Do you pay if you're not happy?

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I just spent all day at the hairdresser. I went with my mother to her favourite hairdresser so I thought it was safe so I handed over my 'past my waist length locks'. I told him that I wanted a nice deep blood red with lighter red foils. Everything was going ok until after he put the colour through, he told me that he had mixed ash brown with copper red as this will suit my skin colour more. I told him that I loved the red that I had and that I had it that way and was happy for the last six years! He told me that it was going to be fine and it will really look lovely with the lighter foils. I sat still while they put on the foils for over an hour, I had only asked for six and the young girl put on over 25! I was beside myself with worry and the hairdresser asked me what was wrong. I said that I feared my hair was not going to turn out the way I had asked, he said '.... it will be fine, you will love it.' My head started getting warm so I told one of the girls, within five minutes it really started to sting and there was a haze coming off my head! They rushed me to the sink and washed it off. I heard one girl say to another '... oh we need a toner on this...' and there were three of them examining my hair from all angles. I then heard one say '...just don't sit her in front of the mirror!' I responded to this by standing up and I nearly fainted when I saw my fluro orange striped hair! I then sat there for 15 mins while I waited for the hairdresser to come and see what they would do! He came over and picked up parts of my hair and had a look through. He looked at me and said 'You are not happy with this colour?', I said 'No, and I am not going to pay for it'. He said it was ok and he would fix it. It was then I touched my hair and the bottom 15cms was frizzled! I almost threw up! That hair had taken me many years to grow. He said 'oh, no problems, we will give it a bit of a trim'. So much for the 1cm off I had previously asked for. So they put a red colour through and they cut 30cms off the bottom. It looks ok. It cost me $170. I will not go back there and I think it will be probably another 10 years before I see another hairdresser! I am now regretting paying, do you think I should have paid? My hair is now half way down my back instead of me being able to sit on it. I do feel a bit empty and ripped off. I guess this is what you get when you go to a hairdresser. My mum and my brother girlfriends hair worked out fine without a hitch. They just had blonde streaks put through their brown hair so it was straight forward for them. I wish that he had just done what I asked for! I got the foils on a whim, what a mistake. *breathes* Tell me hair grows and it is going to be ok, please!