WORST HAIRCUT/EXPERIENCE EVER.
Pretty pissed with the haircut I got for my kid here. One of the worst experiences I've had (if not the worse) getting my kids haircut. I have pretty bad experiences with stylists/barbers and cutting my kids hair. We don't get it cut often (maybe once every 4 months), and more often then not, they simply DO NOT LISTEN to what I want.
Having had so many bad experiences, I went into Take 5 making sure that I gave an explicit description to what I'd like to see.
My son has had both short and longer hair, and his head type (in the opinion of my wife and I) is more suited for longer length hair. The FIRST THING I said to the lady about to cut my kids hair, was ..
" I don't want it short. It JUST NEEDS to be CLEANED up. (this next part is verbatim)...Take off AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE to just make it look clean".
I went on to say, that I DO NOT WANT THE HAIR CUT AROUND THE EARS. That I want it exactly the way it is, just not so uneven. She confirmed by saying back "you want the hair over the ears?".
I kept the initial discussion short and sweet. I felt like there was no other way to tell a person to freaking be frugal about cutting his hair (i.e. hardly take any off).
She confirmed very confidently. 5 seconds later , I see her grab the back of his hair, exclaim "Yeah , this needs to be cleaned up, I'll take about 3/4 of an inch off", and before I could say anything, her VERY FIRST CUT took off about an inch off the back.
Now, I'm not a confrontational person, and I made the quick decision that the damage had already been done, to just let her finish. (it's not like I could have asked her to leave his back hair with a chunk missing). Well, bad move...
She proceeded to cut and cut and cut and cut... until all in all, she cut off about 3-5 inches off his head. My wife came in towards the end, and was furious (relatively speaking, she's fairly reserved too). I measured his back hair when we got home, and it was 5 INCHES shorter (he has wavy'ish hair in the back, but that was the total missing length after it's straightened).
To boot, the whole haircut looks off. She left most of the head at a length that I guess she interpreted as "long", but then cut his front bangs a good 3/4" ABOVE his eye. For reference, his hair was about 2" BELOW HIS EYE, and that's where we wanted keep it, because if it's above, it starts to grow back and irritates his eyes. If it's longer than his eyes, the hair tips do not go in his eyes.
I went to the bathroom after I paid, and later my wife tells me that the stylist was trying to make excuses, actually implying that it was my KIDS FAULT because he wouldn't tilt his head correctly. For reference, I was there the ENTIRE time, and there was one part she asked my boy to tilt his head up and to the left. Being 5 years old, he didn't get it perfeclty (god forbid a 5 year old doesn't get the correct angle the first time), and she just adjusted him and moved on. Apparently the entire goddamn haircut was partially to blame for this non-event.
Of course, being the passive that I am, I paid and even left a good tip. My wife complained about that. I told m wife, that it's plenty punishment enough, that we never go back there again, and tell everyone we can about our experience.
Now, to be fair, if you want a standard clipper, little boy cut, they're probably fine. Just like Great Clips or Supercuts, this place seems like the type of shop that churns out one of 3 haircuts just fine. Apparently asking them to do anything else is beyond their repertoire.
6 months worth of growing his hair out literally cut off in a matter of seconds. Now we're contemplating going to an actual salon, and just biting the bullet to pay 40 bucks for a REAL haircut, for a 5 year old kid.
Kind of ancillary complaints, but the stylist's herself was a bit odd. Unsolicited conversation was all over the place about the most random things. A bit surreal. At one point, I offered my boy to get some froyo after, because he was staying dead still the entire time. She instantly replied "he's spoiled". I looked up to see if she was smiling with sarcasm or something, but nothing. Very weird.
Avoid this place like the plague. Kind of off-topic, but I also saw an older gentleman with a close clipper cut (almost buzz'isih) by another lady while I was there. I gotta say, it looked really uneven (the fade). I have a similar clipper cut myself (usually a combination of #1-#4 clipper gaurds) that I actually cut myself using a mirror (have been for the last 5 years). Absolutely have no problems saying that my fade was 10 times better then the one I saw there.
My advice, if you want a buzzcut, or a vanilla kids cut (i.e. absolutely 100% generic), this place MIGHT be okay, but then again, so is supercuts and great clips. And those places are probably a lot more professional. read more
