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| - I used Blo Dry Bar on Bloor for my wedding last month. My Mom, 4 bridesmaids, and I all had our hair done on the day of the wedding.
For myself, I ended up being very happy with the results. Luckily, as a bride, you are able to book a consultation/trial, and you then get the same stylist on the day of your actual wedding. The location I went to has a dedicated bridal stylist (I'm not sure if all locations do?). The result on the day of my wedding was not exactly what I expected - and not identical to the trial (but is it ever, really?). But after hmm-ing and hah-ing over it for awhile, I finally admitted I wasn't in love with it, and they adjusted it, no questions asked.
Unfortunately though, I wasn't thrilled with the bridesmaids' hair. Two turned out great, and two turned out less than spectacular. Three of the four girls chose to wear their hair down (I encouraged this, I wanted them to look like themselves). Unfortunately, two of those girls ended up having to curl pieces a few times throughout the wedding day (bringing a curling iron everywhere we went). I think it was a combination of factors - the drizzly, humid weather didn't help. One girl felt her hair had not been dried adequately before they began to style. And of the three girls who wore their hair down, only one had not had her hair washed -- the one whose hair held up nicely all day. So I feel that if Blo Bar knew what they were doing, they maybe would have chosen not to wash the hair of the other two, since that was likely a factor in the styles not holding.
As I understand it, the stylists who worked on the bridesmaids were not trained stylists, but rather part-timers taught to do the job. Luckily, as the bride, this was not the case. It's also interesting that the one bridesmaid whose hair held up all day, had hers done by the same stylist as the bride (the one that I feel was most experienced).
The girls still looked great, but in the photos they definitely don't look as "polished" as they might have. Just something to be aware of! (And the two that looked good, looked very good!)
One other note - on the day of my consultation, I arrived to find out that the stylist had called in sick. If you get sick, you get sick, I understand that. But I did not receive a call telling me that my appointment would have to be rescheduled. Instead, when I arrived there, they offered me the options of postponing, or having a consultation with another girl, who was not even going to be working on the day of my wedding. Seems like poor customer service to me. Additionally, I had planned other things for that day (like veil shopping) that depended on the hair being styled. So I opted to keep the appointment (with the stylist who wouldn't be there on the wedding day), so that I would have at least a rough idea of the style. Since I was visibly upset about the broken appointment, Blo Bar offered for me to come back later in the week to meet with the true stylist. So that made it up to me a bit. But the part that really puzzled me, was that on my wedding day -- the other stylist was there after all?
I think Blo Dry Bar has the potential to be a GREAT place to go for hair styles..... but hopefully they can use the constructive criticisms of the reviews to wow their customers!
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