Where do you get your hair “did?” Is it some fancy ritzy place or do you go to a hood salon? Hood salons are so fun, but they can be kind of a drag sometimes too. Not sure whether or not your salon qualifies as hood?
If you can identify with five or more of these signs, then you must admit that your salon is hood!
1. You have to clear your whole day.
You already know what it is. Even though you’re basically just getting a touch-up and a trim, you will be in the salon for a minimum of eight hours. You MIGHT make your dinner date if you get to the salon first thing in the morning.
2. Your stylist has someone in the chair, someone under the dryer and someone at the sink.
Part of the reason your appointment takes all day is that your stylist is working on at least three heads at the same time. Gotta appreciate the hustle. She has booth rental fees to pay, but come on!
3. Certain “entrepreneurs” are frequent visitors.
If you can walk out of your favorite salon with a fake Louis Vuitton bag, dvd copies of movies that are still in the theaters and somebody’s mama’s pound cake ($2/slice), then you my dear, are definitely patronizing a hood salon.
4. Some people have to pay in advance.
Every hood salon has a Triflin’ Terry, the one chick who has bounced too many checks or never got around to “paying for it next week” and so now she always has to pay up front before she sits her butt in a chair. Damn, Terry!
5. The salon doubles as a daycare.
There’s a sign that says no children are allowed unless being serviced, but nobody seems to pay attention to it. Watchout for Lil’ Man, Alizé and Typhanee. They might have put relaxer in the conditioner bottle again.
6. Your stylist makes random errands throughout your appointment.
She might have three heads to do at once, but she still finds time to go get her some chicken, show up at her man’s job unannounced, buy some shoes and pick a new set of rims for her car.
7. Somebody almost gets into a fight just about everyday.
The one stylist and that other one can never just be cool. A can of hair spray being moved two inches over just might end in World War III. You know that one girl does have a stank attitude though.
8. They do not believe the customer is always right.
Just try to go up in there with your face all screwed up or giving too much direction to the person doing your head. You will be corrected with the swiftness.
9. It’s basically a real life soap opera.
You kinda can’t wait to go back every week so you can see if that customer ever found out that her stylist was sleeping with her boyfriend or if the owner was still going to hire that one girl who could do hair, but looked like Shaq in a wig. Oh, the drama!
10. The refund policy sign has curse words in it.
Yeah, don’t even bother asking about getting your money back. Just don’t.
11. The charge for your service changes depending on your stylist’s bills.
If she needs a little more money for her phone bill, best believe your $50 haircut will be $55 this week. Next week it might be back down to $50 though. Depends on whether her ex is going to help her with the baby’s birthday party or not.
