Silly First World Problem ( bothering me)

This is why I have long hair ...........

Hate hairdressers.

Not at all! I am like you. If the vibe is not right, I don't go again. I went to a beauty salon where they had a dirty old mop and bucket, the old metal bucket with cotton mop in the corner of the waiting area. It looked quite grubby. Never went again. The one I go to now is spotless and the girls are really helpful. I once went to a hairdresser who had moved to my area and said how beautiful his cut was. He was very talented. His reply: Well, it should be, I have been styling for 20 years. Didn't go there again! It is a very superficial kind of vibe but the client must leave feeling good and not bad. Hard in reality, I know.

Change salon. You might need to try out a few before you find one that suits you. Just don't make another appointment at your original one.

It is about 2 minutes from where I live.

Money is tight so how silly to spend it being miserable! Overthinking.

Funnily enough we have a beauty place nearby, it's clean but a bit down at heel. There is a realy nice, young person who works there. always feel better afterwards.

You like your hairdresser, she does a good job and it’s only two minutes from where you live?
Lucky you.

Luckygirl13

I can't abide hairdressers either.

Not after I was treated like filth by some very young, empty-headed, brain-dead bimbo that was so busy very loudly gossipping to her workmates about her latest squeeze and the night club, etc., that she wasn't concentrating on doing my hair and cut my left ear with the scissors and jabbed the pointy part of the scissors in the top of my head.

That was over 30 years ago, and I've never been to any other since! I know most are not like that numpty, but I was well put off!

My hair is down to my bum, unstyled, so I just trim it myself once every couple of months!

SpinDriftCoastal -maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why you didn't like the guy who told you he'd been hairdresser for 20 years (so ought to be good)...

Maybe there was something else about him?

I never went back to my hairdresser after covid. To be fair, my hair is so thin now that I don't think a hairdresser could do much with it. I wash it and let it air dry.

The silly first-world problem bothering me is at the end of the shampoo/conditioner/shower gel bottles.

I always stand my bottles on their tops, not bottoms, as I find they get stuck 1/2 way in between if I stand them on their bottoms, so then when it's time for just a couple of squeezes left, it won't come out, no matter how much I squeeze and squidge the bottle! HA!

My hairdresser is brilliant. She gives me the best cut I’ve ever had in my life. But…… she doesn’t seem able to manage her time. I’m never late for my appointment but always have to sit and wait until she finishes some complicated procedure that takes ages. I don't mind waiting half an hour, but recently it has been over an hour and - last time - two hours as she put in a whole head full of foils. This was a last minute appointment which she should really have refused, but she makes more money out of that sort of work than she does out of a simple wash and cut. I would look for somewhere else, but the salon is local and she is very good - eventually!

It’s not silly at all.

I’ve just “lost” my lovely dear hairdresser, she’s moved over a 100 miles away to live with her boyfriend! I’ve not been to the hairdressers since, she both cut and coloured my hair and it looks bloody dreadful now, after only 3 months!

You could ask the nice hairdresser privately if she does home visits sixandahalf, as it is so nearby.

I have a lovely hairdresser as was then before. It's in the gym, so just a one woman job, you couldn't get nicer. We share our lives - it's been so long now.

Have a think - is it the vibe in the salon, or some kind of emotional feeling around the process that might occur around hair cutting? I'm inclined to think the salon, because you are fine and comfy with the facials.

Previously, I hated it. "and how was your Christmas" "have you booked a holiday this year"

they would make small talk and lie about how absolutely wonderful you looked blah blah.

It may only be 2 mins away but... how about asking the friendly comfy facials people for an alternative recommendation?

NotSpaghetti

SpinDriftCoastal -maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why you didn't like the guy who told you he'd been hairdresser for 20 years (so ought to be good)...

Maybe there was something else about him?

Yes, there was. He had moved towns to get away from a love affair he had had and was very bitter and negative about everything. He was very political too and I just felt really terrible about the whole experience. He came with a fabulous recommendation by the salon owner. He did a fabulous job but made me feel so depressed I thought better to have an average cut that a fab one that did not come with a smile.