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<p>Hairdressers have a way of setting up an environment that makes everyone feel at home, and this can quickly lead to a lot of people spilling their secrets.</p><p>There&#39;s something about somebody massaging your head and trimming all the wisps around your face that brings out the gossip, and anyone who has worked as a hairdresser for long knows firsthand just how much juice there is to spill. Even if you aren&#39;t a hairdresser yourself, if you&#39;re a regular at a salon, it&#39;s likely you&#39;ve overheard someone else&#39;s business before.</p><h2>In a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/b7663r/hairdressers_of_reddit_what_is_the_best_piece_of/" target="_blank">couple</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ipawsm/hairdressers_what_is_the_juiciest_gossip_you_have/" target="_blank"> popular Reddit threads</a>, hairdressers and clients shared the juiciest gossip they&#39;ve overheard at a salon, and there&#39;s truly so much to unpack.</h2><p> </p><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/glizzygobbler0707/">glizzygobbler0707</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Hairdresser here, I&#39;ve heard so many stories. People truly tell their personal business to their hairdressers as if we&#39;re therapists.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Had a client, sweet middle-aged woman, she brought up Scientology. Having heard and watched that show about it I went in about it. &quot;Oh they&#39;re absolutely crazy, blah blah blah...&quot; And, she blurts out that her son is a scientologist. I wanted to sink into the floor, then had to backtrack and, agree about all of these &quot;nice&quot; things that they do and how, yeah, you&#39;re right, DEFINITELY not a cult. Yikes.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MrJohnHonai/">MrJohnHonai</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A customer here. A hairdresser once told me that he left home after his brother caught him with his (the brother&#39;s) wife. He hasn&#39;t been home since and it has been 4 years. This new city is his home now.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BevsLuc/">BevsLuc</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was a customer. My hairdresser (a lesbian) told me that her girlfriend had had a breast removal and she could no longer be intimate with her because if was like having sex with a slug. She hadn&#39;t been this open with me before, guess she just needed to vent.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/falafel1247/">falafel1247</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I wasn&#39;t the hairdresser but one of the customers: so I was waiting for my turn and the hairdresser is attending to this old lady who is telling her the story of her life. I wasn&#39;t listening too closely but suddenly I hear something along the lines of:</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;Yeah, he cheated on her with the maid-of-honor&#39;s brother two days before the wedding, and his bride found out at the reception. It was a sh*t show, the police came because apparently, she stabbed him with a spoon.&quot;</p> <p>I never knew you could stab someones with a spoon, you learn something new every day.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SingleWar5/">SingleWar5</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Client here. My grandma and I had the same hairdresser when I was a teen. Anyway, this hairdresser had a friend that was a kindergarten teacher at a private school I was attending at the time and one summer that teacher left and no student knew why. The hairdresser told my grandma during an appointment that the teacher was fired because she was sleeping with a 16-year-old boy who was a classmate of mine.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The school was a Christian school that was associated with a church so they never filed a report because they didn&rsquo;t want negative publicity to impact the school and church. As for the 16-year-old, well after that he became extremely religious, then got into drugs, and ended up in an abusive controlling relationship (he wasn&rsquo;t the abuser). The ex-teacher, all I knew was that she got a divorce and moved several hours away and moved to her parents&#39; house.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/malfrantz/">malfrantz</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Hairstylist here. I had a customer invite me to their &ldquo;basement casino&rdquo;... I politely declined. This was in a city with no casinos. A few weeks later I hear from their neighbor, also a client of mine, that she and her husband got arrested in front of their small children for the whole ordeal.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mr_Betts05/">Mr_Betts05</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A family friend (let&#39;s call her person 1) was telling her hairdresser about this girl she had been having problems with at school for some time (We&#39;ll call her person 2). She told her hairdresser person 2&#39;s name, and the hairdresser said she was one of their customers as well. The hairdresser must have wanted to help P1 out.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Next time person 2 came in, the hairdresser listened to her complaining about person 1. Then the hairdresser dropped the line...</p> <p>&#39;[Person 1]? Oh, she&#39;s my cousin.&#39;</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tylery21/">tylery21</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Asked my mom cause she&rsquo;s been doing hair since I was born and she said that she heard someone cheating on their husband is the worst she&rsquo;s heard.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/charlesmans0n/">charlesmans0n</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I apprenticed under a stylist (Jess) that was working on a client she had known for years (Susan). The stylist was complaining to us about how she was dreading her next appointment because it was this old married guy that always propositioned her for sexual stuff. He made her so uncomfortable but he always tipped her $100. Jess was going on and on about all of the outrageous things he would do, like tipping her a $500 gift card to a ski shop when she told him she had plans to go skiing (he would come in every few weeks so he knew he would see her again before she left) for her birthday, etc. He didn&#39;t know, but Susan and I knew, that Jess was a lesbian.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We were all laughing about it and how awful it was that he was married and had kids and stuff. After Jess was done cutting her hair, Susan sat in my chair so I could blowdry her (typical apprentice duty) while Jess took her next client (the guy). So Jess goes to reception to grab her client and they walk back to the stations, and he sees Susan in my chair and says &quot;Hey! Susan!!&quot; And Susan stands up awkwardly and gives him a hug, exchanging funny awkward looks with Jess and I. Jess laughed awkwardly and asked how they knew each other. They were next door neighbors.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cuthairdrinkgin/">cuthairdrinkgin</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Regular monthly client came in and shared screen shots from Craigslist and texts from strangers with me. Apparently her husband had made a post looking for men to have sex with, but accidentally put her phone number on the post instead of his (one number difference).</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chillark/">Chillark</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a male client ask me if I was gay and then proceeded to tell me all about how he and his best friend used to blow each other when they were in high school. I think he realized he crossed a line when he saw my very embarrassed facial expression. And then 5 minutes later his wife walked in to see if he was done.</p> <p>People are waaaaaaaay too open with their hairstylists.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BelleCandyTaker/">BelleCandyTaker</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>(I am a barber so this was a shave &amp; cut) I had a male client (55+) talk about how his early teen daughter (13/14) was in the mall shopping for a dress and that she would be by later to ask for money for said dress. Then he went on about his trip someplace tropical that he likes going alone because he will hook up with ladiess there for a week then come home. Way too much detail. (He and his wife were divorced btw)</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Eventually, the daughter comes by to ask for the card for the dress.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Girl then asked &quot;have you been flirting with this nice lady daddy?&quot; &quot;You know me too well darling&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>TL;DR So I learned a lot about some guy&#39;s s*x life on his vacations. Then that he probably was hitting on me the entire time as said by his daughter.</p> <p>Very thankful that our system has an alert on it so barbers can request not to be given clients if they are a little out of hand. We will ban people if needed but it has never gotten to that. Once told that they have been inappropriate, they don&#39;t generally return.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thedish773/">thedish773</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I have so many different stories. First one was a client( let&#39;s called her Betty) who was talking about how her friend&#39;s daughter got into a new line of work. Posting her feet on Instagram for money, writing really... really dirty things. After talking a bit more, turns out Betty&#39;s friend and her foot posting daughter were weeklys at my salon...let&#39;s just say me and my coworkers found the Instagram. We had to see if it was real.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Second, overheard the client talking to another stylist about how she was going to a wedding tomorrow that the soon-to-be husband was for sure cheating on his wife-to-be. Turns out, we were doing a wedding party the next day. I was working on the maid of honor, when she broke down and went up to the bride and told her that she was sleeping with her fiance. I felt terrible for the bride, but that was.. an interesting sight to see to say the least.</p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

13 hairdressers and clients share the juiciest gossip they've heard in the salon.

Hairdressers have a way of setting up an environment that makes everyone feel at home, and this can quickly lead to a lot of people spilling their secrets.There&#39;s something about somebody massaging your head and trimming all the wisps around your face that brings out the gossip, and anyone who has worked as a hairdresser for long knows firsthand just how much juice there is to spill. Even if you aren&#39;t a hairdresser yourself, if you&#39;re a regular at a salon, it&#39;s likely you&#39;ve overheard someone else&#39;s business before.In a couple popular Reddit threads, hairdressers and clients shared the juiciest gossip they&#39;ve overheard at a salon, and there&#39;s truly so much to unpack. 1. From glizzygobbler0707: Hairdresser here, I&#39;ve heard so many stories. People truly tell their personal business to their hairdressers as if we&#39;re therapists.  Had a client, sweet middle-aged woman, she brought up Scientology. Having heard and watched that show about it I went in about it. &quot;Oh they&#39;re absolutely crazy, blah blah blah...&quot; And, she blurts out that her son is a scientologist. I wanted to sink into the floor, then had to backtrack and, agree about all of these &quot;nice&quot; things that they do and how, yeah, you&#39;re right, DEFINITELY not a cult. Yikes. 2. From MrJohnHonai: A customer here. A hairdresser once told me that he left home after his brother caught him with his (the brother&#39;s) wife. He hasn&#39;t been home since and it has been 4 years. This new city is his home now. 3. From BevsLuc: I was a customer. My hairdresser (a lesbian) told me that her girlfriend had had a breast removal and she could no longer be intimate with her because if was like having sex with a slug. She hadn&#39;t been this open with me before, guess she just needed to vent. 4. From falafel1247: I wasn&#39;t the hairdresser but one of the customers: so I was waiting for my turn and the hairdresser is attending to this old lady who is telling her the story of her life. I wasn&#39;t listening too closely but suddenly I hear something along the lines of:  &quot;Yeah, he cheated on her with the maid-of-honor&#39;s brother two days before the wedding, and his bride found out at the reception. It was a sh*t show, the police came because apparently, she stabbed him with a spoon.&quot; I never knew you could stab someones with a spoon, you learn something new every day. 5. From SingleWar5: Client here. My grandma and I had the same hairdresser when I was a teen. Anyway, this hairdresser had a friend that was a kindergarten teacher at a private school I was attending at the time and one summer that teacher left and no student knew why. The hairdresser told my grandma during an appointment that the teacher was fired because she was sleeping with a 16-year-old boy who was a classmate of mine.  The school was a Christian school that was associated with a church so they never filed a report because they didn&rsquo;t want negative publicity to impact the school and church. As for the 16-year-old, well after that he became extremely religious, then got into drugs, and ended up in an abusive controlling relationship (he wasn&rsquo;t the abuser). The ex-teacher, all I knew was that she got a divorce and moved several hours away and moved to her parents&#39; house. 6. From malfrantz: Hairstylist here. I had a customer invite me to their &ldquo;basement casino&rdquo;... I politely declined. This was in a city with no casinos. A few weeks later I hear from their neighbor, also a client of mine, that she and her husband got arrested in front of their small children for the whole ordeal. 7. From Mr_Betts05: A family friend (let&#39;s call her person 1) was telling her hairdresser about this girl she had been having problems with at school for some time (We&#39;ll call her person 2). She told her hairdresser person 2&#39;s name, and the hairdresser said she was one of their customers as well. The hairdresser must have wanted to help P1 out.  Next time person 2 came in, the hairdresser listened to her complaining about person 1. Then the hairdresser dropped the line... &#39;[Person 1]? Oh, she&#39;s my cousin.&#39; 8. From tylery21: Asked my mom cause she&rsquo;s been doing hair since I was born and she said that she heard someone cheating on their husband is the worst she&rsquo;s heard. 9. From charlesmans0n: I apprenticed under a stylist (Jess) that was working on a client she had known for years (Susan). The stylist was complaining to us about how she was dreading her next appointment because it was this old married guy that always propositioned her for sexual stuff. He made her so uncomfortable but he always tipped her $100. Jess was going on and on about all of the outrageous things he would do, like tipping her a $500 gift card to a ski shop when she told him she had plans to go skiing (he would come in every few weeks so he knew he would see her again before she left) for her birthday, etc. He didn&#39;t know, but Susan and I knew, that Jess was a lesbian.  We were all laughing about it and how awful it was that he was married and had kids and stuff. After Jess was done cutting her hair, Susan sat in my chair so I could blowdry her (typical apprentice duty) while Jess took her next client (the guy). So Jess goes to reception to grab her client and they walk back to the stations, and he sees Susan in my chair and says &quot;Hey! Susan!!&quot; And Susan stands up awkwardly and gives him a hug, exchanging funny awkward looks with Jess and I. Jess laughed awkwardly and asked how they knew each other. They were next door neighbors. 10. From cuthairdrinkgin: Regular monthly client came in and shared screen shots from Craigslist and texts from strangers with me. Apparently her husband had made a post looking for men to have sex with, but accidentally put her phone number on the post instead of his (one number difference). 11. From Chillark: I had a male client ask me if I was gay and then proceeded to tell me all about how he and his best friend used to blow each other when they were in high school. I think he realized he crossed a line when he saw my very embarrassed facial expression. And then 5 minutes later his wife walked in to see if he was done. People are waaaaaaaay too open with their hairstylists. 12. From BelleCandyTaker: (I am a barber so this was a shave &amp; cut) I had a male client (55+) talk about how his early teen daughter (13/14) was in the mall shopping for a dress and that she would be by later to ask for money for said dress. Then he went on about his trip someplace tropical that he likes going alone because he will hook up with ladiess there for a week then come home. Way too much detail. (He and his wife were divorced btw)  Eventually, the daughter comes by to ask for the card for the dress.  Girl then asked &quot;have you been flirting with this nice lady daddy?&quot; &quot;You know me too well darling&quot;  TL;DR So I learned a lot about some guy&#39;s s*x life on his vacations. Then that he probably was hitting on me the entire time as said by his daughter. Very thankful that our system has an alert on it so barbers can request not to be given clients if they are a little out of hand. We will ban people if needed but it has never gotten to that. Once told that they have been inappropriate, they don&#39;t generally return. 13. From thedish773: I have so many different stories. First one was a client( let&#39;s called her Betty) who was talking about how her friend&#39;s daughter got into a new line of work. Posting her feet on Instagram for money, writing really... really dirty things. After talking a bit more, turns out Betty&#39;s friend and her foot posting daughter were weeklys at my salon...let&#39;s just say me and my coworkers found the Instagram. We had to see if it was real.  Second, overheard the client talking to another stylist about how she was going to a wedding tomorrow that the soon-to-be husband was for sure cheating on his wife-to-be. Turns out, we were doing a wedding party the next day. I was working on the maid of honor, when she broke down and went up to the bride and told her that she was sleeping with her fiance. I felt terrible for the bride, but that was.. an interesting sight to see to say the least.  