I usually don’t do this, but I don’t want someone to go through what I just had to experience. ⚠️Warning long post!⚠️
I made an appointment to get box braids at Caribbean Swag on Raleigh St in Martinsburg WV, right behind A1 Computers to get my hair done by Veronica Williams. She scheduled me for Sat at 7:45am for $160. I get there and there’s another girl there too for the exact same appointment time. So Veronica arrives late, and states she didn’t know the other girl was “still” coming to the appointment. 🤥 But I definitely don’t believe that because she called me on Thursday to verify that I was still coming and then again Saturday morning at 7am, so I’m assuming she did the same for her too. So I said, I’ll come back and Veronica said I’ll call you when I finish her hair. She finally calls me at 3:18pm, and by then I already had plans. So she said I can try to do your hair tomorrow to make up for your time today. But by that time I was convinced that I wasn’t going to her because of how unprofessional she was already. So I made arrangements for someone else to do my hair, and I texted her a few hrs later and told her never mind with doing my hair. She then calls me, and states she’s sorry for wasting my time and wants to give me a discount and compensate me by doing my hair on Sunday to try to make things right since this was my first experience with her. I told her don’t worry about it, but she insisted. 🙄 So I asked how much? And she stated she was going to work with me. So I agreed to go after I got out of church.
So I get there and she starts on my hair, and I had asked for box braids and she was putting in “box Senegalese twists” instead!!!??? I should’ve stopped right there when I took notice 🤦🏾♀️ but I thought, it won’t be that bad...WRONG! So I mentioned it to her and she said that usually when people say box braids, they mean Senegalese twists. 🤔 So she then states she has to leave and she will finish my hair later that evening or Monday. And puts my hair up in a bun to conceal the portion that was left out. Then she asks for $150! 😳 I said I was planning on paying $100 and you said you were going to work with me. And she was saying that’s not fair, I’ll drop it down to $130. For wasting my time and putting in the wrong hairstyle and not finishing my hair and you said you were going to work with me even though I already made arrangements to get my hair done by someone else and i didn’t even keep the hair in? I think that’s pretty good, that’s more than 50% of what she charges. So I get home, really don’t like it, and I take it out! And some of the hair was already untwisting...
Very disappointed because I wasted my Saturday and my Sunday and my hair still isn’t done. And now she won’t even answer my phone calls! Sent me a text saying she can’t do a full head of hair for only $100. So warning y’all, don’t go there, unless you don’t mind it being unprofessional! (And no I did not give her $100, but I did pay something, because she did most of my hair but at this point I should have never given her a dime and I want my money I paid back!!!!!) 😡