You Know It's A Black Hair Salon When. . .
 

I really thought that this was on GC, but could not find it anywhere and I searched thoroughly. . .

YOU KNOW IT'S A BLACK HAIR SALON WHEN...
1.) Your stylist accepts a 3pc from Popeye's as her tip.

2.) All the stylists walk around with house slippers on.

3.) Four people are booked for the same 1:00 appt.

4.) Your stylist calls YOU at the salon talking' bout "I overslept but I'm on my way."

5.) When your stylist finally arrives you can see that she had been to the club the night before because she still has on her club clothes, and she still has the red "over 21" stamp on the back of her hand.

6.) Every hairstyle, no matter what you're getting, requires that nasty brown gel.

7.) The STYLIST'S head looks a mess.

8.) There's a receptionist's booth at the front of the shop but no one ever uses it because it's stocked with beauty supplies.

9.) The Asian man from the carryout across the street comes in personally and takes food orders.

10.) You have to divide your tips 'bout four different ways cuz' one permed you, one shampooed you, one wrapped you and your stylist finished you up.

11.) You get to the salon and your stylist isn't there, so you gotta page her. When she calls back, you gotta go pick her and her baby up.

12.) Your ears are ringing because 'loud music' is playing on your stylist's radio and she is singing along.

13.) Somebody is making a chicken run and is taking orders from the stylists AND the clients.

14.) Your stylist stops doing your hair to go outside and talk to her baby daddy.

15.) Your stylist got 10 Polaroid pictures from the club stuck around the mirror.

16.) Your stylist holds a 15-minute phone conversation with somebody while she styles your hair.

17.) The tape man is there selling bootleg tapes for $5.
18.) The stylists all talk about each other.

19.) When they send Boo-Boo's baby girl to the 99-cent store to buy your $10 "deep conditioner."

20.) When for a finishing touch your stylist insist on sprinkling a little bit of glitter in your hair. ...W-E-L-L-L....

I'm sad to say it, but you are right on the money.
The best is when your stylist sends YOU to the store to buy some papertowels...AND
When you know you don't need to be under the drier, but your stylist puts you there anyway so she can eat her lunch!!! :mad:

When you KNOW you are dry, but she keeps you there for another 30 minutes so her and her man go argue, talk, have lunch, or she can sit in her chair and gossip. :mad:


I don't have those problems anymore. I have a FANTASTIC stylist.:cool:

...And this is a huge reason why I am now natural...

When you're there ALL d@$n day! :mad:

1. When your appointment is for 8:00 AM but she doesn't start on you until NOON!!!!

2. When you step in the shop and you feel like you have walked into the local swapmeet because they sell fake designer everhting (fubu, phat farm, coach bags, LV bags, fendi, etc).

3. When people have to duck as they walk out of the door because their hair is as tall as the darn door frame:eek: !

4. When they are blasting gospel music soooo loud you can barely hear "b***h this and b***h that, and I put that mf out"

I have more but I can't think right now.

BTW, I am so happy to finally be back in the groove. It has been so long since I posted (last year right before convention)!!

Guuuuurrrrrllllll, you ain't neva, eva, eva lied about that one!!!
:mad:

When you're charged $40 to get a deep conditioning treatment and the "deep conditioner" is the same one you could've gotten at your local pharmacy for $13.99.

My favorite
 

When you see the "no children allowed, unless being serviced" sign.

When you can buy other stuff while you're there (bootleg videos, DVD's, CD's, tickets to the B2K concert, tickets to the next Tyler Perry play, tickets to any gospel play/concert, etc.)

When your stylist is trying to make a date with you. (I used to have a male stylist)

You Know it's a black hair salon when...........

All the hairstylist are dressed as if they were going to the club

When your hairdresser looks like she needs to get her hair done

When your hairstylist has a gold tooth or crown

When your under the dryer, your stylist is getting weave put in her head

Unfortunatley, I always experience #3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18 and one DID try number 20!:eek:

Does anybody else feel like they are just at the mercy of these hairdressers????

I have experienced ALL of this!!!

I AM glad to say though, that when I DO have the money, actually enjoy going to my hairdresser. She is very professional, the shop is a nice atmosphere, and all those girls can do some hur'!

BUT I have seen (not my stylist, one of the other ones), come in and since she didn't have any clients, put her own weave in. Taking of the lunch orders, buying of the LV/Fendi/Coach/etc bags....the CD man, etc, etc. I think that is just a beauty-shop staple!! LOL

Girl, I don't have that drama! I stopped the weekend thing and now go on Wednesday or Thursday. I also don't get all that other nonsense anymore. Wash me, set me, dry me, wrap me, comb down, DONE. "Doobies" are quick and easy (and they keep my hair healthy :D)

Same here on many levels. My stylist works in a barbershop and I go on Thursdays. Her clientele is not very big right now since she moved to Charlotte last year like me.

I also usually get a doobie and I am in and out in 2 hours. Plus $13, you know I go EVERY WEEK. :p :D

DANG!!! $13 I think I could afford that!!!

She used to be at the Hair Cuttery but left there because you really do not make much money. She still charges me Hair Cuttery Prices so I go every week. :cool:

Do you have a hair cuttery in SC? If so, go peep them. They take walk ins.

Yeah, we do, but I thought they catered to the melanin-challenged folks! :confused: I'll have to look into that!!

Not all of them. The one I used to go to @ Eastland Mall in Charlotte was managed by a soror and had all Black stylists. Find one with a Black stylist. Prices for a doobie range from $13-17. Relaxers were $49. Mine charges me $45. :D

I recommend Hair Cuttery and Fiesta (this was in Ohio).

some stylists do take forever. once, my mom, my sister, and i made appointments for curls with the same stylist for noon (which was our stupid mistake). we did not leave there until 8 p.m.:eek:

you know its a black hair salon...

when the relaxer is burning your head while your stylists is working on two other cutomers...

when jet, ebony, and essence magazine are everywhere..

when the sell little african stautues and paintings along with the hair products...

when all the other black women come up to you while your hair is being worked on and start messin with it and talking about it..

when the stylist is trying to eat and put your hair in rollers at the same time......

Now, I don't see anything wrong w/ jet, ebony, and essense.

But I would smack a stylist if she ever tried to eat and do my hair at the same time. :eek: :mad:

When you call for an appointment and whoever answers the phone says that you can come whenever you want to because there will be a wait regardless!!!!:mad:

Doesn't everyone learn the same thing in Stylist School lol?

As for the rest, I am CTFU :D

...the place is called Ebony and Ivory. Bwhahahaha. But hell, they (well, she) does a good job...Other than the fact that I paid $70 for a 'permanant' straightener/relaxer and my hair was just as damn curly and nasty THE NEXT DAY as it was before I wasted my money. :mad:

James, although I see your point, our hair is different! The processes we use to get our hair to a certain style may be different. I am not saying that a "melanin-challenged" person couldn't do my hair, I am just saying that I would rather have someone do my hair that is familiar with my hair type, whatever color that person may be. All of the commercials/billboards for HairCuttery that I see here in SC all have white clients on them. :confused:

You know it's a black salon when...

your hair stylist stop doing your hair to answer his/her cell phone.

you tell your stylist you have to be out, but he/she takes his/her time anyway.

you are the last client and your stylist rush through curling your hair so she can make it home in time to change her clothes and make it to the club before 11pm, while the party is free.

you see those hair magazines everywhere

you see someone drooling or her head bobbing under the dryer.

you're stylist talk about any and everybody who walks in and out of the salon doors.

all the dryers in the shop are running because the heat went out.

you can only use dryer #1 or #2 because #3 doesn't work and if you use #4, a fuse will blow.

question: what's a doobie?

A roller wrap or roller set that they comb out and wrap around your head. In Ohio, we called it a roller wrap but down here in NC, it is a doobie.

oh, okay. we call it a roller wrap in texas as well

We are hip here in Ohio, we call them Doobies! I have never called it a roller wrap

You know you are in a black salon when:
There is a sign on the door saying no children, but your stylist has little Ray Ray there runnin around messin with people and crying.

Your stylist leaves while you are under the dryer to go pick her kids up from school or day care

You have guys coming in selling Coach bags and DVDs, CDs and Vhs

There is a fight between two stylist because someone stole someones shampoo or clippers

There is no price list

There are no clean towels

You have to pay a quater to use the phone

Your stylist is talking on the phone while doing your hair

In the summer time your stylist has on Daisy Dukes, when she know that she shouldn't

You styliest just got a new Truck, but she was just talking about getting her Welfare check and food stamps

They still have the Dudley's hair books from 98 out front like they are current.

Also, when your stylist (my backup stylist in this case) is selling faux Looey Vittone bags.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this....

Here's one...

When your stylist is also your Minister of Music/Choir Director/Praise & Worship leader at church (male or female)...

And most of the pages are torn or missing because someone didn't want to "lose their style"