Mandymoo1966
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CHarvey I have done this too x
Learn from each other's mistakes
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Thank you. Had been an awful lot of these accusations been flying around of late. Maybe my lesson should be read and re read before posting just in case it could be taken a different way then what it was meant
What the perm?? Was mortified! BUT to say to someone who has never permed anything other then a dolls head "the products are by the sink" is never going to have a good outcome lol
Xxlindsaymxx
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Never name called
Never name called
I must have taken the jumped up and catty parts personally then
Anyway shall we move on?
Mandymoo1966
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CHarvey .. Yes the perm. In the day of cap highlights I accidentally let bleach seep through the holes ( it was an old cap) and had a blonde splodge on my clients eyebrow! A couple of weeks ago I did a full head of easimeche highlights and a full head colour. I did the highlights first and missed a bit of the retouch out right on the parting ...
scottydolly
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Please don't get my little little baba thread stopped hahaha.
My worst ever cutting disastrous was the very first December that I had a column. Was still getting my cuts checked etc etc
Anyway a girl with hair way down her back wanted a tidy up and some layering. She said te back is really heavy so I was like RIGHT LETS LAYER THIS THING. Only thing is I forgot that a little layering in the back is fine.... Carry the guide to the front and don't over direct subsequent sections from the front and bottom side layers back and that little layer becomes a rather humungous length difference. The poor lass was devastated. It had two GIANT divvits of length missing from either side so she ended up needing it cut to just above the shoulder blade.
Lesson learned: Plan your cut ahead of letting yours hands go crazy...
My worst ever cutting disastrous was the very first December that I had a column. Was still getting my cuts checked etc etc
Anyway a girl with hair way down her back wanted a tidy up and some layering. She said te back is really heavy so I was like RIGHT LETS LAYER THIS THING. Only thing is I forgot that a little layering in the back is fine.... Carry the guide to the front and don't over direct subsequent sections from the front and bottom side layers back and that little layer becomes a rather humungous length difference. The poor lass was devastated. It had two GIANT divvits of length missing from either side so she ended up needing it cut to just above the shoulder blade.
Lesson learned: Plan your cut ahead of letting yours hands go crazy...
Mandymoo1966
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I once had to stop a young stylist from listening to there iPod whilst cutting a gents hair...
Piercednige
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I had probably only been qualified about a month or 2 and was new to wella. I did my consultation and my client wanted a really ash blond (bleached hair natural roots of about a 6/0) so I did 12/11 with 12% full head of foils, roots right through to tips. When I was rinsing off the colour looked black the tint had deposited so much. The poor girl went out with a blue rinse in the end.
I never touched highlifts for about 2 years after that.
I never touched highlifts for about 2 years after that.
Piercednige
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I did this when I was training too
scottydolly
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I did this to hah!! Next time I thought right. So don't take it right through... But my underexperience led to slight overlap so there was a lovely blue halo...
scottydolly
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Totally the worst feeling ever ...
babychops
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Omg really! Lol x
Piercednige
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It is. My response was "aren't we lucky hair grows". Poor girl, she was understanding about it.
scottydolly
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Spill the beans.... X
Mandymoo1966
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I have never seen one of those hairpieces myself. What happened?
I don't know where to start, I cringe just thinking about it...
I had a lady (new client) booked in for a blow dry (I worked in a salon which only gave you half hour for this!) she was over here on holiday from Canada visiting Yorkshire to see some friends who she had met online, it was this big reunion thing.
She explained that she had a glue on hair piece, which lasts 3 months and had only been fitted the week before, it was the first time it would have been washed but she said "you just treat it like real hair" Canadian accent
Took her over to the backwash and leant her back, looked a bit knotty so used tangle teaser and that helped.
Put water on her hair and no word of a lie it acted like a cashmere jumper on a 90degree wash! It all shrank up into a big solid mass! The apprentice at the next basin looked over just as I mouthed "oh crap" at him. Keeping calm and carrying on the conversation about her holiday I carried in, shampoo 1 by PM..well big lumps of glue had now started coming off and sticking in the hair, by this point the client has noticed something is not right but I carried on, saying "oh it just needs a good condition..
Applied the conditioner and attempted to comb through but all that was happening was the "toupe" was getting loser.
By this point I'm half an hour in and my next client is waiting. My Canadian client is sat in hysterical tears, proper loud sobs whilst my apprentice, the manager and I are desperately trying to deranged her hair whilst not pulling the cap off, leaving her bald for get two week holiday. I was on the phone to a wig specialist in Leeds who was no good!
In the end it took 2hours for 3/4 of us just to get the big knots out. All my clients had been sent away and rebooked for later that night or with someone else. She left looking like Kate Bush but with big lumps of glue all stuck in it and a roll of tit tape! I was mortified! Kept thinking "any minute a camera crew is going to leap out and say "gotcha"! But no such luck!!
The client emailed me when she got back home to say that the wrong glue had been used and she was really sorry but up until that email I kept getting flash backs or expecting a letter from injury lawyers 4u
Sorry it's so long lol xx
My worst one was doing a colour correction on a sikh client with henna in her. Because of her religion I couldn't do a strand test but carried on anyway. After I bleached it I went to rinse her hair and a huge amount of steam came out as soon as the water hit it. She was left with 1inch long wispy hair around her hairline and a lovely irn bru shade.
Omg!! Why can't you test it? Just out of interest (not meaning to be catty) genuine curiosity x
