does/should your hairstylist work on 2 clients at once?

[OrangeBirdGirl]

When the stylist has my color applied and I go under the dryer she is usually doing a quick cut. Mostly a guy who is a very simple cut. I have never had to wait any longer on the dryer for her to finish up. It doesn't bother me.

 

[cinnaminny]

I pay about 250 when I go in and if she started trying to squeeze people in while my color was processing that would be the end of that. I would find a new hairdresser. I actually left a hairdresser about 7 years ago for doing this. I was doing my hair darker then and my hair was nearly black by the time she got back to me. That was the end of that.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I don't go to the beauty parlor but If someone is under the dryer, or getting a dye job and the stylist has the time to do the final style on someone's hair in the mean time, no skin off anyone's nose.

 

[nd5056]

Yep, this. Highlights, color, perms take hours to complete. They have to piggyback their customers to get everyone done. If they didn't you wouldn't be able to get in for months. I usually schedule it so that while my color is processing my kids are getting their hair cut.

Not only that, would you want to pay hourly rate times multiple hours needed for the color to set? And for being the exclusive customer???

 

[Hrhpd]

I have been going to the same stylist for a very long time, she does color and highlights on my hair. In the past couple years she has cut down her work schedule and sometimes she is doing color/highlights on me and another client at the same time, like puts mine on and as I sit with the color and she starts doing another persons color than comes back to me and rinses me when she done. I only have gone three times this year and two times now I have been unhappy one time I think she left the highlights on too long and it was super ashy almost green looking to me. She corrected that the next time, but now this past time I feel like I still have a bunch of dark roots that she missed. I cant help wondering if this is because she is working on two people at once and I was wondering if this is commonplace. Im thinking about switching to someone else if I can find someone who is recommended. I would really like a bit more consistency in how I look coming out of the salon. Plus its 125 bucks a pop just for the color. It seems to me that would warrant her undivided attention!!

I have been going to the same stylist since she got out of beauty school. She has moved up in hairstyling world and now works for a very select clientele in a very upscale salon. She is highly sought after and has a long waiting list as she is not taking new clients anymore. She is booked 2-4 months out, 6 months out for the holiday time. Her highlights and cut run me a little over $200 without tip. I only pay it because she is worth it and I am only lucky enough to be one of her clients because I stuck with her since beauty school. I certainly don't fit in with the high end clients she has now.

I only list all that because it is the way they do things at this high end salon. My appointment starts with her using the first hour putting my highlights in. Then after that I go sit in another room while it sets. As my highlights are working, she is working on another client. She checks my highlights periodically and then the hair washer washes my hair just as she is finishing up the other person.

It would be crazy to expect her to sit around and twiddle her thumbs waiting for my highlights and color to finish. That would be like taking a long break every hour. Nobody works like that. It makes sense that she uses the time I am waiting for the highlights to finish to work on another client.

That said, the booking people are very strict and very, very good at juggling all of it. They never schedule a person with a cut and color during my "down" time. It is always only someone that needs just a cut. That is one reason it is so difficult to get an appointment with her, you have to find the right time slot.

 

[mjkacmom]

I have been going to the same stylist since she got out of beauty school. She has moved up in hairstyling world and now works for a very select clientele in a very upscale salon. She is highly sought after and has a long waiting list as she is not taking new clients anymore. She is booked 2-4 months out, 6 months out for the holiday time. Her highlights and cut run me a little over $200 without tip. I only pay it because she is worth it and I am only lucky enough to be one of her clients because I stuck with her since beauty school. I certainly don't fit in with the high end clients she has now.

I only list all that because it is the way they do things at this high end salon. My appointment starts with her using the first hour putting my highlights in. Then after that I go sit in another room while it sets. As my highlights are working, she is working on another client. She checks my highlights periodically and then the hair washer washes my hair just as she is finishing up the other person.

It would be crazy to expect her to sit around and twiddle her thumbs waiting for my highlights and color to finish. That would be like taking a long break every hour. Nobody works like that. It makes sense that she uses the time I am waiting for the highlights to finish to work on another client.

That said, the booking people are very strict and very, very good at juggling all of it. They never schedule a person with a cut and color during my "down" time. It is always only someone that needs just a cut. That is one reason it is so difficult to get an appointment with her, you have to find the right time slot.

That would not be considered expensive here, I left my high end salon when highlights went up to $230, and I now go to a small one room salon with 6 chairs for about $200 for cut and color. My old salon drove me nuts, colorist, then hair washer (there were several, about 8 hair washing stations), then glaze, then another hair washer, then cutter, then blow dryer. The tipping drove me crazy! My current hair dresser will sometimes have a short appointment when my folks are in, maybe just a dye job or a guys haircut. I don’t mind at all.

 

[Hrhpd]

That would not be considered expensive here, I left my high end salon when highlights went up to $230, and I now go to a small one room salon with 6 chairs for about $200 for cut and color. My old salon drove me nuts, colorist, then hair washer (there were several, about 8 hair washing stations), then glaze, then another hair washer, then cutter, then blow dryer. The tipping drove me crazy! My current hair dresser will sometimes have a short appointment when my folks are in, maybe just a dye job or a guys haircut. I don’t mind at all.

Yup, between the highlights, cut, and tips, I usually walk out of there with my pocketbook much lighter. Due to me also sticking around for 25+ years, I get a heavy discount. Luckily, my stylist is a bit anal and only allows one person to wash hair. Nobody else can touch her client's hair for anything else, so I only have 2 tips to worry about.