It’s a hairy situation.
A trans woman bilked one of Orange County’s hottest salons out of a $2,500 hairstyling service — prompting the swindled business owner to take to TikTok in hopes of finding the well-coiffed con artist.
Tiffany Loe, the owner of the upscale Christian Michael Salon in Huntington Beach, claimed the woman who booked her pricey appointment under the name “Sophia Gonzalez” underwent a painstaking nine-hour procedure to get 24-inch blonde extensions put in.
The end result was captured in a photo by Loe’s stylist, Cat, with a grinning Gonzalez showing off her lush new locks.
“Alright, TikTok I need you to do your thing. I need to find this person right here,” Loe, a hair extensions expert, told her 342,000 followers, pointing to the photo.
Gonzalez skipped out on her tab when it came time to take more “after” photos, telling Cat that she needed to pop outside to put on her eyelashes.
The cunning client was never to be seen again.
“She let her do a whole transformation on her. The amount of work that was put into this was absolutely insane,” she said, adding that Cat was “in tears” over the ordeal.
“She wanted to put her eyelashes on when she was done and never returned.”
Christian Michael Salon specializes in extensions, with a “new client extension install” starting at $1,000.
Loe told a commenter that the salon filed a police report and hopes Gonzalez gets busted on charges of grand theft — the unlawful taking of property or services valued over $950.
“Now here’s the unfortunate part for this person,” she said in the video. “In the state of California, anything over $950 is grand theft, which, depending on this person’s track record or priors, can be charged as a felony. So I am asking you to tell me find this person.”
Loe wasn’t immediately available to comment.