May 2021 by Hala L.
Ok. I really debated about posting this because I do not give negative reviews as a rule and because I feel like I may have caused the problem by being too calm, mellow, and "whatever, do what you want" during the haircut itself. I went in for my first post-pandemic haircut. I had an undercut in 3/2020 and it had grown out for a year, so I was planning to go back to the messed s*** bob with bangs I've had since 2015. I wrote this in a message to Stacy, and showed her a picture of me with my standard old haircut. Stacy literally looked at a photo of me with the haircut I wanted and have had on and off for much of my adult life. and said "see, I don't think it would be possible to cut your hair into this sort of s*** bob. It's too thick." She cut my hair into a... it's beyond a pixie cut, more of a short, choppy men's haircut. I do not have bangs, because no part of my hair is long enough to be called bangs. There are bits in it as short as 3/4 inch interspersed with pieces 2 inches long. It literally looks like I had some sort of dysphoric mania and attacked myself with a pair of scissors. The worst thing (because my hair does grow pretty fast and within four months I'd have been able to pay someone else to do something to this) is that Stacy went completely overboard with razoring my hair, saying it was "too thick." She took off most of my hair, some of it nearly to the scalp, with a very dull razor, in a process that took about an hour. I don't think hair has been "thinned" with a razor since the 90s, and my razored-off hair is now splitting, frizzy and dry despite my deep conditioning as soon as I got home. Because of this, I will have to wait for this hair to grow enough to have these ends cut off, or will have to shave my head, something I spent last night seriously considering. I just don't understand how this could have happened. I said a short, messy bob with bangs was what I wanted. This is literally the easiest cut for a stylist and most forgiving for a person's face shape of all the women's haircuts that exist. Because of this, I said I was usually happy with whatever haircut I got and I was sure hers would be fine. Once I realized what she was doing, it felt too late to stop her. I smiled, joked, paid, tipped and went home. My husband says I still look pretty. My son says "why did you let her do that to all your hair?" In horrified tones. I am attaching a few photos of various s*** bob haircuts with short bangs that I have had over the years. In one of the photos I am 6. Obviously, I know that my hair can be worn in this particular style. I am also attaching photos of what I have now. I didn't think to take a photo of what a walked in there with, but it was nearly shoulder length. Im also attaching a photo of what I left with. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. I just kind of kept smiling and looking for hidden cameras while Stacy razored off all my hair.
