Hairdresser communication?

I would go elsewhere. They’re not all like that!

Bluedaisy I’m going to use your “don’t scalp me” method on my next cut. On the whole I like my cut -I have it quite short, but last time I asked her not to take too much off at the sides so my head wouldn't look like a tube.
Mind you, I think she misses hearing the negative words and hears “ . . . take too much off, so my head . . . would look like a tube” so maybe “don’t scalp me” would be dangerous!

Sorry my grammar is awful this morning, bit stressed and tired ? today but hopefully you get the gist

Okay , I own a hairdressing salon, so here is my advice , if your hairdresser isn’t doing as you ask , change hairdresser, also ask to speak to the manager if unhappy and point out what the stylist has done wrong, a photo of the style you would like is always helpful, but if the photo is not if yourself , remember that your hair may be very different. If you see someone who has a really great haircut, stop them and ask where they had it done , most people would see this as a compliment and only be too happy to recommend their hairdresser, we have had many clients come through this method. But most importantly take the hairdressers advice, if your type of hair isn’t suited to a particular style or takes more maintenance than you are prepared for, then it probably isn’t for you. You would be surprised at the odd impossible requests that we get, such as ... I want my hair cut to make it look longer !?? I want to be able to just wash and leave my hair, but want it to look like this elaborately styled example, and the best one was a client who expected her permanent hair colour to never need doing again , she didn’t expect to get any regrowth because it was permanent !

I was a hairdresser for 30 years, without seeing your hair it’s difficult but I suggest saying words like “don’t scalp me” and “please use a small round brush for lift, not tongs’’ (personally I don’t know why they are using tongs anyway? Tell them you want it feathered around your neck and face, not too short and ‘layered’ not chopped into too much! These words might hopefully make them understand, good luck. If it’s any help I too have same problems getting through to hairdressers cutting mine too but seems easier with a slightly older person than fresh out of training.

TBH I wouldn’t have paid. Have had this on previous occasions and didn’t pay

As everyone else has said...change your hairdresser. Its not always a good thing taking photos in of hairstyles and saying I would like my hair to like the photo as everyones hair is different in texture etc...a good hairdresser will tell you that. Maybe if you google your hairtype along with 'hairstyles' along side it you will get pictures of hairstyles to fit your type of hair. x

Tongs on curly hair is a no no. I went to a hairdresser who would always forget and use them. I then tried an expensive chain who left long strands not cut.
Now have marvellous hairdresser who gets into a sleek grey Bob with no tongs!

To all those who have suggested I change my hairdresser. I have done so too many times to count, but still seem to have difficulty in communication. Hence my question whether I speak the same language!

Find a new hairdresser as clearly not good at cutting hair. I recently went from hair below my shoulders to a very short cut and it's amazing. Wish I'd let her do it years ago.

I have an older male hairdresser. He taught hairdressing in a College years ago and is the best stylist I've ever had and I've been using hairdressers regularly for almost 60 years. He also cuts my daughters and my 3 granddaughters. Its too bad you don't live in Aberdeen.

Change hairdresser- if your hair is ‘difficult to cut’ they are not the right ones for you. May take a bit of a hunt around - ask friends etc for comments on their hairdressers and maybe book just a consultation with one or two before you decided who has the honour of cutting your hair

I also suggest you change hairdresser ASAP. I’d had the same hairdresser in Wales for about 15 years and she cut it great. Moved 4 years ago and first hairdresser was awful but swapped to another even closer to where I live and he is fantastic, cuts it exactly as I want. We have a lovely chat when I go and he even remembers what we chatted about last time!

I changed hair dressers because the previous one always left me with odd straggly bits that had been missed and it drove me nuts. My current hairdresser has been brilliant from the first cut. I have very short choppy cut hair and take a photo with me every time. I don't expect a carbon copy of the photo as we all have different hair but she gets very close to what I ask for. My hair is fine but plenty of it, and weirdly over lock down has gone very wavy and I hate it, I need to get it cut asap.

Change hairdresser quizzer
I have short choppy straight hair and I get good cuts I ve only been with my hairdressers for four cuts and she’s found her way round my hair well, my last hairdresser died in a freak accident early this year, very suddenly and I was really scared to change but this young lass has fitted in well I pay £20 and it takes less than an hour
Short hair is harder to cut but far from impossible for a good cutter so I m going to suggest your hairdresser isn’t a good cutter for short hair

Quizzer change your hairdresser ASAP.

GG13 my hair is very long and I’m nearer to 70 than 60!
But I do wear it up most of the time, unless it’s straightened straight from the hairdresser, then I luxuriate in straight glossy hair, it actually swishes! (Although my glasses slide from the top of my head, it’s soooo flat)

That is why my hair is long!!
I visited a very expensive stylist who cut my hair before an even more expensive colourist coloured it........four hours and £££‘s lost ??‍♀️?‍♀️ Couldn’t achieve the same result at home had six months of looking like Wurzel Gummidge whilst it grew out ?

I decided there and then that it was perfectly acceptable to have long hair over 40, I now have a long bob over 60!!

Should have said photo of self, so I know that that cut IS possible with my hair.