1 /5 L: Gave them a try, assuming they could capably cut hair of all ethnicities and our usual place was closed. I took my young son there after school and Rell messed his hair up. I showed him a photo that my kid has been growing his hair out for months to try to replicate. I guess the haircut wasn’t “fresh” enough, because Rell made a comment that the cut wasn’t going to do him any favors. Don’t really care what you think, but Ok - should have left at that point but we agreed for it to be slightly shorter than pictured because he said it would look better, and I thought we were good. I left him to it.
Rell took it upon himself at the end to do a “line up” on a white boy’s hair and then tell me after that “he wanted it.” This child doesn’t even understand what that means or what he was agreeing to and Rell didn’t show enough respect for either of us to clarify or ask me if I wanted something that wasn’t agreed upon at the start, wasn’t in the photo I provided, and definitely didn’t go with the hair type or longer haircut style my son wanted.
The haircut looks so stupid. Rell looked amused, as if he did it on purpose (maybe we weren’t welcome there and he wanted to make sure we knew that?). He smirked like he found it funny that I was shocked and disappointed with the result. He said “you gotta let the barber know.” Dude, I showed you a picture. Nowhere in that picture was a young child with straight white boy baby hairs cut into a “line up” on a middle part undercut. His hairline looks like trash now. He has to comb his hair down over his forehead for the next few months to cover it up now. The cut was rushed. It was choppy and not well-blended on his thick straight hair. I could have watched a YouTube video and done a better job myself. This guy must be really new to cutting hair?
I found this barber to be disrespectful and predatory toward children. My kid burst into tears when we got in the car because he felt like he had done something wrong. He told me he didn’t understand what the barber had asked him, but because he felt intimidated he just said yes to whatever he said. :( The whole thing just felt gross. I did not find this place welcoming or “family friendly” as advertised. It felt unprofessional, and unsafe for my child. Lesson learned.
