Sarayah continues to hide/delete my reviews on Google, I guess to save her reputation, but I have decided to post here, because instead of doing good business and responding, she has deleted it.
Sarayah is known for going on her Instagram and SHAMING the people that write reviews (that she claims are completely inaccurate, but as an actual patron... they really do make sense).
I haven't gone to Sarayah since she was at a disgusting salon in Parsippany. I am a dual licensed cosmetologist-esthetician. I stupidly put a bleach cap in my hair and the first time it came out so good, I decided to get a little happy with it. Even though I knew better from being a professional.
I went to Sarayah because my friends had been posting about her on their Instagrams. I noticed that she had a knack for balayage, and I thought she could fix my hair by doing a REVERSE balayage.
At first, she said she could do this, and then after leaving the chair I was sitting in, she came back approximately 25 minutes later while taking care of several other clients (seemingly not allowing her assistants to do absolutely anything, and being in the industry I know that she did this so she took the entirety of the tip). She came back and said she could not do what she thought she could, and she wanted to DYE MY HAIR COMPLETELY back to brown, and then put "some lights in it".
She formulated horribly, this woman should only work with glosses and bleach. She had to reapply the haircolor because it was SO GREEN.
For a single process, generally, it should take 30-35 minutes. She had the color sit on my hair and seemed to COMPLETELY FORGET about me until she let the color sit on my head for more than AN HOUR.
She washed out, her assistant looked over her shoulder, in my opinion, desperate for work or maybe a tip, and I pointed out the green hues.
She glossed me another darker brown color.
My natural color is a VERY LIGHT BROWN.
At the sink, she sloppily added some bleach to the WET pieces of hair, and after another 30 minutes, I was finally in her chair.
(Mind you, she took a before picture of me, and she wanted to make an embarrassment out of me AS A PROFESSIONAL, she explained to me that this would "be perfect for her IG because it teaches people what NOT to do")
After 5 FULL HOURS in her salon, without a mention of a "color correction", which btw, is exponentially higher than any other service, it is courtesy usually to let the patron know what they will be paying, she didn't let me know until I got to the register.
She cut off practically all my hair, did a shitty blow-out, and pretended like a hair-wand can fix anybody's issues. My hair doesn't keep a curl for shit. To add insult to injury, she didn't take an AFTER photo, so she must've been embarrassed of her work, of me, or I was JUST TOO UGLY for her precious IG.
She is highly overrated, not personable, and I have not had a haircut SINCE THEN due to her.
Do not support her new salon. As a 21-year-old girl, without warning, she charged me over $1k for a color correction I was never warned or prepared for.
Disgrace. She is one of the nastiest people I have ever met too. read more