This is not for services rendered but rather my initial experience with the technician. My understanding is this is a permanent makeup artist that is stationed inside of the Montage salon in Roseville. The whole interaction was very odd and I was left somewhat confused and a little irritated. First things first, I find a Groupon for microblading online. For those of you who are unfamiliar, microblading is where they tattoo your eyebrows on but it's feathered and done in a way that gives the appearance of real brows.. Not your typical Chola brows.. LOL. I come across the Groupon and its states 3D, (as in three dimensional) microblading for eyebrows. $239. Groupon is also running a 25% off deal up to $50, so I decide to call the technician to see if I can bypass Groupon and buy directly from her to do her the favor of saving her Groupons fee. I like to help out local businesses that are just starting out. She says that would be great and then gives me the rundown of services and prices. Now here's where it gets confusing and a little shady.. She tells me she won't give me a better price than Groupon or even match them, but she will give me a 50% off price on touch ups which are $150. I thought $150 for touch-ups with pretty steep, especially because she insisted that it's absolutely necessary considering half of the color comes off within a month. Ok, so touch-ups are now $75 instead. She then proceeded to tell me her services for 3D microblading are $ 239 but that almost nobody wants the 3D, they want 6D instead. I'm not sure how much more Dimension people want for their eyebrows than 3, and I'm pretty sure 6D doesn't exist.. But whatever. So now the price magically goes up buy $50. Now we're looking at $289. So the Groupon price of $189 (with the $50 off coupon, compliments of Groupon) Now jumps up to $350 +. Okay, I'm still interested even though I'm paying twice as much bypassing Groupon as a favor to her, tis the season right? I asked her if there are any more pictures besides the few I had seen so I could be absolutely sure she was the technician I wanted to go with, she direct me to a Facebook page. Her work is good, and I inquire about Yelp. She doesn't have a Yelp account.. So I told her I'm a big-time yelper and couldn't wait to be her first review :-) I go ahead and book the appointment, she tells me she gets everyone's credit card information on the phone so that she can Bill them a non-refundable $100 in case they give her less than 48 hours notice, I wasn't thrilled about it but I figured that might be typical so I reluctantly gave her my credit card information. I booked my appointment. The next morning she calls me around 9 o'clock to tell me that she spoke to a confidante and was going to need me to sign a waiver stating that I will never review her business. I asked her why , she won't tell me but says it was on the advice of her counselor at WEAVE (domestic abuse counciling). What struck me as odd was I didn't understand how having a Yelp review was going to help anyone find her? If they don't know her business name then she would have nothing to worry about?? If they do then all they have to do is put the business name in Google and can find her that way.. I concluded it was an outrageous lie to avoid getting any bad reviews. Her website has pictures but no reviews , for whatever reason she would rather her customers not review her.. That is incredibly sketchy. I ended up canceling my appointment, just too crazy for me. read more