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

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
I also usually get a doobie and I am in and out in 2 hours. Plus $13, you know I go EVERY WEEK.

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

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by 1savvydiva
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.

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

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

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! I'll have to look into that!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by 1savvydiva
Yeah, we do, but I thought they catered to the melanin-challenged folks! 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.

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

[smiley21]

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.

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......

[Dionysus]

Originally posted by smiley21
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.

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.

[Imperial11]

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!!!!

[James]

Originally posted by 1savvydiva
Yeah, we do, but I thought they catered to the melanin-challenged folks! I'll have to look into that!!

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

As for the rest, I am CTFU

[DigitalAngel126]

...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.

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by James
Doesn't everyone learn the same thing in Stylist School lol?

As for the rest, I am CTFU

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.

[Kisha]

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.

[MeezDiscreet]

question: what's a doobie?

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
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.

[MeezDiscreet]

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

[ykimber]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
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.

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