# How upset do you get if you feel a stylist/barber didn’t follow your desires fully? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872 "2018-04-21T20:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/41 "2018-04-24T03:11:12Z")
> [@Warm\_blood](#): > > I don’t understand tipping hairstylists. Unlike waiters and busboys, they are paid a consistent and living wage. And I’ll be damned if I tip someone who failed to be competent at what they’re getting paid to do. As noted, many of them are independent contractors. Around here, they pay to rent a chair in a salon, and are expected to pay a share from each customer, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/42 "2018-04-24T16:31:12Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > As noted, many of them are independent contractors. Around here, they pay to rent a chair in a salon, and are expected to pay a share from each customer, as well. But that only means they already get the lion’s share of the fee. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/43 "2018-04-25T17:22:12Z")
I don’t get upset. I just never go back. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/44 "2018-04-25T17:28:30Z")
I once witnessed a female customer melt down. Quite a scene. She walked in with a magazine and showed the stylist a photo of a celebrity, maybe it was Jennifer Aniston. “I want that.” Well, that is where the stylist made a huge mistake–she agreed to it. The customer didn’t look anything like Jennifer Aniston and her hair wasn’t anything like Jennifer Aniston and she expected to walk out of the salon looking like Jennifer Aniston. At the end of the cut, she looked in the mirror, and whined, “That’s not what I wanted at _all_!”, and was in tears. Reminded me of a 4-year-old who got the wrong flavor ice cream. The stylist offered to have someone else work with her but she wasn’t interested and I think they let her leave without trying to charge her. Some people are very emotionally attached to their hair. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/45 "2018-04-25T18:19:01Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Some people are very emotionally attached to their hair. Then going to a place where they cut it off is a bad idea. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872/46 "2018-04-25T18:29:57Z")
I have two haircuts. Winter - generic male. And summer - #2 sides, #6 top. Works great with the motorcycle. I have never met a stylist incompetent enough to screw up either one of those. Now if someone screwed it up out of malice, I’d burn the ears off their manager and find another shop. I’d also pay good money to find an old-school barber who uses a straight razor, but that’s another conversation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-upset-do-you-get-if-you-feel-a-stylist-barber-didn-t-follow-your-desires-fully/812872.md?page=2)