In the name of research
Posted in Hair and tagged with bed-head, Hair, hair-color, hair-cut, high-lights, PRIVE-salon, TIGI on 01/26/2010 08:01 pm by BrookeAh, how I love to experiment. If you had a moment with my mother, she would tell you all about my little science experiments when I was younger, and the messes I would make. As I got older I turned these experiments onto my hair, coloring it myself in the sixth grade. Yes, it was a disaster but, then like now, when I had an idea of what I wanted to do I wanted it now, and I could not wait for an appointment.
So, if I am out of town and want a change of style I do a quick Google and find the closest most reputable salon.
This time it ended up being Prive at Shore Club in South Beach. My intention was to go lighter and try to keep my length. Yet, upon meeting my colorist I got nervous and ended up going darker in fear that I would end up with fried locks instead of a healthy blonde halo.
She seemed confident but I could tell from her own hair that going lighter may not be the wisest choice due to her pixy cut and poorly toned blonde cut on top her head.
I also should have known this would make it much harder for myself to go lighter in the future , but I needed a change so I dove in and went for a rich #3, darkest brown…
Turns out the girl coloring my hair was in fact an armature (I knew it) despite her rave reviews online. It also doesn’t help that I consider myself an expert in hair color (on others hair) and I am super anal about making sure the hair is saturated when doing an all over color. (I noticed several strands that still had light spots once my cutting stylist blow dried my hair at the end of the service.) To be fair the poor girl didn’t really stand a chance doing my color. When I was an “assistant” to a “top” colorist at the last salon I worked at, I wanted to pull my hair out every time I had to endure the sight of her doing a color. Bleeds with high-lights, sloppy coloring techniques, same toner for almost every client, I said “WTF in my head on a daily basis… So this girl at Prive, who probably only has two years out of beauty school (at the most), didn’t stand a chance once I stepped into her chair.
Thank heaven the stylist who cut my hair was a real expert, who even helped launch Toni and Guy salons, the makers of TIGI and BED HEAD in Europe. Nice work Franck!
So, in the end I was happy for the change but I was left unsatisfied and wanted more. More Blonde!
Damn my need for change…
January 30th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
I have had this happen to me before, since you are a part of the industry how should the client go about by guiding a stylist? Or shouldn’t we?
Would love to see the end result of your hair too!
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Thank you Anne for your question.
My advice is to first try to make sure your stylist has the clearest vision of how you want your end result to look. A picture is usually best. That way, at the end if it doesn’t turn out the way you invisioned they have little room to disagree.
Second, if it doesn’t turn out how you hoped, mention something. More than likely they will fix it. If they don’t, then don’t go back to them and express your dissapointment.