I loved the haircut I already had from Vain but needed a trim to clean things up since my regular girl was out of town. I made an appointment at Avant and when I arrived they did not have me on the calendar. They were not apologetic or accommodating, but after some pleading, I was squeezed in an hour or so later with another stylist (Melissa, if I remember correctly). The stylist was unprofessional from the very beginning, would not stop chewing her gum with her mouth open right in my ear as she hacked off my hair. She screamed across the salon to another stylist throughout the cut to turn the music up louder. At one point, she stopped cutting my hair to walk over to the radio herself and didn?t say anything. My hair is stick straight and she used thinning shears the entire time. You could see all the blunt chunks and one layer half way up the length of my hair. It looked like when I tried to cut my Barbie?s hair when I was a kid. I explained to her it was too harsh and choppy; she said that she has been doing hair for 10 yrs. and that she didn?t know what I was talking about. \r
I reluctantly paid and left the salon to inspect the mess on my head. I was in my car when I saw that she could not even trim my straight-across bangs right. I literally just needed a quarter of an inch taken off the length of my bangs, but she failed to section off all of the hairs so I had stray strands that were longer than the rest of my bangs. I hadn?t even left the lot so I went back up and spoke to the receptionist about my bangs and she went to talk with Melissa. Melissa had already taken her next appointment and refused to see me. She thought it would be better for me to get my bangs repaired by someone else. After some frustrated, firm words with the receptionist I had to wait 20min or so for another stylist to come back from lunch. I ended up with Daisy who trimmed the rest of my bangs. I scheduled with Angelia from Wet salon to fix the rest of my hair.
Pros: I can't say anthing good about this place.
Cons: It was all very, very BAD.
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