You get what you pay for.......

So I needed to get my hair dyed really bad--I had major roots and gray going on, but I didn't want to spend a ton of money on the salon. I decided to go to the Paul Mitchell beauty school in San Diego, since I had been to the one in Austin a couple times and had fabulous results. I went there and it was just bad from the beginning. The girl just seemed not to know what she was doing and to make a long story short, I pretty much got the worst color dye job I've ever had or even seen. It was Orange--literally different shades of orange and even some red. One of the instructors when I was leaving even came over and asked if I was happy because I was pretty much practically in tears. I said I wasn't but after being there for 4 hours, I just wanted to run from there screaming. They said I could come back in a few days and get it fixed, but I just did not want to step foot back in that place again. I cried as soon as I got to my car and for about 20 minutes on the way home, just thinking about how horrible it looked and what was I going to do to fix it--and how much more it was going to cost to even get it fixed and if I could even afford to do it.

I worked the next morning at the coffee shop which is very close to a couple very high end salons...like the kind that charge $80 for a haircut. One of the stylists came in and right away asked me about my hair. I started tearing up and just told her the story and just felt like a complete moron for being so cheap int he first place.
She was like, "Come see me as soon as you get off." I was happy, but at the same time, I knew there was no way I could even think about affording what she would charge for a color correction! I went over a few hours later and she said, "It's your lucky day. Twenty minutes ago someone just called and canceled!" Now you have to understand, I see her once a week when I work there, and I didn't even know her name. She sits me down and just starts working color and going at it...the whole time i was freaking out a bit thinking how the heck I'm going to work out paying for this and when she was done--my hair color looked amazing--way better than it has in a long time and she would not let me pay--I tried to at least tip her, but she wouldn't even accept anything from me.

This is the nicest thing a STRANGER has ever done for me--I mean really--she took time out of her day, and did something that normally would have cost about $400 for free...I was so grateful...I just couldn't believe it---

I am just amazed at the generosity and kindness of a total stranger---