- TikToker Amelia Lux recently shared an unfortunate haircut she received that was drastically shorter than she requested.
- She said her therapist successfully helped her request a refund from the salon.
- However, instead of sympathy, commenters piled in with harsh comments and criticism.
A TikToker is going viral for chronicling her regret at a “spoiledhaircut, including a detail that her therapist urged her to call the salon for a refund.
But instead of sympathy, the 26-year-old said she had received a slew of critical comments about the saga, including stinging insults about her physical appearance.
Amelia Lux, a Costco employee and aspiring comedian, recently moved from Georgia to Wisconsin, so she’s going to a new salon, she told Insider. She provided the stylist with several reference photos of celebrities with wavy, shoulder-length hair of hers, and which he also shared on TikTok.
But when she got out of the chair, Lux’s hair was much shorter than requested. She then began to document her rapid descent into disappointment.
“I went home and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I look like coconut head‘” he told Insider, referring to a character on the mid-year show “Ned’s Classified School Survival Guide.”
She added that the next day she discovered that “strands were missing” from her hair.
In its first tik tok About the incident, shared over the weekend with 1.3 million views, Lux said the stylist did a “great job,” though after further processing the events, she concluded her requests had not been met even if the stylist didn’t mess it up. by the way.
“I think I’m too nice,” Lux told Insider. “I don’t think so [the stylist] had bad intentions. I’m sure it was just a miscommunication.”
Lux said the problem weighed so heavily on her that she finally brought it up with her therapist, whom she began seeing in January. She said he urged her to call the salon in the middle of her appointment to request a refund. (That TikTok update since Monday it received 1.9 million visits).
“He said, ‘It’s not what you asked for,'” she said her therapist told her. “‘You don’t have to be rude. But you just have to stand up for yourself.'”
Lux told Insider that after she sent her reference photos and results to the salon manager, she heard an audible gasp on the other end of the line. She said that she received a $51 refund and that she felt it was fair that the stylist ultimately kept her 20% tip, given that a service had been rendered.
As she patiently waits for her hair to grow back, reactions to Lux’s situation have been all over the map: while some commentators they have been supportiveothers have echoed their own self-criticism that has made the whole experience even more painful.
Some made fun of her for her fine hair, or said it’s her own physical characteristics that the haircut didn’t work for. “Hairdressers are not magic”, a commenter wrote. “50% of your face is the problem.”
In a particularly cruel comment that Lux withdrew to boardThe user jokingly apologized to her mother for not having been born dead.
Lux has been able to keep a sense of humor, joking to Insider that the series has earned her roughly $100 from the TikTok Creator Fund, almost enough to buy a single hair extension. but it has been a sad testeven if it was not life or death.
“I think you can sympathize with someone’s feelings without doubling down too much,” he said of the critical buildup. “There is an appropriate line, especially when dealing with a stranger.”
