Hairdresser - a bit of a rant!

Yep...

It’s very annoying when they ask
Loads of questions when you’ve shown a pic!
It is sometimes problematic for them as one may have too fine/thick/ curly hair for the style shown in the photo, but they should discus that with you..
I only ever had 3 great hairdressers and one was my husband (!)
Nowadays I say no parting and by the time my hair is wet they say “which side do you usually have your parting”?! It’s very frustrating ?
You wouldn’t think you could go wrong with a picture of the style requested …

After my fabulous hairdresser moved abroad I tried a few others but was never fully satisfied.
So I looked at different hairdressers on Google and read reviews of the ones I could easily travel to.
I think I was extremely lucky because the first one I tried on strangers positive reviews has been amazing.
She has now cut 3 generations of hair in my family since lockdown ended!
I really helps that her prices have been reasonable too.
So my suggestion is to read some reviews.
Good luck.

Sometimes we go to hairdressers because they are the nearest to us or the most convenient but iit doesn't always work out well as I found not once but twice after I visited our local salon in desperation.
The first time I wanted my hair shortened by several inches , just a blunt cut, no layers or anything fancy.
Was combing it later in the day, and there were several long chunks that had obviously hidden somewhere so ended up trimming them off myself.
Second time, I had planned to go elsewhere. Had a job interview the next day, bus didn't turn up, so again went to the local salon who very kindly fitted me in. Had a shorter bob, all went well until after she had blow dried it, she went over it again snipping bits off here and there all the time assuring me I'd love it when she had finished!
I didn't. The next morning, it was hanging round my face like a mop that wasn't improved by washing it again and blow drying it.
Never went back to the salon even though it has new management - the same stylist is still there.
Taking photos is always a bit of a gamble, but in my experience, any decent stylist can adapt a style to suit you but I don't see that it is beyond expectation for them to ask questions as they are not mind readers!
Go elsewhere and have a good discussion with the stylist. Your hair and facial shape may well have changed over the years but your stylist should be able to adapt your original style to fit in with how you are now.

I went to a hairdresser for years until we moved, she cut well but never got the colour looking the same twice running. Sometimes it was lovely, natural - and other times it was too "plummy" or too dark. She was also very expensive.
My new hairdresser is older, only works part-time and comes to our estate to do our hair in our own homes every six weeks or so. She perhaps isn't quite so good at cutting but she still does a good job and my colour is really good and consistently the same. She also leaves me with enough colour to touch up roots between visits.

I think we put up with a lot of poor hairdressing and ridiculous prices in this country. Friends in Italy and Spain pay much lower prices for their good cuts and colours so can afford to go more often.

I've been with my hairdressers for 25 years. I started with her when she was training and followed her when she had left to go to a bee salon. She, is self-employed salon based.

No one else will ever get their hands on my hair. If anything happened to her I would be heartbroken. Totally selfish reasons I know.

I am fortunate my friend's step daughter is a qualified hairdresser. She, qualified in the same salon as my hairdresser so I would go over to her if I had too.

My hair is long and I go every 6-8 weeks to the hairdressers, to keep it tidy and in good condition.

I have it coloured and roots done every 6-,7 weeks.

My hair is my pride and joy. I'm a Leo so you will get it ?♌️?

Couldn't agree more. I tried a new hairdresser on recommendation. On three separate occasions I asked for it to be layered but not let my ears show. First of all she said it looked nice the way it was - and proceeded to cut it round my ears. By the third time I'd had enough, found someone who actually listened and then informed me she was pregnant!

I like to wear a pretty hairband, specially when the hairdressers get it wrong.

Oh I’m so pleased to read these comments! I thought it was just me being too fussy.
I have moved around quite a lot and dread having to find a hairdresser who knows how to cut hair properly.
The last place I lived, all the hairdressers had been trained by the same lecturer at the same college and their cutting was awful, sticking their little finger in the air whilst snipping at my hair with a pair of scissors which looked like nail scissors!
The best haircut I ever had was in Hong Kong.

Talking of highlights, I showed my new hairdresser a photo of my hair when it was last highlighted, showed her which colours I wanted and how I wanted it to look.
Result- nothing like the photo, far too much brown for my skin tone and barely highlighted. She totally ignored my request and just did what she wanted.

I haven't been to the hairdressers for 20 years. Hard to find one with the same vision as you. I wet my hair and comb a lot of heavy conditoner through flattening it against my neck. I hold a bigish mirror in left hand and, using a pair of hairdressing scissors (internet), cut the back looking into another mirror, I curve this slightly to be shorter at the back, then turn to the side and cut the sides slightly longer , hair still touching my neck. Sometimes I section the back pulling down to cut to my guide line but as I have fine hair both method work ok I think. Don't think this would work on course, thick hair. Means I always have same old style but it's easy to keep, (am 75) wash every other day and rough dry with head upside down for volume.
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I agree totally Witzend. Never really happy since my usual h.d. left the salon. Tried 3 other salons and one hardly took any off and colour hardly was noticed . One was cheap but at least it looked like it had been cut, but not the best really . Can't afford highlights yet .

I used to go the HD every 6 weeks PP. My DD and Oh were not keen on LH on an OAP. So off I go, my HD had closed so XFR to a new one. This one is VG. So think I will stick.

I am happy with my hairdresser. All her clients seem very pleased with how she does their hair and often ask her to take photo’s of the back with their mobile phones.

She cuts the back of my hair but she knows I like to cut the front myself and I colour my hair at home.
She laughs and says”oh you’re funny” but it suits me, and I pay only £20 about every 8 weeks. I’m in and out in 20 mins.

During lockdown I got used to washing and styling my own hair. I also got used to having hair without all the product HDs use! I've always had strong, shiny hair (I used to be a model for student stylists) and now it looked even better. Now I just to go my HD for 'dry' cuts. Long hair, with blond (the red in my dark hair has gone yellow now) and grey streaks just happens to be the look for grannies these days. I've saved hundreds in the last three years too.

I think it depends a lot on how stylish you want to be.
And how adaptable your hair is.
My standards are purely functional, practical need at the time.
A bit like yous, Bamm.

Had a really nice hairdresser for many years, he retired. I carried on going to same business but after a couple of terrible cuts now travel 40 miles on the motorway to a really great h'dresser. No exaggeration to say it costs me 3 times as much and it's a rotten journey with great difficulty trying to find a parking spot for the 3 hrs or so it takes for cut & colour but I do come away with a great cut and a good colour.

I know exactly what you mean about the style books in hairdressers. They are all so weird and way too 'abstract' for everyday wear.
I've tried taking photos to the salon too with next to no success. I have very fine thin flyaway hair, styling products irritate my scalp as do hair colourants and most shampoos. I rarely use conditioner but the HD insists on lathering it on.......result is soft flyaway hair that even she can't control.
Not had my haircut since before lockdown because of the HD reluctance to listen to me and I've tried several over the years, I just tidy my fringe and fasten the rest up in either a claw clip or slides.

Do they just not care! I’m 64 and over the years I can say I’ve had 4 hairdressers who listened to me and cut my hair the way I asked. I stuck with each of them until either they or I moved. I’ve tried top notch salons and little side street ones and it’s about the girl not the surroundings !

I a dog groomer and people would bring in pictures often . Usually crufts winners lol. But actually I don’t think a picture is enough. There’s more to a cut than that and it seems it’s a good hairdresser that goes through the detail with you. There’s always that ‘one ‘ thing that’s not obvious from a pic.

Someone on here posted that perhaps hairdressers were worse than the dentist and I heartily concur! In fact I would go so far to say that ALL (mercifully few!) the personal grooming treatments I have had are worse. When I go to my dentist I have fast, efficient and professional treatment that does not require me to make small talk (very nature of the treatment puts paid to that!) or to nervously anticipate the outcome or bill. I get an excellent result with minimal consultation (I trust his advice as a professional). No pain as pain relief excellent (unlike waxing!). My dental plan takes care of the cost so no feeling of being fleeced! Perhaps I’m just lucky with my teeth/dentist/pain threshold or just a miserable so and so!

I think you find hairstylists who can cut and those who are great at colour and they may not be both! One of my DD goes to two separate hair stylists one who does the cut and another for her colour and extensions.
I go the same hair dresser as she does for both colour and cut but mine is straightforward chocolate brown and shoulder length with no layers and a straight fringe! My youngest daughter went to school with the salon owner so I think that helps?

Why didn't you go back to the person who cut your hair and tell them you were not happy and why. Perhaps they could restyle it and tody up what you weren't happy about. Also pictures of a hairstyle are difficult to copy because everyone's varies in thickness, curls, etc. and also the colour makes a big difference. Some models have heavy highlights or full colour and that too makes a difference on the finished result. In some pictures the model even wears a wig. Just go back and complain.

Glad I’m not only one my hairdresser I keep saying to her I fancy a restyle my hair is long and would like it different style but not sure what I would suit. She looks smiles and says short hair is harder to look after and I walk out with same style lol not always brilliant cuts

After years of disappointing hairdressing I decided upon a different tactic. I was at the gym one day. I live close to a small market town. I asked one of the girls working at the gym where she got her hair cut and who did it. Her hair cut was excellent. She told me which salon and that it was the owner Lisa who did it. She has changed my life. When I came home the first time when Lisa had done my hair, my husband said "At last you have found someone who really knows how to cut hair". The cut is good. I grew the colour out during lock-down. My hair is now silver and cut in a short elfin sort of style, a bit like Judy Dench's. I shampoo it every day, towel it dry and run a comb through and its done. I have it cut every 4-5 weeks.I wish I had found Lisa 30 years ago.

Opt out of the whole silly game and go natural. Just have a trim occasionally, like the blokes do.
You'll look fine. You'll save a load of money. And your friends won't have to find nice things to say about a new style that they secretly don't like much. Freedom can be yours, if you'll only accept it!