Great Clips Parkway Plaza
Reviews
I basically have the easiest haircut a stylist could dream of -- a buzzcut with a small fade. They always mess it up when I notice 2 days later. It seems like there's different stylists there everytime -- must be a high turnover rate. I always leave them a $2 tip hoping it will get better.. Nope. My days of Great Clips coupons are coming to an end -- will be moving to a barber shop.
Wow. We took our school age child there before pictures and the stylist, Theresa, did a fine job and made us want to return. When we took him back, they insisted that MIRTHA had cut his hair the last time so against our judgement we let Mirtha handle it. The kid has a pretty simple straight haircut, nothing stylized, just some hair holding down a good personality. He's also not fidgety or difficult in anyway - this is according to every stylist we've used before who has complimented how easy he is to deal with. Then comes Mirtha… She managed to make his personality into that of a kid who looks like he cuts his own hair. She left the sides uneven, there was variance in the thickness throughout the hair, clumps of hair were abound, and the lines all around weren't straight. One side, had a pointy sideburn, the other had a much shorter squared off one, and it was lopsided. We didn't notice this because Mirtha covered it up by using styling product to conceal the issues, creating a tussled look. After combing it out at home, we noticed the issue and returned to the shop. Mirtha immediately acknowledged the issue and stated that she had problems because the hair was wet. (????) First of all, if cutting wet hair falls outside her skill level, then why didn't she dry it first? How is wet hair a problem? Secondly, and this seems major: his hair was completely dry when we brought him in - so if it was wet, that was because she made it wet. Most of all, I'm 36 years old and have always been led to believe that cutting wet (damp) hair is easier for straight hair, accounting for it appearing slightly shorter when dry - not totally uneven and looking like it was cut by a drunken rodeo clown riding a unicycle while reciting all of Warren Beatty's lines from Shampoo in pig latin. The shop issued a refund, but good ole Martha took quite a bit of hassle to return the small perfunctory tip we left. Unreal. The fact that she was fully aware that she screwed the kids hair up, attempted to cover it up, then tried to blame water when called out on what amounts to a lack of skill in cutting hair that is completely straight… I can't say that all the stylists there are as bad as Mirtha, because Theresa was fine, but if Mirtha's your stylist, I'd run. We are not picky at all in regards to hairstyle (while my wife does use a expensive salon, I cut my own hair and don't expect my son to look perfectly primmed) -- We cannot believe that a person would send a kid out looking like they did, much less knowing they had screwed up. That's not a quality you would expect from someone who's working to provide services to the public. It's really a bummer for us, because we previously had his hair cut at the salon my wife uses and it's pricey. I don't cut his hair myself, because unlike Mirtha, I wouldn't be at all okay with messing it up. I've only ever cut my own hair and not someone else's. I can say with confidence, however, that I could have done a better job than Mirtha, but I also think my kid couldn't have done much worse himself. We are just unhappy that we're left turning our back on this place because the price was decent, but apparently too good to be true if someone like Mirtha makes it past the interview process.