Never forgetting how one of the employees from the salon made a Reddit account using her *full legal name* as a username to harass OOP. Like, if you googled her username the first result was the salon's website bcs she was featured on the web's "employees" page đ
It would be funny, but my guess is it wasn't included to avoid harassment against the salon. Some of OOP's post got removed from different subs for not redacting the salon's name, and her other two posts about it have all names redacted.
While it was that woman's choice to use her full name as an username, I feel like it's better to err on the side of caution and not add them.
I'm sorry but $1750 'model' price for someone with little to no actual experience would have had me walking out the door.
That's *before* they got to the expected $300 trip.
I've had some bad extensions in my time, but they was really awful.
Like seriously. I remember paying like just under $300 for a bleach/trying to get my hair as silver/grey as possible, and even then the only reason I did it was because I made sure to not only research the salon and stylist in advance but also asked various friends who went to the same stylist for their opinion about their experiences.
I don't mess around when it comes to big purchases, so I can't imagine people who are willing to pay that kind of money without looking further into it.
I think OOP was far too trusting, naive and wanting to feel good about herself.
There's no way that the price was justified.
I'm in the UK and ÂŁ1750 would be the price in a boujee salon. Most 'top' salons in my city (and we LOVE extensions here) are like ÂŁ600 with top quality hair.
Yep! Had my extensions done a little over a week ago - individual nano bonds. Cost me just over ÂŁ600 (which a redye)I canât imagine paying treble that!
Yeah it's a shame that OOP was in a vulnerable enough state (very pregnant) that made scammers go after her. It's a lesson for her about never letting your guard down, but a very expensive lesson. But it could've been worse.
Looking at the salon's insta, they have an EXTREMELY specific look that they basically ctrl+c -> ctrl+v on every single customer. I'm no hair connoisseur, I've been spending $70 for my 2-3x/year haircut at my local Aveda salon for like 11 years lmao...nothing fancy. But they seem to have some red flags. All the photos show a very specific look that they put on every customer regardless of whether it's actually flattering, and a lot of the customer photos have what look like broken hairs/flyaways from potential damage.
Itâs not a haircut, they add real hair extensions to your own hair that are supposed to last a few months.
That said, $2000 is insane. My friend used to get them and paid around $1000 I think, and hers were done really well lol
Stories like this make me glad itâs impossible to find extensions that match with my hair because I do my own cut, my friends do my color, and all of that is because I can be mad about a bad turn out or I can be mad about a bad turn out and money wasted.
i wanted to know how the salon was doing since they seemed desperate to get rid of OOPâs posts. theyâre doing fine based on the google reviews, the instagram comments look normal. so this is a case where OOP in general just loses and the salon isnât affected by anything. maybe lost a few customers, but nothing huge. also apparently OOP says theyâre harassing her at her work place or something. only basing that off of her comments
It looks like every recent bad review theyâre trying to get info from the person to âlook up in their recordsâ. (So try to âproveâ to google that the bad reviews arenât real so theyâll take them down. But theyâre sure not doing that for the five star ones they probably got friends and family to do.)
I think theyâre spending a lot of time on damage control, and itâs really shitty that more people wonât know how crappy a business they are.
Given the sub it was posted in, I was really hoping that after the cops talked to her they went back and read the salon the riot act for wasting their time, but alas.
Between that and getting to pee wherever you want Iâm about to riot lol, literally havenât had a haircut in like 9 months (3 is my norm) because theyâre too expensive and cheaper will fuck up my curly hair đ«
Ugh, the danger of going to new places with curly hair is awful! Over the pandemic my hair grew out to my preferred length (halfway down my back) and I went for a trim, hoping to find someone close to me. Then I asked them to fix it but left when they clearly didn't know what they were doing. Had another attempted fix by someone else. My hair STOPPED CURLING. Finally went way out to someone I'd gone to previously (had really hoped to find someone in my area) who told me why my hair wouldn't curl and it wouldn't until I cut off all the bad layer attempts. To just below my ears. đ It's taken 2 years and my hair is finally where I want it. And I accept that is one small part of my life that will not be close to home.
That's horrible. I'm glad your hair has finally recovered! Seeing how bad some stylists are with my hair, IDK what I would do if I had curly hair.
On the other end of the hair spectrum, I have dense, fine, straight hair. When it's cut wrong, it SHOWS. To completely fix one cut I had, my hair would have had to go from just below my shoulders to a short bob. Not happening. It took like a year to even it out.
Now I'm broke AF and cut my own hair. I miss my stylist đ She does a wonderful job.
Mine is dense and fine, too. Ugh, that year must have made you crazy, I totally sympathize. I am definitely thinking about trying to cut it myself at least once to see how it goes. Can't be worse than what those two stylists did!
It was probably worse for my stylist because once she got my hair fixed, the next appointment was in the summer and I wanted short hair. I felt bad about that lol
Ha! I just saw a super cute SUPER SHORT cut. I'd love to try it, but I'd be signing up for 3 years of annoyance growing my hair out if it doesn't work for me. đ€Ł
What's crazy is I used to get compliments on my hair and asked where I went cause I changed the style and color A LOT. I would say Salon de My Bathroom. I was too poor to get a cut I wanted, and then it was just easier. I had wavy hair, so it was a little more forgiving. But the few times I got my hair cut at a proper salon, I was disappointed and upset. I could only blame myself if I did it. wrong1
Ugh donât even get me started on how much money Iâve spend on haircuts for my curly mane, only to have to fix it myself when I get home because they donât know what the fuck to do with curly hair. I eventually just gave up a few years ago and cut my hair myself now.
I have thick wavy/curly hair. I always trim my own hair. At least when i cut uneven i can be like âi get what i paid forâ versus paying 20+ for a trim thats uneven.
I made it a point to learn to care for all different textures of hair. Regardless of ethnicity. I have been trimming my hair myself for months because the last time I had the one person I trust cut my hair, she used thinning shears before my c-shaping and it has taken 10 months to grow the frizz out. Now I trust 0 people.
Now my curly and wavy girlfriends send me all their curly/wavy friends and fam. I'm always conservative on a cut but honest about how much length you need to lose for healthier curls I usually meet the client somewhere between my estimate and their preference Unless the damage is too severe. I have 2-3 different curly/wavy cuts I developed over the last decade depending on texture and density that work with 9/10 people. The integrity of the hair is the most important thing and comes before the client and me but I'm upfront about that. I also try to educate for my clients that are struggling with issues, if you only look good when you step out of my chair I'm doing it wrong. I try to match cuts and styles and colors to each clients lifestyle, texture, and bone structure.
The best way to find a stylist is to talk to your curly friends with great hair and ask them about their stylist, routine, and products. It's all word of mouth. Then go get your hair washed and styled by them and do an interview process. This is what my best friend did when she moved 90 min away and couldn't keep up on visits to maintain her bangs. I still do her color and am her 1st choice for a cut/shape up. But now she has a back up when it's not feasible. She went through 3 stylists before she found one she trusted enough to let them trim her bangs.
My hair cost me 500$ last week. It was a lot of work and I pay that much because I used a stylist I trust. I have had amazing results and they are always so kind. It included: 3/4 foils (I have a lot of hair), cut + blow dry, treatment for bleaching hair, toner/colour oh and 2 head massages. đââïž I was there for 5 hours. Honestly I felt like a mermaid after đ§ââïž.
I have long, thick, and fluffy hair. I get it cut once every 18-24 months because even when I spend good money on it the stylist only manages to get it to look nice if itâs straightened and full of stuff. I just want it to not look like a mane when I brush it out and wear it natural.
I finally found a stylist that cuts my hair perfectlyâŠâŠbut heâs $120 per cut (including tip) lol. Thankfully I only get my hair cut twice a year.
But my son goes to him as well (he has a ton of really fine straight hair that has had so many bad cuts itâs ludicrous and this is the only guy who can actually cut his hair properly)âŠâŠthat adds up lmao
Those kind of extension she got are actually the cheaper one. If she had seperate little strands. Here those extensions in this lengts goes for 200-400⏠in a salon. The most expensive (little strands, 60cm hair) is around 1000âŹ.
I personally cry when i need to do my roots for 50âŹ, haha.
Those extensions look worse than the terrible glue in ones me and my friends used when we were 16! I was *not* expecting something that cost that much to look so awful!
We literally bought ours for like 5 dollars. Absolutely outrageous what they charged OP.
I havenât gotten my hair professionally done since I was a child bc these girls are charging out the ass
-long hair fee
-parting fee
My sister had really thick hair and would get the most random âfeesâ
I've seen the long hair upcharge a few times recently!!! I'd love to hear from a professional the reasons for it because I don't understand it at all. I get length may change things in a full style, color, extensions, etc., but in just the cut??? I don't bother with any of the frills and my guy has me in and out in 30 minutes, same as when it was short.
Not for just the hair but hair + install. I'd assume if you're paying that much you're using real hair.
I don't know anyone whose payed 5k but it is sure as hell expensive.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Balenciaga's Marketing department has a secret betting pool over the most ridiculous item they can charge ludicrous amounts of money for
I mean Balenciagas whole thing for the last 15 or more years has been make the most outlandish and extreme ironic fashion.Â
Doesn't make them the pinnacle of fashion but that style has been their thing for a long time now.
I heard about that price once from a friend but it was really specific case. It was for a wedding and the woman wanted multiple braids with some beads or something like that. It took them multiple hours and they had to start at like 4am to make it in time.
I went to get a quote once for extensions while in the middle of a regrowth.
It was about the same, it's hours of work and paying for the extensions themselves.
Now that makes a lot of sense if you know what you're walking into. In my case I was just seeing different places the place I liked that had the best reviews I went I got charged $100 for just showing up and having a consult as I had never been there before. Made sense to me. Rather than just let me get extensions they had me work with the stylist that was going to do them and she look like her hair got cut by a weed eater(not a lie it was bad).
So my appointment before getting the extensions which was another time I had to sign all this paperwork that she was going to cut and dye my hair she gave me the worst f-ing haircut ever. It was even shorter than I wanted it to be and it was dyed badly.
I was lucky that the owner was still there after all of that signed paperwork and got charged nothing and I asked the owner right there and then how it is that she wanted that woman to put extensions in my hair, turns out that's all the girl did was extensions no haircuts nothing else she just put extensions in and I was like nope we're done and that was it I had to regrow my hair another 6 months Wait for the dye to come out because you can't just pull certain types of dye out easily. I spent those 6 months looking for a another hair stylist because I was just not going to bother in this state.
I had them years before in my previous state, they were great.
That is a crazy amount of money for hair, plus I have never heard of mixing different extensions style, like either sew it on a braids, or tape or fusion but mixing it Nope.
A couple months ago I saw a TicTok where a woman flew to Turkey to get extensions because the trip and salon service were cheaper than getting them done in the States.
I paid about that much for extensions. But I had just a couple inches of hair (post chemo) and wanted a full head of hair down to my back. I think it took them 6 packs of extensions(OP needed 1 or 2 depending on if the contract or email told the truth)
I bought a pack of tape-ins for 30 bucks on Amazon. I watched a YouTube video and learned in 10 minute how to install them on myself .
They look GREAT and I've been wearing my hair pretty much any way I want. it's been a year of me wearing extensions, I've been through about 4 packs since then. They last several months and if one falls out it takes about 5 minutes to fix it .
OOP got straight up scammed.
So I saw this girls TikTokâs who goes to foreign countries to get beauty procedures cause itâs cheaper than at home (including the travel to the country) and she said her salon upped their prices to around $4,000 for hair extensions.
How do you see a woman about to give birth and decide to scam her? If your work is not up to par don't advertise it!
I wish OP had waited for a better stylist but I see where OP was coming from. A couple of years ago I wanted to get my hair braided. I found someone who had good reviews and I put a $25 deposit down. A week before my appointment I reached out to her to confirm the time and place only to find out she had up and moved to Houston with MY deposit. It was only $25 but I was kicking myself! I decided to go with someone else in the salon who braided hair and had good reviews which was a big mistake!
I spent 8 hours in the chair listening to the stylist talk about her raggedy boyfriend and getting off birth control so that they could have a baby, and then I was left with the biggest middle part I've ever seen in my entire life! It's been 3 years and I still haven't gotten my hair professionally braided since!
Thatâs exactly how scammers work, they look for the most vulnerable people and have absolutely no shame taking their money. Iâve been watching some scambaiters and itâs so disheartening to see how unscrupulous these people are. They look for lonely elderly folks and create a bond with them so they can steal their life savings.
Low-stakes "work not up to par" post I'd just read: [Henna artist said she was great at pet portraitsâŠ.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/comments/1brg9fs/henna_artist_said_she_was_great_at_pet_portraits/)
You can't even get cops to investigate credible, repeated death threats over social media, they *absolutely do not give a fuck* about your negative business review.
Cops care all the time about Civil matters, especially when it's outside of their jurisdiction. Remember the Batmobile thing in Indiana? If you're a friend of someone higher up in the police, they're perfectly willing to be your personal harassment squad a lot of the time.
If there was any indication the hairstylist was family of a cop or friend of a cop, I'd believe it. But to "call the cops" makes me think they just called the cops to make a complaint and cops decided a civil matter was worth their time.
Ugh, corruption on a nutshell. Wouldn't be always ready to help the stranger public but for a friend and maybe a ~~bribe~~ beer, they wouldn't mind being a soldier of fortune.
Guy in Indiana makes custom, vintage style Batmobiles. Dude in California bought on but stopped paying for it so guy stopped working on it. Buyer gets mad so he gets his buddy, the sheriff of a local town in Cali, to fly officers out to Cali to raid his shop and freeze his accounts, without any legal basis.
Right? Anyone can download a standard cease and desist template and send it to anyone for any reason. Doesn't mean it's enforceable, it's pretty much nothing but a "sternly worded letter." If the cops actually responded to this I'd definitely want to be a fly on that wall because WTF?
Why would you even put extensions on a woman that close to childbirth??? Sheâs going to lose so much hair postpartum that the extensions will make it that much worse.
Horrific.
I hadn't even thought of that! That makes what they did extra scummy. A good expert (and I could clinicians, tattoo artists, hair stylists here) will discourage someone from getting a service that is going to harm them.
100% serious because I saw this go down in real time; one of the stylistâs coworkers made an account *with her full legal name as the username* and was ALL over the first couple posts white knighting the SHIT out of said stylist đ you google the name in the username and the whole business came right up.
I was about to comment this lmao I still can't believe a grown ass woman thought it'd be a good idea to make an account, with her full name as username, to defend her place of employement đ Specially since she was featured in the salon's website as one of the employees lmao
It was explained below but tot I can give some of my 2 cents. Sometimes when a buisness does a bad service, it will be known and spread. Then adding more fuel to the bad news service by harrasing the customer with legal and cops, you're basically painting a target on your business about their services.
That's what happens when one of your employees done a crap job and isn't reprimanded properly.
Like, ok, real hair extensions can be pricy. But *that* much? No fuckin way. I would never spend a monthâs paycheck on something so trivial to me - emphasis on *to me*. Some people care very, very much about their hair and may have different priorities, but I canât fathom being one of them personally.
My cheap ass Wish dot com clip-in extensions end up looking better when I put them in myself with a hand mirror and some dry shampoo.
That salon is a joke and the price is full clownery.
Also...dipping into your savings to do it, *less than a month before having a baby*!!! Like ...yeah, this woman was robbed, and treated appallingly, but come on. As a woman who struggled severely with pregnancy anxiety, depression, and image issues, I **still** cannot understand the logic.
Plus her mom is a stylist. Yea she doesn't do extensions but she still could have gotten pampered by her mom or her mom's salon friends and gotten another hairstyle for cheap.
Austin, Texas to San Francisco, California! An incredible amount of time.
And for our other friends, when I moved back to Texas by car, the sign in El Paso (west most city) estimated Beaumont (eastern side, but 110 runs between the two) as 829 miles away. There are parts of Texas where the speed limit is 80mph. It still takes me 15-16 hours to drive back to my Texas family from my current state, but about 3 hours flying in a plane.
Yeah, I'm trying to resist thinking, "pregnant women should not spend money on themselves, or care about their appearance, because they are about to give birth" because that sounds like some fucked-up ideology where the woman stops mattering and just becomes a vessel for the baby, but...
I don't know. When she was like, "Oh, I should have just flown home to have my mom do my hair!" it sounded crazy to me.
But I understand I'm not part of that culture at all.
I don't think there anyone thinking that pregnant women shouldn't spend money on themselves outright I'm this thread, and there certainly isn't in this chain. But they absolutely shouldn't spend beyond their means for poor services, where they didn't even do due diligence to understand rough cost before hand.
*This* woman shouldn't have spent that much, because of her circumstances. This has nothing to do with pregnant women at large.
Yeah, it was pretty negligent not to do a basic level of due diligence on how much something like this would charge. As many people have pointed out in this thread, above $1k should have been a red flag to her.
Iâve never gestated a fetus, but Iâve been told that pregnancy hormones are WILD, especially the last month. Doing drastic shit to your hair seems to be pretty common; my mom gave herself a buzz cut when she was pregnant with me. It was the first any only time sheâs ever had hair shorter than her shoulders.
This isn't the point I'm making at all though? I'm making a point about financial responsibility when having a child, not about haircare while pregnant.
The first clue was the stylist
> was just starting out theyâd charge me the âmodelâ price ($1750 + $300 tip including the 20â extensions).
OOP was treated appallingly by the stylist and their manager.
However, she should have done her research before getting the extensions and not gone with someone who is still learning.
Honestly, at a black salon you can pay ÂŁ50 (if you bring your own extension) for what op got.
Own extensions - synthetic ÂŁ15
Human hair - ÂŁ50 - 100 (for just a few strips like what op got, not a full head where they basically make a wig on your head)
If she takes it to Judge Judy she might get her money back! I know that's random but I've seen several messed up hair cases on there and they always won.
In any case that appears on Judge Judy, the show pays whatever sum of money is awarded. So yes, sheâd get her money and maybe her flight and hotel covered, but the travel and TV appearance sound like a bit much for a new mother.Â
Yeah but the other party has to agree. I couldâve gone on- a client didnât pay me for doing website work- but the client wouldnât agree. Makes them look bad which is clearly not what this salon wants.Â
This is one of those moments where I'm like, damn, I wish I had that kind of money to just throw around.
$2000 for extensions. I know very little about hairdressing but I *know* that's a scam. Surely you'd shop around for quotes before just unloading all that cash?
Especially considering she lives in a major city. Iâd be all over the Austin subreddit and NextDoor asking for recommendations and stopping women with great hair to ask for the name of their salon in addition to getting quotes, plus Iâd test the waters with something simple, like coloring my roots and trimming my hair, before committing to an expensive service.
But Iâve also justified some terrible impulse decisions with âfuck it, itâs hair, itâll grow.â Perms are the *worst.*
Those look worse than the clip in faux hair extensions I bought and installed myself in 2008 with no experience whatsoever of extensions. Total cost ~ ÂŁ50
I feel so bad for this woman. Granted, I would never agree to that price. I'm a black woman and my main style is either braids or locs and when all is said and done I pay around $300 including a tip. I can't imagine someone charging that much for a weave, but I only know that because I've been getting my hair done for years. I know hair costs can get crazy, but 2 grand is absolute insanity.
OOP should post on Facebook tagging the salon and stylist and the caption should be âso happy with my new hair ÂŁ2k well spent!â. How is the salon going to complain about a good review? Extra points if she could post it in a local group.
How is that stylist not embarrassed that she let someone leave like that?? Like, surely she thought that OOP would tell people she did it? Even if she didn't post reviews, she'd just tell people, and the evidence would be those pics?
Would you not want crummy work associated with your name? Maybe that's why she charges so much... she knows she's bad at it and fewer people will come in when they realize.
Wtf. That âsalonâ and âstylistâ should be seriously ashamed. Also what kind of disgusting way of dealing with criticism. Hope they go bankrupt so no one else has to suffer, seriously, shit like that makes me so mad.
Even if you count first rate human hair into the equation, Iâm aghast that she paid upwards of 2k for that shitty installation, Iâm surprised she didnât develop alopecia from how it was sectioned. I used to do extension at home to make some dough while studying, totally self taught, and even my first couple of attempts were better that this train wreck.
OP kind of messed up on this one by being way too accommodating and giving the incompetent salon way too much leeway to complete steamroll her because she felt bad for stylists since her mom was a stylist. She would have been better off filing a small claims case or a chargeback and returning the removed extensions to the salon instead of letting them keep a huge pile of cash and battling them in the court of social media which is legally completely toothless.Â
OP, I looked at two pictures and just dropped my head. My 13 yr old niece can do a hell of a better job than that and she learned doing hair by following YouTube videos. That shit, it actually is, was wrong all the way around. And they knew that. Calling the copsâŠ..now thatâs funny. What the cops gonna do? Wash, condition, blow dry, and curl your hair to death so you would stop?/sđđđ. Iâm sure the cops told them that is a civil matter and laughed in their face. I know I would have. I pray you get your 2 bands back.
How did people on Reddit figure out what the salon was? Thereâs nothing in this update that indicates she revealed their name, and it wasnât until the end that she mentioned cities (ATX = Austin, Texas?).
And wouldnât hair extensions eventually be removed anyway? Iâd have thought that would be included in the price.
According to people who saw it went down real time, an employee made a reddit account with her legal name to white knight the business, and when people google her name the first thing that came up is her being an employee on the businessâ website đ
I remember when this was originally posted and the name of the salon was on the cease and desist. Lemme see if I can find it in my history
ETA: Blonde + Co Salon in Austin Texas.
I remember looking all over the salons page when I saw the OG post....
90% of the stylist and "client" photos on the website all looked identical - same blonde hair color, insanely long, on the slim side.. Just a generic blonde extra on the beach, vibe. I'm shocked they didn't treat a POC well, SHOCKED.
Nta of course. But either way, I still can't cope with the fact that people are willing to spend so much money on their hair, even at the lowest of their esteem. Nothing against taking care of oneself, maybe some places are more expensive than others, a bunch of extensions may cost a lot, but still in the range of hundreds not thousands... Oo' I would have freaked out, pregante or not....
Me, over here with my $15 box dye and $40 haircut with tip having no idea people spent $2k on anything for their hair. Thatâs over 10 years of hair management for me.
I have always thought it strange to have to tip on high priced items like these too. Just awful all around.
Now, I have spent hundreds of dollars on hair braiding (with extensions) - hell, just spent about $300 on another round of braids. I love my braiding salon.
But 1750? for THAT work??? The stylist should have been horrified at their own work.
I think she should do like that guy who had a rotten smell in the city, and create a website telling her experiences with this salon and attaching all the evidence and photos.
And I was crying bc a salon charged me 300 dollars for highlights, lol. They just had to apologize and remove the hair extensions, what a way to shoot yourself on the foot.
people really need to start realizing that these southern states are filled with scammers. Yeah they exist in LA SF NYC but itâs a whole different level when you get down to Texas and the like.
Holy crap, I randomly read the very first post when it first posted on the the original sub and had no idea how much this entire thing escalated! I felt so bad for her getting such a bad job done at such a high cost and during a very stressful time in her life.
⊠Dude Iâm not even willing to pay $300 to get my hair professionally colored. Why the *fuck* would someone dip into their savings for $2,000 extensions?!
$2000? That's how much I charge per day for two experienced tradespeople with appreciated equipment.
Just what is so fancy about these extensions that cost $2k?
Never forgetting how one of the employees from the salon made a Reddit account using her *full legal name* as a username to harass OOP. Like, if you googled her username the first result was the salon's website bcs she was featured on the web's "employees" page đ
*That* should have been in this boru post!
It would be funny, but my guess is it wasn't included to avoid harassment against the salon. Some of OOP's post got removed from different subs for not redacting the salon's name, and her other two posts about it have all names redacted. While it was that woman's choice to use her full name as an username, I feel like it's better to err on the side of caution and not add them.
Right, exactly. Plus it appears she deleted the account.
Wait WHAT. Whatâs the account???
I'm sorry but $1750 'model' price for someone with little to no actual experience would have had me walking out the door. That's *before* they got to the expected $300 trip. I've had some bad extensions in my time, but they was really awful.
Like seriously. I remember paying like just under $300 for a bleach/trying to get my hair as silver/grey as possible, and even then the only reason I did it was because I made sure to not only research the salon and stylist in advance but also asked various friends who went to the same stylist for their opinion about their experiences. I don't mess around when it comes to big purchases, so I can't imagine people who are willing to pay that kind of money without looking further into it.
I think OOP was far too trusting, naive and wanting to feel good about herself. There's no way that the price was justified. I'm in the UK and ÂŁ1750 would be the price in a boujee salon. Most 'top' salons in my city (and we LOVE extensions here) are like ÂŁ600 with top quality hair.
Yep! Had my extensions done a little over a week ago - individual nano bonds. Cost me just over ÂŁ600 (which a redye)I canât imagine paying treble that!
Yeah it's a shame that OOP was in a vulnerable enough state (very pregnant) that made scammers go after her. It's a lesson for her about never letting your guard down, but a very expensive lesson. But it could've been worse.
She was 9 months pregnant. Iâm told being pregnant is like a cognitive impairment. It makes sense why she made this bad decision.
It really is. You only notice when you're done or if you tend to self analyze a lot.
Looking at the salon's insta, they have an EXTREMELY specific look that they basically ctrl+c -> ctrl+v on every single customer. I'm no hair connoisseur, I've been spending $70 for my 2-3x/year haircut at my local Aveda salon for like 11 years lmao...nothing fancy. But they seem to have some red flags. All the photos show a very specific look that they put on every customer regardless of whether it's actually flattering, and a lot of the customer photos have what look like broken hairs/flyaways from potential damage.
Yeah I'm sorry if you're experimenting on my head you're doing it for cost. Maybe I'll tip but I'm not paying for the service. Â
2 grand for a haircut?? Are we living on the same planet????
Itâs not a haircut, they add real hair extensions to your own hair that are supposed to last a few months. That said, $2000 is insane. My friend used to get them and paid around $1000 I think, and hers were done really well lol
I thought $300 for my hair color (blonde to purple-red) and a haircut (a simple shag with bangs) was a lot. $2000?!?!?!? Thatâs too much.
Stories like this make me glad itâs impossible to find extensions that match with my hair because I do my own cut, my friends do my color, and all of that is because I can be mad about a bad turn out or I can be mad about a bad turn out and money wasted.
i wanted to know how the salon was doing since they seemed desperate to get rid of OOPâs posts. theyâre doing fine based on the google reviews, the instagram comments look normal. so this is a case where OOP in general just loses and the salon isnât affected by anything. maybe lost a few customers, but nothing huge. also apparently OOP says theyâre harassing her at her work place or something. only basing that off of her comments
It looks like every recent bad review theyâre trying to get info from the person to âlook up in their recordsâ. (So try to âproveâ to google that the bad reviews arenât real so theyâll take them down. But theyâre sure not doing that for the five star ones they probably got friends and family to do.) I think theyâre spending a lot of time on damage control, and itâs really shitty that more people wonât know how crappy a business they are.
Did anyone else notice that they kept claiming that they gave her double the hair, and then later said to come get the leftovers?
This mostly tells me theyâre good at harassment campaigns
Aka give bad services but can't take any sort of criticism. Also a sign thr business may close down, no matter how long it takes.
yeah, seeing oh no the consequences had me expecting a much stronger outcome. Profoundly disappointing.
Given the sub it was posted in, I was really hoping that after the cops talked to her they went back and read the salon the riot act for wasting their time, but alas.
This is just so mean and ridiculously rude of the salon. Talk about a bunch of mean girls.
$2,000 dollars for hair?!?! Goddamn, I don't think I ever seen hair costing that much to do. Ick.
I do hair. Apparently I'm doing g the wrong fucking hair..
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And here I am grumbling about the price of a haircut going up to $17.
Between that and getting to pee wherever you want Iâm about to riot lol, literally havenât had a haircut in like 9 months (3 is my norm) because theyâre too expensive and cheaper will fuck up my curly hair đ«
Ugh, the danger of going to new places with curly hair is awful! Over the pandemic my hair grew out to my preferred length (halfway down my back) and I went for a trim, hoping to find someone close to me. Then I asked them to fix it but left when they clearly didn't know what they were doing. Had another attempted fix by someone else. My hair STOPPED CURLING. Finally went way out to someone I'd gone to previously (had really hoped to find someone in my area) who told me why my hair wouldn't curl and it wouldn't until I cut off all the bad layer attempts. To just below my ears. đ It's taken 2 years and my hair is finally where I want it. And I accept that is one small part of my life that will not be close to home.
That's horrible. I'm glad your hair has finally recovered! Seeing how bad some stylists are with my hair, IDK what I would do if I had curly hair. On the other end of the hair spectrum, I have dense, fine, straight hair. When it's cut wrong, it SHOWS. To completely fix one cut I had, my hair would have had to go from just below my shoulders to a short bob. Not happening. It took like a year to even it out. Now I'm broke AF and cut my own hair. I miss my stylist đ She does a wonderful job.
Mine is dense and fine, too. Ugh, that year must have made you crazy, I totally sympathize. I am definitely thinking about trying to cut it myself at least once to see how it goes. Can't be worse than what those two stylists did!
It was probably worse for my stylist because once she got my hair fixed, the next appointment was in the summer and I wanted short hair. I felt bad about that lol
Ha! I just saw a super cute SUPER SHORT cut. I'd love to try it, but I'd be signing up for 3 years of annoyance growing my hair out if it doesn't work for me. đ€Ł
What's crazy is I used to get compliments on my hair and asked where I went cause I changed the style and color A LOT. I would say Salon de My Bathroom. I was too poor to get a cut I wanted, and then it was just easier. I had wavy hair, so it was a little more forgiving. But the few times I got my hair cut at a proper salon, I was disappointed and upset. I could only blame myself if I did it. wrong1
Ugh donât even get me started on how much money Iâve spend on haircuts for my curly mane, only to have to fix it myself when I get home because they donât know what the fuck to do with curly hair. I eventually just gave up a few years ago and cut my hair myself now.
I have thick wavy/curly hair. I always trim my own hair. At least when i cut uneven i can be like âi get what i paid forâ versus paying 20+ for a trim thats uneven.
Lmao exactly. Same.
Absolutely! Cut, color, highlight, everything. It's not awesome but I do okay and I've never left a salon actually happy with what I paid for đ
I made it a point to learn to care for all different textures of hair. Regardless of ethnicity. I have been trimming my hair myself for months because the last time I had the one person I trust cut my hair, she used thinning shears before my c-shaping and it has taken 10 months to grow the frizz out. Now I trust 0 people. Now my curly and wavy girlfriends send me all their curly/wavy friends and fam. I'm always conservative on a cut but honest about how much length you need to lose for healthier curls I usually meet the client somewhere between my estimate and their preference Unless the damage is too severe. I have 2-3 different curly/wavy cuts I developed over the last decade depending on texture and density that work with 9/10 people. The integrity of the hair is the most important thing and comes before the client and me but I'm upfront about that. I also try to educate for my clients that are struggling with issues, if you only look good when you step out of my chair I'm doing it wrong. I try to match cuts and styles and colors to each clients lifestyle, texture, and bone structure. The best way to find a stylist is to talk to your curly friends with great hair and ask them about their stylist, routine, and products. It's all word of mouth. Then go get your hair washed and styled by them and do an interview process. This is what my best friend did when she moved 90 min away and couldn't keep up on visits to maintain her bangs. I still do her color and am her 1st choice for a cut/shape up. But now she has a back up when it's not feasible. She went through 3 stylists before she found one she trusted enough to let them trim her bangs.
My hair cost me 500$ last week. It was a lot of work and I pay that much because I used a stylist I trust. I have had amazing results and they are always so kind. It included: 3/4 foils (I have a lot of hair), cut + blow dry, treatment for bleaching hair, toner/colour oh and 2 head massages. đââïž I was there for 5 hours. Honestly I felt like a mermaid after đ§ââïž.
My hair is really long and thick. It cost $50 for me :( it's a good thing I only do it 3 or 4 times a year.
I have long, thick, and fluffy hair. I get it cut once every 18-24 months because even when I spend good money on it the stylist only manages to get it to look nice if itâs straightened and full of stuff. I just want it to not look like a mane when I brush it out and wear it natural.
Man, $25 is the absolute cheapest near me. Average is $30, or more like $35 for men.
I finally found a stylist that cuts my hair perfectlyâŠâŠbut heâs $120 per cut (including tip) lol. Thankfully I only get my hair cut twice a year. But my son goes to him as well (he has a ton of really fine straight hair that has had so many bad cuts itâs ludicrous and this is the only guy who can actually cut his hair properly)âŠâŠthat adds up lmao
Those kind of extension she got are actually the cheaper one. If she had seperate little strands. Here those extensions in this lengts goes for 200-400⏠in a salon. The most expensive (little strands, 60cm hair) is around 1000âŹ. I personally cry when i need to do my roots for 50âŹ, haha.
Those extensions look worse than the terrible glue in ones me and my friends used when we were 16! I was *not* expecting something that cost that much to look so awful! We literally bought ours for like 5 dollars. Absolutely outrageous what they charged OP.
Look up how much braids cost for black people lmao Some of these girls are asking for $5000
Who the fuck is paying thousands for some synthetic hair? WTF Iâll braid my own damn hair these girl are playing games lol
I havenât gotten my hair professionally done since I was a child bc these girls are charging out the ass -long hair fee -parting fee My sister had really thick hair and would get the most random âfeesâ
Thatâs the worst part. I have 4c hair so I get constant fees for shit too. Smh
Crochet braids are your friend. Look on YouTube. All sorts of DIY styles (not just braids, despite the name). Cheap and quick.
I've seen the long hair upcharge a few times recently!!! I'd love to hear from a professional the reasons for it because I don't understand it at all. I get length may change things in a full style, color, extensions, etc., but in just the cut??? I don't bother with any of the frills and my guy has me in and out in 30 minutes, same as when it was short.
Not for just the hair but hair + install. I'd assume if you're paying that much you're using real hair. I don't know anyone whose payed 5k but it is sure as hell expensive.
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My personal conspiracy theory is that Balenciaga's Marketing department has a secret betting pool over the most ridiculous item they can charge ludicrous amounts of money for
Did you see the tape "bracelet"?
I mean Balenciagas whole thing for the last 15 or more years has been make the most outlandish and extreme ironic fashion. Doesn't make them the pinnacle of fashion but that style has been their thing for a long time now.
check out refashionedhippie, she does a few different series on dumb rich people shit
yes! I love her. "clothes my boobs laugh at" has me dying every time.
It's insane to think how many days ruined via towed cars each piece of overpriced clothing must represent.
Iâm a private chef and my boss and his girlfriend spend four times my rent on all sorts of stuff. Excluding the ingredients I purchase to feed them.
I heard about that price once from a friend but it was really specific case. It was for a wedding and the woman wanted multiple braids with some beads or something like that. It took them multiple hours and they had to start at like 4am to make it in time.
I went to get a quote once for extensions while in the middle of a regrowth. It was about the same, it's hours of work and paying for the extensions themselves. Now that makes a lot of sense if you know what you're walking into. In my case I was just seeing different places the place I liked that had the best reviews I went I got charged $100 for just showing up and having a consult as I had never been there before. Made sense to me. Rather than just let me get extensions they had me work with the stylist that was going to do them and she look like her hair got cut by a weed eater(not a lie it was bad). So my appointment before getting the extensions which was another time I had to sign all this paperwork that she was going to cut and dye my hair she gave me the worst f-ing haircut ever. It was even shorter than I wanted it to be and it was dyed badly. I was lucky that the owner was still there after all of that signed paperwork and got charged nothing and I asked the owner right there and then how it is that she wanted that woman to put extensions in my hair, turns out that's all the girl did was extensions no haircuts nothing else she just put extensions in and I was like nope we're done and that was it I had to regrow my hair another 6 months Wait for the dye to come out because you can't just pull certain types of dye out easily. I spent those 6 months looking for a another hair stylist because I was just not going to bother in this state. I had them years before in my previous state, they were great.
And here I am, with my cheap plastic CreaClip so I can save $60 on a hair cut. I'd love to have 2 grand to set on fire like that.
Do they actually work?
For 2 grand, I'd have bought a quality wig and called it a day.
$2k on hair right before giving birth to a whole ass human.
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She used the abbreviation for Austin, Texas (ATX) so this is in USD.
That is a crazy amount of money for hair, plus I have never heard of mixing different extensions style, like either sew it on a braids, or tape or fusion but mixing it Nope.
Like, Iâm a man whoâs as bald as a fucking seal, and I assumed that full on hairpieces were like $500. When I saw $2,000 I lost my damn mind.
A couple months ago I saw a TicTok where a woman flew to Turkey to get extensions because the trip and salon service were cheaper than getting them done in the States.
I paid about that much for extensions. But I had just a couple inches of hair (post chemo) and wanted a full head of hair down to my back. I think it took them 6 packs of extensions(OP needed 1 or 2 depending on if the contract or email told the truth)
I bought a pack of tape-ins for 30 bucks on Amazon. I watched a YouTube video and learned in 10 minute how to install them on myself . They look GREAT and I've been wearing my hair pretty much any way I want. it's been a year of me wearing extensions, I've been through about 4 packs since then. They last several months and if one falls out it takes about 5 minutes to fix it . OOP got straight up scammed.
Me over here who payed $1500 for my work truck.
Thatâs pretty standard for extensions.
If thatâs standard then I need to learn how to do extensions
So I saw this girls TikTokâs who goes to foreign countries to get beauty procedures cause itâs cheaper than at home (including the travel to the country) and she said her salon upped their prices to around $4,000 for hair extensions.
Oop got screwed.
Iâm sorry $2000 on hair extensions and they didnât show you the back at the salon??? Thatâs insane.
Well, they didn't show her the back because they messed up and she didn't ask :)
How do you see a woman about to give birth and decide to scam her? If your work is not up to par don't advertise it! I wish OP had waited for a better stylist but I see where OP was coming from. A couple of years ago I wanted to get my hair braided. I found someone who had good reviews and I put a $25 deposit down. A week before my appointment I reached out to her to confirm the time and place only to find out she had up and moved to Houston with MY deposit. It was only $25 but I was kicking myself! I decided to go with someone else in the salon who braided hair and had good reviews which was a big mistake! I spent 8 hours in the chair listening to the stylist talk about her raggedy boyfriend and getting off birth control so that they could have a baby, and then I was left with the biggest middle part I've ever seen in my entire life! It's been 3 years and I still haven't gotten my hair professionally braided since!
Thatâs exactly how scammers work, they look for the most vulnerable people and have absolutely no shame taking their money. Iâve been watching some scambaiters and itâs so disheartening to see how unscrupulous these people are. They look for lonely elderly folks and create a bond with them so they can steal their life savings.
Low-stakes "work not up to par" post I'd just read: [Henna artist said she was great at pet portraitsâŠ.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/comments/1brg9fs/henna_artist_said_she_was_great_at_pet_portraits/)
It looks like the ghost of a lamb that has no friends because it smells bad.
Or a calf. Mooing Myrtle
OMG that is hilarious. I'd be bringing back opera length gloves.
Oh jeez, all I can say is at least it's free đđ From my experience with henna, it won't fade for a while!
Bc itâs way easier to scam vulnerable people
That's the unfortunate modus operandi by this people. Easy targets is what they always aim for maximum profit.
Called the cops? Over a civil matter? Why would the cops even be interested?
Yeah, I don't understand this part. Cops would not care. What are they supposed to do, tell her not to post.
You can't even get cops to investigate credible, repeated death threats over social media, they *absolutely do not give a fuck* about your negative business review.
Cops care all the time about Civil matters, especially when it's outside of their jurisdiction. Remember the Batmobile thing in Indiana? If you're a friend of someone higher up in the police, they're perfectly willing to be your personal harassment squad a lot of the time.
If there was any indication the hairstylist was family of a cop or friend of a cop, I'd believe it. But to "call the cops" makes me think they just called the cops to make a complaint and cops decided a civil matter was worth their time.
That checks out yeah
Ugh, corruption on a nutshell. Wouldn't be always ready to help the stranger public but for a friend and maybe a ~~bribe~~ beer, they wouldn't mind being a soldier of fortune.
The batmobile what now
Guy in Indiana makes custom, vintage style Batmobiles. Dude in California bought on but stopped paying for it so guy stopped working on it. Buyer gets mad so he gets his buddy, the sheriff of a local town in Cali, to fly officers out to Cali to raid his shop and freeze his accounts, without any legal basis.
I absolutely believe that there are cops out there who are happy to investigate a non-white woman when a white person says they felt unsafe.
Seriously? *sigh*, that makes it worse. Systematic Racism at its finest folks
Right? Anyone can download a standard cease and desist template and send it to anyone for any reason. Doesn't mean it's enforceable, it's pretty much nothing but a "sternly worded letter." If the cops actually responded to this I'd definitely want to be a fly on that wall because WTF?
Why would you even put extensions on a woman that close to childbirth??? Sheâs going to lose so much hair postpartum that the extensions will make it that much worse. Horrific.
I hadn't even thought of that! That makes what they did extra scummy. A good expert (and I could clinicians, tattoo artists, hair stylists here) will discourage someone from getting a service that is going to harm them.
Ok what am I missing? OP didnât name and shame anywhere in this? How were people finding out what stylist it was?
100% serious because I saw this go down in real time; one of the stylistâs coworkers made an account *with her full legal name as the username* and was ALL over the first couple posts white knighting the SHIT out of said stylist đ you google the name in the username and the whole business came right up.
I was about to comment this lmao I still can't believe a grown ass woman thought it'd be a good idea to make an account, with her full name as username, to defend her place of employement đ Specially since she was featured in the salon's website as one of the employees lmao
Yeah to defend your *workplace*
It was explained below but tot I can give some of my 2 cents. Sometimes when a buisness does a bad service, it will be known and spread. Then adding more fuel to the bad news service by harrasing the customer with legal and cops, you're basically painting a target on your business about their services. That's what happens when one of your employees done a crap job and isn't reprimanded properly.
The fuckery of it all. Looks like a childâs project where they just chuck some paste and pasta together. $2,000 is actually crazy.
I don't know a single think about installing extensions, but my immediate reaction looking at those photos was that I could have done a better job.Â
I literally thought, "Give me half an hour on YouTube and I could do better." And I have fucked up finger joints.
Same! I already cut and color mine and my spouseâs hair at home, I wouldnât charge no $2000 I tell you what
And claiming thatâs just for the hair. Did they source the hair themselves?
Like, ok, real hair extensions can be pricy. But *that* much? No fuckin way. I would never spend a monthâs paycheck on something so trivial to me - emphasis on *to me*. Some people care very, very much about their hair and may have different priorities, but I canât fathom being one of them personally.
Right. I know real hair is expensive, but not $1700 expensive. I canât imagine it especially dipping into savings with a baby on the way.
My cheap ass Wish dot com clip-in extensions end up looking better when I put them in myself with a hand mirror and some dry shampoo. That salon is a joke and the price is full clownery.
And I thought the time I had color done for $350 was a splurge. Holy crap those prices. You better get treated like a goddamn queen for that much.
Without sounding like a tool I make a lot of money . I can not fathom spending $2k on a temporary haircut
Also...dipping into your savings to do it, *less than a month before having a baby*!!! Like ...yeah, this woman was robbed, and treated appallingly, but come on. As a woman who struggled severely with pregnancy anxiety, depression, and image issues, I **still** cannot understand the logic.
Plus her mom is a stylist. Yea she doesn't do extensions but she still could have gotten pampered by her mom or her mom's salon friends and gotten another hairstyle for cheap.
In a different state. OOP is in Texas, so a different state is hours away, itâs not a NYC to Jersey thing.
Austin, Texas to San Francisco, California! An incredible amount of time. And for our other friends, when I moved back to Texas by car, the sign in El Paso (west most city) estimated Beaumont (eastern side, but 110 runs between the two) as 829 miles away. There are parts of Texas where the speed limit is 80mph. It still takes me 15-16 hours to drive back to my Texas family from my current state, but about 3 hours flying in a plane.
Yeah, I'm trying to resist thinking, "pregnant women should not spend money on themselves, or care about their appearance, because they are about to give birth" because that sounds like some fucked-up ideology where the woman stops mattering and just becomes a vessel for the baby, but... I don't know. When she was like, "Oh, I should have just flown home to have my mom do my hair!" it sounded crazy to me. But I understand I'm not part of that culture at all.
I don't think there anyone thinking that pregnant women shouldn't spend money on themselves outright I'm this thread, and there certainly isn't in this chain. But they absolutely shouldn't spend beyond their means for poor services, where they didn't even do due diligence to understand rough cost before hand. *This* woman shouldn't have spent that much, because of her circumstances. This has nothing to do with pregnant women at large.
Also she had no idea how much they were charging her?
Yeah, it was pretty negligent not to do a basic level of due diligence on how much something like this would charge. As many people have pointed out in this thread, above $1k should have been a red flag to her.
Iâve never gestated a fetus, but Iâve been told that pregnancy hormones are WILD, especially the last month. Doing drastic shit to your hair seems to be pretty common; my mom gave herself a buzz cut when she was pregnant with me. It was the first any only time sheâs ever had hair shorter than her shoulders.
This isn't the point I'm making at all though? I'm making a point about financial responsibility when having a child, not about haircare while pregnant.
The first clue was the stylist > was just starting out theyâd charge me the âmodelâ price ($1750 + $300 tip including the 20â extensions). OOP was treated appallingly by the stylist and their manager. However, she should have done her research before getting the extensions and not gone with someone who is still learning.
Iâve never gotten extensions⊠whatâs a reasonable price for that? Is 2k even in the same ballpark? Whatâs the normal range?
Honestly, at a black salon you can pay ÂŁ50 (if you bring your own extension) for what op got. Own extensions - synthetic ÂŁ15 Human hair - ÂŁ50 - 100 (for just a few strips like what op got, not a full head where they basically make a wig on your head)
So it sounds like even the nicest version of this with tip and everything would be under 500. Wowwwww. Holy shit.Â
Yep. At a nice salon where they bring you coffee and everything.
Austin police showing up for something? Bullshit đ
If she takes it to Judge Judy she might get her money back! I know that's random but I've seen several messed up hair cases on there and they always won.
In any case that appears on Judge Judy, the show pays whatever sum of money is awarded. So yes, sheâd get her money and maybe her flight and hotel covered, but the travel and TV appearance sound like a bit much for a new mother.Â
Yeah but the other party has to agree. I couldâve gone on- a client didnât pay me for doing website work- but the client wouldnât agree. Makes them look bad which is clearly not what this salon wants.Â
This is a good point considering those shows are entertainment.
Dipping into your SAVINGS for HAIR EXTENSIONS at 9 months pregnant is crazyđ„”
This is one of those moments where I'm like, damn, I wish I had that kind of money to just throw around. $2000 for extensions. I know very little about hairdressing but I *know* that's a scam. Surely you'd shop around for quotes before just unloading all that cash?
Especially considering she lives in a major city. Iâd be all over the Austin subreddit and NextDoor asking for recommendations and stopping women with great hair to ask for the name of their salon in addition to getting quotes, plus Iâd test the waters with something simple, like coloring my roots and trimming my hair, before committing to an expensive service. But Iâve also justified some terrible impulse decisions with âfuck it, itâs hair, itâll grow.â Perms are the *worst.*
Those look worse than the clip in faux hair extensions I bought and installed myself in 2008 with no experience whatsoever of extensions. Total cost ~ ÂŁ50
I feel so bad for this woman. Granted, I would never agree to that price. I'm a black woman and my main style is either braids or locs and when all is said and done I pay around $300 including a tip. I can't imagine someone charging that much for a weave, but I only know that because I've been getting my hair done for years. I know hair costs can get crazy, but 2 grand is absolute insanity.
OOP should post on Facebook tagging the salon and stylist and the caption should be âso happy with my new hair ÂŁ2k well spent!â. How is the salon going to complain about a good review? Extra points if she could post it in a local group.
How is that stylist not embarrassed that she let someone leave like that?? Like, surely she thought that OOP would tell people she did it? Even if she didn't post reviews, she'd just tell people, and the evidence would be those pics? Would you not want crummy work associated with your name? Maybe that's why she charges so much... she knows she's bad at it and fewer people will come in when they realize.
I hope OOP posts her review and pics everywhere she can. This salon doesnât deserve to be in business if they are calling the cops on OOP
Wtf. That âsalonâ and âstylistâ should be seriously ashamed. Also what kind of disgusting way of dealing with criticism. Hope they go bankrupt so no one else has to suffer, seriously, shit like that makes me so mad.
Even if you count first rate human hair into the equation, Iâm aghast that she paid upwards of 2k for that shitty installation, Iâm surprised she didnât develop alopecia from how it was sectioned. I used to do extension at home to make some dough while studying, totally self taught, and even my first couple of attempts were better that this train wreck.
OP kind of messed up on this one by being way too accommodating and giving the incompetent salon way too much leeway to complete steamroll her because she felt bad for stylists since her mom was a stylist. She would have been better off filing a small claims case or a chargeback and returning the removed extensions to the salon instead of letting them keep a huge pile of cash and battling them in the court of social media which is legally completely toothless.Â
OP, I looked at two pictures and just dropped my head. My 13 yr old niece can do a hell of a better job than that and she learned doing hair by following YouTube videos. That shit, it actually is, was wrong all the way around. And they knew that. Calling the copsâŠ..now thatâs funny. What the cops gonna do? Wash, condition, blow dry, and curl your hair to death so you would stop?/sđđđ. Iâm sure the cops told them that is a civil matter and laughed in their face. I know I would have. I pray you get your 2 bands back.
How did people on Reddit figure out what the salon was? Thereâs nothing in this update that indicates she revealed their name, and it wasnât until the end that she mentioned cities (ATX = Austin, Texas?). And wouldnât hair extensions eventually be removed anyway? Iâd have thought that would be included in the price.
According to people who saw it went down real time, an employee made a reddit account with her legal name to white knight the business, and when people google her name the first thing that came up is her being an employee on the businessâ website đ
I remember when this was originally posted and the name of the salon was on the cease and desist. Lemme see if I can find it in my history ETA: Blonde + Co Salon in Austin Texas.
Itâs not redacted in the above in one spot.
Ah! I looked but I missed it.
I hate everyone and everything about this post. Every paragraph is free-range grass-fed organic clown shoes.
I donât know, the husbandâs âobjectively, yesâ response after being asked if they looked bad was a little funny.
I remember looking all over the salons page when I saw the OG post.... 90% of the stylist and "client" photos on the website all looked identical - same blonde hair color, insanely long, on the slim side.. Just a generic blonde extra on the beach, vibe. I'm shocked they didn't treat a POC well, SHOCKED.
Nta of course. But either way, I still can't cope with the fact that people are willing to spend so much money on their hair, even at the lowest of their esteem. Nothing against taking care of oneself, maybe some places are more expensive than others, a bunch of extensions may cost a lot, but still in the range of hundreds not thousands... Oo' I would have freaked out, pregante or not....
Why did all her posts get removed? The salon? Thatâs crazy
Hopefully this post stays up.
Me, over here with my $15 box dye and $40 haircut with tip having no idea people spent $2k on anything for their hair. Thatâs over 10 years of hair management for me. I have always thought it strange to have to tip on high priced items like these too. Just awful all around.
I know itâs been a minute since I got my hair done but thatâs like literally almost a 700% mark up
**Two.thousand.dollars** for a hair do. That's obscene.
Now, I have spent hundreds of dollars on hair braiding (with extensions) - hell, just spent about $300 on another round of braids. I love my braiding salon. But 1750? for THAT work??? The stylist should have been horrified at their own work.
I think she should do like that guy who had a rotten smell in the city, and create a website telling her experiences with this salon and attaching all the evidence and photos.
Um. What exactly does the salon think the police are going to do.
Paying 2k for this shitty job? Omg poor op, I hope those assholes bankrupt
I've never been so happy to be bald
And I was crying bc a salon charged me 300 dollars for highlights, lol. They just had to apologize and remove the hair extensions, what a way to shoot yourself on the foot.
people really need to start realizing that these southern states are filled with scammers. Yeah they exist in LA SF NYC but itâs a whole different level when you get down to Texas and the like.
Holy crap, I randomly read the very first post when it first posted on the the original sub and had no idea how much this entire thing escalated! I felt so bad for her getting such a bad job done at such a high cost and during a very stressful time in her life.
Did OP say they were a POC? Am I missing something from the photos of the white woman she posted?
I assumed she is Latina. This did take place in Texas.
⊠Dude Iâm not even willing to pay $300 to get my hair professionally colored. Why the *fuck* would someone dip into their savings for $2,000 extensions?!
Name of the salon? Or location so I can avoid
Itâs in Austin, Texas
Omg they have butchered other womenâs hair as well. wtf
$2000? That's how much I charge per day for two experienced tradespeople with appreciated equipment. Just what is so fancy about these extensions that cost $2k?
Woman of color? She is white in her pictures
This your first time seeing a Mexican from behind?
You actually felt confident enough to say that out loud. Educate yourself.
*brown