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Danielle Kate Wroe

Hair stylist explains why going to an appointment with 'dirty hair' is an 'ick'

Going to visit the hairdresser is so fun - there's no better feeling than getting your hair washed, cut, and dried by a professional, and when you look in the mirror after a treatment, you feel like a whole new person (hopefully for all the right reasons!).

But one hairstylist has shared her biggest 'icks' in her role - and some people felt personally targeted. If you don't know, an ick is a word that is used to show disgust or repugnance - something that really turns you off.

And Emily Rose listed off four of them on her @emilyyyroses TikTok - things that people should try and avoid doing when they visit their hairdresser.

Emily's first 'ick' is when a client comes to her with 'super dirty hair'. She shakes her head on the video whilst saying 'no'.

She said: "We don't want to touch your dirty hair, but it's also not good for your colour. Your colour is not going to take as well with dirty hair."

Emily also said that an ick of hers is eye contact at the shampoo bowls, saying that it's 'awkward for everybody', instead encouraging clients to 'close their eyes'.

Her third ick was when a client shows up late with a coffee in hand, but without one for her.

She fumed: "We love coffee too and we need the caffeine to do your hair."

She continued: "And then number four, when you're in our chair, and we turn our chair, and then your head looks back at the mirror. Please don't do that, because there's a reason we're turning your chair."

In the comments, people decided to defiantly comment their icks about hairdressers.

One wrote: "Customer ick: when you do a service on us and don’t tell us there's an extra cost for it until we get to the cashier."

Someone fumed: "We're paying more than enough for a service without the expectation of bringing a coffee for a hairdresser."

"All these negative hairstyles posts are going to have us all doing our own hair", another joked, whilst someone wrote: "Not gonna lie, this gave me worse anxiety/insecurities about getting my hair done. I'm always worried they're judging me."

One TikToker raged: "I'm not going to wash my hair to come to a hair appointment."

Do you wash your hair before going to the hairdresser? Let us know in the comments.

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