First time in a hairdressers for 3 years following a previous bad experience. Well, I won't be going back to a hairdressers again - ever!! General cut was ok - short back and sides, so you cant go wrong really but I specifically asked for a long tuft at the front (tin tin style). I even told him that I was very nervous due to previous experiences and was worried it would be cut wrong. All went well to start with, front tuft was left long but then, just like previous hairdressers, he kept snipping and snipping at it until it was barely longer than the the rest of the hair. And yes, one could say I should have stopped him, but its actually very difficult to see what is happening as it is being cut, and one has to put a certain amount of trust in the hairdresser. At no point did he ask if it was ok, even though I kept pulling it up with my hand to see the length of the tuft (which I thought made it fairly obvious that I was concerned about the length).
Now I have to look in the mirror every morning and be totally unhappy with my hair for at least 3 months until it grows out again! Also, when I got home I realised that he had cut the sideburns down so short that there was a gap between them and my beard. Granted this is due to the way my hair grows in that area but before I remembered to mention it he had clippered it all off! What is it with hairdressers that they don't take a look at customers hair before they start cutting it? they just wade in with the clippers assuming that everyone's hair is the same. This experience means that I will NEVER return to a hairdressers in future and will go back to doing it myself. VERY VERY unhappy customer. Following that there was absolutely no way I was going to let him anywhere near the beard that I have been growing for 5 months!! I'm sure the guy is a very good hairdresser really, but in my opinion he needs to be a bit more careful about checking with the customer that the cut is going as planned. read more