It has happened to everyone. You go to a hair salon to get a haircut. It is your first time. You stylist wants to wow you and make you his/her regular, but instead of wowing you with a great haircut they proceed to trash the last haircut you got. I have witnessed this kind of a cheap sell on the part of the stylist many times and even more times I witnessed a client gullible enough to believe the nonsense coming out of the stylist's mouth.
Let's clear this up once and for all. Any time your hair stylist criticizes your previous haircut and talks about the stylist who gave you that haircut as if they don't know their job, that stylist is most likely lying and manipulating you, and they're unethical and not worth your business. If your stylist is trying to win you over in such a cheap and dishonest way, they will be dishonest about other things as well.
The consultation your stylist has with you should include such questions as What kind of a haircut would you like? and When was the last time you got your haircut? It should include questions about how you like to wear your hair, what kind of products you like and such, not insulting another stylist's work. Bad haircuts happen, but more than likely the haircut you have right now grew out, which is why you need a new one.
Most importantly, you as a client should be able to recognize a cheap sell when you see it. Or hear it.
I have clients in my chair almost every day who complain about their previous stylist, and even when they complain, I do not join them. Today I had a client whose previous stylist created a hole in his hair on the left side of his head. Even in a situation like this, as a professional I think that it is my job to create solutions for my client instead of exaggerating the problem they have, real or imagined.
If you loved your previous haircut and even more so, if you were complimented on it and if a few months down the road you decide to go somewhere else for whatever reason, why would you believe a stylist who insults your other stylist's work? Is your haircut suddenly that terrible and is your new stylist able to get into the other stylist's head to know what kind of hair was in front of them before they cut it and what the consultation was that made them cut it the way they did?
It can be frustrating...manipulative stylists and naive, easily influenced clients. And no, your haircut cannot possibly look exactly the same a few months down the road as it did when you first got it. This kind of unethical behavior of many stylists makes serving clients harder for those of us who simply want to do the best work possible rather than manipulate people into coming to our salon.
Don't believe everything you hear.
Ivana
Let's clear this up once and for all. Any time your hair stylist criticizes your previous haircut and talks about the stylist who gave you that haircut as if they don't know their job, that stylist is most likely lying and manipulating you, and they're unethical and not worth your business. If your stylist is trying to win you over in such a cheap and dishonest way, they will be dishonest about other things as well.
The consultation your stylist has with you should include such questions as What kind of a haircut would you like? and When was the last time you got your haircut? It should include questions about how you like to wear your hair, what kind of products you like and such, not insulting another stylist's work. Bad haircuts happen, but more than likely the haircut you have right now grew out, which is why you need a new one.
Most importantly, you as a client should be able to recognize a cheap sell when you see it. Or hear it.
I have clients in my chair almost every day who complain about their previous stylist, and even when they complain, I do not join them. Today I had a client whose previous stylist created a hole in his hair on the left side of his head. Even in a situation like this, as a professional I think that it is my job to create solutions for my client instead of exaggerating the problem they have, real or imagined.
If you loved your previous haircut and even more so, if you were complimented on it and if a few months down the road you decide to go somewhere else for whatever reason, why would you believe a stylist who insults your other stylist's work? Is your haircut suddenly that terrible and is your new stylist able to get into the other stylist's head to know what kind of hair was in front of them before they cut it and what the consultation was that made them cut it the way they did?
It can be frustrating...manipulative stylists and naive, easily influenced clients. And no, your haircut cannot possibly look exactly the same a few months down the road as it did when you first got it. This kind of unethical behavior of many stylists makes serving clients harder for those of us who simply want to do the best work possible rather than manipulate people into coming to our salon.
Don't believe everything you hear.
Ivana