The truth about, ‘Over the Counter Hair Colors’
I believe the marketers for the over the counter quick color have lost their minds.
I keep reading on this AMAZING Over the counter color that will change your life – save you time and money from being my slave and listening to, and I quote, ‘gossipy hairdressers.’
GEEZ! *me throwing my color gloves on the floor.* Marketing JERKS!
I once heard something that I think fits this very situation on a smaller level.
If I give Eric Clapton My piece of shit guitar, I bet he’ll make it sound like it has been carved from heaven itself.
It will play well BECAUSE he’s fantastic at what he does.
Now let’s look at our people playing the instruments, shall we?
Nurses, teachers, moms, doctors, and lawyers. They do an excellent job at what they studied to become because they got TRAINED! Do you hold such little regard for your stylist to think you know better because it shows color on a label? WE WENT TO SCHOOL FOR THIS! WE know what we are doing —do you?
You do your job —we will do ours.
Time – You have kids, you’re single, and have odd hours, got it. Find a salon that’s open after hours, early hours. I will speak for myself and tell you I run on N.Y. time ——ALWAYS there for you. Some hairdressers work a full 18 hours and come back the next day to do it all again.
Money — 1.) You like the burgundy, huh? How’s that working for your blonde hair? O.H.! Pink, you say! Really how much have you saved? Now we are back to the cost of time in our chair to fix your lollipoop( yes, I said Lollipoop) hair.
2.) Understand this about the obscene money you can and do get charged by some- not all salons. Please, pay attention to where the expensive salon is located. Is it in a better than excellent neighborhood? Well, the property is not cheap, and so our booth rentals have gone up – our products KEEP going up and if you want to say you go to SHAY Butter salon —then you are going to pay SASHAY prices. Looks can be deceiving some of the better salons and better priced aren’t so pretty to look at, but they are clean, sanitary, and get rated by the same State Board. Great stylist are everywhere; some just don’t fit in with others at the Uber Salons. Remember, the girls/guys are equally as capable and professional.
Slave — ***WE hairdressers did not go to school for a year and over to do your hair for free ***
You are not our slaves go where you feel comfortable if you want to change where you are getting your hair done, but love your color, ASK her/him to give you the recipe. The reasonable ones will, if not I can promise you I can mix any color without knowing what crap was in it, why? Because I’m good at what I do.
Also, the pic that sits on a side by side for the products you see online to show you how well they did all by themselves is crap. I promise you, it is a professional cut, and I know Sally Sue DID not do that cut and that color- too many layers, that is not a home job, and you can see the leftover highlights in the hair that created that effect. Hell, the pic even makes M.E. want to do my own!
Some people will get away with it- dry, brittle crap, and bland as the day is long. No one likes a flat matt hair color, and the ones who need color are the ones going grey. You need depth, and the box will not give you the beautiful results you should be wearing.
We are moving on.
So why the big problem with over the counter hair color Heather?
Because Not all of you CAN DO it! And we have to fix the crap after you just got done reasoning with yourselves that you can do a better job than we can.
Gossipy — Shut up – Every place has em. We talk kids – cancer – college- babies- vegetable gardens.
So To the marketers —-Screw you —- advertise on something like, “SO you think you can do hair color? We want your money to be lazy. Do you know what a metallic salt is? No? Excellent TRY US! And if you screw up CALL YOUR LOCAL SALON FOR HELP AND REPAIR!”
We are PROFESSIONAL Hairdressers, and we are always inventing new and fun things for you to do at home. But if you can’t even blow your hair out like I can with a brush, what the hell are you doing putting color on that brush for!
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