The plan was to meet last night at World Outreach for the preaching of the word of God by Pastor Jackson with the Matthew West concert to follow. When we got there it was crazy filled with people so much so that they had people parking on the grass. I thought I would drive through the church parking areas to see if there were actually some parking spots left in any of the parking lots. I found none so I connected with my friends, and we decided to go to dinner and that is just what we did. Dinner along with fellowship and a little shopping too at The Painted Tree store. I did not need anything, but my friend wanted me to show her where the 12 Stone Art pieces were located in the store. I did and she purchased a couple. I also introduced her to the Swan Creek Candle Co. natural soy candle collection. They come from Ohio, and they are a very good quality soy, clean burning candle. They are made in the USA also. I do not burn candles anymore but do like the wax melts. I saw they had a new shipment of wax melts, well, they call them Break Apart Drizzle Melts and they had Christmas scents out. I just may have to go back and explore the new scents to see what I would like with the holiday's right around the corner.
I am telling you that women are getting over charged for the price of haircuts at local salons. As opposed to the price men pay for a haircut at the same salon. Why is that? I noticed this twice now at the salon I go to. Last time I was there about 3 weeks ago I inquired of the price difference with my stylist. Both the male customer that was before me and I both had short haircut styles. Why when he checked out, he was only charged 34.00 and my short haircut style as a woman was the going rate of 50.00. Same hair shampoo and scalp massage was given to both and about the same time given to cut both customers hair. Sounds a bit like price gouging to me do you agree? I also noticed at her station a sign announcing she advanced to the next level and that of course means a price increase. So, going from 50.00 for just a haircut will now be 60.00. I gingerly inquired as to if she attended further schooling or training to merit/justify the price increase. None, I guess it is all based on the revenue you bring into the salon and a growing customer base. That is deception because one of the prior stylists then moved up the ladder even elevated above my current stylist, and I used to go to her when I had shorter hairstyles. Let me tell you about that. She did not know how to texturize to create the look of the haircut when I showed her the picture. She brought over one of the owner stylists to show her how to texturize my hair to get the look. So, I think she got it right about 1 or 2 times and then no more. She is very nice and is a Christian woman, but I had the talk she gave to me ... maybe another stylist could create the look for me, so I then went to 1 of the owners and they did fine for a few haircuts then they gave a poor haircut in which within 1 week I was back at the salon with another stylist cleaning up what he did not do. He had the notice at his station announcing his new advanced title. No further education or training but he was now going from 60.00 a haircut to 70.00.
I then started booking my haircut appointments with the stylist that was able to look at the picture and create the look @ 50.00 per haircut. I see the pattern here; they will consciously study the picture the first few times then they tend to do their own thing and paying attention to detail sort of goes wayside. The only saving grace about my haircut 3 weeks ago was that I earned 25.00 off of that haircut to only find myself back for another appointment to re-do the haircut with precision detailing being done yesterday. She did not have to wash my hair or do the scalp massage because I already washed my hair and did not put on any product so it would be good to go for her to fix up the haircut. She did not even style the hair or place any product in my hair after the cut. Guess what that haircut cost me, 50.00. Needless to say, I did not give a tip yesterday. Oh, I did bake pepperoni cheese bread yesterday and I did bring her a slice of that. It was still warm too. I would make that recipe again, definitely so. As I am checking out a man was next to me that had much longer hair then I did, and his stylist charged him 40.00 for his haircut. Are you following this picture here. Women are being taken advantage of when it comes to the cost of their haircuts versus what men pay. Something is just not right here. I can honestly say that this current hairstyle is not worth 75.00 and to have 2 haircuts within 3 weeks' time frame. I just may have to go back to the Paul Mitchell school that trains upcoming stylists to see if they can create the look I am achieving. Men be thankful that you get charged much lower rates then women do for the same time sitting in the stylist's chair. How are salons going to handle this current scenario that we exist in nowadays ... a woman comes into the salon and announces she feels like a man that day and not a woman. Will they be prepared to honor the cost reduction of paying the fee for a man's haircut versus the fee for a womans haircut. I'm just saying ....... We really do live in questionable times today don't we.
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