This will not happen again !

My four year old wandered off at the opening (by the Queen Mother) of a local nature reserve. He was escorted down the royal walkway by a policeman who had found him dangling and peering over the rustic shelter where HM was enjoying tea and cake. He was politely asking for 'Some cake too please'

moonbeames so, rollers are alive and well, who'd a thunk it.I like your hairstyle anyway.I remember having some hot rollers once, but the clips used to fall out.

I've had so much trouble with hairdressers I've been cutting and dyeing my own every two months for about two years. It takes half an hour and costs £1!

The town where I am has no jobs yet it was impossible to get a hairdressers appointment as they're booked up for weeks. I found a new hairdresser down the road a few years ago that couldn't fit me in for three weeks. When I turned up the place was closed for the day. Yet they were always thinking up new promotions to get people in so couldn't have been doing that well and closed after about a year.

There was the hairdresser who wouldn't dry my waist length hair as it was a busy Saturday so I went out with wet hair during winter.

I find so many places don't stay in business.

Never ever again will I go to a hairdressers.

I am hopeless at blowdrying, I use a hot styling brush, as recommended by several ladies at aqua aerobics, it's a babyliss big hair, smaller size, it's easy to use and makes my hair look great, better than when the hairdresser does it as she makes it too straight and flat. I am always fascinated by how she can get that result from my thick dry wavy hair with just a hairdryer, but it really doesn't suit me.

I pay £47.00 for a cut and blow dry, the results are good. My friend goes to the swanky hairdressers in town that charge about £70 + ridiculous.

I've been having the same young mobile hairdresser come to my home for years now-she came on recommendation and was trained at a local swanky and expensive salon so she's good. She colours and highlights mine, cuts DH's hair then cuts and blow dries mine-all for £32.50.
Just before Christmas she suddenly had to have a hysterectomy so I tracked down another young woman who works from home-different but kept me looking tidy but twice the price just for me!
So glad regular hairdresser is now back and even more glad she's now fit and well too.

I go to a local salon. I arrive with my hair just washed. Hairdresser cuts it and does a quick blow . dry.. Price £12.50 Where I lived before it cost 3 times this amount.

Like everyone else I have had some bad hairdresser experiences. However, I love going to mine now. It's within walking distance in a distinctly untrendy part of town, but the salon is one of 2 owned by my hairdresser, so he only works in this one 2 days a week. Consequently you have to make appointments well in advance. You get a choice of teas, coffees, biscuits, even lunch! The salon is clean and updated regularly , always lovely flowers on the reception desk. I always come out feeling great, not like I have to rush home and restyle it myself. I was sitting next to a labour MP last time I was there, she went to school with one of the stylists. She was busy working on her laptop while having her roots done courtesy of the free wifi. It's not super cheap but not the most expensive salon I've been to either.

In 1970 I paid a fortune to go to a Vidal Sassoon salon on King Street in Manchester; I was 16 and having my first ever 'trendy' cut so I was very excited. Seriously I had had to save for a very long time to be able to afford it. From first walking through the door I was treated abominably and I remember I actually wept after I left. The junior who washed my hair told me that they had to ration the shampoo as they'd apparently been using too much. I was left waiting for so long that my hair had almost dried by the time the hairdresser deigned to attend to me. Then the man who finally cut my hair was so patently uninterested in me that he couldn't wait to finish mine and start on the beautiful woman who was his next, obviously regular, client. The haircut itself was a total disappointment; rushed and badly done. Since then I go to a salon, have a wet cut and leave.

I would love to go to a good salon and have a really good cut and style, but nowadays it would have to be a free offer!

I also use rollers. I have very fine flyaway hair and blow drying just doesn't work - lasts for around 5 mins and then is flat as a pancake and looks awful. Hairdressers all insist on blow drying my hair - so now after it has been cut I have to go straight home and put in rollers!

hi rosesarered. Just letting you know that I still put my hair in rollers, hot rollers just at the top after I have blow dried it myself. My hair is very short and rather spiked. Then I put "mud" in it and flick it up so it sits up really well. I don't roller it every day probably after I have washed it, about every four days. So, she is not the only one. They give my hair a lift at the crown.
(my style is similar to this photo, its not me)

Gillybob, I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates looking at myself in the mirror, it makes me cringe, and I love the way dentists have been included because I find I can't decide which of them I dislike visiting the most!

I had to laugh at the above stories. I went for about twenty years to same hairdresser when she expanded I felt as if I was pushed aside with dripping wet hair she would attend another client then come back to me a couple of times she answered the phone talking to family and would leave me for ages?I got sick of this then to top it all couldn't get an appointment with her as she was fully booked!!! I walked and it happens a few weeks ago she turned up as one of the grandmothers picking her grandaughter from my nursery and was amazed to see me still in tact with decent hair!!!! Felt a bit cringeworthy but hey ho so did she?

As a PP said surely our time is as valuable as the hairdressers? I have a lovely hairdresser/beautician but I always try to have the first appointment in the morning or the first after lunch. Mainly because she seems to get later and later as the day goes on. I am retired but sometimes a text message to say she is running half an hour late would mean I could get on with something at home and not sit around at the salon waiting for her to finish someone else. Last time she was doing a practice run for a bride to be's wedding makeup and then she rushed my nails because the father of the bride turned up to have his hair cut.

This sometimes happens where I go partly because of overbooking and partly because the staff inc owner turn up late. It's local and I like the way they do my hair. So sometimes I stay and chat or read but if I'm busy I say I'll call and make another appointment. The prompt attention on the next visit doesn't last though. I'm just too lazy to look for another salon.

At least I had the pleasure of telling Jill Archer/ paddy Green that this could not happen again and I have to admit she was very pleasant and offered to be done by anyone else, but none were available.

I also had a discussion with the people on reception telling them things would change next time.

To be honest I was feeling unwell and it was good to have half an hour to recover.

Jill Archer will have to bring in some knitting in 6 weeks time. I think she is a member of Ambridge WI

Dee I live in Sth Yorks. I don't know where you live but I wish I could have him as a home hairstylist too. Sounds ideal. The trouble I've had with hair salons is too much to post here. I'm always the nice lady who is left waiting whilst the more 'outspoken' ladies get seen to before me. Talk about coffee overdose?

I have walked out of two hairdressers who have kept me waiting. The second time ,after putting up with late appointments for several months because I liked the stylist, I told the receptionist why I was going and asked her to pass my comments on to the boss. My stylist was very good, but due to family commitments she only worked part time. During her work time she was constantly interrupted by junior members of staff wanting advice. She told me that in spite of protesting, the receptionist always made too many appointments for her, not allowing her adequate time for each client, meaning that she was always behind with her work and never finished on time. I was still working at that time and could not waste time waiting , sometimes for as much as an hour.
Now I go to another hairdresser where the owner cuts my hair. I may have to wait for about 10 minutes but I always get a very good cut with a cup or two of Turkish coffee thrown in. Plus he is cheaper than any town hairdresser.

I hate going to hair salons too - always have, so I find it hard locating a place where I can get a reasonable cut without feeling sub standard.
While living in Newport I had a small suburban salon recommended and made an appointment. I arrived about 5 minutes early and was given a seat in front of a mirror and a magazine.
I sat there in an almost empty salon watching the two stylists chatting over the other customer and glancing at me for some 20 minutes.
Then I stood up, took my coat off the rail and left.
I did feel dreadful doing it, and was really angry to be pushed that far, but I felt it had to be done!!

As for the dentist, they removed the hoity toity notice from the wall that stated if you were late or failed to keep the appointment you'd be charged. They never suggested any recompense for the patient's waste of time. They absolutely always run late and once I sat for half an hour when the dentist wasn't even in the building! He gets called out to emergencies, apparently. That time, I rescheduled and, by sods law, bumped into him returning as I emerged from the street door. He's an excellent dentist though.

The boot's on the other foot for me ? My long suffering hairdresser often phones me when I was due for an appointment 10 minutes ago! I live 10 miles from the salon so have to reschedule the appointment. They are so tolerant. They've never suggested I go elsewhere.

I now have a mobile hairdresser. He used to be a colourist for Toni and Guy so he knows his stuff, always arrives bang on time, charges half what I'd pay in the salon and I get absolute undivided attention.

I used to go to a friend's salon. Once she asked me to wait while she did someone in a hurry. The second time I refused & never went back. I was paying full price so it was not as if I was getting a 'deal'. My hair has looked so much better since too.
I don't like being taken advantage of.

Ramblingrose22, that was me... walking out was the bravest thing I ever did in my life. My heart was beating hard !

Nankate, I thought it was a shame they had closed down but knew why. You have to respect all of your customers. We all pay the same money don't we

NanKate and Nonnie1 - when I was younger I was really submissive and wouldn't say boo to a goose, but I find now that I'm older, I don't let people whom I pay for a service treat me inconsiderately.

In this situation I would politely point out that this delay has happened before, that my time is precious and ask them if they can arrange for me to be dealt with within the next 10 minutes. If they say they can't or say they can but fail to get you seen in 10 minutes, I would walk out, making it clear in a fairly loud voice that you find the way you have been treated unacceptable.

Years ago, I went to a posh London salon that I could barely afford to get my hair re-styled before my wedding. They commented on the fact that I had greasy hair (which I knew already!) and offered me an expensive treatment to "cure the problem". When I politely declined it, they informed my stylist in a very loud voice that "This chick doesn't care about her hair - she won't have the special treatment".

I should have walked out there and then. The stylist made an awful job of re-styling my hair and I paid a ridiculous amount for it.