stephanie fearson wrote:

Sally is a genius! Much respect for her talent and creativity! Want to know when casting for the next season will be?

Thanks!

posted on April 25, 2007 at 11:12 PM

kim wrote:

I'm not sure what sally has to offer as all we seem to hear is about the shag shag shag????? hmmmm

posted on April 25, 2007 at 11:18 PM

"D" wrote:

That was great to be able to see how Meg Ryan's hair was cut. Her hair is always amazing. I truly enjoy this show can't wait for the next episode. I hope all of the stylists realize how huge an opportunity this is and will be. Being able to get direct feedback from an icon such as Sally is second to none for the whole span of any of their careers...I like everyone and wish all good luck..."D"

posted on April 25, 2007 at 11:27 PM

Brandi wrote:

I would be scared too if you went & checked my cut, :)
But I would listen to you and do the most perfect replica of your work that I am able to do...

posted on April 25, 2007 at 11:28 PM

jennasmith wrote:

I am a stlyist in Tampa, FL and I was very excited to see the technical part of Sally's Shag. I love the show and it is just an honor to watch Sally teach. She has been so gracious with the way she critics the hair stylists with out putting them down. I am always embarrassed the way t.v. shows protray "us" stylists. She represents the hairdressers of the world in a classy manor. Thank you Sally for being confident without being cocky.
You make " Jonathan" look like an over-rated jack ass.

posted on April 25, 2007 at 11:33 PM

Barbara Cleveland wrote:

Evangelin did a great job. Had I not seen it with my own eyes I'd never beleave it was possible. I loved it. You go girl.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 12:05 AM

Misty wrote:

That would be a challege that I've never encountered, nor have I dreamed of encountering as a stylist. I applaud all that kept their cool, because the next biggest thing to technical skills is confidence, and that might have made me question my skills. I also would have loved to have received a class on how to do the "Meg shag". That is a celebrity name that comes up a lot in my chair, and has inspired me to covet my razor as my favorite tool. I probably would have picked boxcutters, too, for the edgy look.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 12:57 AM

April wrote:

That's right, but sometimes the client wants the impossible and being the professional that you are you are to convey that to the client see thats why they are there to educated and beautified.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 2:14 AM

tanya birner wrote:

I went to beauty school and am glad we never had to use such tools as these stylists had to use tonite! I enjoy watching the guy do his cuts with a clipper. I hate using a clippers!!! But he makes it look interesting. Makes me want to dig out a maniquin head and practice using them again!

posted on April 26, 2007 at 2:42 AM

Shaka wrote:

I don't think it was fair to eliminate someone based on viewing you do a cut for the first time in their life for 30 minutes. I mean the girl looks like she comes from Podunk Timbuktu Iowa. She's probably never heard of Meg Ryan or the Shag for that matter.

Lastly, please don't fail us, the viewers, by putting time constraints on the contestants. We'd rather see awesome finished products than see crappy products from everyone. Not EVERY client walks in demanding you cut their hair YESTERDAY. And, if you're a noted hairstylist you'd tell that person to go to hell anyway. And, for those that call up at midnight and say they have an emergency haircut and style before they get on the red eye for their big shoot in Saskachuwan, they'd still wait for you to finish they style, if you were so inclinded to roll out of bed and actually do it.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:16 AM

Evonne wrote:

I love Tabatha. Her style, her hair and her attitude. I'm hoping she makes it to the end. Wonder does she style hair for black women?

posted on April 26, 2007 at 5:04 AM

Lynda I wrote:

I agree that Evangelin went out on a limb with those hedge clippers. Her surprising results were simply wonderful. She definitely deserved the win!!

However, I must admit that I don't understand your self promotion of "your" signature hair style creation. Need I remind you that the shag was made truly famous back in 1971 when Jane Fonda had one for the film Klute and throughout her Vietnam War protest days? Are you claiming glory for a hairstyle that was popularized probably before you were born???

posted on April 26, 2007 at 7:37 AM

LISN wrote:

I am surprised with the results of all of the hairstylists. Not one of the completed hairdos were SHORT! All were a wimpy medium length. Truly short from long would have been much more interesting. There was very little risk involved (except for Evangelin who deserved her 1st place finish)...

posted on April 26, 2007 at 7:43 AM

juni wrote:

I agree with Shaka about the unrealistic time constraints--I would rather see more polilshed products that come from analysis. But, this is a game show after all, and time limits have always been part of these challenges. Part of the stylist's creativity shows in how he or she handles the given time boundaries. They have to make choices and trade-offs. Sometimes, these choices are incorrect and therefore show the inexeperience of the stylist.

I like Tabatha too. She has her own intriguing style. There is nothing cutesy about her and I find that refreshing.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 8:06 AM

Elaine wrote:

Parts of this week’s show really bothered me; you start with a lesson from Sally on how to execute her signature cut -- a cut that takes precision, accuracy, and skill (it better, with the prices she can charge). That part of the show was excellent, and it really showed what the stylists can and cannot do. Then you make a mockery of that and of the profession as a whole by making the stylist cut with tools that were never intended to be used on hair. I think it was unfair and unprofessional. If this is being done to mimic the other Bravo shows --flowers for design, food from a gas station --this is a totally different thing ; these poor models have to wear that hair, and even if they are recut and colored and so on after the show that sort of misses the point, don’t you think?. Again, to be a professional takes time, talent, education, and professionalism, and this challenge was none of these.

Before y’all tell me lighten up girlfriend ... this is just a TV show…let me tell you why my shorts are in such a knot. I have been in the profession for over 25 years, and when I started out it was generally believed if you were not smart enough to go to college or didn’t have anything else to do, you could go to Beauty School and be a Beautician. It took a long time and a lot of reeducation of the public and a lot of hard work from very intelligent hard working people to change that image so that now people like Sally can charge $800 for a haircut .To see these stylists forced to use those types of tools makes a mockery of what has come before. I don’t believe a stylist like Sally, Michael, Rene, or certainly any of your guest judges would be caught dead anywhere near any of those tools and to make the stylists use them was not right either. To be surprised that the results were less than perfect, and all the cuts looked the same is unfair also -- what did you expect? In order to do a good job the proper tools need to be used and the stylists were not supplied with those, I don’t know…I truly hope that if I were put into a situation like that I would say "No, sorry, no can do." I know I have been at many many people’s houses who have said "Hey, I need a haircut, I have scissors " and I have said, "Nope, sorry. "

I guess the bottom line for me it that we as a profession have worked very hard to get away from "kitchen sink" styling and it bothers me that the show would not take this into consideration when planning the challenges .While it may seem clever or funny, truthfully it is not. "Shear genius"?--hardly...this week closer to shear stupidity

posted on April 26, 2007 at 9:29 AM

Nikki wrote:

I think Anthony won the whole thing! Check out the recent photos. Yeah Anthony!

posted on April 26, 2007 at 10:09 AM

John Ducker wrote:

I would like to know how to do the sally shag, I love using the razor, and I really love this cut can you give me instructions...

posted on April 26, 2007 at 11:15 AM

s. Halley wrote:

Good Lord, I never write on these things but I had to. My husband is laughing at me. Last night I watched and as the cuts were revealed I said "Oh My God, I love Lacy's cut!" I wanted to tape the show so I could bring in a shot of he manequin head to my hair stylist. At the same time my best friend called me and said how much she loved Lacy's haircut- weird. Then you FIRED her. She had the only cut I would wear. No offense but you are not living in the real world. We wouldnt wear "your" hair let alone the ones you are picking. It is making us not want to watch the show. I know the challenge was to do a specific cut but you are being hypocritical. You also told a stylist who was TOLD for the challenge to cut hair like their client's picture they brought in that she should have said "I cant do it on you" that wasn't the challenge --- you can't have it both ways.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 11:53 AM

Lacy wrote:

$650 for the Sally shag must be a joke. It should be listed with worst hair day at that price. I think I'll stick with my $10. haircut.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 12:56 PM

irene wrote:

yes, we all agree that we love meg ryan's shag but who in the world (other than a movie star) would pay $650 for a haircut??

posted on April 26, 2007 at 1:59 PM

Nikki wrote:

As always, watching this show makes me so excited to go to work the next day! I love it, and am wondering how I can learn Sally's shag technique because rewinding and pausing my tivo is just not working!

posted on April 26, 2007 at 2:46 PM

Ricardo Stradeler wrote:

Sally Hershberger, who would have known that when you created the first series of shortish shaggy haircuts that we'd stuck with them for the next two decades? Thanks for setting hair fashion back to the same boring trneds of cookie cutter haircuts of the 70's when all ladies looked the same with long hair parted down the middle. Where's a hair visionary like Sassoon when we need him?

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:13 PM

emy wrote:

i think your creative and all but you obviously have no interest in the contestants. All you do is bitch at them and think that your ONLY 600$$$ haircut (which is ridiculous) is the best. Open up sweetie

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:18 PM

Jo-Anne wrote:

Sally's got to be the inspiration for Shane's character on The L Word...same hair, smile, body, style, attitude. Love it!

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:18 PM

tana wrote:

That was ridiculous. The shag is SOOO 1989. Lacey tries to make the style modern and gets cut. C'mon now. She's so cute too. I'll be watching for her.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:31 PM

palmer wrote:

What a show..Sally,you are great..i have been cutting and col oring for 29 years. I still love watching and learning... the sally challenge was about your cut... and mabey even about listening. well live and learn.... im ready to lather rinse and compete... tell me how ! love ya . PALMER ,Flordia

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:46 PM

Missy wrote:

Shag is a bit different where I come from.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 3:47 PM

anne james wrote:

Comment to another Blogger,
I feel if you are a good hairstylist , and you got a class
from Sally, on her signature haircut, which we have all
studied in print many times, you should be able to reproduce
it.(if you are GOOD).
If you can't , your gone.

posted on April 26, 2007 at 4:28 PM

raven wrote:

Sally's cut looks great on Meg - but silly on Sally. And those highlights--reminds me of a "do it yourself at home" attempt. Her stylist really should tell her she just doesn't have the right hair or face shape to pull off that cut...it's more suited to someone with thick hair that has lots of body, and someone with a round face. The judges were right when they suggested the stylists should refuse the client when the look they want just doesn't work for them. Sorry, Sally!

posted on April 26, 2007 at 7:09 PM

FanFare wrote:

Haircuts can fetch $650 to $800 a pop...? I guess the old adage IS true: "A Fool And His Money ARE Soon Parted".

Ms. Sally, Please get over yourself, for hair's sake! Your "signature" Meg Shag is simply the 1970's style slightly changed. In other words, there is little new there.

btw: You resemble the singer Helen Reddy (from the 1970's).
Is that really the look you are going for?

posted on April 26, 2007 at 8:11 PM

Barbara wrote:

I loved the shag, I never knew who cut Meg Ryan's hair but I always wanted a style like that. I loved the show. So I have only found one haircut I loved, stuck with the stylist for years and then she retired on me to raise her children. Now, I always seem to get a bad hair cut. Any suggestions? PS, I can't afford a 650.00 hair cut. 40 is about my limit!

posted on April 27, 2007 at 12:02 AM

nikki wrote:

i absolutly love this show it is about time someone reconized us hair stylists i love my work and it is so great to be able to watch a show and i know exactly what their talking about and find myself giving my two sense on what i think and how i would have done something lol haha its so great to call your "stylist friends" and and gab bout last nights episode but question to everyone does anyone kno nething on how to get on the show im looking everywhere for info and cant find any i would love to go on the show and kick ass for pittsburgh if someone knos anything plz let me kno

posted on April 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM

Stephanie wrote:

I was so happy to see Theodore leave. As far as Jim leaving, That was a big shock to me and my mom. Also that surprise elimination was an eye popper. I feel bad for poor Lacey. I guess that Attention to detail means a lot. As far a Sally's Shag...I doubt my hair would keep that style for 1 minute...Its a beautiful look on Meg Ryan though.

posted on April 27, 2007 at 11:54 AM

tim wrote:

WOW I WISH I WAS THERE TO SEE THAT HAIRCUT STEP BY STEP THAT HAS ALWAYS HAD ME BAFFLED ON HOW SHE DID IT. I HAVE TRIED MANY TIMES TO DO CREATE THAT CUT I AM ALWAYS CLOSE BUT CANT FIGURE IT OUT. HOW LUCKY THEY WERE TO SEE THAT AND THE GIRL WAS WAY OFF

posted on April 27, 2007 at 8:51 PM

corpse wrote:

I don't know anything about hair style. However, Sally Hershberger's hair looks absolutely terrible. It is so unbelievable someone with no sense if beauty to be a judge. Lady, you seriously need a haircut.

posted on April 27, 2007 at 10:41 PM

jane wrote:

Sorry Sally, I wouldn't pay $6 for your "signature" cut, let alone $650.

posted on April 28, 2007 at 12:40 AM

M Carter wrote:

I love Sally's shag haircut. Will you send me the instructions on the method to cut that exact shag cut?

posted on April 28, 2007 at 8:41 AM

kem wrote:

LOVE THE LACEY CUT! Could you post a picture so I can take it to my hairdresser?

posted on April 28, 2007 at 9:35 AM

Ellen wrote:

I have been looking for a great stylist in South florida...but to no avail....want someone who could do the Sally Shag. If you are out there...or can give me a referral...please write.
Signed...bad hair in Palm Beach

posted on April 28, 2007 at 3:40 PM

debi wrote:

I want to get the shag cut- my hair is thick and wavy and I can't find anyone who can cut it correctly. I've seen the short shag before, and Ive asked for it. So far, noone has been able to do it correctly. I don't remember anyone dividing my hair into sections. How can I locate a stylist in my area who can cut the Sally shag?

posted on April 28, 2007 at 6:40 PM

Nicola wrote:

Just an observation but Sally is constantly yanking at her hair in the back on the bottom, like she is trying to make it look longer or is not comfortable with it. It just seems kind of weird considering the topic of the show and she is a judge etc. Maybe it is a habit but it reads like she is not comfortable with her haircut.

posted on April 28, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Rachael wrote:

I would love an oppurtunity to do have an internship with Nexxus!!! I could use some info on how to have an oppurtunity like that!!

posted on April 28, 2007 at 10:52 PM

Seji wrote:

$650.00 for a haircut that looks like someone put some glue on your head and then randomly threw pieces of hair all over it? I think I'll pass. I had a dog that had a haircut that looked like that. He was a pound puppy. We got him for free - not $650.00. I guess if your Meg whoever you can afford it but honestly, I wouldn't walk around looking like that. I'd rather have a Britney. One more thing: If you can charge $650.00 for a haircut girl, could you at least wear something a bit nicer than a T-SHIRT on the show? Thanks. I'm sure you did it your way and all that, but t-shirts really look like crap.

posted on April 29, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Elena wrote:

$650 for a haircut? Oh, please!!! Even if I were filthy rich I would never pay somebody $650 for a haircut, I don't care who they are. The show is fun and very entertaining, but the average viewer is not the type who will pay such outrageous prices for haircuts. I would venture to say the average viewer goes to the chain salons, spending much less than $100 a cut.

posted on April 29, 2007 at 1:38 AM

Eliane Delage wrote:

I must say I didn't know who Sally was until I saw this show (my excuse is that I'm a foreigner, oh well, I should know better, I know) and, by God, I was floored, she SOOOO HOT!!! It doesn't matter if she invented the mullet or the shag, if she works at SuperCuts or gets $800 bucks per cut, who cares? The woman is seriously hot! You're IT Sally, forget about it! A girl can dream...can't I?

posted on April 29, 2007 at 1:41 AM

augustine wrote:

Wow, a four paragraph blog that told us what happened on the show, in as few one-syllable words as possible. The show is boring, the blogs are boring, and it is obvious that the life of a hairstylist is one of unending tedium.

The judges are so dour that I'm not going to spend any more time with them.

posted on April 29, 2007 at 9:37 AM

yvonne chau wrote:

I am a hairstylist, been doing hair for 10 years.I love the show very much, i would love to enter to the show and want to be one of them just like Sally.Thanks

posted on April 30, 2007 at 11:55 PM

J. Goode Greenville SC wrote:

I personaly love the sally shag hair cut no i would not pay 650
dollers for it, but it is a hip, up to date hair style, with a punk kinda feel to it! U go sally!!!!

posted on May 1, 2007 at 1:03 AM

Tamera Reynolds wrote:

Love this show, want to know when the next audition is going to take place?

posted on May 1, 2007 at 12:58 PM

karla wrote:

Sally Hershberger kills me. She's so critical of the competing stylists, especially about the way they cut her signature style, the "sally shag". I find this fact interesting, considering her own shag she wears looks like crap. All this smug superiority dished out by a woman who is known for one style that was made popular over 10 years ago, isn't even currently worn by the star who made it famous, and is rapidly going out of style.

posted on May 1, 2007 at 5:30 PM

kathy wrote:

Does anyone else find it odd that Jacklyn Smith was chosen as the moderator of this show? She has had the same haircut for 20 years, and it looks so out-dated. I think she has kept the hair because she thinks it makes her look more youthful, but it does the opposite. She's a beautiful woman who would look better with a modern haircut.

posted on May 1, 2007 at 6:20 PM

DD Haze wrote:

I know this is redundent but if there is to be another season, how do we interview???
I'm 25 years in the bizz ( I started when I was 10 ) I'm working here n L.A., I intreviewed at Sally's salon just b4 her and Jon Frieda opened but although I was told they were looking 4 "edgy" stylests...I think I was makeing them edgy.
I'm loving the show, its interesting to watch Sally work and to get a closer look at the "Greats" I think I should b rubbing elbows wth anyway!
Please keep us posted on a secound season and the wheres and hows?

posted on May 1, 2007 at 9:40 PM

Nicole wrote:

Does anyone know if Katherine Moening's character Shane on the L word is based on Sally? I can't seem to find this info anywhere, but it seems like she is. If you have an answer can you get back to me.

posted on May 2, 2007 at 4:27 PM

Star wrote:

I hate to tell you all this but the "Sally Shag" is a joke. Sally didn't invent anything! This cut was done on Jane Fonda in the 60's and all Sally did was update it and put in on a famous star and voila she's a rock star now. If you are ever lucky enough to have Meg Ryan walk into your salon you too can become "famous"

ps. Sallys hair looks like crap! That is not a shag its a layered mullet folks and I wouldn't pay 6.50 at Supercuts for that!

posted on May 2, 2007 at 5:46 PM

Cami wrote:

Tyson nailed it...if you're a good stylist, you can do whatevery style they want you to do on the show...whether you feel is dated or current! So stop Wwwwhhhiiiinniiingggg about the cut and give credit where credit is do. Way to go Tyson!! If Sally would pay $650 for it, then ROCK ON! If you other bloggers don't like the show, or the people on it, then stop watching. I love it! Therefore, I keep watching...And could the film editors PLEASE cut Tabatha's nasty comments about other people OUT of the final episodes...I want to like her, but can't.

posted on May 3, 2007 at 12:04 AM

Steve wrote:

Anyone know where Sally got the "I did it my way" t-shirt? Is it one of a kind? Thanks!

posted on May 3, 2007 at 12:30 PM

Wendy wrote:

I don't understand how Sally can say she invented her haircut? This is the same cut that Suzie Quatro had in the 70's and Joan Jett had in the 80's. It's a rocker mullet pure and simple. Also Meg Ryans super cute hairdo in "French Kiss" looked nothing like what Sally has now. I think she wishes she looked like Meg.

posted on May 3, 2007 at 2:49 PM

Shari Jude wrote:

Here's a great challenge- bring in different face shapes and have the stylists cut what is best or that shape. I have a hard time finding a cut for my face, it's narrow to the eyes then big wide dimpled cheeks. Kinda like "The Grinch That Stole Christmas" when he smiles. Hey Sally!! I live in Orange County, can I be one of the models if you pick my suggestion???? My husband would love me outta the house for a day....
Shari

posted on May 4, 2007 at 9:50 AM

Vicky wrote:

I was a hairdresser from 1969 when I started beauty school (1969 to 1971) to late 70's when I quit the profession. I went to Hollywood College of Beauty on Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California (no longer there.)
I would love to hear from others who went to the same school. vickyevalentine@yahoo.com A fellow student at the school taught me the "Shag Cut." I did that same cut on many of my customers during the 70's. Back then it looked more like the Jane Fonda shag than the Meg Ryan shag. I cut my own hair in a shag to this day. You can cut it long, middle length or short. Razor scissors are best to use. Sally's version only showed the sectioning and not the actual cutting. I guess she wouldn't want to let millions of viewers learn what she knows, not at $650. a hair cut, Still, only a couple of the contestants got it right after watching her. Shag=wash and wear. As we used to call it. Shag 1970's How to cut it: Start at top crown and pull up a thin section about one inch wide. Depending on desired length cut about 4 inches for short shag, add more length if longer shag is wanted. Bring up another thin section same width, working forward toward bangs. Note: Bring each section to the crown for longer bangs. Next start on another section same width to the right of previous section. Cut thin sections the same way as middle section. Then do another section to the left. About one inch wide. After top is cut. Start on right side and bring up a thin section to the top of head, horizontally, matching with previously cut hair and cut each thin section the same way.
Do the same on the left side. For the back, start near the crown and bring up thin sections horizontally matching with the hair at the crown and then cut each section pulling up to match with crown and cut You can cut the bottom shorter if a shorter version is wanted.

posted on May 7, 2007 at 12:53 PM

Natalie M wrote:

i work at Supercuts; i felt the slap that was given about not paying $6.50 for Sally's Shag at Supercuts. what bothers me the most is that i became a designer to continuously learn, everything i can, about true hair design. i feel that everyone is cocky about their abilities and put other salons/stylists down. We are all artists! i started off at an upscale salon as an assistant, they didn't have the hours so i moved on to Supercuts. Supercuts broke down old school techniques for design basics. Guess what, that salon i worked at had stylists with terrible technique and they get more money for their cuts. what are people paying for in Salons.... Confidence! who cares about the name of the salon, its the artistic vision one has and what the customer feels about the outcome!

posted on May 7, 2007 at 10:19 PM

Annie R wrote:

I live in Staten Island, NY and would travel anywhere I can drive to for a good haircut. My haircutter left NY. He was amazing. Now I have had so many hands on my head. No one can get the "shag" right. Please help, if anyone can recommend someone. Thank you so much.

posted on May 10, 2007 at 10:44 PM

RochelleRochelle wrote:

I always wondered who the stylist was behind Meg Ryan's cute hairdo! She inspired tons of women all over to copy her. Very cute cut! Obviously, Sally is NOT a "one-trick pony", or she wouldn't still BE in this business.

posted on May 12, 2007 at 5:47 PM

brklyn_matt wrote:

TIME TO PAY ATTENTION!!!

When asked to recreate a style developed by the head judge, I would think that most of the stylists should have realized that this competition was a BIGGY. It probably counted more than they realized.

posted on May 16, 2007 at 8:44 PM

Kathy Palmer wrote:

Just wanted to say that Sally is one HOT woman : )
Kathy from Galesburg, MI

posted on May 25, 2007 at 10:11 AM

Elaine wrote:

Like the show immensly as a stylistlove to know how to be on it !the challenges are great and show who learned all aspects of the industry and who skipped things. A great admirer of Sallys work I spent many years teaching stylist cutting and long hair tecniques across North America Trained inU K
now in Canada I would like to see more women at the top its so much harder for us the men can be older and still on platform
not so for women. Hope some of the stylist wil ditch the attitude soon they are most annoying.Why is there so much of it in this industry?

posted on May 29, 2007 at 12:04 AM

Ashley wrote:

I think that Sally's "shag" is one fo the most ugliest styles. Sally's shag is really ugly and she needs to try something else. I think all of them did a good job replicating it except Lacey. Its great she wants to becreative but she wasnt asked to be. She was asked to make a replica of the shag and she instead put her own spin on it. Which got her eliminated and Im glad. She needs to go back to beauty school.

posted on May 30, 2007 at 11:15 AM

Fanny wrote:

I think Sally has an attitude. The shag looks good on Meg, and it might be a "signature" and all, but NO ONE ELSE HAS IT and NO ONE ELSE WILL WANT IT, so Sally... get over it, your fame is over!

posted on May 30, 2007 at 5:38 PM

mercy wrote:

Sally Hershberger, my stylist in Southampton told me, charges $600 for a few 'key' cuts of the scissors to the clients head, then has one of her other stylists finish the job.....gack..........
pretty gross.

posted on May 31, 2007 at 12:05 PM