mischka
shrinkage.
I really hate going to the salon. Since I went completely natural and started wearing my hair out I've only been three times. The first was the stylist who did my sew ins. she's a great stylist but she literally takes about seven hours any time you visit her, and when she straightened my natural hair, so much of it came out afterwards, and not just breakage, full strands from the root too. The second time I got a blow out and a flat iron, and while it was good that they got my hair very straight, it was too thin and lifeless.
So yesterday I had an event and decided at the last minute I wanted to straighten my hair rather than spend forever trying to do something with it myself. I was going to go where I went last time but I got there and found they upped the prices a good 30 dollars so I went to a similar salon nearby.
I didn't like that this woman acted like I didn't know anything about my own hair. First of all she pulled out a fine toothed comb and acted like she was about to use that to detangle my DRY hair
GIRL PLEASE I put the kibosh on that immediately and told her it would be much more manageable when it was wet. She actually had the nerve to tell me "no it won't" 
and furthermore, why is it so hard to find a salon where they know better than this? I often find myself out of touch with what's still the norm amongst black culture in general, but why are we still raking teeny tiny combs through fragile, kinky hair?
Then she blow dried my hair with a damn raggedy paddle brush and I could feel her ripping out hair from my scalp, not to mention that she was ruining my ends! When I saw the job she did on that blow dry (the dryer was not even hot, and I was under the impression she would do it properly with a round brush to straighten it. In fact, when I came in and asked her how they straighten hair there, she looked at me like I was crazy) I decided to cut my losses and straighten it myself with my sedu. I was going to have to go straight from there to get dressed and then to the event so I didn't have time to do my hair twice (let her straighten it then fix it at home).
I was so disappointed because this was not a raggedy, kitchen salon, so I went to the front desk and told the guy there (who looked like the owner or manager) that I would just pay for the wash but I did not want it straightened anymore. (The products they used for the wash didn't make my hair feel fabulous either.) He talked me out of it and straightened my hair himself and it did get straight... but then he sent me back to the first stylist to curl it and I looked like a weather girl slash Oprah Winfrey in the 80s by the time she was done....
Overall I wasn't upset because my hair WAS straight at the end (if not a little dry looking) and it didn't revert in the ridiculous heat nor excessive wind. Once I wrapped my hair around and tied it down to loosen the curls, I got the look I wanted. But even so, I hate going to salons and the anxiety of them not doing the job properly and getting all worked up, especially if you're getting it done for a particular occasion. I wish I knew how to do my hair salon quality myself.
So yesterday I had an event and decided at the last minute I wanted to straighten my hair rather than spend forever trying to do something with it myself. I was going to go where I went last time but I got there and found they upped the prices a good 30 dollars so I went to a similar salon nearby.
I didn't like that this woman acted like I didn't know anything about my own hair. First of all she pulled out a fine toothed comb and acted like she was about to use that to detangle my DRY hair
GIRL PLEASE I put the kibosh on that immediately and told her it would be much more manageable when it was wet. She actually had the nerve to tell me "no it won't" and furthermore, why is it so hard to find a salon where they know better than this? I often find myself out of touch with what's still the norm amongst black culture in general, but why are we still raking teeny tiny combs through fragile, kinky hair?Then she blow dried my hair with a damn raggedy paddle brush and I could feel her ripping out hair from my scalp, not to mention that she was ruining my ends! When I saw the job she did on that blow dry (the dryer was not even hot, and I was under the impression she would do it properly with a round brush to straighten it. In fact, when I came in and asked her how they straighten hair there, she looked at me like I was crazy) I decided to cut my losses and straighten it myself with my sedu. I was going to have to go straight from there to get dressed and then to the event so I didn't have time to do my hair twice (let her straighten it then fix it at home).
I was so disappointed because this was not a raggedy, kitchen salon, so I went to the front desk and told the guy there (who looked like the owner or manager) that I would just pay for the wash but I did not want it straightened anymore. (The products they used for the wash didn't make my hair feel fabulous either.) He talked me out of it and straightened my hair himself and it did get straight... but then he sent me back to the first stylist to curl it and I looked like a weather girl slash Oprah Winfrey in the 80s by the time she was done....
Overall I wasn't upset because my hair WAS straight at the end (if not a little dry looking) and it didn't revert in the ridiculous heat nor excessive wind. Once I wrapped my hair around and tied it down to loosen the curls, I got the look I wanted. But even so, I hate going to salons and the anxiety of them not doing the job properly and getting all worked up, especially if you're getting it done for a particular occasion. I wish I knew how to do my hair salon quality myself.
erplexed what's funny? The woman in charge comes over and they literally spent about 10 minutes trying to get me to set up another appointment for a perm. Sheesh! Some people. LOL But glad you got the look you wanted in the end. Stay away from that place! 
