If I could be honest with y’all for a second, there are some posts that we do here that are heavy but they might not resignate with us, we share our opinion and we move on .. Next. There are others that are equally heavy but they tug at your emotions, this is one of those posts.
Let me give you all the summary of what actually went down. Mom drops daughter off 2 hours late to have her hair braided by the stylist. The stylist spends 9 hours braiding the little girls hair, while mom runs errands, around town.
The mom is late getting her daughter and the stylist tries to drop the little girl home on her mothers direction. Turns out the mother sent the stylist to the girl’s grandmother’s home instead of the actual home in attempt to stall the stylist.
The stylist eventually figures out where the child lives because the child gave directions herself. After giving the stylist the run around, the mom eventually decides that she would drop the payment for the child’s hair to the home of the stylist later that evening.
The stylist at this point figures out that there is something shady about the scenario and drives back to the girls home, waits for mom awhile and decides to summon the child outside where she cuts the braids out of the child’s hair and then posts the pictures on her Instagram page.
This is what she had to say when challenged about her unprofessional behavior on Instagram:
“I cut the braids out and went on about my business. At the end of the day, I spent 9 hours away from my kids for nothing. Y’all wasn’t in my shoes or in my position. I have to take care of my three babies and I will do what I have to do to let it be known that I don’t play when it comes to my job or supporting my family.”
I get it, you feel bamboozled, or hurt even, but to exploit a child in that manner is never OK, there are civil ways to deal with nonpayment, but cutting that child’s hair is not the answer, splashing her picture on an Instagram page is just as shameful because at the end of the day, what in the world could that little girl have done about any of this.
How many of you would have this very stylist do your hair or your daughters hair knowing what you know now? I know I wouldn’t, so she stands to lose much more than just 9 hours due to hasty/crazy behavior.
Comment below, what do you think about this scissor angry stylist?
Nakita Joseph says
The stylish is wicked why would you do something so cruel to a little girl I understand she is angry but this went to far Smh
LovelyLynn Alexander says
Woah!………
Shawana Mckinney says
I wold have call the cops and made the mother pick up her child
Sha Mika says
Everyone is concentrating on the stylist but they fail to recognize the mother set this whole event in motion. Everything the mother did was thought out and premeditated.
Amika Turner says
Both adults were wrong and the child have to pay with humiliation. This child face is now floating across the www, bc both adults acted like children. If you going to cut the hair, ok, but why post this baby face on the internet for entertainment. Just wrong. Same for the mother who tried to get over also.
Daiquiri A. Holland says
Right. If anything, the child will resent her mother later down the line for putting her in such a messed up position in the first place. That was very irresponsible of her. You don’t sit up and drop off your kid, let them get their hair done, then try to dodge when the bill comes. We don’t know how many other times she tried this s*** and got away with it. She picked the wrong one. People have to make their living and have families of their own to feed. Essentially the mom was trying to scam the stylist, and thought she’d get away with it since it was a kid. Nope.
Sha Mika says
Amika I agree to a certain extent that both adults acted foolishly in the situation. However the stylist children can not eat good intentions or malice.
Loretha Summers Torres says
The mother was dead wrong. Now if the stylist caught her in the streets and whooped her butt then it would be different. lol However, she humiliated the child. If it was all about lack of payment, just take the child’s hair down and send her home. She did not have to go as far as taking the pic and posting it to instagram.
melanie says
take it down??!!!! do you see that hairstyle…it took her 9hrs to do the little girls hair… how long do you think it would have taken her to take the little girls hair down?
Amika Turner says
It’s all about professionalism and character. Being that she’s a business woman, she could’ve handled the situation like a professional. May not now, but this can bite her in the rump later. Ijs. She want take it down.. okay I see no problem with that, but so called blasting it on instagram just shows the lack of character that she really have. Me being a “paying” customer will Never give her any service nor recommend anyone to her based on how she do business. Sometimes you must think about your actions, especially as a business woman, there will always be consequences. There’s no excuse for blasting that child face on the internet. It was the mother not the child.
Telly Ree says
I love how people keep saying the stylists acted immature. Try doing 9 hours of work for any job and not get paid for it, and then come back and tell us how you would act. This is the stylist’s livelihood, the way she pay her bills and feed her kids. Anyone would have flipped. She is a human being and was tired.
Sha Mika says
In retrospect the only thing that I would change about the situation would be the child’s face being shown. The stylist should have edited her face out. After all I think everyone can a agree that the child is the innocent one in all the mess. But honestly even with going through the legal system/process the stylist would have lost out because there are fees involved. I can’t say I blame the stylist for not allowing the neglectful mother’s child tootsie roll all over town with a free hair do off the sweat of my hard work taking food out of my babies mouth.
Melissa Daniel says
I can totally understand the frustration of the stylist…some may say that the child was innocent and the two adults should have sorted their business out without involving the kid. However, as parents, we owe it to our kids to lead by example. When u go around out-smarting people u jeopardize yourself and your kids…let that be a valuable lesson to the mom because if she gets away with crap like that she will do it again and even worst and she will in the process, teach her kids how to con honest, hardworking people.
Kiala Haynes Hodges says
People laugh and repost pictures of kids all day on memes and now all of a Sudden they have a problem with it
MrsG says
Exactly. The only thing I disagree with is the posting of pics. Everything else is legit. If she had left the girl’s hair, the mother wins and goes on to scam someone else. As long as she didn’t cut the girl’s actual “home grown” hair, I love that the stylist “took back” her unpaid for work. Now the mom has to sit down and style her child’s hair herself. The little girl also has learned a lesson that she will take into adulthood (I hope). The stylist should not have made a public spectacle of the girl, though.
Starr Shaniahsmom Jewel says
I would have done the same thing. Her kids (stylist) have to eat and she (the stylist) doesn’t work for free.
Selina Sands says
She let anger/frustration “take her there.” The child will remember this act of unkindness for the rest of her life! The stylist should have called the police to file report and then take the Mom to court. A shame all around!
Frazier Dee says
If she would have called the police the child would be in foster care for abandoning her child because that little girl doors not look 12. I work in the system and it would have made things ten times worse
Ebony Rivers says
I agree that the girl will definitely remember this act of unkindness for a long time, hopefully none of her real hair got cut in all of this. but if the stylist would have called the police it would have probably bought this to a more quicker end. but because they already knew where the grandmother lived at worst the police would have taken the child there but the threat of calling the police or having the police arrive and call the mother’s cell and tell her to come to the home immediately would have gotten the mother back in front of the stylist to end this BS a lot sooner!! but like you said Selina the stylist just allowed the whole situation “take her there”.
Raven Phillips says
The child will encounter worse crap than this throughout her life, the mom set that up thinking the stylist would have left things alone because of the fact that her client was a child, but the mom was wrong, because not everybody play about their money, PERIOD!
Berthonia Dl says
The stylist has her reason to be angry, the little girl has a reason to be sad, its all the mothers fault. she was trying to get a free service, a babysitter, and a driver.
Joslyn Denae says
Poor girl
Ashley K Johnson says
I would have cut her braids out as well rewashed her hair and put it in a ponytail and sent her and her mother on their way. Nothing in life is free and she wasted a stylists time
shenita Patrick says
There’s no way she would be touchin my daughter’s head… she didn’t have to do that baby like that.. I would have paid the difference
Alicia Boglin says
Since when are people supposed to work for free? This is America people. They repossess your car when you don’t pay your car note, so whats the problem here?
Sydney Shea Jacobs says
I think the issue is that she took pictures of the child and put it on the internet. THAT was wrong
Velvét Miller says
That is true, she should have put mom’s face all over the internet. That way other stylists know who to look out for..
Deondra Davis says
If the mother pressed charges against her even though she didn’t pay, the mother would win, simply because of what she did to the child, so the statement “two wrongs don’t make a right” would follow with this story. It wasn’t right of her to use the child as a way of payback…Smh, so it was pretty stupid on her end. Now she will probably still get paid, but owe at the same time…Smh
Mavis Pomeyie says
oh poor little girl. i cant imagne how sad she looked. stylist very wicked.
Amanda Hill says
The child could not pay for her hair..she is innocent in this situation. .I understand her anger..but what about the child?? She may have been scarred her for life..The stylist should ve left the braids and handled the mother..
Tameka Daut says
The mother is wrong. Down and dirty wrong. However the stylist set her self up for criminal charges. It appears she drop the child to an unattended home, and call her back out the house and cut her hair. If the child states that stylist cut her hair without permission that is assault with a weapon. You gotta know the law. Also, she didn’t give the mother a chance to prove her wrong. It’s could all be in her head.
Dreta Bump Fleming says
That’s the exact reason I ask for half up front! Sorry the little girl had to experience that but people always try to get over. Sad and a shame. I would have cut them out just as nice!
Andrea MoonPearl Banks says
That was cruel to the child after sitting there all that time and enduring the discomfort of having your hair braided. Now if it were a grown woman, different scenario.
Ebony Varner says
I would have left that in GOD’S hand and allowed him to deal with the situation
Hrh Manye Korkor Darlyn says
so if mum can’t pay why make the stylist run around with her kid. Sometime people can snap n act irrational but the mum had it coming for being deceitful.
Victoria Mackie says
I think it was a bad decision on the stylists part. I understand her rightful anger, but you should never make a child pay for their parents mistakes. There were other ways to handle that between adults. She’s also foolish for putting the little girls picture on any kind of media. Pretty sure that’s not legal without the permission of the parent and she could get in to big trouble, and lose way more than she gained, if the little girls mother pursued it.
Tk Tatum Richey says
No because she didn’t show the lil girls face
Lilly says
The ignorant so called business woman was so wrong for cutting the little girl’s hair. She has set herself up for a lawsuit. It does not really matter that she did not show her face. Just the fact that she posted her picture can end up costing her more than the cost of the hairstyle itself. I am not surprised by the number of people oh here saying the stylist was in the right! It shows the ignorance of black people!
Amanda Hill says
I wouldn’t have cut her hair..her mom on the other..I would’ve dealt with her
Jessica Washington says
I think she was only wrong in posting the lil girls face !
Ashadawife Notmatey Johnson says
Thk u thats the only thing i think she was wrong in doing. The mother is evil. She got a free, driver, free babysitter and a free stylist
Lilly says
Your so ignorant! Hope you don’t have any little witches like you!
Tamekia Floyd Poole says
I don’t care what anyone say that is a LOST!! NEVER will I put a child through that. She is a CHILD. Now the stylist will reap what she sow for that she did to a CHILD. Yes mom wrong but child did nothing wrong!!
Amika Turner says
I agree.
Nicole Grant says
Thts true
Isha Pascal says
Amen !
Angel Higginbotham says
I’m gonna have to agree 100% here
Johnna Williams Nash says
Yes the mother was wrong for putting her child in that situation BUT you could have your license revoke for some bs like that…in some states it’s illegal to cut kids hair,clothing forcefully out of anger etc bc it might traumatize Them…I hope the girl hair wasn’t too long..just ignorant adults…and to put her picture out like that…low blow…smh blur her face out at least…
Lilly says
Your exactly right! If I were the mom I would be pursuing legal actiond aganist the stylist. The stylist could be wrong about her petceived ideas about the mom. However, she was morally and legally wrong for cutting the child’s hair. Justice should be served. She had no right to cut the child’s hair. Hoping mom takes her ignorant ass to court! Talk about ignorant unprofessional and ghetto!
Shay Battle says
I feel her as a stylist I understand some parents try to take advantage it’s very disrespectful….you spent hours on one client and to not get paid for the service rendered is some bs…
Benita Always'wins says
As long as she didn’t cut the lil girls real hair, I don’t see the issue, the mother is to blame.
Sydney Shea Jacobs says
Would you want someone to put your child’s face all over the internet because they were mad at something YOU did??
Malissa says
Thank you! My thoughts exactly!
Lilly says
Well said! That is why we have courts of law! You cannot put your hands on another persons child! Common Sense ghetto parents!
Tawanda Pierce Itson says
I wonder if everyone is reading the story before they comment! I wouldn’t put my child in anybody’s chair if I didn’t have the money to pay. The mother is just teaching that child how to get over on people! I wonder how many stylist she has done this too??
Karla Harvey says
The mother and the stylist wrong in their actions…SMH, poor child
Nakia Jones says
I don’t blame her. She should’ve cut the mother!!!!!!!
Malissa says
Lol, yes!
Kennetha Styles says
Why do the Stylist have to miss money and more time to take her to court? Justice was served. You don’t pay then you don’t keep the product!
Carmen Jones says
I’m a stylist & I would have taken it down off tops! Sorry poo but when ur mom gets sum money to pay me up front I will make u all pretty again!!! Until then go play somebody else cause I’m not the one!!!
Sakina Pecchillo says
Wow another example of children paying for their parents short comings. Imagine how that little girl felt standing there getting her hair cut off.
brea says
I think the stylist acted just as shameful as the mother. What good did it do to hurt the child when it did nothing what so ever to hurt the mother. I would have called the authorities and had it dealt with in a more professional manner. She is obviously not a very professional. How would she feel if someone did this to her daughter? If she’s going to use her kids as an excuse it should make sense. She basically said I didn’t get more time with my kids so I’m going to hurt this little girls feelings and self esteem over something that she had no control over. Way to step out on woman and motherhood.
Vonnie says
What exactly did she do to the child..she didnt hurt her…so please…..She had to make an example our of her.. She didnt cut the girls hair…She cut the ends of the fake hair. The mother of that child hurt her daughters feelings. Who does that mother think she is anyway, This lady wasting gas, trying to get her money and you ditching her….The mother is definitely a ratchet, broke ass who had no business sending her daughter to that salon in the first place. Now go find someone else that dont have any balls to do what that beautician did to do your daughter hair. Try it again…
Sydney Shea Jacobs says
She put her child’s face on the internet…..that’s ALL SORTS of wrong. That’s the part that I don’t agree with
Lilly says
You are so Fing Ignorant! Stylist can’t cut the childs her although she performed the service. A true adult would have used common sense and dealt with the mother. Your very ignorant and ghetto!
Ashley Londynsmama Walker says
In the article she states that she lost time away from her kids… cutting that innocent child’s hair out is not going to give her that time back. I understand her frustrations, but taking it out on the child was uncalled for
Shayla Bailey says
If thats the case mom needs to learn how to do her babys hair if she cant afford to pay. But the question remains who gon do baby girls hair?!
Amanda Hill says
All you women on her know damn well…that lady shouldn’t have cut that baby hair..wtf she has to do with her trifling as mom playing games..The stylist should acted out better than this..but God sees everything. .it’s not about eating..it’s about having a damn heart for an innocent child..I would never do that to a.child..
Nebronna Adams says
I don’t think it was all her real hair so all she has to do is take it out
Dreta Bump Fleming says
I would’t have done it in the manner the stylist did but would have removed them!
DeandraEssence Lee says
I would of just finished the girls hair and dealt with the mother. Put all that time and effort into doing her hair I wouldn’t cut it. The child had nothing to do with what her mother should of done.
Zipporah Juney Starks says
It was the mother’s fault. The mother could have been forced to pay through legal action. The child had nothing to do with it. That was cruel to take her anger out on a child! Then plaster her face on Instagram. The adults should conduct themselves as adults on both parts.
Noele Tipler says
Sheri!!! There is no way she would have lived to tell about it!!! But I also would have never let someone do my child’s hair with no intentions of paying them! I have NOT seen STRANGER things
Ebony Lovintweetandalex Jones says
Very unprofessional she should took her to court cause it still want take back those hours she did doing the lil girl hair some people just need to grow up, why torture that child for something the mother did and whoever agreeing that this was soo rite need to be ashamed of themselves, smdh really.
Bridgett Burt-Coleman says
All the mothers fault she shouldn’t have put her baby in that position if she couldn’t afford it she shouldn’t have taken her to get it braided
Daiquiri A. Holland says
Sorry but it’s the mother’s fault for being irresponsible and putting her child in such a compromising position. You don’t try to stiff people. She probably would have done better had she told the lady up front that she didn’t have the money, maybe they could have worked something out. But when you try to scheme, and involve your kid, this is the kind of s*** that can happen. She did not cut the child’s real hair, only the braids. It’s not up to the stylist to remove them completely; I’m sure her fingers already hurt from braiding for 9hrs. Her mom should be brought up on child abandonment and neglect charges, leaving the kid well after the service was complete.
More people need to take this approach when it comes to their business. I braid hair too and if someone tried to stiff me like this, my hard work is coming right back off your head, you not getting a free service out of me, especially when you went about it the way you did. I hope she incorporates a non-refundable deposit system in the future to avoid things like this. Deposit half the fee prior to appointment, pay the rest the day of. If something goes wrong, you are still compensated and not at a complete loss.
To the mom, how about learning to braid your own kid hair then you wouldn’t have to worry about not having money to pay the stylist? It’s really not hard to learn with all the information on the internet nowadays..
Wylanda Tabb says
Very unprofessional to do that to a child and she would never do my childs hair. The mom was dead wrong and the stylist shouldve taken her to court about her money. Im sure that child was devastated. Shame on u mom and stylist
Danielle Bragg-Eldridge says
The mother was so wrong but she didn’t punish the mother. ..she punished the child!
Sonya Rice says
The mother was a ratchet mess . If knew u didnt have the money why put your child threw something like this? The stylist was wrong but the mom set herself up for this foolishness.
Raquel Fludd says
As a stylist myself I totally agree with this stylist decision. I however disagree with her method of handling the situation. But if the mother wasn’t going to pay for the child’s service the child shouldn’t keep the braids.
Jennifer Price says
I know this sounds harsh but business is business. The only thing I disagree with is the pictures and the Instagram – that’s potentially humiliating to the kid. But the fact that the kid feels bad is not enough reason to leave the stolen braids up. A kid feels bad when they don’t get the happy meal flavor they want! Take em down. Long and you’re not mean and cruel in the process, the baby will be fine and mamma gone stop playin next time.
Jennifer Price says
“Long as” I meant
Amanda Hill says
It all boils down to the actions of two inconsiderate adults….that left a child in the middle of the bs
Shamekia McNeil Gales says
I understand that the mom was dead wrong, and the stylist was frustrated from being given the run around. I do not agree with cutting the braids but if that is what she felt like doing…so be it…and she could have been justified. But I feel she crossed the line when she had the child pose for and then post that picture. I feel is was very unprofessional on the part of the stylist. She talks about having to take care of her children, but did cutting the child’s hair out help them get a meal?? She can save that excuse. She was being mean and tacky.
Tiana Obey says
No HELL NO! I would have beat the God given life right outta that woman let me tell you!. She could left the braids in her head if she felt she wasted her time. Cutting them out really made it a waste of time. Smh.
Kimberly Jones says
So does cutting the braids and humiliating a child mean that are received her money?
WICKED!
Stephanie Miller says
The stylist cut the braids so that the style couldnt be worn. All the Mom had to do was finish taking the braids out. Business is business!
Adrianna Floyd says
the whole situation was just horrible ..the momma was wrong as two left shoes..i certainly understand the stylists frustration as time is money and money is time so she reacted out of frustration and the fact that she clearly was bamboozled..However, instead of humiliating the child I wouldve been on full stake out at the mommas and grandmommas house like the DEA…SWAT…MAGNUM P.I…CIA..FBI..D.ALL OF THE ABOVE..u gon’ pay me
Roxanne Holmes says
i think shes only wrong for posting the childs face. unfortunately the little girl learned a lesson because of her trifling mother.
Janet Ferguson says
This is so very wrong of both adults, the mom must have been aware of the cost before !! poor child, after sitting so long to be dolled up!
Sonya Rice says
I know some stylists who got ripped off all the time by customers who said they had to get stuff ouf of their car or just got up and ran out. I would make people pay 1st because braids take a long time to do. Its still wrong to post humiliating pics of kids on social media
Khandi West says
Well for anyone that has a tude about what she did then u stand 9 hrs away from ur kids and don’t get paid putting in the work and see how u will react it only wrong if it isn’t u going through it but had u done it then will it be justified
Naysa Ward says
Chile bye!!!!I don’t give a damn how much or how long it took you don’t touch nobody child!!! Not if that had been me that bitch wouldn’t be holding no scissors for a long ass time. And I’ll be in jail. She could sue. That’s why we have court systems. And it got to be hair braiders that’s posting ain’t nothin wrong with it . She ain’t ran into the right parent baby!
Loren Tennyson says
Why should the stylist , have to spend the time and aggravation to take this hood mother to court? I understand that it was not the child’s fault. But I would be damned!!! If the mother thought she could set me up like that and her kid gets to keep the hair style. And on top of that, the hairdresser had to drop the child off! HELL NO!!! The “mother” should have been lucky that the women didn’t hold the child hostage , until she received payment. Had it been me, once I realized that I had been played. I would have called the police and waited with the girl at the grandma’s house in an attempt to get paid. The child will be fine , having the braids cut out is not a life altering experience. Nine hours of work!!!! Smh! When working on children and especially braids that take very long, parents should pay upfront, period!! If they don’t want to tip , that’s fine. This story is too much!
Lema Amel Naeb says
The manner at which she took them out. VERY distasteful. And why take them out if you spent so long doing them STUPID!! The mother said she was coming. She was stalling cause she wasn’t there on time. I’m sure she had the money to pay for it if she was running around town doing errands. But I wouldn’t leave my child with a stranger having them running all over the place looking for me.If someone did that to her little girls hair she would have dealt with that person surely. Just not professional. And no respect
Chantill Hamric says
oh hell no
Keviette 'Kevie' Potts says
Posting the pics to IG is where it was taken too far. Cut the braids out, fine. Exploiting the situation via social media is what makes it unprofessional
Kusumi Halcyon Kia says
Agreed everyone like take the Mom to court like whet?!? That’s just more money
Ashadawife Notmatey Johnson says
i think what she did to the child was wrong but the mother of the child was wrong also. you are dealing with someone’s livelihood. first she arrives late, the she doesnt come to pick up her daughter, then she sends her to the grandmother house in attempt to hide from her and when she comes to your house you still didnt pay her? listen if someone does a job they are expected to be paid and the mother obviously didnt care about paying even though she said she would have paid later. its just sad that the little girl had to go through this it should have been the mother in her place.
Alivia Diggins says
That was bad for the child to have to go through. the stylist could have took that for the team, and never dealt with the lady or sued her, but that had to be dramatic for the little girl! What did she gain by cutting the braids out, nothing she still not paid, time cant be replaced.
Chelly Chell says
She should have left the girls braids alone plain and simple.. She handled the whole situation unprofessionally and now she’s feeling the backlash of her action..
We all know the trifling mother was wrong.. But she could have handled the whole thing differently.. Don’t take pics of somebody’s underage child and post it on any social media outlet..
Deneen Goodbread says
I have never understood the purpose of putting these braids in a young child hair. To me it stops the natural growth of their hair alone with the breakage, damage to the scalp and the hair line. Whatever happen to afro puffs and just being natural. I know I’m off the subject………oh well. MUCH CHEAPER!
Shenita Franklin says
Wow, both adults was completely WRONG smh. This is why it’s better to learn to braid hair yourself…save money!
Gbaby Phillips says
At the end of the day the stylist lost time time that she can’t never get back what if something happened to one of her kids at that time she was spending on that little girls head and then find out she wasn’t going to get paid? No she shouldn’t had cut the lil Gurl braids but she should have handled it differently like sone one mentioned earlier put it in ponytail or something! NOBODY WORKS FOR FREE POINT BLANK PERIOD SO TO ALL HAIR DRESSERS GET YOUR MONEY UP FRONT and that eliminate RATCHETNESS
Alisha Turner says
She only cut the weave not the actual girl’s hair. Yall trippin
Ashadawife Notmatey Johnson says
I agree with you 100%. Everybody blaming the stylist when its the mother that should be blamed. I would go to the stylist cause its obvious she can do her thing. Its her livelihood and to sit over 9hrs to do that and not be paid? Oh hell no
Naomi Compton says
Considering the circumstances, this is the least of this comes child’s concerns. I’m sure she’s already been through worse.
I’m sure the hair that was cut was the weave. She wouldn’t have cut the child’s actual hair (I hope). With that said, that was a poor reaction because the kid is the one who was humiliated. It’s very damaging to humiliate a child.
The mom knew that exactly what she was doing. It was wrong. Maybe she was hustling for money for the braids while the stylist was doing them. It’s a possibility
Missme Gilmore says
Business is business and kids learn from their parents! By the time she went to small claims court it wouldn’t be worth it! Cut that shit out!
Kusumi Halcyon Kia says
Sorry but if I gotta spend 9 hours away from my kids and you try to dick me I’m gonna do what’s best for me and mines I have no time to worry about you and yours. I would have cut them too. For those of you who say nu-uh not my child. I hope y’all are decent enough to not pull the same crap the mother did.
Kusumi Halcyon Kia says
I agree with her, I don’t feel ashamed and it costs money to take someone to court. If she could afford a lawyer I’m sure she could go with out the money owed to her.
Lakesha Coleman says
They were both wrong and once again the child suffered
Tamekia Floyd Poole says
Tripping Really!! It’s a child, point blank!!
Wendy Jean-Louis says
It’s called paying for services. When you don’t pay the landlord they put everybody out including kids. All you people talking but forget the stylist is a worker and obviously the braids wasa service. Child or not it’s not for free
Nit like she cut off her real hair
Kara Alexandra says
The stylist should’ve NEVER agreed to do the work without payment because she did she set herself up for failure. I dnt care what circles the mother tried to run the child had nothing to do with it and shouldn’t have been used to prove any points… The stylist just made herself look as bad as the mother… My opinion
Tina Monroe says
Amen! Braids are not a easy job! All the mother had to do was put rubber bands on her ends. The hairdresser take pictures for legal action proof.
Doris Walkins says
That was cruel, there were many ways she could’ve dealt with the mother.
Tiffany N. Michaux says
Think about the self esteem of that little girl. She will NEVER forget this feelings associated with this. Yes, I understand from a business standpoint. Should have taken one for the team and changed braiding policy to paying before service.
Huvie Joe says
(O_o)…..lordy
Chandradaughterof Janettegranddaughter Ofjames says
Get over your selves she was justified. Not to take pics but to cut the braids out. They were still her property until they were paid for. That’s her job and that mom should have paid.
Leah says
Totally unprofessional and ethically wrong. It’s also illegal to post a picture of a minor online without the consent of a parent. I would have my attorney send her a nice letter.
Foodie Travelnista says
Cut cut cut
Casey Harris says
The Stylist acted as bad as the mother. I get where she needed to teach that woman a lesson but the kid shouldn’t have to pay for her mother’s crimes.
Tresa Gatson says
Yes and for all the people that disagree try subtracting 8 hours from your pay…personally I would have take her to the police station and said her mother left her and will not return my calls on top of that file theft of service against her..
Leah Slagle says
I would of let the girl go and did nothing …god dont like ugly people ….i would just know next time she couldnt came to me again…
Shay Vaughn says
Also business is business u will take some losts. And this is a lost.
Hellen Kamau says
Well let all mother’s who do the same learn a lesson. Don’t mess with the hairdressers means of income. It was a good hairstyle though.
Mavis Miss-April Ama Butt says
Glad she did it! Her mum didn’t pay. You guys should know how much work she put in that hair! It’s lots of work! Why take your child to the stylist if you don’t have money?
Laschouia says
It wasn’t that baby fault her mother gave you the run around and didn’t Pay . . . You was wrong for what you did to her Hair on so many Levels it ant even funny i would even tell my own worst Enemy to come to you . . .
Beverly TruelyBlessed Conover says
I would’ve had her mom pay some money up front before starting the child hair and had her sit with child,I’m shocked she took it out on child by cutting the braids out!!! Should’ve took pictures,called the police,had them write up complaints to take her ass to court!!! Don’t take adult matters on children!!!
Kit says
Everyone is calling out the stylist, but I think the mother has some fault in this situation. She knew what she was doing and thought she could get away with it. She put her daughter in this situation to try and get a free hair style. She just went up against the wrong stylist.
Iyana Manning-Gilbert says
There is never justification in taking things out on children!!!!!!! Point blank
Doris Hines Yamini says
I would do the same thing. When it’s business, money comes first. U ever called Pop a lock? U don’t have their money they will throw them keys back in the car and lock the door. If u don’t pay a daycare their money they will tell u to come and get ur kid. U don’t pay rent the landlord evicts u and ur kids. It’s BUSINESS. u can’t run a successful business giving hand outs regardless if its a child or not. Sounds harsh but its the way it is….the only thing the woman did wrong was posting pics.
Kristen Menifee says
Don’t get paid, don’t have a hair style point blank!!!!!
Courtney Coates says
I can’t with this again…off with her head!
Valencia Rawls says
Sad
Jonae D Spencer says
The “Right Parent” would of paid for that womens service, I wonder if they would of said that she just took the little girls hair down, if everyone would be in uproar then. Sorry the child had to be used as an example but the mama was dead wrong and knew she never had any intentions of paying that woman her money, im in shock that the mother left the child to be driven around with a stranger.. that lady could of been a pedophile or something
melanie washington says
The only one to feel sorry for in this story is this poor baby who probable had to go to school with this hair do. The mother was wrong .The stylist has bad business practice. You get the money before hand never after.That way you dont have to run down ppl for your money. She should have simple told the mother see you in court.
Amber Henderson says
I couldn’t of did that to the little girl because her mother ignorance …but everybody dont think like that..I’m not mad at the lady tho..she did what she felt was deserved…
Destiney LovingLife Hart says
As long as she didn’t harm the girl physically or damage her hair I see nothing wrong with it. The pictures I don’t agree with unless her face was blurred out other than that he’ll naw she wouldn’t get to enjoy a free style mothers fault or not
Tina Silas says
There is something called small claims court. Two wrongs never make a right! Plus ultimately God sees all! You reap what you sow, that mother would not of gotten away with her thievery. Sad that a child had to pay the price for two adults bad choices.
Shazzel Thompson says
Seems like the mother was very shady, but the stylist was very unprofessional. My opinion the stylist should of sucked it up and never had that woman as a client again. All in all the child was the victim. Poor baby 🙁
Jackie Green says
I feel that the hair stylist has a right to be mad after spending nine hours doing somebodys hair and not getting paid. but cutting the brauds out is not going to help her get paid either. if it was me even though I want to cut the braids out myself too, I would think take a minute to think, hmm! Take pictures write down there Address and take them to court and get my money and the money I missed having to go to court. I bet the mom had the money though before she started doing all those errands. Lol
Jasmine Watson says
If u go out to eat and dont pay….u going to jail. If u went to the shop and got a basic style and her mother didn’t pay the style would have been rinsed out and walked out with a wet head. But the stylist did take it too far by putting it in social media. Best thing for that stylist to do was call the police and waited for the mother to come with a payment if not lock the parent up for abandonment. If not then cut the braids if she refused to pay with the mother and the police present. That’s her mother’s fault. If she wanted the style for. Free or she couldnt afford to pay….she should have done it her self and not waist that ladies time, gas, and energy.
Angela says
That child had nothing to do with her mother being neglectful, ignorant and basically a theif!! The stylist should have remained professional instead of acting out of anger. She really should not be doing any childs hair period!! Just messy and hateful!!
AliviaDiggins says
That was wrong. Just wrong. To put the little girl through that was cruel. She could have not services this lady ever again. She could civil sue her. But cutting these hair out solved nothing. She still didn’t get paid, she cant get the time back, so all you done was hurt a little girls feelings, that didn’t do anything to you. Whats next she gone snatch candy from babies in strollers.
Maybell Lena Killion says
I’m confused on both sides! How you gonna sit there and let your child get her hair done and not have money? Stupid!
Shalaya Hasbrouck says
Yup. I would have done the same. The mom was dead wrong!
Brandi Reed says
I disagree with the hairstylist… I don’t think I would have cut the style for nonpayment… Cause at the end of the day it’s not the child’s fault…I would have dealt with the momma about my money…professionally first…then the street if professionalism don’t work
Quekaebah McKay says
Thumbs completely down on this one. Find a better way to handle the adult, not by way of the child. #Booo
Yvonne Williams says
Wow..smh..
Rhonda Wesson says
I think it’s really sad, first of all if she was 2 hours late she should have sent her on her way to begin with, but to cut the braids out of that baby’s hair was just awful, and heartless. The mother was wrong and there are professional ways of handling situations that was just not it.
Tay Diosa Caliente-roja Simmons says
As a mother, it is my job to protect my child. It is my job NOT to place my children in any situation that may cause them harm whether physical or mental. It is my job to be an example and teach them right from wrong and how to be an upstanding citizen and law biding part of society. That’s my job. I’m their first teacher.
With that being said, the mother ignited a series of events that did not benefit the welfare of her child. She could have prevented this whole situation. She left her child there for hours alone. She didn’t pick the child up on time…AT ALL. The stylist had to take the child home (which was the grandmother’s home and the child told her that). The stylist had to take her to her real home, where the mom was nowhere to be found. She then talk to mom to ask how payment would be made. To which the mother had no definite response. All mom had to do was make arrangements if something unexpected came up. Or if she didn’t have it in the first place, don’t acquire services. That would have ended everything before it turned crucial. So blame it on MOM for placing her child in this humiliating situation.
I don’t totally agree with the way the stylist handled things, but I do understand her anger and frustration over the course of the days events. It could have been handled by calling the police, but I guarantee mom would have went to jail. If mom had been there, they could have at the very least discussed it. There could have been an understanding reached. Or maybe grandma could have paid upon Mom’s request.
Lesson: You can’t do wrong and expect right to follow you. Everyone isn’t so understanding or forgiving.
#MyOpinion
Lyndell Octavia Robinson says
Well said, and that is defnintely the lesson to be learned, but I must say, I don’t agree with how the stylist handled the situation at all. I completely understand her anger and frustration because I’ve been both the child wating on someone to pick me up and pay for my style after services have been rendered and on the receiving end of non-payment for hours worth of braided work but the thought would never cross my mind to cut the kid’s hair back out for two reasons. 1) It’s not the child’s fault and I wouldn’t do that to anyone’s kid – PERIOD and 2) the child becomes a walking billboard advertising my work. Also, since we do not get the mother’s side of this we do not know why she sent her to the grandmother’s home. It may very well be that she had arranged for her mother to pay and keep the child while she was still out running errands. We never hear that they actually went into the home, only that the child informed her that it was her grandmother’s house and then gave her directions to her home. So yes, mom is defnitely at fault for setting in the wheels in motion but the stylist will lose more business than she gains from it all and may lose some clients that she already had. And, unfortunately the young girl has deal with the humilation. It’s her face attached to all of this, not the mom’s or the stylist’s.
Tay Diosa Caliente-roja Simmons says
I agree. They are both at fault to varying degrees. I just place the majority on MOM. This could have been settled through simple communication. Not avoidance. I couldn’t do it personally.
We can only comment on the story being told. I’ve seen a lot of stylist, my own included, get taken advantage of by “clients. It’s often said and thought that this isn’t a “real job” because they don’t punch a clock or work for someone else. But these entrepreneurs, have bills to pay, families to feed, no or sky high out-of-pocket insurance, etc. This is their bread and butter. Not to mention time spent away from their families…a day wasted. This client’s payment could have been for any one of those bills. We don’t know. We don’t know the whole story on either side. A lot could have been handled differently on both sides so that the child did not have to experience this. Hopefully they both learned something from this. I hope that the stylist changes the way she does business…I.e. deposits or full payment up front and strict rules not allowing parents to leave their children while services are being rendered.
As far as her losing clients, she may and she may not. She may even gain some. What she will not gain, are those seeking to get something for nothing. Judging from her work, I would be a client of hers. I would take my child to her as well. Difference is I make sure I pay/have the money, or I don’t make an appt.
I’m wondering is this the first time this mother has done this?
Nyomai Wells says
Well said
Melissa Rena Bartlett says
It’s not the responsibility of the stylist to shelter this little girl from the realities of life, it’s her mothers. And for some one to stand on their feet for 9 hours and then have to run around looking for some negligent parent is enough to make anyone trip. All you broke mothers out there get your priorities straight and stop teaching your kids that looks are more important than honesty, consideration, and tolerance.
Chandra Williams says
The little girl was innocent she didn’t deserve that
Monica Nicole Jackson says
The stylist did not cut the child’s hair. She cut the weave. That is very clear in the picture. The child’s head was probably tore up when she got her, so she her back home to her trifling mother the same way she came. Blame it on the mother for the jacked up style.
Melissa Rena Bartlett says
Well said.
Sigmonda Hines says
I just wish I knew the whole story behind the photos. For all I know her mom could’ve been depending on someone else (father) for the cash and it fell thru, leaving mom assed out…
Favian Blair-Sterling says
If so why take the stylist On a trip? She could have easily explained the situation woman to woman, maybe the stylist would have still been upset but I doubt she would have gone so far
Simone BlondeDiva Blythe says
I don’t care what any one says. If that mother had went into a store and picked up an item and walked out without paying for it, she would be arrested for shoplifting. Same principle applies. I do not blame the stylist at all. What is that parent teaching her child to do, steal?
Naysa Ward says
Girls please!! Y’all obviously are not God fearing people to be saying things like this concerning a child .money is not everything. Was she going to go broke if she didn’t get that payment.. Let somebody put a pair to one of yall kids hair and see how ya feel. Someone said that it’s not gone do any damage to the child. You don’t know what that Lil girl was feeling to have her here looking all pretty and liking are here and then have somebody to cut it out. Girl please!! I know that Lil girl was devastated!!! Y’all must not have kids. To think this is ok. Smdh it’s sad. But y’all comment about it being okay or about how long it took. Is even MORE SAD!!!! I would never do something like that to a child.Disgusting!
Nona Harris says
The mom didnt have the money to have it done and she knew it. People have done this to me plenty of times after ive done their hair. If you know you dont have the money then you dont need your hair done. Period.
Rosette says
I think that this is something that the mom does all the time. From person to person and never pays. I’m not saying the stylist was right for cutting the lil girls hair, but…the mom got just what she deserved. Somebody spend all day braiding hair just to get played in the end. I promise she won’t be able to run over no one else. She has been exposed!!!!
Darlene Doesburg says
As a stylist i can understand her completly ( 9 hours of work that couldve been well spent on other clients) but i wouldve taken the braids out and put it in a bun and sent the child home with the cops and the child should never be upset with the stylist but with her mom because she aint giving the right example on how things work in life.. If you ask for service you need to pay for it as well, unless it was a charity matter.
Favian Blair-Sterling says
am just sorry it wasn’t the mom hair that got cut! Ppl these days r just too dishonest and inconsiderate.
Torkwase Burts says
She reacted off her emotions. She should have just took the lady to court but oh well we all make effed up decisions.
Shalonda Lee Hood says
Whaaaaaaaat?!
Leslie Eyjaflallajökull Berry says
A whole lot of people defending what amounts to child abuse and humiliation of a little girl in either direction in these comments. Interesting.
Naysa Ward says
Point blank. What kind of person what kind of individual all you to cut weave out a child’s hair what was that accomplishing. Was she that broke that she needed that money that bad. I could never ever do something like that no morals. The little girl mom was wrong for not paying take her to court and get your money. Either way she didn’t get paid so.. you reap what you sow. And unjust don’t prosper. Both ways.. I bet she gone loose business. No respectable human being would do that. And I’m done. You gotta know when you fighting a losing bAttle. Smh. I’m tired from working. Oh and I work at a HBCU in this a lot of kids out there that don’t have things and we and workers help them out. Not hurt them
Missuniverse Crownme says
As a licensed braider and wrapper, I wouldn’t have done this to the child. Sometimes you have to pay the cost to be the boss. Yes I would’ve been angry but I would’ve just filed a police report. When you put the law on people, that’s the best and most professional way to show them you’re not playing. However, its a lose-lose situation for both parties. Then again, when parents fail to pay the daycare or private school tuition, they tell you that your child cannot come back. So its okay to deprive children of education because their parents won’t fork over money but this child should have been able to keep the hairdo that her mother refused to pay for??? A total loss for everyone.
Seanee Beautyfull Bree says
Yall r some heartless ratchet ass bitches idgaf if the parent don’t pay, yes i wud like to b paid for my services but to vut the baby hair off. Think about how this poor baby felt to know her hair was done sooo pretty n then cut off just like that, her heart must have been crushed n then take pics n put on instagram? Oh hell naw we wuda been fighting, i wuda beat her so gud n put it on instagram it wud make her delet her account, i wuda sharkeisha’d her basic ass. I just cant think past how the little girl felt. Smh.
Tk Tatum Richey says
U sound like a basic bitch how u gone fight somebody cuz yo ratchett ass not only dropped to daughter off and disappeared but wen they finally found yo dumb ass u didn’t even have the money to pay gtfoh maybe on ratchett alley where u live that dumb s*** makes sense
Naysa Ward says
Oh and she could have called the police like y’all saying. So why don’t she? Is she legal? Hmmm. So why not make arrangements. Anything other than that.
Naysa Ward says
Yes Seanee Beautyfull Bree. Girl I’m with you
Karen Lynese Brown says
Coocoo for cocoa puffs
Shalonda Lee Hood says
OK so she just cut the braids not the child’s hair…I see nothing wrong with what she did. I would have just told the woman to next time payment up front! She should/could have been honest with the stylist though.
Shyness Aunty Nenen Descartes says
cut off mom’s hair, shes the one who didn’t pay… don’t take it out on the child. kids shouldn’t be involved in grown folk business
Linda Joyful Howard says
The hair was repossessed just like anything else is when you don’t pay!! It does not look like the stylist cut the little girls real hair off only what she added,
Empowered Johnson says
The sad reality is now the mom has every right to press charges on different counts! And then sue her and she would win. Tell the judge that she was going to pay her (whether it’s true or not) and then the stylist would be a@# out. Then how would she feed her kids. And if she had a license, she would have to say bye bye to that. That was just plain stupid.
picsy says
The JUDGE wouldn’t give that hood rat mamie a thing!!!
Sondricka Ladymocha George says
I do hair nd if a mf don’t pay me I’d big chop my damn self. Nobody even a child will walk away with a free style from me no ma’am. If y’all don’t know the story then shut up because on her insta she explained the whole story that mom knew wat she was doin!! She was never gone pay to begin with
Megan Bean says
Wow. Sometimes u just gotta charge ish to the game
picsy says
THE STYLIST DID JUST THAT…..LOL
Deneika Hall says
It’s sad but I agree with the stylist on this….plain and simple!
VanNessa Winborne says
PREMEDITATED!!!! ….Just bcuz she cut the braids out doesn’t mean she cut the girls hair.
LaVaughn Powers says
After the little girl told the hairstylist where she really lived, and the mother was nowhere to be found. I would’ve called the police and had the mother charged.with theft of services.
Laura says
I feel that the mother should of been with the child in the first place when it comes to braiding the childs hair. I am sorry the mother basically let her there and let the stylist babysit her child. I know two wrongs don’t make a right but I feel that the stylist was pissed and that is how she makes a living. I think the stylist went beyond extremes to put on social media though sorry.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
Seen this photo before.
You lot saying ah was right to do this clearly aren’t thinking.
As a professional, you DO NOT accept a job when you have not received payment!
The mother clearly had the funds at the time of making the appointment you don’t know the circumstances.
I dunno if Americans and Brits think differently, but the way I see it as a person trying to promote a PROFESSION she cut off her own foot, and is likely to lose business!
The little girl will most likely be suffering emotionally from feeling ashamed, embarrassed, can you imagine the name calling? Children are cruel!
WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD?!
People think FFS
Naysa Ward says
Excuse me ma’am but if you would do something like that to a child you don’t deserve kids
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Unless she cut out the child’s hair along with the weave,there should be no issue with what was done. THE STYLIST WAS RIGHT!
Neisha McReynolds says
she posted.the whole story on instagram. Long story short the mother had her on a wild goose chase waiting on her to come get her daughter then when she took thw girl where her mom told her to.take the little girl she gave the gmas address so thw little girl told her where they really lived and the mother wasnt there either. She didnt pay her her money not only did she spend 9hrs on her hair but she also waited a few hours for.her to come to.the shop to get the little girl and pay for hwr services then ahe ended up taking the girl home for.the lady. I would have cut my braids to.
Laura Detommasi says
I agree with you also I think two wrongs don’t make a right I feel that the mom was very wrong and I think the stylist could of done it a different way then social media. The stylist could of just gone to the cops and said that the mom never should up to get the child and paid her.
Sarah Taylor says
I have had this happen to me but I ended up getting paid days later,I would have kept the braids in Bc karma is coming for the mother,this is exactly why stylist do deposits before touching your head Bc ppl cancel & do silly mess like this.Sad case but the daughter shouldn’t of been put through that Bc of the actions of her mother.
Etta Panky Morgan says
If I were the stylist, I would have called the police and took the mother to court. The child got caught in the middle, poor thing.
Nisha Collins says
Wrong in so many ways smh… It was not the child’s fault period… And to kno she had kids too is sad… She wouldn’t have be ok with tht if tht was her child
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Mess around and don’t pay your electricity and water bill. IT WILL GET CUT OFF! Again, as long as she didn’t cut the child’s hair, the stylist was well within her rights to do that. How will there be emotional damage if the pic is blurring out her face and the rest of the braids can be removed and her hair can look the same as usual? Even if her face wasn’t blurred out, she still has her hair and her thieving egg donor can do something to that child’s hair at the house until she can learn to pay for services rendered.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
(Assuming this is to my comment lol) So she didn’t have to walk through her home town with her hair like that? See the kids in her town?
Professionally I disagree with how this was handled.
She didn’t set a positive example for her growing business or her children. In my opinion…
Michelle R. Willis-Walker says
Shame in the stylist and the mother! As a stylist I would have just blessed the child with a free hairdo. As for her mom I would have just told her I could not do business with her anymore. The child is the victim. You reap what you sow. God would have honored her work, now she may lose customers bc of her trifling behavior.
Ni-Ni Henderson says
KMSLOL, explain how removing weave from your scalp is classified as child abuse and humiliation. ..All of you who are basically siding with the egg donor must work for free at your jobs and sign the check back over to your employer.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
Look at her hair.
She didn’t take the braids OUT she cut them, left the girl with ragged hair.
You know when you see a girl walking around and her hair isn’t looking good you may make a comment either to a friend OR to yourself!
So kids are the same. But if you refuse to think that’s your issue lol.
As a child psychologist I guess I’m a little more, open.
Simple as.
Shenicia Williams says
That’s how you take braids out you cut the at the length of your actual hair.
Anita says
So, I read this somewhere else and initially the mother posted the pictures bashing the stylist: the stylist posted the pics that she took explaining her situation. The mom gave the stylist a run around for hours with no regard for her business. I think the stylist was perfectly right for what she did. She didn’t embarrass that girl she simply took down her work. The girl’s mother ducked and dodged her for hours. At one point said the dad was going to get her, then she claimed she had a flat tire and needed the stylist to drop her off at the house for her but she actually has gave her the address to the grandma who wasn’t there. It was a huge scam on the mom’a part.
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Who ever said she was about to be paraded through town for all to see the cut out braids? If the mother did that, it was her own fault for subjecting her child to that, yet again. Some of these comments are too funny for words! KMSLOL.
Tiffany Ford says
As an adult you do not do things like this to a child. The mother was definitely in the wrong but you never take your frustration out on a child and then on top of that put it out there for the world to see… That was beyond unprofessional and I would never got to her or recommend anyone else use her services.
Deelishus Goodaz Brooklyn Maraj says
She didn’t exactly take it out on the child she just sent her back ti her mother the way she came because her mom didn’t pay, i can’t judge cuz i would’ve been mad as hell to
Ni-Ni Henderson says
I guess y’all have never heard of this happening to people before, because this is NOT new.
Joan M. Manuel says
That’s ignorant. You don’t put a child in the middle of grown people issues. She could’ve took the woman to court. Called the police whatever. What She did hurt the little girl not the mom. Think how She felt as this woman was cutting her braids out and was probably being a bitch about it. Grow up ppl. That shit She pulled wasn’t cool. The stylist and the mom was wrong and the baby ended up paying for it. Smh
picsy says
THE PISS POOR EXCUSE FOR A MOTHER PUT HER OWN DAUGHTER IN THE MIDDLE OF ”GROWN PEOPLE ISSUES” FOH!
Jennifer Medina says
9hrs. And still running around dropping child off at grandmaster then still waiting, I think I would’very been very upset as well
Joan M. Manuel says
Hell and I take care of ppl for a living. Just imagine if I pulled some shit like that.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
The stylist shouldn’t have started if she couldn’t get paid!
Why not take out the braids. Why cut them?
This ain’t happened in the UK
OVER HERE we just refuse to braid the hair until the client can pay.
Is that not common sense?
Do the buses go to America or..?
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Again, who said she was paraded all around town for all to see the cut out braids? It’s really not that serious people. I’m guessing there was no payment plan or “I gotcha on payday girl”, so what’s the big deal? Services weren’t paid for, oh well.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
1. Never said she would have to be shown off but she has to travel home no? And common sense dictates that on her travels home people will see her, just like people see you going home!
At the end of the day
The stylist shouldn’t have taken her anger out on the child like that. She should have been more professional with her manner.
The mother should have had the money to pay but she didn’t so why braid her damn hair!
But by your comments I can only see you’re going to continue so enjoy your day ms!
Sharon Jackson says
Wowwwwwww….thats crazy. The last time I had my hair done. They will stop in the middle of doing your hair & will tell you how much. She should have gotten her money up front. It was wrong for her to do that to that child!
LeHasha A Williams says
If this was yall child you would be ready to fight to all the people saying she was right for cutting that baby hair
Honey Yams says
I dont try to steal things so i would never have this problem. The stylist should have called the police.
Anna Ogonji Smith says
Who said the mom wasn’t going to pay perhaps she thought she was getting a free babysitter but was wrong either way. I wouldn’t cut anyone’s hair including an adult though.
Ni-Ni Henderson says
KMSLOL! What are you talking about? Some people run their businesses where you pay AFTER the services have been rendered. Others require deposits and full payment once you sit in their chair. Because you think it hasn’t happened there doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened and you just have no knowledge of it or it just happens in other areas of the world.
Rochelle Corilette Liyah Warner says
Christ I’m done with you.
Honey Yams says
So? All places differ. You made no point other than you think you are better than others bc of where you come from which makes you part of one of this worlds biggest problems…
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Fight for what? I WOULD BE A THIEF! That’s just like people getting mad with you for asking for money you loaned them, when they owe YOU money, but steadily walking around buying frivolous things they want and don’t need…Ridiculous! KMSLOL!
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Not at all. Same things, different location.
Duanisha Thompson says
Lord knows what that child had to listen to while that woman took scissors to her head.
Shanita Dunn says
No it differs
Danielle Mosheh Richardson says
People must don’t realize just how much time it took for the stylist to do such a pretty style! The mother had ample time to stop the stylist and let her know she could not pay, instead – she was trying to get a free style and had the same mindset like many of you who suggest that just because it was a child, the stylist “shouldn’t have cared” .. That mother knew exactly what she was doing, she is no victim. Furthermore – if the stylist did not cut the girl’s own hair? The stylist STILL loss in this situation because she spent HER time and was robbed of it when she could’ve been paid by a true client. The bottom line is, the “baby mama” wanted a “hook up” and it backfired on her
Honey Yams says
I agree although i think the stylist should have called the police and informed them that she was robbed instead bc cutting someones hair (fake or not) is assault. So thats where the stylist went wrong. Ultimately the mother is the root of all of this though and although i feel bad for the kid the thieving mom gets no sympathy from me.
Glendene Bovell says
Never heard the like!
Trinette Mitchell says
she should have locked her in and called the police
CourJae Lovin My-Son says
Poor baby girl caught in the middle of both adults who should have thought before they reacted. I have the jobs done things not worth the stress. Cops could have been called or collateral sous have been taken until payment was paid. Both sides could easily been seen but the little girl should have been taken out of equation
Krystal Renay Allen says
As a profession hair stylist I would never do this to a little girl. She had nothing to do with the non payment of service. From preventing this from happening when doing a service like this you should collect the money be4 hand. If not all the money at least half.
Natalie Thegenuinetruth Smith says
That’s why I don’t mess with too many hairdressers. Always want money but most have horrible people skills.
Amber Mundy says
I feel like this stylist did the right thing… She called,waited and even took the child home.. I don’t care what happened… The stylist needs to be paid.. it’s sad the child was involved. Although that childs mother is to blame.. once I had grown lady say she didn’t like her braids.. I advertised my work as guaranteed or no charge. So she thought she was slick.. I told her that was fine but I had take the braids down… Yall should have seen her face… She didn’t want to take them down she is in a rush… Really… I promised her before she made it out I would have every braid on the floor… She paid me… People scam any and everywhere they can…
Tiffanie Malecha says
exactly. but also at the end of the day she is wasting more time by taking out the braids. she should have called the cops for non payment and settled it that way
Keira Bell says
Poor baby girl
Ni-Ni Henderson says
Calling the police would have been a waste of breath. They would have told her that there is nothing they can do to make her pay up and take it to small claims court. Seems like she had common sense enough to know that and ‘cut’ her losses all the way around.
Honey Yams says
I disagree. Ppl have been arrested for trying this at Dominican shops. Its robbery.
Joan Newly Single says
The professional thing to do would be to document everything and take her to court. She could of even made a report of neglect due to the mom abandoning her child. But the places i go to I pay when im halfway done
Danielle Mosheh Richardson says
I was a teacher for 12 years and the tuition was 1500 a month for each child, if the parents did not pay… Guess what they did? Kick the child OUT of school! Oh but… They are children right?? The bottom line is, pay for services or be a thief. The little girl loss NOTHING… if she went in lookin a mess and came out lookin a mess.. The ONLY loser here is the STYLIST who took her time and braided her hair. I’m done
Nicole Ham says
Why you humiliate that child ! She should’ve just ate it and called it a good deed
Ke Maya says
Cutting that Childs hair did absolutely nothing to solve the problem. She could have just gotten the police involved or refused to service her anymore
Honey Yams says
I agree but i dont agree w ppl saying the stylist should have just chalked it up to a loss. She loss about half a days pay on that. I wouldnt have the heart to take a kids braids down but i would surely call the cops like anyone else does when they get robbed. I understand her anger. She went about it wrong.
Honey Yams says
This is a job that is in the hundreds. How many of you just eat losing $100. Im sorry i can buy quite a few groceries w that.
Appolonia Bailey says
I would have cut the braids out also, she posted the pic to show that she shouldn’t be taken advantage of….the little girl’s face was not exposed so there shouldn’t be a problem…the mom is to be blamed, standing for 9hrs without pay is like going to work for someone else without pay, that is how she provides for her family….no one should be exempt from my wrath if they attempt to take food from my kids or family’s mouth.
Honey Yams says
Actually it was exposed in the first pics
Sheri Marie says
Noele Tipler the mom is dead ass wrong bc obviously she was trying to scam and it ended up backfiring on her but the stylist was a bit extreme too. Smh crazy I haven’t seen stranger things either.
Tamecia Young says
I understand where she is coming from I did a girls hair before all day with no payment. She had enough. I would have handled it differently but point well made.
cellestine says
but she shuldnt have cut the childs hair. She didnt have to pay for her mothers offense. Wait, did she just cut off the extensions or the girls hair with it. If its the latter she is wicked and should even be sued.Show her pic she should be shamed. A shame to motherhood too. Whats the diffrence between her and the girls mother?
Joanne Johnson says
I personally feel what she did to the lil girl was wrong. Should have took that anger out on the mother.
Stella Boamah says
Wow!
Felicia Langston Oldham says
Grown folks leave children out of their sh$t!! Regardless of the cause. There was a better way to handle this. This f’up behavior did not put food on her table for her kids, neither did it get the time she had taken to braid that baby’s hair back. Regardless of what some might think, the system works. Call the cops, call child services, or whomever but what you don’t do is humiliate a child because you were wronged. This is so f’d up!! Hell! I’d rather had read “Stylist F’s Up Mom Who Did Not Pay For Service” than to imagine the torment that little girl suffered through while her braids were being hacked out. This is soooo wrong on so many damn levels!!!!
Johanne Elie Jean Noel says
She definitly did the right thing. You never know for how long the mother has been doing this. And even if it’s the first time, that will cut the envy of doing that again
Cassandra White says
She was right. The mom was wr. The police of course would have dpne nothing. She would have had to file a civil suit and still would not have got the money.
Marie Connie Gainey says
She should not have cut that child’s hair! That is child abuse, for ever people on here saying she did the right thing!! In case you didn’t know, now you know! That is the most ignorant thing I have seen in a long time…that is why I don’t mess with “classless” in my hair or in my life…nobody would want someone to do that to their child…no matter if the mother was trying to dodge paying! I would’ve been seeing her in court! That is just a spiteful, nasty person! Real grown up, adult people don’t behave this way!! Write it off, or see her in court, don’t abuse the child…CLASSLESS, CLASSLESS, CLASSLESS
Shenicia Williams says
How is cutting out braids child abuse
Tina Valeicia says
She should’ve got paid first
Wykeema Stanley says
Childish as all hell. And she has kids, which makes it even worse. Why would you take your issues with the mother out on a child? The child probably is unaware of what’s going on. She doesn’t deserve any customers for all of that. Let disputes between adults stay between adults. I don’t care how justified she thought she was for doing it. Her children’s pictures aren’t floating around on Instagram and the internet in an attempt to humiliate her family. Take her to court if she doesn’t pay. She could have talked to the child’s grandmother and maybe the grandmother would have paid the bill (she shouldn’t have to, but then the situation would have been between the mom and grandmother). There were sensible steps to take.
Appolonia Bailey says
It’s my opinion honey, not the law…like I said in my comment it’s what I would do lol….fall back and chill shorty it’s not that serious lol….
Hana Cheatom says
SMH. Two wrongs don’t make a right. There are more civil ways to handle the situation than traumatizing a child by chopping out braids that hopefully didn’t include her hair.
Alexis Howard says
This child will remember this forever. Both adults were immature in this situation. God bless the little one.
Tammie Faulkner Taylor says
Bet the “mother” does this in every aspect of her life.
Give that stylist a medal!
She may lose some business but she’ll gain some from people that are sick of low life, mooching people that think the world owes them something.
I don’t agree with the little girl’s face being blurred, but honest, hardworking people are sick of the leeches of society.
Shari McDaniel says
That mother is a piece of work. The stylist would have come out better looking if she properly styled the lil girl’s hair afterwards and NOT put that child’s pic on the internet.
Calisia Dillard says
Why is everyone so caught up with the stylist vs. child scenario. Yes, it is embarrassing for the child but that is temporary. The only person that is at a loss is the stylist herself. She spent her time and effort to do braid that where not paid for, and wasn’t planning on being paid for based off the fact that she is still WITHOUT PAYMENT. The person that we should all be collectively getting mad at is the MOTHER. Everyone’s opinion on how the situation was handled is based off of upbringing. But, we should not be so quick to lose site of who is at fault for it all…. the MOTHER.
Tammie Faulkner Taylor says
Does anyone have any proof that the stylist roughly hacked the braids out or are people assuming that? The little girl doesn’t look upset in the after pics at all.
If anyone has any proof of the stylist roughly and angrily hacking braids out, please post the link because I haven’t read that on ANY site.
Renee HR Dumas says
I know that lil girl feelings were hurt
Honey Yams says
Appolonia wth are you even talking about? Go sit down…
Frazier Dee says
Damon right. If I take my child somewhere, it’s because I worked hard to do it. That mother was wrong for what she did to that stylist. They got what they deserved. I bet that little girl will never try any trifling stuff when she grows up!!!
Jasmine says
I know she was mad but that’s messed up. I feel for the little girl, she was probably embarrassed to death. She could have at least told he mom, either you have to bring my money or I am takin her hair down. Shame on her and the mother of this child.
Mary Welch says
I guess she’ll pay next time.
Carolyn V. Ridley says
Call the police report a thief!!
Ashanti Beasley says
I would have cut her hair too It’s a lesson to both child and mother but stylist should have gotten atleast half money up front or do like some braid shops and do half your head and ask for money
Appolonia Bailey says
Lol Honey Yams if you read my opinion then you would see who my statement was directed to and it was clearly not you…..the little girl face is blurred out unless people are looking at a different page, like I said I’m entitled to my own opinion that’s what the post is about, it’s not a debate it’s opinions…..so as far as me even addressing you in a rude manner, i will not stoop to your low level comment…you will not get a rise out of mi, lol people are so silly these days geesh lol
Vanessa Walker-Lee says
I Feel bad for the little girl…
Hannah Louise says
the mother is the one to blame for this poor girl in the pik .i kno if that happen to my daughter
Hannah Louise says
my daughter would b scared for life. feel sorry for the girl and the stylist in this. awful.
Danielle Mosheh Richardson says
I feel bad for the stylist’s labor and money loss!
Hannah Louise says
FEEL SO SAD NOW AFTER READING THIS, POOOR LITTLE GIRL, MOTHERS EVIL FAULT
Eloise Rossiter says
Omg poor baby and shame on the mamma smh people
Ebony Smith says
Bol
Koree Monroe says
That’s her job no one wants to work for free. That time could have been used on a paying. Customer. Its very sad for the little. Girl. But to be honest I’m sure this isn’t the first time her mom pulled some crap like this so she may very well be used to it
Bena Aba Wynter says
The mother is to be blame for this!! If u can’t pay don’t choose a complicated style for a kid…the stylist is wrong for putting the pic on social media…..At the end of the day they all lost something and nothing was gain by this act!!!!
Helen DjBlackpearl Clements says
I had a bad color done and I walked out and did not pay. The owner knew the girl was a beginner and did not know what she was doing. I told the person call the police and I will stay there and I was never going to come back or recommend anyone to that salon. I had to go to another salon to fix the color. I lost out on time. I was glad the colorist could repair my color. That was the end of that. The mother was never going to pay. Sorry for the little girl. Business is Business.
Jamila Kelly says
wait did she cut the actual girls hair or just the fake hair for the braids?
While I do agree its really dick Like to post the photos on instagram Like a trophy and to take it out in the little girl by doing that I do think the mom of the daughter is trash too. Why would you make someone spend THAT much time and effort to do hair when you knoWingly can’t pay ? Or just don’t want to pay? I feel Like the mom was Kinda like “well she already did it what is she gOing to do? cut it out?”
Yes…yes she did cut it out so next time know that everyone makes a living some how and stop being a cheap ass. Explain to your daughter why you didn’t pay and why that happened when it could have been Prevented
KayReminizz Woff says
Well as a hairl stylists I can say yes there’s a better way to handle that. But no one really knws wat they do if that would of happen to them! Wat I do now (cause that happen to me after 8 hrs of doin micro s) I get my pay first! Sorry that happen to them both!
Tina M. Williams says
Wow
Valerie Page says
People so don’t understand the affect a action has on a child now mom her first role model does that another adult she is told to respect then cuts her hair out of anger now what is this child suppose to take from their actions these are adults suppose to be the sensible and responsible people that guide the children smh
Tk Tatum Richey says
If the stylist has a heart or concern for evry adult or child who doesn’t pay who is gonna pay the stylist bills because last time I checked the rent cant be payed in concern,love or with I.o.u’s
Hynefah Malcolm says
If I were the stylist, I’d just block the mom’s name from my phone or make sure people pay me first. Life comes with some costly lessons at times & I’m sorry she had to waste her time… But being a mom she should’ve been more sensitive to the child…imagine how she feels lol she’s gotta deal with her mom doing shit like this all the time don’t make the baby pay
Charlene Coleman Williams says
As a stylist it is horrible when u spend ur talent and time on someone’s head and then they throw the oh I don’t have enough… after u set in my chair and asked me for this style then u play me with all the extras eye brows and color and u tell me when I’m finished u don’t have enough money… girl please… let me wash that right out of your hair and send your butt home.
Natalie M Alston says
Both mom and the stylist were wrong! Period! Posting a child’s pic on Instagram after she cut the child’s braids out is actually worse than the trifling ass mom who had no intentions in paying!
Deyna DeOriginal Skillaz says
Here’s the thing…after this incident the stylist learned her lesson in money handling with clients and is now accepting payment whether partial or full before she puts her hands on another person’s hair. Note: she should have had herself covered BEFORE an incident like this. you leave room for error then sh*t will hit the fan. Yes the mother is wrong and trifling but she didn’t get back the money for her service and she received a lot of unnecessary negative backlash. Deal with the mother like an adult and don’t traumatize a child for her parent’s behaviour. Red flags should have been going off in her head through out these 9 hours because she didn’t do the hair for all 9 hours a lot of that time she was waiting around for the mother who was fooling around with her – Come on!!
EVEN if she felt justified to cut the hair out she posted the after picture with the girls face (its only censored now here) and it went viral. That’s disgusting. Her followers did not need to know that. The public did not need to know that. Instead she should have done what she did LAST and let everyone know to pay her before hand and go on about her business. and i quote “…never make a decision when your angry…”
Janet Henry says
Why would you hurt a child because her mother was ratchet? That is abuse. You still didn’t get paid so why damage a child psychologically? Call the police…that was cruel…don’t hurt children. She did nothing wrong
Janet Henry says
The point is after cutting the innocent child hair you still didn’t get paid so why hurt the child? Sue her…
Astairwaytolearning Wherewehelp Familiesgrow says
Although the stylist tactics were outlandish I can understand why. Too bad the innocent child was caught in the cross fire. Let’s focus on that parent. She was trying to play stylist. Shame
Johanna Smith says
I’m sure the little girl was embarrassed she shouldn’t have had her braids cut out because of her moms foolishness I feel sorry for the little girl she didn’t deserve that just don’t do it again without money upfront
Vanessa White says
Total ratchet behaviour from both mum and stylist, could if been handled better. Poor child!
Rolanda Taylor Luvnmygurls says
Even if nobody paid, why be at a total loss cutting that baby hair out like that? Why not get law enforcement involved because your beautiful work went to shreds literally.She reacted in anger and I could only imagine what the little girl was feeling like probably getting rough handled and talked about while she cutting, this is a lose lose situation for real!!
Jasmine Greene says
Evil
Kerry-Ann Wilson Ashley says
people take advantage of hairstylist …..how about u go to work all week and then your job gives you the run around….being a hairstylist is blood sweat and tears….styling hair is our gift…..and it is art….that style she gave her was beautiful n time consuming……i dont think the child should have suffered…..but sometimes they are involved in the scam too..im sure if she reasoned with the stylist she could have worked something out for her….but she was skeeming from the begining….ive had people know they coudnt afford the service then ask me if i can do them a favor after….its not right n stylist dont work for free…….we have bills just like everyone else…….
Laurie Deloach says
I’m sorry, I would of did the exact thing. It’s nothing against the child, but the mother is Shady. The stylist has bills as well. Look at the actions of the mother…
Telly Ree says
Uh, even though this was a mean act I am not mad at the stylist. If you don’t pay you should not able to enjoy the services. BHI only wants to focus on the child, and exploitation of the child. If a mother let a child go into McDonalds with no money, the child doesn’t get to eat. Is McDonalds the bad guy for not serving the hungry child or is the mother doing bad parenting for sending in her child with no money? This child should not be able to leave with a fresh hair style if it was not paid for, bottom line.
Kimberly Mack Evans says
Aww
Shaniece Trotter says
Wow that’s crazy she should have called the police
Donna Chesser says
I braid hair, and it takes long agonizing, patients. I don’t blame the styliest, bet her ass won’t do that afain. Now the mom has to spend another 9 hours taking that shit out. Lol!
Erica Merriwether says
you dont punish the child for the parents wrong doing?
Cassia Davis says
She was absolutely wrong for taking her frustration out on that poor little girl. She could not control her mother or change anything that happened. Don’t post a picture of the child after you cut her hair, that makes the hair stylistic look just as bad. If your gonna expose anyone expose the mother for neglecting her child.
Annette Trimble says
The more I hear this story the more pissed I get at the adults. now I know how I am about my hair an this little girl must have felt like her hair was being cut off the mom was wrong but attacking the girl was not going to get her, her money I would never trust this stylist with me or my child. Would she attack the child if we disagree about something else? or just money?
Deniesha Campbell says
Being the good person I am I would let it be, smh no sense doing that making the child feel bad becuz of her mom’s wrong doing just leave her to karma Raquel Carter
Raquel Carter says
Alter scenario: stylist calls the police and fills out a police report. The stylist still misses a days pay. Who really wins here
Cynthia Tucker-James says
Oh dang!
Mikayah Williams says
I wld have to I follow this stylist and she is a hard worker if u didn’t hv to money say so don’t give a person the run around taking the little girl home u on ur way daddy on his way neva came with the money
Wanita Black says
That is so disgusting to the hairdresser, ugh! I would of even paid for it just so you wouldn’t have to do that to the child!
Brittney Amera Cruz says
She should not have posted it on IG. I don’t fault her at all. The mom would have done this to someone else or referred others to the stylist so they could do the same thing. Stylist are paid after the job is done not before. How would you feel putting in two weeks of work and gas and not get paid. She could have been home with her kids. The mom could have told her she didn’t have it she may would have cut the price. The mother has obviously done this before. Habitual offender I doubt she will do it again..
Brittney Amera Cruz says
She should have posted the mother’s pic that’s what the Koreans do in the hair store bam mug shot at the counter!
Nykita Rebecca Daniel Axcell says
BUAHAHAHAHA !
Ebony Rivers says
I understand the stylist point, but believe the stylist should have gone about this a different way, cause at the end of the day it’s that young girl that’s probably left with some emotional scars from this whole event. we adult women know how we feel about our hair, getting a hairstyle that didn’t work for us or simply having a bad hair day. Now put that emotion into the mind of an 8 year old child…that little girl is going to be upset by this for a while. The stylist knew where the grandmother lived, she could have gone there and told the woman what was going on and asked for either payment from the grandmother, information on the mother so she could take her to court for payment or asked her for assistance on how to resolve the matter. I simply hope that the stylist was a decent enough woman to remember where the little girls real hair ended and only cut the extensions and not the child’s real hair, that I believe would leave the little girl scared on a whole different level.
Shenicia Williams says
Emotional scars because she had braids taken out of her hair ?
Ebony Rivers says
yes, Shenicia Williams emotional scars because her mother who is supposed to be her first protector in life purposely put her in a situation where she was left with this woman who probably up until that day was a complete stranger to her,(cause you can’t do this to the same stylist twice, and I doubt anyone would do this to their regular stylist) now the stylist, angered by her mother to the point that this adult has summoned her back out to her car and cut these braids out of her head leaving her to look a complete mess and home alone waiting for her mother. and like I said hopefully the woman was decent enough to remember how long the little girls real hair was cause could you imagine once the girl starts taking the rest of the braids out and discovers her real hair has been hacked up in all this…have you ever had a bad hair day…now times that by 10 to account for the extreme emotions of an 8 year old child who’s just had her pretty braids cut out by an angry adult strange woman…that’s the view point I was making my comment from, the child’s.
Denise says
The stylist is not evil.I would go to her in a heart beat.I expect a professional hair service and she expects to get paid for performing the service.It’s that simple.The child was indeed humiliated but not by the stylist.She was humiliated by the actions of her own mother.Now that I think about it,I’m certain that this was not the first time her mother attempted to pull off this type of scam.Just the first as time it c aught up with her.The child is well aware of her mom’s deceptive tactics as this is generally a way of life.I pray this child does not follow her mom’s example.
Braids n' beauty says
by cutting the braids, did she get her money? two wrongs don’t make a right
leanna johnson says
I would’ve just let that baby go and call police charges of child neglect and abandonment. And sue Ber of possible. Just have clients pay upfront next time
Ella Ewing says
The child was humiliated she had nothing to do with this. I have one question will she recover this, she trusted the stylist,this was bad business all the way around. The stylist sent a message in a bad way and mother didn’t have money to paid look who got hurt.
Winnie Woo says
The mother is wrong, the hairdresser has no professional ethics. The hairdresser obviously attracts these types of clients but the child should NOT have subjected to this cruel imitation of an adult and adult behavior including her MOTHER
Shaleta Hall says
I feel so bad for the little girl, only because she is innocent in all this, i do feel the stylist pain and her actions was based of anger and emotions but i wouldn’t have the heart to do her like that, i would have kept her with me, somebody would have had to come get her and i would had the police waiting there when she came to make her pay up, the mother was trifling and probably had to hear her daughter cry because of her ignorance, hope both parties learn from this, maybe she should takin upfront payments
Thick Nette says
If I was the owner of that shop the stylist worked in I would have fired her ass!! First of all it’s bad for business to let your emotions take over. This is not professionalism. A true professional would have demanded payment when the style was half done. The mother would not have been able to leave her 8 year old unattended in my shop. Sometimes we set ourselves up to be screwed over. This mother was dead wrong but the stylist was not thinking about the effect this could have on her amount of clients. In business you have to stop and think with your head and not your anger. This was a child who is not to blame for the actions of the parent.
Cookie Anderson says
that’s an assault on a child where as she could have just filed a lawsuit against the mother for non payment for services. duh!!!
Shenicia Williams says
How is this assault. Thats how you take braids out in general
Pamela Terry says
For ALL of you who think the hair girl was right- know good and well, that you have been done wrong at some point or another and you done nothing about it, turned the other cheek, or whatever but you did not take it out on a child those of you who agree with the hair lady what would you do if it were your child??? Would it b OK then
Brenda L Clark says
oh well.
MsJessica Sharp says
LMAO at people really thinking what she did to this little girl was OK!!! There were other ways to handle this other than cutting this babies braids out, and then posting her picture on the internet! You take your frustrations out on the mom, NOT the child. It’s not about her “working for free”, it’s about realizing that the child is not at fault, the mother is.
Shenicia Williams says
Only thing wrong is the stylist posting this online with the child’s face showing.
Sydney Shea Jacobs says
YOU DON’T PUT A CHILD ON BLAST ON THE INTERNET!!! PERIOD! That being said, the MOTHER should have NEVER put her baby in that position in the first place!! If you think that the little girl’s face being shown online is okay, then there’s something wrong with you. Period. That’s not okay.
Tamara Kisic says
I understand the thought behind what the stylist did, but at the end of the day that was a child and being a mother herself, she should have known better.
L says
It took just as much work to cut this child’s hair than it would have to just leave it, and call the cops. Not only did she embarrass the child, but, she did damage to any future business with this stunt. A less emotional approach would have been more effective. While the mother was dead wrong for trying to stiff the stylist, two wrongs definitely don’t make a right.
An objective question: Who’s to say that the mother really didn’t have car trouble, and was trying to have the girl dropped off at the grandmother’s house so that she wouldn’t be home alone? Anything could have happened. The mother may have intended to drop the money by later……I know, I know…. not likely; but, why would she send the lady to her mother’s house if she was trying to get away with something? This stylist could have come back and damaged her mother’s property. IJS!
How long did the client and the stylist know each other? Why would the mother feel comfortable leaving her child with a stranger? Had she done something like this before? Irresponsible behavior on the mother’s part; and irrational behavior on the stylist’s part….. and the baby is the casualty.
And if she
Leslie Clark says
im pretty sure every stylist including me would say they. wouldve done the same thing….there is no such thing as free in this world. i got bills to pay just like u do and this is how i make my money.
L says
It took just as much work to cut this child’s hair than it would have to just leave it, and call the cops. Not only did she embarrass the child, but, she did damage to any future business with this stunt. A less emotional approach would have been more effective. While the mother was dead wrong for trying to stiff the stylist, two wrongs definitely don’t make a right.
An objective question: Who’s to say that the mother really didn’t have car trouble, and was trying to have the girl dropped off at the grandmother’s house so that she wouldn’t be home alone? Anything could have happened. The mother may have intended to drop the money by later……I know, I know…. not likely; but, why would she send the lady to her mother’s house if she was trying to get away with something? This stylist could have come back and damaged her mother’s property. IJS!
How long did the client and the stylist know each other? Why would the mother feel comfortable leaving her child with a stranger? Had she done something like this before? Irresponsible behavior on the mother’s part; and irrational behavior on the stylist’s part….. and the baby is the casualty.
And if she really intended to stiff the stylist, why would she leave her child there? Not all stylist’s will be a chauffer and drop the kid off. She was taking a huge chance that the stylist would be kind…..
I think the stylist was a bit hot-headed, and she should have thought about the situation before she turned into Edward Schissor-hands.
Shenelle Simon says
Smh… couldn’t she have just made a report or something
James L. Mitchell says
And will do the same damn thing if that should ever happen. In that order!!
Korinne Dandy says
I am a hair stylist…. I would not have posted the pic or taken a pic, but I would have cut the braids out….. The mother is wrong…. but the stylist was wrong for taking and posting the little girls pic….
Brittney Amera Cruz says
For the people stating the mom could have filed charges…. she would have been stupid to do so bc the cops would have arrested her for neglect. She left the 8yr child there with a stranger and then refused to pick her up. Seriously both would have been in the back of the squad car and the child in DSS. On what earth would a judge reward money to a conniving neglectful theif of a mother???
Deeck wgeef says
I dont see nothing wrong what the stylist did. Going the legal way doesnt always work out for u in the long run and ends up being more trouble then its worth. Black people need to stop taking advantage of out own and thinking its ok to do so.
Denice Hill says
Sad, just sad
Kelly Tiana Richardson says
You know all hell would have broke loose!
Denice Hill says
God says vengeance is his!!!
Sam Adams says
Shemaa mannnn yo…. smh
Shari Murdock says
Collect your money before you start.
Gina says
She shouldn’t have taken the client. And, you can’t collect the money first. If I don’t like the work, u won’t get paid! I’ll NEVER pay first.
Regina Magee says
All of this is the mothers fault… She’s trifling, I bet she learned her lesson and won’t trip to rip another stylists off!
Shona Ellis says
I’m a hairstylist. For one, if I give an appointment time and you show up two hours late and don’t bother to call, your hair or whoever the appointment is for will NOT be getting anything done!!! The stylist, being a professional shouldve saw the fuckery with the late arrival and sent the mom and child on their way.
nubiennze says
This. The writing was on the wall with the extremely late arrival. Any more than 30 minutes without advance notification and services should have been refused.
Ericia Howard says
Could have been avoided if the stylist wouldn’t have taken the girl due to the late arrival. My stylist has a 15 minute leeway and ALL her clients know this. Sometimes you have to take your lost and move on.
Gina says
The stylist was ignorant for that. It wasn’t the girls fault. Now she stands a chance of getting sued For exploiting the child. She could have sued the mother and got more money. Nobody probably wants her to do their hair now. That was straight ignorant! Big Dummy!
Ms.Reason says
You bunch of hoodrat idiots agreeing with the stylist actions..wow.
what she did was highly unprofessional and immoral.of course the little girls hair got cut in the process.
as a business person u do things appropriately like take people to court. Uhm yeah u have to take the time to do it but that is part of running a business. What if all business owners did similar things of retaliation?
Damn! People..grow up
she technically assulted the little girl and now the mother can file a criminal complaint and cn prove malicious intent cause the idiot posted it and explained why she did it…smdh
Lynda Charlery Cox says
Poor little girl, how sad.. I would sue the mama..
Ashley Williams says
Ok the mother was wrong for what she did for sure. Now with that being said, the stylist said she lost time with her kids and money and she was angry. Well she wasted at least another hour cutting that little girls hair and taking pics, she’s probably going to lose money because of the bad publicity and she just scarred a child by posting her face on the net. Not to mention she can be charged for breaking all types of laws just for posting the picture. The final thing to remember is she has children too. You treat children the way you want your children to be treated. Sometimes morality outweighs finances. If she were so worried about the time with her kids, she would have left the girl at her grandmother’s house and went home to her children or started on the next client.
Elle says
Everytime I see this article float across my TL, I think to myself. Most of the time hair salons will wash your style out if you can’t pay or don’t like it. I think had she not posted in online then might have been able to say, “well she didn’t pay” but my goodness, no need to put the child out there. That’s the one thing about folks who don’t know how to be professional. You don’t see business owners, clicking pictures of their customers who they have disagreements with. They keep it moving, solve it and go on about their business as owners. She could have very well cut the braids out and kept on going. What she didn’t need to do was post that up online as a lesson. I wouldn’t step foot in her salon or sit in her chair after seeing that sort of behavior.
Bree Domingue says
For real Dré Gamer. That was just sad to hear. I’m a professional and I have a passion for what I do. Even in my dealings with shady people I have taken losses but that’s what comes with entrepreneurship. Losses. And for you to throw your business out the window isn’t cool.
I understand how hard it is to stand up for 9 to 13 hours straight styling hair. It’s hard on the body and mind. But realistically that little girl should never have experienced that.
I’m disgusted by the mother putting her child in that situation. As a mother. I’m not going to put my child in the middle of my affairs.
Makes me want to braid the little girls hair just for her mind frame.
Nataucha Gray says
@Bree Domingue yes that child had to go through all of that. You’re right it should’ve been done to her from both “adults”
Jacqueline Jackie Harris says
I actually would have done the same thing and explain to the little girl why I did it… The mother had no intention on paying she was just trying scam me an get a free hair do
Joan Young Barnes says
Life is hard
Aronet Dalriada says
What an irresponsible mother!!!
Shenicia Williams says
I’m sorry since when did cutting out braids become child abuse and “having emotional damage” ? Some of you sound so stupid. Everybody is blaming the stylist for taking her service back but nobody is looking at the fact that the mother is teaching her child wrong. Thinking it’s ok to go around scamming people. Not only that she left the child for how many hours ? Giving the stylist the run around and driving her child around town. This is only temporary she can find someone else to scam to get her child’s hair braided again cause this stylist wasn’t having it. Only thing she did wrong was post her face online but even still when you get your hair done they use it online anyway for examples.
Tawana says
The mother & the stylist was wrong. The stylist should have handled this better, she is the professional & what she did wil have a negative impact on her livelihood. I would not have driven the child anywhere, & would have advised the mom if she can’t pick her child up from my place of business she will have to pick her up from the police station. I understand she spent 9 hrs braiding, but shaming that child didn’t put a dime in her pocket or food in her kids mouths.
Shenicia Williams says
She cut her braids out not her hair.
LaShelia Jamison Wells says
How can everyone point the finger at the stylist? Yes she took a picture of what she did, however, the little girls face was never shown. OR IS THERE ANOTHER PICTURE THAT I DIDN’T SEE. The mother was DEAD wrong point blank. Trying to get over on the stylist for a FREE hairdo, and yet y’all are judging the stylist. Its so easy to say she was wrong, point the finger, and judge her, but bottom line, it DIDNT HAPPEN to you!!! I see nothing wrong with her removing the braids or the picture, because you don’t see the little girls face, however, I don’t agree with the post she put on Instagram. Ijs
Debra Dalton says
I wouldn’t have done the girls hair in the first place. That being said as an ex stylist I understand removing the braids for non payment. Cutting the braided extension just below the natural hair is how most people remove braids.
Doris Byrd says
The mother all I can do is smh I would of just took her to court I feel sorry for the child but yet I understand how the stylist felt but I would of just left the child hair the way I fix it and told her baby pass on the blessing!
Nova Terry says
everyone missing the whole thing that’s wrong I would have never cut that girl hair but maybe her mothers. the child was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. me personally as a stylist I would sue the mother but would never put a child in adults business. y’all people so heart less even when some one mess you over doesnt mean get revenge that why half of y’all not blessed now.
Amanda Hill says
Shenicia Williams..like I said two adults dumb actions..one child in the middle..and yes..that may stick with her forever..when a child is caught in the middle.of bs..like this..and have to.syffer the consequences. .yes that leaves emotional scars..and and my opinion still stay the same..The stylist should have handled the mother..my opinion
Amanda Hill says
I understand her anger..but it self control is needed…when an a child is in the middle…I’m sure the child was clueless
Lioness T Rock says
i wouldnt cut the girls braids, but i would take the mom to court, I dont judge the mom though, she di what she thought was right, One time a carpenter did a section of the floor in my apartment to be repaired, the landlord didnt pay him, so he took a saw and ripped up all the floor, tht remindes me of the same story. It is a lesson that mom will have to learn.’
Lioness T Rock says
maybe the stylist should have made mom sighn a contract, and put down a deposit
Erica Boyd says
She need her tail beat
Jasmine Fair says
Both mothers were wrong. Should never give someone the run around and waste their time, especially if they have children of their own to tend to. Should never exploit a child either, charge it to the game and adjust policy to payment received first.
Jacque D Jones says
Judgeing the book by his cover dont no one know why the mother didnt pay the stylists she might of had intention to pay the stylists something could hve came up .the mother should hve talked to the sylists to see if other arrangements could hve been did the child has nothing to do with it she is a innocent child .both stylists and mother should hve thought of a better way to handle this instead of putting the child out there to be talked about like alot of u ignorant people are doing.
Jacque D Jones says
Nova terry I applaud you you said a mouth full then
Vee Hx says
Lesson learned: Get your pay BEFORE you start the service. I know this is not generally how we do it at the beauty shop, but It would have eliminated the whole problem. The mother’s scandalous motives would have been exposed in the beginning. The stylist should have plastered the mothers picture across the internet, not the child. She had every reason to be livid.
Marie Connie Gainey says
It is abuse because she had taken that child home and finished her business with her!!! She went back to the home, without her mother’s permission!! Called that child outside, and forcefully removed the braids! That’s why it’s abuse…don’t question me if you don’t know the law!! She could’ve also got kidnaping charges…she had finished her business with the little girl….and to go and get w/o parental consent is a no no!! I don’t know who sounds “stupid”, I know what I’m talking about!! I don’t care how long her mother left her for…she had no right to go back and get her…that is traumatic for her….and she would’ve needed an agreement to post her face, or consent! Which I’m sure she didn’t have, because she didn’t have the consent to remove the braids!!! I know what I’m talking about!! Yes the mother was totally wrong, but now the stylist opened herself up for a lawsuit!!
Nikki says
I think this whole thing could be handled differently. My heart goes out to the little girl because she had nothing to do with what her mother was doing. In the end as a stylist you made your point and I understand time is money but take it out on the mother not the child. After all this is said and done you still lost you money and your time why take it out on a child.
Sierra Hendrix says
This is sad. I don’t care what the mother did this child did not deserve this. Point blank and a .
Kourtney Boston says
She was completely right in what she did. Our people need to learn that NOTHING in life is free. Little girl learned that lesson early.
Chyna Mon'et says
You don’t cut a little girls hair out of anger. U take the mother to court then. Someone cut my child’s hair oh believe they gonna get cut!
Camille Spears says
I would have done the exact same thing. Ive beennin a similar situation and people think just because its a kid that you should feel sympathetic……why? That stylist has kids at home and bills that dont pay themselves with good deeds! So she can wear her hair the way it was before her mom set her up for failure!
Chyna Mon'et says
Then u handle it the right way sue her for unpaid services. Now this dumbass got a case against her. The right lawyer can have her with charges of attempted kidnapping/luring, and child abuse. And the article said the mother was gonna drop the payment off later that evening anyway.
Kelly-Ann Payne says
The stylist was wrong for humiliating that baby like that. I mean, sure she stood for nine longs hours, but that baby sat for those nine long hours too and that’s tiresome on both. The mother on the other sand knew she didn’t have the money and made that woman service her child for nothing. I’ll be mad too working hard and long hours with kids and came up with nothing in the end. Sometimes those stylist are desperate for a customer and when they finally do get a customer, they work their ass off so get those couple dollar bills. She shouldn’t have hurt the baby like that. Call the police or put her ass in court.
Peggy Delia Riley-Parham says
I agree fully with the stylist.
Angel Higginbotham says
Why the heck would she cut that baby hair! She should have made the mom come pick her daughter up just like she dropped her off & give her dog gone $$$… if the trifling mom didn’t pay at that point it’s two adults & however they gonna handle it but that Lil girl didn’t do anything & u can clearly see her holding her face in the cut pic as if she is crying
Michel Barnes says
WOW…………………….. I can only imagine HOW that little girl was feeling when she went to get her hair done. When it was finished she was feeling like any little girl should feel “PRETTY”…. then later having it all cut out like she did something wrong. Hopefully there’s no scaring. But the mother was DEAD wrong for not paying, but the hair stylist should use better judgment when events like this involve a child……… But I understand she lost money and time.
Lashonda Mclain says
She needs to loose her license. Very unprofessional.
Kat Dom Byrd says
it wasn’t the little girls fault it was the mothers
Velma McClendon says
Okay so in the end what is it that the child did to her. I understand about having to take care of your family and needing to provide but she shouldn’t pay for her mothers own childishness. I know alot of stylist that woyld have made her pay half now and half when she returned but to make that little girl feel that way is so shameful use better judgment next time and remember that when it comes to a kid leave tjem out of it and take it up with an adult.
Randi Gary says
Hood logic… Wait…she went back to the house…well now the mom can press charges
dannetta says
Ok now yes the mother and stylist was wrong but I would have never in a million yrs cut that little girls braids out her head I kno business is business but cutting them braids out still didn’t feed her kids so regardless of the fact who’s the blame the little girl caught it all from both Ladies and that’s a sham
Lesley Malchan says
I blame the mother. If she knew she had no intention of paying why did she take her daughter to the salon?
Ricca Armand says
I am very sad for that little girl. The mother was horrible for putting her child in that situation but the stylist was so UNPROFESSIONAL in dealing with the circumstance!! I agree with Ms. Jennifer Price that business is business and the little girl’s braids should have been removed but not by cutting her hair. Posting the picture on Instagram was also extremely immature not to mention it could hurt her clientele. As a mother, the stylist should think about her own children and how she would feel if someone were to do that to them.
ronqie says
I would do the same BUT I would not post it on Instagram. The mother knew she could not afford the stylist and tried to play a fast one. What crazy mother would even subject her child to 9 bloody hours of hair styling? CRAZY!!! Poor child…
Ashley says
Let me start off by saying, that hairstyle was on point…..! Okay, I feel like at the end of the day, you don’t mess with someone’s business! That was her mom fault and then you send this stylist on a wild goose chase. I know it’s really bad to do that to a child… Trust and believe, but I don’t blame that stylist. I wouldn’t of done it like that, probably would of called the cops. You just can’t play around with people’s money.
Iyauna dearing says
It’s easy for people to say the should of, would of, could of, but you never know what’s going to happen until it happens. She didn’t cut the little girls hair out, she Just cut the braided part out. I would be mad too, that child’s mother knew what she was doing? That was a set up,she didn’t plan on paying her in the first place.
nubiennze says
The stylist posted this herself?? Ch…
And it was so pretty too. :-/ Hopefully none of the little girl’s real hair was cut.
This matter would have been best rectified through legal means…
Leanne says
The stylist didn’t post the pictures of the girls cut hair, the mother did. The stylist took pictures of the girls hair style before she cut them out. The pictures are from two different places that someone put together to make a point. The stylist may not have handled this situation “professionally” but the mother is the only one to blame.
LaTonya says
Good Lord, was my first reaction upon hearing this.
Second was she darn lucky baby girl wasnt my niece or something cause I would have went ham on thier a$$. (Both the mother and stylist)
There were too many other options for the stylist to handle this situation properly, ask for payment upfront, or she could have taken her butt to court, being that this is “America” and we have a Legal system designed to handle these types of issues. Baby girl was a total victim, in my state shed lose her cosmetology license assuming she even has one.
And the mother should be facing child neglect for leaving her child for nine darn hours, and then had the nerve to not go and pick her up, who does that?
LaToshia Powell says
Well, I have a daughter who I take to get her hair done all the time and I wouldn’t DARE have her sit in a chair for any kinda service if I dnt have the money to pay for it!! The mother is bogus for giving the stylist the run around like she did. The stylist is bogus for putting pics of a minor on Instagram without parental consent. And wtbs, where is this stylist located? I like her work and I would pay her to braid my baby hair just like THAT!! Them braids are FYE baby!!!
Nina says
I think that the stylist could have solved it in a much better way. What she did didn’t punish the offender anyway. Poor little girl 🙁
Cissy says
Feeling disrespected. I get it. Wasted time, energy and skills. I get it. Forcing a child to take the responsibility of an irresponsible adult. SHAMEFUL!!! It sounds to me that you got mad because you got tricked. This hairstylist did not get jazzy or crazy with the mother (which she should have); but what she did do is cause emotional harm to a child who did nothing but sit in a chair for 9 hours and then comply with the instructions of an adult who caused her harm (emotionally and physically). The stylist said to the child that although this is between the adults you will have to own the problem. The actions of the mother was disrespectful and neglectful (definitions of abuse) but the child was not a party to the ignorant behavior. The stylist should have listened to her spirit when she felt the onset of the shadyness and called the authorities, at the very least DFCS for abandonment. I bet the mother would have showed with the money at that point. As adults, we have to respond appropriately to the appropriate party.
Smarty says
Her mother is to blame. PERIOD. She is the one to put this child in the situation so it’s THE MOTHER’S FAULT. As long as she didn’t cut the little girl’s real hair then this is fair.
Deidre says
That mother is no mother. What kind of example is she showing to her daughter? Neglecting your daughter, picking her up hours late, being late… That is simply an irresponsible human being who shouldn’t be a parent. Then on top of that stiffing the stylist – just awful. The stylist had an instant reaction. I give her a pass. Let the mother take care of the mess SHE was responsible for.
Natalie says
Im appalled and sad for this little girl. First off her mom was totally wrong in dropping her off like that and having the hairdresser drive her around, i mean what if she did more than cut her braids off???
Secondly, i feel the hairdressers pain but really the poor baby just wanted her hair done and having it cut off after 9hours of combing pulling n tugging would send me to tears talk less of the little girl.
Third, solidifiying the humiliation of the girl by posting her pics isnt fair.
Both adults were wrong in their own ways. Im just sad the litttle girl had to be in the middle
sharri1973 says
I don’t blame the stylist…i would have done the exact same thing. I love how folks think that just because kids are involved our hearts should swell with love. Fuqqem! Times are hard and showing the little table raider’s face, might save another stylist from getting jilted!
Road Runner says
I know this post is old but I’m gonna respond anyway. I understand she was upset but she went too far. I feel bad for the child. She couldn’t just let the child rock the do. Especially, with a horrible mother like that. I wouldn’t have taken the child anywhere. I would have called the police.