Blowdry Boutique

Blow dry bars are a great concept and something I use all the time to get ready for events. $ 40 and 30 mins is typically all you need to be occasion ready. I have my favourite close to home but I was in Sydney for a wedding and an early flight meant I had to try somewhere local.
Blowdry Boutique is my first bad experience with a blow dry salon. The service here is just downright rude. The floors were filthy and covered in hair. The seats are crammed so tightly together that I kept coping hot air in the face from the hairdryer being used on the person next to me. By the time my appointment should have been done and dusted and family came to collect me, I was still sitting in the chair with wet hair with no indication of when anyone was coming to do my hair as no one had spoken to me in the 30+ mins I had been there.
Finally someone came over and said they had someone call in sick so were a bit busy. Ok, fine this happens — but had anyone actually bothered to speak to me when I came to reception I could have had this expectation set and let my family know.
I could have probably forgiven this as just a bad day for staff, except that the blowdry itself was incredibly rushed and absolutely nothing like what I asked for. I had asked for curls through the ends — there was a slight bend that didn’t even last the walk to the car. Essentially I paid $ 40 for my hair to be clean which I could have done myself. The hairdresser also covered my hair in dry shampoo while it was wet — a completely pointless exercise and just shows that they really don’t know what they’re doing here. It’s called dry shampoo for a reason, it doesn’t work on wet hair except to potentially clump up like talc and water does.
Not somewhere I would give a second chance.