Review: HBC [Home of Beauty Exclusives] Hair Coloring at Makati Cinema Square Branch

The HBC website states that they offer exclusive services to customers:

Customers who would like to get their hair colored need not worry anymore as FREE hair coloring application may be availed by just purchasing our Hortaleza Professional hair coloring set. This is HBC’s way of bringing in the salon experience in ways accessible to many.
Our Makeover Zone is equipped with highly-trained beauty ambassadors who will walk you through the entire hair coloring process. Seat comfortably in our salon chair while reading a magazine or just simply chat with our beauty ambassador for hair care tips for colored hair.

Jolie, my officemate, told me that she wants her hair coloring done in HBC. She wants to try it because it's so cheap. So we went to HBC [Home of Beauty Exclusives] in Makati Cinema Square after our shift.

Let the pictures do the talking...

Jolie is excited for her hair coloring treatment.

Jolie selected her shade. It's Light Chest Brown. The color kit is really cheap. It only costs less that PhP300. The packaging of the product is good. It looks expensive. The staff will tell you to pay for the color kit before they begin the treatment.

Hair coloring cream box.

The coloring cream box showing the shade and it's ingredients.

Hydrogen Peroxide solution at 9%.

The hair coloring tube. It's small so if you have long hair, the staff might
require you to buy 2 tubes.

Jolie modelling the HBC Hair Coloring Creme

The coloring kit is very nice.... here comes the nice part -- the equipment!

Below is a photo of their shampoo sink. It looks old and dirty. It does not have water drainage system. You can clearly see that there's a big container at the bottom of the sink for the used water. Isn't very classy? Hahaha

On the other hand, the staff are very friendly and talkative. You will never get bored with their stories.

The HBC staff mixing the hair coloring cream solution while telling
some funny stories.

Jolie, are you scared?

This is disgusting. Their tools look so dirty. I think they do not clean it. Look under the chair and you'll see their gloves. It's so gross -- so dugyot. It's already infested with fungus, bacteria and germs. Do they even have sanitary permit from the local government?

HBC in Makati Cinema Square does not have continuous water supply. You'll see a lot of dippers and buckets of water. The staff told us that they got the water from the nearby comfort room (Hahaha. This made me laugh!)

Jolie's hair with the dripping HBC Coloring Creme. The other customer smiles
while her hair is being colored.

Another customer came in and availed the cheap hair color. She told us that she's
a loyal HBC customer. She helps the staff by rinsing her own hair at the lady's room after
the hair color treatment (Hahahaha!!!)

Jolie looks very stressed during the hair coloring process.

Here's my rating:
1. Ambiance = 1/10
2. Price = 10/10
3. Staff = 7/10


Will I go back:  NO! I might try other branches like HBC Cash & Carry.