Barbarella Hair Salon

Great Salon, Ahmet is the stylist I luckily was appointed to when I made my first appointment about a year + ago. Salaon is.clean, cute, easy going vibe. They use environmentally ethical.product's ( love that). I used to be sooo very uneasy about getting my hair touched...I have had some very bad hair stylist experiences in the past...one time I looked like a treasure troll when I left...crying! Due to this fear, for years I just box dyed my hair black! Welllll that only works for so long, my hair was overprocessed, dry, hard to manage (naturally curly and thick and way to long). I needed help...badly So after years of this awful.cycle of dying my hair every two weeks (hair started going grey early, but becoming worse last few years) I I started calling around salons to find perfessional help. I needed to start a transition to lighter hair color, get a decent cut. At the time was very long. Each place I called, the call was very rude on the other end. I tried to make a joke a few times to lighten to awful treatment and additude I was receving and not even a fake giggle.... I was almost in tears I then google hair, color specialized, Vancouver and Barbarella popped up. I go.to tbeir site and OMG... a.chat box! I do not have to call and get treated like crap again for daring to ask a question.... I even typed out my bad joke and was met with a great typed out hahahaha! I was set up with a 4 hour appointment and was not a month long wait...was like a few days! I go in, i was super nervous. Ahmet asks me about what I would like done. I showed him a few pics... he shot them all down...saying no, that's not for me, I said well I'm goimg.grey, maybe just like have a bit more grey added in with some black( it's a look lately) he says...well why not just grow it out then...? I was like yeah...that's totally right... not a great idea for me. So I then just said...ok your the perfessional, please just make it better and I do not want to be bald. He said ok! So I am here for 4 hours not knowing if I am going to be blonde, a red head, purple amd blue.streaks...who knows.... Ahmet was pleasant, we chatted but not too much, being my first appointment...and I am so ok with this! This is not a date, not is he a bar tender, friend (yet), therapist..etc.He is NOT obligated to keep anyone entertained... (.this does address another comment on him in here) So its the big reveal time....I'm terrified... omg what if I hate it? He turns my chair to the mirror... I am silent. He is looking worried, but I just did not have the words. I looked like a completely different me. I have never in my life had a hair style,cut,color etc... male me look as great as I did right then and there. I mean I hate this word...but I felt so pretty. I got up and took a closer look and was floored. I then ofcourse am like HOLY SHIT!!! Ahmet this is amazing!!!! We take some pics and then walks in my husband to pick.me up. His jaw dropped and then.this huge smile. I ofcourse then proceed to cry hahahhahaa poor Ahmet... omg must have thought I was a lunatic! This was over a year ago, I have seen Ahmet probably 6 or 7 times since, every time, my hair is getting in better condition, the color gets a bit lighter, and I always look crazy hot! Do yourself a big favor, go to this salon, and see Ahmet. All the other stylists are great and friendly as well. I just seem to get along with Ahmet and he gets my hair... Love this place! Evera