Salon Cu follow up

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

I am starting a new job and have come to regret that I cut my own hair a while ago... I'm not that interested in my looks and I previously worked from home, so it was no big deal, but I made a bit of a mess of things. It looked okay, albeit a bit shaggy and sloppy, but it was time to fix it. I remembered the post in the hair tags a while back about someone wanting to go to a place that wouldn't rag on them for trying to cut their own hair. Comments in the hair tags have been warm in their recommendation of Salon Cu.

Apologies in advance for how inane this entry is, but I need to put in my two cents on this place.
I went this morning, though not to Umberto (whom everyone seemed to love). Other guy.
1). He made me feel awful about what I had done to my hair.
2). He did not even remotely try to connect with me about what I wanted, but seemed more intent on trying to "fix" what I had done.
3). He didn't ask me any questions about my hair type, which is on the insane side, or tell me what he was going to do.
4). He didn't ask me if I wanted it blow-dried and styled and just went for it anyways. I looked ridiculous leaving that place. Is that normal? I don't go to salons often (years and years). It didn't feel right.

Yes, I probably should have spoken up, but I'm meek and was already embarrassed and I didn't want to offend him, and I didn't realize until it was over that I had been made into

but with nerdy glasses and poofier hair.

So yeah, I'm not giving them a good review, and I'm not going back. I don't like salons.

Comments

Re: liiiiiiittle off the top...

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything here. I really do have fun cutting my own hair, but I'm getting my first *real* job, which means putting away my ink-stained clothes and buying nice ones, and, sadly, getting a professional looking hair-cut. It takes a lot of women (and probably men too) a long time to build up enough self-esteem to feel comfortable being natural, and to go to a salon usually feels like a plunge back into middle school. The stylists roll their eyes at you if you don't use any products, like there is nothing worse than frizz.

I'm just going to grow it! But a trimmer sounds like it would be good to have on hand. Thanks for the Mario's recommendation.

Re: liiiiiiittle off the top...

[nora-rocket.livejournal.com]

Real job, schmeal job. I'm in ur office, sportin' ur buzz cut:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norarocket/1812158916/

Re: liiiiiiittle off the top...

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

*aspirations*