My day started off great. Woke up right on time, made it to work in time, and stayed real busy the first few hours and was making good money!
It was about 12:30 when this 17 yr old girl walked in and wanted to do an all over solid color. So im thinkin.. easy! (Little did i know...) I took her back to my chair, did a consultation, quoted her a price, and got to work! Her hair was black and she wanted to be a light brown.. now for those of you that don’t do hair it’s really hard to get someone that light from that dark, the only way to do it is bleaching it. So i did a bleach cap on her which means i put bleach all over her hair and sat her under the dryer. Usaully this takes about 20 min, but of course her hair was being dificult and after an hour and 15 she was finally ready. So the bleach lifted the color to an orange which is what it was supposed to do, then you throw the color she wants over that. (hope this is making sense :)) Now i had never done this type of corrective color before so of course all this time i had my co-workers helping me. I then put an ash based color over that because the ash cancels out the orange... after her 30 minutes of processing was up i rinsed her out and... well... her hair was GREEN!!!!
Ya, i know... awful... so the mom comes over and says “um i see green” and im thinkin “no kidding lady im not color blind!” So i explaind to them what happened and tried to tell them again that going that dark that she was to how light she wanted would be a process... blah blah blah whatever! So after the mom is done yelling at me i went to the back to mix up another color... however when i was walking back i accidently ran into the shelves that contained all the retail product.. and i must have hit it pretty dang hard, because the product flew everywhere and about 150-200 dollars worth of prodcut shattered and spilled all of the floor....
Need i also remind you that this is on a saturday when hair salons are always super busy... so imagine all the clients watching me turn a girls hair green and spill product everywhere, they were all probably thinking “hope she doesn’t do my hair!” To make matters worse, the majority of the product i spilled was called a smoothing serum which, ladies, as you know its the product that is really oily and illiminates frizz. This product is oil based, and so think of how oil is on tile... really really slippery.. Right after i spilled it everywhere, an old man walked across and slipped and fell into the other product shelf, and that product went flying everywhere as well.. oh dear.. at this point im in the back crying wishing i could run away!!!!! But it doesn’t stop there, one of the stylists slips and falls all the way to the ground and gets hurt so she left early from work. So now we have injured clients, injured stylists, chemically injured 17 yr old girl and emtionally injured me. Sigh...
On the plus side after 4 and half hours i got miss green hair out the door with a gorgeous color that she loved. We tried to contact the owner all day to help clean it up but she never answered, so im dreading telling her what happened as you can imagine! But if anyone ever wants green hair i know how now!! Or if you have green hair and want to get rid of it i can do that too! The best part about this lovely experience i had today was when Cory came in and surprised me with a drink and my favorite candy...
What a sweet boyfriend i have!! Thanks cory! :) But the silly boy he is had to make a scene when he came in and walked across my mess i made and announced to everyone “wow its really slippery”... haha oh what fun we have together :)
Hopefully i will never have another day like this! I am so relieved the days over!!
