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I have an
appointment this weekend at the salon, am I looking forward to
it??? Well, no not really. |
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I love the
feel, and the way I feel after my hair has been caressed, pampered,
sprayed, spritzed, massaged and teased into a gorgeous style, but I
hate the wait! |
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I am usually greeted
with a warm welcome, to the back-drop of the latest tunes, the
atmosphere is good and upbeat, just as you expect from a modern
salon, but as you will read, the practices here are more like
ancient. |
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The gown is
put on myself and I relax with a couple of mags, hoping to catch a
glimpse of the 'new me' between the glossy pages, I am so entrenched
in my quest that I haven't realised an hour has gone by and the only
thing I've created is a hole in my stomach as I become hungry from
being idle. I need to make eye contact with my stylist-to-be and
quick!
I know it's
Saturday and therefore their busiest day, but I would have liked to
have shopped afterwards, but I will be lucky to catch a petrol
station open at this rate! Here we go again. Surely, salons need to
realise that there is a big problem in this area, our time is just
as precious as theirs. We got to get more organised in this area. |
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We have become
so used to the 'all-day appointment' that it's just part of the norm
now. There should be a stylist assigned to you, who will follow
through the desired look until you leave out of the door. Instead,
someone relaxes the hair and then rinses it out, and then follows a
half hour wait to get blow-dried or wrapped, and then another half and
hour to an hour waiting for your stylist to be free, who is also
instructing her boyfriend on what to pick up from the local market,
but he has got lost, so 13 or 14 calls on the mobile later, she asks
you what
you wanted again!!! In this age of modern technology, we have become
very impatient, but can we really afford to give a whole day out of
our weekend, just to get a cut or a touch-up on the relaxer?
The desired
look is always achieved, and the staff are both friendly and
welcoming, but we really need to put an end to the waiting and start
the creating. |
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