I love, love, love my usual hairdresser at Toni & Guy but when I saw that Maurice Meade was having a special where you can get a hair consultation, your hair cut and coloured and a bunch of gift vouchers and products for under two hundred bucks, I thought, new year, new hair (as says the ad campaign) - I would give it a try.
The hairdresser was running really late so I had to wait around for about twenty minutes (not cool! I arrived on time!). I ended up having the consultation with the colourist, who pretty much insisted on having caramel streaks in my hair and assured me it wouldn't be "stripey" and streaky as opposed to highlights. The consultation was over in less than ten minutes. I ended up having my hair coloured first, and the assistants were all very lovely and made sure I was OK for coffee and had enough magazines and such. I also have to add that although I felt the consultation was a bit brief the colourist was really sweet.
When it came to washing it out, the assistant said we would have to go to the back basins because one of them wasn't working in the main room, which would have been OK if there were some lights on in there! I also had a lot of leftover dye on my forehead and around my ears that the assistant didn't wipe off and was there until I actually got my hair cut. Also left in my hair were some big clumps of toner, which again, the hairdresser had to go and rinse out. Despite all my concerns the colour came out looking pretty stripey and not at all "natural" - I know nothing about hairdressing but I have a feeling the colour might have been left on too long so they went a bit lighter than they were meant to?
The haircut itself is OK (and by OK I mean... salvageable), again, the hairdresser had very definite ideas of what he wanted to do with my hair and I didn't really feel like he listened to what I wanted. I was very clear about what I wanted but he apparently disregarded all that and then cut it however the damn hell he pleased! I was really not happy with the end result. I felt like I looked like an 80's porn star, yuck! All in all I felt a bit ripped off.
Gin in a Teacup rating: ♥ / ♥♥♥♥♥
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7 comments:
You're still way hot ;)
The colour actually looks ok in these pics and I would like to see it without the pulled face to decide on the porn star bit. Doesn't change the fact that the advertised service didn't cut the mustard - just the hair (ducking, now).
I think it looks good :)
Cute photos x
that's the worst.
it's cute, but i get what you mean. i get a lot of stylists that want to do things with my hair that just can't be done and i end up with weird cuts. the worst
oh that is the worst, though honestly, it looks totally fine.
i do get it - it is the worst to spend money like that and not get what you want.
well i had my haircut on friday, showed them wht i wanted my hair to look like but the stylist insisted that i have some curl..its only yesterday i realised what a disaster my hair is. the layer are all uneven n i have a complete different hairstyle to what i really wanted.. i am going to call them tomorrow n see if they will fix this.
I also had a bad experience there. Terrible haircut with consultation didn't last more than 15 minutes. And so to give them $130 for worst 15 minutes will pain me forewer. Would never go back there.
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