o salon on anderson street were the type of place you want to go with excellence all around

Approximate cost: $60

Not a nice experience. You don't want a hairdresser who tries to persuade you to have a different cut to what you asked for, takes way too long, talks way too much, disagrees with everything you say, and doesn't respect your wishes for as few chemicals as possible. Unfortunately that is what I got.

I asked the hairdresser to take an inch off my hair, and then straighten it for fun. She took almost 1.5 hours to straighten my hair (which lasted for less than 3 hours) and then did a really quick cut, taking way too much length off.

She was very intense, telling me to not touch my hair, criticising my previous hairdresser and the haircut she had given me, and telling me what a good hairdresser she was herself. Despite telling her that I was trying to reduce my exposure to chemicals, she sprayed me with a mammoth amount of hairspray.

I came away exhausted, dehydrated, with a massive headache, and a haircut that was quite different from what I had asked for.

Very disappointing and not to be repeated.

Approximate cost: $75