10+ People Who Hated Their Haircuts And Told Their Barbers

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mattstaff
May 11, 2019 1:00 PM EDT

These dissatisfied customers did NOT like their haircuts, and they made sure to tell their barbers about it. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is speak up to your barbers, when they just made a mess on your head, cause you don't want to be rude; but your honesty could be what they need to grow! 

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  • 01
    Text - agoraphobicrecluse 6h Sixteen years old and just about to get my DL. Go to the salon to get my haircut nice for the picture. Instead of feathering my hair (I know I'm dating myself here) the stylist gives me a spiky buzz cut on top. I was so upset I just sat in her chair and cried. Way too short to fix. It was truly awful. Stylist gets offended and starts giving all these excuses. I just paid and left hiding my hair the best I could. For the next couple months I wore alot of hats.
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  • 02
    Text - S 1 Award I get my hair cut one day at a school. I get a pretty basic haircut. 1.5 inches on top, shorter on the sides, off the ears. There is a reason I get it cut at 1.5 inches on top, much longer than that it does a weird bozo the clown thing, much shorter than that it just stands straight up. He cut it 1 inch all over my head. I looked like a Chia pet.
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  • 03
    Text - InsectHybrid 5h I'm someone who hates bangs, they don't look nice on me and they annoyingly tickle my forehead. Every time I meet my barber she keeps insisting on giving me bangs and I always say and it clearly pisses her off until one time she "accidentally" cut a chunk of my front hair and "would have to give me bangs to make it look good now". I knew she did it in purpose cuz she was playing with my front hair for a bit before suddenly making the cut. That was the last time I went to h
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  • 04
    Text - SammuWamm 7h got stabbed in the scalp with the scissors. it got stuck there and i had to go to hospital to have it surgically removed. didn't hit anything thank the gods.
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  • 05
    Text - KoldGlaze 4h When i was a young teen, 15 or 16, I had hair down to my belly button. I wanted it cut to my collar bone because my hair is thick and hard to take care of. My normal hairdresser was delayed into our appointment due to one of the dying hair things breaking and the other being taken so I was paired with a different one. This girl couldn't do an even cut. She kept trying. So she kept cutting so one side would be 3+ inches longer than the other. I watched in the mirror in horror,
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  • 06
    Text - Sardonnicus 4h I go to a place near my work. It's the standard barber shop staffed by Vietnamese people. I've been going there for years and they are very nice. There is one guy who works there and he is great. I always use him, even if I have to wait. One dayI was in a hurry, had no time to wait... so l elected to have one of the girls cut my hair. Well... she didn't do it right and it looked awful. I told he... "It's not working." So l had her get the clippers out and told her to shave
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  • 07
    Text - ModularPersona 4h It was a $5 Vietnamese joint so expectations were to be tempered, but it was always good enough for me, especially since I'm a dude and I don't need to worry that much about my hair. One time this lady gives me the Jim Carrey cut in Dumb & Dumber and I was like, "Yeah, no, uh.... how about you just... break it up a little in the front? Not so straight?" She was a good sport about it.
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  • 08
    Text - Witchy-985 4h When I was a kid, my mom would always take me to the same place to get my hair cut, and I would always end up crying because that lady clearly had no idea what she was doing. I didn't even hold it in until I left the place, I would just tell her that I hated the look and start crying. My mom kept taking me there thinking I was just a stupid kid that would never be happy with their haircut. She was wrong. Now that I've changed several hairdressers, I've been going to the same
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  • 09
    Text - Texas1234567890 4h I'm usually not picky when it comes to haircuts...it's hair after all, it will grow back. I was getting a typical fade about 5 or 6 months ago and this woman, for some reason, faded each side of my head in different spots. So much so that the only way to fix it was to jump down to a #4 and buzz the top of my head to try and salvage the blending.... I literally had to stop her and ask what she was doing and she was like what? nothing is wrong so i put my fingers (pointed
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  • 10
    Text - AFRN 4h My hair is pretty short so there's not much to mess up. I get it cut often cuz my hair grows thick and I have to maintain it for the military, so I tend to go wherever I can get in quick and cheap. I like it really short on the sides; like if LaCroix cut hair, that level of hair-to-scalp ratio. Just a hint. But the last time, I was out of state and stopped by a rinky dink little barber shop. After I got it cut, the lady flipped me around to look in the mirror ( was facing away) an
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  • 11
    Text - Bohm TheorySucks 4h Can speak for my mom here, her old hair dresser literally had a mental break down while cutting her hair. He just kept cutting and cutting, until my mom started to feel like he was cutting for too long. At the end she had hacks of hair left in random parts of her head. Had to use clips and extensions for years after to make it look normal. The same dresser cut a piece of my brothers ear off too. He's a nice guy, just clearly shouldn't be a hair dresser.
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  • 12
    Text - Thanatos- 4h I didn't realize just how bad the cut was until i went home and washed my hair. I called up got setup with a more experienced stylist and got a decent (albeit very short) haircut. Afterwards she gave me coupons, yeah not a refund even a partial, but coupons for another cut. I told her i wouldn't be coming back and to not bother. Never did go back.
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  • 13
    Text - Snowstorm-3 7h This only happened to me once. I'm not sure how she did so badly on my hair. It was all weird and uneven and she missed parts which is hard to do when you're just getting a classic crewcut. She was super young though so maybe it was a lack of experience. I politely told her no this wasn't going to work but it was going to be ok. I got up, paid and left her a tip (she did her best). Then I drove down the street to another hair place and had someone there fix it. Hopefully sh
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  • 14
    Text - Scrappy_Larue 6h If it's a barber I don't know, I always tell them I want it a little longer in the back just to see their reaction
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  • 15
    Text - Back2Bach 6h After hearing the customer in the barber's chair next to mine complain bitterly to his barber about the haircut he had just received, I made sure to compliment my barber. It was a genuine compliment, too, because he did great job. The guy next to me was just trying to embarrass his barber in front of others, much like a mean- spirited customer in a restaurant that takes obvious pleasure in berating the waiter.
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  • 16
    Text - trinkytheannihilator 4h When I was 16, I went to the hairdressers with a picture of how I wanted it to look. There was a poster of a girl in the window with a cute hairstyle, but not really my thing -- but the hairdressers convinced me it would be perfect with my face shape, "be brave and try something new!!", all that bs. I was awkward and reluctantly agreed. It turned out awful. I don't know if the hairdresser was a trainee, or if I just didn't have the right face style after all, but g
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  • 17
    Text - san_miguelito 6h If it's something that they can fix there and then, then I'll say something, and when they do fix it I'll tip extra. Didn't think that was out of the ordinary to be fair
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  • 18
    Text - Tess47 4h It wasn't a haircut but a blowout. A simple blow out. I was on an anniversary vacation and I wanted to treat myself to a blow out. It was $25. We were staying in a nice Inn and I called the recommended salon and booked an appointment. This is a very small town in a place far, far away. The brand new girl was doing it and she had no idea how to do a blow out. I have had them before and she was clueless. I debated what to say and when she turned me around she asked me if I liked i
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  • 19
    Text - vicrally 3h She shaved my side burns up to about an inch and a half above my ear. I didn't say anything, just sat there looking pissed. She goes "it'll look good if you put some gel in it.". I went up front to pay, thought about not paying, paid anyway. 4 people got up and left behind me who were waiting. Never again mastercuts. Never. Again
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  • 20
    Text - TelstarMan 4h I had a really uneven trim with a couple of bald patches in it once, so I just asked the barber to shave my head completely and l'd start over from zero. He tried to charge me for both haircuts, but refused to double dip.
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  • 21
    Text - topshelfesteem. 6h My hairdresser and I had a pretty good relationship, and I had short hair that I wasn't emotional about, so she asked if she could just go wild and surprise me. When I saw the result, I'd ended up with a weird uneven pixie cut. I told her that it was "very cool", but would be too difficult to maintain every day, so could she please cut it down to a regular hairstyle. She redid the cut uncomplainingly, and I walked out happy.
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  • 22
    Text - inkseep1 3h I wanted my hair cut very short. I keep it short now, clipped #1 on the sides and #2 on top. Back when this happened I think I asked for a #3 clipper on the sides and finger thickness on top, blended to the sides. She picked up the clippers and popped in a #1 blade and went right over the top of my head like a reverse mohawk and then said 'oops, you wanted a 1 on top right?'. I had to get it #1 all over. This was the day before my friend's wedding that I was going to. I looked
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  • 23
    Text - Golden_Moth 4h I chose a new style that, as it turns out, I didn't like how it looked on me upon completion. No fault of his, I just didn't like what I chose. Didn't really fit me like I thought it would. I had him shave it bald and had him try something else several months later. Much better. I'll still have him experiment from time to time, even be his guinea pig for something he wants to try.
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