Fred Segal Haircut

I was walking along Third Street Promenade when a girl from Fred Segal Salon approached me. She said that she was looking for a hair model to do a contemporary short runway hairstyle and if I was interested and it will be free. I needed a haircut anyway and it's Fred Segal so I thought why not. I didn't think it would be one of the worst hair cut experience in my life. I had the worst haircut experience in college so I wouldn't rank this to be the worst. It's second from the worst.

The hair salon is totally poshe. They have a beautiful waiting lounge with awesome couches. The hair stylist, Hannah, took me to the booth. washed my hair, and started working on the new cut. There were about seven other hair models in the room. They were all getting the same haircut. Hannah worked on my hair one strand at a time. I was impressed by how meticulous she was but I also noticed early on that the length of my hair on one side was a bit longer than the other. 30 minutes into the appointment, I was already getting tired and my hair was still as long as when I walked into the salon. I was getting frustrated but I guess I got myself into this free haircut situation....

I don't know what the issue was with Hannah but she was not a typical hair stylist. Hannah had bad eye sight. I'm sure a lot of hair stylists do. But I've never seen anyone repeatedly put on and removed her glasses as she worked on my hair. In addition, during the 2.5 hour session, she dropped her comb and her sissors number of times. She would cut my hair every so slowly, and at the end, I got the "runway" mushroom cut! I had this haircut when I was in kindergarten!

This so-called runway cut was a style that's really "in" these days, Hannah said. But she wanted to give me a more textured look. Since I wasn't all that thrilled with my retro kindergarten look, I said ok, go ahead.

So she started chomping on my hair to create texture. 3 minutes into the chomping, she screamed and I saw blood. She cut her finger instead of my hair!!!! Agh! I wanted to run but I was in no condition to do so. She left for 10 minutes, came back to finish really quickly, and I dashed out of the salon without getting my hair dried.

At home, when I got all the gel out of my hair, I got some comments from my family. My mom said, I told you not to do it. My husband said, it's not even. My sister said, it's crooked and it looks like there's a patch missing. My son, since he can't talk yet, he just stared at me with big eyes. Thanks everyone.

I'm too cheap to go get it fixed right now. I'm going to let it grow out a bit, then get it fixed. No more hair models. And what's the big deal with Fred Segal???