THIS PLACE HAS GONE WAY DOWN HILL-LYING TO CLIENTS, FRAUDULENT PRACTICES, TERRIBLE CUT
Here's a brief summary of my experience for anyone who does not have the time to read the full saga below: I was lied to about prices that weren't honored, I was charged for services that were not provided, I received sub par services, including chemicals that damaged my hair, and I was almost certainly lied to about who management was and treated disrespectfully by that "management."
Full Saga: I had first gone to Faces Plus Salon on a groupon, about 4 months ago. Gerardo did my hair (cut and highlights) and I was very happy with the outcome, this first time. So much so that I was willing to do the 40 minute drive again about a week ago (just before Christmas) to get my hair cut & highlighted there again, requesting Gerardo. I'm a busy Mom with 3 kids so this was a big deal for me to go all this way again to make this happen. I knew I'd pay more this time around, obviously, without a Groupon, but I wanted to make sure it wouldn't be ridiculous - so before making the appointment I asked the receptionist what Gerardo's normal prices are. She would not give me any actual numbers, but would only say that "our normal prices are only slightly higher than our Groupon rates."
Ok, so fast forward to my first attempt at this appointment. After making the long drive in some light snow and low visibility, I get to the office only to find out that, "oh sorry, Gerardo's called in sick today. We tried calling you but I don't think we have your right number." Well, I know for a fact that I gave them my new cell phone number when I made the appointment and told them so. They told someone else was going to fill in for him and should be in "soon." I decided to leave and said I would call to reschedule.
Second appointment: I was running 15 minutes before I left the house, so I called to let them know. I was very pointed in asking if it was ok that I was running late and if Gerardo would still have time to for the appointment. I made it clear I did not want him to rush and could always reschedule it. They assured me everything would be fine. When I got to the appointment it took about 15 more minutes for Gerardo to even appear from the back and start on my hair. He told me we would only have time to partial highlights instead of the full highlights I'd requested .As he was mixing the color for the foils, I asked again about the price for cut and highlights. He told me the total would be $150 for the cut, partial highlights, and blow out. Well, the price for FULL highlights, cut and a blowout on the groupon was $98 so I informed of what I was told on the phone and how this was definitely not in line with that. (To give you an apples to apples comparison, Faces Plus groupon price for blow out, cut & partial highlights is currently $67 - vs. $150 full price.) He said he'd speak to the manager, he at that point he said was named Jen - later when he told me it was a no-go, he referred to her as Careen.
Meanwhile, time went on, and he took a series of obvious shortcuts on my hair: First, he left the foils in for literally about third of the time I normally have them in. I've been getting highlights for 15 years or so I'm well aware of the average time my hair takes with foils. I asked how he could get my desired color in this short amount of time and this still be safe for my hair and he gave me some BS story about how it's fine to do it this quickly as long as the stylist is extra vigilant. Further into the process, I received a "glaze" (that I paid an extra $30 for) that he left on less than a minute, a cut that took off length only, without any of the long layers I'd requested, and a face frame curled up at the ends to try to look like like the face frame I'd actually requested.
When I finally went up to pay, I asked who was the manger and a girl in her early twenties with long brown hair responded that she was. She kind of had a smirk on her face, like this may or may not be true. She was clearly ready for me, and made no attempt whatsoever to smooth things over. (Besides not offering any discount, she made no attempt to be nice, or sympathetic, or to apologize for my dissatisfaction in any way.) . For example, I couldn't even fully get out the sentence about what the woman on the phone had told me on the phone before this young woman was cutting me off and asking, "Did she give you an actual price?" "Did you get an actual number?" (Smirk, smirk, smirk.) Give this one up after the Groupon (or better yet skip it altogether.) read more