Dave wrote:Aah... the words you never want to hear from your barber: "Oops... I made a mistake.".
No joke. Try having more than three and a half feet worth of "oops" when it was supposed to be a split end trim(usually about six inches of deadfall), and a straight bang down to the nose.
My long hair was usually braided and pinned in a chignon. I asked for a natural line(how your hair naturally grows versus straight ends)split end removal trim using scissors, and a single layered long straight bang to the end of my nose.
I'm 5'3". With floor length hair. How hard could it be? Impossible, apparently.
She razor cut it to shoulder length, and gave me multi layered spiky bangs...then she had the brass ones to charge $120 for it.
My Mother got her wallet out, I slapped it back in her purse and went into full on harpy mode. The idiot could not figure out why I was mad, when I specifically told her to not touch the length.
The owner came in, saw me upset, and apologised, sent the girl into the back, collected the ends that were cut into a tail, and tied them.
She then redid my now horribly short shoulder length, uneven, short 'do. She trimmed the razored ends into an even length, then gave me a side part to cover the butchered bangs(think Veronica Lake), and all the product needed to set and hold the style in place until the bangs grew out. She gave me the tail, and two options. One was a place to turn it into extensions(at her expense), the other was to donate it. I donated it...later.
It ended up looking good, but I never set foot in a salon again until my son was three, I so did not trust stylists anymore. My little brother cut and styled my hair for years.
My son's stylist was the only one I let style it in two decades, and she respected it, and styled it to not be so frizzy, just curly.
I also don't keep it floor length anymore, but it's still long, currently to my waist.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir