Things You Do That Your Hair Stylist Hates

Andrea Alvarado: Wow I'm actually always on my phone when I get my hair done but they always usually give me a magazine to read at the salon anyways so I always assumed they didn't care if I was being antisocial and on my phone .....

Bryson Renee: I always feel like I'm a bad client when I don't chat much while my hair is being done. I'm just really bad at small talk and enjoy listening in on the drama other people are talking about

Maybelle Clark: Personally, I'd be down for a purple based pixie cut with florescent green highlights.

lasercat: Lol I'm that person who sits with their eyes open when it's washed.

Danielle Broatch: Or or or they taught us in hair school that if your client opens a book or pulls out their phone and doesn't want to talk they aren't interested in sharing how their day is going with you Susan. Be respectful of them, cut their hair and let them continue on their way.

Kate Farr: I was with you until I heard, "We're the professionals, not you." Well, this is true. However, the last stylist that said this to me suggested that we ignore that I have wavy/curly hair, and that we do a cut that would weigh down my waves and curls, and then straighten my hair. What true professional in their right mind suggests that to someone who LITERALLY starts off saying, "I have wavy/curly hair, and I would like layers that make my curls spring up more, and a cut that doesn't leave me with triangle head, because that's not attractive, and I do not ever straighten my hair, and I rarely ever use a diffuser on it, because I don't want the heat damage,"? So, while you might be a professional, if you don't actively listen to your client, you are not a very good professional.

Jonathan Hillman: I've been cutting my own hair lately and I do ALL THESE THINGS. I've been a bag of dicks to myself.

eddie gooch: omg do people actually MOAN and GROAN in the shampoo chair!

sarah: I never go on my phone during a hair cut because I feel like the stylist will see my phone and look and shit, it just makes me uncomfortable when people look at my phone

Amber Something: I know getting a shampooing done feels good but I didn't think people actually got moany about it

Claire W: This makes me paranoid that my hair stylist hates me... Lol

styles BO: I had no idea being on your phone is rude I just don't want it to be an awkward silence lol

Emilie Fotheringham: I'm totally guilty of telling my hairdresser how to do my hair, only because I used to have a cropped blunt fringe, and I liked it super straight, and I used to curl it the slightest bit towards my face so it would sit nicely and look uniform. But I had like 3 separate stylists give my fringe a blow out so it was super bouncy and curved and then cut my fringe by eye without making sure that any of it was the same length. So whenever I got home I would wet it and cut it myself because it always looked like a drunk blind person had tried to cut my hair -_- also back when I was 15/16 I went to have my naturally light blonde hair dyed a nice white/silver at a nice expensive salon, the woman burned the back of my neck with bleach because she didn't wash it off properly, and turned me a nice patchy shade of canary yellow I know there are good stylists out there but 90% of my experiences have been bad, so now I do my own cut and colour, my hairs a beautiful shade on stone grey, and I only ever go to a stylist when I have new extensions that need shaping

Audrey Moon: If I'm sitting at the salon for 6 hours getting my hair processed I'm going to be on my phone at some point. I don't see why its rude as long as we respond to you. Its not like we can make eye contact anyway so looking down at our phones while we chat (or don't) seems appropriate.

KiraIsLaw13: DONT PUT YOUR HANDS IN YOUR HAIR WHILE YOUR STYLIST IS CUTTING. Seriously. Because then I either have to stop what I'm doing or you lose a fingertip. And you mess up all the sectioning I've done. Just don't touch until we say it's okay.

Alexandra Os: Y'all he's literally telling you to be specific and sit still like any respectful person would. If you're offended by this you're probably one of the customers he's talking about.

Dana Bee Creative: I LOVE this! You are hilarious!! SO accurate too! You seem like you would be so much fun to work with or have as a stylist :)

Shirley Senkler: Love your comments, I have watched many of the hair cutting, colouring and bleaching videos in horror. Hard to believe what people do to themselves. I have never thought I would be competent to color or cut my own hair. These days with nerve damage in one hand I can't even do a simple wash and set. Keep up the good work.

M Joachim: Haha!! Cute video. Love your honesty. Yes!! Clients moving their heads while talking. That has got to be the most irritating thing about doing hair! Especially clipper cutting! Has anyone ever tried to write their name on a piece of paper while someone else is shaking it? Not only does it make you dizzy after a few minutes, and you can't accurately write, but you also want to strangle the person who is moving the paper! Think about it! Forced chatter all day long, also makes your stylist insane. We like silence to concentrate!! A bit of communication here and there is fine. But it's the forced conversations that leave us exhausted.

Brenda Childs: I literally love this video. I would live to get my hair cut and colored by you!

Heza Hanna: I always give my stylists full control when I go. I say "anything you want, just keep the color natural (nothing you would see in a rainbow)." And usually I end up loving it. I love seeing how fun we can get with my hair.

Sarah Jean: I'm a stylist and laughed way too hard at this! Thank you!

Jennifer Krausman: I actually am good friends with my stylist and I tell her " i am feeling crazy do whatever!" and she does and it's always amazing. She actually gave me a pixie cut from mid back length hair and I loved it!!

Ingrid Grankvist: I love this video. With this level of sass and truth you feel like my long lost twin.

lexie muncy: You are freaking hilarious! I'm not good at communicating with my stylist, but I got my hair colored and I loved it. My hair is very fine in texture, but there's a lot of it. It's weird. I just wanted to say that you are awesome!

Leah Watkins: Thank you for this. I have dyed my hair for years using only boxed colour. I've NEVER had a professional touch my hair except for cuts and one perm that fell out after 5 days (I did everything by the book, it just didn't take). I'll be going into a salon on Monday to have my first set of extensions and some highlights done whilst I let my poor, unfortunate hair grow out. From now on, NO MORE CRAPPY DIY HAIR COLOURING FOR ME. Promise!

WizardPandora: I found a great stylist at the hair dressing academy I go to for my hair, been dying it burgundy for 2 yrs, thankfully I have always been specific on the color, the length I want and the fact the only product I want is an anti frizz , your right it made his life easier. We had such an easy professional relationship that now he is graduating he is finding a replacement for me that know all my quirks of what I like and don't like.

Reality Check: OMG I LOVE YOU! I've often wanted to make a video like this, but you did it better than I would have! I actually had the black box dye girl just before I finished cosmetology school who had 40 layers of that shit in her hair and I only asked her for the cost of supplies and made no promises (family friend, and I wanted the portfolio picture. DERP) so after 4 days and a collective 16 hours of work (she wanted to be bright RED, as in bleached out to a 7-8 then Pravana or Joico vivid apple red), but her hair was too stained and damaged to get all that black box dye out, so she decided she wanted highlights with Olaplex instead. OK... great. I told her what she owed me and quoted her a VERY inexpensive/reasonable rate for full foil highlights and decided to get her panties in a twist and yell at me that the money I quoted her for the color correction should go toward the foil highlights since she never got the red hair she wanted! Ummmmmm NOPE. Doesn't work like that. If I spent $200 on products to try and get that janky box dye out and break my back for 16 HOURS I'm not going to eat the cost, then give you a full highlight with Olaplex on the house after I told you from the first consultation I probably would not be able to get that black dye out of your hair and wasn't going to guarantee those results when she'd jacked her own hair up in the first place. I remember halfway through she kept saying "just bleach it! Just bleach it all out!" and no matter how many times I told her "it doesn't work like that--you're hair cannot handle a full bleaching, it's been through too much from the box dye and the black will just drive further into your hair shaft if I don't extract as much pigment as possible, first" she still said "BLEACH IT!! WHY WON'T YOU JUST BLEACH IT??!" This was only a few weeks before I graduated, so it's not like I didn't know what I was doing.... In the end, she grudgingly paid me the $150 or $200 I was charging her for supplies (and I still ate the cost of some supplies) and she changed her mind about the highlights and told me she decided she liked the color her hair turned out, after all. 2 weeks later, she called me and asked me how much for an Olaplex strengthening treatment because she'd gone to Sally's and bought her own bleach and melted her gorgeous hair into orange bubble gum. She'd never believed me that bleaching it wasn't going to work so she bought those supplies and went to town--4 bleachings later, her hair was ruined and she was calling me? I told her I couldn't help her, SORRY! One of the most frustrating clients I've ever had. I'm sure I'll have another PITA like her someday, but I won't be desperate for the portfolio picture anymore. I never got the "after" photo from this one in the first place! She was supposed to send me photos in the daylight because I'd gotten her hair from the 1B to a 4-5N with all the artificial color stripping I had done; she forgot to take the pics bc she was too busy burning her damn hair off with a DIY bleach job I'd warned her would be the end of her hair. Some people just don't want to hear they can't have their way, and then some people?? Some people are just stupid, and I can't fix THAT.

TiBun: Trust them? I have a hard time doing that when I'll come in with a reference pic of a cute but simple pixi cut I'd like to try and instead they buzz me nearly bald. It's happened so often with multiple hair stylists that I haven't been to one in over a year and now I'm just walking around with that awkward hair that's grown out past my shoulders.

AnnaSMR: whenever my hair dresser washes my hair, I try to make a pokerface because I really like it, it feels like asmr to me lol

Rits: LOL! This is hilarious! I am actually a student attending cosmetology right now. Someone actually brought up the shampooing with their eyes wide open thing. It's super common.

Ashley Garnett-Kenney: Yes. As a stylist myself I wish all clients could watch this and know what not to do.

Cheryl Chihana: I used to give the stylist full control. I went from hair down my back to a pixie. I loved it! I wanted a radical change. Now I bring in pictures.

Amy Malimichi: He's funny; I have salon etiquette 101 crash course completed now thanks to him, since I'm starting to get my hair done at salons. I'll keep it in mind!

KaMa JuSo: I freaking love your personality, and I can so relate even though I am not a hairdresser. But the not being specific on anything bothers me too. I am straight foward on what I want

VividSpider: Thankfully, I learned the etiquette due to my grandmother. She was a cosmetologist more during the 80's and 90's... When I meet a new stylist, I have a few references chosen, and I describe my desired cut. I even ask about what instruments they use. Some use scissors, some use the flat razor. It's really about discussing things and not being a ass to them. They deal with worse every day, they don't need anyone's two-cents... They get far than enough...

Alive In Him: This is Hilarious! I'm a retired stylist and this is so spot on!!!!! Don't you wish we could really say what we wanted to them? ! Lol

Rhiannn :3: Lol I do none of these. I love getting my hair cut, and I usually just sit still and watch my hair being cut. I find it entertaining x3

Lizzie K: I cut my own hair, turns out better than the expensive professionals ever do it. I've been screwed too many times going to hairdressers. I'm done with it. If my hair is going to look like crap, I'll look like crap for free instead of 100$ for a simple cut.

Madelyn: BOX COLOR IS SATAN. STORY TIME: I decided to use a box dye on my hair and I turned my hair COPPER. LIKE THE COLOR OF A RUSTY PENNY. It was horrible. This was right before my college graduation so I got the best recommendation for a hairstylist I could, made an appointment and went. I walked in and just asked her to fix it. I didn't even know what needed to happen. Just fix it. Over 3 hours and $360 dollars later, she had COMPLETELY FIXED IT. My hair was gorgeous. But yes, if you fuck it up, be prepared to dole out some serious cash to make it right.

amy: OMG THIS WAS SO TRUEEEE AND FUNNY! my mom is a cosmetologist and i showed her this and she said she agrees 100% with you.

Katerina Winchester: 2:51 I agree with everything but this because the client knows their own hair what works and what doesn’t

elderly poodle: Just shared with my hair stylist ! I apologized if I had done any of these things. He loved it.

Lieke Wolbers: The anger control is real and hilarious ! I would love to have some fancy colour but to be real I just don't have the money for it in the slightest and my hair is brittle enough as is

Shauna Janes: just found this video and i completely relate as i'm a hairstylist too and the amount of clients i get asking me to lift their hair from a 2N base to a shade 11 in one session isn't real and then when i lift their hair and tone all the remaining brassiness out they still claim to see brass and warm tone. if i toned it anymore it would go grey then purple and they don't want that,,, so x

Lil Breaded Chicken: Every time I get my hair done, at the end my hairstylist says how amazed at how patient I was (cause I know my hair will take a long time, so I don't rush them or ask how long it's gonna be. I just let them do their thing) and thank me for being a great customer. I've always been so respectful to everyone, especially those who's job involves dealing with people all day (ex: cashiers, hair stylists, nail salon workers, etc) mostly because my anxiety is too bad to ever speak up, but also because we're all people. Even when my hair dressers mess up, I'm still so kind and understanding. Once I went to go get my hair bleached blonde, and the hair dresser messed up with the purple shampoo and turned my hair grey. I didn't get mad, instead we worked out another day that I could go back to fix it because I know we all make mistakes. I know if I was a hair stylist, I'd want to be respected and wouldn't want to deal with annoying people, so I try to be as respectful and kind as possible. One of the last times I went, I got permanent extensions done. I was there the entire day, from 10am till 10pm, way past closing time. The only reason why she continued to do my hair after closing instead of me coming the next day? Because she was so thankful for me being so nice that she didn't mind going overtime and wanted to show thanks by finishing up my hair and giving me a discount. I don't want things in return for being a respectful customer, but it just shows how rare respectful customers can be

Fade BOI: omg i came across your channel i laughed sooo hard im a hair dresser also been doing hair for about 20 years and i had to send all the girls i work with your video they dyed laughing everything you said was sooo true i could not stop laughing. you truly are halarious you made my day .

Fade BOI: omg i came across your channel i laughed sooo hard im a hair dresser also been doing hair for about 20 years and i had to send all the girls i work with your video they dyed laughing everything you said was sooo true i could not stop laughing. you truly are halarious you made my day .

Jasmine Bruce: I just laughed so freaking hard all these are so true lol

Justine Carlson: I have never done any of these. I love the girl that does my hair. And you are funny!! Must watch more!

Tanvee: I always had a question. If someone comes in with a picture of what they want either for a haircut or a coloring, does it bother you guys because you can't get it that way or is it actually helpful?

Marissa Grace: I’ve never been told that I need separate appointments when I’ve tried blonde and two seperate stylists at two seperate salons in two seperate years have fried my hair to get it done in a day

Natalia Rios: The worst is when it's a man moaning and he says he wants to take you home cause his wife doesn't shampoo his hair

Sydney: I'm so mortified when I'm at the salon because I feel like my hairstylists heavily nudge me for what I want to get done, I once said I want long layers angled towards my face and the lady audibly laughed at me and started cutting my hair, also I feel like a lot of hairstylists are judgmental because of this incident, I'm going to a professional because I don't know how to cut my own hair and I'm not going to know all the fancy hair lingo so don't laugh at me when I say something that might have a special word in the hair world OKAY

Angela Green: Question? What do you do when a so called professional messes up your hair, and the client is nice and cheerful? What should a client do then? Because I have had professionals to burn my hair by leaving in the dye too long.

Xion Memoria: Last time I went to a salon, I asked for a split end trim on the best haircut I had ever had- Which I gave myself while drunk and could not replicate to save my life. It was a nice top, middle, and bottom layer, not chunky, not feathered, just soft layers, sideswept bangs, no "face framing strands" bullshit which translates to being poked in the eye without a hair straightener. It was beautiful. She gave me a heavily feathered mullet and cut my hair into my eyes. I looked like an 80s hooker. That was the tenth "my stylist didn't listen to a damn word" experience in a row. If I ever do get dumb enough to try again, you'd better believe that I'm gonna get specific with what I want, and walk the fuck out when the first snip I didn't want happens.

Ashley Brown: Oh I loved this! Lol he reminds me SO MUCH of my friend who has awesome hair like him (and weirdly enough his mom's a hairstylist too, weird)

Kathrynryn: "Do not give me full control, because I will take it, and you will regret it." Not a hair stylist, but I see myself in that.

Irish Clover: This video should be shown in every salon on a loop. New clients especially should be forced to sit and watch it then sign a form.

Marshalla collina: The "meanest" thing I ever did to my stylist was I went in for a normal trim and midway through my trim I told him I changed my mind that I would to go for a bob. He asked if I was positive and yes I need and want a change so let's do it. So we did and I was so happy I asked for it and so wasn't he.

S C: I'm late, but I love this so much! It's so satisfying!!!!!! thanks for teaching the world lol

jedi fawn: great video!!! one of my favorites... book for a full highlights, lowlight and haircut and say oh i need to be out in an hour and a half to pick the kids up!!! if you book a big service don't make times plans afterwards!!! otherwise you will end up with a face frame h/l and bang trim and leave with a wet head!!!

sweetnyouniq: LMAO I loved this! Never done any of that but it was hilarious nonetheless.

Melissa Young: When I was a teenager I knew that I wanted my hair cut but not how, so I did the "long/short/curly/straight" ramble before giving my stylist complete control. When I left an eternity later my naturally black hair was a convincing fire engine red, my nearly waist length natural curls had been cut in half, my head was shaved from the nape of my neck to my crown (super popular cut in the 90's), and I had another two appointments scheduled to work on the color. Since then I've ALWAYS given my stylist complete control when I want something new. Sure, I've regretted it a few times (I cannot rock a bob, traditional layers give me Peg Bundy hair, and one forgot they were doing my color until my hair was so over processed we had to shave it) but I still do it. On the flip side, I hate it when my hair stylist says they can thin hair when they can't. I especially hate when they tell me that they've thinned aggressively when I know they haven't; I get cluster headaches and migraines, which the weight of my hair can contribute to. It's my hair, I don't care if you're afraid it'll look stringy because I know it won't. If it magically DOES look bad, my habitual ponytail and I can accept that on our wondrous, headache free days.

Vanna Bonifacio: LMAO I can not tell you enough how on point this is! I died laughing!! PREACH!

Kitty Cat: Can I just say I love you? I haven't started my actual classes yet(I have prerequisites, so I won't start till next semester), but I'm going to be a cosmetologist. I love this video. I'm actually used to talking while I'm getting my hair done, because one of my closest friends(She's license so don't hurt me, and I also let her practice on me when she was in school) would always do my hair, so If I'm on my phone, it's because I'm pulling something up to show whoever is doing my hair. I also tend to get real relaxed when I'm getting my hair done, especially the shampoo part, so I tend to fall asleep xD

reynaa: Omg I love this Im a Cosmo student n we definitely get ppl like this !

Jim Tate: I absolutely loved it! I'm a barber and we go through the same things. One of the things I hate is when a customer shows me a picture and says, "Make my hair look like this." Seriously, there's no way in hell your hair is gonna look like that. The waves, curls, or cow licks will prevent me from even coming close to the picture. Some people have the hair that will allow that type of cut, but you don't! Or they say just cut it off. Really, you what to be bald? Well no, not bald. Then don't tell us to just cut it off, because that's exactly what we'll do. You tell us what to do, we're gonna do it! Thanks for your video!

Cameron Utter: Quick question: do stylists hate when you show them pictures of a hairstyle you want? Or are pictures easy to follow for most stylists?

Grayson (Grays) LaMure: I'm getting a hair-cut so I'm glad I watched this XD Even though I don't think I've done any of these things, at least I can make sure...

Linea Victoria: What are your first thoughts on clients/people who cut their own hair even though they lack skill and cause damage to the hair etc.?

Sleepy Pisces Love: Yes!!!!! This is awesome. I get everything u just listed. Our job is so hard!

Kaeli Ann Marie: Box dye is cheaper than going into professionals and I've gotten all the colors I've wanted out of box dyes. People that work at the salon I go to always ask if its professionally done ‍♀️

Dee Eats: This is perfectly correct on all levels!!

Moriarty: Great points, and funny. It kinda made me want to give my perspective on what i hate (or hated since i haven't been to a salon in over 10 years) about what hair stylists do. Hope you don't mind. Don't mean it as an attack on you or anything. Just felt a rant coming because i wish i could go to salons! 1- I know that you probably know a lot more about hair than i do. That's your job, you know about hair, i know that. BUT you do not know more about MY hair than i do. You just don't. This is growing out of my body, i've lived with it all my life. I know my hair. So please do not teach me about my own hair. When i say my hair doesn't respond well to this or my hair doesn't work well with x type of cut, do not argue with me and claim it's going to work when you do it. Just let it go. I shouldn't have to convince you on why i don't want something. It's my choice and i have my reasons. 2- Do not assume you know best and execute your theories without asking me. Yes, related to the first one, you do not know best when it comes to every specific person and their specific situation. You know why i stopped going to salons? Because i fucking love long hair. I love it. And i could never have really long hair before i stopped going to salons because they kept cutting more than i ask. I say x cm, they say okay, and then i look and it's xxx cms gone. I ask wtf, and always get some justification theory that they did not care to share with me prior to executing this. "Well i know you said you didn't want it short but your ends were really damaged, you had a lot of split ends, i had to cut it. Now it will grow healthy if you keep it up." You know what you just did? You just cost me months and months of growth and only given me maybe two weeks of healthy ends. Becuase i fucking have a thyroid condition that causes dry hair and no matter what i do, i will always have split ends. I never use heat on my hair, i do hot oil treatments every week, i oil my hair before every wash, i use sulfate free shampoo, i moisturize it religiously, i use oils every day, i do everything right and this is as good as it gets, and it means so much more to me to have long hair than to have non split ends. Either way, it's not up to you. I have a right to not care about split ends and just want my hair long. You are not legally obligated cut off my ends if they're unhealthy, this is not a tyre shop, let me drive off with my split ends! DO NOT THEORIZE. You don't know. You don't know me, you don't know my hair, if i'm asking for something, assume i have a reason. If not, ASK ME about your idea so i can explain to you why it's not a good one. 3- Ripping off my eyebrow. I have an eyebrow piercing and in every salon visit, someone caught it with a comb at least once. Why? I mean, do you comb people's eyebrows if they don't have piercings? I don't really get it, what is the comb even doing there? Weird. 4- Tell me if something i'm asking is impossible or just something you can't/don't do. I explain what i want and i never hear an objection. Then at the end, i'm looking at a disaster and the explanation is "well what you asked is just not possible/what you want can't be done on your hair etc". Then why, WHY are you agreeing to it? Why not tell me that you can't do it so i think of something else or i have the option to walk off? Nope. Just gonna say okay to everything and deliver something completely different! TALK. I'm not putting a gun to your head when i'm telling you what i want. If it's impossible, tell me before you attempt it! 5- Learn how to style short side swept bangs. Seriously, i had side swept bangs for years and i have always left salons with a superman C on my forehead. That's not how it works! It's not that hard. It's gonna do the opposite thing if you blow dry it like that! 6- I know a lot of people REALLY enjoy having their hair washed and their head massaged, as stated in this video, but tone it down a bit maybe. Or ask if they want the massage. It is soo unnecessarily intimate and sensual, makes me so uncomfortable and i really dislike it. I don't want a massage, i don't want your fingertips slowly circulating on my scalp. You're a stranger and it makes my skin crawl. Just shampoo my hair and let it be over with. We're not like that with you. 6-Stop trying to sell me products that you don't even know much about. As i said before, i know my hair. I know every ingredient that is in every product i put in my hair. But here you come, the savior, claiming this product that your salon happened to partner with is the solution to my lifelong problems! What are the chances! And what's so great about it? What active ingredient exactly? Oh you don't know. You just know the brand name and that it is good for hair. Please, tell me more... I actually research stuff before i put them on my head, dude, not gonna buy your "this just cures hair!" product, just let it go.

theheartyaerie: So what if you really don't know what to do with your hair? When I had a stylist I use to ask her all of the time what she thought I should do. She was never wrong and I always loved it, and it was different everytime.

cj222100: 'Please do not have a climax in the shampoo hair' LMFAO You're hilarious! I can't even imagine the shit you guys have to put up with, providing a service to the public is hard, but what you guys do is like that times a zillion. That's why I always just bring a photo(s) of what I want, I'm terrible at describing things. That way even if it's something that wouldn't work to well, at least it's a starting point so the stylist can suggest something along similar lines that would

Girls_ nrideS: Damn i love this Video so much ❤️ i m a hairstylist too and you be so Right bout the appointment

JustYourAverageWeirdo: I've only ever got my hair done at a salon/hairdresser (my mom did my hair a bit before now, but it wasn't anything special) twice in my whole life, once for my 15th b-day and once for my 16th, and I made sure to have an idea of what I wanted and to have reference images to show them. I've also never had my hair bleached or dyed.

Keishla Cruz: Last time i went to my hairstylist I asked her to fix my bad haircut, then I proceeded to ask her to do whatever. She gave me an ombre and I love it

L: So glad I found your videos. I needed a good laugh. I just wish you were my stylist now.

Angela Collins: OMG!!!!!! I haven't laughed this hard in so long!!!! Thank you thank you! I love you!!!!!!

Cupcaek: I was like "Oh here we go...." But I take it back, I agree 110% with all of this and I'm not even a hairstylist lmao... Btw, your tatts look aaaaweeeesome.

Staci Wiley: When I moved to LA I was fairly naive about style, my usual hair was shaved on one side, with one long part on the other dyed to match the shades of a peacock, I went to a well known "punk rock" salon, and never strayed from my usual style until I moved to the west side, I wanted a Japanese straightening treatment because my hair is wavy but fine, and I saw the results on friends and was impressed. I'd had my hair straightened chemically many times, but it never lasted very long. I went to a salon in a nice area of Brentwood that I'd never heard of before, first mistake, you should always go somewhere through a recommendation from someone whose hair you like. This lady made me pay up front which is another mistake, any good stylist won't ask you to pay until they're done, also listen to your gut, when I looked at her salon I noticed she was selling her building, and when I kept asking her if that was the correct way to do the Japanese straightening she said it was, but I felt like it wasn't at all the way my friends described it. What she had actually done was just throw on a strong ethnic relaxing treatment onto my white girl hair, a lot of which had been bleached, and the chemicals started to make me feel sick, and my head was burning, I looked in the mirror and noticed chunks of it had turned into spahgetti like lumps, that just came off in my hands, I cried hysterically and she yelled at me and I attempted to salvage what was left of my hair but I had first and second degree burns on my scalp. Luckily when I went home, my friends took photos, one called her own stylist into the house to cut it the best way she could, and I was miserable, I had to wear hats for a year, and had a small bald spot near the front, so I'd wear headbands to cover it. The day I met Billy, my stylist, he had me as a walk in for a blow out, he refused to use the round brush I requested saying it would only pull out the hair I had left, I appreciate someone who is blunt and not above hurting my feelings in order to save me from my own mistakes, after that I requested Billy, and over time my bald spot grew in, but he took my hair from black to a nice dark auburn color, we added clip in extensions for length and clip in bangs over my real bangs for volume, he had me get a Mason Pearson brush, something I've come to rely on, he gave me keratin treatments, he got to know my best friend Mark, and my hair looked better than it ever had. Billy knew me for all three years of my sobriety from a severe addiction to painkillers, and I was always on time, funny, and kind. Then a lot of bad things happened to me, and i relapsed and became unreliable, I'd miss appointments or cancel at the last minute, he did his best to hold back from yelling at me, and there were at least two incidents where he'd come by my apartment to cut my bangs because I'd spray them with hairspray and then light a cigarette too close to my bangs and I'd literally have parts of them burn off. He knew I was killing myself but he was always hoping I'd get better. I got sent to this weird cult place in Texas where I had zero contact with anyone outside my parents and even that was limited to a timed, and logged 5 minute phone call. They banned conditioner because of the alcohol content in it for awhile until all of us had tangled rough looking hair, and finally we were given back our conditioners, and allowed to use fasewash that had alcohol in it. Most days we had zero time for self care and some young hairstylists did the best they could every couple months to cut our hair. My hair was half grey which is the color I've had ever since it grew back when I was 24, and half orange from fading. It was not the kind of ombre anyone would want, and Billy god bless him sent me step by step instructions on how to dye it, and it looked good when I finally found the time needed to dye it. Eventually I escaped the cult place which refused to give me my ID or luggage, so I just left and wandered aimlessly in the sizzling hot Texas countryside. I was diagnosed with an ocular twitch in my eye from stress, exhaustion, anemia from not having healthy food, and constantly drinking coffee and soda to stay awake, I had to have a root canal because they refused to take us to the dentist, I had cystic acne breakouts from stress, my feet were fucked up from doing so much manual labor with no arch support, I was dehydrated, and also a little brainwashed. Billy saw me after I arrived back in LA and he had to cut my hair into a bob to get rid of all the damage, he was just happy to see me. I had a very controlling friend for awhile who kept forcing another salon on me, this salon was a hipster paradise, it was obnoxious and no one was nice, they dyed my hair bright magenta which is what my friend wanted, and I liked it but it was hard to maintain and I felt like I was cheating on Billy. Finally I told that salon to go eat a bag of dicks, and went back to Billy, I was living with my best friend Mark until I found an apartment, Billy fixed the damage the other stylist did, and I was back to being auburn with my signature straight across above the brow dominatrix bangs. Mark, my best friend who Billy also knew was murdered last year. I became so depressed I could barely get up or leave my apartment, and I was too ashamed to go into the salon after gaining weight, which I'm finally starting to lose, I decided to just let my hair go grey, so he meticulously lifted my hair until it was white, and dyed the bottom part blue since it's too damaged to lift, it'll have to slowly grow out, He made it look really good, and recommended a great silver shampoo and masque to alternate with my shu umera products. He even included touch of color for the blue ends. So now my hair is silver, and I love it, and it's so much easier to maintain than the brown. Mark used to grow his hair out every year to donate to locks of love, but one year they didn't want it because it had color in in it, and I took it. I found Mark's lock of hair and Billy not only braided it, he put it in a glass jar for me. He listened to me cry, and he'd also recently lost a good friend of his as well. He lost his dog Willow, my god daughter, I loved that dog. We grieved together, and he was sometimes the only person forcing me to get out. He took shit from his bosses for me missing appointments after being too much of wreck emotionally, he knew I was drug and alcohol free, but he maintained he'd never dump me as a client after all we'd been through. Eventually I started to arrive 15 minutes early to all my appointments with him, and my father and I took him out to dinner, where we all laughed and cried over everything that had happened to us over the past 7 years we'd known one another. Billy used to be a kind of negative nancy stoner, and now he's still a little bit of a negative nancy, but he'd dedicated his life to being a hare kirshna and I can see where his faith has made him happier and more confident. He and I are always reinventing ourselves, and we've formed such a bond that goes beyond hair, but I do smile and light up whenever he's done with my hair and I look in the mirror and feel a little better about myself, and yes I tip him very well in cash, but my happiness is what's always mattered the most to him, and I'm so lucky to have such a loyal amazing friend just from telling me not to use a roundbrush. He's my stylist but he's also someone I love with all my heart, and I feel honored to call him my friend.

midge kg: I can't stand when asked to strip or lighten hair and the client claimes to only use the occasional semi permanent and I am fighting with 7 years worth of heavy colour build up!!! Tell the damn truth lol.

Tamara: I'm also a hairdresser myself and I totally agree :) hahahaha

silverbracelet6: I've been cutting and bleaching and dyeing my own hair and everytime I get a little bit better at it

ZomberStomper: I managed to get my hair perfect blonde in one go at the hairdresser I go to. I don't get how it's not possible? People are talking about getting stripes blonde, and then next time more and so on, but my stylist just put some bleach in it, carefully wrapped it up in silver paper, waited 20 minutes and done! I have ashy/grey blonde normally. Did she do something wrong?

laura: It actually tickles me when I get my hair rinsed out. I try to not make weird noises but unfortunately it doesn't always work

Mipsey T: Found this not long after visiting the stylist of my life. I'm glad I am not one of those people. The worst I did was watch him cut off a bit more than planned, but he encouraged me, and my hair has LIFE now. He was also quite pleased with my choice of type of dye, and the color. Even gave me pointers on how to make the color more vibrate. I never use my phone, I'm a cashier and hate it when people are on them, so I'm glad to hear I am not the only one.

kj: I’ve only been to a salon once in 6th grade to chop off my hair and 4-5 years later, i’m getting it colored and I want to be prepared for her lol, make it as easy as I can for her :)

tan nenottup: I don't care how knowledgeable a professional hair stylist you are, I'm still going to tell you how to do your job. I'm not telling you how to do hair, I'm telling you exactly what to do to my hair, with reference pictures and detailed descriptions of what I want it to look like, because if it doesn't look good I won't be happy and you won't get my business ever again!

lilbubby: I always talk to my stylist about whatever they ask lol, they just wanna make you feel comfy and be nice. I always tell them they are artists & take their suggestions seriously. I have had stylists cut my hair & then they add services free bc I was nice to them. I think that speaks for how mean you all get treated.

River Song: Went to a hair saloon once to get a cut and highlights and lowlights and let me tell you that it was the single worse experience of my life. For one, I walked into the saloon right after work at 5pm and sat in the chair for over 4 hours. They were all talking Spanish with each other and making the clientele feel excluded. There was more than one girl working on my head. The entire time I felt like cattle. This one girl was so brutal on my scalp while blow drying that my scalp hurt for days afterwards. Only reason I went to that particular place was that my work friends all raved about it and they convinced me to go. I 'm the type of girl who never goes to a hair salon b/c of time and price and this experienced proved to me why it was a huge waste of my time and my money. Never again. I just don't trust hairstylists that work at fancy salons. Meanwhile, I went to First Choice hair cutters and got a great cut for a great price from a lovely Indian woman who was so gentle on my scalp. Best service ever.

p r i s m: I want this guy as my hair stylist

Laura Finnan: This made me lol cuz I know they're totally legit gripes. That being said, why can I not get the color I want regardless of where/who I go to... the fact that it's not very far off from my natural color... and I have a picture with me of exactly what I'm going for?! It's beyond upsetting.

Maureen Randall: So funny but all so true love it may play this to some of my clients lol x

McKayla Clayton: I feel like I am the easiest going person in the chair. I want the dead ends trimmed off, they tell me how much it'll be, I am always fine with it, and to re-frame my face. I feel awkward being on my phone cause they always chat, and plus like then my hands have to be over the cape, and then my wet, dead hair is touching my arms which is freaky. I also get my hair cut like twice a year so I go to super cheap places.

-: "Then I'm gonna have to cut the other ear off just so it's balanced." His hand gesture about getting wet down there OMG!

Jennifer Aguirre: I always keep my eyes open when getting my hair washed the salon I go to has stuff on the ceilings to read. There’s cartoon comics