There's something quite liberating about allowing a visibly-intoxicated person to work on your neck with an unguarded straight razor. I hope all of you appreciate that I would have walked out if not for the experience and a story to tell.
I struggled with how to frame this review. Part of me wanted to to protect other employees at the location by creating a new busness in the same location under the indivdual stylist's name, but if she gets it together I'd rather my review not follow her. On the other hand, I felt it unfair to punish other stylists in the same salon for one person.
In the end, I decided that the entire salon needs to be called out. There is no confusion as to what is going on here: all of the other stylists watched this transpire and did nothing to defend their customer; I exchanged several knowing glances with others in the room. If the owner isn't aware of the situation, shame on her.
More disturbing than the razor work, which actually came out great despite the conditions, were the thought processes going on and the lack of filter between brain and mouth. After asking what I did for work, she proceeded to mock the entire industry. She also made it known that she lives in a certain part of town among a certain type of people, and that somehow her willingness to live in such conditions made her a really great human being, when merely saying that sentence indicated delusion. She even mocked the most fragile and beautiful subset of our society, wealthy orthinologists.
The appointment began about 10 minutes late and took about an hour, which I've never experienced anywhere. The website lists their men's haircuts as $25-40 and $40 for a new male client, which I was, but at checkout time it came in at $45 with no explanation.
All that being said, I have some wild hair and am not particularly attracted to my own image, but I caught myself getting lost in the mirror, which never happened after anywhere else. If you can tolerate it here, it's some nice work.
I picked this place because they have a perfect 5-star rating. Upon further review, the most recent was posted on 7/18/2012. Did everyone figure it out and not share? Time for a reset...
To make a long story short, I spent the last year growing my hair in and letting salons do their best. I wish I could have tried everyone, but I'm making an economic decision to deny these flowing locks to the world by breaking out my clippers again.
My final rankings: 1. KRS Hair Studio - Riverwest, 2. Robert Laurence - Shorewood, 3. The Cutting Group - Riverwest, 4. Stone Fox Salon - Murray Hill, 5. Grum - Murray Hill, 6. M Salon - Walker's Point. Peace. read more