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Toni And Guy

So 2 days before my prom i went in to get a trim. The man did not understand the concept of "trim" and gave me a "horseshoe" shaped cut. I have no idea what he was on about. It looked ok. But wasn't what i asked for. And he didn't actually cut out the unhealthy bits. After a week I couldn't do ANYTHING to it. The guy started my cut 15 mins late, spent alot of his time talking to his next client, and finished me 5 minutes early. I actually cried when i was at home because i wanted to wave my hair. My old hairdresser there was wonderful but got driven out of the company or something

Went to Vidal the other day, they showed me what horrors had been done to my hair. I now have a lovely short cut which I love, really because I had layers that were an inch next to some which were about 4inches?

So I learnt that at the beginning of every season toni and guy hairdressers get shown 4 cuts. All haircuts must be a variation of this "look". Which is why I ended up with the "horseshoe"

I've also been told VERY bad things about them by people who work there. Including that the hairdressers are drunk (i really could believe that by the state of my hair) and they pay their staff pittance (something ridiculous like a pound an hour. definitly under minimum wage)

So yes this is the beginning of my boycott. Who's with me?

Reply 1

RishiC

Hear, Hear!

Sounds like you had some bad luck there, but i wouldn't go to them...they charge too much for little quality i always heard

I wish i went into hiding for a month after a bad haircut...it really does ruin your life until you can grow it out and sort it out

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OP

the one thing i enjoy is my local has massaging chairs

Reply 4

M'Lady

12

I think getting a hair cut is far to expensive these days let alone paying designer prices. I get a wet cut for £24 every 6-8weeks at a local hairdressers (they have three branches only in MK), I think even that is a tad over priced but I get what I want.
I went to Toni and Guy once and wasn't overly impressed with what I got for the money I paid.

Reply 5

Kittennffc

15

I personally find them very overpriced! I went to the Toni&Guy academy in Manchester, and got a lovely new haircut for £10; although the hairdresser was a trainee, she did a lovely job and was supervised by this Erin O'Connor lookalike.

I will boycott the expensive salons though :smile:

Reply 6

lazza

OP

15

my cuts went from £28 to £35 a month back

might start trying lee stafford modelling

Reply 7

guccilittlepiggy

14

its too much of a lottery at T&G you either het a great haircut or you come out looking like a retarded chimp who smoked weed and fell in a washing machine :frown:

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Ooooh death to regis hair dressers too! I have had two bad hair cuts at regis. One I asked for a trim and didn't get enough taken off and all my split ends were still there and the other my layers got cut too short and looked like a ball on top of my head.

Reply 10

kinkajou

15

last time my bro went they reaallly messed up his hair! silly people

Reply 11

allymcb2

8

Christ I always thought I could trust them. Wont be going there anymore.

Reply 12

dancingqueen

11

One of my friends at uni went there and all they were doing was trimming her hair, straight across the back because its long and one length, and she still ended up with it really wonky! She ended up going back and they cut it straight for her, but it seemed an awful lot of money for such a simple trim, and they couldn't even do that!!

Reply 13

tbm

13

Ive always thought that Toni and Guy are crap, and would never go there. Ive heard such bad things about them that its put me off for life!

My sister went there not long ago, it cost her £120 to have some red lowlights done and 3 days later they had faded!

Not only that but they are stupidly overpriced, I get my hair done for £45 for highlights/lowlights, cut, blow dry and straighten, so why do T&G charge so much??!!

Reply 14

lazza

OP

15

next time i'm going to spend a bit of money on a haircut i might as well go to windles

Reply 15

cinder

10

I'll never understand why people go to places like that in the first place. The snazzy uniform and manicured nails of the stylist doesn't make them fantastic with a pair of scissors.
Twenty quid for a haircut, I sound cheap but for chist sake its only hair. I pay £12 for cut and blowdry, total restyle...get the best gossip and enjoy going.
Toni and Guy sucks. Why bother.

Reply 16

ellewoods

10

Toni & Guy have got a long standing reputation for being ridiculous, ie, stupidly overpriced, arrogant staff and for refusing to cut/colour your hair into anything unless its one of their key season styles. (which are crap anyway) Regis are pretty much the same, they wrecked my hair once by cutting is appallingly. :mad:

Boo!!!

A friend of mine a couple of years back threw a huge tantrum in a Toni & Guy store after they cut her hair horribly and coloured it wrong. (she wanted blonde highlights and got the uniform white blonde on top/black underneath that was all the rage a bit ago) :eek:

She didn't have to pay but they didnt offer to put the 'damage' right so she had to pay somewhere else to recolour it, and her hair was wrecked after so much colour. :mad:

I would never trust these people with my hair - when their own styles look so trashy, why would I let them near mine?! :rolleyes:

My local hairdresser is funny, stylish and her hair is great. She's reliable, listens and charges me 60 quid for cut, colour, wash, blow dry and straighten. She's a legend and I love her :suith:

Reply 17

lazza

OP

15

cinder

I'll never understand why people go to places like that in the first place. The snazzy uniform and manicured nails of the stylist doesn't make them fantastic with a pair of scissors.
Twenty quid for a haircut, I sound cheap but for chist sake its only hair. I pay £12 for cut and blowdry, total restyle...get the best gossip and enjoy going.
Toni and Guy sucks. Why bother.

whenever i go to a non-expensive hairdresser (god this sounds shallow) they give me the most boring cut. i can ask for something choppy and edgy but at the end of the day they're not trained to do that and generally don't.
thus i am now going to vidal, and when my hairdresser is fully qualified i will no doubt be paying a bomb

Reply 18

lazza

OP

15

also i live in london. quality cheap hairdressers don't exist cause they get snapped up by chains

Reply 19

AT82

With places like that you pay for the fancy lights, I always find it is better to find a good local barber, this applies to girls too, you can still get very skilled hair dressers that don't charge a fortune.

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