Has Your Stylist Ever Made Cutting Remarks?

Allure Daily Beauty Reporter

By Sarah Wexler,Allure magazine

This week, I went for a haircut at a new salon. I loved the decor and the music, but not my stylist's opening line: "Ugh, when was the last time you had a haircut?" Usually, I have to admit it's been a shameful six months, but I was being proactive and had just hit the fully-respectable six-week mark, and told him so. "Well, don't let whoever did your last haircut touch it again. It's horrible!" he said.

Really, dude? I was so upset by his unprovoked insults that I almost whipped off my plastic cape and marched my terrible hair right out of there. (Okay, in a move of wimpiness and desperation, I stayed-but vowed that even if he gave me perfect J.Lo hair, I wouldn't ever come back to his salon.) An Allure coworker told me she's had a similar encounter, where a new stylist took one look at her hair and said, "Wow...this is really shapeless."

You never want a hairstylist's initial impression of your hair to be a sarcastic "wow," but why does he or she have to say something in the first place? I'm already sitting in your chair! If I were thrilled with my existing cut, I wouldn't be there; there's no point in guilting me or making me feel bad about the style I've been sporting for the past few months.

Have you ever faced a hairstylist's bad attitude?

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