So...how Many of You Would... (JFF)

I have short hair as it is so I probably would have skipped the new girl. I have had a bad short haircut befor, so I would be a little scared to have a newbie cut my hair. also I have found that if you want short hair go to a stylist that has short hair and same for long but reverse. for some reason if I go to a stylist that has long hair they can never get it right but if she has a cute short style I walk out still looking like a woman not a "Pat" lol.

I always make an appointment.

My hair is long, but it's amazing how many people can screw up BANGS.

I don't know it would have depended on what I was needing done with my hair usually I don't have anything major done to my hair. And thanks for posting something I was tired of seeing that on top too!!!

now i have that song, "beauty school dropout" from the movie Grease playing in my head.....

I just want to thank you for getting rid of herpes.

I'm not that picky so I would have let her. They have to get their start somewhere!

Yes, I would have. And thanks for making this the top question lol.

Awww man! (and yes, a few herpes posts today, eh?) Back to your question. Gulp. It takes about 10 months to complete cosmetology school if you go 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, (so, like a fulltime job). You are required to have a certain amount of hours in order to go to take the state bar exam, so however long it takes you to complete those hours.

Having been a stylist, I don't just go to anyone these days because I'm suuuuper picky and know quality when I see it. I also know that one is not prepared to really cut hair right out of cosmetology school because 80% of cosmetology school is safety-related. You need to assist a 'master' stylist out of school to really know what the heck you're doing with a pair of scissors, IMO.

I probably would have suddenly received an 'emergency text' and scrambled out of her seat and back into my car. :) But hey, you're fine, your hair's fine and if you're happy, then that's great!

Yeah, I've been in that situation before. I remember kinda thinking "Please stop talking and just concentrate" but I didn't say it. :)
Once, with one girl, it wasn't good but it grew, whatever. A couple other times, it's been just fine. :)

I agree. It's just hair and it'll grow back. Also I don't have to look at me for a large percentage of the day so it's no big deal. I would have let her cut, hack and/or chop her way through the haircut. She has to get experience somehow. We've all been the new guy trying to get experience to get the dang job. I would have told her when I gave her her tip not to divulge so much to the next client, though. Not everyone is so forgiving with a greenhorn. Also I think she told you in so many words why it took her so long. She certainly comes across as immature and not self-confident in the least. She was gushing like a teenager. No harm, no foul but interesting what people unknowingly reveal. I think I'd have sat there just to listen to her since that seems to be what she needs most of all - to get it off her chest with a sympathetic listener.

I would flip.... I have super long hair and I am trying to figure out how I want to cut it... Once I decide a style the idea that someone with no experience might cut it terrifies me!!

Normal maintenance trims I would not care so much...

Wow, that sounds scary! haha Glad it turned out ok!

I actually cut my own hair. I'm too cheap to pay someone else to do it! It is fine and straight. Doesn't need anything too fancy. I just stand in front of the mirror and start cutting away :P It's all one length. I hack it off every 6 months or so when it starts annoying me! :)

That's pretty funny. Yes, I would allow her to cut my hair. I'm with you in the "It grows back" camp. And if your friend hired her, give her a shot. But she definitely should not have told you all that! :-)

Thanks for getting that scary, horrifying subject line outta there!!!!!! ;<)

I would have sat there too but would have been thinking, "wish would not have just told me that!", as my heart pounded, even though I do realize it is just hair!!!!

Well I suppose if she had already started I wouldn't have stopped her, but if I had known all that first...no way! ;) I've gone through a lot of stylists in my day and I like to stick to what I know and who does it best! It's too bad she didn't keep her mouth shut though, that is not stuff you want to divulge on the first cut! Haha!

Given that the last two haircuts I've gotten I've given to myself, yeah, I'd let her. Actually, I have gotten lots of compliments on my hair, so I probably would just keep doing it myself... guess I'm not that picky!

Oh, she was talking way too much. When I do finally sit my butt in the stylist's chair, I don't want her/him yammerin' on.

I am so particular about my hair that I need to have a good idea of what to expect when somebody takes scissors to it. I have had people mess up and take longer to correct a style because they insisted they knew my hair better than I did.

I wear my hair long, but periodically I will just cut it all off. When it's time for that, I MIGHT let that one do it, if I know that I can be okay with going shorter. Also, I like "messy" hair, so I can curl it and just let it fly to mask a bad cut.

I would have let her keep cutting. Her confidence-building would trump my need for a good haircut, and you're right, it's just hair, and will grow back.
If I saw her doing something really awful, like shaving my head... I update have to stop her. :)

I have done it. Lots. My mom, aunt, and a few friends have done it, and they cut my hair and lots of other things too. It does make you nervous, but hey, that is how they get good at it. Glad you didn't just walk out. I'm sure your friend checked her out good, especially since it is a home shop. Hope you love your new do!!!

she definitely gave you too much info ( and made you nervous), maybe she's young and immature, BUT, something to remember; some stylists are naturals, and don't even need schooling (only for licensing), and some are NOT, and no matter how many years in the industry, they STILL suck! So, with that said, if you got a decent haircut from her, she more than likely is a natural, so her schooling/testing situation is irrelevant. Glad you got a decent haircut!

I'm glad it turned out well for you. I wish we could see it. :) In the past I would have just let her do it and not said anything. Nowadays, I'd have asked her if she was sure she was going to know what she was doing and probably not chanced it and left.

I learned my final lesson on dealing with this type of person last year.
I went to a nice full service salon to get a French mani-pedi. The girl started with my pedi. She was wearing sandals and I noticed that her feet looked awful --dry, ashen, cracked heels with dead skin. Unpainted, untrimmed, unbuffed toenails with overgrown cuticles-- and she must have noticed me noticing because she started talking about how she was long overdue to do her own feet. THEN she starts telling me how discouraged she was when she saw herself on the schedule to do a mani-pedi because she typically does hair and hates doing nails because she doesn't feel she is that good at them.
Ultimately, it took this girl 4 hours to do my mani-pedi with the majority of the time being spent on my pedi. First she did the French tips in very wide bright white strips although I told her beforehand that I did not want them wide or super white. On top of them being way too white and wide the lines were crooked. I told her it looked as though I had attempted to do my own at home with "liquid paper". Sad that she did not see an issue with it herself.

After sitting through several of her failed attempts to make my nails look like the money I was paying to have them done I asked her to please just paint them a solid color. Even with that she kept putting on too many coats of polish and bumping them so that she had to take off the polish and start over. Oh AND she was NOT painting the complete nails so that the inner sides were just bare nail. Smh. I was texting and she was making nervous jokes asking me not to talk about her too badly.

Finally, she did a low quality mani with me having to point out the same issue of her leaving the sides of my nails unpolished. I was about ready to scream, but more than anything I just wanted to get out of there because I had to be at a wedding rehearsal and had an important errand to run for the wedding. Upon ringing me out she actually asked me if I wanted to leave a tip and when I said no she asked if I were sure. I assured her that I was certain. Who asks for a tip, especially after such bad service?

I left with the salon flip flops on to make sure my nails would dry. 90 minutes later when I got home (after the errand) and put on my heels MY NAILS SMUDGED. The salon didn't have the color I had selected so I didn't have a bottle for touch ups so I had the remove the salon polish and use one I'd already had. I couldn't deal with it that day, but early the next day (the day of the wedding) I called and spoke with the manager who at first tried to defend the girl by saying that she does good mani-pedis. I told her about the girl telling me how she's not good at them blah, blah, blah... I accepted a 75% refund, but I should have pushed and gotten 100%. I will never go back there and I will never sit through nor pay for that type of service again.

you were her first "real" customer and nobody was with her... she talked too much and took a long time I'm guessing is because she was nervous.

Yes I would have let her. Everyone needs a first chance. I have gone to people who have been in it for 20+ years and they have screwed up my hair so bad that unless this girl shaved my head bald couldn't have done a worse job than some of those have!

Plus I would have been pretty sure if you weren't happy your regular one would have had you come back and helped her fix it.

With all of that I would have opened up and had a get conversation with her to help her calm her nerves and enjoyed the change.

well i got my hair cut yesterday and got about 4/5 inches or more off of my hair, A LOT, but its a little shorter then what i would of liked but it grows out fast and it looks good but soooo different. but i would of just sat there and taken it, granted if it turned out bad i would of went back in when the normal person was in to have it redone

I've set thru some pretty bizarre cuttings. It is what it is.
You KNOW the minute you let someone with scissors go after your hair that it can only be a little better than you doing it yourself.
It's always a gamble.

I cut my own hair, so yeah...I'd let her!!

Just to add, hairsylists have some of the worst hair I've ever seen. Last time I got my hair cut, I went to a high end salon. They had the worst hair. That seems to be a trend, no matter the salons I've been to.

I probably would have done/felt the same as you, down to the "eh, it will grow back". Although there would have been nothing wrong if you said from then get-go, I'm sorry I gotta have my regular girl and came back another day.

I say you did your good deed for the day without sustaining any serious damage. Your patience and bravery will hopefully be replicated :) The bonus is you got to be candid with the owner about it which will also help the girl out in the long run.