OMG!"" I am a BARBER, Retired. I I am going to start by saying, I am shocked at some of a the statements that I read. For example that the hairdressers talk to much, or did they ever learn how to cut hair,or did they spend much time in school learning how to cut hair.I am imagine a lot of you had some really bad experiences with hairdressers, my father was a hairdresser, in other words he was a beautician, he also was a barber,so what I'm telling you is he carried both licenses. As for myself I only had excuse me I only have the one license for 45 years, It's still active. I suppose a lot of what I've read of your experiences are true, I'm not saying that they weren't, I imagine they were really bad experiences, but I'll tell you one thing I had my own barbershop in fact I had two. But when a customer sat in my chair, the difference between a customer sitting in the barber's chair he or she faced away from the mirror. But when you sit in a hair dressers or beauticians chair you are facing the mirror, so all of these complaints That I'm reading, are partly the customer or patrons fault. I do understand very much but there are hair dressers that are not very good out there. In fact the very few that I've been around don't talk to you when they're working on your hair.. I couldn't get them to talk to me. I wanted them to communicate with me about my hair, I was so disturbed and annoyed to say the least. My first Communication with the new customer was always, how would you like your haircut, let's do this together,so we can get your hair the way you like it. Communication, communication, communication. Without that you won't build a business. How in the world do you think I survived. I was and am and been divorced so therefore I had to make a living on haircuts alone, so you're talking to a person that lived on that and only that. Also I had to prove myself as a girl barber in this area which was really not acceptable that easily.now think about that, I learned by experience through time the art of using shears and clippers and different types of clippers and now the beauticians want to learn from the barbers how to use them because they don't know how. Well let me tell you something else in reference to that, that takes years and years to learn. Before I go I want to say that if he would've walked in to my shop you would've never let me repeat that never sat in my chair and got 3 inchesCut off your hair, no way and I say that emphatically. And I also want to apologize for the mistake that the beautician made after all their human too. I'm sure, in fact I know I've made my mistakes and I hope I was forgiven as well. Didn't you make mistakes where you worked? Do you know what my customers, I should say what man said in my shop when we would talk, they said jokingly don't worry about it hair grows back.........Women really get mad, and men just joke about it, I'm so glad my father showed me and directed me and guided meto go to the school then he went to and I became the first youngest girl barber in this area matter fact in this county. Oh by the way I almost forgot to mention I've been cutting my own hair for 45 years I've only been to beauticians A handful of times through the years and my experiences with them have been rather cold and distant and notgood at all. And I really don't know why, it's like they don't want to talk to you, it's funny like Sunshine Kate says the opposite that they talk too much, and the ones that I went to don't want to talk at all don't want to communicate which is really terrible I mean I try to tell him how I wanted it cut and how are they going to know what to do if they don't want to speak with me almost sounds rude. And then I remember the last time I was a terrible tipper. And I have to agree with sunshine Kate, The hairdresser acted like she didn't care, because let me tell you, I watched every move she made and her attitude was she acted like she didn't care. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MY QVC FAMILY (I hope you someday find someone to treat you right and give you the best services for the decent people that you are) BLESSING
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