I used to go to the Rainbow Room when I was around 14-18 and now with more experience I will admit I was just being snooty and paying for a brand name rather than a haircut. I guess all girls are insecure about their hair, nobody wants a bad cut, when that happens it feels like the world is coming to an end, I've definitely been there a few times. Maybe it's just because the hairdresser who I go to now seems to actually know what I want and when I say I want blonde highlights I DO NOT mean those ugly block highlights Rainbow Room used to give me and charged me £180 for, what an absolute joke. Now to get my whole hair dyed it's less than half the price and looks ten times better than the Rainbow Room could ever make it look.
As I'm totally paranoid about getting a bad cut I always take a picture from a magazine of the EXACT haircut I want, when I do that with my hairdresser now he gets it spot on, at the "Robber Room" they got it completely wrong. Every. Single. Time.
Okay, so maybe a little shiatsu is nice but they whack on about £20 to the cut for something you didn't even ask for in the first place. I have a lot of hair, it's very thick and as such they charged me more than a regular customer as they had to use more highlights and my hair took longer to cut. Such nonsense, I have never heard of this kind of thing at any other salon.
In my opinion Rainbow Room are just rip off merchants feeding on womens insecurities, in particular and charging them an arm and a leg for a cut that to be honest, could be done just as good by a blind guy with a hedgetrimmer.
Furthermore, most of the salons I've been to since I put my foot down to stop paying Rainbow Rooms rediculous prices have all had staff who were trained by them. Rainbow Room train staff left right and centre and a lot of the staff leave as they're too good to be working for someone else and open up their own salons instead.
It's a funny thing though, once you find a hairdresser you somehow feel like you have to keep going back to them or they'll somehow get so offended by your betrayal they'll hunt you down and when they get their hands on you, give you the worst cut you could ever imagine. I guess this is why I went to the Rainbow Room for so long. I'm so grateful now I've got a hairdresser who actually cares about what I want and makes sure my hair is always exactly the way I want it.
In my experience, for what it's worth, is that independent hairdressers are the best, they have skills, talent and care about their customers and keeping their trust. Rainbow Room get so many people in and out of the salon that they don't really have the chance to make up a friendly customer environment and like other huge chain stores are just interested in making sweet moula. read more
