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Whose Fault? The Hair Stylist Or The Client?

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 I give the relaxer to my hairdresser but she doesn't read what is written on the relaxer box and proceeds to apply it.
Me: "Please make sure you don't spread the relaxer to the tips".
Hair dresser: "ma ti (I've heard you)"
I sit for 10 minutes for the relaxer to  work.
Me: "e shi shi me (it's burning me)"
Hairdresser: "just wait for a minute more so that your hair can relax" (the popular believe that the longer you sit, the better the effect)
Me: "I can't wait". "Wash it out quickly"

 Hairdresser takes me to her sink and pours a cup of water on the hair. Gosh! the water feels like it came out of a "cooler" (earthen ware pot) or fridge because it was so cold. (the best would have been  luke-warm water). She proceeds to use the shampoo and conditioner one after the other.
Me: " what can I put in my hair?" ( I don't know what can work on my hair texture)
Hairdresser: "you can put anything in it".( Is this true?)
Me: "Ok, give me some leave-in and any other thing that can  reduce this breakage.

After a week, my hair feels dry and I go to my hairdresser to wash it. Within 3 days, it's dry again and I begin to think of what I can do to it.  My hair continues to fall out until i decide to weave-on but i know when I take out the weave, my hair "headaches" will start again. My hairdresser can't help me because she can't even differentiate between a lye and no-lye relaxer.

This story is one of the several encounters I had with my hairdresser during my pre-healthy relaxed hair days.
Have you had this experience before? How did it go?

Stay tuned!
Emprezz
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  1. Unknown7:02 pm

    Funny but very typical. I've had the same thing happen to me when I was home(Gh). In my case I was really tryna be cheap and get the relaxer done for next to nothing. You pay for those decisions though.

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  2. Emprezz Abena7:08 pm

    very true. It's so cheap to relax hair in Ghana but the hair dressers will leave your hair messed up.

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  3. confident debbie7:22 pm

    and they dnt like using plenty water to wash off da relaxer.leaving da hair look do coloured. lol

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  4. Emprezz Abena8:13 am

    Debbie, they complain abt the water as if you begged them to open the salon

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  5. Jemima Fuseini5:20 pm

    I hate that, "sit a little for it to relax". It is MY scalp that is on fire and I say I can't take it any more! I used to go to a lady that after she had told me to wait and i had refused, would startt washing the combs under the tap slooooowly, so that i would still have to wait. One day I actually shoved her out of the way, knelt on the chair and started rinsing it out myself. I haven't been to her place in almost 7 years. Any guesses why? lol Ghana can be such funnnnnnn! lol

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  6. Emprezz Abena8:32 pm

    I tell you, they can exhibit the highest level of hair ignorance. When I got home that day, I couldn't stop wondering why she was called a hair dresser.

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  7. Biggles7:58 pm

    the dialogue is interesting...u know our hairdressers well paa

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