My salon experience...
Dread Products
Today I went into a salon, called Furr, on King Street in Newtown Sydney.Having just arrived in Sydney with only a relatively small backpack of belongings, I needed to buy some shampoo for my dreads. I spotted this place and thought they would be able to help. Yes, they could help, the guy (possibly the owner) showed me a bar of Knotty Boy shampoo and suggested that would be better than the bottled stuff. Great!He then looked at my hair and said my dreads looked very new, and that whoever did them for me had done a terrible job. I explained my wife had done them (tnr method) about 2-3 months ago, to which he then said she hadn't done a bad job, but I should be very disappointed if a salon had done them.Admittedly, my dreads look scruffy at the moment, with lots of flyaway hairs. Anyway, he then told me that I should be using WAX (!!) to keep my hair tidy and to encourage the roots to knot up better. I told him that my research had shown that wax was not a good thing, and could/would encourage mould within the dreads. He laughed at my suggestion and told me that I was wrong. He then showed me his portfolio of dreads that he has redone for people after other salons had made a mess of their hair, and then told me that he could fix my dreads and that I would have to return in a couple of months to have them tidied up!!I said that I would just take the shampoo for now. At this point he disappeared and got a member of staff to take my money for the shampoo. I didn't hear another word from him... Did he not like it that I refused to accept what he was telling me, and that, perhaps, I knew more than him?! I should add here that I am, by no means, an expert on this subject!I did not like the guys sales technique, i.e. telling me that my hair looked terrible and then trying to pressure me into buying some wax. I will not be returning to his shop, unless it is to show him how good my dreads look in a few months time!!It did get me thinking though... Is there a "dread-safe" alternative to using wax? I know that 'dreads will make themselves look good over time' and that 'there is no such thing as a perfect dread', but could I use something like Locking Gel (Jamaican Mango & Lime, for instance) to achieve a similar effect of using wax but without doing the damage to my hair?Peace and love! =)e2a: It wasn't until I left the shop that I realised how terrible this guy's hair was (blue, curly, and with a few dreads hanging down each side of his face), and it made me laugh that he dared have the cheek to criticise other people's hair! Hilarious, and spoke volumes about him and his shop... =)
updated by @mr-nice: 01/13/15 08:50:47PM
