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littlechicken
January 5th, 2018, 02:51 PM
Hi everyone !:o I'm back again I'm really enjoying this website and it is helping me alot with my hair journey.
I've had bad hair experiences in the past from going to the hairdressers or dying and cutting my hair and i would like to share them with you all!
I remember once i wanted to bleach my hair from brown to blonde and i decided to do it at home (that's never a good idea haha)
my roots came out white and the rest was ORANGE i called my mum and she freaked out and applied some strawberry blonde hair dye she had and thank god she saved me lol!
Another time i went to the hairdressers to cut and dye my hair and she just did whatever she wanted to! I asked for an angled bob and she gave me a really short one length bob and she applied dye on my roots like i told her but i also asked to lighten the rest of my hair a little more and he gave me an orangy/strawberry blonde instead.. When she was rinsing my hair one of the other hairdressers told her my hair looks a little orange and she said "oh she wanted it like that " and i just sat there like :rolleyes:....On top of that it took her THREE hours because she kept leaving or something.I haven't been to the hair dressers since :eek:
If anyone has had any bad hair experiences you want to share feel free !!:p:blossom:
lapushka
January 5th, 2018, 03:13 PM
I think we have a few disaster threads around here somewhere, wish I could link you because they could be helpful for support purposes.
I have had my share of disasters. The one that stays with me to this day is this one.
I went to get my hair cut for graduation and the girl in the salon gave me an 80s rocker style, totally layered even the bangs. I told her that that was NOT what I had asked (I just asked for a few graduated layers). I had BSL at the time but she had cut it up to APL. It didn't help that the manager of the salon at the time was cutting a girl's long classic length a bit shorter (just a tiny trim like we would all love). She had a beautiful flowy sleek natural black hair. Meanwhile the manager came over, then I found out a student had cut my hair, and she offered to fix it for me. I left with short bangs and an ear length bob. Yeah... My mom was horrified when she came to pick me up. I looked like Louise Brooks, but it did not suit me!
Robi-Bird
January 5th, 2018, 06:23 PM
My only serious hair disaster was more a matter of mental illness than anything. At the beginning of my mental breakdown I was going to a friend's wedding. Well, I slept cut/shaved/something'ed my already very short hair so I had bald batches. Ended up going to a salon and having a design shaved in so it looked vaguely intentional. There is no photographic evidence, thank goodness. Oddly enough this was the beginning of me being unwell but I held it together another year before I was completely overwhelmed by my anxiety disorders. Growing out my hair was one of the early decisions of my recovery.
Groovy Granny
January 5th, 2018, 09:23 PM
Mine was back in 2002 ~ I was going to my nurse friend for coloring ; she was also a licensed stylist.
I have no clue what she did, but the day after one appt I noticed my blonde hair turning GREEN from the hemline up... and it was brittle and breaking shudder:
When I called her she offered to give me some 'drops to correct the color' :confused:
I said no thanks...cya....and ran to a local salon, crying and desperate.
They spent almost 90 minutes discussing what to do and we finally decided to color it back to my roots (as best we could determine from my memory)....then they cut 1 foot off from waist length :(
I could have killed her :patrol:
But as it turned out, it was my 50th birthday and I was back to my natural color for the first time in 15+ years.
I felt like a new woman finally seeing ME and was filled with JOY :joy:
My family was in shock and disbelief; they could not believe their eyes....I went from a light blonde to light brown.
Many thought the blonde was mine because I was blonde in my youth...but darkened as I got older (like my Dad) and started to highlight it... then colored it :rollin:
In the end it was the best thing that could have happened (as traumatic as it was initially)....and I never colored again.
A few months later as roots started showing silver they all finally believed that color was really MINE :lol:
I was so thrilled I couldn't care less about their doubts and opinions at the time :lala: it was so freeing!
Julescarm
January 5th, 2018, 10:46 PM
Nothing major with my story. I had just given birth 8 weeks earlier and was getting ready to get back to work so I decided a hair Cut was a good idea. I asked for 1/8th of an inch, and the student decided on a 1/4 of an inch and ended up chopping off 2 and 3/4 of an inch. I was so upset I cried about it to my husband in the car. 2 years later and I Havnt walked into a salon since. I've learned to trim my own hair and even cut my husband and son's hair.
Stray_mind
January 6th, 2018, 08:43 AM
I went to a hair salon to get my hair trimmed, since i wanted fresh ends for my university party... I told that to the hair dresser and she offered to straighten my hair "for a change" ("I think straight hair would suit you!").. i thought what the heck, how bad can it get right?
So i nodded and just calmly sat in my chair as she pulled out her flat iron from the drawer and brought it to me... The first thing i smelled was my hair.. Burning.... I cried inside..
I walked back home with thin, limp and lifeless hair and my ends were Impossible to comb trough...
By that time i decided i will Never ever let another flat iron touch my hair.
My other hair stylist Curled my hair with a hair curler for the university graduation party and it looked just beautiful though, and my hair felt fine afterwards. Probably it's because she used a heat protectant beforehand.
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 03:50 PM
That sounds awful ... never going back to the hairdressers!
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 03:51 PM
I think we have a few disaster threads around here somewhere, wish I could link you because they could be helpful for support purposes.
I have had my share of disasters. The one that stays with me to this day is this one.
I went to get my hair cut for graduation and the girl in the salon gave me an 80s rocker style, totally layered even the bangs. I told her that that was NOT what I had asked (I just asked for a few graduated layers). I had BSL at the time but she had cut it up to APL. It didn't help that the manager of the salon at the time was cutting a girl's long classic length a bit shorter (just a tiny trim like we would all love). She had a beautiful flowy sleek natural black hair. Meanwhile the manager came over, then I found out a student had cut my hair, and she offered to fix it for me. I left with short bangs and an ear length bob. Yeah... My mom was horrified when she came to pick me up. I looked like Louise Brooks, but it did not suit me!
that sounds awful ... never going back to the hairdressers!
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 03:53 PM
My only serious hair disaster was more a matter of mental illness than anything. At the beginning of my mental breakdown I was going to a friend's wedding. Well, I slept cut/shaved/something'ed my already very short hair so I had bald batches. Ended up going to a salon and having a design shaved in so it looked vaguely intentional. There is no photographic evidence, thank goodness. Oddly enough this was the beginning of me being unwell but I held it together another year before I was completely overwhelmed by my anxiety disorders. Growing out my hair was one of the early decisions of my recovery.
Im sorry you had to go through that.:(Im glad youre recovering well now!
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 03:55 PM
Mine was back in 2002 ~ I was going to my nurse friend for coloring ; she was also a licensed stylist.
I have no clue what she did, but the day after one appt I noticed my blonde hair turning GREEN from the hemline up... and it was brittle and breaking shudder:
When I called her she offered to give me some 'drops to correct the color' :confused:
I said no thanks...cya....and ran to a local salon, crying and desperate.
They spent almost 90 minutes discussing what to do and we finally decided to color it back to my roots (as best we could determine from my memory)....then they cut 1 foot off from waist length :(
I could have killed her :patrol:
But as it turned out, it was my 50th birthday and I was back to my natural color for the first time in 15+ years.
I felt like a new woman finally seeing ME and was filled with JOY :joy:
My family was in shock and disbelief; they could not believe their eyes....I went from a light blonde to light brown.
Many thought the blonde was mine because I was blonde in my youth...but darkened as I got older (like my Dad) and started to highlight it... then colored it :rollin:
In the end it was the best thing that could have happened (as traumatic as it was initially)....and I never colored again.
A few months later as roots started showing silver they all finally believed that color was really MINE :lol:
I was so thrilled I couldn't care less about their doubts and opinions at the time :lala: it was so freeing!
My hair used to be super blonde as a kid and its getting darker as i grow too.. i cant wait until my natural hair color grows out like yours!
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 03:57 PM
Nothing major with my story. I had just given birth 8 weeks earlier and was getting ready to get back to work so I decided a hair Cut was a good idea. I asked for 1/8th of an inch, and the student decided on a 1/4 of an inch and ended up chopping off 2 and 3/4 of an inch. I was so upset I cried about it to my husband in the car. 2 years later and I Havnt walked into a salon since. I've learned to trim my own hair and even cut my husband and son's hair.
trimming hair at home is much better since you completely have control of what youre doing. Im doing the same thing too and never going back to the hairdressers!
littlechicken
January 6th, 2018, 04:01 PM
I went to a hair salon to get my hair trimmed, since i wanted fresh ends for my university party... I told that to the hair dresser and she offered to straighten my hair "for a change" ("I think straight hair would suit you!").. i thought what the heck, how bad can it get right?
So i nodded and just calmly sat in my chair as she pulled out her flat iron from the drawer and brought it to me... The first thing i smelled was my hair.. Burning.... I cried inside..
I walked back home with thin, limp and lifeless hair and my ends were Impossible to comb trough...
By that time i decided i will Never ever let another flat iron touch my hair.
My other hair stylist Curled my hair with a hair curler for the university graduation party and it looked just beautiful though, and my hair felt fine afterwards. Probably it's because she used a heat protectant beforehand.
She must have had the flatiron on 400 degrees or something... wow
Stray_mind
January 6th, 2018, 04:08 PM
She must have had the flatiron on 400 degrees or something... wow
Yeah. It was pretty horrible. I think it's a mirracle that my hair hasn't burned off completely.
Groovy Granny
January 6th, 2018, 04:27 PM
My hair used to be super blonde as a kid and its getting darker as i grow too.. i cant wait until my natural hair color grows out like yours!
Aw thanks; that is sweet of you :flowers:
I completely forgot about an even earlier horror story....inflicted on me by my Husband's cousin who was a licensed stylist.
The fact that she going through a divorce and was upset should have been a red flag for me :p
I had a soft short layered cut back then (just above chin), had been going to her for years and just wanted a slight trim to shape it up.
Instead I ended up with a Dorothy Hammil wedge cut with half of the back of my head shaved :thud:
I was so shocked and upset....I paid but didn't tip, gave her a few choice expletives, walked out with no appt, and did not step into a salon for 2 years after!
My family was :agape:
I tried to bling it up with makeup and jewelry but cried for weeks...and she couldn't figure out WHY I was upset because the cut was perfect for me :patrol:
The next appt 2 years later was to see my nurse friend who fried my hair as I related in post #1 (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=145076&p=3495934&viewfull=1#post3495934) :steam
You would think I would have stopped there, but I went shorter after the last episode,and endured stylist chops for another 10 years, until I decided to grow it out long at age 61 :doh:
Robi-Bird
January 6th, 2018, 06:09 PM
Im sorry you had to go through that.:(Im glad youre recovering well now!
Thank you littlechicken! I'm just about 7yrs post "better", it took a while after to totally rebuilt but I've learned how to manage my illnesses and I'm really glad I got sick enough to make myself learn instead of just sort of surviving which I'd done for decades!
Julescarm
January 6th, 2018, 11:14 PM
trimming hair at home is much better since you completely have control of what youre doing. Im doing the same thing too and never going back to the hairdressers!
Indeed. Its alot more freeing, not to mention cheaper since my husband and son's hair grows so so fast! I can cut it and a week later its back to shaggy. I tell my husband that he has hair which women would kill for. Thick, fast growing, great blonde hair. Heck, I'm jealous. Lol.
Kat
January 7th, 2018, 01:08 AM
My usual hairdresser once, after washing my hair, applied some kind of leave-in conditioner. Later when I got home, it literally took me hours to detangle my hair; I was nearly crying and to the point where I nearly just grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped it off at my neck. Needless to say, the next time I told her to never use that stuff again!
(I can't recall why I didn't just re-wash my hair and hope it washed out. I think there was something going on with our bathtub/shower at the time that made washing my hair a royal pain and I didn't want to go through it. It was an older house that my mom had bought not long prior, and at the time she bought it, the bathtub didn't have a shower in it (I think we bought one of those ones you attach to the faucet), for a while the drain was backing up, and the bathroom wasn't actually heated so in the winter taking a shower really was no fun.)
Another detangling nightmare was the time I wore a snood. Because with a snood, you essentially just stuff all of your hair in there. Having my hair like that all day meant it pretty much just started felting together... at the end of the day I took the snood off and my hair fell out in this big tangled mass. Again, hours of detangling, rage and tears.
I've not worn a snood since... and I will not unless I can find a better way of putting my hair in it. (I know some people just bun their hair, but it feels weird to me having a loose bag hanging off my head that isn't actually containing any hair. Other people make braids and nestle them inside, but since the snoods I've had are the net type rather than solid, it looks really odd because you can see areas with hair and areas with nothing.) These days, though, my hair is just too long and heavy for a snood, and it drags on the back of my neck and irritates the skin. They worked when my hair was shorter, but not since about mid-back to waist length.
My hair used to be super blonde as a kid and its getting darker as i grow too.. i cant wait until my natural hair color grows out like yours!
I was also quite blonde as a kid (not super-light, but golden blonde) and gradually my hair has darkened to a medium brown (unfortunately ashy in the wrong light, which looks awful on me since I'm a warm). My mom is always after me to make my hair blonde again... but frankly I always wanted darker hair when I was young. (Now of course I wish it was lighter so my henna would show up brighter! But I don't want it enough to bleach my hair.) Once in high school she convinced me to have highlights put on. It wasn't even noticeable (one person noticed... and oddly enough, it was a guy); I could barely even tell. In my family, I know that at the very least my mom was also blonde as a kid and then her hair darkened (it was medium-dark brown by the time she was in high school). It seems I saw old pictures of someone else in the family who was like that, too.
Indeed. Its alot more freeing, not to mention cheaper since my husband and son's hair grows so so fast! I can cut it and a week later its back to shaggy. I tell my husband that he has hair which women would kill for. Thick, fast growing, great blonde hair. Heck, I'm jealous. Lol.
I know! The guy I'm seeing is Asian and has this gorgeous thick shiny hair... fewer grays than I have even though he's ten years older... not fair!
(To be fair, I know I can't compare the apparently health/shininess of hair that's kept short vs hair that's been growing for a decade+ or however old my hair manages to get before it falls out, but still! I bet his isn't tangle-prone like mine is!)
littlechicken
January 7th, 2018, 08:26 PM
Aw thanks; that is sweet of you :flowers:
I completely forgot about an even earlier horror story....inflicted on me by my Husband's cousin who was a licensed stylist.
The fact that she going through a divorce and was upset should have been a red flag for me :p
I had a soft short layered cut back then (just above chin), had been going to her for years and just wanted a slight trim to shape it up.
Instead I ended up with a Dorothy Hammil wedge cut with half of the back of my head shaved :thud:
I was so shocked and upset....I paid but didn't tip, gave her a few choice expletives, walked out with no appt, and did not step into a salon for 2 years after!
My family was :agape:
I tried to bling it up with makeup and jewelry but cried for weeks...and she couldn't figure out WHY I was upset because the cut was perfect for me :patrol:
The next appt 2 years later was to see my nurse friend who fried my hair as I related in post #1 (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=145076&p=3495934&viewfull=1#post3495934) :steam
You would think I would have stopped there, but I went shorter after the last episode,and endured stylist chops for another 10 years, until I decided to grow it out long at age 61 :doh:
its never too late to grow long hair!
littlechicken
January 7th, 2018, 08:27 PM
Thank you littlechicken! I'm just about 7yrs post "better", it took a while after to totally rebuilt but I've learned how to manage my illnesses and I'm really glad I got sick enough to make myself learn instead of just sort of surviving which I'd done for decades!
thats amazing im very happy for you!:)
littlechicken
January 7th, 2018, 08:29 PM
Indeed. Its alot more freeing, not to mention cheaper since my husband and son's hair grows so so fast! I can cut it and a week later its back to shaggy. I tell my husband that he has hair which women would kill for. Thick, fast growing, great blonde hair. Heck, I'm jealous. Lol.
exactly! my boyfriends hair grows super fast as well haha
littlechicken
January 7th, 2018, 08:37 PM
My usual hairdresser once, after washing my hair, applied some kind of leave-in conditioner. Later when I got home, it literally took me hours to detangle my hair; I was nearly crying and to the point where I nearly just grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped it off at my neck. Needless to say, the next time I told her to never use that stuff again!
(I can't recall why I didn't just re-wash my hair and hope it washed out. I think there was something going on with our bathtub/shower at the time that made washing my hair a royal pain and I didn't want to go through it. It was an older house that my mom had bought not long prior, and at the time she bought it, the bathtub didn't have a shower in it (I think we bought one of those ones you attach to the faucet), for a while the drain was backing up, and the bathroom wasn't actually heated so in the winter taking a shower really was no fun.)
Another detangling nightmare was the time I wore a snood. Because with a snood, you essentially just stuff all of your hair in there. Having my hair like that all day meant it pretty much just started felting together... at the end of the day I took the snood off and my hair fell out in this big tangled mass. Again, hours of detangling, rage and tears.
I've not worn a snood since... and I will not unless I can find a better way of putting my hair in it. (I know some people just bun their hair, but it feels weird to me having a loose bag hanging off my head that isn't actually containing any hair. Other people make braids and nestle them inside, but since the snoods I've had are the net type rather than solid, it looks really odd because you can see areas with hair and areas with nothing.) These days, though, my hair is just too long and heavy for a snood, and it drags on the back of my neck and irritates the skin. They worked when my hair was shorter, but not since about mid-back to waist length.
I was also quite blonde as a kid (not super-light, but golden blonde) and gradually my hair has darkened to a medium brown (unfortunately ashy in the wrong light, which looks awful on me since I'm a warm). My mom is always after me to make my hair blonde again... but frankly I always wanted darker hair when I was young. (Now of course I wish it was lighter so my henna would show up brighter! But I don't want it enough to bleach my hair.) Once in high school she convinced me to have highlights put on. It wasn't even noticeable (one person noticed... and oddly enough, it was a guy); I could barely even tell. In my family, I know that at the very least my mom was also blonde as a kid and then her hair darkened (it was medium-dark brown by the time she was in high school). It seems I saw old pictures of someone else in the family who was like that, too.
I know! The guy I'm seeing is Asian and has this gorgeous thick shiny hair... fewer grays than I have even though he's ten years older... not fair!
(To be fair, I know I can't compare the apparently health/shininess of hair that's kept short vs hair that's been growing for a decade+ or however old my hair manages to get before it falls out, but still! I bet his isn't tangle-prone like mine is!)
that experience of yours with the leave in conditioner is my worst nightmare! i remeber when i was a kid gum got stuck in my hair and i had to cut it off!
Beeboo123
January 7th, 2018, 11:59 PM
I was about six, and quarrelling with my sister. My mom got mad, grabbed me by the left side of my hair (I wore my hair in pigtails), dragged me away, and cut that pigtail off at about chin length. I had waist length hair. For months, out of spite, she refused to let me have a haircut to even it out... *cries* I still feel nervous every time I get my hair trimmed or cut.
yamsha23
January 8th, 2018, 01:05 AM
I was about six, and quarrelling with my sister. My mom got mad, grabbed me by the left side of my hair (I wore my hair in pigtails), dragged me away, and cut that pigtail off at about chin length. I had waist length hair. For months, out of spite, she refused to let me have a haircut to even it out... *cries* I still feel nervous every time I get my hair trimmed or cut.
:blueeek: chocking
Kat
January 8th, 2018, 04:23 AM
that experience of yours with the leave in conditioner is my worst nightmare! i remeber when i was a kid gum got stuck in my hair and i had to cut it off!
I have no idea what the stuff was, either. I should have asked. The way it left my hair, you would have thought it was more like some sort of styling gel, the way it stuck my hair together.
I was about six, and quarrelling with my sister. My mom got mad, grabbed me by the left side of my hair (I wore my hair in pigtails), dragged me away, and cut that pigtail off at about chin length. I had waist length hair. For months, out of spite, she refused to let me have a haircut to even it out... *cries* I still feel nervous every time I get my hair trimmed or cut.
That is... beyond awful.
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