The Hair Bar

Just had a colour and cut done there. I have dark brown hair. It was great and I was was super happy with both and also the blow-​dry was good too which sometimes I feel in Sweden can be a little average. Already booked my next appointment!
The owner is from the UK so if you are english speaking like me you will be more than comfortable that everyone understand you :)

MY HAIR IS PURPLE, ORANGE AND SPOTTED!!!
This is long, but if you read it you will save yourself a lot of trouble:
There’s a reason this place is on Groupon ALL the time… It’s not good.
The colorist/​owner of this place was more interested in walking away in the middle of my coloring to talk to others and chat on the phone than doing my hair. Which, as you can guess, ended up in sloppy highlights with some of them being over developed. They are so bad and far apart that you can still see the line where the old ones had grown out to VERY clearly. He took about ¹⁄₃ the time it usually takes to get them done properly. The whole time he was combing or brushing he didn’t care and just ripped and tore at it roughly causing a ton of breakage! He was bossy and rude to his own employees in front of me. He even made one girl just stand there to hold a piece of my hair up in the air for him instead of just clipping it out of the way! That was a new one.
I had asked for a full head of highlights (slingor), which he just decided on his own not to do without consulting me. Even when I asked him to finish he refused and said that «I did not need them» despite my protests. Which I really did! They are really grown out underneath and he never even bothered to look.
He also proceeded to put my light ash blonde hair in bleach slingor (foils) under a heat lamp. I asked him not to because increasing the processing speed increases the breakage (any great salon will tell you that) and he got annoyed and said «you’ll be here forever!». This lets me know that this salon is incredibly dated and only interested in getting people out the door over doing quality hair.
For the past ten years I have very frequently asked for a full head of blonde highlights and a blue or purple toner to lift and make all of my color more of a white blonde. If your a cool colored blonde you know what I’m talking about! Since he did not highlight my full head and the highlights were over processed in some areas the purple toner stuck to the overdone parts and the rest of my hair was left an aged yellowy orange. So basically I have orange and purple hair!!! This horrible little diva of a man wouldn’t fix it and said that if i had listened to him and not gotten the toner this would not have happened. Then he proceeded to tell me that he could do nothing to fix me. Somehow I can ask for this same treatment at two great salons in Stockholm (WIG and Sachajuan) and they have always done a beautiful job. But, all of a sudden, what I always get is impossible to do and I’m to blame that he ruined my hair?! Very, very strange!!! What I also find incredibly upsetting is that he reprimanded and mocked me in front of everyone there. He treated me like I was absolutely worthless. I actually got teary eyed because he was so rude when I tried to speak up. He even sneered at me with a big grin like he thought it was funny! I felt really bullied. I really think this guy has a personality disorder. Not the relaxing enjoyable experience I was hoping for, in other words.
In summary, This was the worst experience I’ve ever had at a salon! (and I’ve been to everything from a walk-​in at the mall to some of the top salons in Stockholm, New York, LA and Chicago!) The owner had an inflated ego, was lazy, talked over me the entire time, didn’t listen to what I wanted, mocked me, gave me purple/​orange hair and then tried to blame it on me and my choices. LOL!!! What a joke. I’ve actually met quite a few famous hairstylists in NYC doing what I do for work and none of them were ever this egotistical. If I asked for cool colored blonde hair… that’s what I should have gotten. Instead of kindly walking me through the process and working with me the man was narcissistically firing off his mouth so fast I could barely get a word in. This place looked cute and I thought I would give it a try because apparently some Swedish blogger liked it, I’m not sure how she came to that conclusion, but it’s all style with absolutely no substance! DO NOT GO HERE!!! Trust me. Go to WIG, NOIR or SACHAJUAN!!! I will be heading to one of those to be fixing the mess that «The Hair Bar» made.