BUBBLES Salons in Olney, MD

I do not recommend going to this hair salon. The person who cut my hair was asking me weird questions that were not meant for a hair salon, her fake nails were popping off in my hair, and she asked the stylist next to me how to cut my hair. She squatted down behind the salon chair I was sitting in and whispered to the stylist next to us asking how to do the technique I wanted done, thinking I couldn't see/hear her. She had no idea what she was doing and it took 1 hour and 50 minutes to trim off 1 inch off my hair and didn't know how to do a V-cut. My two front framing pieces are completely uneven and cut straight across. I am extremely dissatisfied and frustrated with the experience I had at this salon.

Lorraina is an exquisite colorist and person. She is a perfectionist and creates the perfect mix of color to make my hair gorgeous!! My entire extended family goes to her because of her top notch skills as a hair artist, and because of her sweet personality. I love how personable she is and, and her ability to know exactly what I want for my hair. This speaks to her excellent communication and listening skills. Bubbles, you are lucky to have her! What a gem!

I'm sorry, Erin is a really sweet person (and so was the last stylist I had too), but it's clear that Bubbles doesn't know how to do highlights. I know that I have dark hair. I have hair that looks black and turns brown in the sun. So, yes, it's pretty dark, but they're very thin strands of hair (I just have a full head of hair that makes it look "thick"). But my previous stylist, whose name I forgot, was able to get BLONDE highlights on me in the EXACT BLONDE that I wanted. Not that weird, mustard brown yellow, which I have now. She was able to get PLATINUM blonde, the kind of blonde that's not gold/yellow but BLONDE. Before the procedure began, Erin asked me about the tone I want. I told her exactly what I expressed above: I loved the platinum blonde I got back in August, and I want them again. Erin told me "Your hair is too dark, so the blonde won't pull through in one session." This is the same thing the previous stylist told me, however, I told her that I was okay with damage to my hair since I want the color. I told the same thing to Erin, and she responded: "I know, but I personally don't enjoy damaging my clients' hair. So I personally don't go that deep with the highlights." I assured Erin that it's okay, and that I'm paying you $238 to get me BLONDE highlights. You're not cheap -- my previous salon, who I will now return to for good after these repeated bad experiences with Bubbles, only charges $150 for blonde highlights on my hair. $238 for a broke college student who just wants the same blonde highlights that her friends from out of state have is a *very big step up* in price. Erin made chunk sizes of my highlights so small and tiny that they looked like blobs of gray hairs at first. I will say: she made them larger than my previous Bubbles stylist, but they're still not big enough to be called "highlights". These are very very skinny, about the diameter of a ballpoint pen's ink cartridge, and they are not $238 worth. Frankly, I'm not sure what I even paid for, because I didn't get the blowout. Bubbles -- why are you training your stylists to make highlights that skinny in diameter? You take a trip downtown and look at girls' hair with highlights and you see how THICK and CHUNKY their highlights are? They didn't get "balayages", which is what Erin suggested to me if I wanted chunkier highlights than what she did -- my friends don't even know what a balayage is. They just get highlights, and somehow, THEIR stylists know that the chunk size of a highlight has to be AT THE VERY LEAST the diameter of your pinky finger. This is my last time ever at Bubbles. I don't have the time or the gas money to make another trip back to Olney to get it "fixed", because frankly, you don't know how to fix it. My hair's "just too dark", I guess, which is odd, because the first Bubbles stylist was able to get the blonde *juuuuust* right. I hope the target demographic of your salon enjoys the salon's services -- it's clear that it's not for me.

Truly the worst hair cut I've ever gotten. My request was completely disregarded. I had to tell the stylist mid cut to stop cutting it so short. I told her I wanted my hair to look exactly as it did, just with trimmed edges. This could not be further from the case. It was cut too short to even fix this mess. Will be contacting for a refund.

Erin did a fantastic job! I love my hair. She took her time and asked me what kind of haircut I wanted. She went above & beyond. She was very understanding that I had my baby with me & was very accommodating. I will come back for sure!