massage. She said she was very sorry for the ordeal, and to call the next day when I was sitting in front of my calendar to book the massage. The very next day I called, got Amanda on the phone again, and SHE DIDN'T REMEMBER ME. All in all, I lost about 2-3 inches of length, and a ton of volume despite me wanting to keep my shoulder length hair. The layers are impossibly choppy, chunky, and short: there are pieces of hair that are three inches long in quite a few areas of my head. My wife bought me a bottle of Biotin supplements to try and regrow my hair more quickly, but the haircut stands until some substantial regrowth can take place. How can this happen at an expensive, reputable place with so many good reviews? And then, to add insult to injury, the owner can't even be bothered to make a 5 minute phone call to a severely dissatisfied, and quite frankly, traumatized customer? We have tried for weeks to get someone to talk to us about real solutions. read more