I am new to living in Berkeley and looking for a new stylist. I would like to find an affordable stylist. I like to find a new stylist with lower prices and stay with her -- for years, until she gets to the high end. I am poor. . not cheap. I like good haircuts -- who doesn't? But it is hard to pay $90 for one. . .
Peter Thomas has a decent reputation, although not as good as it used to have. They train stylists.
Becca has been licensed for a couple years but she still has to constantly offer half price deals on craigslist . . if she did good work, after two years as a stylist, she would have a full appointment book and not have to keep begging for new customers at half price on craigslist, right?
read yelp . . go all the way back . . . there are negative reviews for her going back the whole time she worked. . . recently, after I posted a negative review, she got a bunch of friends to post phony positive reviews and she flagged my negative one.
okay . . she can do that. . . but ask yourself why the salon keeps her on? If you look all the way back, there were yelp customers who described virtually the same nightmare that happened to me. . . Becca messes up a customer's hair and then she keeps cutting it off, going shorter and shorter . . . I guess she is a nut job? she gets nervous and forgets that it is a real person, not a dummy fake head of hair?
the world is full of cheap haircuts . . . why go to Peter Thomas and Becca when there are plenty of other places to go?
the salon has had to refund her cuts . . when I called to complain the manager said ""you don't have to tell me your name for me to know who to write out the refund to because I know who you are, because I saw how bad your hair looked when you left' . . . so the salon manager KNEW Becca had ruined my hair and he let me pay . . . also, when I went back to get the damage sliglhtly mitigated (she took off so much hair that you couldn't really repair what she had done. . the manager had a crew cut and he said that my hair in the back was as short as his and I had asked for a chin-length bob). . .the manager knew what she did, he saw her ruining my hair while she cut it . .. he told me so when I went back . . .
Pros: cheap deals for incompetent stylists
Cons: bad hair cuts
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