On Wednesday last week, I had an appointment at the Norwich salon at 3pm. I was booked in for a…read morefull head of highlights, a cut, treatment and style. When I arrived, I clearly explained to Mabel the technician what I wanted. No money piece, blended highlights throughout my hair, a small trim as I recently had my hair cut. Mabel insisted she could get what I wanted through balayage (I had a suspicion this was her preferred style as I have quite long hair and highlights would take much longer). I explained again the outcome I was looking for and Mabel explicitly advised she understands and to trust her. Mabel began doing the back of my hair, then moved to the front. While doing to front, I stated again, I do not want a visible money piece, I would like it to blend throughout my hair.... this was ignored and Mabel done what she wanted on my hair. Resulting in an uneven, categorically awful variation of colours going through my hair with a huge blocky money piece which is the blondest, brightest, cheapest looking hair I've ever seen. Now moving on to the cut, I was handed over to Joe who truthfully doesn't have a very warm tone anyway, I explained to Joe, I wear my hair up all the time, I do not want bangs or a fringe (as he kept pushing this) but I would like a light feathering around my face and half an inch cut from the bottom. I explained I have very curly thick hair so anything short at the front would not work, and stated AGAIN I wear my hair up a majority of the time, I do not have time to style it so the cut needs to be soft and nothing much different to what it is now. When Joe then cut the front, I could hear and feel he had made a mistake and taken a lot of length off, I politely said again, I do not want bangs, I do not want a fringe or much to which Joe replied in an aggressive, loud tone "what do you want me to do about it? What did you expect me to do?" The whole salon went quiet, it was mortifying. I explained myself, I can't have short fronts, due to having my hair up a lot, he did not care. He then continued to aggressively dry my hair, scratching my neck, pulling my hair and blowing all the hair into my face. Prior to this, he asked how I wanted it styled, I asked for a bouncy blow but instead I got an angry, aggressive rough dry then curls put in while yanking at my hair so much my head was getting pulled back with ever strand. Joe repeatedly (again extremely aggressively) kept asking if the colour and cut was ok, I explained it's not what I asked for, and he stated "what do you want me to do about it?". By this point I felt intimidated and just wanted to get out of there. It was an awful experience and my hair now is left in a complete mess. I do not feel comfortable going back to the salon due to the aggressive nature of the stylist Joe. I do not expect to be treated like that anywhere, let alone paying £220 for the privilege.
