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EXCLUSIVE: Kendra’s Boutique Responds To Claims Of Shoddy Hair, Customer Service | TSR Investigates

<amp-jwplayer data-media-id&equals;"rpSs0EpM" data-player-id&equals;"AHLj8qWB" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"16" height&equals;"9" class&equals;"i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-media-component i-amphtml-video-interface i-amphtml-built i-amphtml-layout" i-amphtml-layout&equals;"responsive"><iframe width&equals;"640px" height&equals;"360px" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;content&period;jwplatform&period;com&sol;players&sol;"rpSs0EpM"-AHLj8qWB&period;html&quest;isAMP&equals;true" class&equals;"i-amphtml-fill-content" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"overflow&colon; hidden&semi;"><&sol;iframe><&sol;amp-jwplayer><amp-analytics type&equals;"googleanalytics" data-credentials&equals;"include">&NewLine; <script type&equals;"application&sol;json">&NewLine; &lbrace;&NewLine; "vars"&colon; &lbrace;&NewLine; "account"&colon; "UA-51932734-1"&NewLine; &rcub;&comma;&NewLine; "triggers"&colon; 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Celebrities like Angela White&comma; the City Girls&comma; Ashanti&comma; and Marlo Hampton&comma; along with thousands of women across the country&comma; have remained loyal for years&period; However&comma; some customers of Kendra&&num;039&semi;s Boutique are now calling for a &quot&semi;time-out&quot&semi; due to issues like bald wigs and damaged bundles&period; Kendra herself has stepped into the Shade Room for an exclusive interview&period; The Shade Room investigates…'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'thumbnailUrl' content&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Kendras-Boutique-Responds-To-Claims-Of-Shoddy-Hair-Customer-Service-TSR-Investigates&period;png&quest;w&equals;720'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'uploadDate' content&equals;'2023-06-14T08&colon;51&colon;23-07&colon;00'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'contentUrl' content&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;jwplayer&period;com&sol;v2&sol;media&sol;rpSs0EpM'&sol;>&NewLine;<div id&equals;'jwppp-video-1245021' class&equals;'jwplayer'>Loading the player&period;&period;&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<script type&equals;'text&sol;javascript'>&NewLine;var playerInstance&lowbar;1245021 &equals; jwplayer&lpar; "jwppp-video-1245021" &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;playerInstance&lowbar;1245021&period;setup&lpar;&lbrace;&NewLine;playlist&colon; "https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;jwplayer&period;com&sol;v2&sol;media&sol;rpSs0EpM"&comma;&NewLine;&rcub;&rpar;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div><p><strong>Kendra Cooksey <&sol;strong>of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;kendrasboutique&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique<&sol;a> has built a multi-million-dollar hair empire thanks to loyal celeb customers like <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;blac-chyna-reborn-baptized-angela-white&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Angela White<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;city-girls-elevated-artistry-next-album&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>City Girls<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;listicle&sol;ashanti-nelly-together-dating-rumors-video-photos&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Ashanti<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period; Thousands of women have purchased bundles from her boutique&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; some customers of Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique are calling her out for balding wigs and damaged bundles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kendra Of Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique Steps Into The Shade Room To Address Claims Of Faulty Products<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; Kendra is stepping into <em><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;em> for an exclusive interview to address those claims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Latoya Johnson says she paid &dollar;458 for hair bundles from Kendra that she can&&num;8217&semi;t even wear straight&period; She claims they are thinned at the ends and come in differing lengths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I have to have it curled in order for it to look like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Oh&comma; she got a nice full weave in her hair&period;&&num;8217&semi; If I wear it straight&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d probably look like a little pelican&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Johnson says she had to sew in other bundles of old hair into her new sew-in&period; And to make matters worse&comma; she says Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s customer service team is &&num;8220&semi;horrible&comma;&&num;8221&semi; adding that they refuse to give any refunds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Customers Post Balding&comma; Thinning Wigs To Social Media&comma; Call Out Company&&num;8217&semi;s Customer Service<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Another customer posted her &dollar;485 wig to TikTok &&num;8220&semi;after bleaching the knots for eight minutes&period;&&num;8221&semi; The wig could be seen balding&comma; with clumps of hair being pulled out as she brushed it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I felt so helpless&comma; I was literally in tears&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the unnamed woman tells TSR Investigates&&num;8217&semi; Justin Carter&period; &&num;8220&semi;As I&&num;8217&semi;m washing it&comma; all this hair is coming off of it&period; I took a comb to brush it out and see where the hair was coming from&comma; and literally all the hair started falling out&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She says she called the customer service line and reached a representative named Nicole&comma; who &&num;8220&semi;just started yelling and being super defensive&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She&&num;8217&semi;s like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;no&comma; we don&&num;8217&semi;t sell faulty units&period; This is your problem&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know what to tell you&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>When she told the rep about bleaching the knots of the hair&comma; Nicole reportedly scoffed at the idea&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Who really does that&quest;&&num;8221&semi; she allegedly responded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the company&&num;8217&semi;s website touts &&num;8220&semi;100&percnt; human hair that is not processed in any way&comma;&&num;8221&semi; meaning &&num;8220&semi;you can color the hair&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but the website recommends doing it with a professional&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7239082323201756459" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique Speaks On Accusations Of Shoddy Hair&comma; Customer Service<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Tenel Dorsey&comma; the owner of Dreamz Hair Salon&comma; who boasts decades of experience in the hair industry&comma; tells Justin Carter that &&num;8220&semi;these &lpar;customers&rpar; are not making this up&period; You gotta rectify that and figure out where the problem is&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kendra Cooksey of Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique sat down with TSR Investigates&&num;8217&semi; Justin Carter to dispel some of the bad press&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We highly recommend a professional hair stylist anytime you are bleaching your knots&period; And we recommend you not to go over a 20 developer&comma; honestly&comma; when doing so&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>When asked about customer service issues&comma; Kendra said she would speak to Nicole&comma; the representative in question&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; she denied accusations that her bundles are getting lighter in weight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Every bundle is weighed 3&period;2 to 3&period;5 ounces&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kendra tells TSR Investigates&&num;8217&semi; Justin Carter&period; &&num;8220&semi;Showing the top of the bundle doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter&period; Each bundle is going to weigh exactly what is put on the website that it weighs&period; &lbrack;There&&num;8217&semi;s&rsqb; nothing different about the product&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7237556913683041578" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique Offers Advice On How To Best Maintain Her Wigs &amp&semi; Hair Weaves<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The owner of Kendra&&num;8217&semi;s Boutique went on to thank her customers&comma; even the critical ones&comma; saying&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We do greatly appreciate the feedback&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re always looking for ways to improve in any kind of way we can&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re growing together&comma; and we appreciate them&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she did offer some final instructions that will help maintain the hair&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Use a lace band at night&comma; 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