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"Not to be a whiner or anything, but I got a not-so-awesome haircut last week, the result of going to a strange new stylist. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not hide-under-the-bed hideous, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s just not me. (Oddly enough it looks like the stylist&amp;amp;#8217;s own super-hipster haircut, something I sadly just can&amp;amp;#8217;t pull off.) Even so, I can&amp;amp;#8217;t bring myself to do what a friend of mine did when a stylist gave her a hack-job of a haircut. Believe it or not, she *** Went on CitySearch and all of those other user-write-in salon forums to complain about her cut. She&amp;amp;#8217;s not a gossip-hound or anything, she was really upset by her experience: When her (also new) stylist had finished with her cut and color, she told him the streaky blonde highlights and blunt-edge finish wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t exactly what she&amp;amp;#8217;d had in mind and if he try tweaking it. He in turn got all huffy and told her that was his style and if she wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t happy with his aesthetic, she could go somewhere else. She left in a hurry and went home to post a few &amp;amp;#8220;don&amp;amp;#8217;t go to X salon because they have major attitude and crappy cuts and color.&amp;amp;#8221; Somehow the stylist saw these, which prompted him to call my friend and chew her out (and spew out a few veiled threats of a lawsuit) for dissing him online! Pretty nasty stuff for a haircut, huh? (FYI, she later had some of the comments deleted, went to another salon to fix her hair, and never returned to that crappy stylist dude. Case closed.) As for me, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not planning on going back to the hipper-than-thou stylist anytime soon. Even so, I&amp;amp;#8217;m fighting this nagging urge to complain to / about her a bit. (Clearly.) There&amp;amp;#8217;s not anything she could do to prettify my hair now--it just needs to grow out--I just kind of want to tell her that I wished she had listened to me more. And to maybe smile a little more, because she seemed kind of surly while she was giving me my not-so-awesome snip. In all fairness though, she did have big shoes to fill: My former stylist of 3+ years (who just moved to LA) gave me the best haircut ever. What do you think? What would you do if you were me? Have you ever been in my (or my friend&amp;amp;#8217;s) position? Do you say anything about your bad haircut? If so, how do you do it without sounding crazy? And if there are any hairstylists among us, is it ever helpful for clients to give you some constructive-criticism / feedback? Feel my pain? Well then you&amp;#x27;ll love Beth&amp;#x27;s hair mis-hap story. And if reading these stories is making you too scared to go in for a snip yourself, use this cheapie find to fix up your split-ends. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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