geekaddict
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Hiya Geeks..
Hopefully this won't be a long one, I'm often on here but got my own salon and want to keep hidden if poss
I don't do hair but having just opened my salon (and having worked in a big v professional hair franchise before) I wanted to do hair. Found a hairdresser (i just do beauty) and due to time I just got her to do a blow dry as a trade test, and was happy as she was doing it all blow dries and hair ups have been really good.
I gave her a month rent free and then i've just taken her month for December, I provide quite alot and she provides colour and other bits and pieces. We do treatements and hair as a trade for each other. I was a bit concerned that with only 3 weeks of growth on my scalp bleach that she was saying 'you have roots, I'll do them for you today if you want.' i've been having my scalp bleached for over a year and it is in a short style but seriously good condition and for the most part I use Kerastase and rarely let straightners touch it. I managed to put her off till just over 5 weeks, and let her do it tues...I'm quite particular about it being pure white and as a dark blonde naturally it lifts really easily. She put vasaline round my hair line (I've never had that before as it always touchs my scalp slightly) mixed it up and applied the bleach and covered with a plastic cap and a towel... and left for half an hour.
I know it itches but it seroiusly was hot, rinsing it off my scalp felt tender and I blow dried it myself as i would have been late for my beauty client, it didnt feel like my hair. I'm fair and had a bright red forehead and still have some red scaly bits around my hairline. Later that day I said it does feel a bit unusually hot, what did you use on it, she showed me some powder stuff, i think inoa from sallys and used 12% 40vol liquid. I called the guy who had previously done all my colour and done a beautiful job of it everytime (he lives too far away from my salon to work for me ) and he said its illegal to use 12% and the towel shouldnt have been put on and maybe that powder was only for highlights not scalp. I slept with a professional conditioning mask in.
This hairdresser is brilliant with the clients, apart from this does a really good job but has admitted to not having done any colour training in the last 4 year (since she has been in the uk all her training was done abroad.) I sat down with her yesterday morning and said I'm really happy to have her in the salon, but I told her I think it's way too stong bleach/poss illegal to use that now and told her I was a bit concerned and got a second opinion from someone v experienced in colour. She is proud and didnt take it very well. I said I didnt want to patronise her as she is the hairdresser and generally good at what she does but I'd like her to do some up to date colour training, even if its a day at sallys to get used to her whole kit. she recently coloured over a bright blonde colour flash in our beauticians hair and I thought that looked a bit greeny rather than the medium brown hair on the rest of her head and she said it was only a semi permanent colour but it looked a bit crappy and im not sure the beautican was overjoyed tbh.
I thought by having a one on one chat it might be okay but since she has been like a sulky child. Barely talking to her clients and I'm new to managing people and don't know what to do about it all now. I need a hairdresser and if she said 'yes i suppose a refesher would be okay ill look into it' i think we could draw a line underneath it and move on....what should i do???
Hopefully this won't be a long one, I'm often on here but got my own salon and want to keep hidden if poss
I don't do hair but having just opened my salon (and having worked in a big v professional hair franchise before) I wanted to do hair. Found a hairdresser (i just do beauty) and due to time I just got her to do a blow dry as a trade test, and was happy as she was doing it all blow dries and hair ups have been really good.
I gave her a month rent free and then i've just taken her month for December, I provide quite alot and she provides colour and other bits and pieces. We do treatements and hair as a trade for each other. I was a bit concerned that with only 3 weeks of growth on my scalp bleach that she was saying 'you have roots, I'll do them for you today if you want.' i've been having my scalp bleached for over a year and it is in a short style but seriously good condition and for the most part I use Kerastase and rarely let straightners touch it. I managed to put her off till just over 5 weeks, and let her do it tues...I'm quite particular about it being pure white and as a dark blonde naturally it lifts really easily. She put vasaline round my hair line (I've never had that before as it always touchs my scalp slightly) mixed it up and applied the bleach and covered with a plastic cap and a towel... and left for half an hour.
I know it itches but it seroiusly was hot, rinsing it off my scalp felt tender and I blow dried it myself as i would have been late for my beauty client, it didnt feel like my hair. I'm fair and had a bright red forehead and still have some red scaly bits around my hairline. Later that day I said it does feel a bit unusually hot, what did you use on it, she showed me some powder stuff, i think inoa from sallys and used 12% 40vol liquid. I called the guy who had previously done all my colour and done a beautiful job of it everytime (he lives too far away from my salon to work for me ) and he said its illegal to use 12% and the towel shouldnt have been put on and maybe that powder was only for highlights not scalp. I slept with a professional conditioning mask in.
This hairdresser is brilliant with the clients, apart from this does a really good job but has admitted to not having done any colour training in the last 4 year (since she has been in the uk all her training was done abroad.) I sat down with her yesterday morning and said I'm really happy to have her in the salon, but I told her I think it's way too stong bleach/poss illegal to use that now and told her I was a bit concerned and got a second opinion from someone v experienced in colour. She is proud and didnt take it very well. I said I didnt want to patronise her as she is the hairdresser and generally good at what she does but I'd like her to do some up to date colour training, even if its a day at sallys to get used to her whole kit. she recently coloured over a bright blonde colour flash in our beauticians hair and I thought that looked a bit greeny rather than the medium brown hair on the rest of her head and she said it was only a semi permanent colour but it looked a bit crappy and im not sure the beautican was overjoyed tbh.
I thought by having a one on one chat it might be okay but since she has been like a sulky child. Barely talking to her clients and I'm new to managing people and don't know what to do about it all now. I need a hairdresser and if she said 'yes i suppose a refesher would be okay ill look into it' i think we could draw a line underneath it and move on....what should i do???
