# Great Clips: Scum of the Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181 "2004-09-26T18:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/1 "2004-09-26T18:00:06Z")
Note to those who attempt to perform a “Great Clip” on my hair in the future: when I say I want a little bit off, do not interpret that to mean I would like 90% of my hair removed. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/2 "2004-09-26T18:34:40Z")
Pictures! We must have pictures so that we may all roll on the floor laugh- I mean, so that we may all extend our infinate sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/3 "2004-09-26T23:09:51Z")
I’ve learned the hard way- when it comes to haircuts, you get what you pay for. On the other hand, you know what the difference is between a bad haircut and a good one? Two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/4 "2004-09-26T23:41:32Z")
I dare not make fun. I need a haircut this week and if I laugh, Instant Karma will get me. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/5 "2004-09-27T00:27:00Z")
> [@trublmakr](#): > > I’ve learned the hard way- when it comes to haircuts, you get what you pay for. > On the other hand, you know what the difference is between a bad haircut and a good one? Two weeks. Two weeks? Aww, man. Too long. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/6 "2004-09-27T03:39:34Z")
And it’s not even true that you get what you pay for. I used to go to this snarfy little “spa” at the local mall. I figured if they were charging me $45 for a haircut, by God, it was going to be a good haircut. Apparently though, my stylist’s brain blanked out during the part where I explained that I am extremely low maintenance when it comes to my hair - I shampoo it, I condition it maybe twice a month, I comb it, and then I leave it the hell alone. Instead, she put about four different styling products in my hair and cut it in some insane form of human topiary. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. It took two months to grow out to the point where a new cut would do any good. I ended up going to a cheap-ass Mastercuts in another mall and getting one of the best haircuts of my life. So, you have my deep and abiding sympathies. Bad hair cuts both suck and blow. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/7 "2004-09-27T05:07:38Z")
Maybe I’m cheap, but when I get a haircut that’s way too short, I just shrug and figure that means it’s just that much longer before I have to pay another $12 for my next haircut. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/8 "2004-09-27T13:51:41Z")
I have low-maintenance hair as well… heck I just recently decided to try Fructis-brand dandruff shampoo. That’s the most exciting thing that’s happened to my hair since it started to turn grey. …and I love _Great Clips_… I plop down in the chair and request a “number eight on the top and a number six on the sides”; referring to the clipper-guard sizes to be used. When the GrizzCub gets his cut, I tell the stylist to “cut it so he still looks like a boy, but not a buzz. I still want to be ablt to comb his hair.” Recently a new _Great Clips_ opened near my home and they’re offering a $4.99 haircut. That means GrizzCub and I got out for UNDER TEN BUCKS plus tip! Add to that, the very tall, pretty, friendly (married!) redhead that cut our hair made the experience that much more pleasant. Just remember, these employees are the same ones who worked for the _Hair Cuttery_ last week and are probably enrolled in a real-estate sales class at night. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/9 "2004-09-27T14:16:00Z")
I cut my own hair. It’s a really bad haircut, but at a great price! ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/10 "2004-09-27T14:19:03Z")
My guy recently got his hair trimmed at a Great Clips. I now call him “Buzz.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/11 "2004-09-27T17:23:20Z")
One time a Great Clips Chick shaved off one sideburn halfway up my head. Just one. I walked out of there with the other one still below my ear. “Even them out,” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/12 "2004-09-27T18:23:47Z")
Some hair cutters will ask you how long it’s been since your last haircut, and then do the calculation in their head on how long it’s probably grown in that time, and then will cut that much off. They will totally ignore any comments you make like “just a little bit off”, “just a trim”, “I’m trying to keep it longer”. So don’t tell them how long it’s been, and visually show them with your thumb and index finger, saying, “I don’t want you to take off more than _this_.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/13 "2004-09-27T18:28:17Z")
My hair is about 1 1/2 feet long. It’s curly, so it took a LONG LONG LONG time to get it to this length. Every two inches it grows, it curls back 1 inch. When I say 1/2 an inch, it means 1/2 an inch. And actually, I’ve noticed the cheaper places are actually better. I get one of two things: Either she don’t care, and just does what you say, or they’re just students and don’t have a lot of confidence so they do what you say. The expensive places think they know what’s better for you. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/14 "2004-09-27T18:29:38Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > Recently a new _Great Clips_ opened near my home and they’re offering a $4.99 haircut. That means GrizzCub and I got out for UNDER TEN BUCKS plus tip! > Add to that, the very tall, pretty, friendly (married!) redhead that cut our hair made the experience that much more pleasant. > > . I just have to ask. $4.99 + $4.99 = $9.98. You gave him a $0.02 cent tip??? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/15 "2004-09-27T18:30:42Z")
Sorry, it’s me again. I didn’t realize Great Clips was a place. I thought it was sort of an allegorical sarcastic reference: _Great Clips: Or at least they call them great._ ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/16 "2004-09-27T18:35:10Z")
The next to last time I was at a Great Clips I took a look in the mirror when the guy was done and thought it looked OK. Not great, but OK. Got home and ran a comb through it: the _entire last three inches of hair_ on the left side of my head came off in my comb! The last time I was in a Great Clips was to get the right side evened up. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/17 "2004-09-28T00:20:32Z")
To Supercuts: It would be really, really nice, if the same person could cut my hair more than twice in a row before disappearing. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/18 "2004-09-28T00:47:02Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > So don’t tell them how long it’s been, and visually show them with your thumb and index finger, saying, “I don’t want you to take off more than _this_.” I did. She didn’t listen. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/19 "2004-09-28T01:59:12Z")
My hair works perfectly well when it’s cut right. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to cut. I’m sure if your hair is normal and simple and you have a simple cut, you can go anywhere and expect decent results. Not me. I’ve been to the beauty-school reject places, ie Supercuts and Great Clips, and you couldn’t drag me back in there for anything. It’s totally MY experience that you get what you pay for as re haircuts, and if that’s not your experience, you’re very lucky. ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181/20 "2004-09-28T07:09:12Z")
> [@cheddarsnax](#): > > do not interpret that to mean I would like 90% of my hair removed. That is all. You have my sympathies. Years ago when I was a corporate CEO (oh yasss, I was, and at the age of 24, too, when I shoulda known better) I decided that my aging-hippie hairstyle just wouldn’t do. So I asked a friend, whose hair always looked great, to give me the name of her hair stylist. Let us refer to him as M’sieu FrouFrou. Even though he was an ex-Marine. He referred to himself as something similar and that was the name of his salon. I should have suspected something was up when he took the photo of the hairstyle I wanted, put it on the counter, and turned me away from the mirror while he cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and… …when he finally turned me around to face the music, what he’d given me was an ex-Marine hairstyle. My hair went from mid-back to “half an inch more and you’d be calling me Sinead.” In a state of shock, I staggered to the counter to pay for this. M’sieu told me the price. I wrote out a check. He then sniffed and said “It’s customary to offer a tip.” “Here’s a tip,” said I. “If you come near me with a pair of scissors again, I’ll kill you.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-clips-scum-of-the-earth/266181.md?page=2)