If you work in the service industry as a hairdresser or barber, you're familiar with people opening up to you and revealing many one too many things about themselves. I recently asked hairdressers and barbers of the BuzzFeed Community to share some of the juiciest confessions they've heard from clients. I also took some wild responses from this Reddit thread and this one because they were too good not to include. Buckle up for some of these because they're feral!
Note: Some of these responses have been edited for length and clarity.
1. "Back when I was an assistant, doing shampoos mostly, I was guilty of looking at people's phones a lot when I was washing their hair. It was hard not to when there was nothing else to do while I did the massage! Anyway, I did this one client’s massage. She was married, and I suddenly see her sending these wild partially nude pics to someone who was NOT her husband and all these incredibly sexual S&M texts. Not kink-shaming, but bold of her to do it right in front of my face like that. It was hard to stop reading them and to act like I didn’t notice anything afterward."
2. "A client of mine (in his 60s) openly talks about trying to work things out with his wife (who has been living in another country from him for years) and having an on-and-off-again relationship with his girlfriend. He bought them both the same necklace for Christmas."
3. "It’s impressive how many clients come out as gay later in life and feel like I’m a safe person to open up to before their friends."
—Anonymous
4. "I was doing a new client's hair, and she confessed that she thought that her Stanford University professor husband was cheating on her. It just so happened that a couple of weeks after I met this woman, I saw another new client who confessed that she was seeing her Stanford University professor boss and wanted a new hairstyle to please him. I asked the employee what her boss's name was and she told me his first name. So fast forward to the wife’s next appointment. She thinks her husband is fooling around with his secretary. I unwisely opened my mouth and told her about the secretary’s previous visit and confession. Well, the wife couldn’t get out of my chair fast enough. Guess what? I lost both clients and never saw either one again. I learned to keep my mouth shut after that."
