How often do you visit the hairdressers Any bad experiences......????......

[carole]

Another nosey thread of mine lol

Just wondered how many of you spend a lot of time at the hairdressers, what you get done etc etc,?

Myself I don't spend much time or money, I am a do it yourself girl, my girlfriend comes to my house and trims my hair every two months or so, I put a colour through myself to hide those grey's and thats about it.

I only have to pay ten dollars for the haircut, which is real cheap, I actually have never found a hairdresser who can do my hair decent, once I walked out of one feeling so embarrassed by the disgusting blow-wave job she had done, and I had to walk around town like that, as I had shopping and errands to do.

I just remembered the only time my hair was done , and it was a great job, was in America, while I was on holiday , it was when the Farrah Fawcett look was in , and I can even remember his name LEN, I felt like a million dollars when I walked out of there, FARRAH EAT YOUR HEART OUT,, sigh bit far to go for a decent hair do.!

I have natural wavey hair, and the hairdresser's tend to blow-wave it straight , which looks ghastly on me, surely they can see for themselves what a bad job they do.

So do you have any nasty experiences with hairdresser's?

[Kfamr]

Maybe once or twice a year. I get it trimmed.

[Tonya]

I dye my hair myself every few months, and get it cut by whoever a few times a year.

My eyebrows are what I'm a baby about. I go to the same lady every two-three weeks. She does an Eastern technique called threading. She just takes normal sewing thread and rolls it between her fingers to snap out the hair. She shapes my brows for me.

[Twisterdog]

I get my hair trimmed a little every couple months, because it grows really fast.

I got a perm in college that totally fried and dried out my hair. That it the last perm I ever got, too!

[Shelteez2]

Back when I kept my hair short I would go every 5 weeks to get it cut and every 10 weeks to get it colored. Now I'm growing it out so I go about every 8 weeks for color and some trimming of the ends. *S*

[Nomilynn]

My mom used to be a hair dresser, and she usually trims my hair for me. It's free, and she does a great job.

If she can't do it, I always go to the same guy. He's fabulous, and he only charges $20. If I want a new style, I will usually go to him.

[Soledad]

Tonya - Does the hair have to be long to thread?

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by Soledad
Tonya - Does the hair have to be long to thread?

Threading is SOOOOOOOOO easy, and personally, I like it WAY better than waxing, because it hurts less and works pretty good too. My aunt taught me how to do it. :p You get a thread and tie it, so it forms a loop. Then you twist it in the middle, and put your two fingers through from both hands on each side. Then you put it next to your skin and open your fingers on one side, and then on the other. The twisted part zooms across your skin, pulling the hair off as it goes. It works for the tiny and fine facial hair most women are always trying to get rid of. It works for legs too, but it does take quite some time. :o

Back to the topic.............my mom's friend is a hair dresser and normally trims my hair at her home. I like to keep my hair long, so its normally just a trim to keep the bottom straight, however I did get a layered cut from her once and HATED it! I have vowed never to get my hair layered again. I like it long and cut straight at the bottom. :p

Occasionally my mom will trim my hair. She does a pretty good job for not being a hair dresser. :p

[Soledad]

Sounds interesting. But does the hair grow back fine and thin? After years of tweezing, hair tends to get coarser. While I can see it working on some eyebrow hairs, I can't see it working for the more "industrial strength" ones. :p ;)

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by Soledad
Sounds interesting. But does the hair grow back fine and thin? After years of tweezing, hair tends to get coarser. While I can see it working on some eyebrow hairs, I can't see it working for the more "industrial strength" ones. :p ;)

Actually, I think it comes back even more thin and fine. It makes the roots weak so it comes back less. Tweezing is horrible and can leave scars, and it makes the hairs come thick and course. You should avoid that. The effects of threading would compare to waxing, because it removes a lot of hairs at a time and not one at a time like tweezing. I've never noticed them coming thicker. They look finer to me. :p

[tikeyas_mom]

One time I went to this new hairdressers place and IO wanted my hair layered and she gave me a mullet!!! I was so mad and stayed in my room for almost 12 hours streight, crying the whole time. I wanted to shave my head lol

[Edwina's Secretary]

I once went to a new hairdresser for a perm. She didn't believe me that my stick straight hair takes a perm fast. I looked like Little Orphan Annie. I was visiting my parents and my mother hid all the scissors.

I don't get perms anymore. I recently, and with great trepidation, switched hairdressers after 15 years of the same one. I've very glad I did. I wear my hair short so I need to go every four to five weeks.

[isis]

All I get are trims.Once I got a real hair cut,but I will never ever do that again!:p I can't get it cut anyway because I cheer now,and we do lots of stuff to our hair like curl it and stuff like that!:D

[Logan]

Every 8 weeks, I go (missed my appointment yesterday, darn it). My hairdresser only works a half day on Thursday, and all day on Friday. It is tough to get in with her, but she does a good job with my color and trimming me up, so I'm sticking with her! Because I am prematurely gray and am not ready to be, I have to go at least every 8 weeks to cover up those roots! :o

My hair "horror" story is from when I was getting ready to start college. My hair was long and straight, and I thought it needed a little "body". Well, the girl who did it thought it was extremely straight too, so she piggyback rolled each section (using two rollers on each section). I had the frizziest mess you have ever seen. My mother was furious with me! Ended up having to have it cut off because it was such a mess. Turned out that I actually had very wavy hair, it was just the weight that was making it so limp and straight! I learned my lesson and there has never been another perm! :o

Edit: What I forgot to say was that I did the dumb thing in August and my sister's wedding, where I was Maid of Honor was in October! That's why my mom got so mad at me! I looked horrible!!!!!! :o

[Samantha Puppy]

Not as often as I should. I've been going to the same girl since my mom took me there for my first haircut at 18 months. The woman is great, it's just the shop she works in now is a tad pricey. It's $40 for a cut (even just a trim). I don't have that to throw away every 8 weeks. So I go maybe three times a year to get it trimmed.

In April/May, I dye it myself (highlight it lighter). I won't be doing that this Spring though as I'm getting married in June and my fiance asked if I'd leave my hair go natural.

Around this time of year, I usually dye it back close to my natural color. Speaking of which, I need to do that... Thanks for the reminder!

[2kitties]

since I have high maintenence hair, I go every 7 weeks for cut and color. I value my relationship with my hairdresser like that to family:eek: Changing hairdressers is terrifying to me. It takes a few visits for you to get in a groove with one another but when you do, there's no sense in changing. A good hair dresser is priceless to me. I tried one of those $15 places once and will NEVER do that again!!!

[Tonya]

I think popcorn answered all the threading questions. Threading works on anything. Another interesting thing about brows: if your brows have gotten thin over the years, try rogaine on them. It works!:D

[Tina]

I get my hair trimmed about 2 or 3 times a year. Just depends. And I color my hair about every 2 months. I need to get it trimmed again here soon.

Last year I got it cut really short. I could have kicked myself in the butt. It looked horrible:o It wasn't the hair dressers fault really. She done a good job. I just didn't think my hair was going to be short as it was. Its just now a little below my shoulders.

[slick]

I don't go the hairdressers. I have long hair and from time to time I just flip it over my head and give it the old scissors chop. Works great.

[Uabassoon]

I'm cheap so I usually just cut my own hair. It's been over a year since I last went to the hairdresser.

[Amber]

Every couple months I get a hair trim.

[RubyMutt]

Very rarely am I a "girlie girl", but I am when it comes to getting my hair done! :D

I actually don't go very often... maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I just went last Friday (spent nearly 4 hours there getting a cut, foil and style :eek: ).

I've been going to this stylist for at least 4 years. I love her. We have that stereotypical gossipy hairdresser/customer relationship and I love it! She's so funny and sweet, we always have a good time. And she does an AMAZING job. She did my hair for my senior portraits (took nearly 6 HOURS!! ... I have A LOT of hair... :p) and all my up-dos for all the high school dances I went to. (She actually hated doing updos and refused to do them for anyone else besides me. I'm special ;)).

Before Roberta, my current stylist, I did have some bad experiences. It just never seemed to turn out the way I wanted. One time I went to this lady to have her put some highlights in my hair. She did the highlights, but then for some reason decided to put my hair up in a very strange way. LOL. I can't think of how to describe it. It was just odd... Kind of like a pony tail, but flipped nearly over my forehead :confused: I didn't ask her put it up, but I guess she felt the need to. And she used a regular rubber band so when I got home and went to take it out it was sticking to my hair because of all the hairspray she put on it. So, I had to cut the thing out. *sigh* At least it wasn't a horrible cut... the lady was just a little odd.

[Felicia's Mom]

I get my hair trimmed every 7-8 weeks.

[Cataholic]

Tonya or PCB....can I get a more specific detailed thing on this threading? I wax, currently, and would like to explore the other idea.....

[Pam]

My neighbor is also my stylist. Her shop is about 10 min. away but in a pinch I have been known to go to her house. I go every 6 weeks. I find that if I wear my hair short, as I do now, I have to - otherwise it loses its shape. I do my own coloring. She told me what they use in the shop and I go to the beauty supply store and buy it there. Save me a bundle and I can sit with that goop on my head in the privacy of my own home. :D

I agree totally with what someone else said about breaking in a new stylist. It is a very scary thing indeed. You never know if you have communicated properly what it is that you want done and sometimes they just "do their own thing" anyway and it's not at all what you had in mind. Fran can practically cut my hair in her sleep now, because she's been doing it so long. :)

[Ally Cat's Mommy]

I only go to the hairdresser twice a year - June and December. In between I trim the fringe myself, and use a semi-permanent colour to cover the grey hair!

I also get my hands and feet painted with HENNA every December before I go on vacation.

And PCB / Tonya / Soladad / Cataholic - I LOVE having my eyebrows threaded too. I have very thick heavy brows, and it works great. (They also do my upper lip - but don't tell anyone!)

PCB - I am dying to learn how to do it myself!

[dukedogsmom]

Interesting topic. I just got back and normally I am very happy with what I've had done but today am very disappointed. I took a pic in of the color I wanted, bold reddish auburn with gold highlights. Well, you can barely see the red at all, just looks like my normal, dark brown hair. Just bugs me because I had the pic and she didn't even come close! Maybe she was afraid I wouldn't like it or something. I'm just really disappointed and now I've got to wait about 6 weeks before I can get it colored again.

[Cheshirekatt]

*sigh*

Well, I'm a hairdresser and I hate to hear the horror stories. But there are a lot of bad hairdressers out there. :eek:

I get my hair cut about once every three months and color every four weeks.

I wish clients would listen to me when I advise them against something. That's usually when I have problems with clients not liking their hair.

I'm a color specialist so I don't cut hair at all in the salon. My prices start at $65 for an all over color and go up from there.

:)

Usually when something goes wrong, it's because they've lied to me about what's on their hair. Sun In is bad!

[Tonya]

Here's a website about threading:

http://www.clinica.ca/whatis_threading.html

I personally wouldn't dare do it myself to shape my eyebrows. My lady does it so quickly and so well. I'd probably accidently take my whole eyebrow off in one swipe. lol.

[wolfsoul]

I had never gone very often until lately. As most of you know I got my hair done just a while back. I'm getting it done again on my birthday. The dye faded away almost completely after one wash, so I'm going to get it done darker this time so maybe it will stay longer. I also need to get it relayered. I was surprised to see how fast hair grows after such a big cut! :eek:

Bad experiences:

When I was in grade 2, all of the girls were getting mushroom cuts. Naturally goin' with the flow, I wanted one too. My hairdresser started to give me a mushroom cut...then she realized my hair was too curly. I wound up with a buzz cut! :eek: I think my dad hated it the most. People would say "What a cute boy you have" and he'd get so mad and embarassed. And with a name like Jordan, no wonder you'd get confused!

[Cheshirekatt]

Oh yeah, and there's no difference as far as hair growth between threading, waxing and tweezing. I've never heard of anyone scarring themselves from tweezing.

Threading, tweezing, and waxing done over a long period of time will damage the hair follicle and retard hair growth.

Shaving does not make the hair come back thicker/coarses and faster. That's an old wives tale. When hair grows back from shaving it's a blunt and sharp end that feels thick and coarse. When hair grows back from waxing/threading/tweezing it's a soft/tapered end that doesn't feel coarse. :)

Did that make sense? :confused: lolololol

[Karen]

I like my hairdresser, but I only go maybe 4 times a year - when it gets so long that it's bugging me, or if there's a family "event" coming up. I like her because she listens to me, and does what I want. The worst for me was when I was in college, I went to my Mom's trusted hairdresser - but he was out sick, so they gave me to someone else, who put mousse in my hair that I was allergic to. (I normally ask them not to put anything in, but some hairdressers seem to do it without asking or thinking.) My hair has a mind of its own (as any who have met me can attest) and so I can barely guess what it will look like one day to the next - other than brown, it can vary from almost straight to curly and poofy! But it is mine, and I've got a very full head of hair, so I count my blessings.

My very first job was in a wig shop. I sold wigs to various women who had over-permed, over-colored, and done such awful things to their hair that it was brittle, breaking off and falling out. No thanks, not for me! I rarely even blow-dry it, just wash, comb and wear.