About 6 months ago I was living in LA and went to a highly respected and very expensive microbead extension salon. I dropped about $1700 not including another few hundred dollar tip. For those who are unaware of how the microbeads work, basically you have to go back in every 4-6 weeks for a "bead raise" as your hair grows out. If you don't do this they'll be way too far down from your scalp and will start detaching from your head (and would look ridiculous). The lady who did my hair warned me that she puts in the beads in an unusual and specific way, and that if I traveled elsewhere I wouldn't be able to find anyone who could give me raises because of that fact. Basically, she said it *has* to be her who does the upkeep.
Well, dancing was terrible for me in LA so I left and ended up across the country. Somehow despite what my stylist said, I found a stylist who took a look at the beads and, while she said she had never seen/done it that way herself, she quickly and easily figured it out and I've been seeing her for raises for the past few months. It was truly a fluke of luck that she knew what to do; I had to see a few different stylists before I found one experienced enough to adapt to the situation.
Now I'm about to return to LA for an extended period of time and I texted my original hair lady that I would need a raise while I'm in town. She replied that I would need a removal and reapplication (which is $600, opposed to a raise which is $75) since it had been such a long time since my last raise. As soon as I explained to her that I found someone else to give me raises while I was traveling and wouldn't need a re-app, she left me on read and quit replying. Prior to that she had been replying quickly and it's been a couple days now so I'm pretty sure she's pissed and is ignoring me.
I'm not really sure what to do here - I'm considering sending her a follow-up text of some sort, asking if I need to find someone else. I didn't really have much of a choice honestly - I can't just fly into LA every month to maintain my extensions lol.
Is it standard for hair stylists to get pissed about this sort of thing, even if it was nothing personal and you were traveling? If I had let my extensions go unmaintained for all that time they would look AWFUL right now and would likely have detached from my head.



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I've been doing my own coloring , extensions, whatever to my own dam head in the privacy of myself since. Don't let stylists bully you!




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