My cosmetologist friend was originally helping me cut my hair from what was 16". Unfortunately my friend got called into work and I was left with my hair undone. I had 3 options: wait for my friend to get off work later that evening, find a salon nearby who can finish it, or do it myself. Since I was in a rush to get it done and I figured it would be a simple task, I began looking for a salon near my house that could finish the job.
On their company website I saw pictures from their gallery and read the stylists bios. I resulted with Keishla who I read "for anyone looking for a big change that scissors can't fix, she is your girl."
I sat down and showed her a picture of the cut and color I wanted. It was a short hair cut with a level 10 blonde. She asked if I wanted to get to that color today and I said yes as I showed her a picture from (2) former times I lightened my hair to that level in the past. Since then I had grown my hair out and it was in its natural state with no chemicals on it, so it could be done. With her doubt I wasn't sure about a level 10 but I was at least expecting to end with a level 9.
We began with a dry cut and it looked decent, although I would've liked my bang to be a little longer, but it was gone already so I didn't make a fuss.
We moved onto the lightener. She applied, very slow for such a short amount of hair and it was not saturated at all. I sat for 45 min under a dryer with foil on top. After Keishla and Shauna looked at it they decided to put another bowl of lightener with 20 volume developer because it was still at a level 8 and it was very patchy in the areas where I saw she did not saturate it. It was a rookie mistake and also added an unnecessary bowl of lightener on my tab.
After the lightener was rinsed we continued onto the toner. By the way, as I was being rinsed, Keishla and Shauna were making jokes about how black people and how they don't like dogs. They probably aren't racist but it was an ignorant statement, offensive, and very unprofessional. Anyway, my roots were high yellow and the rest bright orange. She gave me hot roots. The toner didn't take, which I never heard of before, so she reapplied another toner. It didn't take, but both bowls we're still added to my tab.
At this point I started getting very worried, upset and disappointed. I honestly just wanted to leave but I wanted to see how it would turn out dry. As she was drying it she was telling me how she put something in it that left it straight for 10 washes. I don't really need that or care about that because my hair is short, textured and curly. So I don't want it straight for 10 washes. It was just unnecessary. I also never saw her put any other products or oil in my hair which is what it my hair needs, especially after lightening.
After drying my hair was brittle and felt like straw. The color was terrible and I didn't even know how to feel about the cut. Shauna had to fade the back of my head because Keishla couldn't even do it. Which was still a mess because it wasn't lined up with edgers. Keishla continued to straighten my hair by under combing with the straightener. That wasn't efficient or gentle on the hair because again I have a short textured damaged hair now. It needs to be thoroughly combed before just placing two hot plates on it.
After 4 hours and $100 later, I ended with a mess. Keishla even offered the advise of "you can even tone it again when you get home." I went home in tears and continued to cry throughout the evening. I went from long natural 16" of hair to a fried short highlighter looking mess. Knowing that she should've been a little more sympathetic about the tragedy or even try to fix it. None of that was relayed. I'm not sure if she did on purpose or if she just didn't know what she was doing. I wish I would've just had the patience to wait for my friend or do it myself.
The next day I went to Sally's Beauty Supply purchased toner, color and lots of repair products for my damaged brittle hair. Before the color, my boyfriend had to clipper cut the entire right side and back of my hair because of the damage and the cut just looked bad. He had to properly fade it in with the rest of my hair and line up the rest of it with edgers. I still wasn't completely happy with it but it was a whole lot better than what I had, and I could actually walk out in public.
It wasn't a professional environment and the stylist herself wasn't a professional. I wasted money, which thinking back, I shouldn't of even paid her with such unsatisfactory work. I even had to spend even more money and time to fix it. Please learn from my experience. All in all, I do not recommend this salon to anyone. If I could put no stars I would. read more