Hairdressers!

I have very fine hair and have no clue what to do with it. Since moving to near where absentdaughter lives I go to the hairdresser that she has been with for years. The entire experience – from the delicious coffee to the massage chair – is a wonderfully relaxing experience. She suggests what she thinks might suit me and endlessly admires my silvery head of hair. Conversation is friendly and personal rather than the are you going somewhere nice for you holidays sort of chat. I emerge feeling pampered and glamorous – what more could I want?

PS She is very smart about what can and cannot be done with my type of hair and what would look good with my shape and age of face.

I have a short hair cut which needs cutting every 6 weeks. When I moved house I had to say goodbye to my hairdresser of 27 years! I wasn't looking forward to having a new one. However, with three hairdressing shops to choose from I chose one which looked the busiest. My new hairdresser is excellent. I tell her exactly what I want and she does it (after all I am the one who is paying). I think that's the secret: tell them exactly what you want done.

I'm growing mine and when it gets long enough, it's going in a ballerina bun. Elegant and cheap!

I used the same hairdresser for a long, long time. Then I found she was not cutting it as well as she used to. I decided one day to try someone new. The first three times my hair looked great, although I kept telling the young man not to take too much off the hair which is over my ears, as i wear hearing aids, and I like to keep the little wires which go into my ears covered. Every time he cut the hair too short. Then he started to use a shaver to cut up the back of my hair instead of scissors, and the time spent doing my hair was getting less and less. I ended up being very disappointed. I am now back with the original lady, and she still always takes more off the left side than the right, but it doesnt look too bad, so im staying put for the time being. I find myself thinking it's a good job hair grows, because at least if you get a bad cut, at least you aren't stuck with it for long.

Yes- the one good thing about hair is that always grows out. Or in! Many thanks everybody for such great advice and kind help. The family are all moaning my hair is too short, but admist that I suit it. So therefore I am happy and the Hair Police can just lump it

Short hair looks fine if it is soft and a bit wispy, when hair is cut too short at the sides it bounces up and looks silly, then the back ends up long with a step up of shorter hair at the front. Two weeks after my last cut I am looking like I have stolen Camilla PB's hairstyle again while the back is more graded. Because I have said please don't make my hair shorter at the front hairdressers make it longer, hence CPB's hairstyle. I can feel the frustration coming on. I don't ask for a hairstyle that doesn't suit my hair. I can feel a cut my own hair feeling taking over me. ??☹️

I don't know where you find all these bad hairdressers. There are hairdresser shops everywhere, so there's plenty of choice and competition.

Best to avoid those that specialise in cheap haircuts IMO. A good haircut is worth paying for.

Agree with you Anya, if a hairdresser leaves, I just shop around until I find another one as good.

I answered a fb request for models for trainees a well known hairdressing group. You get a wonderful cut the trainer's is monitored constantly. The only downside is your can be in chair for anything up to 3 hour's.
You could also try the local college who do beauty and hair dressing course they are carefully monitored.

Take a drawing or photo with you and say "look, that's what I want"

I hate going to the hairdressers. Its almost as bad as a dentists appointment for me. My hair only looks good for a couple of hours after the visit, and then its back to its usual scarecrow look, as I'm useless at doing hair, and have no hairdryer, comb, or interest.

I went to a well known hairdresser's. She gave me highlights and lowlights and a treatment. FOR ONCE my hair looked great. I was so pleased. The next time I went I asked for her and was told she had gone backpacking around the world . So I made an appointment with someone else. This time I wanted a cut. So I went and one "stylist" did my roots and put in loads of dark lowlights. I thought it was too dark at the time but I stayed "schtum" because it was wet. Then I had a shampoo girl who gave me a treatment, All this apparently from the instructions of previous girl (the backpacking one). She then wrapped my hair in a towel and informed me that I would have to wait for 40 minutes while the cutter did another customer who has incredibly thick hair (insult to injury, mine is very fine) and I sat there wet and miserable for 40 minutes. I complained and got the price of the treatment taken off the end price. She (the cutter) swanned over, announced that as I had fine hair she wouldn't do layers, that's all wrong apparently, then she took a little bit off all over, blow dried it and had finished. The whole thing took about twenty minutes. I paid (£100) Good God! Then left. Looked in the mirror at home, it was too dark, too long and shapeless.. I rang them up. I have an appointment to go back in a week, to get it re-done.

I am now miserable. I hate my hair. HATE IT. I looked on line and found a hairdresser who everybody loves. If I go to him I still have a week's wait and have to pay.

Shall I go to him? Or shall I give the first salon a chance to put it right for free. Advice wanted, please oblige.

I met my H/D when she first had completed her training at a local salon,that was over 20 years ago and I have since followed her from salon to salon.She now owns the franchise to two herself and is still a whizz with the scissors!
I have had some hair raising experiences prior to this,such as going into an expensive salon and having my hair permed and paying the earth for it............then walking down the street and straight into the next Salon and having my hair romped .............and believe me on the then nurses pittance I was not in a position to pay such prices!
But as my hair is the constant trouble maker in my life I have REAL reasons to complain these days but at least my one faithful H/D remains.But just like several here have mentioned,how I hate sitting for a certain length of time sitting at my now ashen face staring back at me.............it is murder!!
However it is a very pleasant place and the warm welcome and cuppa.............be it just water,coffee or wine............goes down a treat in such a convivial atmosphere.
Sadly I see my Hairdressing trips out diminishing and that is going to mean a whole lot of head scratching, wondering what next to do with this mane that is causing me lots of grief!
But yes I agree wholeheartedly with you Harrigran..........if you find a good one stick with them,they truly are worth their weight in gold.