I had a coupon for a $6.99 coupon here, so I decided to give this place a try. Normally, I go to supercuts and pay about $15 for a pretty good, if not fancy, haircut that I am always happy with. I wish now that I had just shelled out the extra $8 to avoid the disastrous cut I got at GreatClips! I tried to explain to the hairdresser when I sat in the chair about how I wanted my hair cut; I like to get layers but they must be easily bendable with the rest of my hair because I have very thin hair and if the layers are too starkly different, then my hair looks like a mullet. She must not have listened to a word of all that because she did exactly the opposite of this. She cut the bulk of my hair, maybe 60% into one really short layer and left the other 40% at least 5 inches longer than the one short layer. Needless to say, my hair really looks like a mess of a mullet now! The long hairs are so scraggly looking since they don't have any bulk to them, and the short hairs are so wavy since they are so much shorter than the rest of the hair. It looks just like Taryn Manning's hair from orange is the new black. I am a professional who needs to look presentable and clean on a daily basis, so needless to say this hairdo has really been a problem for me! I got my hair cut here about 1.5 months ago, and I am still suffering from the effects of this cut, and unfortunately my hair grows insanely slowly, so it will be a while until have the change to even it out a bit. I have worn my hair up in a bun every single day since I got my cut back in mid-august to hide the cut.
The positive of the experience is that the staff was very friendly. No, the haircut was not good. Yes, I will probably spend the next 6 months trying to grow out my hair enough to fix the damage done by this cut, but I honestly don't think these people were trying to ruin my day. Perhaps they are just underpaid staff at a crappy corporate haircutting salon and can't muster the concern to do a great job analyzing which style will look good on each unique person's hair based on their natural attributes. But I DID try to explain in very plain language what I wanted! So I am left unsure of how this trainwreck came to be. Even though I wasn't happy with the haircut, I still tipped my hairdresser over 50% the cost of the haircut. I felt bad that she was probably making really low tips on $6.99 haircuts all day, and I honestly didn't realize the extent of the damage she had done to my head until I got home and examined it more closely.
Don't get me wrong, SuperCuts is no high end salon in the fashion district, but they certainly do a better job with their haircuts. I'll take my business back there next time. read more