PreviouslyPrettyHair
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Hello,
I am a client with a salon finder question. I like whole-head bleached blonde hair, toned to look natural, but really light. For 13 years, I went to a man who used the skinny-tip-bottle method. Without me asking, he used premium special bleach to not damage my hair and not burn my scalp. He sectioned very carefully, including around the bangs and front hairs. Even though my hair is dark brown, he only used 20 volume, then just patiently let it sit for about 40 minutes, without a processing cap or anything. During this time for years and years, I had beautiful long blonde hair. It was one length with no breakage, and I always had all my bangs. Strangers would stop me to tell me how "naturally pretty" my hair was, and that I was lucky to be born that color.
When he sadly quit due to health problems, I called around and spoke directly with several salons, asking very detailed questions about whether they were able to do this kind of hair and if they liked it.These are my experiences:
(1) Professional Salon 1 - Promised me that they knew how to touch up roots without overlapping. When I got there with 1/2 inch regrowth, that same hair styling handed a bowl of bleach to a sweet grandmotherly woman in the back room (a shampoo tech) with barely a word of instruction, & never checked on her. The woman called for another, then another bowl, so she put 3 bowls of bleach in my head. When I looked in my purse mirror, this lady had saturated my whole head with bleach down to my shoulders for no reason. I screamed, and the visit went downhill after that. The owner yelled at me for questioning it and said "How do you know that's not normal? You're not a hair stylist! What do you know?"
(2) Professional Salon 2 - Promised me that they were an expert in on-the-scalp bleach touch-ups. Used cheap powder bleach (to make more of a profit) that burned like fire and made my eyes cry. They used 30 volume when I said at the first visit that my hair has been bleached this color for years with 20 volume. She put me under the dryer with the bleach that made my hair weak. She started out application by putting a big saturated swipe of bleach around my hairlines and down the middle back of my head. There is a kind of hole in the back middle of my head from hair thinning out there. My bangs burned off so badly, they were dissolved underneath the follicle, so the hair couldn't get ahead to even start to grow. It felt like I had a 1/2 inch row of sandpaper on the top of my forehead where my bangs used to be. She sectioned hair really tightly with those metal clips, and the clips cut through the top sections of my hair like a knife. If hair was in the way during sectioning or stuck to a clip, she always just ripped it out.
(3) Professional Salon 3 - I showed her the metal clip damage and burnt off bangs, so she was at least sensitive about that. She did neat sections to her credit. But even though I told her my hair does lift with 20 volume for 40 minutes, with NO heat, she put me under the dryer anyway, to save time and fit in more appointments. It burned off random bald spots on the top and crown of my head. When I brushed my hair, I thought it felt funny, but I didn't see and acknowledge the full extent of the damage until I inspected it with a mirror behind me and was horrified and sad. So I got up the courage to ask her to please NOT use the dryer. She didn't use the dryer, but very suspiciously, my hair turned alien white, almost see-through like saran wrap, in 15 minutes! So obviously she snuck 40 volume on head, to still hurry me up.
(4) Professional Salon 4, yesterday - I called this salon to ask them if they did on-the-scalp bleach. The hairstylist on the phone was very sweet and sympathetic, when I warned her that my hair was damaged. She said of course, they should not have put me under the dryer, because it damages hair. I accidentally thought she was nice, and professional. When I got there, I showed her the clip damage that I was growing out, and just asked her to please not use clips. Whew, her response - "Don't be coming in here with ideas for me to do your hair! I'M THE HAIRSTYLIST HERE! I'm using the clips on your hair." Tears were rolling down my face, because I knew she was about to ruin my hair just like all the others. Another hair stylist pulled her aside and I guess confronted her, because when she came back, she said she would still not use the mini scrunchies that I brought, but she would just section with nothing and not use the clips. Second issue - I said my old hair dresser always used 20 volume for 40 minutes with no heat. I showed her pictures when my hair was long, and bright platinum blonde, that he had lightened with the 20 volume bleach. She scoffed, wouldn't acknowledge the pictures, and said you're hair is dark, I'm putting 30 volume on your hair, and she did. Then she put a cap on it too. It lifted way too quickly for it to be healthy lift. And when she took the cap off, a hot vapour mist came out that she had to fan away, and she laughed and said that was the heat trapped in by the cap.
So just within the past couple years, my hair has become short, damaged, and ratty, starting right after my good hair dresser stopped practicing.
I live in a large metropolitan city. I'm a professional with a career, and would gladly fork over any amount of money to have my hair done right. I'm always really nice, and tip exceedingly well, kind of hoping to make them want to do my hair nice. But it's all in vain. They don't care. The ironic thing is, when I bleach & tone my own hair at home, it works out so much nicer. I do really neat pretty rows and don't saturate my bangs. I only use 20 volume. I only use premium crème lightener. I let it sit and lift gently for 40 minutes. Since I can pay for my hair to be done in a salon, I was hoping to find one that could, but salons haven't been giving me a good reason not to start permanently doing my own hair, which is what I might do.
My question: ARE THERE ANY SECRETS IN THE SALON WORLD, TO FINDING A SALON WHO USES THE "SKINNY TIP BOTTLE METHOD", WHO IS PATIENT TO LET 20 VOLUME LIFT SLOWLY AND GENTLY?
Do they even teach this skinny-tip-bottle method in beauty school? Can you actually graduate nowadays without knowing how to bleach hair?
I am a client with a salon finder question. I like whole-head bleached blonde hair, toned to look natural, but really light. For 13 years, I went to a man who used the skinny-tip-bottle method. Without me asking, he used premium special bleach to not damage my hair and not burn my scalp. He sectioned very carefully, including around the bangs and front hairs. Even though my hair is dark brown, he only used 20 volume, then just patiently let it sit for about 40 minutes, without a processing cap or anything. During this time for years and years, I had beautiful long blonde hair. It was one length with no breakage, and I always had all my bangs. Strangers would stop me to tell me how "naturally pretty" my hair was, and that I was lucky to be born that color.
When he sadly quit due to health problems, I called around and spoke directly with several salons, asking very detailed questions about whether they were able to do this kind of hair and if they liked it.These are my experiences:
(1) Professional Salon 1 - Promised me that they knew how to touch up roots without overlapping. When I got there with 1/2 inch regrowth, that same hair styling handed a bowl of bleach to a sweet grandmotherly woman in the back room (a shampoo tech) with barely a word of instruction, & never checked on her. The woman called for another, then another bowl, so she put 3 bowls of bleach in my head. When I looked in my purse mirror, this lady had saturated my whole head with bleach down to my shoulders for no reason. I screamed, and the visit went downhill after that. The owner yelled at me for questioning it and said "How do you know that's not normal? You're not a hair stylist! What do you know?"
(2) Professional Salon 2 - Promised me that they were an expert in on-the-scalp bleach touch-ups. Used cheap powder bleach (to make more of a profit) that burned like fire and made my eyes cry. They used 30 volume when I said at the first visit that my hair has been bleached this color for years with 20 volume. She put me under the dryer with the bleach that made my hair weak. She started out application by putting a big saturated swipe of bleach around my hairlines and down the middle back of my head. There is a kind of hole in the back middle of my head from hair thinning out there. My bangs burned off so badly, they were dissolved underneath the follicle, so the hair couldn't get ahead to even start to grow. It felt like I had a 1/2 inch row of sandpaper on the top of my forehead where my bangs used to be. She sectioned hair really tightly with those metal clips, and the clips cut through the top sections of my hair like a knife. If hair was in the way during sectioning or stuck to a clip, she always just ripped it out.
(3) Professional Salon 3 - I showed her the metal clip damage and burnt off bangs, so she was at least sensitive about that. She did neat sections to her credit. But even though I told her my hair does lift with 20 volume for 40 minutes, with NO heat, she put me under the dryer anyway, to save time and fit in more appointments. It burned off random bald spots on the top and crown of my head. When I brushed my hair, I thought it felt funny, but I didn't see and acknowledge the full extent of the damage until I inspected it with a mirror behind me and was horrified and sad. So I got up the courage to ask her to please NOT use the dryer. She didn't use the dryer, but very suspiciously, my hair turned alien white, almost see-through like saran wrap, in 15 minutes! So obviously she snuck 40 volume on head, to still hurry me up.
(4) Professional Salon 4, yesterday - I called this salon to ask them if they did on-the-scalp bleach. The hairstylist on the phone was very sweet and sympathetic, when I warned her that my hair was damaged. She said of course, they should not have put me under the dryer, because it damages hair. I accidentally thought she was nice, and professional. When I got there, I showed her the clip damage that I was growing out, and just asked her to please not use clips. Whew, her response - "Don't be coming in here with ideas for me to do your hair! I'M THE HAIRSTYLIST HERE! I'm using the clips on your hair." Tears were rolling down my face, because I knew she was about to ruin my hair just like all the others. Another hair stylist pulled her aside and I guess confronted her, because when she came back, she said she would still not use the mini scrunchies that I brought, but she would just section with nothing and not use the clips. Second issue - I said my old hair dresser always used 20 volume for 40 minutes with no heat. I showed her pictures when my hair was long, and bright platinum blonde, that he had lightened with the 20 volume bleach. She scoffed, wouldn't acknowledge the pictures, and said you're hair is dark, I'm putting 30 volume on your hair, and she did. Then she put a cap on it too. It lifted way too quickly for it to be healthy lift. And when she took the cap off, a hot vapour mist came out that she had to fan away, and she laughed and said that was the heat trapped in by the cap.
So just within the past couple years, my hair has become short, damaged, and ratty, starting right after my good hair dresser stopped practicing.
I live in a large metropolitan city. I'm a professional with a career, and would gladly fork over any amount of money to have my hair done right. I'm always really nice, and tip exceedingly well, kind of hoping to make them want to do my hair nice. But it's all in vain. They don't care. The ironic thing is, when I bleach & tone my own hair at home, it works out so much nicer. I do really neat pretty rows and don't saturate my bangs. I only use 20 volume. I only use premium crème lightener. I let it sit and lift gently for 40 minutes. Since I can pay for my hair to be done in a salon, I was hoping to find one that could, but salons haven't been giving me a good reason not to start permanently doing my own hair, which is what I might do.
My question: ARE THERE ANY SECRETS IN THE SALON WORLD, TO FINDING A SALON WHO USES THE "SKINNY TIP BOTTLE METHOD", WHO IS PATIENT TO LET 20 VOLUME LIFT SLOWLY AND GENTLY?
Do they even teach this skinny-tip-bottle method in beauty school? Can you actually graduate nowadays without knowing how to bleach hair?
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