When you are a person of color, the tendency might be to seek a Black salon because the stylist  know how to deal with the texture of your hair better than someone who doesn’t share hair textures anywhere close to yours, but it doesn’t have to be that way. 

I attend a local beauty school to get my hair done because I don’t like paying $60-$80 for a wash, blow dry, clipped ends and a flat iron.  I pay less than $20 including the tip since students are working on my hair and I found that while some of the White students are afraid to work on my hair at first because of the difference in texture, they are willing to try, and if I tell them exactly what I want done, they have usually done well. 

Now, they might have had to borrow a product or two from a Black student nearby that is not normally in the academy’s inventory, but there has only been one time when I have had a White student do my hair that I’ve had to go home and tighten it up myself. For the amount of money I pay and the relatively short amount of time it takes (under 2 hours every time I’ve gone), I won’t complain! 

I wrote all that to say this: don’t be so locked into patronizing a salon where you don’t like a majority of the things that go on there, branch out and find some place that meets your needs, and don’t feel guilty about it, either! 

This kind of reminds me of how a lot of these black hair stylists and customers end up on these court shows. Overcharging, unprofessionalism, fvcking up people’s hair… In old days of grease and pressing combs, black hair salon weren’t as rachet as they are now. It was usually some little old lady pressing your hair and you have gotten a few ear burns but they made you feel right at home. Now big mama and ‘em had passed on and now we have sistas running the salon doing their customers any kind of way probably because they can.

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I completely agree!  I’ve gone through almost as many stylists as I have hair styles through the years!  The lack of professionalism and common courtesy in some of these salons is unheard of!  As a student, and now as a professional, I don’t have an entire day to dedicate to hair maintenance.  I’ve finally found a loctician who is timely, professional, reasonably priced, and an excellent communicator. #thankGOD

Have you ever watched Tabatha’s Salon Takeover? It’s not JUST the Black salons….

Cool.  

Thanks for listing what U don’t want in your salon experience.  Like U; I really don’t want those things as well as these points……

Don’t tell me RETARDED lies (U can’t dye grey black hair/relaxer or dye must be combed into hair etc.).

Lack of price list posted within store.

Admit/correcting a mistake and charging customer for it.

Here’s what I want:

Pictures of your past work/direct answers to questions (within reason)/within 15 minutes time est. on appointments/if one waits longer than 30 minutes for a booked appointment; customer gets a discount. of 10 per cent for every 30 minutes late.