So, some sisters go natural and spend hundreds of dollars with the loc-tician. I freely admit that although enlightened I continue to perm. At some point, I will leave the chemicals behind but for now I am an "8-weeker." That's how often I perm. So, generally because it isn't cost prohibitive, I look up my "hermanas Dominicanas" (Dominican sistas) for wash and sets on a weekly basis. Now, I freely admit that I don't expect lattes and wine for my $20 haircare experience but I'm saying--there should be some basic things. My biggest complaint about my regular hairspot is that when you walk you will think that you are in the plaza in D.R. Loud music, loud women, ringing cellphones, sistas on them talking about confronting the side chick, dudes running through to see if "she-where-she-said-she-was" type things.
That being said, the convenience and the skills of my hair person outweigh the drama, so I suck it up and go once a week. My senses are assaulted but my hair is fabulous. So since my hair place is in the city and I'm not, I have a back up place that I use. The contrast is night and day. The place is beautifully decorated someone greets me at the door AND it's always swept and mopped. So, what's the problem? Well, let's start with they are 10-6. I am a get in-get out person. I could be finished at 10:00 in the regular spot because they open at 8, 7:30 if you work it out with your hairgirl.
I am also bothered by what appears to be a lack of reinvestment strategy in both places. Cityspot has 8 hairdressers, two shampoo girls, 16 dryers and two sinks. Poor design to start with but hey. Countryspot has 4 sinks, 5 hairdressers, a roller girl and 10 dryers. So, at cityspot, assuming that nobody is there to perm, and every dryer is full they are making $240 every hour. Countryspot charges more and has faster dryers so they are making slightly more. So, why oooh why does the toilet tank look like this? Ladies, reinvest your profits. I think so...and what?
Efforts to display displeasure with the management after a bad cut have obviously been "foiled" Perhaps the porcelain top is in a safe place... I once met a Middle Eastern barkeep that refused to supply papertowels in the men's room. His explanation was that patrons continued to throw them in the urinals and toilets instead of the trash bins, "so let them wipe their ass with their finger..."
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