Kiersten’s Blog

I took London to get her hair cut at a salon yesterday.  I chose a kids salon and read some online reviews, just to make sure that’s what I wanted to do.  There was one bad review, but the good outweighed the bad, so I decided to go ahead and book an appointment.  When I called, I asked if there was somebody who does especially well cutting curly hair.  “We all know how to cut curly hair,” was the response I got.  Yes, I understand that, but I’m sure there are some that are just better at it.  I shrugged it off and set up the appointment.  When I walked in and signed in, I was kind of surprised at how dirty and cheesy the place looked.  It is for kids, but it looked like a Supercuts with pictures on the walls especially for kids and dresses for sale.  There wasn’t really anything special about the place at all.  I should have followed my instinct and left then, but I didn’t.  I signed in and waited a few minutes before it was our turn.

When it was our turn, they looked at me like I hadn’t signed in and were confused as to who I was.  They finally figured it out and London sat down, where they threw a cloak around her to keep the hair off.  The stylist didn’t even cover her completely and proceeded to spray her curly hair with a spray bottle and comb it out.  Luckily for London, I had washed her hair that morning because it wasn’t as tangled as it normally is.  The stylist didn’t even try to be gentle while combing her hair.  London was super nervous and the stylist didn’t do anything to make her feel more comfortable.  I stood there holding her hand the whole time.  Oh, and I noticed hair still on the floor from the last client that hadn’t been swept up.  It wasn’t just a little bit of hair that was missed in the sweeping, the sweeping had not been done.  Gross.

Now for the cut.  I asked her to take 3 inches off, and give it some layers.  When she started cutting, she just cut straight across the bottom.  I noticed that London’s part wasn’t straight and brought that to the attention of the stylist.  Instead of fixing it, she argued with me about how that’s the way her hair naturally falls.  I had to explain to her that when I do her hair, I part it straight.  It just happened to not be straight today.  I don’t care if that’s the way it naturally falls, it should be straight!  When she was finished, I asked her to put more layers in.  She argued with me on that point, too, telling me that if she cut more layers, she would cut all the curls off!  By this time, I was really mad.  I know my daughter’s hair.  The curls would not be cut off.  The whole point of the cut was to make it more curly!  The length was weighing it down.  I finally stopped arguing, paid the lady and left.  I couldn’t tell what her hair would look like because the lady didn’t style it, or put any product in it (besides a little hairspray to hold the glitter she put on her head).  Does she not know that combing curly hair and not putting product in it makes it frizzy?!  I did her hair today and it just looked okay.  I’m definitely going to cut more layers myself.  Since the top is longer and more weighed down, it’s less curly than the underside, which makes it all look the same length right now, even with the miniscule amount of layers the “professional” added.  I won’t be going there again.  Ever.