How about a slight hijack? Still beauty salon, but not hair?
It wasn’t until last year that I started getting my eyebrows waxed. Of course, I love the look, but the maintenance!
While I was still noodling around getting familiar with the process, I went to the salon that I had been going to, but the waxer I usually used was not available, so this other girl did it.
I should have known something was wrong when she said, “Um, I’ll be right bacK” and darted out of the room. Turned out she’d miscalculated and ripped off half my right eyebrow.
She came back, apologetic and babbling, but with the harsh light in there I couldn’t really see much of the damage. Fortunately, I wear glasses, so the frames hid most of the bareness until it grew in again. IIRC, I paid but didn’t tip.
After another incident with too-hot wax that left the skin raw and peeling, I found another salon.
I remember seeing an old People’s Court episode where someone tried to sue her stylist to get her money back. Judge Wapner wasn’t very sympathetic and found no damages, saying that the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut was two weeks.
a former girlfriend was a hairdresser, insisted on cutting my hair. I am not picky about haircuts, and it was free so what the hell.
About the third haircut she has some wild idea and starts in, but it doesn’t work out like she meant, and she just keeps making it worse.
Of course, since she speaks woman, she thought that when I said “I am not picky about my haircuts” I actually meant “I am incredably picky about haircuts, but don’t want to seem fem, or high maintainance” So she starts sobbing to the point where she isn’t breathing and I can’t get her calmed down.
She ended up calling the guy who owned the shop (Forgot to mention that she was doing this after closing) to come fix her screw up. I ended up with a crewcut, which I didn’t mind, but she hated…took a good six months to grow out that did.