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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently, the Dry Bar at Pike & Rose in North Bethesda is now charging an up charge if your hair takes longer than 45 minutes. A[b]pparently, it’s the surcharge for ethnic hair. [/b]Too bad the staff spends half the time complaining and chatting with each other rather than doing your hair in an by efficient manner.[/quote]

Wow do you "assume" a lot!  I have long straight blonde hair and fully expect to pay more if needed.[/quote]

NP if your hair is obscenely long perhaps you should pay more. But the fact is that curly hair does take longer to straighten than straight hair of the same length. This charge does seem discriminatory. [/quote]

Sounds to me it is based on time, not hair type.  But I don't see everything through a racist lens.  [/quote]

That’s always the problem…relying on your lying ears (sounds to me…hah). I worked for Dry Bar corporate in its early days and there was an upcharge for “ethnic” hair.  [b]It stunk of racism because none of the white stylists could do “ethnic” hair, but all of the “ethnic” stylists were able to do anyone’s hair. It was so bad that when the women of color would call in to make appointments, they had to use code with the schedulers to determine which stylists could do their hair.[/b]  Dry Bar tried to over correct the issue with multiple strategies that I won’t go into. But my point, is that there are always back stories and reasons why some ppl see things through a specific lens—a lens that you may not be privy to. [/quote]

This is why I quit going to dry bar. I am Black with curly hair and they would act really awful about it if I got a white stylist. So, I would call ahead and let them know, I'm Black, and have shoulder length curly hair, that is actually fine/thin, but curly and not straight white hair. The drama I would get put through on the front end made the experience so awful. My blowout has not once taken longer than 45 minutes because my hair is thin and fine and dries pretty quickly, but once they started charging me the 90 min rate for my normal time blowout, I was done. It's about their aversion to having to train their stylists to do all hair types, and racist white stylists who don't even want to try on black hair. [/quote]

They might be racist but it seems [b]more likely they are lazy and don’t want to be inconvenienced [/b]with the extra training and work. I worked as a dental hygienist at a large practice and many hygienists would surreptitiously unload their difficult case patients to a fellow teammate- switching their appointments. [/quote]

I agree with the bolded. I am black, and instead of calling to make an appointment I went in store to make sure there were no issues. One of the ladies  at the front desk was black, so I looked right at her and said “if possible, I preferred to schedule with a black stylist who would understand the extra work that it probably would take to do my hair” and she waffled.

I think it’s that they would rather do two blowouts in the time it would take to do mine, although my keratin-treated hair does not take as long as it would totally natural (which is why I even considered a Dry Bar in the first place); but still longer and “more effort” than silky, finer and naturally straight hair.

So I’ve never gone back. I figured it’s just not for me, unfortunately :/[/quote]

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