Review: Female Haircut--Esprit Salon, Vivo City

>> Disclaimer: This post contains some serious complains. [Why do I always give reviews only when I need to complain? ;-p~] I am still a nice person, though. ;-) <<



I am confirmed to have bad hair days for at least a month from now! :-( I have been having huge disappointments with hair salons in Singapore! Sucks!



First, Jean Yip Plaza Singapura.. I insisted to cut my hair shorter than the hairdresser would like to cut it, and he was pouting the whole time he cut my hair.. Lucky that he was a good hairdresser, though, so I was actually quite satisfied with the result.. Just..it would've been nicer if they could have friendlier attitude towards their customers..



Second, Jean Yip Vivo City.. Gosh, I love to hate this salon so much.. I agree that they have talented hairdressers, but this salon is soooooo money-oriented.. I can understand that they need to sell to keep the business going, but pleaseeeeeeeee....we go to a hair salon to relax and enjoy ourselves being serviced, not to become defensive over a lot of unbelievably expensive treatment offers or packages or magic wonder shampoo and conditioner every single time we come! Stop it already! Gosh.. Dry hair, hair loss, scalp treatments, bla bla bla... Thanks for making us go to the salon feeling not pretty because of all the 'weaknesses' that we have with our hair!



Another thing is that...my sister's boyfriend bought a haircut package which basically consists of 7 haircuts @$22 each. Bla bla bla, they said that it can only be used by my sister and her boyfriend because it was their package. The audit team will not approve this bla bla bla. First of all, my sister name is not listed anywhere in that package thing that her boyfriend bought either, but she could still get the haircut..so how do they justify that it's a package bought by both of them? Second of all, how the heck will the audit team check who's going to use what?!?! They could've just use the name in the package card all along and it would be okay.. It is a prepaid package, it is not like we are cheating or not willing to pay or anything.. Plus, this package can actually be used in other Jean Yip stores, too, so how does that make sense? They can just be honest and say that they are trying to get me to buy another package or something, which by the way, will not happen.. I'll try other Jean Yip stores, thank you!



Last but not least (in terms of which one is worse), the Esprit salon, Vivo City.. Oh gosh.. I don't even know where to start.. It is just simply bad!!! :-(



The fellow didn't really know how to cut hair, and he could still call himself a 'stylist'??? Are you kidding?!?@!?$%@#!?! Please, if you want to go there, avoid 'Wan'; this guy is super duper amateur!!!! He gave a lot of 'give me a minute' excuses to do god-knows-what.. Dude, you can have your break when you have no customer?! And he gave me a 'trim' and some layers without any model...when he claimed that he was done, I was all confused, I was like, "Wait, you're done? What did you cut?" It looked almost the same with before I came into the salon except for the shortened fringe, which wasn't that good at all, and the right side of my hair was shorter than the left side! He then said, "See, when customer walked in, we had to take customer's instructions and cut just based on that..bla bla bla..." Hellow?! I am not a trained hairstylist...I can give you rough guidelines of what I want, I want to keep the length, or I want to keep it 2 cm shorter, or I want to get layers... I have gone to hair salons probably almost hundreds of times, but I never had to instruct the hairstylist to do exactly what?! If I would have known what exactly to do with the hair, I would've been a hairstylist myself, not an IT girl.. Duh?!? Also, I didn't remember to give him instruction on cutting my right side of the hair shorter than my left side?! Excuses, excuses.. He only needs to admit that he sucks!



Gosh...it was so not worth it.. If I were to know what exactly to do with my hair and how exactly to do it, I would just go to some $10 express haircut, not the fancy Esprit salon, and instruct the auntie to do my haircut based on my instructions... Why do I need to pay a freaking $38 for nothing?!? He didn't even style my hair, I had to choose my own style..he just cut..you know..wasting my $38.. I mean, you don't order a painter to draw you a painting and list every single detail on what and how the painter should draw it.. You give a general instruction of what you want him to draw, but the painter should have his own creativity poured into the painting..what color combinations to be used, etc.. Only that way that the painting could worth the value..



Ugh, I'm still pissed...feeling like chopping somebody's head, to be exact.. And this is how amateur Wan is... He cut my neck with his scissors! He was lucky that no blood was coming out of my neck; otherwise, I would be really mad..not that I wasn't already... I have been having my hair cut for 24.5 years, I had never experienced anything like this! Remember 'Fly Me To Polaris'? In that movie, Cecilia Cheung's character accidentally cut Richie Ren's character's ear.. It was cute and lovey-dovey in the movie, but trust me, it was not romantic at all in real life.. I really wanted to hit his head with a hardcover dictionary or something...



Argh!!! The only thing I can do is to wash my hair 3 times a day or something so that it will grow so fast, and I will definitely not go back to Esprit salon anywhere for a haircut! It is a shame that Esprit salon hired such an amateur... He fits better in a $9 express cut box! Seriously!



So, save your ears and neck, people!! You'd be better off bringing some earplugs to Vivo City's Jean Yip than having to pay for having part of your ears gone in some salon inside a clothing store!!!

Reference: http://kiddygurl.blogspot.com/2008/06/review-female-haircut-esprit-salon-vivo.html