I really wish that I could give this place 6 stars because honestly, 5 is not enough. I went to the salon on Wednesday after researching hundreds of other salons and reading through thousands of reviews. I was honestly extremely sketched out about this place because it had 5 stars and out of like 40 reviews, there was only one bad one from a few years ago.
Plus, people also said how great their sanitization was and how pretty inexpensive they were and how fair their prices were. People also said how talented the hair stylists were. I was like, " there's no possible way this place can be this good AND inexpensive. there has to be some sort of downside or catch. "
There was 1, but it wasn't that bad at all.
The one downside to this place was that no one there spoke English except for this one woman who seemed pretty fluent in English.
There was another woman there and one male. The second woman spoke a lot more English than the male did, but was not fluent. I'm pretty sure the male did not speak any sort of English.
The man was named William, and he was my hair stylist for the evening. For what I wanted, made it a lot harder to communicate because of how kind of I guess- confusing and complex it was? but the woman that spoke English( I'm so sorry I forgot your name ) translated everything to William for me.
I had asked for a root touch up and a wash and cut. Instead of just doing the root touch up, he actually did my whole head! and only $75! the haircut was $35. The last time I got my hair done, it was at this Hair cuttery in Pembroke Pines and god, it was a horrific experience. The woman who did my hair there was extremely rough with my hair, literally SCRUBBING the dye into my hair like shampoo, digging her fingers roughly into my scalp. I am also male, and my natural hair color is ginger and I also have extremely long hair. Probably as long as an average woman's haircut.
The woman who did my hair firstly tried convincing me to not dye my roots because my ginger hair was oh soooo beautiful . After she dyed my hair, she also tried pressuring me into cutting it off ( clearly because she believed that men should not have long hair or " feminine hair styles " which btw, literally anyone can have long hair. its not exclusive to females so stfu. ) ANYWAYS. While she was washing my hair, again same treatment, rough and aggressive with my scalp, and she even got shampoo in my eye.
So when I went to Le Hair Salon, not only was I already suspicious, but I was also really scared because of my experience at the hair cuttery and an experience at sports clips with a woman who completely botched my hair.
William on the other hand, not only was he so kind, he was so incredibly talented!!!
I came into the salon with very unwashed, badly matted hair, with my roots probably a good 2-4 inches already grown out, along with my " bangs " looking as if someone had cut a chunk literally right out of my hair. So clearly, there were sooo many problems with my hair that needed to be addressed desperately and skillfully.
According to my mother, I'm not exactly how he did this part since I had my eyes closed, but while he was dying my hair, she said that he applied hair jell in my hair to help brush out the matting WITHOUT CUTTING ANY OF THE MATTING OUT OR RIPPING OUT. He didn't get all the matting out of course, but after the dye was ready to be washed out, we went to the wash area and as he washed my hair he got 98% of the matting out. And lastly, before he started cutting my hair he got THE FINAL BIT OF MATTING OUT! with again, NOT CUTTING A N Y OF IT OUT OR RIPPING IT OUT.
Throughout the whole de-matting process, he was not " rough " per se or aggressive at all. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it was like- tight? a bit hard? which made sense since he was brushing the matting out. It didn't hurt not one bit, it was just uncomfortable. which is NOT his fault. To get out matting like mine, there's no way to get around something like that and he did exactly what he was supposed to do.
In terms of the haircut, he did EXACTLY what I asked for, except for the " bangs " not kind of being like a heart shape like my original haircut, it was kind of like curtain bangs? but like not even. barely. they're kind of like a mix of both ?? and regardless, I still love it and he did his very very best considering my request was complicated and with the language barrier.
My hair was also uneven when I came into the salon. Part of what I asked for, was to keep as much length as humanly possible, and that's exactly what he did for me. my hair is almost 100% even. Some of it is a tiny bit still uneven, which makes complete sense because to make it 100% even he would've had to cut more hair than I wanted. its like 98.5% even! Which is amazing considering what I asked for! lol. My hair obviously also needed to be layered, so he did beautiful layering along with perfectly blending my " bangs " in with the rest of my hair. read more