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Oh Chookie that is awful.
I can not imagine it, as I have never let anyone near my hair for over 50 years.

I get grumpy because nature conspires to make my hair look like a cheap bad dye job.

If some person did that to me & expected me to pay; I would have been sitting in jail by now.
She would have been wearing her scissors where they could be seen as she departed.

So you can see dear Chookie, why no one touches my hair -- it is safer for all concerned.

Oh Chookie, I feel for you. My hair is my one luxury in life, and my crowning glory and I pay generously for someone that I trust to do a good job. YOu should go back to the salon and make a formal complaint to management about your bad experiences. At the very least you should get an apology or even a refund. If they refuse to accept responsibility then tell them that you will get someone to take a picture of your haircut and show anyone who asks for a hairdresser recommendation. Pretty soon word gets around and then salon will find that if they employ this sort of employee who does not listen and is clearly not qualified, business will soon fall away and they will have no choice but to close. Little comfort I know for you in the short term but you can take comfort in making a stand.

The great thing about it this is that hair will grow back and you could always take to wearing lovely hats and scarves until your lovely locks return.

Oh I am sorry such a catastrophe has happened for a second time Chook, and FH you are so lucky that you are able to manage to tend to your own hair as you do. For those of us who are absulutely useless at that, and I am one such person... I think I cut my hair only once and as a pre schooler and got such a walloping for it, and forced to wear a horrible pink knitted "pixie" hood, that I have never been game to so much as snip at my own hair since!. I hate changing hairdressers because the one I have been going to for several years now knows my head and does a good job. I can recall past disasters in the past though, like yours Chookie, while 'shopping around' for a new hairdresser and I know what it is like to have a disaster. It seems to take for absolutely blooming ever to grow and come right again. My only suggestion is , that while that process is taking place, please, each week tuck a $10 away for your next venture into a salon, and meantime really shop around until you are satisfied that you have got one that has a great reputation and will live up to it. You will certainly end up paying more for it, than you would have at your Asian salon but it will be worth it. Funnily enough though, my hair dresser is from Malaysia originally, but she is a very experienced operator, and has many diploma's on her wall to show for it. I have seen some fantastic cuts coming and going out of her salon, but you poor dear have been less fortunate. Twice. Meantime, it is winter Chook, so at least you would not look out of place wearing a nice snug fitting cloche when you have to go out. You cannot hibernate so doll yourself up with the hats and the earings and the lippy love, and hold head high and strut your stuff!.

I do hope the hair issue is settled satisfactorily for you Chooky. Nothing starts a day off as bad as a bad hair day. I managed to escape a salon for years as my hair was down to my backside. Alack and alas an illness made it fall out in copious amounts and I have had to have it cut quite short.... a 3 foot long hair in the sandwich isn't pretty... I am feeling nervous now as I have an appointment for a cut next Saturday.

I have to add my recent disaster, I had a fight with a bottle or perming solution and now I have a mop for a hairdoo. It's really voluminous but fluffy doesn't even begin to describe it. if you turn me upside down I am sure I could be a really good loo brush!! I have consulted a hairdresser and I just have to basically poor so much conditioner on I'd lip down the s-bend no problem....aw well the things we do..... I just tell everyone it's a new trend for summer 2008 it's just so secret only I know it!

Never mind Sandy, there's not much time between good perms & bad ones!

It'll weaken with regular washings,..LOL

Oh no!!! not the brillo pad look.... You might start the afro look again...isn't it about time it became fashionable again. I think it is time you were banned from playing with hair products. You have reminded me of the time my mother gave me a home perm...and I am talking 45 years ago and she curled it up with tiny hair rollers and when it dried you wouldn't believe the outcome... OMG I couldn't get a comb through it the curls were so tight. Poor mum nearly had a heart attack on the spot and I had a temper tantrum.

Anyone had anymore hair disasters lately ?
I found a cluster of grey in mine recently and that was a bit of fright. I yanked them out, and so far, they have not come back . My friend told me that for everyone you pull , another 3 will sprout through. I think she was wrong . What were your experiences ?