I asked for more blending of my top, heavy layer, to go back to the long, layered haircut I previously had, shown in pics below that I showed Ariel. Ariel cut four inches off my hair and cut short, choppy layers into my hair.
I also showed her pictures of my hair with plenty of contrast with my natural hair. She left my hair generally with a diffuse, all over blonde, even blonding my lowest layer of hair, which clearly was left natural in my pictures. When she started, I told her the backcombing/teasy highlighting method she was using repeatedly had not worked for me hair. She said it was the only method she knows to blonde hair, and, unsurprisingly, it again produced results I don't like.
At the end, Ariel left my hair short, choppy and frizzy and bullied me by telling me that she just thinks I'm going to have a hard time finding a stylist. If she only knows one method of blonding hair, and thinks that the haircut pictured below, is the same as the blended, long layers I showed her in my pictures, I believe she needs significantly more education to justify the prices she's charging (nearly $500 for the one blonding technique she knows and cutting off years of my hair growth into an unflattering cut I'm now stuck with).
Please note that, instead of taking accountability and addressing my issue directly with me, the owner decided to have affiliates post a bunch of "positive reviews." Says everything to me about how much she cares about customer satisfaction. read more