STORM2K

Guys,

Ever go to a barber that is SO BAD ("How bad is he?") that you're reduced to shaving your head afterwards?

It happened to ME this morning...now I look like a poor man's "Kojak" ( the Telly Savalas character).

So far I haven't had any luck in finding a satisfactory hair cutter here in Raleigh...sigh. Have to do battle with a bottle of hair gel-water mix most days ...when I'm going out somewhere...just to get the discombobulated follicles to lie down at least half way decent.

Well, I had a bad experience with a hair dresser. She cut my ear instead of my hair. My ear bled like I don't know what. Afterwards, she said "oh, I'm not going to charge you for the hair cut." I said, "no, kidding".

sunny wrote:Well, I had a bad experience with a hair dresser. She cut my ear instead of my hair. My ear bled like I don't know what. Afterwards, she said "oh, I'm not going to charge you for the hair cut." I said, "no, kidding".

You should have asked here to pay for the stitches, if you needed stitches.

NEWeatherguy wrote:

sunny wrote:Well, I had a bad experience with a hair dresser. She cut my ear instead of my hair. My ear bled like I don't know what. Afterwards, she said "oh, I'm not going to charge you for the hair cut." I said, "no, kidding".

You should have asked here to pay for the stitches, if you needed stitches.

Didn't need stictches. This was about 10 years ago, I still have the purplish mark on my ear.

All I asked for was a "high-and-tight"...short, tapered in the back and on the sides, just enough to brush on top (like any career USAF officer would have).

This "barber" left so many bald spots that using my home clippers to shave it down was the only option.

streetsoldier wrote:This "barber" left so many bald spots that using my home clippers to shave it down was the only option.

Now why am I getting this image of you looking somewhat like Annabelle?!

i have very weird ahir so i have to have someone that really knows all kids of hair. it is very very fine yet very think. when i moved here i thought - ok Tony and Guys has a great reputation- called let them know i ma very finicky, etc. no problem. Got there - the lady had been off work due to an injury for a yr and a half. iw as her first appt. on her return. Needless to say - i have not been back. the cut was soooo bad I had to go home and try to salvage what little was left after a good cry!

oh! and Bill - id di that to one of my kids once - needless to say they did not want mom to cut their hair ever again!
sorry for your experience - it can be traumatic!

JenBayles wrote:

streetsoldier wrote:This "barber" left so many bald spots that using my home clippers to shave it down was the only option.

Now why am I getting this image of you looking somewhat like Annabelle?!

Would that be better or worse than Friar Tuck?

The Big Dog wrote:

JenBayles wrote:

streetsoldier wrote:This "barber" left so many bald spots that using my home clippers to shave it down was the only option.

Now why am I getting this image of you looking somewhat like Annabelle?!

Would that be better or worse than Friar Tuck?

ROFLMAO!!!!!

No, Annabelle (she be a ho') gets PROFESSIONAL grooming, but only "puppy cuts"...we don't have her clipped like the traditional "shave-and-fluff" poodle! She does get her "topknot", bows in her ears, and a "poof" on her "ain't no tail", but that's about "it".

Bill, I'm sorry to hear about your tonsorial tragedy. In my case, my dear wife helps earn her keep through haircuts. I basically get buzzed every two months or so. Like I always say: the only difference between a good hair cut and a bad hair cut is about two weeks.

One month from now I'll be experiencing "buzz fur"; until then, my head feels like sandpaper.

I've been trimming my hair now for almost a year. After my final butchering, and I mean it was awful, what my former so-called hairdresser thought was a nice cut. Everyone was aghast when they saw it - the salon's receptionist, my family, strangers I passed on the way to the car, thru the mall the salon is attached to. She went up 2 inches over one ear, not the other. I never wanted a short cut in the first place. I swear I think she was either trying to weed me from her client list or she thought what she gave me was what I wanted. Or flattering. I even had a picture, showing what I wanted! Didn't do any good. I kept going in our bathroom, about to cry and finally came out with scissors in hand to announce - I'm cutting my own hair from now on! Thought my family would be shocked but they all said - go for it, you can't do any worse than what you've been getting. I was scalped the summer of 2003 too! Must be a summer thing...I won't be going to a hairdresser THIS summer, I can tell you.

Bill - I sympathize. I know you wanted male responses but once I saw Sunny had replied, I had to speak up. I don't tell many people that I cut my own hair but if they ask I say I have a new hairdresser named Mary.....LOL

Mary

Never go to Cost Cutters. I have had the worst experience there! I wanted shoulder length (my hair was right around my shoulder blades) and well she cut it by my ears and it looked like I cut it! My hair is so fine that barretts are LUCKY to stay in place! I could not do a single thing with my hair for about a month. My mom did not pay for the hair cut...needless to say, cost cutters is not a place to go.

I actually have a decent person cutting my hair... she's a friend of my moms... I haven't had a bad cut from her at all. Speaking of haircuts... I need on pretty soon.

My grandma has been cutting mine over the last few months(and it needs to be cut now, ugh). I'll be wishing I had all this hair in 25 years when it's falling out(my dad is 42 and you should see the sink ).

Here's my main pet peeve about hairdressers - they want to cut your hair the way they think it should be cut. Not how you want it cut. They seem to forget you only see them once every 6 to 8 weeks, and in between you have to style it yourself. You can never blowdry a cut, the way they do in a salon! It's impossible. Now if they want to come over every morning and blowdry it for me, then we'll talk turkey.

Mary