I'm a tad past 30, nearing 50 ... If you're anywhere near that number, you've earned "bitchy"!  Embrace it!  In the famed words of the immortals:  "I'll stand my ground - I won't go down"  Moral of this story being, be sure Ram It Down is in the car next time you have your hair done ; )

		spapad wrote:
		Your right, it is a lack of assertiveness on my behalf I suppose. Back in the late 80's, earlly nineties they would always want to take a curling iron to my hair and I would say no I would rather you not and they would be like, oh come on, just a little. Always resulted in a trip straight home to wash that mess out. Now they don't even ask and I wonder if they even pay attention to what it looks like when I come in. LOL I guess I will just have to learn to be "bitchy". LOL      TIMBONI wrote: You're too nice.  Just go in and tell them " just put it back like this when we're done "      spapad wrote: Because they all do it no matter where I go! They do! So I have given up!      TIMBONI wrote: This may sound incredibly simplistic, but why don't you go to a different salon ?          spapad wrote: Why, why, why, why, why!.............Every time!!!!................I go to the salon to have my hair done and I walk in having it styled the way I like it styled, and when I walk out it's styled so dumb! I look like the cartoon of Prince Valiant! They always say, so.......how do you like it? and I take my hands and mess it up and say, I guess I'll fix it when I get home. I still tip well simply because it takes them  two hours to lighten my hair, but my God, cant they just put my hair back to the way it was when I came in the door!!     Men, I know you have not a clue what I'm bitching about! LOL