In June of 2024, after a lot of research and reassurance by stylist Kara, I entrusted The Fixx Hair Salon, and Kara, to create the hair style that I had been waiting over two years for. My mom worked hard to save the money to give this to me as a birthday present, and I was so excited. I showed Kara very detailed photos of what I was looking for, a natural blonde bailage with smudged root (not stripes), and I also expressed my fear of letting anybody touch my hair, and why. She assured me that she was a Level-5 stylist and that she'd take great care of me. I arrived at 8:00 a.m. Kara knew I had to work a late afternoon shift that day and assured me I'd be well taken care of and out the door in plenty of time.
Before this, I'd taken about two years to finish growing out the old color, and getting it back to health after losing some of it to chemo about a year ago. My hair was finally thick, healthy and a NATURAL canvass. All I wanted was a natural blonde bailage, with smudged root, and not the bleached, fried, yellow/white striped, thin mess it became. Kara COMPLETELY ruined my hair! And I'm not exaggerating. When she initially rinsed my hair out after her first attempt, she looked at it and said, "Oh no, I don't like this, it does not look good". There were very harsh lines and white and "yellow" highlights that looked like stripes, and were far from the "natural blonde" color I had requested. Nothing was blended at all, and my hair was already damaged at this point. . In an attempt to fix it, she then put even more blonde in it, a blonde way too bleachy and harsh for my hair, and proceeded to leave it in my hair for over 40 minutes while she was working on other clients!
At this point, I started sobbing. Lauren, the owner, walked right by me, looked at me and did absolutely nothing. She didn't even ask what was going on, or show any compassion in the fact that I was clearly upset over that damage that Kara caused, and was continuing to make even worse. As an owner/manager, she did nothing to find out what was going on, or see that she needed to get that stuff out of my hair since Kara had wandered off to work on other clients. Kara also did nothing except let me sit there sobbing while working on two other clients. She didn't even check it herself, she had one of her "non Level 5" assistants poke at it. People were staring at me. I was completely humiliated. The entire 7+ hours I was there, Kara probably did maybe only 20 minutes of the actual job. She truly did not care what she had done to me, and passed me on to someone else so that she could process her other clients who could have waited.
My hair was now completely fried. The ends were breaking off in my hands. Kara cut so much out, it was uneven and you could see my neck through my hair! My hair was naturally curly, and Kara cut all the curl out from under my hair, and layered it in a way that I may as well be bald. Furthermore, my hair was almost down to my waist and I only wanted an inch off the length. But because my ends were SO damaged at this time and crisping off, Kara tried to fix it by proceeding to cut several more inches off.
As I was leaving the studio (7 hours later), still sobbing, Kara said, "I'll call you tomorrow and we'll get this fixed". Since then, three months later, not one time has anybody reached out, or even apologize to me. Nobody acknowledged how incredibly upset and traumatized I was. I sent a letter to the owner, asking her how she could let this happen, asking if she could get in touch with me, and no response. They probably felt that if they ignored me, I'd just fade away and nobody would speak of this beyond nightmare experience. I even called a few times to follow up and one time she was on vacation, and the next time the person said she was there, but then when they knew what the call was about, they got back on the phone and suddenly she wasn't there that day.
After being assured that I'd be taken care of on time, I ended up not leaving the studio so late that I had to call my work and miss my shift. I could not have made it to work on time, let alone show up looking like the way I did. My hair had been destroyed, and my eyes were swollen shut from crying so hard.
I had to go to another salon to have them at least "try" to fix this damage, which cost me $350.00, plus extra in products to try to help fix the fried damage. I had to wear my hair up in a claw clip for almost three months before I could wear it down, but to this day, the fried ends are still breaking off, but thankfully, it's slowed down. I do not recommend this studio to anyone, they truly don't care about their customers as you can see from some of the other reviews. I wish I would have see the reviews before I went. read more