I read the reviews from this website and decided to give Maxwell?s a try. Made an appt for a cut and color. Staff was friendly when they greeted me, place looked clean and well kept. I specifically explained what I wanted and even went to great lengths to show her how I comb my hair and that I wanted it to lay the same way. Holy-cow is all I can say as I saw my hair fall to the floor. I thought for a moment I was in a super-cuts or hair school with a student in her first week. If there was any technique to the cut I did not see it. Now hair does not always look right until you dry it so I decided to give the benefit of doubt until she was completely finished.
She applied the color and I asked her several times to please make sure that she checked for any that might have gotten on my skin. She said of course she would, so why did I find discoloration on my skin when I got home?? When it was time to wash the color out, I guess she never learned how not to get my blouse wet when washing hair. Then instead of drying my hair she decided to use a bunch of something to hold my hair together. What the heck is going on here I thought?! I mean when you get a cut it should look great when you finish drying it and then you put stuff in to only help it maintain its shape; not to mask a bad job.
In the end the color she did was OK, the cut was way Below ok. I really can?t see how this place got such a high rating. My recommendation is if you just looking for an ok job and nothing great this is the place for you. Maybe it is the Orange County curse, since I have had to try quite a few places that say they are great; but turn out to be barely ok.
So if you are looking for ok do NOT go out of your way here. I am sure you can find a place that is just ok closer to your home.
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