decor at the salon

[pitterwoo]

This post brought to you by the most ridiculous hair salon experience ever.  My appointment was for 7 and I didn't leave until 9 for just a cut and style.  It also included changing out of my clothes, pulling a neck muscle, getting sprayed in the face with water and getting into a fit of giggles in the chair and having to try to come up with some other excuse for laughing besides telling her that I would swear this was all being staged.

Anyway the place had these crazy crystal chandelier style sconces and the vanities were black and gold laminate marble.  Hmm, that actually doesn't sound as bad as it was.  The chairs were 80s pink and textured walls.

Is your salon nice looking, gaudy?  Anyone else have a funny hair experience to share?

[bunnymendelbaum]

Not decor, but once ages ago I was getting my haircut and my upper earlobe started bleeding a tiny bit. The stylist said: "oh, I didn't do that!"
Yeah dude, my ear often just spontaneously starts bleeding...

[auntie]

I'm between salons. My stylist is something of a nomad.

Her first place was a strip mall slot that was pretty random. There were a mix of stations and random chairs.

The second was quite stylish- an interesting space in a quirky building. I don't check out the new spot until next week. It's in a colonial era home repurposed as a commercial space.

[simpsongal]

I was getting highlights once and the highlights stuff went down my back during the rinsing. Ruined my shirt

The salon I went to a few weeks ago had pretty dated/dirty decor (like My Big Fat Greek Wedding or something). Probably not a good sign.

[bearkatjen]

My salon has a whole modern urban thing going on in the middle of suburbia. Huge windows with loads of natural light. It's a nice space.

[emoflamingo]

My stylist went to a barber shop and rents a chair there now. It feels so awkward. Even worse? It's in the same lot as a Harley dealers, so I have to avoid hitting parked motorcycles.

I get the "if you ever get headaches a lot, come get a cut and I'll thin your hair" speech every hair cut. I have a lot of hair apparently lol.

[mrs.jacinthe]

My salon is pretty 80s/90s and honestly, what's not dated is sterile (white walls, etc). However, the stylist is great and I like the people who work there, so I carry on.

My salon in Ohio was all spa-like and serene. Well, as serene as a salon run by a couple of gay guys can be. There was a lot of discussion of musicals, with occasional bursts of song. (Nope, not kidding, even a little bit.) LOL

[Deleted]

My salon is actually quite nice. It is in an old bakery so wide open antique tin ceiling. Red and tan walls with white booths. Theres a lot of word art and plants but still fresh and clean. Its cute overall.

[adhdfashion]

My salon is a crap whole in an old town strip mall. I drive 45 mins out of my way to go there. The stylist is called The Magical Unicorn by everyone in my family. He is gifted and I walk away looking amazing.

[TBM]

Feb 13, 2013 11:41:56 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

My salon in Ohio was all spa-like and serene. Well, as serene as a salon run by a couple of gay guys can be. There was a lot of discussion of musicals, with occasional bursts of song. (Nope, not kidding, even a little bit.) LOL

I want to go there...it sounds like it is right up my alley.  When my kids were growing up we had to make a no singing or dancing at the dinner table rule...for good reason. ;p


I have had all kinds of salon experiences, including coming out of there soaked.  I think I have chosen to forget the details and bad decor though.   I cut and color my own hair now.  I can mess it up just as well as anyone else, but it doesn't cost me anything.lol  Actually, I get it right most of the time.


I did have a hilarious bra shopping experience once...

[tarheels]

My salon's pretty funny. It's voted the Best Of every year, but you'd never know it when you walk in. The stylists all have Big Hair With Highlights. When I first moved here, the salon was in a former KFC. They had gussied it up and painted it in warm earth tones, and stained the concrete floor, but you still totally knew you were getting your hair cut where chicken wings had gotten oil baths lol.

Then they moved to a new location in a strip mall last fall. In stereotypical fashion, the owner decided she wanted to be cool and redo the new space befitting their "status." Like every country bumpkin (one of those old women who's smoked and tanned for so long she's made of leather and is a really dated dresser with permed, teased hair), she totally believes big city cool = black, chrome, white, red. She painted the walls an icy, unfriendly blue-white, put in unflattering blue-white overhead halogen lighting, and got all these apparently expensive stations that actually look incredibly cheap bc of the plastic "chrome," ordered the wash stations from Uncomfortable Chairs R Us, and the result is all 'round awful. My D&R self dies a little every time I walk in. The space plan's bad, the furniture's bad, and the color is so, SO wrong that it actually screws up your hair color. Because the walls and lighting are so cool, you actually walk out with your hair color too warm. Pisses me off. So now I just tell my girl I want a different shade to compensate for how things look under their unnatural lights. But my stylist's really good, so I stick with her. I would have found a new stylist if I weren't moving soon.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Feb 13, 2013 14:07:28 GMT -5 TBM said:

Feb 13, 2013 11:41:56 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

My salon in Ohio was all spa-like and serene. Well, as serene as a salon run by a couple of gay guys can be. There was a lot of discussion of musicals, with occasional bursts of song. (Nope, not kidding, even a little bit.) LOL

I want to go there...it sounds like it is right up my alley.  When my kids were growing up we had to make a no singing or dancing at the dinner table rule...for good reason. ;p

Oh, it was quite possibly the most awesome salon ever. If you've never had highlights done by a dude with a fluorescent pink mohawk who is singing song snippets from RENT, you're just ... well, missing out.

(Yes, the above scenario actually happened.)  And FTR, my stylist there was amazing.  I never looked bad or even a little off.

[thewop]

Feb 13, 2013 15:00:25 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Feb 13, 2013 14:07:28 GMT -5 TBM said:

I want to go there...it sounds like it is right up my alley.  When my kids were growing up we had to make a no singing or dancing at the dinner table rule...for good reason. ;p

Oh, it was quite possibly the most awesome salon ever. If you've never had highlights done by a dude with a fluorescent pink mohawk who is singing song snippets from RENT, you're just ... well, missing out.

(Yes, the above scenario actually happened.)  And FTR, my stylist there was amazing.  I never looked bad or even a little off.

  I've found that the more crazy the stylist, the better they were!  I'm always nervous when I get my hair done by a plainjane type.  I want the one with a mowhawk. 

[auntie]

Feb 13, 2013 11:41:56 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

My salon in Ohio was all spa-like and serene. Well, as serene as a salon run by a couple of gay guys can be. There was a lot of discussion of musicals, with occasional bursts of song. (Nope, not kidding, even a little bit.) LOL

My former salon was like this. It's in New Hope, a traditionally LBGT town that supports the volunteer fire company with a drag beauty pageant. They have man-sized tiaras and the men who wear them.

[narockshard]

The decor in my salon is FANTASTIC. Modern, spa-like kind of. I like it so much (I was just there yesterday) that I thought of taking a pic and posting it lol.

[auntie]

Feb 14, 2013 3:14:26 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

My salon is a tiny little beach shack with two stylists, one sink and a view of a dive bar out the window. It's awesome. I pay about $20 for a cut and blow dry. I tip $5. I walk away happy, and if I time it right my stylist will be behind the bar around the corner serving me later!

Sounds wonderful.

Here's mine-
www.akasalon.com/