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  Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | I'm wanting to get my hair to a lower maintenance level. No good hair stylists near my new town. My hair is a medium blonde now. I am naturally a dark blonde/light brown. I'm wanting to color the underside to match my natural hair so that I can quit coloring it and then just keep highlights on my crown ( which I can do at home). Does anyone use Fantastic Sams? About what do they charge? |
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| I had never heard of this chain. I googled Fantastic Sam's prices. A link showed up. I clicked on it and it listed prices for everything. Don't know how accurate it is, but would probably give you an idea. They also have a public facebook page you can view even if you don't have Facebook. Good luck with the new hair. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I'm a hair dresser and I can tell you that you need to find a good stylist that specializes in color, or a Colorist. My advice would be to ask maybe on Facebook who your friends/family uses and when you find them maybe ask if they have a portfolio or pictures of their work. I'm not knocking fantastic same but they are a lower end chain salon, if you're going corporate maybe try Hair Cuttery (mainly eastern seaboard) or mastercuts or maybe even supercuts (both owned by Regis). Sometimes spending a little more money then you want will be worth it, if you go to an inexperienced stylist that doesn't understand color you may be paying twice to get it fixed anyway. Just my advice, I've been license for 10 years and I've seen it happen a lot.
I have an extensive portfolio of pictures of before and afters, I even have a Pinterest page of my hair and a hashtag on Instagram so that way people have an idea of what I can do :)
Hope that helps and hope you find someone to help you!!!! |
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| RnRJack - 2014-08-01 9:33 PM
I'm a hair dresser and I can tell you that you need to find a good stylist that specializes in color, or a Colorist. My advice would be to ask maybe on Facebook who your friends/family uses and when you find them maybe ask if they have a portfolio or pictures of their work. I'm not knocking fantastic same but they are a lower end chain salon, if you're going corporate maybe try Hair Cuttery (mainly eastern seaboard) or mastercuts or maybe even supercuts (both owned by Regis). Sometimes spending a little more money then you want will be worth it, if you go to an inexperienced stylist that doesn't understand color you may be paying twice to get it fixed anyway. Just my advice, I've been license for 10 years and I've seen it happen a lot.
I have an extensive portfolio of pictures of before and afters, I even have a Pinterest page of my hair and a hashtag on Instagram so that way people have an idea of what I can do :)
Hope that helps and hope you find someone to help you!!!!
The pricing page I found said $115 for basic color, cut, and style. If that is low end, I can't even afford to be low end. LOL |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Wow that is high for fantastic SAMs, but that would be the going rate anywhere I would suppose. Sometimes they have coupons and specials I would just call around!!! |
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Location: My own little world :) | I agree with RnRJack! And I actually did exactly what you described and I love it! My hairdresser just did a little blonde to frame my face and then kind of ombred the ends but it was very very subtle. It looks like I live on the beach! But she didn't do anything up on the top of my head so I don't have to worry about grow out lines. Go to a good salon to get the coloring you are wanting and then maybe go to fantastic sam's for trims and whatnot in the future. From my experience getting my hair done randomly at places like that I've had some really bad color jobs...like the lady doing my hair just decided to go to the food court in the mall and have lunch while my hair was processing and she had never done my hair before....almost burnt my hair right off and she tried to smooth the situation over by saying she just needed to use a little toner. And on top of that the color was awful. I asked for a long A-line cut and came out sporting a super short zebra farrah fawcett! I've also gone to someone who cut my hair two inches shorter on one side than the other. I was trying to be cheap throughout my college days but I have learned my lesson! I think more often than not when it comes to hair you get what you pay for :) |
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