Supercuts

I don’t know why it gets such low reviews, you’re going to Supercuts, you have to have your expectations set correctly. It’s not a high end beauty salon and it never pretended to be. I’ve had my hair cut here many times and I’ve never been disappointed. I ask to have the ends trimmed and my layers updated and I get exactly that, which is excellent. The stylists and the staff are very kind. The wait can be a bit long, but if you call ahead they let you know when to come in so you don’t have to wait! I give it five stars because there’s no reason I see to take away a star. They do what they advertise with affordability and kindness.

You get what you pay for. I needed a bang and hair trim, and asked for my bangs to be shorter but not above the eyebrows. They’re way above my eyebrows (like, an inch) and I look like a child actor now, soo…
I could’ve been more stern, but she cut it all off right at the beginning. The girls there were all screwing around and cracking jokes, which would be fine if it seemed like they also were listening and trying to do a good job.
So, whatever. No big surprise. But my hurrs look B.A.D.

In the two other cities that I’ve lived in, I’ve always been able to get a quick and pretty haircut/​brow wax from supercuts. I consider myself secretly low maintenance, and hate to spend a ton on my long, thick and wavy brown hair because I always figured, «how can you mess this up?» Well, they butchered my eyebrows, which are so easy, and I said so many times, just get all those strays. I like them fuller, I felt like she had shaved them off and penciled them on and that I looked perpetually surprised for a few weeks. And my hair, I know, I know, everyone always says they take off more than you want, but I really felt like the stylist had misheard me and had cut enough off to make a donation to locks of love. Which had I known she was going to do, I would have had her save it… ugh. Back to overpriced haircuts.

This is not a barber or a beauty salon, but you pay for what you get. I went today (Monday) without an appointment and I was taken right away. The hair stylist, very politely, asked how I wanted my hair. I said, «this (pointing to my head), but shorter» She competently did a quick job and got me out of there in about 20 minutes. The tab was $ 17 plus tip; a very good price. My experience today was very good… but:
— You will never have the same person cutting your hair twice in a row unless you call ahead and wait up to 3 – 4 days for that employee to be there.
— The «stylists» are defiantly green, fresh out of beauty school. They do a very basic job. I would not want anything more complicated than a haircut. I would be afraid to get anything else.
— I have heard and seen the damage they can do to a newbie. I know people who swear up and down that they hate this place. I have even been told by a close friend that he feels was turned down for a job and blames it on his haircut from Supercuts in Sq. Hill. I have heard things like this a lot about this place.
But…
— It’s cheap and fast. The people are nice and you don’t need an appointment. For a $ 17 haircut, it’s hard to complain too much. If you have a complicated request for your specific haircut/​style, DO NOT go here. If you’re a guy that needs their hair to be exactly the same, but shorter; it’s hard to beat this place.

I sometimes wonder if this Supercuts is where they send their weak links – like getting bumped down to AAA from the big leagues. Were it not a 5-​minute walk from my house, I’m sure I’d have given up on the place. It’s not that this is a bad place to get your hair cut… no, actually, it is that. It’s not a *terrible* place to get your hair cut, just merely bad. Their haircuts are not so egregiously awful that they provoke anger… just never really what you asked for. Your wait isn’t hours-long…just longer than they always tell you over the phone. Folks are polite here, at least, sort of.

When I moved to Pittsburgh 3 years ago it took me a while to find a good hair place and now I think I have. The first time they game me a good haircut I was wondering if it was just luck. The second time I started to think these ladies actually know what they’re doing. The third forth and so on I was feeling right at home. I got my significant other to try them and now he makes appointments with Tabitha regularly. I have had several ladies cut my hair there for a year and a half and I’ve never been disappointed.

Worst haircut I’ve ever gotten. The stylist cut my bangs way too short and uneven, she obviously has no idea how to cut curly hair (she insisted that after flat ironing them they’d be perfect, but my hair will always have a little poof in it). Stay away!