Weave nightmare-Salon Rache

 

And let me keep it real. she did a jacked up azz weave, period...Miracles..everytime I read that tomfoolery...my blood pressure goes up.... It is a miracle for a client to expect a good weave? Girl, I do not know who or where you get your weaves..customer service, setting realistic expectations for the client and executing the clients vision is the role of the stylist. Dear, if I possessed all of those attributes..I would be in my bathroom working out my own weaves. The issue is not the money. The issue is the technique....and that I cannot control.  A miracle from the owner would have been a flawless execution of my request... I did the right thing posting my experience.... here and on yelp... Thank God I found a stylist on BHM-Monet Crochet...who has  very consistent feedback and actually cares about hair health... Whatever.. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, just keeping it real

 

Bre, I did not check the top of the weave. Thats definately on me; but she had to have seen this?? Correct???  After all I had only been there from 9 to 5; hell I was tired. But more importantly, does she get a pass on technique?  See we can play that game all day in this forum. No experienced stylist who cares about their work would even want the client's closure to look like that... period....

 

To your second question.... this was my first encounter with the stylist.... a  friend told me that she did her hair and it looked fabulous. Technique/flatness/color/etc.  But upon revisiting my friend with my horror story ....she revealed that Rachel corrected only her bangs.. She did not do an install..... and since she has a bang...and long in the back... she told me that her crown was left out... Her hair is dark and it looks really really good. Again, does the stylist get a pass with the technique used in my hair? ..Naw she does not..

 

Trust me... it is a lesson learned hard... at the end of the day... I gave her a trust deposit... based upon what I thought was her work on my friend's hair. Perhaps, I am old school in that assumption that stylists care about their rep on every head that leaves out the door-not some of them... some of you folks are missing the point.... She had to have seen her closure...and felt like whatever... cause anybody who cares about their work would not have made such a  novice mistake...  I don't mind paying for someone's creative effort. Not once have I stated that I wanted money back..etc. Instead, I am struggling with the fact that she knew her technique was flawed. I love her coloring but not her cuts and weave patterns... period
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Folks are more than welcome in a free market to go to whomever they chose.....

 

And listen very closely, in the 30 years I been getting weaves; from kitchens to salons. never never had this happen. Y

 

I promise not to stone you... But my court of preference however is Judge Judy... because all we need is the facts:

 

1. Technique is flawed- does not make any sense to see any addtional pictures..because the front looks fine..

2. I made the mistake of not looking at the top of my head due to my own desire to get the hell out of there and the color looked amazing and while the cut was not what I envisioned..I just wanted to leave.

3. I paid for a blonde bob that was "not down my back". In terms of bob's color- i said blonde not platinum..she got this right

4.  She did not dye the tops of the wefts..they are dark brown.. therefore... the tracks around the leaveout are can be seen prominently due to this. As God is my witness, I did not see this or I would have checked that.. Because my hair is so light. and fine; you can obviously see the tracks see pix 1.....  Therefore, it is reasonable that she saw it ..but elected to just keep quiet.

5. the person who referred me to her obviously chose not to disclose that she did not do her weave. Instead-she corrected her bangs... Only after I called her did she state this fact and commence to apologize and say repeatedly- I am so sorry-She has to fix this.

6. I was more than 3 hours behind schedule on Saturday, December 29, 2012 the day of the install. My appointment was at 9 am I did not leave until 5 pm. I did not do my due diligence in taking the mirror at the completion of the instrall and really getting into my hair.. Plantiff's fault..translation... my fault

7. When I was seated in the braiding chair. I advised her niece that I wanted Rachel to braid my hair. Her niece asked, "Do you have a problem with me?" My response was-" I do not know you to have a problem with you. I would like for Rachel to braid my hair. When she told me that Rached does not braid. I said, this is BS let me call my friend as she was adamant that Rachel braided hair. At this point, Rachel ushered me in the back to discuss this off the floor. I told her that it was disrespectful  to have me there all day. I also told her that mutual acquantance told me that she braided hair. I asked her point blank if she braided hair. Her response was yes. I said why did your niece lie!!! Hell I should have bounced then!!!

8. Her niece braided my hair. down because Rachel told me that I would be in there even longer if she did it... She instucted her niece on what to do from her station.

9. These are experts  so who am I to tell you to use synthetic. If I tell you I do not have a perm, myhair is dark brown and lifts in like 5 minutes, and you see I have fine hair.. An expert weaver does not have to be prompted to pull out the synthetic hair.

10. Hair sewn in... tracks were cut and layed on top of one another near my part..so they are lumpy. see pixs

11. Flat weaves and flawless closures-two attributes of competent weave artists.

12. I do not have one day of Cosmetology school but I have read enough posts on BHM to know that a good stylist... does the following- does a consultation, talks about how you want your hair. repeats what they heard you say... tell you if its realistic and executes based on mutual agreement

13. After the install. She did not thin out the weave.. so when I take the flat iron its so much hair that I can barely part it. I told her that I wanted something I could do on my own..if I needed to

I can barely style this BS

14. I trusted her work on incomplete or shall I say misleading information.