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A man voiced his frustration on Reddit after taking his 13-year-old son to get a haircut
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The Redditor said the hairstylist filmed the trim without consent and planned to post the transformation on TikTok
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The dad asked for a discount — and was denied
A dad says a hairstylist took unsolicited footage of his teenager during a haircut to post on TikTok. Now, he wants a discount.
In a post shared to Reddit, the anonymous man writes, “I took my 13 year old son for a haircut yesterday. It was the type of place where the stylists are all freelancers, you need to book an appointment with one of them through an app several weeks in advance, and it cost $60 for the cut.”
“I wasn’t paying much attention but at some point I noticed the stylist was recording the haircut on video and talking to the other stylists about editing TikTok videos this and that,” he adds. “The guy was taking forever, chit chatting with his colleagues. While other stylists were finishing a customer in 20-30 minutes, it took our guy an hour and 10 minutes to finish my son’s cut.”
Once the cut was complete, the stylist began what the dad describes as “a full on photoshoot with my son.”
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Father and son getting a haircut.
“Clearly he intends to make a promotional video for his freelance services on TikTok and who knows what other platforms using my son as a model,” he adds. “I approach him ready to pay and ask him what is the discount? He was a little taken aback so I said he didn’t my have permission to take pictures or videos of my son, and if he’s going to be making a promo video with him as the model at the very least we should be entitled to a discount.”
Ultimately, the stylist said “he didn’t want to give a discount and offered to delete the pictures and videos.”
“I said you do not need to delete anything, but you do not have consent to use them,” the Redditor continues.
The man noted that “the whole interaction was less than a few minutes” and insisted that he “never raised my voice or tone above normal speaking range.”
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However, after they left the salon, his son said he “was too rough on the guy.” His wife, for her part, was equally upset about the ordeal.
“When I relayed the encounter to my wife she was livid at the guy for taking the videos and pictures, as well as me for not stopping him,” the man writes.
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Inside of a hair salon.
Other Redditors were split, with some saying both the stylist and the dad made mistakes.
“I mean, if he’s using your son as his personal model for fame and fortune, shouldn’t you get a cut of that too? Like 10% of his future earnings sounds fair, right?” one user wrote in defense of the dad.
Meanwhile, other commenters noted that the dad should not have waited until it was time to pay to speak up. “You had the opportunity to question and/or stop the photos and video. You didn’t do that. You also didn’t discuss consent or discount until after the fact,” one user wrote. “The stylist should have spoken to you, not your teenager, regarding consent. You should have spoken up as soon as you realized what they were doing.”
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