Prior to reading this review, I have never posted on Yelp before, but I felt compelled to start an account so I can tell you how awful this dye job was and hopefully to stop you from ever stepping in this salon.
I called Ulitmate Touch and asked if I could have my hair done "Marilyn Monroe" blonde. The women who answered,the owner "Star", said she could do that and booked me with a hairdresser that "does great great blonde hair". I arrived at my appointment and my hairdresser greeted me. Upon seeing her I showed her what I wanted my hair to look like (picture attached) and decided I wanted the baylage( sp?) effect of the light brown fading into bleach blonde hair instead of the Marilyn Monroe as I had told the owner over the phone. She says she can do that and all is going well until the owner steps in and says "get me (so and so awful color) and I'll take over". So she starts coloring my hair (without gloves) and the dye is slopping all over the place (got onto my boots which did not come off).
I thought this was going to be the beginning of a nightmare. Well turns out my instinct was right. My hairdresser takes me over to the sink and I ask to go to the bathroom. In the bathroom mirror I see BRIGHT NEON YELLOW peaking through my cap. I sat down at the sink and said "this looks very yellow". The owner came over and told the hairdresser not to use toner to even out the color and claimed it will "blow dry differently" as if blow drying will miraculously turn it into a beautiful sand blonde. So the owner blow dries just the sides, not a full blow dry and I am shocked. I have never seen such a horrific dye job. Even better was I was there for FOUR HOURS to dye my hair NEON YELLOW/BRASSY ORANGE which I could have done with boxed color. She stands there and says "Its a beautiful color". Maybe to you it is, but its not at all what I asked for. I specifically said I can't have any golden tones prior to that because my hair turns yellow/brassy. She just stares at me as if theres nothing she can do. She actually let me leave disappointed and said "come in tomorrow so I can fix it". Great. I go to the reception and she says "its $150". ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS?!! For what??! I waited 4 hours to listen to the owner boss the poor hairdresser around who was only trying to do her job, take clients in between, dye my hair yellow, not even a cut or a full blow dry and its $150. So I pay the receptionist and leave very upset.
The next morning I called the owner. I said "I think what happened was you assumed I wanted the Marilyn Monroe Blonde and I showed the hair dresser something different so both of you must have miscommunicated resulting in something I didn't want." She replied "we didn't miscommunicate and we couldn't get the color you wanted, come back in and I'll fix it" I told her that I would not come back that I would have to go to a professional and I wanted a refund. She refused to give me a refund and said she would give me store credit and also chimed in "I looked at your history here and you were always a problem customer". WHAT?! I've been there twice before and gave the hairdressers good tips and never complained. So now she's insulting me and not giving me a refund. Not much I could do at this point seeing as she clearly has zero customer service experience so I hung up and moved on with my life.
Thankfully I went to see my friend at Bradley and Diegel and she fixed my hair to not only a "normal color" but completely transformed my hair. I told her my story and she was appalled and said "I would never let my client leave unsatisfied". On top of restoring my hair, she only charged me $10 because she felt so bad. ^ that is amazing customer service looks like.
So you think this story is not that bad, well it gets worse. Not even one month later I notice my hair is thinning and balding in patches on the side of my scalp and Im in hysterics. My hair is usually so thick that it hurts wearing a pony tail, not I can't even wear a pony tail because my hair is balding. I went to my hair dresser and she said that it is balding on the sides and asked if I got a bleach job. Well what do you know, good ole Ultimate Touch not only completely ruined my hair, ruined my boots with bleach, took $150 of my hard owned money, insulted me, and made me wait for 4 hours, but also left me balding.
I am not one to complain but when you spend a lot of money on a service you expect to leave with what you wished for. Now Im paying more money to fix my hair and am not sure how to fix my balding areas which has completely exhausted me.
I hope no-one ever has to go through what I experienced and please TRUST YOUR OWN HAIR DRESSER AND WAIT UNTIL THEIR SCHEDULE OPENS UP! Don't be impatient like I was. read more