Anyone else recovering from a terrible haircut?

[whitestiletto]

Lets be each other's moral support as we try to get back to where we were before someone stupid took scissors to our beautiful locks...

I'd love to see other people's pictures, before the cut, the cut, and then how it looks recovering.

I'm super bummed out about this and they always say, misery loves company.

The "stylist" basically cut my almost-BSL hair into an uneven mullet. Notice the large chunk missing between my bangs and ear... and how there is no gradiation between the shoulder-length chunk and the long part in the back... The left side was also about 2 inches shorter.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=8102&pictureid=105769

[lorelai2012]

I don't have a pic, but I had a stylist 'take the corner off to soften it" before I could stop her, meaning I have a massive gap at the front which means I'm having a nightmare trying to grow it back (it keeps splitting). Sorry to hear you've had a similar horror cut.

[oktobergoud]

I had one of those cuts as well.
She chopped of layers on both sides of my head at ear length, and the rest was a lot longer.. it was so awful! I was bleaching it at that time and it was FRIED... a friend even asked me if my hair just burned off to ear length or if it was cut that way. It looked horrible, not much later I chopped it all off into a bob!

[monsterna]

Looks pretty much just like the one I was forced to grow out! Except... I couldn't really grow it out. I tried to for 2 years and it still looked like a weirdo mullet. I had it all chopped to a layered chin length thing resembling Rod Stewart, haha. Which I didn't mind too much, it was way better than what I had. As it grew out, the bob length looked nice when styled properly. Now you can see where I am in my photos. But I even had a big bump in the back of my hair because of the layering, like in your pic. It's finally grown out to not look as bad as it gets longer. Good luck! Bad haircuts are the worst. :(

[oktobergoud]

I have found a picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/postalwar/IMG_4163a.jpg

never mind the state of my hair, it was HORRIBLE. this was 4 years ago and I have had supershort pixies ever since! Finally growing it out again... sigh.. (It used to be black and APL and I wanted WHITE hair.. which I eventually got. Yes I bleached my hair even more after this picture!)

[monsterna]

I found pics, too.

Here is when I got that horrible cut in 2008. I brought her a pic of Noel Fielding, and explicitly said NO STRAIGHT ACROSS BANGS! I wanted to keep my side swept ones. She disregarded it and cut high-up straight bangs. So yeah....

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/meganownsyou/4.jpg

Here is what it grew out to be 4 months later, horrible layers and bump in the back:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/meganownsyou/2.jpg

This is me attempting to remedy it about 9 months later:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/meganownsyou/3.jpg

And I gave up because NO ONE knew what they were doing and I always had that horrible bump in the back. So this is my Rod Stewart cut, when I actually found a hair dresser who understood I wanted to grow out my hair without it looking like a crappy, bumpy mullet, and gave me this with actual good layers. This is from December 2009 and I've been growing that out without trims since then. It's grown out fine and that bump is gone.:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/meganownsyou/1.jpg

[whitestiletto]

that does look quite a bit like what i got... a staircase with two levels that makes a mullet... out of curiosity (and no offense if you do) does anyone actually want this haircut? that would explain why hairdressers are giving it.


I have found a picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/postalwar/IMG_4163a.jpg

never mind the state of my hair, it was HORRIBLE. this was 4 years ago and I have had supershort pixies ever since! Finally growing it out again... sigh.. (It used to be black and APL and I wanted WHITE hair.. which I eventually got. Yes I bleached my hair even more after this picture!)

[oktobergoud]

Well I was sure I didn't want it!
It was really weird as well, because I wanted a big chop (was thinking about a bob but chickened out) and my hair was SO SO SO SO FRIED and the hairdresser told me the WHOLE time "I'm going to take this much off, can you see it? Is that okay with you?" which I guess should be fine with lots of people here, but my hair was so damaged, that I later thought "I just wished she hacked it all off".

[BlazingHeart]

I haven't had one recently, but man have I ever had some bad haircuts. And I'm not counting the ones I had as a kid before my mother decided I should see a stylist.

There was the time I tried to get 'The Rachel' when I was 14 or 15. Oh god. I wanted lots of layers, laying in nice and neat. Thing is, I've got extremely, extremely thick hair. My stylist even said it wasn't a good idea, but I really wanted the cut. I looked like a country singer from the 80s - really volumous hair. I know photographic evidence still exists, because it was the week of the Father-Daughter dance (I went to an all girl's school). *sigh* I ended up going back to the stylist and having her cut everything off into a chin-length bob (which came out very nice and looked good, so at least I only had a week or two of suffering the disaster).

Then there was the time I asked for a pixie. Thick hair doesn't pixie well, but the stylist didn't bother pointing that out, she just massacred my hair. I ended up looking like the Beatles on their first American tour, or a Super Mario mushroom. I was so pissed off. It took ages to grow out into a pageboy that looked cute, and in the meantime all I could do was pomade it down into a very mannish look (because that was the best I could make of it).

So we've all been there. :( I hope your haircut grows in a way that makes you happy soon!

~Blaze

[mizsunshyne]

I got a haircut similar to that last September. The layer was cut right at my shoulders, leaving a bottom layer of about 2 inches. I hated it immediately. On top of the horrible cut, she razored the ends so they always flipped out. I have those pics and the progression of growth in my album.

Anyway, what I ended up doing was keeping it up and growing it for about 9 months. Then last month, I trimmed the bottom layer to meet up with the other layer. I lost some length, but it looks sooo much better. Definitely worth it.

[Kaelee]

This is my haircut from hell...I had a shag. Told her I wanted it TRIMMED, and I wanted the shortest layer to be about chin length. Then she started telling me what I really wanted. I should have walked out right then, but I didn't. She was also very rude, left me sitting in the chair for 5 minutes while she went to talk on the phone (not about business, either.) Oh, and also told me how horribly damaged my hair was (I KNOW it wasn't) and how uneven it was. And after she also cut too much off, told me that would make it grow faster...

I thought it looked good until I got home, and then I wanted to cry. My friends tried to tell me it looked good. *rolls eyes*

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a133/Danmara/001600x800-1.jpg

Thankfully, it's mostly recovered now.

[akuamoonmaui]

http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd511/akuamoonmaui/nohair-1-1.jpg

This was 10 years ago, but I'm still traumatized. I had shoulder length hair. The stylist got a call that her daughter's friend, niece? I don't know, had been arrested for shoplifting. Yes, THAT is what I walked away with. There is no hair in the back - t's about 1-2". It's not in a pretty up do. No. It just wasn't there. The hair you see is about what I had left.

http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd511/akuamoonmaui/pregloss001-1-1.jpg

This is my hair now. :cheese:

[Kaelee]

This is my hair right now (sorry about the lighting lol) and I'm trying to decide if I want to get rid of the layers or keep them. My hair does weird things with layers. *lol* It's stick straight so it likes to get jagged.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a133/Danmara/001-16.jpg

[spidermom]

There were no pictures allowed of the worst haircut I've had. Poor stylist was about 9-1/2 months pregnant, and it was the end of the day. I should have known better.

[GypsyGoddess]

Haha- me! I'm growing out a pixie (for the third time). I have impulse control issues, so if I have ONE bad hair day, I am in the salon the next day to cut it all off.

Unfortunately, growing out a pixie means having very, very shaggy hair at the nape of the neck, which I am self trimming and not ever looking at in a mirror. Or I will be back at the salon again.

Is there ever a non-painful way to grow out a pixie when you have curly hair? I think not.

[McFearless]

that does look quite a bit like what i got... a staircase with two levels that makes a mullet... out of curiosity (and no offense if you do) does anyone actually want this haircut? that would explain why hairdressers are giving it.

Yes! Many people love this cut. There was a huge emo haircut wave years back and its still going strong. My stylist gave me that exact same cut. The longest layers were below bust and the shortest layers were shorter than ear length. Can you imagine that? It was too ugly to take pictures of. I cried and cried, and now 3 years later it looks decent. The shortest layers have reached APL(I had to trim multiple times due to her using a razor) and my longest layers are at waist. I've cut off many, many layers during these 3 years and now I'm just growing out damage.

I will never go to a hairstylist again!

[Jcv-Shelley]

My worst haircut was from fragments from other cuts. Like the time the lady cut my bangs so short I look like a coconut/mushroom head. Or the time my mother cut side shags with dull scissors *shudders* I still remember the way they curved upward and reached out. Oh mother dear, she still wants to cut my hair but I keep having to refuse nicely.

[darkrose]

i got my fringe cut, one side was above my eyebrow, the other to my eyelashes. i had to keep straightening one side, then a month later mum took me to the same hairdresser and she did it again! my friends couldnt understand why i had a lopsided fringe. any way a month later i went back and before she cut it i asked why she cut it lopsided. she said i had a cowlick ( or something like that) so she had to cut it lopsided otherwise it would look odd. i dont have a cowlick and i dont understand why she thought that, so now im just growing the fringe out, and i changed hairdresser.

[~BoHemiAngel~]

So here's a couple of pictures from just a few years ago when my hair was long & lovely:

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x322/hburgy/Progress/nicehair640x480.jpg http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x322/hburgy/Progress/VitaGirls2-Copy640x480.jpg

Then I went to an Aveda salon for a "trim," and the hairdresser insisted that my hair would "look it has so much more volume" if she cut a bunch of layers into it and razored the edges. I conceded, and here was the result:

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x322/hburgy/Progress/birthday-copy640x480.jpg

My hair has never recovered from having those layers chopped into it, and that was three years ago that I got that cut :( My take-away lesson from that experience was that I would rather HAVE more volume (by means of having more hair) than have my hair LOOK more volumnous (sp?) with a bunch of shaggy layers cut into it. :rolleyes: Boo hoo.

[KittyLost]

This is my bad haircut which I got at the start of April. Prepare yourselves for an essay!
http://www.forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5698&pictureid=99885

Unfortunately it was intentional, my hair had a bad chemical reaction to colour stripping and the top layer of hair just completely gave up and fried on me. It broke and felt like chewy bubble gum when wet, I couldn't brush or comb it without several pieces breaking and falling out, when dry it was limp/lifeless/no shine and looked dry. I told my trustworthy and lovely hairdresser that I wanted to keep my length (since the underneath of my hair was completely free from damage) as I'm still growing my hair but I needed the damage gone. So I ended up with this heavily layered style. It's been a long time but I'm still not used to it's thinness and the crazy short layers mean that my waves look awful and I get a bit mullety.

A good thing about the layers is that I always clip my hair back or pin it to avoid ponytail damage. This means all the short layers fall forwards and it looks like an a-line bob. So whenever I take my hair down to redo it's pinned back state I get a lot of "oooo I didn't realise your hair was getting so long" comments. I know it's not really long but it makes me feel better :)

I keep going over in my head if I should just cut most the layers out and go back to a bob but it's taken me a year to get to shoulder and I've been stuck here for a long time. Plus if I chopped I'd get my thicker hair back but I'd have to return to heat styling etc so there's no point cutting hair that is damage free to accomadate the still damaged shorter ends. So my aim is for my longer layers to be APL by the end of the year.

The good news is it was definately the kick up the bum I needed to start growing out hair dye! Since I've never had any problems with dying and bleaching before I've never really been dedicated to growing in my natural colour.

[sunnydays]

Yes I am growing out awful awful layers that were cut ealy this year...seriously curly hair doesnt need layering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only this month they are just starting to lay flat only just!!!

[Ligeia_13]

I had a bad haircut last summer and I've only just grown out most of its awful razored layers.

http://i53.tinypic.com/20ppopi.jpg

You can see little ends crying out for help all the way up to my ears. And the fringe? Definitely NOT what I asked for. She basically just hacked at my hair with the razor until it looked like...I don't know. My ends were non existent. About 5-8 cm of my hair at the bottom was just fluff.

[Scarlet_Heart]

Well, I can't blame my hairdresser, but I have been regretting a HUGE chop since May 2009. I had always cut my own long hair, but I decided I wanted to go short. So I cut my waist length hair to about collarbone. :bigeyes: But because I had never cut my own hair when it was short, I kind of messed up the layers and my hairdresser (who is totally amazing) fixed it for me but had to take me up to chin. I regretted it almost instantly and now I'm growing out...

[Sweet Beat]

Gosh, when I see all these sad stories I'm so glad that my mum is taking care of my hair trims.

[oktobergoud]

My mom does now too! ;) She used to be a hairdresser so it's all good..
Further than that, I have had only 1 terrible haircut (which was basically a buzzcut D:) afterwards and have loved aaaall my other haircuts very much (and trust me, I've had a LOT of haircuts, had a pixie eh :P).
So I don't hate stylists :)

[KatiSasha]

I got a haircut similar to that last September. The layer was cut right at my shoulders, leaving a bottom layer of about 2 inches. I hated it immediately. On top of the horrible cut, she razored the ends so they always flipped out. I have those pics and the progression of growth in my album.

Anyway, what I ended up doing was keeping it up and growing it for about 9 months. Then last month, I trimmed the bottom layer to meet up with the other layer. I lost some length, but it looks sooo much better. Definitely worth it.

Hair twin! Bad haircut and all :waving: I actually had a very nice haircut before last Christmas that didn't need a trim for about 3 months it was so even and blended in. Then I went to my DH's mom's hairdresser that I've see on and off before due to living in a different city. Well, she gave me 3 distinct layers on shoulder length hair and none of them were parallel to each other. Ugh, I've been twist'n'trimming ever since and yesteday I finally blended them all together, yay!

[RitaCeleste]

Last time I went in for a hair cut was years ago. I asked for face framing layers and my sides were hacked up pretty short. It has taken years for me to grow the sides out this long and they haven't been trimmed in years so the spits are bad and I am wondering if the hair is strong enough to get longer and catch up. They were layered so I can't tell if its the old layering or lots of breaking that has them tapering to nothing. My sides grow so so slow. I haven't liked any of the haircuts I've tried out the last few times I had cuts. People are always saying, "Do something with your hair!". Every time I try to go get a haircut, they all hate it too. I've sworn off haircuts. I just color it and trim the bottom. I cut some short very thin bangs to hide my forehead a bit. This is it. I've been so worried about what people will think of my hair, I never even ask myself what I think of their hairstyles. Come to think of it, I've never went in and asked for their hairstyle so it must not look too hot to me.

[caiti42]

I also have the shag :( and the layers :( and the right side one inch shorter than the left!

[Kaelee]

I love my shag but I'm not sure about the layers after all. They were beautiful once but no one seems to be able to cut them right since the woman totally botched them. The last inch or two is way too heavily layered, maybe it'll look better as it grows out and I can trim that off. Totally keeping the shaggy face fringe though. But I can cut THAT myself!

[x0h_bother]

I'm with you; I seem to have amnesia every 3months because I keep getting my hair cut by this stylist who makes my hair uneven and cuts it wrong. If you see my big chop in my albums, it is straightened but you can see the layer demarcation line- that was definately cut by her when I told her I didn't want any short pieces cut. And she cuts v zig zag pieces that are uneven. My goal is to do my own trims to even out her cutting job. I suppose she is just using the modern technique, but I like blunt, even, pretty lines.

[Eirelin]

Oh, boy. The disastrous hair donation over 3 years ago and all the clean up work that has had to go into it since then:

Before:

OCTOBER 2005
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/OCTOBER2005.jpg

MARCH 2007
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/MARCH2008.jpg

Then it didn't really grow much after that. I had my problems with dehydration, etc., so my hair started getting a bit frazzled. It wasn't way too bad, but I did have to keep getting it trimmed a lot. Then came the DONATION!!! I put that whole story in my introductory post, so I won't bore you here. Suffice it to say that nothing was the right length or matched anything else, and it took months of grow-an-inch-cut-it-off, grow-an-inch-cut-it-off and tons of styling products to get through it. I kept very few pictures because it was really bad time, but here is my progress:

APRIL 2008
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/APRIL2009.jpg

It was so bad, I bought a wig.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/WIG2009-A.jpg

JULY 2008
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/JULY2009.jpg

NOVEMBER 2008
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/NOVEMBER2008.jpg

JANUARY 2010
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/JANUARY2010.jpg

MARCH 2010
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/MARCH2010.jpg

JUNE 2010
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/JUNE2010.jpg

And finally JUNE 2011
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/Eirelin/Hair/255634_231769370168788_100000071796284_1105945_934 008_n.jpg

It has taken me 6.75 years to get back to almost exactly to where I was in October 2005. (Look at the first and last pictures!)

Never, ever again!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dreamspell]

The only time I've ever been really heartbroken about a hair cut was in 7th grade. The hairstylist was so nice to me I just let her chop away. When I got home and looked in the mirror I haaaaaaaated it. It just WASN'T ME. I'm sure plenty of other people would have thought it looked perfectly fine but it just. wasn't. me. I cried for a while and then tried styling it a hundred ways until it was "acceptable." Since then I've started cutting my own hair and I've never been happier. lol.

[UltraBella]

Mine isn't a hair cut, but I want to share anyway.....

When I was in 7th grade I decided I wanted a spiral perm. The stylist decided to use the SMALLEST perm rods ever made and it took three sets of them to wrap all my hair. I have THICK hair. My head felt like it was going to snap off my body with the weight of those rods saturated in perm solution. The perm was so tight, I had a blonde afro. It was so awful. Why she used the small rods is beyond me and I tried everything to get the perm to relax. Nope. Afro for months. Fried hair until 9th grade.
Ugh !!!!!

[Ansaphone]

Bumpimg this thread... my layers were also razored and are now flippy, can they not be trimmed a little with scissors so that they lay flat?