Shorty's Barber Shop
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (818) 495-4913
04/16/2008 Posted by drwordsmith
I went here after reading the near-unanimous praise heaped upon it here and was sorely disappointed. I asked for something simple: for a trim and to keep the same style. I explained the two ways I wear my hair-- one for work, another for play-- and even gave a demonstration. I even said how that result has been achieved by previous stylists, by texturing and varying the length in certain places. While she seemed attentive, she ended up not doing what I asked. It's not even that she did something different; she just did a poor job. My hair now has blocky edges, and there are areas that she seems to have totally missed. While she did use clippers to trim the back, she never even used clippers to trim around my ears. My hair is still a mess around there. She textured maybe three fingers-full of hair in what is a pretty large head of hair. The stylist was friendly and the collaged walls were nice and all, but my haircut just wasn't that great. I've had much better service at other places, even places that are much cheaper. Perhaps my mistake was not choosing to go with a "senior stylist" who would have cost a bit more. If that is the case, though, I'm troubled by the two tiers of service varying so drastically. To boot, I was sent out the door with very wet, unstyled hair that was combed down, even though I said a few times that I wear my hair up. I was just astonished that there was no offer to style my hair before I left, especially considering that they sell their own house brand of styling product. Now that I'm home and able to style it, I realize that this isn't the haircut I asked for at all. This might be a great place to see and be seen, but for me it's no place to have my hair cut.
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