The Wall Street Journal has decided to research the major beef between Black salons and Dominican salons as Dominican's continue to take more of black salons business:
Emily Martinez, a stylist at Sintia's Dominican Salon in Landover, Md., demonstrates the Dominican blowout.
Many traditional black stylists accuse Dominicans of misrepresenting their services as "natural" because nearly all Dominican salons perform relaxer touch-ups. Traditionalists say the "Dominican blowout" technique can cause severe hair breakage. Both sorts of stylists wash, set hair in rollers and seat customers under big dryers.
African-American stylists typically use a curling iron to unfurl the hair, while Dominicans use a two-handed method of unraveling the strands with a round brush, followed by a blow dryer in the other hand to smooth the curl to a straight finish. Dominicans do so by pulling from the hair root, often forcefully. That, along with applying the second round of intense heat, leads to breakage, say black stylists and some customers.
Black women have been going to Dominican's for years on the East Coast and tend to get a great amount of services for under $30 as oppose to black salons which charge $50 and up for similar services. At the end of the day there's room for everyone to grow. What do you guys think?
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