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Had the worst client day of my career last Wednesday. Just awful.
Started with a perm that barely took on one woman because her hair had too much buildup. Then a color correction where the previous stylist used black box dye and it pulled green. Third client of the day canceled 10 minutes before her appointment. My last client wanted a precision bob and I was so rattled by then I cut one side a quarter inch too short. Total lost money for the day was around $240 in cancellations and fixes. Has anyone else had a day that snowballed like that or was this just my bad luck?
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price.ray1mo ago
Dude that bob thing hurts just reading it! I once nicked a client's earlobe while trying to fix a similar mistake and had to explain the bandaid as a "new piercing look.
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Oh man, that sounds like a brutal day... the kind where you just wanna lock the door and crawl under the counter. I swear, bad luck in this business travels in packs like those little gnats that show up by the garden center in July. At least with your black box dye turning green, you got a free science experiment out of it... hair chemistry gone wrong. I've had days where every single thing that could go sideways did, and you just have to laugh so you don't start crying into the register tape.
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claire_young761mo ago
One thing I gotta gently push back on, the idea that black box dye turns green naturally. In my experience, black box dye usually fades to a muddy brown or reddish tone, not green. The green you see is more likely from a previous color job that had blue or green undertones mixed in, or if they had buildup from hard water minerals or chlorine reacting with the dye. The buildup you mentioned on the perm client could be a clue there, maybe that same buildup was messing with the color too. I've seen stylists blame box dye for green pulls when really it was the hair's porosity and what was already on it that caused the issue. Take this with a grain of salt, but checking the hair's history a little deeper might save you from that particular headache next time.
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