What’s wrong with learning how to do your own hair? Trial and error, try something if it doesn’t work try something else. Our hair is not as complicated as we make it out to be, don’t believe the hype, it’s hair, develop a relationship with it, understand it, have fun with it, you’ll like it.

All of these reason were part of my decision to do my own hair in my home…where I can be seen on time, im happy with the result and i even get to get chores done in the process.

Black salons have always been a place where one could go to get a style and a smile. Everyone knows each other and they are usually very friendly to one another. I think there are a few bad apples in the bunch, but not all salons are bad. Personally, I have been frustruated by the service of a few salons, but I simply refuse to put all salons in the bucket. If I am not happy with the services I receive at a salon, then I simply take my money and my beauty needs some place else.

I have to agree with a lot of the ladies who are tired of the non-sense that comes along with patronizing black salons and beauty shops. My biggest peeve is the ever-changing prices. I will never understand why you charge more because I have four inches of new growth instead of three. On the phone, the price for a wash and style was $45 dollars, but when you see me roll up in the kind of car I drive, it’s now $65. Lastly, I do not want to help you do my hair. I do not want to pass you the rollers as you roll my hair. Talk about making blood boil.

Check out Smartstyles in Walmart. They have set prices. I relax and dye my own hair and get it cut for $12. In and out. Very professional. I can work around my stylist’s schedule easily. No waiting 30 minutes for a scheduled appointment. No kids running around. No peddlers. I’m very happy.

And here I thought I was the only one to give up on the ‘hair dresser’ (that’s what it was called when I was growing up.) I got tired of the uneven hair cuts and chemical burns. I figured I could do as well if not better – and I did just fine. I get my hair professionally cut, but I’ve been perming it myself for twenty years. I went back one time eight years ago for my grandmother’s funeral (I was too upset to do it myself) Biggest mistake I’ve made in twenty years. I had to go home and rinse it for forty minutes, then straighten it because the perm didn’t actually take. Do you know that woman wanted a TIP? Like I don’t KNOW when my hair is only straight because she straightened it with the blow dryer. I don’t care about your skin color, I care about workmanship, and unfortunately I’ve run into incident after incident of shoddy workmanship.

I remember when i was living in maryland, i was faithfully going this salon and i liked it alot and one day i had an appointment, waited, told the front desk about the appointment and she nodded w/approval of the appointment. mind you the appointment was at 9 am and i was a half an hour early. here comes my stylist with her Starbucks coffee after talking with her police officer boyfriend/jump off. she then walks into the salon, looks my way (w/o acknowledge) and keeps on going to her to her post. i sat & waited for her to come my way for about ten minutes (w/ great patience. she was greatly lucky!!)…so i goes to the front desk (again) and i say to her did you let the chick know i was here???..she didn’t acknowledge me at all. so i proceed to leave. now, the chick decides she wanted to acknowledge and i told her i’m going somewhere else. and at the end of the story i spoke w/the manager and i told her as long as she had people who had no common courtesy, i will not return..

This is 100% true, I dread going to the majority of black salons. When you walk in you don’t get a hello can I help you, instead u have to walk over to a stylist who’s sitting in a chair talking on the phone. The rest are giving you screw faces like you’ve done something wrong and you shouldn’t be there. While I don’t get weaves I do get wash and sets (which is a crime to ask for in a black salon) I ask for a wash and set I get a look like I spoke in a language that the stylist didn’t understand after I ask how much and I get this outlandish price of $35. So now I am a permanent customer to Dominican salons. Their fast, friendlier and the prices are half of what the black salons are charging. It balls down to lack of customer service in black salons!!