Hairdressers!

Same here,i rarely go, but i have made an appointment for friday for a cut and blowdry,
I colour my own and trim where i can see, but i really need a good cut,
I just worry that they go mad with the scissors as i dont like it too short
Also hate hairdressers mirrors,cant bear looking at myself,
Always seem to look worse in them than my own

My hairdresser was pregnant when she first cut my hair. Her daughter is now married with two children.

Never, ever leave a good cutter.

I've been with my hairdresser for 12 years. Together we've tried different cuts and different colours and had a lot of fun doing so. If I was to ring her next day and say 'I don't like this' she'd have me in right away and do what was necessary to ensure I was happy.

This week I booked for cut and roots touch up. Decided foils would be fine until the next time.
As she was about to start the roots she says.....'you know I think a few foils wouldn't go amiss.' I told her to tear on.

As I went towards the desk to pay she whispered that the foils (about £15) were on her as it was her idea. When I protested she explained that it was a wee gift as she loves doing my hair and our chat.

I rarely go to the hairdresser. I just hate the whole experience and I have had some bad hair-dos that I've paid a lot of money for. I hate being stuck there, making small talk and then having to nod and say how lovely the cut is while I dither about ho much tip to give. I always hate the result and have to go home and ruffle it up.

Ugh. My idea of a hellish experience so I now avoid them. I have allowed all colour to grow out, I've bought myself a good set of hair cutting scissors and I've studied You Tube tutorials. I now cut my own hair and love telling people that I've cut it myself when they admire a new hair-do. They exclaim their disbelief, which is nice! (I'll get daughter to check the back/nape of the neck and to cut it straight for me if needs be. She thinks I am mad and ought to go and get it professionally cut! She enjoys sessions at the hairdressers and paying silly amounts of money for treatments. I don't.)

Agree Valerie, I hate being stuck there looking at myself. I look at everybody else instead I do my own colour but I like my hair short and that neds a really good cut.
Coolgran I WISH I HAD HER!!
Day6 my daughter has just qualified as a hairdresser but I wouldn't trust her - or me- with scissors near my head. Esp not me as I'm lethal with the loppers in the garden, I leave everything looking like Hiroshima.. LOL!

My hairdresser left to have a baby last year so I went on the local network Nextdoor (the same place I found a good local electrician) and asked for recommendations. Loads of replies but two names came up many times so I picked one and he's turned out to be a great replacement.

So ask for local recommendations.

If you have a friend/ neighbour / colleague whose hair always looks good ask them for the name of their hairdresser. That's how I found my current fabulous hairdresser. He isn't scissor happy, and I'm confident he will make my hair look great. I love going and don't begrudge the money.

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My last haircut looked the hairdresser hadn't cut much off, I was disappointed while I was still sitting in the chair and I had asked her to cut it shorter. A few weeks later I got a friend of the family to cut it. She did a good job but my fine hair had damaged bits, I think from the very hot hairdryer, plus she tends to style it for ages. One hair cut I had in the past took me two years to grow out the damage from a too hot hair straightener. This hairdresser is excellent at cutting but uses a straightener on most of her customers.

I dread going to the hairdresser, they don't cut enough at the back, my hair usually ends up looking like a Camilla Parker Bowles' hairstyle when I want it shorter and a decent haircut.

When a good hairdresser leaves I shop around between stylists and different companies until I find a satisfactory replacement. It could take up to six months, but I get there in the end.

As I have dead straight hair I need a good cutter and know immediately after the first cut whether a hairdresser is any good or not.

I have been with my current stylist for 5 or 6 years.

My hairdresser has a large book of styles showing all age groups and hair lengths/colours.
She encourages new clients to pick a style that they would like, and she will copy that.
If she thinks that your hair just will not adapt to the chosen style, she will tell you and suggests a good alternative.
Seems to work because most of her clients have been to her salon for more than a decade.

I want to look like Jamie Lee Curtis but end up looking like Boris Johnson...

As I now have to drive and accompany DH everywhere and would have to arrange a Granpa sitter if I wanted to go to the hairdressers, I just get my hair cut at the barbers too. I would recommend the barber to any woman wanting a short 'wash and go' style as the barber's skill is all in the cutting rather than tonging or blowdrying into fancy styles that you cannot repeat easily at home.

Also much quicker, no appointment necessary and about a quarter of the price of a hairdresser. The 'banter' is better too

When I started working in a school, 25 years ago, I visited the hairdresser next door. I'm still going to her, as do my retired colleagues. She is a good hairdresser, however we all know not to engage in conversation with her, she can get carried away with the scissors. When I was very ill and couldn't get out, she kindly offered to come and cut my hair at home. It is just like going to a social gathering, than the hairdressers. There is always someone I know also having their hair done.

No there definitely isn't but what may stop you from being disappointed with your outcome is by firstly noting that the picture you are picking out for them to replicate has been styled and sometimes most of the most expensive products used to make it look "picture perfect" and secondly, we all have such different hair types. What looks good on someone may not look the same on you.

I think personal recommendation is worth considering if you think that persons hair looks consistently good. I do think you have to build up a relationship with your hairdresser and tell them what you like and don't like. Glen knows I don't like straighteners being used on my hair (looks fried) or lots of products but although he is a wiz at cutting and colouring I never like hairdressers blow dry's. I either look like my mother or Joan Collins.

Try a mobile hairdresser if you have a local fb page for your area they often advertise on there, they are qualified the same as the ones in salons and will listen to what your needs are as they need to keep your custom ,much more friendly and approachable , ask around ..

I had an appointment this afternoon, but cancelled it just after posting on here that i was going
I also usually cut my own, as its not short, but but collar lenth,
I coloured it last night and it looks fine
A few years ago when one of my sons was getting married, my daughter offered to pay for me to go to her hairdresses
I was there for 5 hours, having highlights that didnt take, and so fine looked as if nothing had been done
I think the girl must have been training, as the owner told her to do it all again,it cost £65, and wasnt worth all the hassle ,
Also i dont like the open areas type of salon, i used to like the cubicles
Doubt if i will go to a haidresser again
Much cheaper doing my own, and i am happy with it, rather than coming home and redoing it

If two or three people you know who go to the same hairdresser always look good, try them - at worst it's only a few weeks before it grows out and you may be equally delighted. A best mate used to do my family's in exchange for a good chat and cuppa, but she's had to give up and haven't yet found an alternative, apart from a fabulous chap who I went to once, and he promptly retired! I'm still looking - I'm fussy - want to pay a reasonable sum for a really good cut/style/colour, and won't go to a barber look-alike. I like a bit of pampering.

I've posted this information before in other discussions but I trust it's worth mentioning again. I go to the training salon at the local FE college - it's where they teach hairdressing. It's very cheap (hooray!) and the tutors monitor everything that the students do. (They won't allow you to have anything that might damage your hair.) The drawback is that I never get the same student twice, but the tutors know me and my hair. I have a simple style (a long "bob" with a fringe) with regular highlights, and my hair has never been so happy! Worth trying?

I have the same problem, I say they type of style I want my hair is quite short, grey and fine. Why do hairdressers appear deaf when you say the style you would like, they seem to think that they will try something different that they feel would suit you and then it takes ages to style it tends to stick up in all directions and looks like I have been frightened by a ghost. I pay various amounts for a cut and blow-dry and always come out thinking I am not sure I like it. I am short sighted so cannot wear my glasses while hair being cut so cannot stop them whilst in the process, usually too late when they say its finished and I put glasses back on and am too embarrased to say I don't like it.

David 1968, i have been there too, had to back the day after, as the girl made a mess of the highlights, they were yellow, as it was closing time, there wasnt enough time to redo it then, so the tutor said to back the day after, again i was there for hours
My sister has very short hair, and pops in to her local barbers
Cant bear mine very short
I am really not lucky with hairdressers

About twenty years ago, went a local hairdresses, where i lived previously,
I was meeting a penfriend who was visiting fro America, had to have it cut very short, as this time it went sticky, [too much bleach] so spoilt my day, as penfriend,[male] had complimented me on my hair in photos,

I abandoned the servitude of highlights after 25 years, what a waste, and then gave up going to the hairdresser at all. I cut my hair (bit shorter than shoulder-length) by lifting it all up in a pony tail (clasped with one of those scrunchies) hold it up with left hand and cut it straight across with fairly good scissors. The result is layered, yes a bit Camilla P.B., but not bad at all.

I am lucky to have a good hairdresser, but I found him by stopping someone in the street who had 'my' hairstyle and asking her where she went.The worst mistake I made was having a home hairdresser - I could never pluck up courage to tell her I didn't like what she did and stuck it for years, until she became pregnant and retired!

I have had the same hairdresser since she completed her training, she is now in her 40s, I followed her from salon to salon. My lovely hairdresser now works for herself and comes to my home even though I no longer have the expensive colouring and treatments.
If you find a good one stick with them as they are worth their weight in gold.