so I just went to the hair salon

GreenTeaDisease

and I got a cut and the same color I did last time- red and yellow foil highlights. it cost me $200 with the tip! (they charged me $20 more than last time too!) and get this- the hairdresser- whom I went back to because she is very good- kept complaining the whole time that I was making her "work her ass off." I really just felt like being like "look lady, if you want to charge an arm and a leg for an f-ing hair cut and get a tip on top of it, you're going to give me as many damn foils as I want, and you're not going to stand there and bitch about it!"

I'm sorry but for $180 for a cut and highlights and a $20 tip, you'd better be working your ass off!

sorry that's my rant for the day. you wait until the clients leave to bitch and complain, you don't bitch and complain right to them!

_Crazy_Mary_

Damn, that's expensive! I'm so glad I don't spend money on shit like that. I get my hair cut (trimmed) every 9 months or so.
I would love to be able to drop 200 bones on my hair, though! It feels so good to be pampered.

GreenTeaDisease

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Damn, that's expensive! I'm so glad I don't spend money on shit like that. I get my hair cut (trimmed) every 9 months or so.
I would love to be able to drop 200 bones on my hair, though! It feels so good to be pampered.

yeah, I'm not really "able" to either, that's the problem. I think this is the second and last time I get color. that's the part that costs a lot. Actually, I'll probably need to get it once more to go back to my natural color.

_

Yeah, I had an experience like that once. I was at a fancy salon getting my hair curled for my sister's wedding and one of the other hairdressers walked by and said something like, "Wow, look at all that hair. It's beautiful." And the hairdresser who was fixing my hair snapped back and her and said something like, "Oh yeah? Well YOU don't have to fix it, do you?!" (It was all in the delivery. Maybe you had to be there. )

What was especially irritating, aside from all the money I paid to sit around all morning with someone hatin' on me, was that I had gone in in advance to make the appointment, decide how my hair would be done, and make sure she was cool with everything. Eight years later, and I was still afraid to get my hair done for my best friend's wedding a few months ago.

Sorry you had to put up with that this morning. :(

thunderDAN

when I lived in Chicago I went and got a haircut (normal guy cut) and it cost me $62 before tip. I was like daaaamn. The girl did a very good job and was very meticulous, but I never saw that one coming.

GreenTeaDisease

scb wrote:

Yeah, I had an experience like that once. I was at a fancy salon getting my hair curled for my sister's wedding and one of the other hairdressers walked by and said something like, "Wow, look at all that hair. It's beautiful." And the hairdresser who was fixing my hair snapped back and her and said something like, "Oh yeah? Well YOU don't have to fix it, do you?!" (It was all in the delivery. Maybe you had to be there. )

What was especially irritating, aside from all the money I paid to sit around all morning with someone hatin' on me, was that I had gone in in advance to make the appointment, decide how my hair would be done, and make sure she was cool with everything. Eight years later, and I was still afraid to get my hair done for my best friend's wedding a few months ago.

Sorry you had to put up with that this morning. :(

I'm just pretty sure I would get fired if I ever talked to a client like that.

shell bell

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

and I got a cut and the same color I did last time- red and yellow foil highlights. it cost me $200 with the tip! (they charged me $20 more than last time too!) and get this- the hairdresser- whom I went back to because she is very good- kept complaining the whole time that I was making her "work her ass off." I really just felt like being like "look lady, if you want to charge an arm and a leg for an f-ing hair cut and get a tip on top of it, you're going to give me as many damn foils as I want, and you're not going to stand there and bitch about it!"

I'm sorry but for $180 for a cut and highlights and a $20 tip, you'd better be working your ass off!

sorry that's my rant for the day. you wait until the clients leave to bitch and complain, you don't bitch and complain right to them!

Damn! After she made that comment,I would have said"the tip meter is going down bitch,every time you make a comment like that!" If you've gone to her before,she should have knowen that your hair would have required more time (sounds cute tho).

_Crazy_Mary_

GTD, you should have made a comment about her ass when she said she was working her ass off. Like, "...well... if that's what it takes..."

SPEEDY MCCREADY

$180 for a fucking haircut?????

give me a fucking break............

MattCameronKicksButt

You tipped the hairdresser! :eek: If you think she's good then keep seeing her but surely don't tip her if you think she's rude to you.

shell bell

I was looking into getting a hair cut and color at the sallon that I go to. It would be definitly over $100 +tip.Now I know why my mom dyes her hair at home.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

and I got a cut and the same color I did last time- red and yellow foil highlights. it cost me $200 with the tip! (they charged me $20 more than last time too!) and get this- the hairdresser- whom I went back to because she is very good- kept complaining the whole time that I was making her "work her ass off." I really just felt like being like "look lady, if you want to charge an arm and a leg for an f-ing hair cut and get a tip on top of it, you're going to give me as many damn foils as I want, and you're not going to stand there and bitch about it!"

I'm sorry but for $180 for a cut and highlights and a $20 tip, you'd better be working your ass off!

sorry that's my rant for the day. you wait until the clients leave to bitch and complain, you don't bitch and complain right to them!

can you please post a picture of yourself....

i am dying to see what a $180 haircut looks like....

iluvcats

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

$180 for a fucking haircut?????

give me a fucking break............

quit being jealous that you have no hair to cut, first of all



she had color and highlites, it was not $180 for a JUST a haircut.

GTD, just wait til you get elderly like me. I have a mixture of gray and brown hair, so when I put a $6 box of Garnier dye on it (at home) it turns the gray to blonde and lightens the brown. Very inexpensive and my stylist complimented me. The shade is Light Brown (Acorn).

SPEEDY MCCREADY

iluvcats wrote:

quit being jealous that you have no hair to cut, first of all



she had color and highlites, it was not $180 for a JUST a haircut.

GTD, just wait til you get elderly like me. I have a mixture of gray and brown hair, so when I put a $6 box of Garnier dye on it (at home) it turns the gray to blonde and lightens the brown. Very inexpensive and my stylist complimented me. The shade is Light Brown (Acorn).

so she paid $180 to dye her hair red and yellow???

now i really want to see pictures......

MattCameronKicksButt

It's cheaper if you have it done at home because you're not using their electricity... apparently.

Besides, she gets paid so she shouldn't complain. It's her job. It's what she gets payed to do. :mad:

releaselauren

If you don't like her attitude, don't go back. I know that highlights can be expensive and have you considered doing one color all-over? I don't envy women with blond or light colored hair, it seems like a lot of upkeep, thus more $$$.

I love my stylist, I get a trim and color (and recently some funky red highlights in my dark brown/black hair to get me through the winter) every six/eight weeks and I don't pay more than $130 including tip.

SENROCK

iluvcats wrote:

she had color and highlites, it was not $180 for a JUST a haircut.

GTD, just wait til you get elderly like me. I have a mixture of gray and brown hair, so when I put a $6 box of Garnier dye on it (at home) it turns the gray to blonde and lightens the brown. Very inexpensive and my stylist complimented me. The shade is Light Brown (Acorn).

hahaha cats this is a funny post! $180. down to $6. hahaha! GOOD TIMES!!! but seriously, the 180 is pretty standard. HOWEVER......that covers a pair of PEARL JAM i mean ED tickets!!!

GraySaturday

I used to go to this real funky salon in lakeview and I loved the way the woman would to my hair.. She cut it really nicely, and would foil it with blonde, red, and brown colors, and dye the rest of it, and my hair looked amazing and I got a bunch of compliments on it everywhere I went. It cost me over 200 with tip every time, but I loved it...

However, I started to grow my hair out, and it grew fast and it was long and thick, and she would start to bitch each time more and more about how annoying it is to do long hair, like she was talking to someone else! Finally, I would feel so uncomfortable when I went because I felt like she dreaded me, that I said, f**k it, and I stopped going to her. I tipped her really really well each time, and I was never a hard customer. I guess some people just are set in their ways, and forget that they are getting paid to do this!

Her loss I suppose.

GreenTeaDisease

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

so she paid $180 to dye her hair red and yellow???

now i really want to see pictures......

they charge $120+ for partial foils. but honestly, it's about the same everywhere around here in the city. It's SLIGHTLY cheaper out in the suburbs, but not by much, and really, it is high quality. Honestly I don't think I could get this done this well for any cheaper. I agree it's ridiculous, but when I sort of decided I wanted to do something fun with my hair, I don't think I realized that color was quite so expensive (I mean tons of people have color! I had no idea!)

anyway, the point is this woman was so rude! it's a very hipster type place, I think they just think they can get away with treating their customers badly. And hell yes I tipped her! If I ever want to go back to her (and honestly, she is REALLY good) I'd need to tip! I've heard awful stories about people forgetting to tip their hairdresser and then the next time they go they end up with some horrible haircut!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

they charge $120+ for partial foils. but honestly, it's about the same everywhere around here in the city. It's SLIGHTLY cheaper out in the suburbs, but not by much, and really, it is high quality. Honestly I don't think I could get this done this well for any cheaper. I agree it's ridiculous, but when I sort of decided I wanted to do something fun with my hair, I don't think I realized that color was quite so expensive (I mean tons of people have color! I had no idea!)

anyway, the point is this woman was so rude! it's a very hipster type place, I think they just think they can get away with treating their customers badly. And hell yes I tipped her! If I ever want to go back to her (and honestly, she is REALLY good) I'd need to tip! I've heard awful stories about people forgetting to tip their hairdresser and then the next time they go they end up with some horrible haircut!

i want to see pictures of a $180 haircut....

im 40 years old and i had NO IDEA ladies would pay this kind of money for a haircut.....

i pay $15 for a haircut....
i see plenty of ladies paying $15 for haircuts where i go.......

stuckinline

green tea disease: cmon, post a pic

i guess if the hairdresser was THAT rude i would not have tipped her, or maybe tipped her just $1

know1

I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I spent that much on a haircut. I'd be very, very ashamed.

ReleaseMe...

she was gonna get paid whether she complained or not during the job....so she figured why not complain, it was obviously making her happy to do so

SPEEDY MCCREADY

know1 wrote:

I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I spent that much on a haircut. I'd be very, very ashamed.

$180 is 2 years worth of haircuts for me......

chiquimonkey

just go somewhere else. even if someone is good at what they do, doesn't give them the right to act like an asshole. that happened to me once, the lady was good but acted like she woke up on teh wrong side of the planet and was huffing about how much hair i had (you'd swear she was working on it for free!). never went back!

decides2dream

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

i want to see pictures of a $180 haircut....

im 40 years old and i had NO IDEA ladies would pay this kind of money for a haircut.....

i pay $15 for a haircut....
i see plenty of ladies paying $15 for haircuts where i go.......

christ!
she didn't get just a haircut! she got a color job AND a haircut! not *defending* the pricing per se...but sure, that IS pretty standard for the more advanced color techniques - such as foil - and especially in a major city, and a trendy salon.


and are you SURE the women going to your salon are paying $15? if you as a male are paying $15...sounds about right if it's simply a regular salon, but even there...i'd bet the women pay more. we almost always do.


i used to go to a salon with $20 haircuts, it was awesome...and then went out of business. :( i now pay about $40, with tip....still damn good for around here.


this is also why i don't dye my hair. i don't want to spend my time in a salon so much, definitely don't want to spend that kinda $$$...but i know eventually i would b/c i don't like to dye my own hair, salons usually do a WAY better job...and i most definitely would not want to walk around with 'roots' or a bad dye job. thus far, i am letting my grey go...and hoping it grows in nicely, looks good and i like it. so far, so good....but i am only 39. hahaha.


anyhooooooooo....ON TOPIC:
absolutely, completely rude for her to speak to you like that. however, by tipping her, returning there, etc...it perpetuates the behavior. i understand why you said nothing, and even tipped...you love how she does your hair/color...want to return...but yea, it's a shite situation to be in. perhaps, politely, you could comment to her next time you go back? otherwise, yea...ignore it if you think her services make it worth your while...or find another salon. as good as she may be, i am sure there are others.


and those *judging* paying these funds...sheesh, get over it. it's a service, and really...an art. people spend $$$, lots of really good $$$...on all sorts of things. while i am not one for the crazy pricey designer bags and such, i DO also realize they do keep artisans and craftspeople in jobs, stimulate the economy, etc. see it all down the line befoore judging it eh? it's all part of the cycle, of goods/services...keeping people working, etc. if one can afford it and enjoys it...who cares?


yikes...fuck..i forgot i just turned 39! hahahaha.

GreenTeaDisease

releaselauren wrote:

If you don't like her attitude, don't go back. I know that highlights can be expensive and have you considered doing one color all-over? I don't envy women with blond or light colored hair, it seems like a lot of upkeep, thus more $$$.

I love my stylist, I get a trim and color (and recently some funky red highlights in my dark brown/black hair to get me through the winter) every six/eight weeks and I don't pay more than $130 including tip.

no the "highlights" I get are more like streaks. it's not like a natural looking thing, it's more like edgy thing. I just wanted to do something more fun with my plain brown hair, I had never had ANY color before that (except for a few kool-aid jobs in high school!). I don't like the idea of changing hair color like, trying to make it look better or not liking your own color. I know a lot of people do that, but it's not for me. I got the streaks because I would love to do something like pink or blue, but I can't in my job and stuff, so I just toned the idea down a bit to red. The blond is there to just make the red stand out more. I like to think of it like having colorful ribbons in my hair!

I only go to get anything done like once every 4-5 months usually. I think next time I'm gonna have her just color it back to brown and end it after that for a while. I just felt like looking a little more rock n roll for a while. figured it was less scary than like a tattoo or something .

GreenTeaDisease

chiquimonkey wrote:

just go somewhere else. even if someone is good at what they do, doesn't give them the right to act like an asshole. that happened to me once, the lady was good but acted like she woke up on teh wrong side of the planet and was huffing about how much hair i had (you'd swear she was working on it for free!). never went back!

the problem is too that this is the only really like "funky" place around. as I said, these are more like edgy streaks than like "pretty" hair. I went there for that specific purpose, because everywhere else I went just didn't get the concept I was going for.

GreenTeaDisease

know1 wrote:

I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I spent that much on a haircut. I'd be very, very ashamed.

well you should be very proud of how righteous you are. you're right. I should probably just shoot myself in the face. I deserve it.

releaselauren

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I only go to get anything done like once every 4-5 months usually. I think next time I'm gonna have her just color it back to brown and end it after that for a while. I just felt like looking a little more rock n roll for a while. figured it was less scary than like a tattoo or something .

I get that. That is why I added bright red "streaks", as you would say in my hair. You can only see them if my hair moves a certain way or if I pull it back in a pony tail (didn't want to completely freak out the other moms at school) . I wanted electric blue streaks but my hair wouldn't cooperate and my stylist didn't want to completely bleach out and damage parts of my hair, so red it is. I love it.

GreenTeaDisease

decides2dream wrote:

and those *judging* paying these funds...sheesh, get over it. it's a service, and really...an art. people spend $$$, lots of really good $$$...on all sorts of things. while i am not one for the crazy pricey designer bags and such, i DO also realize they do keep artisans and craftspeople in jobs, stimulate the economy, etc. see it all down the line befoore judging it eh? it's all part of the cycle, of goods/services...keeping people working, etc. if one can afford it and enjoys it...who cares?

yeah, and you know what, it's my HAIR. I wanted to get a cool, funky look, and whatever happens, I have to walk around with it on my head! I wasn't going to risk it by going to some shady place.

and yes, $40-$60 is pretty standard for a woman's cut. this place charges $50 for the cut, the color was $130.

I'm definitely not defending it either, I think it's OUTRAGEOUS. especially given that my brother paid $250 recently for a gorgeous tattoo that's going to be on him forever!