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Originally Posted by qimissung
hahahah, I agree.
New question:
Say you have a butt load of hair product and promised that you wouldn't buy anymore until you used up the old stuff. Seems like a good idea but what if you don't like the products that you have. Do you 1) suck it up and use the bad product until it's gone or 2) toss out bad product to make way for new product?
I'd definately throw the old hair products out; at least once a year, six months for open hair dye products. It sucks being bald:sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm a major cheapskate, so I'd use the product I already have (unless I really hate it).Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Depends how much I dislike the products... If they are really not helping, I would go and get something new... but first I would do a little soul searching to see if I am just in the mood for some hair product shopping and making excuses.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Throw it out!!!
My hair is my favourite (physical) thing about myself. It gets better quality products than I get quality food.
Speaking of coffee...Starbucks has the seasonal Peppermint Mocha Latte...I want one NOW. Why is Starbucks closed for Thanksgiving. uggh.
If I disliked the hair product, I would throw it out and get something new. But if I disliked that I would probably suck it up and use it. There's only so much throwing out one can do, alas.
And Shalot, I'm sorry Starbucks isn't open today, especially since they are a soulless corporation, having sold their tiny little souls to the devil long ago, probably for less than the price of a seasonal Peppermint Mocha Latte.
It's okay. I'm surprised they weren't open. It used to upset me when I worked in a store that was open on Thanksgiving day. I would be pissed that I had to work. Someone was telling me that Starbucks was actually a good company to work for, in that industry. I was just whining last night - that's all. I'm actually glad Starbucks was closed. The only places that should remain open on Holidays are hospitals, police stations and fire stations. The rest of the world should take time off. Unfortuanately, that's not how it is in 24/7 America.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Salon Hair Care Products: Do you feel obligated to buy them? I always get told that I need to use certain salon hair care products when I get my hair done. My hair is too dry so I need to spend $45 on the Bumble and Bumble Creme De Cocoa shampoo and conditioner combo. My hair has been colored so I need to buy "Color Preserve" shampoo and conditioner. I need to buy the volumizing mouse as well....How do you deal with these add-on-sales at the end of a salon visit?
I know that the stylists are probably told that they have to push the product...if they weren't told that then I wouldn't be "prescribed" products every time I went to the salon. But I get to the point where I dread getting my hair done. I have prepared several defense tactics for this. One of them involves not going to the same hair stylist...that way they can't figure out how to counter my reasons for not buying whatever overpriced salon product they're trying to push on me.
I'd state what they are here, but then I'm afraid some hairstylist might read them and then they'd know what to tell clients in advance in response to their excuses as to why they (the clients) don't need to buy what they're pushing.
For instance, I was in the chair and the girl asked me what kind of shampoo I had and I told her that I was using a product that they sold in that salon and that I had just bought it so I had plenty. Then she told me why I needed to not use that product and use a different kind that they also sold in that salon. She said that with my new color it would be best if I used such and such because it would help me maintain the color longer.
Another time, a stylist told me what I was using stripped hair color and and was cheap and that I needed to buy what they were selling.
I just feel pressured every time I go. I'm tired of buying hair products.
Salon Hair Products - Just Say No.
Well, say No, thank you, not this time - with a smile, of course. But then, I was born awkward - if someone tries to push something on me that I don't want, I can dig my heels in and keep on saying 'No': the smile gradually fades, then look out...
Would I throw out stuff that was actually not doing my hair any good? Yes, after giving it another try, just to be sure. :) Same goes for make-up: it is with great regret that the Aloe Vera stuff I bought from the Body Shop a few months back is being gradually pushed binwards - it suddenly seems to be making my skin itch, no visible rash, I just want to scratch it when I've got it on. Has Aloe Vera had the same effect on anyone else? Ah well, back to Boots Botanics.
That's one of the very few drinks that Starbucks makes that I actually like- probably going to get one today :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Yeah, I think Starbucks offers benefits, which for companies where the people are probably working for minimum wage is very good indeed. I was just trying to be humorous, the idea being that all corporations are soulless.
As to hair care products, I just say "No thanks." It usually works.
I always sound like a dumbass when I get pressured at the hair salon. I always pretend like I don't remember the name of the products I'm using, I'll say something like "I can't remember what I use but it's in a blue bottle and I love it". Perhaps I should be a little more straight forward. Next time I think I'll try "Oh I'm set on hair products, thank you"?
Tell them that you wash your hair with bar soap.
I remember this great hair product back in the 1970's; it made my hair so shiny and gave it so much body. At some point I looked up the ingrediants and found it was made from animal afterbirth:sick:
omigod, when did it become okay to say a*s*s on litnet?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
man, I sound like dumbass pretty much all the time, not just in the salon. What's really dumbass is the hair product "prescription." That just irritates me. I don't know if anyone else has ever encountered a hair products "prescription" but the place I've been going to (for their reasonably priced quality services) has printed out a prescription pad for their stylists to use...oh it's the stupidest thing. the hair stylists take out this little pad and write down what they used on my hair and then they present me with the prescription. If I were a hair stylist, I would feel stupid doing that.
Anyone else here ever receive a "prescription" for hair care products? :rolleyes: