Hairdressers

I also don't go to the hairdresser same as Mishap I'd come home , wash it , snip it and blow dry my way, we used to have a lovely girl who came to the house and cut both mine and my daughters but she moved and since then my granddaughter has cut it... she did 2yrs at beauty school doing hairdressing then decided she hated it but she'll cut mine, its not perfect I'm sure but it saves me from having to go and she's happy with the tenner I give her every time she says 'Nan you don't have to do that'. Then I say 'oh just buy lunch tomorrow with it', and she takes it with a grin. .

This was my experience of hairdressers too - hence my decision to grow my hair and just steer clear of the lot of them. Every time I had it cut I had to come home and wash it and trim bits and generally sort it out!

One even suggested to me that my grey-free dark brown hair was too dark and I should put highlights in it - I told her that some people would given their right arm to have dark brown hair still in their mid-60s and that I had no intention of letting her loose with the bleach!

Falconbird why not pop back and tell her how unhappy you were - no-one wants to lose a customer she will probably be happy to have another look at it.

I have lots of hairdressers over the year and have got really fed up with people who juts want to attack my thick curly hair with the tinning scissors then flatten it with the straighteners. My current hairdresser is an woman of mature years who retrained and is much better at understanding how I want to look.

Greyduster more and more people are actually drying it themselves at the salon. After a cut, the hairdresser rubs any product s/he would normally use on the hair in, then hands the customer a hairbrush and the dryer and goes away

I was watching several customers doing this so I'm going to ask to do it myself next time. It also saves money.

I have had the same hairdresser for over thirty years. In all that time she has never given me a bad cut, but when blow drying my hair recently, she always lays my fringe on the wrong side. I've never said anything, because the minute I wash it, it falls the way I want it to anyway, but on Friday, I finally asked her to lay the fringe the other side and she agreed it looked better. "Why didn't you say something before?" She asked. "Because you're the one with the sharp pointy scissors!" I said. I hate all the brush drying too and haven't yet had the nerve to say just blow it dry and I'll put a brush through it because that's what I do at home!

I was very upset when I came back from this last visit from my hairdressers. Hated the way it looked. Vowed not to go there again.

Wished it next morning, blew it dry quickly and it just fell into place beautifully. It's always the same, he does a great cut but cannot blow dry a decent style.

I'm going to take my courage into both hands and do what several of his clients already do - after the cut, they simply blow dry it themselves in the salon.

The problem is that by the time I start feeling uneasy it's too late.....
I have luckily found a new hairdresser who listens, but it's taken a couple of not-so-good cuts first

I know the feeling. I now have a hairdresser that I trust so I am able to just leave it to her- it cuts out the worry.