A crap haircut – 1st world problems – what to do?

Got my haircut yesterday at a new place, was in a bit of a rush to get back to work. Got there, had to wait 25 mins before they could sort me out as had other customers already waiting, so I was already anxious. The woman then proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes ignoring all my requests to take more off (so at least it can easily be rectified) and decided she wanted to make me look like a skinny jean wearing 17yr old with way more up top than on the back or the sides!

I was in a mad dash, needed to get back to work, so got up when “finished”, paid her (£12.50 is at least £3.50 more than I’ve ever paid for a haircut before, and almost every one of the others I’ve always been happy with), and ran back to work thinking “ah I’m sure it’ll look ok when I’ve had a shower later”.

Got home, had a shower… it looks worse! It’s crap and I’m really unhappy with it, and I’m not normally fussy about my appearances. If it was only me in the shop, and I had more time, I would have made a deal of it then and there. There were 4 other customers waiting, another in the chair next to me, and the woman just kept ignoring me so I felt to have been taken notice of I’d have had to be very blunt!

So what to do…?

Head down there now? Make a scene?

Suck it up and put it down to experience (I’d prefer not to be confrontational if possible, especially as she’s going to be wielding some scissors near my head) and find another barber and pay them more money to fix this one’s crap job?

Clippers, all off start again

For the cost of a haircut I’d just go to another barber.

Bad reviews on the usual sites

Chop.
It.
Awf.

It’ll grow back.

Clippers set to number 1, 2 or 3?

Oh, and pics so we can assess just how bad it really is.

This is why I just get a 2 all over..nowt to go wrong and you dont get annoyed by questions.

I think we’re gonna need a picture.

My grandfather was a barber. He’d say the difference between a bad haircut and a good haircut

About 4 weeks.

Clippers set to number 1, 2 or 3?

2 back and sides and 4, maybe 5 on top is what I want…

What I got was 2 back and sides, and about 5mm off what was left on top, which is quite a lot, cos I’m lazy and only go to the barbers about once every 3 months…

Percussive hoof/slat interface?

£12.50 for a haircut? No wonder it was crap. I don’t go anywhere fancy but it never costs less than £30.
We need photos 🙂

Bad reviews on the usual sites

I would always give the vendor of a sub standard service the opportunity to rectify the problem, before leaving bad reviews myself, especially as I own my own business too and would rather somebody asked me to rectify a problem before leaving a bad review.

The problems with that though…

-I’m open to constructive criticism. A lot of people aren’t.
-I work on people’s bikes. A barber wields scissors near my head!
-I looked for them on Facebook, Google etc. Last night and couldn’t find them at all. Wanted to email the boss and explain my problems so they’d then email me back with an apology and “please pop down we’ll fix it for you gratis tomorrow” response…

Got there, had to wait 25 mins before they could sort me out as had other customers already waiting, so I was already anxious.

What do you expect in a place with walk in service?

The woman then proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes

What do you expect in aplace that takes 15 mins to cut your hair?

paid her (£12.50

What do you expect in a place where they charge that much?

ignoring all my requests to take more off

What do you expect in a place where there is no pre cut consultation with the stylist/artist?
As others have said, get the clippers out.

Just leave it. It’ll grow on you.

We need photos

No photos. But if you’ve got a 17yr old skinny jean wearing yoof in your family, it will undoubtedly be the same haircut as they’ve got. Way too much left on top with short back and sides.

£12.50 for a haircut? No wonder it was crap. I don’t go anywhere fancy but it never costs less than £30.

As a man, I expect to pay about £8, preferably less, it take 15 minutes, and get it done 4 times per year…

Live with it, you don’t have to look at it.

I’ve had shit hair all my life, like a white afro / bubble perm. Now it’s thinning and receding (my daughters keep telling me I don’t have a forehead, it’s a seven-head at least). So I could go short, but then I have ears like a hackney carriage with the doors wide open and I’d look like Nosferatu.

Save your money and hide all the mirrors until it’s time to do it again.

[edit] seeing your recent comment – if you’ve got the same haircut as your teenage son, start dressing like him as well. Really **** him up in front of his friends. It’s the only option.

You need to move up north. £4 for someone to do a number 2 on you.

If that’s your thing.

it’d better be good (i.e. bad)

the bar is right up here:

All the “what do I expect” questions?!?!

Seriously?!?! I’ve never had any issues getting my hair cut before. I was asked what I wanted, then I was ignored. And again when I asked again nicely. And again when I politely said “can you take some more off please”

Used to clipper my own years ago. Now I know what maybe my GF can get me for Christmas!

Not quite as bad as that scaredypants, but in the general vain of it…

😆 @ bearnecessities!

I only get mine done about 4 times a year too 😀
I would go somewhere else and ask them to sort it out even if it costs another £12.49

You need to move up north. £4 for someone to do a number 2 on you.

😯

ignoring all my requests to take more off

Missed this bit. It might be imagination, but I seem to recall back in the late 80’s when I was at Uni there was a barbers in Newcastle where the stylists didn’t have an awful lot more to take off, if you see what I mean. Did I imagine that or have I just invented a new barbering experience?

Mini THM has been thru the same

“Dad, I think there is a difference between number 2s here v Scotland – oops ”

I’d take it as a compliment if they think you’re only 17…… assuming that you are substantially older?!

If you only want a 2 on back and sides and a 4 on top then buy some clippers and DIY

I was asked what I wanted, then I was ignored. And again when I asked again nicely. And again when I politely said “can you take some more off please”

Your next step should have been to not pay.
They’d have not been able to ignore you then.

Wear a hat for a couple of weeks, trim it yourself, just live with it or go somewhere else. I wouldn’t go back to the place that screwed it up to start with.

I know that feeling I’ve had it before 2 back and sides and a chop off the top is my spec, the 3 barber shops I like are great but usually busy even with old geezers who a bottle of shampoo lasts a year but have a lot of face to wash. The depth of my fingers is the perfect cut on top for me. I need one every month 5 weeks max can’t believe only 4 per year surely not trying to cut your own fringe .Full head of hair here no satellite dish on top of head or much recede

Pop round – I have clippers and a razor 😛

Poo through letterbox. Merry Christmas.

Smear your head with sudocreme and tell everyone youre a cat

In the time you’ve taken to type about it on here, you could have gone down the street to some middle-Eastern barber and paid him a tenner to finish the job.

The OP

£12.50 for a no.2? Bit steep. £7 or £8 here in the posher bit of Glasgow. could you have been ignored had you just stayed in the seat until enough was taken off the top? My barber waves a mirror at the back of my head before finishing. Which is the point to say the top isn’t short enough surely.

Middle eastern barber? I tried the new Turkish barber. Took 20 minutes during which he stopped several times to send texts on his phone. No tip. Not been back.

A scathing review on SnipAdvisor?

Bad haircut blues?

1. You’ll get used to it, or…
2. Buzz it all off
3. It’ll have grown out in two weeks
4. Don’t go back to the same barber’s again

Sounds like you go for the same hair cut every time. Why not roll with it, you might get used to it. It may do wonders for your attractiveness.

It may have taken years off you.

What have your friends said about it?

I think we need a before and after photo because all I can think of is that you now look like the 5th member of the Beatles.

OP – You spend less each year than I do at each visit. It tells me that you don’t really care that much for your appearance, so why are you so bothered?

In the words of my grandmother: it’ll settle.