Worst thing you've got in your hair...

[PaleDale]

Well I dunno what the worst thing is for me but at the moment I seem to end up with toothpaste in my hair every damn morning... What am I.. 5 years old? What the hell?! Someone lend me a scrunchy! :P

[SimplyViki]

Eww eww eww! I have a strong "ick" factor for toothpaste once it's been all foamed up in the mouth. Yuuuccckkk... And my lovely fiance has a habit of wiping his foamy toothpaste mouth on my nice, clean, cream-colored bathroom towels. Bleh. :puke:

*hands PaleDale a scrunchy*

[Ruvie]

For me, its always mascara! I find mascara in my hair constantly..I just slide it off with my fingers :P

[meowmeow]

The worst thing was one of those round brushes (like this: http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/Assets/images/prod/prod_1023834.jpg). When I was a kid, I thought I could curl my hair (it was straight back then) by wrapping my hair around it.

Well, for the record, it doesn't quite work that way... Ouch!

[claram89]

When my hair was longer, I got :puke: in it once. It was nasty.

[eternallyverdan]

Elephant snot.

[JamieRose]

Elephant snot.
I was going to say regualr snot, when I sneezed RIGHT in my hair once on accident... but I think elephant snot wins.

[RancheroTheBee]

Custard. Cat snot. Chinchilla pee. Bird crap. Egg. Pectin glaze. Melted cheese.

[eternallyverdan]

^^^

Impressive. Very impressive.

[Belledandy]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

[Boudicca]

The worst thing was one of those round brushes (like this: http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/Assets/images/prod/prod_1023834.jpg). When I was a kid, I thought I could curl my hair (it was straight back then) by wrapping my hair around it.

Well, for the record, it doesn't quite work that way... Ouch!

Me too! Those brushes are evil!

[apynip]

my worst is probably a mixture of paint and glue....oh... with feathery whisps too which are currently stuck in my hair... -making a mask-

Mines not really horrible... except the time that it was oil paint...

[Trinka]

A blow dryer.

One of the few times I've used one of the blasted things, my hair got caught in the air-intake, and it ate its way up my head.

Never had much desire to try using one after that!

Uncoordinated ... yep ... that's me.

[claram89]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

Oh...my...god. That is horrifying. I'm going to have nightmares now!

[JamieLeigh]

Baby poo and puke....

My hair came down from a bun at the wrong time when I was changing a diaper, for the first one. For the second....well....you've all been to college. :eyebrows:

[Kiraela]

I haven't gotten a roach stuck in my hair, but I did get bitten by one once!

I still think the worst thing I've gotten stuck in my hair was a couple of kittens. Poor babies were hissing, spitting, freaked out - made it difficult to untangle them!

[Little_Bird]

I had a friend who has long hair, and she told me yogurt is great for your hair. One day I tried it and I suffered a lot to take it out of my hair! I couldn't even take it all of in one wash...

Gee... seems it works diferently for everyone. So yeah, that was the worst...

[Addy]

I once walked into a sticky fly trap. That was a nightmare to get out!

My brother once barfed right on top of my head while my dad had me between his legs in a scissor lock when we were kids <wrestling>.

Paint.

And bubble gum. :rolleyes:

[Stephichan]

Gum, toothpaste, sticky fly trap, snot, paint, mascara.... just the usual, I guess.

[Sheltie_Momma]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

oh my goodness I am hyperventilating just reading this - I do not like roaches. at all.

[longhairedfairy]

The worst thing was one of those round brushes (like this: http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/Assets/images/prod/prod_1023834.jpg). When I was a kid, I thought I could curl my hair (it was straight back then) by wrapping my hair around it.

Well, for the record, it doesn't quite work that way... Ouch!
I did that, too. My mother had to untangle it. It seemed like such a good idea at the time.:o

[PaleDale]

Gum, toothpaste, sticky fly trap, snot, paint, mascara.... just the usual, I guess.

Yes, just the usual haha!

[PaleDale]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

That's definitely going to be the best answer ever lol.. also the most harrowing! Ick!!!

[buzzbee34]

the worst things i have had stuck in my hair....hmm a live bat has to be about the worst. my girlfriend and i were swimming in her pool late one night and a bat swooped at us well i turned away just as it was flying by and the dang thing got stuck. it panicked, i panicked, my girlfriend panicked and we were all screaming. the more panicked we got the more the poor bat tried to get out only getting himself in more trouble. needless to say the only way he was getting out was dead they made me dunk him under water until he stopped squirming then untangled him I still panic when i see bats flying around, and out comes the pony and a bun.
i have also had fiber glass in a braided pony when i was doing body work on my car. talk about a pain to get out. :)

[BunnyBee]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

Yuck, makes me glad I don't live in a hot country :D

[Kalyca]

gum. spit. toothpaste. syrup. chocolate.
umm.. can't think of anything else lol

[Schnail]

Hand held electric mixers and cake batter... we'll say no more.

Also my sister used to twist her fingers into her hair and she got her thumb stuck once (her hair had to be cut to get her thumb out)... hair macrame!

[FrozenPrincess]

The worst thing was one of those round brushes (like this: http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/Assets/images/prod/prod_1023834.jpg). When I was a kid, I thought I could curl my hair (it was straight back then) by wrapping my hair around it.

Well, for the record, it doesn't quite work that way... Ouch!

Oh dear, well i'm glad that i'm not the only one that tried curling my hair (and failing spectacularly) around one of those brushes as a kid!:)

[frodolaughs]

One of those brushes. I wasn't trying to curl my hair, I was just uncoordinated. I haven't touched it since.

Oh, and gum. Somebody spit gum into my hair in middle school. That was awful on several levels.

Most disgusting? Chemical toilet. I chopped from waist to jaw/ear that night. That was my last haircut, and this time around I know how to bun!

[Sheltie_Momma]

When my son was little he co-slept with us and one night he threw up all in my hair. Needless to say we hopped into the bath at 3 AM!

[Copasetic]

I was going to say (clean) toilet water, but it seems pretty tame compared to what other people have had in their hair :p

[Ruvie]

the worst things i have had stuck in my hair....hmm a live bat has to be about the worst. my girlfriend and i were swimming in her pool late one night and a bat swooped at us well i turned away just as it was flying by and the dang thing got stuck. it panicked, i panicked, my girlfriend panicked and we were all screaming. the more panicked we got the more the poor bat tried to get out only getting himself in more trouble. needless to say the only way he was getting out was dead they made me dunk him under water until he stopped squirming then untangled him I still panic when i see bats flying around, and out comes the pony and a bun.
i have also had fiber glass in a braided pony when i was doing body work on my car. talk about a pain to get out. :)
aw, you had to kill the poor bat? Death by hair :O

[Brianna]

Bunnypenis.


No, seriously. Back when we had a pet bunny, I was sitting on the sofa one day while he was on top of the back right behind me against the back of my head. I turn around at some point to find his thing's poking all the way out, quite probably right into my hair. :p So he went back in his cage and I went into the shower.

[Lady Mary]

Nothing terrible... Yet. :laugh:

[HoneyDrop]

chewing gum, had to cut it all off

[pepperminttea]

Treacle, chocolate, melted cheese, seagull poop. Not all at once, thankfully. Funnily enough, I now wear my hair up at fondue parties and when I'm going to the beach... :p

[Sissy]

gum is a horrid thing to find in your hair. I found gum in my hair as a kid and had to lose some because of it!

[Rohele]

I guess I'm lucky, nothing really gross as yet....

The worst have been insects. I have woken up to a daddy longlegs squished in my hair, and I've had a caterpillar squished in my hair (while trying to remove it). I've also had a round brush get stuck in my hair.

oooh... and once I nearly got my hair stuck in an old letterpress printing machine while I was attending university - luckily I noticed right away and only ripped a few hairs out (but I guess that's not a thing in hair story, but more a hair caught in something story). I also used to have the ends dip into photo print developer on a regular basis back then - it does a nice bleach job (you think I would have tied it up, but I was too vain at that point in my life....)

[Bellona]

Bird poo, tree sap, vomit --- GROSS!

[HappyHair87]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.


I'm so sorry girl......but THAT mess was funny!!!:rollin::rollin::rollin::rollin::misskim:: misskim:

[eternallyverdan]

Cockroach. Live cockroach.

We lived in Hawaii and the darn things are everywhere. I had a sleepover and one of my friends accidentally left some sweets in my room. A roach decided to take a shortcut over my bed and hair to get to them and I woke up to the mad scrambling of it when it got stuck. I freaked out, then it freaked out, spread it's wings to fly and the frantic "ffflllllltttttt" of it's wings beating near my neck was drowned out by my high pitched girl-shriek. It got loose only to tumble down my night shirt. My mother must have thought I was posessed when she came rushing in.

I still hate cockroaches.

Eugh! I had a cockroach land on my face once-- I was sleeping on the floor of a barn-style building and it landed right next to my eye. I'm still kind of proud that I didn't scream and freak out and wake the dozen people sleeping around me, though I sure wanted to.

[Laylah]

One of those round brushes, like meowmeow described. I was clumsy with it and somehow it got caught in my hair. It got so badly matted that it was a huge clump of hair next to my scalp. That night I stayed up until 4am getting my dad to yank each bristle out of the brush. I finally de-matted my hair with buckets of conditioner- I'm not using one of those again!

[Tess2319]

oh my goodness I am hyperventilating just reading this - I do not like roaches. at all.

Me too! Think I'd be used to them after 11 years in Houston, but... nope.

pigeon poop. velcro rollers (they seemed easy until I had to take them out).

And a Hairagami. yesterday. Snapped too early and got completely twisted and ensnarled. Is there a help group for "too uncoordinated to use a hair toy"??

[WritergirlAD]

One of those round brushes, like meowmeow described. I was clumsy with it and somehow it got caught in my hair. It got so badly matted that it was a huge clump of hair next to my scalp. That night I stayed up until 4am getting my dad to yank each bristle out of the brush. I finally de-matted my hair with buckets of conditioner- I'm not using one of those again!

oh I had one of those get stuck in my hair before, too! I remember having to cut some of my hair off to get it out. Those things are a nightmare!

[Xandergrammy]

Goat spit.

You can read the gory details here http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/blog.php?b=6367

[wintersun99]

..........

[Jinx2234]

I've gotten a round brush and foam curlers stuck in my hair before (not at the same time). As for things that weren't caused by user error, I've gotten gum, tree sap, and bird poop in my hair.

[Bunnyhare]

the worst things i have had stuck in my hair....hmm a live bat has to be about the worst. my girlfriend and i were swimming in her pool late one night and a bat swooped at us well i turned away just as it was flying by and the dang thing got stuck. it panicked, i panicked, my girlfriend panicked and we were all screaming. the more panicked we got the more the poor bat tried to get out only getting himself in more trouble. needless to say the only way he was getting out was dead they made me dunk him under water until he stopped squirming then untangled him I still panic when i see bats flying around, and out comes the pony and a bun.
i have also had fiber glass in a braided pony when i was doing body work on my car. talk about a pain to get out. :)
This made me think of "Forget Paris" ..did anyone see that movie? the scene with the bird stuck to her head is hillarious...well, only because its not my head!
I think the blow dryer was my worst too, i had a friend get an epillator stuck in her hair....yep, they worked on head hair!

[monica sanders]

ok we have had a lot gross stuff posted. mine is stupid my OWN fingers!

[Magicknthenight]

Ah the fly traps:run:
i gotta friend who gets bad flys and hangs a bunch of those up all over the place..back when i used to wear my hair down I'd get them caught in my hair all the time. and you couldn't just pull it out and be done with it...it leave a stinky mess of dead flys :justy:
Other then that I'd have to agree about the roller brushes those things are purely evil E_E
i guess it doesn't seem so bad compared...but my own saliva...from when I'd be eating and some would decide to go down my throat. X_X gross.
good times though..makes for some memories :toofers:



I once walked into a sticky fly trap. That was a nightmare to get out!

My brother once barfed right on top of my head while my dad had me between his legs in a scissor lock when we were kids <wrestling>.

Paint.

And bubble gum. :rolleyes:

[Katurday]

Hmm.Spiders.My face wash stuff. Bird crap. Bird crap. Bird crap.
My little birdy is convinced he's leaving me "presents". He only
poops on me too.
Wonderful.
=(

[Savvyhorsez]

Worst things happening to my hair are as follows. Bugs of all kinds, Gum, bird poop, getting it caught in fans, sitting on it while trotting on a horse, catching it in the door as I close it, then try to walk away, sleeping on it so when I try to move it pulls it, getting it caught in metal chairs, tree sap, hay, paint, mud, I've pretty much done it all.

[myrrhmaiden]

Well I dunno what the worst thing is for me but at the moment I seem to end up with toothpaste in my hair every damn morning... What am I.. 5 years old? What the hell?! Someone lend me a scrunchy! :P

Hahhahah for some reason your post gave me the overwhelming urge to go sit at my sewing machine and make scrunchies. I'm not sure I dare wear them. Ok, I dare. :cool:

[Sister13]

Gum. Angry homeless man spit. A yellowjacket that stung my finger when I tried to get it out. Chemical haircolor. A shampoo lady that held my hair tightly so I couldn't feel her raking thru my length like a madwoman.

[Demetrue]

I was on a cross country trip with a youth group and some boy spit his wad of gum out the window and it flew back in through MY window into my hair. I was totally freaked and afraid I would have to chop it out until a nice chaperone told me she could get it out with peanut butter. We stopped at a rest stop and she bought a jar of peanut butter and helped me get the gum out of my hair and then wash it in the bathroom sink and dry it with the hot air hand drier.

[PaleDale]

Hahhahah for some reason your post gave me the overwhelming urge to go sit at my sewing machine and make scrunchies. I'm not sure I dare wear them. Ok, I dare. :cool:

God knows I need them!! :P

[JenniferNoel]

Oh man.
About a week ago I ended up with this disgusting, giant bug happily gnawing on one of my longest strands of hair, and I'm not exactly a bug lover. I think it may have been some kind of beetle. I won't soon forget that... :(

[Isilme]

It was in my newbie days here at LHC and I had read about rhassoul clay used for washing hair...well, I got to the health food store and bought me some clay. Went home and mixed it p according to instructions, applied to my hair and tried to wash it out. What a nightmare! It didn't get my scalp gunk off, and I had clay residue in my hair and on my scalp! Ew, never clay again.

[lambhair]

White paint. I was painting the inside of a closet and not wearing a baseball cap or anything...I wanted to check on a spot I was painting and leaned my head back to check the ceiling and the back of my head touched the wall of the closet, giving me a nice white splotch of paint. :(
I washed and washed but couldnt get all of it out at the time....eventually it had to wear out. I sure got tired of people coming up to me and saying, "Is that paint in your hair...?" "umm, yeah..." :)
lol

[LorelaiAmethyst]

Definitely one of those round brushes. At that time, I had just started caring for my own hair...ouch.

But, I think the worst thing that I've ever gotten stuck in my hair was one of those little hand-held motorized fans. My brother held it a bit too close to my head...>.<

[CrisDee]

Toothpaste, check. Gum, mascara, tree sap, Hairagami, foam curlers, barf, paint, check. Blowdryer by having it sucked in the intake, check. Round brush, check. Oh, and copious amounts of dog snark. That’s those delightful slingers produced by giant breed dogs when they’re watching you eat something they’d really REALLY love for you to share….

Guess I'm old enough to have done most of the stupid :D

[LittleOrca]

Acrylic paint, but I got it out without much damage.

ETA: OH! My dog! She was on the vet table getting her shots and the first two didn't bother her but the last one hurt and she leaped off the table and onto my chest, climbed over my shoulder and burrowed into my hair.

[.Amanaka.]

Candle wax.

[LittleDreamer]

Joining the round brush club. It took my mum soo long to get it out >.< Also I manage to get all sorts of jewelry caught in my hair.

[Funsizedbaby]

Mascara, gum, glue, spit up, toothpaste

[Autumnberry]

Tree sap--a nice big dollup of it on the top of my head. It was on there for over two hours when I decided to fiddle with my hair and finally noticed that something was wrong. Thankfully, working a large amount of olive oil into the area got it out without any scissor action. :)

[flutterbudget]

Nest full of yellowjackets. I walked under "their" tree and they dive-bombed me. At least a dozen got all tangled in my hair, buzzing and stinging. Oh, it was not fun.

But I have a huge cockroach issue, so I think that's the winner for sure. shudder:

[ravenreed]

I had one that did that several times, so I bought a different one and it is fine. I don't use a dryer often, but when I do, I would prefer it not rip hair out of my head!


A blow dryer.

One of the few times I've used one of the blasted things, my hair got caught in the air-intake, and it ate its way up my head.

Never had much desire to try using one after that!

Uncoordinated ... yep ... that's me.

[ravenreed]

The worst for me was blood. I had a tumor removed from my scalp and it took two surgeries. Each time, the blood ended up dripping down the closest strands, drying, breaking up (but not off) and then hanging like beads on a string. I could not wash my hair for a week and it smelled so foul!

[Fiferstone]

For some reason we're experiencing an early December plague of flies (It might have something to do with the fact that we've got cows for next door neighbors). My DH has put up flypaper strips and one of them fell down behind the couch. Where it promptly got stuck in my hair. EWWWWWW.

[fawn]

Well...my cousin and I (both with tb hair at that time), got into a tussle on the farm on a mossy rock - we ended up nailing one another with massive burrs. These are the jawbreaker/gumball-sized burrs. Needless to say, that did not turn out very well!

[motormuffin]

Cat spit, a bat, motor oil, paint, gum, peanut butter/jelly.

[Rahenna]

*shivers at the roach story*

Mostly typical stuff for me - gum, paint, toothpaste, glue. But there was this one time I thought it would be smart to hold a remote control car next to my head and press forward on the remote. :no:

Man, it hurts to admit to that! :D

[motormuffin]

*shivers at the roach story*

Mostly typical stuff for me - gum, paint, toothpaste, glue. But there was this one time I thought it would be smart to hold a remote control car next to my head and press forward on the remote. :no:

Man, it hurts to admit to that! :D
I did something like that when I was little to one of my dad's friends. My dad was an architect and had one of the electric erasers that looks kind of like a dremel...when you press down on the eraser, it spins. I stuck it in my dad's friend's beard. I had no idea...

[vanity_acefake]

When i was in primary school i had some bubblegum at break and the bell went to go back into class. I wanted to keep it so i stuck it behind my ear (it seemed like a completely logical place to put it at the time). It became completely stuck in my hair and the head of the school had to get my mum to come in to get me. I had to get it cut out at the hair dresser and ended up with a boys hair cut! Never again!

[Dreah]

When I was about 3 or 4, I had waist length, baby fine white blonde hair... And I managed to get a wad of gum stuck up to the nape in the back. It had to be cut out. D: I don't remember it (thankfully; talk about traumatizing!) but my mom likes to tell the story on occasion.

That was also when my string of really short hair cuts for years and years began. :(

[Finoriel]

Two-component epoxy. Solid.
Chicken :poop:. Yucky.
Glass wool. Itchy!

:lol:
Now I put my hair into a bun and cover it with a bandana when going near one of those evil things :wink: hope I learned my lesson.

[RoseRedDead]

By far, the worse thing I've gotten in my hair has been bubblegum... thankfully that's the only truly horrifying thing that's been in it.

[Jennie80]

My little brother put a long sticky thing that you catch the flyes with in my hair..My mom had a hell to take it out again..I have also got some gum in my hair..usch..