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I have heard tons of stories online about girls complaining their hair stylist gave them a cut different than what they asked for, and finally it happened to me this week too! I went in to the same Fantastic Sam's I've been going to for a year with no problems. I showed the gal my current long layers -- I like the shortest layers just 1-1.5 inches shorter than my longest layers, just to cut down on the bulk at the ends -- and told her to just give me a regular trim and keep the layers the same. When she was done, she says, "There you go! I made your layers shorter so you can see them more!" And my shortest layers are now 4-5" inches shorter than my longest layers! What the heck?!
Now I wasn't super-angry, I thought I'd go home and try the new layers and maybe I'd end up liking them. But I don't like them -- my hair is naturally wavy/poofy on the top but straighter on the bottom, so I have quite the "mushroom head" now, with thick wavy short layers on top and stringy long straight layers hanging out the bottom! It even looks weird in a ponytail, with the long straight layers hanging so far below the shorter, wavier layers. The only way I can get my hair to look good is to flat-iron it, but I don't like to do that every day. (I guess I can also twist it into some sort of bun, but that usually gives me a headache.) At least it won't take super-long to grow out the layers, and I might go back in sometime to get the long layers cut shorter to make it all closer to the same length -- I wouldn't mind having it all shorter if it made the layers look better.
So I'm still not really angry (my hair still looks better than the way-too-short cut I had a few years ago, lol), but I just don't understand why hair stylists would explicitly go against your requests like this! I wouldn't have minded if she had asked first -- heck, if she had said, "I think your hair would look better with shorter layers, could I try that?" I might have even agreed to it! (I still wouldn't have been happy with the results, but at least I wouldn't have been mad with the stylist!) For any hair stylists out there, do you have any ideas on why people do this? Do they tell you in cosmetology school to just give the customer what you think their best haircut would be without telling them, or what?
Now I wasn't super-angry, I thought I'd go home and try the new layers and maybe I'd end up liking them. But I don't like them -- my hair is naturally wavy/poofy on the top but straighter on the bottom, so I have quite the "mushroom head" now, with thick wavy short layers on top and stringy long straight layers hanging out the bottom! It even looks weird in a ponytail, with the long straight layers hanging so far below the shorter, wavier layers. The only way I can get my hair to look good is to flat-iron it, but I don't like to do that every day. (I guess I can also twist it into some sort of bun, but that usually gives me a headache.) At least it won't take super-long to grow out the layers, and I might go back in sometime to get the long layers cut shorter to make it all closer to the same length -- I wouldn't mind having it all shorter if it made the layers look better.
So I'm still not really angry (my hair still looks better than the way-too-short cut I had a few years ago, lol), but I just don't understand why hair stylists would explicitly go against your requests like this! I wouldn't have minded if she had asked first -- heck, if she had said, "I think your hair would look better with shorter layers, could I try that?" I might have even agreed to it! (I still wouldn't have been happy with the results, but at least I wouldn't have been mad with the stylist!) For any hair stylists out there, do you have any ideas on why people do this? Do they tell you in cosmetology school to just give the customer what you think their best haircut would be without telling them, or what?