I decided to try out Blo Dry Bar today...what a disappointment!

I get my hair done often, and am also quite good at doing my own hair, and know a thing or two about hair, even I think more so than the girl who attended to me at Blo today. She made my first time experience a blo, very unenjoyable experience, plus the know it all attitude didn't help.

She was very rough with my hair, making the experience so not relaxing but rather painful, as she was constantly pulling at my hair while washing, drying, blow drying, combing and curling my hair ...seriously my scalp is still sore from the experience.

I have medium length, straight hair (so it's not a really challenge to dry it!) . I specifically asked for a blow dry with curl, and asked the the curls be created while she blew dry the hair. she expressed it was best to dry it straight first and then curl it with a curling iron - i disagreed, but she insisted this is how it would be done.. surely once she was done drying, and began curling with the iron, she insisted that my hair doesn't hold curl and making it wavy was the best she could do.... wtf?!

...i had a strong suspicion that she was not professionally trained...i often get my hair done (yes, at other blo bars and salons), and no one has ever once complained that my hair doesn't hold curl - i'm sure i'm a professional stylist would not have said that.

Given the busyness of the salon, i didn't want to express my dissatifaction in a bold manner, and just accepted it for what it was, even though it was very obvious i was not happy.

I'm a big believer in not tipping for poor service, could you believe the p.o.s. machine did not allow me NOT to tip! I had to ask to skip the tip, the cashier didn't seem impressed with my request.

They say you get a fabulous blow out for about $30 in about 30 minutes.
But really you get a good blow out for about $45 in about 60 minutes.
I'm okay with the fact it took longer, especially if my hair was done well, but $37.29 is the bottom line...not including tip.

Then to come out, and finding a parking ticket on my windshield (as I exceed my parking my two minutes, thinking that an hour parking would have sufficed!), sealed the remaining of my experience that I wouldn't be returning to BLO.