Tried out Regal Choice with a recommendation since my go-to was out of town. Asked for a low taper…read morenot touching the top or sides. Mid-cut, I feel him flicking the clips up the side of my hair, and I start leaning away and then let him know I don't want that cut. Instead, he tells me not to lean away when cutting and that he has 18 years of experience and he "knows what he's doing," also saying my hair was uneven when I grew out both sides and the top for the past 7 months. Out of basic respect, I say ok, but I make it obvious I don't want anything but a low taper. Later on during the cut, he starts cutting my hair with scissors all around, and that's when I knew I messed up. I don't know how I could've prevented this, but even when I asked to line up my eyebrows, later coming home, I realized he changed the whole shape and made them way thinner, leaving a lighter shade from where he cut them off. At the end of the cut, I told him it was shorter than I wanted, and I didn't want the sides or top cut yet; he insisted he was making it even though it wasn't in the first place; it just wasn't detangled. He says I should've communicated more and that "the first time is never perfect," which it was far from, which just got me more aggravated, but at that point, I was just trying to get out of there, so I asked for his payment, and he said $35, which is $5 more than what I booked it for and what others pay. I didn't say anything just because I don't like starting stuff and wanted to dip, so I paid, went home, and took a shower, and what do you know? My sides are now very uneven, and I likely have to restart my hair after half a year. I think it was some part ego, by the way he said my real barber wasn't like that, and the fact that he kept saying, "I got 18 years of experience; I know what I'm doing" after my first concern. Maybe he should've asked how to proceed, but instead, during and after the cut, he said I was just going off the picture you showed me, which was just a pic of a low taper with a guy having shorter hair on the side, but I was clear that I didn't want the sides gone. At the end of the day, you live and learn, and I just hope that I can help someone from my experience.