MollieMae - it's time to fess up.....

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

RE: MollieMae - it's time to fess up.....

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

So where do I send payment for the consultation?? lol

MollieMae01 · Moderator

LOL, no charge..............this time!! LOL, No, seriously, I'm just glad to be (hopefully) helping people.

Ansy · Site Admin

WOW! I've learned alot from this thread.......Mollie really is going to have to send us a bill here...lol

Mollie......if I may ask....what was your most embarrasing moment as a hair stylist?...lol

A few years ago I was getting my hair done ( I am naturally brown but have bleached it blond for 19 years now....since age 13) and my stylist used some color that had the number 9 on it. Well I guess the box was upside down when she got it and it was actually a 6. I was no longer blonde...lol. It turned out a nicely done brown.......and I left it that way for a few months....but I am meant to be a blonde.....so I had to go back. When I went back to her she kept apologizing and saying that she thought I'd never come back...lol. Of course she felt awful the day that it happened...but I was ok with it. I explained to her that my many attempts with haircolor from Wal-mart had made me look far worse than she ever could....lol

My worst experience was several years ago before I fond this lady.....I went to a salon in Wal-Mart......Cost Cutters (ok...so their name should have been enough of a warning...lol). I was a waitress at the time and I had a huge party of 50 to handle that night. I wanted to look really nice so I could flirt and get tips.....so I went to have my hair dyed blonde again. She bleached it out and my hair never fully bleaches.....its always very orange and brassy......and teh toner she put on it didn't change it one bit. I was horrified. I had to go to work with orange hair. I was SO embarassed. Needless to say, I never went their again. Fortunately I found the lady I use now and have been with her for years. She is expensive (about $120 each time I go) but I LOVE how she makes me look. The whistles I get and the comments from my husband when I get those whistles are worth far more than the $120...lol

A womans hair can make or break her looks. It's GOT to be done right.

As a side note, even after 19 years of bleaching/dyeing....my hair is still just as thick as ever. My main problem is split ends. I'm sure I buy the wrong products. I am a sniffer. Do any of you do that? I sniff everything I buy that goes in my hair. I LOVE the smell of salon products....so clean and fresh. Amplify smells REALLY good and so does the Biolage. I think its a Tea Leaf or Tea something......I can't get enough of it. I actually hide my shampoos and conditioners from my hubby and kids.....yes, I'm awful.......but they all have short hair and mine is very long (half way down my back). I need the good stuff worse than they do...lol

MollieMae01 · Moderator

Well, let's see................................hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm..............................my most embarassing/worst experience..................................HA!! I got it!! Really I have two, one with hair cutting and one with coloring.

This last fall, I was cutting this lady's hair. She had come to me to get her hair cut because I did her manicures and she loved it. So she decided to let me cut her hair one day. In the consultation, she said she wanted her sides thinned out and tapered more. So, I'm just talking and cutting away, and I'm cutting the length of her sides (she wore a shorter hairstyle) and, after I cut the length already, she's like "Don't take too much off there. I like to keep it longer over my ears" and I'm just like "OH, SH*T!!" I turned her around in the mirror and she looked and she gasped and goes "These are really short for me!!" and I just about lost it!! I was almost in tears, and she's all like "It's way too short!! It's way too short!!" and I'm just like "I'm so so very sorry!!" and just kept apologizing to her like that. Well, then we get all done and I'm going to ring her out and I only charge her for the manicure we did right before the haircut. She's like "that's not right." and I'm like "I am NOT going to charge you for your haircut!! Just don't worry about it" and she wrote her check out for $10 more than for the manicure, so I pocketed it. I absolutely wasn't going to charge her for a haircut she didn't like. I was going to leave the 10 bucks in the register, but I asked Trudy and Katrina what they would have done and they said that I should go ahead and take it, since I wasn't charging her for the haircut. They said that was the most I could do for her was to not charge her for the cut. I was sooo distraught when I got home that day, and I had to work at the nursing home, besides. Brad was very comforting to me, and Trudy had come out to the nursing home to do hair for one of her ladies, so I really talked it over with her and she made me feel tons better. She never came back to me. :( live and learn!!

My most embarassing color just happened a few weeks ago. The girl came in with 3 different colors of hair, not highlighted, but 3 different colors on the hair shaft, itself. Ends to about 8" from top of her head were light blonde, 4" on top of the light blonde was a medium blonde, and the last 4" was her regrowth. She wanted the top to all be the same color as the ends were, so I used a level 11 on her, the lightest COLOR we have and a high-volume developer. It turned out brassy and orange-y. YUCK!!! So we put another color on her, called "Ultra Light, Ash Blonde", to cancel out the orange, and double the amount of high-volume developer. That didn't work at all. So then we rinsed her out, dried her (she had hair down the middle of her back) and pulled her hair thru the cap (per Trudy's advice) and put bleach on it with high volume developer. That only had to be on for about 10 min. and she was done. She had gotten there at 6, i think, and left at 9. But it gets better, she had brought her 4 y.o. daughter with her!! For reasons unknown to me, she brought her lil girl with her to get a COLOR done!! Like the kid was going to be good even for the hour it should have taken for her to get her hair colored. Dumb ppl!! 3 hours of doing HER hair!! and I kept apologizing to her and she said it was ok, then said snotty remarks like "well I have been here for 3 HOURS!!!" and I'm just like "well, did you want me to let you go with orange hair??" didn't think so!! She was a snot!! At least the haircut lady was nice and left me a $10 tip!! And I didn't have to put up with her b*tchy a$$ for very long!! Boy, was I ready for the nite to be over!! Had another coloring experience similar to that the next nite, but wasnt' so bad at all, the girl I was coloring was one of Brad's cousins and she didn't care. She knew the girl from the night before and everyone at the nursing home knows shes a witch. She used to be a CNA there. I don't care if she ever comes back again!!

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

See!!! That is why I didn't go to school for this! I cut hair for friends and my kids. I have always cut my own, but once in awhile I go have it done. Everyone says to me....why aren't you doing this for a living. I am telling you now, if I had a day like that I could never do it again. I am so paranoid about destroying someones life! Ansy is right...a womens hairdo is just not something you want to mess up! I feel for you..I know everyday can't be perfect and we are all human, but I am such a wuss when it comes to that sort of thing.

I have had bad cuts and I always suck it up, pay, go home, then B#&$%. I always try to put myself in that persons shoes...and I know we are all human. I like to cut my own hair, so if I mess it up, well, then, I have no one to be mad at but myself! lol

I thought once that I ruined my girlfriends hair, we bleached it and hairs were falling out!! I was fliiping out! She kept saying "Don't worry about it...I don't care" Well, when it was all done and said, it looked pretty good, dry, but good. I haven't done it since!

I can tell you though, with four boys, my cutting their hair has saved us quite a few dollars! lol If I mess theirs up I tell to grow up, it will grow back in a week! lol (Mean mom!!) lmao

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

I have had a bad hair coloring. It was right before a prom and I needed my hair highlighted again. I always did foil instead of pulling through a cap. Well, my hair lady decided that she wanted to try a different way of highlighting and just started brushing it on. I almost freaked. Lets just say my hair looked like a checker board and I had to dye it a light brown to cover up the awful job. We still paid her for the bad highlights though. She was a nice lady that still deserved the money.

I would like to try some highlights on my hair now but I have no idea what color I would go since my hair is a dark redish brown. Any ideas? I don't want anything too drastic. My mom says to go with blond ones but I think that would be a little too much.

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Paige, I really like the highlights that are "dramatic" I think it looks really good on most people, depending on if it is done right. Try the blonde once, you can always change it later if you don't like it.

I have thought about doing the underneath layers a darker brown and doing a reverse highlight on sections of my hair. I wondered if it will make it look a little thicker.

My hair has been blonde from day one, my roots come in dark in the winter, so I always lighten them back up, but the battle I go through with people when they say "Oh you're a bleach blonde" well, I lighten it, but it is blonde. So I don't even argue...whatever....

In the summer, I have to do little to it, it lightens up the more I am out in the sun. Did I mention I hate my hair, by the way???? lmao

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

MPP, I will probably try it once and see if I like it. I am also a natural blond but its more of the dirty blond. So throughout high school I made it lighter. More of the bleached look. It always looked good. Or at least I thought it did. Here is my senior pic. I just got done highlighting it myself before the pic was taken.

I just got bored with blond hair, thats why I went red. I get more compliments with red hair than I did with blond. I am looking at that picture now and I think it is awful. LOL!!! I get bored real easy now with putting the same color on my hair. I always have to change it every 4 months. MY mom is suprised that my hair is as healthy as it is.

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Now if my hair looked like that....I wouldn't be complaining! lol I have a lot of hair, but it is thin. I think you looked awesome as a blonde! I have never tried other colors, too chicken. I know one thing...I need something done soon, the more we talk about all this the more I want to go cutting at it!

Paige, leave your hair dark and do the really light highlights....well, get a couple of other opinions first...like...who am I???? lmao

MollieMae01 · Moderator

Paige, since it is getting to be spring/summer now, I'd go for highlights. Blonde ones. Just try it once, and like MPP said, if you don't like it, just color over it. No biggie. You sound like someone that isn't really anal about their hair. I'm the same way. Last time I had Trudy color my hair for me, it was supposed to be mainly red/violet with black lowlites. Well, we used a product that neither of us was familiar with and the "red/violet with black lowlites" turned out all black with 2 or 3 fuchsia stripes. I didn't care. Was just glad to have my regrowth covered and have something fun and new again. I went from strawberry blonde on top and medium-dark brown on bottom, to black and hot pink. It's fun. The pink has faded a ton and now looks a little pinkish at the top, and white on the ends. The black has really faded too. Think I'm gonna go a darker black and redo the pink again next week. I'll try to have Brad take a pic for me to show y'all.

MPP, I would really suggest going a darker color. Like maybe a warm, natural brown. Maybe a level 6. That's what I'd go with. Won't be too drastic or too dark. Level 6 is a medium-light brown. Maybe get a level 7 if you're afraid. That's a light brown. I like warm colors on people. I never use ash-based colors on anybody, if I can help it. I always think everyone looks good with a little warmth in their hair color. Blonde does tend to make hair look much thinner than it really is. This is why I would suggest going with a brown. Makes hair look fuller. Hope this helps everyone!!

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Mollie, its funny that you mention that. I will usually try anything on my hair. After I graduated I colored it violet purple. Then a few months later I added black highlights. My mom almost went crazy. But then I wanted to go back blond and that was not fun. We had to strip my hair twice and then color it. After that I used Biolage deep conditioning stuff and my hair never felt like it was stripped. Two Christmas's ago I dyed it blood red. I got a lot of looks with that one. I just love being different in the color department.

MollieMae01 · Moderator

LOL, Paige, ME TOO!! Sometimes, though, I feel like going back to a "normal" color. But I always get sick of my color, no matter what it is, so it's always changing. Surprised that I want to do this same black/pink thing. I'll get sick of it when it starts getting really hot, then do something else, probably.

Sandyboo · MAD DOG!

Oh, my turn! what would work best for me? my hairs about to my sholders, and it's like a dirty blonde color. it's fairly thick, but not too bad. but my problem is that that it's very frizzy, and it drives me nuts! I've just been using head and sholders.....any suggestions???

MollieMae01 · Moderator

NOOOOOO!!!!! Head and Shoulders is also a bad one. Forgot about that. It's very bad, especially for color-treated hair, not that you color yours, but just in case, lol. I learned that one from experience, not from school. Is your hair curly or straight?? If it's already straight, I'd suggest a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner. Try Biolage Hydrating shampoo, and Biolage Conditioning Balm. The conditioning balm is somewhat expensive, I think $20 for 16oz?? and $10 for 8 oz. But it's well worth it. My mom loves that stuff and she colors her hair blonde with a high-volume developer, so it's more damaging to the hair, and I've never actually noticed it being dry at all, since she's been using it. Also maybe try some sort of oily type product. Repair and Shine by Biosilk, I think. It's an oil product, smells absolutely AWESOME and you don't use very much of it. Maybe a dime size amount for all your hair, when it's dry. It's kinda spendy as well, I think $20 for 10oz and $40 for 20oz, maybe?? There's a smaller, 3 oz size that I think is $12. Maybe start out with that size and go from there if you like it. Just a thought. If you have really bad dandruff or something, I'd suggest Tea Tree shampoo by Paul Mitchell. Have sold a lot of that. Or there's another one called Solve from Redken. I'd try the Tea Tree one first though. But use the conditioning balm, I think. Hope this helps!!