I adored my Aveda salon and hair stylist back in Indiana. One of the hardest parts about moving is finding that special someone who doesn’t talk too much while cutting and coloring my hair, has readily available Saturday appointments, and doesn’t charge one MEELION dollars for the service.
I had a hair appointment this past Saturday at one of the local Aveda salons with a stylist I’ll call Felecia (because that’s her name.)
Let’s start with the positives about Felecia.
1. She knew that I part my hair to the right without having to ask me.
Now let’s move on to the negatives about Felecia.
1. When I first sat down in her chair to discuss what I needed done, she asked me if I was there to get the gray covered up. THE GRAY COVERED UP. (For the record, I have no gray hair.)
2. She sneered and crinkled her nose and was exasperated by my answers to all of my questions about my hair.
“Well I just DON’T understand why they did this to your hair?? ”
“How long ago did they do this to your hair??” (Heavy on the “THEY.”)
“I’m just trying to give you all of your options.”
“You’ll probably want to just go with a root touch-up, you probably want to save money.” (She wasn’t giving me the money saving option out of the goodness of her heart, she thought I looked like I couldn’t afford to be in the salon.)
3. She didn’t talk to me at all other than to ridicule my hair. Sure I don’t want a stylist that never stops jabbering, but not to talk to me at all?? Instead she was badmouthing one of her coworkers to her assistant.
4. While she was cutting my hair, she kept saying, “Oh my. The back of your hair is so messed up and jagged. I just DON’T UNDERSTAND what THEY did to you.”
5. When she was done, she said, “It looks pretty good. Well as good as it could look with what I had to work with. At least the color looks good.”
Yeah. I know!
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Congratulations to kj @ Where my boys at, winner of the Tom Bihn Laptop Messenger Bag and to Heather~Domestic Extraordinaire, winner of the Holiday/Mommy Cards from Fruition designs!!
Janine
November 24, 2008 at 8:15 am
I hate getting my hair cut, and if that happened to me, I would refrain from getting my hair cut for a good year. What a horrible experience!!!
Marinka
November 24, 2008 at 8:39 am
I hate her. Once I had a stylist ask me if I’d cut my hair myself.
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Beth
November 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
I hate this part about moving…finding new hair stylists, new doctors, new everything…ughhh.
Shelly
November 24, 2008 at 9:04 am
OMG, what a wretched woman! So sorry you had to endure that new form of torture. I just found a great person to do my hair, at our local Aveda salon coincidentally. She listens, is quiet, and best of all, doesn’t heap abuse on me or my hair!
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AndreAnna
November 24, 2008 at 9:07 am
Maybe this is one of the reasons I haven’t cut my hair in a year.
Fear of The Felecia.
Heather~Domestic Extraordinaire
November 24, 2008 at 9:18 am
It is so hard to find a good person that you trust with your hair. I am so sorry that you had to go through this. Hopefully you can find someone else. Maybe try Whoorl’s site with the Stylist recommendations. I know there are several for my area, so I would hope there would be some in your area as well.
And thanks so much for the prize…woohoo! I am so excited!
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Texan Mama
November 24, 2008 at 9:19 am
Holycrap. I hope you totally complained to the manager. And got specific about what she said to you. That is VERY unprofessional.
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paula
November 24, 2008 at 9:44 am
next time go see Michael at Salon Biyoshi(690-4111)
he is amazing & wonderful! I promise a much happier experience
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feener
November 24, 2008 at 9:45 am
please tell me you are never going to her again
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Jill
November 24, 2008 at 9:53 am
And that is the reason why I only let 1 person cut my hair – though living 10,000 miles away makes it rather difficult to maintain a good cut/color/style.
Let’s just say that when I head back to CA in a few weeks, my hairdresser is the first person I go to see – before my parents!
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Heidi
November 24, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m sorry but what the hell? You have great hair, and no grey. Why do these things happen to you? You poor grey haired lady with bad hair. ha.
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Ashlie- Mommycosm
November 24, 2008 at 11:14 am
UGH. I hate looking for a new stylist. Hate it. It took me about 2 years to find someone I reaaaallly love when I moved here.
Never go back to her.
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cgogis
November 24, 2008 at 11:16 am
I hope you didn’t leave a tip! Ugh, that’s terrible!
American Mom in London
November 24, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh that is SO unacceptable…
I haven’t even TRIED to look for a few stylist. Instead, I’ve been cutting my own bangs and growing out the rest, so you want to talk “messed up”.
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Gina
November 24, 2008 at 11:40 am
And you’re PAYING her for the privilege of being treated like crap? I’d find someone else immediately. I’m lucky – my best friend of 30 years is the top stylist around these parts.
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Headless Mom
November 24, 2008 at 11:58 am
What a bit… Good luck in finding a new salon.
kd@abitsquirrelly
November 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Dude. You should file a complaint. That is so unprofessional.
Heather, Queen of Shake Shake
November 24, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Felicia is a big boob. I hope you didn’t tip her.
Time to start stalking random strangers with good hair and ask them who does it for them.
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heather
November 24, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I know I would never be ballsy enough to not leave one at all, but please tell me you at least SKIMPED on the tip…
Rachel
November 24, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Well that is just tacky as hell.
I hope you be-yotched her ‘pretty’ good tip, I mean, with what you had to work with and all ;-0
Good stylists are hard to find. I love mine. I want to put her in my pocket so she can never get away. ever. seriously.
hee hee
Rabbi's Wife
November 24, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Call the salon, explain what happened, and don’t stop talking about it until you get a free color, cut and style with someone ELSE! And mention you blogged about the experience and the amount of traffic you receive daily. That ought to about do it for “Felecia”.
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Maggie
November 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Oh my goodness, what is WRONG with some people?!
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lceel
November 24, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Not that I need hair styling (bald, remember?), but that would have been a $1 tip. Period.
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Cathy
November 24, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Oh my!
Weren’t you really happy with your last hair cut???
She sounds awful!
the planet of janet
November 24, 2008 at 3:44 pm
a good hairdresser is REALLY hard to find. my recommendation (aside from never going there again and hoping that you didn’t tip) is to find someone whose hair you like … and ask where she goes.
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designhermomma
November 24, 2008 at 4:42 pm
so what your saying is that she’s like totally awesome? nice.
Last time PK got her haircut I swear the 18 year old had a rockin’ hangover….not joking.
and that’s why we avoid kiddie salons…
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Jess
November 24, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I hope you did not tip her, well other to inform her she was rude and needed to work on her people skills. I think that is a tip she REALLY needed.
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Binks
November 24, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Who the hell do those snobby, snotty hairdressers think they are?
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mpotter
November 24, 2008 at 8:46 pm
you gotta be kiddin’ me!
completely rude & unprofessional…
hope her lack of future business will be a clue.
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Rhea
November 24, 2008 at 9:31 pm
OMG, what a snotty hair stylist!
I love the Aveda shampoos, they smell so good…and those big wooden paddle brushes are the only brushes I use.
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Catootes
November 25, 2008 at 12:18 am
Heh, Be-yotch is right. I would have been hard pressed not to stab her in the thigh with her own scissors and then cut her hair with them, badly.
Your restraint is admirable.
Silvia - Mommy of Wonder Twins
November 25, 2008 at 12:21 am
Sorry to hear about your experience. I go to Nomi at the Asha (Aveda) Salon in Schaumburg, IL, and he is awesome!!! Great stylist, listens and doesn’t talk too much =-) . Let the manager know about your awful experience and everything Felecia talked about, including her badmouthing a coworker in front of a client! I’m pretty sure that the company would not like to hear that their stylists are so negative.
Devilish Southern Belle
November 25, 2008 at 1:19 am
Geez, as a hairstylist, she should know that when hair starts growing back out after a cut, some of it grows faster than others. Some of it sometimes breaks off. You’re not going to have a perfect ‘do after a while. If you did, you probably wouldn’t need another cut…other than to keep the length in check. Regardless…she should have made more of an effort to get to know you and quietly fixed whatever she might have thought to be wrong wirh your hair.
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jen
November 25, 2008 at 10:24 am
holy granola.
i can’t believe that anyone in a professional position would say something like that.
that would be like an SLP saying, “is this what i have to work with? ’cause seriously, my own children are making so much more progress.” not appropriate.
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Dory
November 25, 2008 at 11:16 am
Oh no she DID ENT! *snaps*
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OHmommy
November 25, 2008 at 11:49 am
I heart Aveda. But that woman needs a good smack. What a be-yotch is right!!!
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Rachael
November 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I think that maybe I would have actually complained to a manager about that situation. I would definitely have written a letter afterwards.
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kj @ Where my boys at?
November 25, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Gosh, that sounds really bad. Don’t go back to her.
Thanks again for my awesome prize!
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Anglophile Football Fanatic
November 25, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hello bitchy stylist~ I hope you screwed her in the tipping dept. And, find a new salon.
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Anglophile Football Fanatic
November 25, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Comment luv? Sucky again.
CynthiaK
November 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Oh, there’s nothing like a bad experience at the hair salon. I couldn’t imagine having to find a new stylist now. I love mine.
So, I’m assuming you’ll not be giving Felecia another chance? I mean, she might be able to fix up that mangled mess in the back next time! *grin*
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Jennifer
November 25, 2008 at 3:46 pm
No, definitely WON’T be going back to Felecia…but I might go to someone else. Everyone but she and her assistant seemed very friendly!
Jennifer
November 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I didn’t complain…and I haven’t complained because I want to go back to the salon, just NOT to Felecia. I’ll admit that I’m a little scared to rat her out and then get one of her cronies to bungle my hair next time!
Jennifer
November 25, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I only tipped 10%, which is FAR more than she deserved.
Kim
November 25, 2008 at 6:09 pm
What a heffer! I hope you shoot her dirty looks when you start cheating on her with a better stylist!
I had a crappy experience, coincidentally at an Aveda salon, too. My favorite girl had moved and I was sent to her replacement. She was wearing a poofy-sleeved top with lots of frilly crap around her face on the collar. This was back around 2002, and I told her that I was doing long layers a la Jennifer Aniston. Then she proceeded to yak ad nauseum while she cut my hair. She kept my back to the mirror the whole time — SHOULD’VE been a sign that something very bad was happening. When she turned me around for the big “reveal,” I had “Jennifer Aniston” hair alright — big, poofy Jennifer Aniston hair from the first season of “Friends!” I wanted to die! It took a year of growing and cutting to rehab my poor, embarassed hair!
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Kathy
November 25, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I just stumbled upon your blog and I have to have to have to respond to this!
The first thing that came to mind was “oh hell no!” the second thing was a name that I would have called her…AFTER of course she was finished! lol I’m guessing you’re not going to be a regular.
Ashley. Unscripted...
November 25, 2008 at 8:59 pm
What. A. Beeyotch.
I’m with you on not digging the chatty stylists. A little chat is okay, too much and it defeats the purpose of me being there.
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Sarah
November 25, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I have a fear of stylists too. I have now had THREE of them tell me that my hair is “insanely” thick, and that they would, quote, “kill themselves” if they had my hair. For realz.
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andi
November 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm
WTF? Wow. That must have taken all the fun out of going to the salon. I’ve seen your hair and unless it’s been through a paper-shredder recently, I have no idea what she’s talking about.
You’re adorable. And so is your hair.
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Deanna
November 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I’m loving these comments because I now know that I’m not alone in my fear of hair stylist. Mine started when I was 15, trying to grow my hair long and went to a butcher. I asked for chin length angled hair and got a pixie cut. Pixie cuts do NOT work with naturally curly hair and I looked more like Annie. I cried the entire bus ride home and was picked on at school for months.
Anyone know a good (yet reasonable priced) stylist in the Orlando area? lol