Does this sound familiar?
My experience with getting my hair shampooed:
Every time I visited a hair salon, no matter which one I went to, I dreaded getting my hair shampooed. I went through a similar experience every time.
The stylist would take me back to the shampoo area and sit me down in one of the shampoo chairs. Once the shampoo process started, I could feel the warm trickling of water on my head. Before the hair was completely wet, the shampoo was applied and the massaging and scrubbing began.
I would sit there thinking, okay it’s beginning to feel good… just apply more pressure to your finger tips and keep going. Well, no matter how much I wished for a stronger and a more stimulating massage, the weak finger pressure of the stylist never stepped up.
It always felt like she was sliding her fingers on the surface of my scalp, causing my scalp to get more itchy.
After moving her fingers around the top of my head, she would lift my head to shampoo my back hairline area. Well, it was more of the same. The stylist would go back and forth around my back hairline area several times and believe it or not, it was over!
Oh, how I wanted to scream… “Don’t stop now, keep going. You got my scalp really itching now, apply more pressure and keep going!” Well, no matter how much I screamed silently, it did not do any good. The water was turned on again and the hair was already in the rinsing stage…. Again, my back neckline area was completely missed during the rinsing procedure.
To make matters worse, the stylist put a gob of conditioner on my hair and again, never rinsed it out thoroughly. I would think, “well, this is great, now on top of my not so clean scalp, you’re putting more stuff on my hair to gummy it up”. Again I screamed silently,
“I want my scalp and hair to feel stimulated and clean!”
My bad experience did not end here. Back at the styling bar, the stylist put more styling gels and pomades on my hair as she began the blow-out process of my hair.
By the time I was done, I felt like my head was dunked in grease. My hair laid limp and lackluster and the worst part was, it felt dirty. I could hardly wait to get home so I can wash all the stuff out of my hair and give myself a stimulating shampoo.
On the way home, I would wonder why they couldn’t understand what I wanted out of my shampoo experience. The things I wanted did not seem that difficult nor would it take more time for them to do. Why, why, why do I have to pay them and go home to start all over again? Oh how I hated those lackluster and weak shampoo!
Every time I visited a hair salon, no matter which one I went to, I dreaded getting my hair shampooed. I went through a similar experience every time.
The stylist would take me back to the shampoo area and sit me down in one of the shampoo chairs. Once the shampoo process started, I could feel the warm trickling of water on my head. Before the hair was completely wet, the shampoo was applied and the massaging and scrubbing began.
I would sit there thinking, okay it’s beginning to feel good… just apply more pressure to your finger tips and keep going. Well, no matter how much I wished for a stronger and a more stimulating massage, the weak finger pressure of the stylist never stepped up.
It always felt like she was sliding her fingers on the surface of my scalp, causing my scalp to get more itchy.
After moving her fingers around the top of my head, she would lift my head to shampoo my back hairline area. Well, it was more of the same. The stylist would go back and forth around my back hairline area several times and believe it or not, it was over!
Oh, how I wanted to scream… “Don’t stop now, keep going. You got my scalp really itching now, apply more pressure and keep going!” Well, no matter how much I screamed silently, it did not do any good. The water was turned on again and the hair was already in the rinsing stage…. Again, my back neckline area was completely missed during the rinsing procedure.
To make matters worse, the stylist put a gob of conditioner on my hair and again, never rinsed it out thoroughly. I would think, “well, this is great, now on top of my not so clean scalp, you’re putting more stuff on my hair to gummy it up”. Again I screamed silently,
“I want my scalp and hair to feel stimulated and clean!”
My bad experience did not end here. Back at the styling bar, the stylist put more styling gels and pomades on my hair as she began the blow-out process of my hair.
By the time I was done, I felt like my head was dunked in grease. My hair laid limp and lackluster and the worst part was, it felt dirty. I could hardly wait to get home so I can wash all the stuff out of my hair and give myself a stimulating shampoo.
On the way home, I would wonder why they couldn’t understand what I wanted out of my shampoo experience. The things I wanted did not seem that difficult nor would it take more time for them to do. Why, why, why do I have to pay them and go home to start all over again? Oh how I hated those lackluster and weak shampoo!
Tips on how to get a good shampoo:
Do not settle for a shampoo which does not live up to your expectations.
Give direction to your stylist as to how you like your head shampooed.
If it feels good, tell your stylist to do more of it.
Be assertive and get what you want, you deserve to have a good shampoo experience.
Your scalp needs good circulation of blood flow to stimulate healthy growth of hair.
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