View Full Version : What's the most evil thing you've ever done to your hair?
Hatsumomo
July 31st, 2008, 04:22 AM
Come on, I want to know the worst thing you've done to your hair in your life! I don't mean to be anti-hair but thought it would be funny to see all the silly things everyone's done to their hair over time.
For me, probably the worst thing was when I watered down Domestos and shampooed with it, thinking that it would open the follicles and let the remaining dye come out of my hair. I left it on for ten minutes and was very lucky to only get an itchy scalp for the day and no hair damage that I could find.
I'd love to see if anyone can beat that;)!
EvaSimone
July 31st, 2008, 04:24 AM
OOh!! Oooh!! Me next! lol
I used to flat iron my hair when it was damp with wax on it. I didn't think I got good results unless I could hear my hair sizzle.. eek!
I literally did this every other day for about 1 1/2 years.. maybe a little longer.
EvaSimone
July 31st, 2008, 04:25 AM
For me, probably the worst thing was when I watered down Domestos and shampooed with it, thinking that it would open the follicles and let the remaining dye come out of my hair. I left it on for ten minutes and was very lucky to only get an itchy scalp for the day and no hair damage that I could find.
I'd love to see if anyone can beat that;)!
What is Domestos? It doesn't sound too hair friendly :D
Hatsumomo
July 31st, 2008, 04:28 AM
It's toilet bleach lol.
The wax and straightening sounds scary! My ex hairdresser was a believer in smoke too.
EvaSimone
July 31st, 2008, 04:44 AM
It's toilet bleach lol.
The wax and straightening sounds scary! My ex hairdresser was a believer in smoke too.
wow that's pretty bad!!! I am glad you didn't burn your skin or your hair off. For some reason probably a small instinct of hair preservation I wouldn't touch bleach... yet I burnt my hair to a crisp nearly every day. Go figure :rolleyes:
Hatsumomo
July 31st, 2008, 04:53 AM
... yet I burnt my hair to a crisp nearly every day. Go figure :rolleyes:
I know the feeling...when mine was shoulderlength, I'd straighten it every day without any protectants.
Newniepg
July 31st, 2008, 04:57 AM
Its tame compared to the previous entries but I used to flat iron my hair every other day and more often than not neglected to use protective spray. Also, when I was in middle school, I used to frequently rip out chunks of my hair with my hands...just to prove I didn't care.
I don't understand my younger self either.
ETA: I just remembered, I one got my front bits caught up in one of those evil round brushes...had to hack it off. gaah!
Paradise Lost
July 31st, 2008, 05:05 AM
I washed my hair everyday during a whole week with dish soap. I thought it would make the dye go away. Well, it didn't. My hair was very dry and my scalp so red and itchy! Stupid me .
EvaSimone
July 31st, 2008, 05:24 AM
Its tame compared to the previous entries but I used to flat iron my hair every other day and more often than not neglected to use protective spray. Also, when I was in middle school, I used to frequently rip out chunks of my hair with my hands...just to prove I didn't care.
I don't understand my younger self either.
The ripping chunks of hair out seriously gives me heebie jeebies...:disgust:
Pre LHC I didn't even like to pluck a single hair from my head because it gave me the creepy-crawlies... imagine how bad I am now.
DecafJane
July 31st, 2008, 05:33 AM
I have gone into a salon and uttered the words, "Chop it all off!" not one, not two, but . . . four time. :(
I know I will never do it again, even if I go off the rails again, because it has completely lost its novelty value. I miss my hair. :(
Newniepg
July 31st, 2008, 05:34 AM
The ripping chunks of hair out seriously gives me heebie jeebies...:disgust:
This made me giggle...not because you were made uncomfortable (for which I am sorry) but because I haven't heard that expression for SUCH a long time. Thanks for the laugh.
I must admit, it was the domestos entry that made me cringe. :eek:
Scrofula
July 31st, 2008, 05:44 AM
I accidentally glued my bangs whilst working on a scrapbooking project.... it washed out but not my cleverest moment ever :)
greekprincess
July 31st, 2008, 05:50 AM
I have a couple of "most evil things". First when I was a teenager, I used straight Clorox Bleach mixed with a little water on my hair trying to make it blonde...NOT. Second...had my waist length hair chopped all off...temporary insanity. Third...tried to dye my brown hair blonde, it went bannana yellow...tried 3 different blonde box dyes immediately after to get my hair platnium... when all it did was turn to mush.
My hair abusing days are soo over.
jtl45
July 31st, 2008, 05:52 AM
I had a girlfriend convince me to get my hair permed about 5 years ago! A nightmare that I still wake up at night with sometimes !!!!
Jim
Chromis
July 31st, 2008, 06:03 AM
I used to brush it before and *after* getting out of the shower, still soaking wet thinking I was getting all the "loose hair" out since there was always so much hair in the brush! Eek! I have since learned that in fact my hair does not tolerate being handled wet at all.
socks
July 31st, 2008, 06:07 AM
This wasn't exactly evil, but I did dye (semi-perm) my hair blue once. The blue mixed with the dark ashy blonde of my hair to make a murky greenish-brown pond scum color, which was interesting, but not exactly attractive. I still have a few faintly greenish streaks hiding in there somewhere...
vampodrama
July 31st, 2008, 07:09 AM
oh man, where do I start?
the top would probably be the time when I decided I wanted to have hot pink hair. my hair was dyed black previously. in order to get it hot pink, you'd first have to bleach.... I guess you can see where it's going. I bought some dye stripping ultra strong bleach stuff from a random store and went to town on my (dyed black) hair. applied bleach. kept it on for 30 minutes. washed off. applied again. kept on for 30 minutes. washed off. dyed pink. after that I know my hair can take anything. I kept bleaching the entire length + dying it pink for the coming year or so.
but yes.... shaving my head after a sucky haircut or just simply after a sucky day... been there done that. more than once.
vampodrama
July 31st, 2008, 07:12 AM
oh and once, after a Rammstein concert (it really is relevant, you know) I tried lighting a cigarette in a rather strong wind, leaving my head too far, creating myself a set of unwanted bangs since my hair caught fire.
my friend advised me to stay off the lives where they use ridiculous amounts of pyrotechnics, cos obviously it has bad effect on me.
RedCardigan
July 31st, 2008, 07:30 AM
Tried to make my dark brown hair go blond using at-home coloring kits and when the first and second one didn't work, I tried it a third time, all within one weeks time. Then I used to straighten that brassy wreck every day, sometimes more than once a day. And if that isn't bad enough, I decided I would grow it all out by not trimming for a very long time. When I did go in for a cut, I had splits over 6 inches long. Oh, and I was washing it ever.single.day with 1st Pantene Clarifying shampoo and then a 2nd time with T-gel shampoo. Every.single. morning. Then blow-drying it and straightening.
Nice.
bgarrison
July 31st, 2008, 07:45 AM
washed it with tide.
i was 15!!! and couldn't find the shampoo!!!
i know. it was terrible, but the dumb thing is my hair was so great it didn't bother it at all. or at least that's how i like to remember the event. ;)
spidermom
July 31st, 2008, 07:54 AM
In my teens, I used to wash my hair regularly with dishwashing liquid because we couldn't afford shampoo or conditioner. My hair looks fine in pictures from that era, but it was a lot shorter, varying from pixie cut to about shoulder length. During those same years, I'd find a split end and grab the 2 sides and open the split to see how far up the hair shaft I could get it before it broke (insert heebie-jeebies).
Also bad for my hair: perms. Highlights.
thankyousir74
July 31st, 2008, 07:57 AM
I used to use a clothes iron to iron my bangs (before I got straightener). I also used to swim in chlorine water every day with out much protection other than a swim cap (latex). Also, I occasionally dabbed a bit of peroxide throughout my hair to lighten it a bit. Gosh I used to be so lame -.-
Curlsgirl
July 31st, 2008, 07:58 AM
I bleached my hair and then when the roots would grow out I would bleach it all again. :shudder: I did this about 4 months in a row and couldn't understand why my hair was like cotton candy :o
thankyousir74
July 31st, 2008, 07:58 AM
During those same years, I'd find a split end and grab the 2 sides and open the split to see how far up the hair shaft I could get it before it broke (insert heebie-jeebies).
I used to do this too -.-
Kirin
July 31st, 2008, 08:05 AM
Almost everyone knows my story of someone behind me at a concert lighting a cig and i lost my kneelength hair to a buzz cut............. aaaaaaaah
The other worst thing I did was use "whitewash" a bleach made for tire white walls to get my hair white. I turned white all right........
Siava
July 31st, 2008, 08:10 AM
I used to rip my splits up, too. :lol:
Hmm, I'd have to say the worst was getting a spiral perm and then 2 weeks later, after deciding I didn't like it, got it chemically straightened. Talk about fried!
nessthing
July 31st, 2008, 08:24 AM
Blowdried. A lot. I kind of still do.
naturechild
July 31st, 2008, 08:38 AM
I wasn't paying attention while burning a while ago and burnt me some really unattractive bangs.
I S.O.S'ed LHC with it when I first came here.
Calanthe
July 31st, 2008, 08:42 AM
I let my horse chew my braid. Frequently. We had the same hairstyle after a while. Scruffy.
I dyed my hair every 7 days because of the roots showing. Well, what do you expect when you go from blonde to black?
I once knitted my hair into a sock I was working on.
My dad had to cut out curling tongs. I twisted much to tightly and it got so tangled, that I couln't get the tongs out.
I once had a perm done in tailbone length hair.
I wanted white hair and used so much that I practically burned my scalp.
That's not nearly all I did to my hair when I was younger, just the things I still have in mind vividly.
AlleyKitten
July 31st, 2008, 09:19 AM
There were a couple summers where I spent more days than not in the chlorinated pool...the summer sun would lighten my hair to blonde, and then the chlorine would turn it GREEN! This was just before my mother cut it all off to a pixie :wail:
I'm also amazed at how very little conditioner I used to use -- I might as well have been using none at all.
Edit: Oh god, how could I forget the huge knot that had to be cut out of the underside of my hair? I used to let it get so incredibly matted into rats-nests...it was awful!
spidermom
July 31st, 2008, 09:30 AM
I used to use a clothes iron to iron my bangs (before I got straightener). -.-
Ooooh, forgot about this one. In the late 60s, I used a clothes iron to get stick-straight hair.
Haith
July 31st, 2008, 09:45 AM
One time, years ago, I did a deep conditioning treatment with eggs. Then I washed it out with hot water. Ewwwww.... scrambled egg deep treatment.
kate46
July 31st, 2008, 10:09 AM
I once waxed my armpits without tying my hair back :eek: I'll leave that one to your imagination! :(
Takethevitamin
July 31st, 2008, 10:14 AM
- Ram a brush through it, ignoring the ripping sounds.
- Jam a comb in the middle of a knot and rip downwards until the whole glob comes out, impatient to deal with it.
- Leaving a huge rat's nest in for days when I'm sitting by myself at home for a weekend, or somesuch.
Fencai
July 31st, 2008, 10:18 AM
ooooo... here's a good one for you!
I bleached three times in one month using 40 volume developer!:brainbleach:
needless to say that at the end of that month when riding in the car with my husband, he said "OH MY GOD! Your hair is falling off!" It was literally breaking off in the wind.
LaurelSpring
July 31st, 2008, 10:27 AM
The worst I can think of right now (and there have been alot) is when I tried to go blonde. It was horrible. My husband thought I looked like Lani Anderson but every time I looked in the mirror I didnt recognize the person looking back. My toddler kept touching my hair and looking at her hand to see if it would come off. It took a long to to fix that one and then I think I turned it green. Then there are of course the numerous perms which I thought I wanted and then hated and straightened. Im glad those days are over.
JessTheMess
July 31st, 2008, 10:30 AM
1. I too used the clothes iron to get pin straight hair...
2. Ripping my brush through my hair wet.
3. Blow Frying on the highest heat with a metal round brush
4. I bleached my hair something like 8 times in a row to get the right color blond, only to dye it black, then bleach it again to go red, then highlights, then dark brown, then soft black... and that's where I am at now with it and growing it out!
detritus
July 31st, 2008, 10:58 AM
Let's see... When it was about chin length I dyed it chocolate brown. I liked the color initially but the blond roots made it look like I was going bald so I redid the dye every couple weeks--on all of my hair, not just the roots. After a few months the length had turned black and was like cotton candy. I went to a training salon to try and get my blond back and they bleached it and toned it back to the most horrible bright yellow shade. I refused to be seen without a hat. Then I redyed it myself to tone down the brassiness. Shortly thereafter it just started breaking off close to my scalp.
I shaved it a couple times. I had a mohawk for about two weeks. I couldn't be bothered to spend a lot of time spiking it so it always listed to the side. That photo is still on my passport. *sigh*
I also had various colors of pink, red, blue, etc for about 8 years. At least by that time I had learned not to overlap chemicals. But I knew nothing about proper hair care before coming to LHC so I was still shampooing it with harsh detergents and blowdrying on high (it's faster that way) every single day. And I never used any deep conditioning treatments.
I'm sure I did other stuff that makes everyone here wince, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
swanns
July 31st, 2008, 11:07 AM
I think this is what most of you will probably find the most horrible thing I've done: I didn't brush/comb it for six months and never conditioned it. But it actually looked pretty good, I liked the tangly, very curly look, but it's too long for that now, and I like taking care of it now :)
For me the most horrible things I've done have been the times I've tried to get a certain haircut I saw in a magazine - my hair's just too thick and coarse for any of those hairdo's, but no hairdresser has ever bothered to tell me that, had to figure it out myself.
Xandergrammy
July 31st, 2008, 11:40 AM
Many years ago when my hair was short, I spray painted my hair black for Halloween with that spray stuff they sell at Halloween stores. I used the whole can (I have lots of hair) and it took forever to wash out. My tub was a bit on the older side, with some worn spots with no enamel- those spots turned black and STAYED black. Nothing I tried over the course of a few years made those black/gray spots disappear! :rolleyes:
crebbsgirl
July 31st, 2008, 11:47 AM
I decided I wanted platnium blonde hair. So, I took bleach to my head, left it on for about 2 hours. It wasn't light enough, so I did it again - twice. Wore it for a week, and my friend decided she wanted to put dark red lowlights in it, so I let her foil them with Manic Panic. As it was washing out, the red got on the rest of the blonde - obviously, and I ended up with varying shades of hot pink. Which of course I hated, so I tried to dye it back to brown. After the return to my natural colour, fist-fulls were breaking off whenever I shampooed - which in those days, was daily.
I shudder at the thought. :)
Ohio Sky
July 31st, 2008, 11:48 AM
I've done some of this :pins: and some of this :patrol: and had some of these moments :slap::taz: with my hair.
I guess the worst was when I had black hair last summer and decided to bleach it back to blonde so I could go back to my original haircolor. It took several sessions and a good amount of bleach left on for way longer than recomended. My hair suffered surprisingly little, but I don't think I would do it again!
Alethia
July 31st, 2008, 11:50 AM
My party trick at school used to be pulling reasonably large bits of hair out. I could do this without too much pain. I didn't do it very often (don't suffer from trichotillomania!) and it was a way of grossing kids out and impressing them with my pain threshold - kept the bullies at bay which I really needed at certain points in my life.
Later in my teens I had a couple of perms, and I used loads of hair spray and back combing to try and get a "Smithette" type quiff going. I have straightened my hair a few times too. I used to peel my split ends when I got bored. Other than that I've been pretty tame - and no more hair-pulling, I promise.
Ohio Sky
July 31st, 2008, 12:14 PM
I have straightened my hair a few times too. I used to peel my split ends when I got bored.
I still do this sometimes when I don't have scissors nearby... :scared:
Merkaba
July 31st, 2008, 12:17 PM
Worst thing....putting bleach on my hair and BRUSHING IT THROUGH while wet and bleachy to make sure it got all down the hair.
When I was younger I'd brush when wet all the time, shampooed after the beach and ocean, used alcoholridden gels and mousses, never deep conditioned, used cheap sulfated shampoos, never got trims, bleached and dyed all the time...pretty much everything bad!
wintersun99
July 31st, 2008, 12:24 PM
Bleached it 3x in a week and watched it melt off from the ears down :(
Periwinkle
July 31st, 2008, 12:36 PM
I went through a phase of not bothering to wash my hair at all. Not going there again...
I've never had a dye disaster (thank God!), but I have treated my hair pretty appallingly in that I would wash it, then brush it while wet. I also used to brush up to 15 times a day (how I found the time I have no idea).
vindo
July 31st, 2008, 12:41 PM
Ripped out tangles...thats about it, have always been nice with it..:p
ladystar
July 31st, 2008, 01:05 PM
I used a wooden rolling brush all the way up to my scalp cause I wanted curls, when I got to the top it was stuck, my grandmother had to pull every pin off the brush it was pain full I didn’t want to cut it.
I used sun and peroxide to make high lights.
I got high lights done at a salon she left the beach on to long and my hair started falling off, then I dyed it over cause I looked like a zebra. I thought I was going to go bald.
I was a Ginny pig for a new relaxer that came out. It was beautiful at first. Until all my hair started breaking off.
I blow dried and iron my hair ALL THE TIME!!!
Would rip a brush threw my hair when I was pissed off!!!
Darkhorse1
July 31st, 2008, 01:19 PM
Lemon juice, sun-in--ugh. The brassy, dryness that it caused was brutal. Plus, I swam almost every day. Thankfully that was 20 years ago, so I'm pretty sure that hair has fully grown out ;)
AerisDawn
July 31st, 2008, 01:32 PM
This is pretty bad and I know (now) how stupid it was. I had already dyed my hair black,after keeping it platinum for almost a year. I got bored with that and wanted red hair. So I got a cheap bottle of auburn dye. Well,the dye only took to my bangs so I had this godawful red on top and greenish black everywhere else. I had to go to work the next day so I set to work correcting this in a hurry. I got some color stripper and it took all the red out and all the black. My hair was white,orange and pink and felt like a huge spiderweb. I immediately applied blackest black to my tortured hair and that seemed to work,it covered up all the odd colors,no problem. But when I rinsed all the dye out,I noticed the water was turning red. I touched my scalp and realized it was blood. My entire scalp had turned into one big open sore from chemical burns. I did every one of those steps in ONE day. I'm lucky I have any hair at all.
Gladtobemom
July 31st, 2008, 01:42 PM
Let a salon straighten my hair.
My hair was totally fried and it started breaking off.
Within about 3 weeks I lost half my hair volume!
Newniepg
July 31st, 2008, 01:54 PM
I touched my scalp and realized it was blood. My entire scalp had turned into one big open sore from chemical burns.
:blueeek:
WOW! That sounds absolutely terrifying!
:scared:
Tangles
July 31st, 2008, 01:57 PM
Two words: Color Oops.
AerisDawn
July 31st, 2008, 01:58 PM
:blueeek:
WOW! That sounds absolutely terrifying!
:scared:
I was terrified! I cried a lot too.
Siava
July 31st, 2008, 02:30 PM
I shaved it a couple times. I had a mohawk for about two weeks. I couldn't be bothered to spend a lot of time spiking it so it always listed to the side. That photo is still on my passport. *sigh*
That totally cracked me up. :)
Gladtobemom
July 31st, 2008, 02:48 PM
I touched my scalp and realized it was blood. My entire scalp had turned into one big open sore from chemical burns. I did every one of those steps in ONE day. I'm lucky I have any hair at all.
:grouphug: That sounds so traumatic.
PseudoScot
July 31st, 2008, 02:52 PM
Well, the only thing "evil" I've done to my hair is call it a bad name or something. ;)
As far as bad stuff... I've never done anything exceptionally awful. When I was a teen I wore it down all the time and the backpack I carried [in my day, we used just one shoulder] really damaged the right side. That might be the worst it was...
spidermom
July 31st, 2008, 03:02 PM
Oh, and even though it's so popular around here, I have to add one other thing: henna. Yuck. It made my hair feel gritty and brittle for at least a week or two and was an awful brick color. At least the single application faded out gradually so I didn't have to resort to extraordinary means to get rid of it.
basak
July 31st, 2008, 03:08 PM
This has not happened to my hair because I was wise enough to bun and cover my hair before starting to work, but it really belongs here. In my internship, we built canoes from scratch and at some point, we had to use polyester gel coat(a mixture of polyester gel coat, cobalt and hardener actually) and fiberglass. You wet down the surface, apply the fiberglass and wet the fiberglass with polyester gel coat and when it dries, it makes the surface stronger than steel. Now, the exciting part: Some other girl from my group was flaunting her new haircut while doing all these. Let alone mask and safety glasses, this chickie wasn't even wearing a proper shirt(glittery tank top?). Anyways, she got some polyester gel coat mixture in her hair. The funny part is I couldn't tell her because this stuff hardens in SECONDS and she would've ruined the whole mixture fussing over her hair. And honestly I couldn't care less. LOL. I told her after we were done, though. It was fine as far as I can remember.
ETA: Would this count as the most evil thing I've ever done to someone else's hair? :twisted:
redtea
July 31st, 2008, 03:11 PM
When I was 18 I colored my hair from blonde to red then decided I wanted to go platinum, so I had my hair professionally stripped and colored. After that, I did the roots myself, but I had to do them about every 3 weeks. My hair was so thin and always breaking off. I remember using some Pantene deep treatment conditioner every time I washed my hair just to maintain what I coud of it. After that I colored it light brown a couple times to try to darken it up.. then red again.. then I finally had no choice but to cut it all off! Looking back on it, I'm amazed that my hair withstood as much as it did.
NurseMama
July 31st, 2008, 03:12 PM
I dyed it black and then after 6 months decided I wanted to be red again.
So I bleached it.
Myself.
Twice.
I then ended up at the hairdresser to "fix" the bright orange color. She made me brown :( and then proceeded to razor cut my damaged, wavy hair.
That took at least a year to recover from.
detritus
July 31st, 2008, 03:17 PM
Oh, and even though it's so popular around here, I have to add one other thing: henna. Yuck. It made my hair feel gritty and brittle for at least a week or two and was an awful brick color. At least the single application faded out gradually so I didn't have to resort to extraordinary means to get rid of it.
I'm with you. Henna is definitely on my "regrets" list. It always dried my hair out and gave me this weird orange/green/brown color. I think it's just bad news on blondes.
Xandergrammy
July 31st, 2008, 03:34 PM
Almost everyone knows my story of someone behind me at a concert lighting a cig and i lost my kneelength hair to a buzz cut............. aaaaaaaah
The other worst thing I did was use "whitewash" a bleach made for tire white walls to get my hair white. I turned white all right........
Whoa- the concert story is scary.
What did that "whitewash" do to your hair? Did it make it white (not that I intend to ever try it.)
Xandergrammy
July 31st, 2008, 03:35 PM
I'm with you. Henna is definitely on my "regrets" list. It always dried my hair out and gave me this weird orange/green/brown color. I think it's just bad news on blondes.
I didn't like henna either. My friend Mary Jo and I decided to try it many years ago and we were not impressed with the results. And boy, did we make a mess in her house. :rolleyes:
RavenDream
July 31st, 2008, 03:37 PM
I was in the mood for a change one day so I decided to mix up some bleach and dye the underside of my head blonde. Well being 13 at the time it didn't turn out too well. If I ever wore my hair up or in a half pony you could see the leopard like spots that turned out because the bleach had expired. It took 3 years for me to get rid of all the damage.
Oskimosa
July 31st, 2008, 03:52 PM
This is quite an interesting thread, some stories are funny and some downright scary. For me, growing up, I figured my hair was alot like my nails and that dye was like nailpolish; you can change it whenever you feel like it.
My trespasses are much like everyone elses.. I constantly ping-ponged between blonde and red (and occasionally pink). Usually it was about 2-4 weeks between drastic changes. Platinum, medium blonde, strawberry blonde, pink, red, brown, black, blue, I've had it all.
I also permed it and didn't like it since it only took to parts of my hair, so I would wash, blowfry, and flat iron it almost every single day. Then I started up again with the dye changes. But my hair never fell out, it just wasn't all that smooth.
Then I grew it out, realizing that I was too old to be messing with my hair that way. Then I donated all that pretty virgin hair to lock's of love's trash can. :rolleyes: Now I know.
tigerlily83
July 31st, 2008, 04:38 PM
What haven't I done to my hair? Let's see....
I've done a full head of chunky blonde highlights on my dark brown hair, which wasn't too bad at the time, until I decided to refresh my highlights with no pull-through cap. Before that it actually looked really good. Every hair on my head after me re-doing the highlighting was peachy light blonde, super dry and crunchy. I had to dye it three times (including calling the Clairol lady w/ the 1-800 # on the box) in a week to get it back to normal.
I've been every other somewhat natural color in the haircolor rainbow.
I've flatironed/blowfried/curled my hair into oblivion....sometimes I would blowdry/flatiron daily, even in the summer. Of course, thanks to the wonderful LHC, I don't do that anymore! :D
I've had my hair cut in different methods...razoring, texturizing.... (but at the time it was still relatively long)
I've had to sit in a salon chair for five and a half hours for a decolorization treatment, from jet black to what most people would call a natural red.
enitsirk
July 31st, 2008, 09:15 PM
Probably crimping. I've never been a girly girl and never been too terrible to my hair, but I always thought crimped hair looked really cool so I did it once or twice in high school.
Even before LHC I tried to avoid blatantly damaging things :lol:
Adrienne
July 31st, 2008, 09:43 PM
Chemically Relaxing hands down. my hair is very curly and course, Prior to going completely natural 3 years ago. I used to chemically relax every 4 weeks. like clock work. use heat styling tools more than I should. ( or basically whenever anyone begged to do my hair because I always looked a mess and loving friends and family desperately wanted to help) Give up. the 2nd most damageing thing I ever did to my hair. it was so damaged from frequent chemical relaxing ( not just on the root, applied that cream to my ENITRE HEAD!) that I gave up and decided I was just born to to have messed up hair.NO touching my hair at all. or barley. just not even trying to make myself look decent.
3 years ago I cut ALL my hair off except the teeny, teeny, tiny, tiny less than one inch curly roots and I have not cut or trimmed since.
Elainehali
July 31st, 2008, 09:45 PM
last time I had long hair I decided to force it to fairy tail.
I took a razor (a plastic one used to shave armpits and such) and ran it down the last 6 inches of hair.
It fairy tailed. I got splits like crazy. Then I cut up to BSL.
katiana
August 1st, 2008, 03:44 AM
I permed my hair! Yes..I actually wanted a "light" perm and the lady sort of forgot about me :rolleyes: she was a friend of my mother's at the time and I agreed to have her do my hair..this is when I had really short hair and before my very first trip to visit my husband's family..we were not married yet! Oh..it was awful..I looked like Shirley Temple once she took out the curlers and my hair was fried ( I literally had chunks of hair break off )..I did not know how to take care of curly hair either so it was all frizzy as well..just the worst experience on my poor head..timing was awful because I had to endure this "do" in Ukraine:poot:visiting family..
burns_erin
August 1st, 2008, 12:25 PM
I have.......
Taken scissors to classic length hair while is was at school.
died my hair every color under the sun, and a few I am pretty sure were never under the sun until that precise moment.
gone blonde.
died my hair red, the entire length, every two weeks for about a year.
and did the salon chop from waist probably about 4 times.
charlyee
August 1st, 2008, 12:49 PM
I got spiral perms every three months for almost 5 years.
JensT
August 1st, 2008, 01:35 PM
I visit the bar way too often.
OhioLisa
August 1st, 2008, 02:20 PM
Oddly enough... cassia. I have bleached, dyed, permed, etc. and have NEVER had the straw-like effect that I got from cassia. Evil, I say.
Wikky Grrl
August 1st, 2008, 03:00 PM
10 years old on the backyard tire swing; tire is suspended by thick, fraying nylon rope. Had pal twist me up and then release. Hair became totally snarled and I knew mom would be mad so we tore it off the rope. I think that's the first time mom made me do a DT with Queen Helene's Cholesterol creme....with a plastic bag and blow dryer. The whole 70's she-bang!
Samara Morgan
August 1st, 2008, 04:46 PM
Ruining my fringe only two days after getting it lol :( :nono: That and covering it with coloured hairspray when I was younger :rolleyes: I did chop off all of one side of my hair when I was very small but I don't think that counts lol :lol:
Hatsumomo
August 1st, 2008, 05:47 PM
Lol, loving the replies. Some of them sound waaay too familiar though;)! I had short hair when I was young so never managed to have any disasters back then.
Naluin
August 1st, 2008, 06:20 PM
I decided that I wanted silver/white/grey hair. So, I bleached it twice over a texturizer. Then, when the blue toner started to turn greenish, I decided I wanted straighter, hair... so texturizer over already overprocessed hair = complete mush.
A lot of my hair fell out the first wash. It was the scariest thing ever. Luckily, I have so much hair that it was hardly noticeable. :rolleyes:
The evilest thing I've ever done to my scalp is a chemical relaxer. My scalp hated those: burning, bleeding, major headache, severe itching and flaking. They weren't always that bad, but they got increasingly worse. Perhaps I developed a sensitivity to the chemicals? :shrug:
ZaBasDa
August 1st, 2008, 07:44 PM
When I was 12 I took straight Clorox Bleach and applied that to get highlights. Luckily I only left it on for 5 minutes and then did a strand test. It melted the test hair, so I didn't do that again.
I tried to use a box dye to get blonde highlights, and got the brassy-est orange ever. And I've done all kinds of box dyes, but I never applied more than twice to the same hair. I once bleached what I thought was virgin hair and half of my hair turned green. Guess I had forgotten about that Feria brown. The green bit was bleached a second time to get lighter green.
renarok
August 1st, 2008, 08:29 PM
I put a picture up of the most heinous hair of my life.
You are welcome to view it in my profile, but please don't laugh too hard:p
Challys
August 1st, 2008, 08:40 PM
Lets see... When I was in 7th grade I dyed the front two peices of my hair green using koolaid packets and tin fool. Freaked mom out real bad. It kept bleeding all over the place, but it didn't hurt my hair all that bad, nothing alittle conditioner didn't fix.
I used to blow dry on high heat. I used to use a curling iron too. But the most damage I caused was when I graduated high school I dyed the front two chunks of my hair a deep dark red using an over the counter dye. My boss didn't like it all that much so I had to pay to get it color corrected. So I dyed it two in a period of 3 days. My hair was not at all happy with me. Thats about the worst of it... pretty mild if you ask me.
Ndnlady
August 1st, 2008, 10:15 PM
Dyed my hair with the store bought commercial dyes like, over and over again, basically trying out different colors each month! And then I put in highlights (myself):rolleyes:, not only did I look like I had a big skunk stripe in the middle of my head but all of my hair started breaking off in those spots so it looked horrible! This was before the lhc and the long hair boards!
Marcipangris
August 2nd, 2008, 01:26 AM
I got keratin extensions glued in, blowdried on high while hair was wet, then backcombed and hairsprayed.
VanillaTresses
August 2nd, 2008, 10:10 AM
I put petroleum jelly in my hair one time to try and remove a henna gone wrong. I had used mineral oil first (which was fairly easy to get out) so then I made the "genius" leap to use the petroleum jelly. Yeah. Well, it didn't come out so easily. It was a NIGHTMARE. I don't even remember how many times I had to wash to get it out but after about 48 hrs. of trying my scalp was sore. What I finally had to use to get it out was a harsh variety of the already harsh Dawn. I cut all my hair off shortly (no pun intended) thereafter. Please be advised (though I am sure you are all smarter than that) to NEVER, EVER do this to yourself! :)
misspriss
August 2nd, 2008, 10:39 AM
The worst? I bleached blonde on my own. Did it over two days with at least two hours of bleach each day. It actually came out really good, not too damamged. But I felt it needed to be bleached a little more, so every time I did the roots I'd 'touch up' the length, and eventually it just got dried out. I then repeatededly coloured it back to my natural colour, after sampling every colour in between. There are pictures in an album I think, but even I don't know how to get to my albums easily.
Blow drying and straightening all the time too.
EmpressRi
August 3rd, 2008, 05:47 PM
Bleach it, and when it was bleached let the lady use a waving iron in my hair. She took a huge chunk of hair out, and I had this two inch long section standing straight up on my head!!!! :mad:
heatherainsley
August 3rd, 2008, 06:04 PM
i use to bleach my hair and change its color every week not including all the perms and straight irons now i wont touch it with anything .
RavennaNight
August 3rd, 2008, 07:14 PM
Lets see... Being a blonde-o-rexic 14 year old and dumping bottles of sun-in into my hair, and blowfrying it and wondering why my hair was smoking and smelt like it was burning...
Then, more recently than would like to remember, FLATIRONING incessantly. I am now sporting major halo on humid frizz days because the hair that broke off is growing in again.
Miss Murphy
August 4th, 2008, 12:53 AM
Using Sun-In (a peroxide spray) on the roots of my part. Nightly. For months.
Needless to say, my hair did not like it.
jessie58
August 4th, 2008, 12:56 AM
Years ago, even when I had naturally curly hair, I used to get perms. I would rip a brush through the perms as well, because the bigger the better, lol. :D
Recently, I cut bangs into my hair which took me 2 years to grow out. The bangs are hideous and now I have to go 2 more years to pay for my glaring mistake. :rolleyes:
lora410
August 4th, 2008, 02:15 PM
I once did the cap highlights when I was a teen and I pulled the cap off before I rinsed my hair. So I wound up with blond patchy hair, ran out and dyed my hair again. That gave me a combo of red and blond ,and then the same day I dyed it AGAIN. I also used to get ALOT of perms when I was a teen, and have chemically straightened it when I was younger and not long before LHC.
Elleyena
August 6th, 2008, 05:14 PM
Well...the worst thing I've done would have to be getting a perm. Then I dyed it a few weeks later. This was back when my hair was long already, and I ended up chopping out the perm once it started growing out (and dying it again). <.< >.> I was never really good to my hair pre-LHC
Tracyarts
August 6th, 2008, 09:09 PM
When I was 16 I bleached my natural auburn hair to platinum blonde and dyed the underneath all kinds of crazy colors with kool aid (in the pre-manic panic days, we would take unsweetened kool aid, and mix up a lot of packets with water or conditioner to get a thick paste and paint that on the hair and leave it in as long as we could to stain the hair a bright color). I dyed the underneath because I could wear it down for work and school and look like a normal bleach blonde. But when I wanted I could pull it up and let the rainbow colors show.
It was the texture of doll hair from the bleaching. Platinum blonde is NOT a flattering shade for me. It did not last long. I had it cut short as I dared and used semi permanant color until the bleached out hair grew out and I could start over.
Tracy
skydancer7
August 7th, 2008, 07:30 AM
Tried to remove indigo:
Color oops.
One week later:
Salon tried chemical strippers, turned my scalp red and raw. They then dyed it, turning an awful pinkish color. That same night, I went home and re-dyed it a dark brown to fix it. My scalp got lots of mini-scabs, was sore for weeks, took weeks to heal. That's 3 chemical treatments in one day! :eek: Aweful. Never again.
CryssieWillow
August 8th, 2008, 02:25 AM
dyeing, ripping tangles out with a plastic brush and brushing wet hair equally violently. Not using conditioner, killing it with cones, wearing it down all the time.
My ends were a nightmare......
Sarahmoon
August 8th, 2008, 04:48 AM
I used to cut out knots, when I couldn't rip them out with a brush.
That's the worst thing actually. Never been interested in stick straight, extremely curly or unnaturally yellowish-white hair ;)
ruby_tuesday
August 8th, 2008, 08:26 AM
Come on, I want to know the worst thing you've done to your hair in your life! I don't mean to be anti-hair but thought it would be funny to see all the silly things everyone's done to their hair over time.
For me, probably the worst thing was when I watered down Domestos and shampooed with it, thinking that it would open the follicles and let the remaining dye come out of my hair. I left it on for ten minutes and was very lucky to only get an itchy scalp for the day and no hair damage that I could find.
I'd love to see if anyone can beat that;)!
For me it was a very very nasty perm on my already wavy hair! Dont ask!:scared:Blowdrying my hair to death while dripping wet- is a close second- shudder: and then those silicone drops which were supposed to help the problem. :neutral:
Andromeda
August 8th, 2008, 10:12 AM
I decided to try using henna/indigo. My hair was very black and pretty but I thought the color was too dark for me. I did bleach a test strand and it turned a horrible shade of dirt green! I tried other methods to try to get the indigo out of my hair but I had similar results. It took me two years to grow the indigoed hair out.
cani
August 8th, 2008, 12:23 PM
i tried to bleach my brunette hair platinum blonde...
i bleached it several times to get a real light coulor and half of my hair broke:scared:
also the colour was no blonde, but yellow to white :oops:
AnneAdeline
August 8th, 2008, 08:57 PM
I bleached my hair, dyed it many unnatural colors, then bleached it a few months later again. All in all, I think my hair didn't get too damaged. But I was one to brush when wet. *shiver*
winter_star
August 9th, 2008, 05:05 AM
Attacking my hair with a straightener every day for 3 years. Believe me i'm paying for it...
ClareDee
August 9th, 2008, 12:43 PM
I'm just another one who chopped it all off on a whim... more than once.
I remember going into a hairdressers and saying "I want it all cut off. Just something totally different"... She looked at me over her glasses and said "Split up with your boyfriend huh?"
It's like they KNOW!
I nodded sheepishly and she duly chopped it all off :p
I was always too much of a nervous nelly for permanent dyes.... luckily...
sahiba
August 10th, 2008, 01:16 AM
I was 8 years old and tried to brush my hair all by myself. Soon I realized that I had wrapped most of my left hair around the brush and could not release them. My mom had to break those hair to free them from the hair brush,needless to say without cursing me. Till date my left side hair is slightly smaller than my right.:wail:
mokie
August 10th, 2008, 03:06 AM
The evilest thing I've ever done to my scalp is a chemical relaxer. My scalp hated those: burning, bleeding, major headache, severe itching and flaking. They weren't always that bad, but they got increasingly worse. Perhaps I developed a sensitivity to the chemicals? :shrug: Most of the relaxers I've seen floating around these days have "No lye!" written prominently on the box. That suggests to me that "full o' lye!" was the default for a good number of years. Scary stuff! Mom had me permed as a kid and taken to crazy salon ladies who thought "trim half an inch" translated to "give her a pixie cut." I let siblings even out lopsided self-trimmings and apply copious amounts of semi-permanent dye in a variety of unnatural shades. (My passport photo? Blue-green hair! And I was so proud...) I've never been keen on products or styling equipment, but I also never prepped before or showered after swimming or thought twice about brushing through wet hair or forcing an unruly knot. The worst thing I ever did was getting so frustrated with hair in my face at work that I just grabbed a pair of scissors and lopped it off, right there. What's worse is I've done it more than once, as recently as six months ago, and in front of a shocked customer. In my defense, it kept going up my nose!
Shanarana
August 10th, 2008, 03:14 AM
Wow, some scary stuff in this thread. I am not exempt from doing stupid things to my hair in the past. First one is when I colored my hair and went to a salon the very next day for a perm. Not a good look. Second would be that wonderful Sun In hair lightener that I would spray on my hair and sit in the sun....I think I used two bottles to reach the blond (if you want to call it that) shade. My hair was so dry.
paper
August 10th, 2008, 04:49 AM
I got a bad perm. I had BSL hair and the perm was so curly my hair was above my shoulders. So, I had it chemically straightened. My hair was so fryed, I had to cut it off.
marshwoman
August 10th, 2008, 06:55 AM
All the horrible things done to my hair involve my sister. She went to cosmatology school and ever since has been the family's official hairdresser. Luckily I do not live close, but I did unwittingly land in her clutches once, and boy did she try to kill my hair.
I wanted a rich auburn color (something I was trying to attain forever until I finally discovered henna) and a stylish trim on my mouse-brown shoulder length hair. She dyed it with something that looked almost black with brown patches and it literally burned holes in my scalp. She CUT my hair to look like it had been shaved and grown out about an inch and added old-lady tendrils/modified mullet??? on my nape. It's been YEARS but I'll never forget growing that out.
Myself, I've used peroxide to evil effect (senior HS picture sports a winged back, brassy yellow-orange-brown 'do) and ripped knots out of my head to the point of bruising my scalp :rolleyes: and generally have attributed all my hair problems to just having "bad hair." But I'm learning...
Millielie
August 10th, 2008, 07:03 AM
There was a time I used to dye my hair two to three times a month. :o I wanted to have red hair but it was black before so I used box dyes that included bleach.
My hair endet up looking like a flame or something. On the top it was orange, then red and the ends were black. So I dyed it all black again :run:
zen_oven
August 10th, 2008, 08:26 AM
This isn't all that evil, I suppose, but. . .
When I was 14: Sun In. On dark hair. It turned it orange.
starla_zero
August 10th, 2008, 03:56 PM
I've been pondering this... it would have to be the time I dressed up as Robert Smith from The Cure for a New Year's party. My hair was just above shoulderblade length at the time and I managed to backcomb it into a perfect Kiss Me Kiss Me... style.
I looked damn like him though, people mistook me for a guy most of the night, dunno if that's good or bad... Took hours and a lot of conditioner to comb out though.
Aelith
August 11th, 2008, 02:42 PM
I've bleached out and then dyed my hair twice, all in the same day. The first dye job, I looked like Ronald McDonald. The second I looked like a leprechaun, which was a little more acceptable. :o
sipnsun
August 11th, 2008, 02:52 PM
It's amazing I still have hair after all of the awful things I've done to it. I guess the worst thing would have to be perming over double-processed hair. If that wasn't bad enough, I hated the perm and then straightened it. It looked and felt like straw for a couple of months, but I've been chemical free since then (May 07).
heidihug
August 11th, 2008, 03:33 PM
Eight years ago I had a hairdresser perm my waist-length straight hair. I told her I wanted a spiral perm (with the really long rods so I could have the sproing-y curls that were so in fashion then), but she gave me a regular perm with the little short ones. Ugh. It was a horrid frizzy mess. My hair broke off in back so badly that I had a spot in the middle of the back of my hair running from nape to crown that was about 8 inches shorter than the rest. It was the final lesson, teaching me that I do NOT have curly hair, I never will, and that I should just accept the texture that it is. It also started my journey of benign and careful neglect which has brought me to classic length today.
Eight years later I am just finishing trimming off the very last quarter of an inch or so of that mess. I will never NEVER perm my hair again. I do chemical color the roots every few months to cover the grays and brighten my hair, but it seems to like it.
mmccleary
August 15th, 2008, 04:01 PM
Flat ironing every single day, on every single section of my hair, with 450 degree heat setting. Yeah...
youngsoulrebel
August 15th, 2008, 05:25 PM
The first time I tried to whiten my hair, i accidentally left the bleach on for an hour-and-a-half while I played Tetris. My hair started coming off in the shower in chunks when I finally remembered to wash it. I waited over a year before trying to bleach it again, and spent a good part of that year researching hair bleaching.
Chirp
August 15th, 2008, 05:48 PM
One word: Dreadlocks.
The worst part? They weren't intentional.
I was 14 years old and I wanted a fresh new look for the beginning of the school year. I had my mother take me to the nearest hair salon, where I promptly asked the stylist for a spiral perm and chunky highlights (my hair was already dyed auburn and black at the time). Foolishly, the woman agreed, leaving me with hair the consistency of dried straw.
The horror doesn't end there. The stylist, in a brief moment of misguided wisdom, explained that brushing my curls could damage them and would inevitably lead to mountains of frizz. Unfortunately, she didn't care to go beyond her vague warning, leaving me with no clue as to how I should care for my newly (damaged) curly hair. Consequently, I opted not to brush it... at all, ever.
Lets do a little hair math: ((perm + highlights)/previous chemical treatment) x no maintenance) = dreads
I had to leave gallons of heavy duty conditioner on my head for an hour or more just to work out the worst of the knots, and inevitably my hair would become a tangled rat's nest upon drying. Eventually I just chopped the entire mess off, losing a good 8 to 10 inches of hair (I went from collar bone length to cheek bone length).
While the dreadlocks may have been the worst hair sin I've committed, I've also been guilty of frequent bleaching and dying (using all manner of cheap, over the counter colors in all shades of the rainbow), and having a stylist lop off my hair during fits of growth-induced frustration. Worst of all, I've suffered from trichotillomania since I was 8, so growing my hair back after bouts of trich-induced pulling has been a battle in and of itself. You'd think I'd learn to appreciate my hair more.
Still, the LHC has certainly been an inspiration to me in that regard. Thanks to you fine folks, my hair is now longer than it has been since I was 6 years old!
Morag
August 15th, 2008, 06:07 PM
Hot oil application with the oil much too hot - my hair ends literally sizzled. I walked around smelling like burned hair for weeks and finally trimmmed.
dustbuni2k
August 15th, 2008, 06:32 PM
:(The worst thing I've ever done is give myself a Japanese Hair Straightening. Consequently, I had to chop off all the damaged hair and now am starting all over again growing my hair.
Icedevimon13
August 15th, 2008, 06:53 PM
Like mmccleary, I flat ironed every day. I remember my hair dresser advising me against it whenever I went to him. He told me I should love my curls. Of course, I was thirteen and didn't listen. Now that I'm nineteen I'm finally embracing the style I was born with. Naturally, it's too late to remove the damage caused by the flat iron, which manifest as many split ends. I snip them out now and then, but mostly I'm just waiting the years until they all have fallen out and have been replaced.
paprikapapaya
August 15th, 2008, 07:14 PM
I chemically straightened. I flat ironed. I bleached. I dyed black. I bleached, again. And then dyed red. And well...it was a perpetual cycle of abuse.
And I wondered why my hair looked so fried! lol
Barca
August 17th, 2008, 01:14 PM
haha well....when i was 17 i used bleach over a relaxer...and then 6 weeks after the bleach, i got my relaxer touched up. ha!shudder:
Elanor
August 18th, 2008, 02:35 AM
Wow you guys have some scary stories! :D When I was 14-15 I used to get highlights every three months, from roots to ends every time. I also blowfryed my hair after every wash with no protective products and brushed harshly when wet. My ends got more and more yellow, dry and brittle until I chopped them off and changed to a shorter style.
D-eath
August 18th, 2008, 03:18 AM
Using chemical bombs and wiry brushes on it. :(
rubyann
August 23rd, 2008, 09:20 PM
After a particularly bad breakup, I decided to go blonde. My hair is naturally medium to dark brown with red tones, but I'd been dying it dark red for awhile.
The stylist stripped the color out with a double process, turning my very fine hair to straw and a bright brand new copper penny orangish red. I totally loved that color, especially when I bleached my brows to match. I thought it looked great with my freckles! The next week she put blonde streaks in. Oy. I'm so not a blonde. The boys seemed to like it, though.
I eventually dyed it darker and began a series of cuts that left me with hair not much more than an inch all over. That was such a cute style. I kept that one for awhile.
If I could get back that exact shade of red without hurting my fragile hair and letting it continue to grow, I'd probably go for it.
SchnauzerMom
August 26th, 2008, 04:31 PM
The worst thing I ever did to my hair was perm it. Perms make my hair look like a tumbleweed. I haven't had one in over 10 years. Here's a photo of it.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e374/Scruffy51/HPIM0414.jpg
lacroixhc
August 26th, 2008, 05:00 PM
About a year and a half or so ago i had individual hair extentions put in. My hair was blunt cut midway between ear and shoulder length so you can imagine the volume of extentions that had to go in to blend that line. They started pulling out one by one, slowly at first. and as they would pull out they were pulling out the entire section of natural hair they were glued too, roots and all! i thought this will stop, this must stop. nope, eventually, about half fell out, tearing out all my natural hair with them. GROSS! i guess it all eventually filled back in, because i don't see little bald spots anywhere, but naturally my hair isn't a beautiful all one length situation going on. lesson learned!! i tried to have what i didnt and lost what i did!!
lookingglass
August 26th, 2008, 07:48 PM
I let my hair dread and used a beeswax compound in it that would not come out. I shaved it...back in the 90's.
wintersun99
August 26th, 2008, 08:24 PM
A Bit from my blog...
...... I then moved on to the dynamite and applied bleach. Bleaching Indigo turned my hair green. Very, very green. I then Henna'd over this and returned to dark, dark brown. I then bleached again and got very, very green (again) and then applied a hair dye from Feria (nope, didn't know that Feria is a metallic-type dye) and got a weird color (again!)
At this point, I was obsessing and knew it, but just couldn't stop trying to lighten that Indigo... I then applied bleach a third (and last) time and that was the kiss of death and doom. From about the ears down, I began losing hair in handfuls... I lost about 50% of my thickness in that first rinse and I freaked! I had literally melted it off! What was left... was green.
The next day, I had my hair cut [from APL] to nearly chin length......
And a picture of the remaining damage, taken today...
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii267/LHC_2008/Bleach%20Damage/003.jpg
Alaskanheart
August 27th, 2008, 11:03 AM
Im surprised my hair still talks to me... okay it doesnt talk, but if it could I doubt it would.
Bleached white for almost a year.
Countless, boxed color at least once a month for 12 years
Red with white blond highlights, and then double processed to get the red out and back to very light blond.Yikes that was a disaster.
Body perm that turned into a poodle perm, them went back to get it relaxed and repermed a week later.
Set on fire...accidently... my eye brow too.
Painted it with gloss wall paint, accidently didnt wash out for at least 2 months.
Got it caught in a elastic band and couldnt get it out so I choped 6 inches from the side of my hair.I was 11.
Blowdried on lava hot, with metal round brush, with the blowdryer almost touching my hair.I did this for years.
Take your pick
JessieJo
August 28th, 2008, 10:05 AM
When I was in 8th grade, I told my mom I wanted to be a black cat for Halloween. My mom had the most beautiful salt and pepper hair and had never touched hair dye, so we went to the store rather blindly. We picked out a color, took it home and dyed my hair, thinking it would wash out in 8 shampoos. SIX MONTHS LATER, my mom took me to a salon to get rid of my skunk stripe. The stylist stripped my hair to a neon orange, then put brown back on to dull the red. Didn't work. Designing Women was on TV at the time, so I got called Annie Potts a lot.
After my DD5 was born, I chopped all my hair off and had fun with every color in the rainbow.
More recently, I went from a very dark brown to a LOT of blond highlights and straightened it every day. I still have some severely processed ends, though I refuse to chop it all off again. I've decided I'm going to be good to my hair from now on.
amiaow
September 5th, 2008, 03:34 AM
I used dye remover, then dyed it again, then didn't like the colour so the next day I dyed over the top!
Poor hair... it felt slimy when it was wet until it grew out! Very fried!
dulce-de-leche
September 5th, 2008, 05:49 AM
Dyed it,then put highlights,then used curling iron and teased daily.I never realized how evil I was
Patrycja
September 5th, 2008, 07:12 AM
Hmmm... I have done pretty evil stuff but having "mall crispy bangs" was probably the worse.Sky high and sprayed to obilivion with Aquanet. Oh-and I dyed my hair with Koolaid.My BF said it would come out.It didn't.I had to chop my waist length hair to shoulder length.
Nes
September 5th, 2008, 12:47 PM
Bleaching it at home with neat hydrogen peroxide then dying it pink. Straightening over this with GHD's (210 degrees centigrade of heat!) every day.
I can't believe it didn't all fall out!
Nes x
SweetPea88
September 5th, 2008, 12:51 PM
I pulled apart the few split ends I had when I was younger...:shudder:
ssjhotau2
September 5th, 2008, 01:47 PM
I bleached mine twice when I was 18
tsc
September 5th, 2008, 03:42 PM
Probably my Sophmore year of High School. I was bleaching to almost white about once a month in order to dye it with Manic Panic.
Surprisingly, it never fell out or broke off...
midnighttrain
September 5th, 2008, 03:53 PM
Cut it all off, bleached it, dyed it purple and green (half and half down the middle, dont know what I was thinking). Anyway I have a picture to prove the horror. This was when I was 16.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a334/therainpainter/dtjw4004.jpg
I also got it cut into a mohawk and dyed all green when I was 18.
Soniasonia
September 5th, 2008, 04:08 PM
Used the conair steam straighter. Very drying and just made my hair poofy. Also stapled my hair when I was 13. There was some hair tip in teen magazine that said to take your hair in sections and staple them. I should have been warned that the model was a drawing.
Arctic_Mama
September 5th, 2008, 06:30 PM
I am tame compared to some of you.
I got a perm when I was maybe 12? It was loose waves and took my hairdresser like four hours to put in, because I had SO much hair and it was so long (she's been doing it for over 20 years and HER arms were sore!). She DISCOUNTED her services because we're friends and it was still over $300 - a lot of money for damaging virgin, lovely hair (she did protest to doing it, to her credit ;)).
Fortunately for how badly it COULD have damaged my hair, because I did it on healthy, virgin hair there was nothing but a little crispness to the last 4 inches or so, if I recall. Lucky me!
Arctic_Mama
September 5th, 2008, 06:40 PM
Almost everyone knows my story of someone behind me at a concert lighting a cig and i lost my kneelength hair to a buzz cut............. aaaaaaaah
The other worst thing I did was use "whitewash" a bleach made for tire white walls to get my hair white. I turned white all right........
Oh my... I am new so I DIDN'T know the story - I am in SHOCK! I'd have probably murdered the moron who did it, too. Wow...
Forlorn Reverie
September 5th, 2008, 07:18 PM
When I was a teenager, I thought my hair wasn't curly enough, so I'd get perms. My mom's best friend was a hair-dresser, so we got a deal. Well, one time the perm didn't take. So she told me to go home, wash it with normal shampoo, then take 2 tablespoons of "any dish soap that's yellow or pink", add 1 teaspoon of acetone nail polish remover and enough warm water to make up half a cup, mix it well and wash my hair with it. Then I was supposed to let it sit for "no more than 3 minutes, or all your hair will fall out" before rinsing.
I did it, but I rinsed it out after about 1 1/2 minutes because I was terrified! 2 days later, my hair was re-permed. And much, much drier than it had ever been. Now I look back and think...what was I thinking?
Gumball
September 5th, 2008, 07:40 PM
When I was growing my hair out in the beginning stages I'd want to find ways to enhance the curl. Have you wrapped a ribbon around a present and use scissors to curl the ends? Well it wasn't that severe, but still really not great and I'm still growing out that part.
I used to wash my hair in the morning, put in some leave in and then just plow my brush through it hard until the ends started curling. Sometimes it was quick, sometimes it took a while. Just rip rip rip. Ah had I known then what I know now! Good thing my habits have completely changed.
Slug Yoga
September 5th, 2008, 08:43 PM
Used the conair steam straighter. Very drying and just made my hair poofy. Also stapled my hair when I was 13. There was some hair tip in teen magazine that said to take your hair in sections and staple them. I should have been warned that the model was a drawing.
Like literally take a stapler and staple it over your hair? :confused: What a weird hair tip. Still not sure I understand.
easternsunrise
September 5th, 2008, 11:40 PM
Back combed it and spray painted it for Halloween when I was 13 to look like Cyndi Lauper...lol.:eyebrows:
Cinnamon.locks
September 6th, 2008, 01:35 AM
Worst thing i ever did to my hair and scalp was: I bleached my hair and permed it within two days of each procedure, my hair became awful, felt like gum and was breaking off for weeks. it took me about 10 weeks to find a wonderful product that saved my hair ( which has since been discontinued or i would have it in the bathroom right now. itr smelled like peppermint and tingled when it touched the scalp but it saved my hair. ) if i had not found this product i would've had to cut my shoulder length hair to pixie. ( and i do not look good with very short hair.) i've used Sun-in with a blow fryer, blow fried my hair in winter on high, detangled wet with a brush, and had another perm performed about 12 years ago that burned my scalp and neck....i had horrible liquid filled skin bubbles all over my nape and neck. apart from the above i have done the usual, curling iron, hot rollers...etc. but stopped using any damaging products 2 years ago when i noticed how damaged my hair was and i was forced to cut from TBL to Shoulders.
BTW: Sun-in did not dry or seemed to damage my hair much, but i did notice the difference between winter when i did not use Sun-in and summer when i did.
Periwinkle
September 6th, 2008, 01:23 PM
Used the conair steam straighter. Very drying and just made my hair poofy. Also stapled my hair when I was 13. There was some hair tip in teen magazine that said to take your hair in sections and staple them. I should have been warned that the model was a drawing.
What on earth was stapling supposed to do?
Juneii
September 6th, 2008, 01:43 PM
flat ironed my hair almost everyday for almost a whole year. it was horrible, I had split ends on almost every strand of hair!
Rapunzelwannabe
September 6th, 2008, 02:18 PM
I went on a cruise to the bahamas and got my hair cownrowed. I know it's not that bad, I took care of them pretty well, but taking them out was kind of a nightmare- I ended up cutting out the rubber bands with a whole bunch of broken hairs attatched.
brightonwoman
September 8th, 2008, 05:16 PM
When I found split ends i used to just pull out the whole hair by the follicle, rather than just cutting the hair above the split
maluszek
September 9th, 2008, 01:19 AM
oh and once, after a Rammstein concert (it really is relevant, you know) I tried lighting a cigarette in a rather strong wind, leaving my head too far, creating myself a set of unwanted bangs since my hair caught fire.
my friend advised me to stay off the lives where they use ridiculous amounts of pyrotechnics, cos obviously it has bad effect on me.
Smoking ciggies on wind, exactly what I did, now each hair has different lenght;) I managed to quit smoking so no more burning my hair!
And about concerts. I could never resist moshing and getting into pits with a bunch of people pulling your hair to stop from falling (not that I enjoyed that but I always wanted to get as close the stage as I could;))
Well now I enjoy watching the gigs from behind where's much safier:)
Reptilia
September 9th, 2008, 10:54 AM
Straightening with a clothing iron. I had pretty healthy hair before that! I gave that up 4 years ago and I can say that all that damage is finally OUT.
Reptilia
September 9th, 2008, 10:58 AM
Its tame compared to the previous entries but I used to flat iron my hair every other day and more often than not neglected to use protective spray. Also, when I was in middle school, I used to frequently rip out chunks of my hair with my hands...just to prove I didn't care.
I don't understand my younger self either.
ETA: I just remembered, I one got my front bits caught up in one of those evil round brushes...had to hack it off. gaah!
ha, I used to do that too! I don't have a very senstive head, I thought it was funny!
I also used to straighten my damp hair. Once I actually burnt my ear pretty bad from the steam.
Or I would put the straightener too close to my scalp and burn my head.
Reptilia
September 9th, 2008, 11:03 AM
I have a couple of "most evil things". First when I was a teenager, I used straight Clorox Bleach mixed with a little water on my hair trying to make it blonde...NOT. Second...had my waist length hair chopped all off...temporary insanity. Third...tried to dye my brown hair blonde, it went bannana yellow...tried 3 different blonde box dyes immediately after to get my hair platnium... when all it did was turn to mush.
My hair abusing days are soo over.
I'm guilty of this one too! Dark brown hair, bleached and turned out too brassy so I did it again, and again. It did turn into a nice colour my hair was just so fried. Then I died it red, than brown, then blonde highlights, then red, then brown. Oh dear.
Medvssa
September 9th, 2008, 11:32 AM
Bleach, dye, bleach again, straighten, dye, dye again, wash, repeat... I guess :p
theanti
September 10th, 2008, 05:54 PM
OOh!! Oooh!! Me next! lol
I used to flat iron my hair when it was damp with wax on it. I didn't think I got good results unless I could hear my hair sizzle.. eek!
I literally did this every other day for about 1 1/2 years.. maybe a little longer.
ME TOO! Sizzle is good right?! ha ha
WritingPrincess
September 13th, 2008, 09:32 AM
I've always been pretty good to my hair. I hadn't reached the "age of frying your hair" yet when I found LHC, and so I can just by-pass all that damage. :lol:
One time I found a round brush at my grandma's house and rolled a section of hair up in it, pretending to curl it. But wait! The brush would not come out. I ended up cutting that hair off and brushing it back into my hair. My mom wouldn't have to know, right?
I never used to be very patient when brushing my hair, so I'd occasionally rip the brush through.
Probably the worst thing I've ever done to my hair, though, is that I blowfry my bangs every time I wash them. I still feel a little guilty about it, but I've never blown all my hair out, and it's just my bangs. When I eventually grow them out, it'll only be 3" of damaged hair. :shrug:
Boon
September 13th, 2008, 09:55 AM
Chemical dying, bleaching, heat styling, bad tools and hair toys... But I know better now.
Melein
September 13th, 2008, 11:26 AM
Probably the notion I had that conditioner makes oily hair oilier - so I didn't use any on my hair at all for about 3 years...eep!
Neysa
September 14th, 2008, 10:49 AM
For my uncle's wedding, my Nana took me to a salon, and they gave me perm, that didn't hold, so they did it again, and once more before they gave up. On the same day, same visit, they decided to try straightening irons, after colouring. Since that day (in the late 80's early 90's) I think the worst I've done is dyed it with hair dye, red, which never held. But maybe the Kool-aid takes the cake. You tell me which was worst!
BunnyBee
September 14th, 2008, 02:37 PM
I used to dye my hair permanent black every 3 weeks or so.. not just the roots but ALL OVER :no:
Also a long long time ago I thought it would be cool to have "dreads" so I took sections of hair and twisted and backcombed them and then sprayed the whole mess with hairspray.. My hair survived that ordeal without too much damage strangely..
twilight_faerie
September 14th, 2008, 02:46 PM
Oh, I've done so many awful things to my hair. From the ages of 14 to 19 I dyed my hair a different shade of red every month. About a year and a half ago I decided to bleach my hair over my henna. Yeah, that didn't go over real well. Plus, there's the fact that I have trichotillomania (a mental disorder that makes you pull out your hair).
Kaeri
September 16th, 2008, 01:55 PM
Also, when I was in middle school, I used to frequently rip out chunks of my hair with my hands...just to prove I didn't care.
I don't understand my younger self either.
I can remember doing that in school too. I used to get picked on and hair tied back is easily grabbable so I remember one day grabbing a handful near my scalp and ripping it out and shoving it in their face for some 'see I can do it too' thing
I also got my hair razor cut about 6 years ago. I think its just about forgiven me.
Iphinoe
September 16th, 2008, 04:11 PM
Chopped my hair off on stage during a monologue with rusty school scissors, bleached it white by bleaching 3 times in one day, bleached and dyed blue, green, candy red, and a host of other colours.
Katze
September 19th, 2008, 04:53 AM
Bleached my hair twice in one day to try to get it light enough so my friend could dye it silver (about the color of the background of this site). Despite our best efforts, I ended up with hair like cornsilk that fell out in handfuls and was a weird sunsetty orange/pink/lavender. I have a picture of it somewhere after we cut several inches off - all frizzed out in a bleach halo.
After I went back to dyeing my hair black regularly, I thought I could "fix" it by washing it with Mane'N'Tail shampoo/condish. Uh, right. It took several cycles of black-blonde-blue-green-etc for me to stop the heavy color changes, and it's taken until now for my hair to recover from the years of chemical damage!
EbonyCurls
September 20th, 2008, 09:32 PM
I used to spray Sun-in in my hair (basically a mixture of lemon juice and bleach), blow-dry it, then spray some more and lay out in the sun in highschool. I did this everyday for about a month.
eml298
September 21st, 2008, 01:41 PM
I put "temporary" black hair dye in my hair when I was in college. I did not realize at the time that coarse, porous hair like mine laughed in the face of "temporary" dye. So, as the roots started to get crazy, I ultimately had to have my whole head bleached and dyed back to my medium brunette, natural color. Sigh.
Marie99
October 16th, 2008, 06:30 AM
I used to ask my granny to iron my hair with a clothes iron. Most of the people in our family have curly or wavy hair, so she was really good at it.
Let my hair fall into lots of candles at church. I lost a whole lot of hair that day. I ended up with a mullet, just like Mel Gibson's. Just having a mullet could qualify as one of the worst things I ever did to my hair.
Got a perm, it fell out, got another one the next week. Didn't even shampoo or condition until back at the salon.
Used to color my hair a different color every week.
Used one of those metal pin 'dog brushes' for half my life because a stylist told me to, even when wet.
Wash and blow fry morning and night when I had a job with a lot of grease in it.
Asked my college roommate to cut my hair with the scissors we used to cut everything. We would give each other hair cuts by putting a piece of masking tape on the ends of wet hair and hacking away just above it with old dull scissors. Cut your own bangs to suit in the mirror. Wondered why we always had split ends. Blamed the city water supply.
Drove a convertible car with the roof down every day it didn't rain. My hair would end up in chunks in the back seat. No telling how much just blew away. I thought it was fun to feel the wind in my hair.
Good thing hair grows back.
Chanterelle
October 16th, 2008, 08:53 AM
Perm. On BSL-long hair. It was amazing for 8 months but after I had to get a pixie cut to defeat shedding and split ends.
LutraLutra
October 16th, 2008, 09:27 AM
Bleach + flame red dye + more bleach + more flame red dye + black dye + bleached highlights + black dye from root to tip every 4 weeks for 1 year = washing my hair one morning and watching it melt into something like bubble gum.
And holding my blowfryer too close to my scalp and feeling it burn.
Oh, and the time I had a perm that didn't take very well, so I had another perm over the top of that.
Ouch.
nmarie33
October 16th, 2008, 09:57 AM
I put TONS of sun-in on my hair. Can you say traffic-cone colored hair? It took like 3 years to get rid of all that horror. Then for some sick reason I permed on top of the sun-in. I looked like a more orange version of Ronald McDonald and my hair was totally fried. High school was not a pretty time for me. :(
Sun-in should be banished to the burning pits of hell!
Dolly
October 16th, 2008, 11:12 AM
When I was a teen, I usually got one perm a year, but I also kept it cut relatively short. Once I reached adulthood, I let it grow to somehere between shoulder and APL......and I started having it permed every 3-6 months, and I did that for 10 YEARS. It's a miracle that I wasn't completely bald. My hair hated me for years.....I stopped perming about 9 years ago and, I don't think it has completely forgiven me yet.
RocketDog
October 16th, 2008, 12:04 PM
my first flatiron was one of those wet-dry ones that you were SUPPOSED to use on wet hair. I used it every day for almost a year, until it stopped working and I bought a nicer one.
I used to wear my hair up in synthetic dreads - but I secured them with latex hair glue, so removing them and combing out the chunks of glue used to beat the heck out of my hair and scalp. I miss my fun funky hair, but not enough to do it any more!
Speckla
October 16th, 2008, 04:33 PM
Chemically straightened my curly hair because I couldn't accept natural as beautiful. Not seeing my natural hair color for over 20 years (I'm 33)! Relaxing and perming within a month. On and on....too many to tell.
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eyesofsummer
October 16th, 2008, 09:45 PM
So many horrible, horrible things! It took me some long to learn how to take proper care of my hair. I'm still learning :)
I didn't really know I had curly hair until I was 12! My mom also has curly hair and has straightened it her whole life. I was taught to blowdry it straight, to brush it daily (ripping out tangles.
In middle school it was exposed to chlorine most days of the week. I'd shampoo it vigorously to get the chemical scent out, then I'd brush it while wet, slick it back into the tightest pony tail I could manage (this actually made my hairline recede...not too noticeably, but I can now see the difference).
My freshman year of high school, I got my hair chemically straightened...Which was fine and well, until it started to grow out. My hair is very curly, so it wasn't weighed down. My hair was POOF, then dead straight. I'd either pull it into a too-tight pony tail, or use a straightening iron or curling tongs to make the texture more uniform
I finally grew out all of that mess by the end of junior year, and maintained length about 2-3 inches past my shoulders. At this point, I had discovered Sun-In! I have to admit, the last time I used that product was only three months ago...about the time I started really reading all there is to learn at LHC. I have since sworn off all heat styling and harsh chemical products!
SophieGrowGrow
October 17th, 2008, 12:36 AM
im only young so nothing too bad, ive always been awear
so instead of dying my whole head blue I got a salon to dye half of my two inch past bsl hair BRIGHT BLUE. My hair is incredibly strong. The lady bleached my naturally raven black hair pure white then dyed it blue twice and yet I didn't get any split ends, however obviously it faded out to a green, I would straighten it whilst wet with no heat protectant everyday but as y ou can see in this three year old photo my hair didn't have any split ends or wasn't even dry at the ends.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n204/sophziepooh/PICT0013-1.jpg my hair
please do laugh at this rediculous photo of me. I was young and dumb and probably listening for the ocean in a guitar.
anyway once the ends did started to fade about 8 months after ( I KNOW, that dye lasted forever! ) instead of just dying it black ( my natural hair colour ) and getting the dyed bits trimmed over time I decided I was going to cut my hair myself.
Well as you can imagine I looked like I had been attacked my an electric hedge trimmer. I learnt my lesson.
Butterflylady
October 17th, 2008, 01:40 PM
I dyed my hair brown with temporary dye I got in Switzerland. When I came back to the States, I bleached it blonde, but it turned green instead. Every time I washed it it would turn a different shade of green. I had to go to a salon and chop it all off really short :pumpkin:and dye it red.
Forever_Sophie
October 17th, 2008, 01:50 PM
Body wave (perm). I had a spiral before which I loved at the time, so no regrets, but this perm was major work, hated the results/lack thereof and thinking about the chemical damage....oy vey!
Ice~Cold~Wind
October 17th, 2008, 05:50 PM
I think dying it was my worst. I dyed my bangs blue, I will never do it again. Bleached hair, let me tell you, it's extremely flexible and when i would brush it, it would stretch then rip! DX It was horrible. But now my bangs are healthy. =)
Bronwyn Grace
October 17th, 2008, 06:46 PM
Woah, scary stuff! O.O
In 8th grade, my friends and I colored our hair with Sharpie markers and then flatironed the colored sections to death so it would be permanent.
Not my brightest moment. XD
rileysmama32208
October 17th, 2008, 07:42 PM
when i was 5, i asked my mom to chop off my waist length hair because i couldnt brush it myself anymore. It was cut into a short bob. Also, I use to home dye it, and once, i had itdyed red, and the stylist did some stupid stuff to it, and a week later, i had ORANGE hair. Way to start off college :rolleyes:
MadHatter
October 19th, 2008, 02:17 PM
I got it permed a couple of times when I was a kid. Didn't turn out well either time...
When I was 13 I used boxed blonde two or three times in a short span. Then I went to a professional and had it bleached. Then I went to another professional and had it dyed medium brown. All this in a relatively short time span. My hair was trashed, and when I look at pictures from this time, I can almost see the scales on my hair standing up, lol! The brown dye came out eventually, and left my hair looking like straw.
Never again!
peachy.pudding
October 20th, 2008, 04:49 AM
I dyed it jet black only to stip it out and go blonde, then i dyed it a different colour every month, and used irons on it. My hair was waist length back then which was the only great thing.
NeilTheFuzz
October 20th, 2008, 05:16 AM
I had this thing for about 2 weeks where I straightened my hair everyday. I did realise after though that it was no good for it. I have stopped permanently now.
BlackfootHair
October 20th, 2008, 06:13 AM
One word: BLEACH. Never again!! Still trying to recover from it even after chopping a good deal off.
The story with pics:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=2111
Bianca
October 31st, 2008, 06:34 AM
I bleached it two days in a row... :(
I used to use flatiron, and that really destroyed my hair.
I mixed lemon juice with shampoo, and left it on my hair for an hour.
Lots of things I would never do with the knowledge I have today :cheese:
neon-dream
October 31st, 2008, 01:28 PM
Worst thing ive ever done is cut it all off. It used to be Classic length when I was young, but then I got scissors and literally cut it all off to above my shoulders. >=[ silly me haha
xx
NiAosSi
October 31st, 2008, 01:32 PM
Wet flat-ironing...shudder::oops:
SeaPhoenix
October 31st, 2008, 05:16 PM
I've gone in stages.
At 13 I started using sun-in to keep my hair blonde (it had begun to darken). At 14 I began dying my hair - every shade of blonde known to mankind. At 16 I got a bright anime orange hair color in an attempt to go strawberry blonde (hair was waist length by this time). Then at 17, dyed it brown and cut it to shoulder, but it went green. I just kind of left it that way. The brown dye eventually faded out and my hair grew longer. At this point it seemed to be some shade of natural dark blonde/light brown on its own. Graduated and went into the military. Hair was once more waist length, and I cut it to a chin length bob. In tech school I went back to sun-in, and hair lightened up to a streaky dark blonde with lighter blonde bits. Grew hair out a bit - and at my first duty station, started dying it red. Chopped it from APL back to a chin length bob for the first desert deployment. This was my last big hair chop until 2005. From 1999-2004 I was back to hair dyes - mostly wash out reds, but sometimes permanents. Dyed it a strawberry blonde at one point, which I loved... but then just a month later dyed it a deep dark red with Feria - then a few weeks later tried to dye it back light.. at this point my hair ceased responding to attempts to lighten it (I was to find out only in the past 2 years how Diffifcult Feria dye is to lighten/bleach/dye over).
2004 rolls around.. and marks the end of my last box dye. Or so I thought. By this time my hair is back down to hip. I trimmed it up to waist. Shortly after I discovered henna could be used on hair, and swore off chemicals (I was really getting a burning scalp/skin thing by this time from box dyes), and did only henna. Until I began doing henna + indigo. When it got too purply, and too dark - I tried to lighten it up with *gasp* the sun-in again. When that didn't work, I tried boxed dyes. But this had no affect on the color. It was back down to hip for the end of 2005 (a pretty rich hendigo'd color, dark brown, purply, or black depending on the lighting), when I started drastically chopping my hair - at first stemming from emotional distress and a need for an outlet. The first chop put me back to APL, and then a month later I chopped again, a layered cut brushing the shoulders(trying to cut out the old me and make a new me). Then a month later, bobbed it at the chin. Then tried straight out bleaching the color. (the desire to go lighter I can trace back to a specific emotional event as well where i had the retard opinion if I just had lighter hair, I'd be all cute and youthful and sweet and appealing since that was the implied reason i was unlikeable by a retard guy i was retarded enough to stress over). My roots turned neon orange, the rest barely lifted a shade. Tried correcting it with boxed dyes - and they did nothing but burn my skin some more. So I corrected with hendigo, and embraced my hendigo dark hair with renewed gusto.
Then chopped again into even shorter layers (because the bleach from a couple months ago had done a number on the hair conditioning). Months pass.
It's now summer of 2006, and I'm engaged to my best friend - we finally decided to give dating a go -( thank god I got over the differences in our ranks - I outranked him) - he's the best friend and husband a woman could ever want!
I leave my hair alone, cut-wise, and continue henna'ing and playing with indigo. I think I've made peace with the color and the hair. Then all heck breaks loose while I'm stuck in florida, separated from my husband while he finishes his short tour in Turkey... My drastic hair changes all seem to follow with severe emotional stress and upheaval. I try half heartedly to lighten the hair - it doesn't work - so I say screw it and go darker... I was feeling fairly emo by this point and reveled in the dark hair (not that dark hair is emo... but I was feeling like surrounding myself with dark colors... I'm a color person and it often is a reflection, or feeds a specific mood for me).
Then... things cleared up - there was a light at the end of the tunnel, I got to visit Brian in Turkey, and we were close to the time when we would be moving together to Guam which meant no more long distance across continents - and I went back to trying to lighten, then decided I wanted ALL the henna/indigo gone. Another symbolic "fresh start". Honey treatments, colorfix.. nothing really worked, though the indigo seemed to fade out on its own a bit...
It's now feb 2008, and I've spent about 7 months off and on trying to lighten the henna to at least remove the cool tones in it - I work better with warmer tones. My hair is back to APL from an initial starting length of short layers to just below the ear. I cut. Layered brushing and just below the shoulders. And then I keep cutting every month, trying to get rid of the henna, to see what my real hair color is (It's been over a decade since I really had a clue on it).
Now its Oct 2008, and with 9 months of working to see my real hair color... and several more very short hair chops(the last very short chop in conjunction with going home to attend my uncle's funeral), I've decided my real hair color isn't that great. Box dyes are out of the question because of chemical sensitivity... so I'm going to go back to henna - but this time a diluted mix of cassia and henna (with more cassia in the mix than henna, so I can avoid the cool shades, and the excessive darkening).
My hair has been abused. I'm amazed it didn't just secede from my head altogether and leave me bald, by now!
My husband has been very understanding through all of this lol, but is much more enthusiastic over my hair experiments now that they will be used in turning me back into a red-head (his favorite hair color on me lol)... I'm also done chopping (finally!) - which he's also very very enthusiastic about.
(I should note that trying to go lighter, or darker were usually signs of unhappiness with self.. but when I was sticking with just the henna red, as it was - I was usually quite happy with life... hair reflective of internal issues... when I couldn't change the color - I chopped... lol... neither one is good, and I'm finding other outlets now for frustration expression lol)
mommy101405
October 31st, 2008, 07:34 PM
I had APL hair. I had it highlighted almost to the point where it was totally blond. Then I got a perm on top of that. The perm didn't turn out so I flat ironed it daily.
AngelInDisguise
November 1st, 2008, 03:35 AM
Very simple to answer: I had it cut. Not only once but twice when I had it at waist lentgth / between BSL and Waist.
It did not take me long to regret it both times thoug....
Hopefully I will be wiser in the future!
Raven69
November 1st, 2008, 04:36 AM
I used a blow dryer on it...blow dryers are evil! I accidentally lit a little bit of it (a small portion of a strand) on fire while trying to lite up my cigarette!
I joined the military and they chopped it all off in a boyish hair cut that was uneven all over and it only took a few weeks for it to grow out properly enough so that using water (since in boot camp we aren't allowed any sort of hair care products like styling gels and what not) I could shape it neatly and nicely. I got away with not having to do another trim cause I was keeping it tamed, curling the ends up into the back of my neck so it looked like I had hair above my collar...if you combed it out straight, it would have been well under my collar...
Ęther
November 3rd, 2008, 09:09 PM
The most tragic things happened to my hair when I didn't speak up when I should have whilst under the care of a hairdresser. These events were: spiral perm--didn't speak up when she was winding it too tight = rows of broken hair that grew up in sprouts all over the top of my head. Then there were the razor cuts. Then the bleaching for too long. I think the worst I've ever treated my own hair was when I had the strange notion that the few, dark & wavy hairs that were mixed in with my blond hair were invaders that all needed to be found and plucked. ack!!
Bene
November 5th, 2008, 08:04 PM
i'm guilty of soaking wet flat-ironing.... to the point where i could hear it sizzle :(
Jessikinz
November 5th, 2008, 08:13 PM
Highlighted my hair with one of those plastic cap things with holes in them, and you take a plastic/metal thing and poke through the holes and pull out strands of hair that you want highlighted. When it was time to wash it out, the hair that was pulled through the holes were all matted and tangled up all over my head. It took an hour to get the cap off of my head. My hair is thick, and this was no easy task I tell ya. My head was throbbing after I washed it. So much hair was pulled out, I almost wanted to just take the scissors and cut off my hair that was tangled up. Handfuls of hair later and my mom ripping a comb through my hair to "help" haha. My hair looked and felt so awful. The length felt stretchy and mushy, it didn't feel like hair.
meganb990
November 5th, 2008, 08:42 PM
In highschool I wanted to change my hair everyday. I permed it and colored it with an array of permanent dyes. I then got tired of the curls and attempted to chemically straighten my hair with at home hair relaxer kit. I didn't like how it wasn't straight enough still so I tried to blow dry and straighten with flat iron. I then later grew tired of the straighter style so I tried to perm again it wouldn't even take and I was left with EXTREMLY damaged hair. My hair was literally turning an orange color at the ends and snapping off at the ends it was so hard and dry. It makes me sick to think of it. :(
maliha
November 5th, 2008, 09:03 PM
The most evil thing i done to my hair is chemically coloring it,,, :(
I will never do that again
anniefish
November 5th, 2008, 09:47 PM
I tried washing my hair with regular bar soap. Now that stuff is even too drying and harsh to use on my body, I can only shudder to think what it did to my hair. Thankfully that was years ago.
Also, I got a tip from my ever-so-helpful BFF about spraying perfume onto wet hair to make it smell nice. It served its intended purpose, but I have no idea what kinds of harsh chemicals are in the perfume I used. Again, it was a long time ago.
baobhan sith
November 10th, 2008, 12:37 PM
When i was about five, I was a sweet generous kid who always wanted to help others.
So i cut off a load of my hair (bsl-waist) for the birdies to use in their nests so the babies would be comfortable.
My dad cried :)
And my mom... Lets not even go INTO all the stuff she did to her hair. There is one memorable occasion though, in her punk faze, when she ran out of hairgel. So, being the initiative-using sort of woman she was, she filled it with vaseline!!!:D
One bottle of shampoo, and two bottles of washing up liquid later, and it was still a complete matted greasy tangle. If only i'd been there...
Jean_Grey
November 10th, 2008, 12:44 PM
The most evil thing I ever did to my hair was let my Grandma-In-Law cut it. I was wary, but she assured me she had cut all kinds of hair and it would be noooo problem to give me a blunt cut around my shoulders. Half way through she kept muttering things like "I've never seen so much hair, how does she hold her head up" and "oops I'll just shape that up," "why are you so worried," and "whoops, that's not even..." The comments kept coming, :(... That's the shortest my hair ever got, and it took about 6 months and 4 haircuts to get right finally in a midneck bob.
joyellen
November 10th, 2008, 01:23 PM
Dyed it with permanent color three times in less than two months, flat ironed it wet. I'm sorry, hair. It will never happen again. :shake:
LawyerGirl
November 10th, 2008, 01:48 PM
Dyed it black, bleached it out, dyed it pink, bleached it out, dyed it back to brown... color faded and dyed it again. (In the space of about 1 1/2 month.) To style it... shampoo/condition/blowdry/straighten. And then wondered why it didn't look good long!! LOL.
MissMaryMac
November 10th, 2008, 01:57 PM
This is a great idea for a thread! I have done lots of horrible things to my hair, but to narrow it down... I permed my hair once and cried for a week, I shaved my head all but a 'devil's lock' and loved every minute of it...until I didn't. I have bleached my very very dark hair to be able to have red, then blue, purple, green, all different colors over the years. I really enjoyed having so much fun with my hair but I'm so glad I'm done with all that!!:D
joyfulmom4
November 11th, 2008, 07:43 PM
Well, aside from a few perms in the 80's, probably the worst is the time I accidentally mistook a can of Lysol for my usual hairspray and doused my entire head with disinfectant spray!!!:o:o:o:oshudder:shudder::agape::agape::aga pe::agape:
To make this even more horrible, I was getting ready for a date and the guy showed up at my door just about exactly when I realized my error. And he was totally without humor or sympathy about it. He just said "OK, let's go". Like a girl is going to want to go out to the theater with Lysol on her head!
Eden_Rayn
November 12th, 2008, 05:14 PM
I bleached my hair from black to light blonde. It took three bleach sessions with the bleach on for and hour each time in less than four weeks. The surprising thing is my hair was not all that damaged just had to cut off four inches but eh its behind me now.
kimberlily
November 12th, 2008, 05:27 PM
I permed my hair two days after dyeing it with Feria. My hair came out rubbery and started breaking off if I touched it. Within a couple of weeks, I cut it shorter than it had ever been.
Rebelkat
November 12th, 2008, 06:06 PM
:nono: Hmm... I've indeed done some evil/stupid stuff to my hair over the years. Lemme make a list for you: sun-in, dyeing it every couple of months for about two years, bleaching the front *BY MYSELF even* to give myself highlights like Rogue from X-Men, dyeing it back to my "natural" color and retouching it every couple months because it turned out not to be my true natural color, washing it almost every day and then blowfrying and straightening it *or in some cases sleeping on it wet and THEN straightening it in the morning*, ripping through it with a plastic-bristle brush and ignoring the ripping sounds, going about 6 years without a trim... I feel so bad for my hair when I think of all the horrible things I used to do to it. I also used to pull at the splits... which I always thought I was the only one who did that. Luckily, I'm older and wiser now. :meditate:
Fireweed
November 12th, 2008, 06:32 PM
Doing bad things to it trying to remove the henna and ending with some bleach and then a cut and then some more cutting. I still have some red in my hair but I have been just growing it for now.
1953Diygal
November 12th, 2008, 06:46 PM
In my late teens/early '20s, I was a hair-dye maniac. I would dye it black, then strip it out to blonde, then dye it red, then dye it black, and back to blonde, ad infinitum ad nauseum.
It felt like rubbery milkweed and didn't even hold permanent dye after awhile.
I dyed it black and managed to nurse it back to some sort of health during my senior year of HS. It was a bob that touched my ears. Then, days before graduation, I decided I wanted to be blonde. Well, this time, my hair just couldn't take it and melted off under the faucet. I received my diploma looking like Susan Powter (remember her? I graduated in '88. so I guess that comparison fits.)
GibsonGirlV
November 13th, 2008, 02:28 AM
Growing up, my hair used to be like iron. I paid no attention to ripping noises from the brush, I'd use an extremely old crimp iron or curling iron with no protection, I'd swim until my blonde hair turned green and my mother would wash it with tomato juice to get the chlorine out. Once I fell asleep with gum in my mouth and it ended up all over my hair. Peanut butter is what took that one out. I never tried cutting it myself though. I was terrified at the thought. I hated going to the salon because the barber would always trim more than I wanted.
Then, when I was about 12 I decided to chop off all my hair into a bob just long enough I could tie it into a stumpy pony tail. I wore it like that until 8th grade when I decided to grow it out again.
In high school I wasn't much better with the heat styling or brushing, yet my hair was still long and strong. The single worst thing I ever did to it was probably to use Touch of sun and Sun In. Touch of Sun never gave me any significant damage and I used it on and off for years but when it was discontinued, I foolishly switched to sun in. Bad mistake.
Oh, the most recent stupid thing I did was actually a recipe from here. I'm sure it's in the archives somewhere. It was supposed to help with hair growth and called for all sorts of things like banana, honey, vinegar, alcohol, basil, aragula, parsley, other leafy greens that I don't remember, and a large dose of garlic. I tried the recipe with a friend and both of our hair reeked overwhelmingly for weeks no matter how much cleansing shampoo we used. IT was just horrible. No one wanted to be within several feet of us. Unfortunately our hair growth wasn't helped either...oh well. No risk no gain.
kiora
November 15th, 2008, 05:27 PM
I've been pretty brutal with my hair over the years. Lots of coloring, bleach to get rid of all the color. I've kept going back and forth between dark brown or black to almost blonde, with every color in between of course. Heat styling, ripping out tangles etc, etc.
The worst thing I've ever done was when I bleached it twice in one day and my hair melted from my ears down. It was around BSL and I had to get a nasty cut which left me with about 1 inch of hair.
The horror! :(
Drynwhyl
November 16th, 2008, 04:43 AM
Nothing too much, ONCE I dyed it with a standard hair colour instead of henna, and i crimped it twice, full lenght, with a heat crimper (like an ironing tool, just zig-zag plates)
But that was years ago, now I don't do that :D
Boots
November 16th, 2008, 01:33 PM
I'm not bad, but as a child my aunt insisted on brushing out my very curly, classic length hair with really cheap plastic brushes. They constantly got stuck and had to be cut out of my hair. I used to cry my eyes out.
Arielle8960
November 16th, 2008, 03:06 PM
Oof. Let's see...
-I insisted on blunt bangs despite my stylist's warnings about my widow's peak. I was stubborn and she complied. It led to much straightening and hairspray until those suckers grew out.
-I wasn't allowed to go to bed or go outside with wet hair, so I blow-dried my waist-length every day until I was a teenager. Also, my mother's solution to dealing with my curly hair was to brush it hard until it looked like fluffy frizz and then French braid it. Not pretty.
-Bad bobs. Enough said. Whoever told me the "curly bob" would look good was stunningly wrong.
-Letting my sister straight iron my naturally curly hair, then recurling it with a curling iron for "more defined curls". I must have been a really dumb 10-year-old.
-My dad couldn't master little-girl hairstyles so he'd make a bad ponytail and then put a sticky Christmas bow on my head. Much thanks to my kindergarten teacher who carefully pried them off without ripping out a chunk of hair.
-I, too, had a mullet. We need a support group.
I'm still doing highlights to help out my awful dead-brown color. I'm a slow learner. But when a stylist wanted to perm my curly hair this year, I said no way!
savi
November 16th, 2008, 03:17 PM
I've had my color adventures, but the bleaching from dark brown back to blonde was the most evil thing I did.
Alana2000
November 16th, 2008, 04:10 PM
Perms, perms and more perms.. Looking back I can't believe my own mother wanted me to have perms as a young child! When I was a shampoo girl 10 years ago I saw an 8 year old getting her hair permed, man did I feel her pain.
willowcandra
November 20th, 2008, 02:45 AM
Using a colour with amonia in and left it on twice the time. It ruined my hair and it has never recovered (four years now.) The part it ruined never lays smooth at all. even when it's well moisturised and shiny it still looks awful loose-I haven't really worn my hair down for four years because of that event.
On the up side it's what made me decide to go natural. There's only 10-12" of colour left now. And I can tell my hair is going to be everything I want when it's all natural. I am often tempted to cut the colour off.
RedFrizz
November 22nd, 2008, 01:38 PM
I've done lots of bad, bad, very bad things to my hair.. I'm surprised that my hair hasn't burned the bridges with me and just shed totally. Here's some highlights that I can remember, most of these happened before I hit 20:
- I used to dry my hair with blow-dryer after every wash and rinse without protecting my hair in any way.
- I've bleached my hair several times, and usually did at least 2 bleaches per day. And no, I did not use proper conditioner afterwards.
- Because all the bleaches combined with my naturally curly hair, my hair had the shape of a pyramid and the texture was coarse, frizzy and just plain ugly. Then I decided to get a perm to achieve 'nice, bouncy curls'. Need not to say, that didn't quite happen.
- I got a perm 3 times during 2 years time and then finally I straightened my hair chemically. Fantastic..
- I used chemical hair dyes, regular (supermarket stuff) shampoo and conditioner, didn't ever give my hair deep treatments etc for too many. If I were my hair, I so wouldn't speak to me.
Rahenna
November 26th, 2008, 06:56 AM
I bleached my hair (twice in one day, I think) and dyed it light blue.
And it was a cheapo temporary color that wore off quickly and left me with white straw on my head, which of course had to be dyed back to blonde.
I have no idea how it managed NOT to fall off!
Rita
November 26th, 2008, 02:11 PM
The worst thing I ever did to my hair was a perm I got when I was fifteen years old. Later, I dyed my hair black for years. But the perm was much more damaging.
Drynwhyl
November 27th, 2008, 10:33 AM
Sorry, I just have to say how disgusted I am with bleaching. I have a girl in my class whose hair looks like straw, breaks off and sheds like crazy, her hairs are everywhere. I just feel an urge to shave her head and grow new healthy hair :P
Peter
November 27th, 2008, 05:32 PM
I think the worst thing I've ever done to it was trying to cut it myself during the awkward mid-length phase. The ends flipped out like crazy and I decided I would shave a small bit at my hairline for whatever reason... now I have one small strand at my mouth, another at chin length, with the rest a few inches past my shoulders. Big mistake.
ilovelonghair
November 27th, 2008, 05:52 PM
I think for me it would be perming it and then bleaching and that was not all, about a year later I started dying it: every week a different color. OK it was not permanant dye, but still!
Midnightluna
November 27th, 2008, 06:40 PM
Wow, what's the most evil thing I've ever done to my hair?
Many times i've tried to go platinum blonde or pure white with loads of 40 volume bleach, my natural color is a mousy light brown.
I'll never forget the time I had to sit in a auto repair shop for many hours, with charcoal grey-green hair, after my failed atempt at trying to color my white hair to black with a boxed dye!:shake:
Henitsirk
November 28th, 2008, 07:24 PM
I used to be a Sun-In junkie in middle school. Then in college I leaned over a candle too close and burned off some of my bangs. That was scary!
basketcase413
November 28th, 2008, 07:59 PM
I cut my shoulder length to a "layered" collar length style.....MYSELF!!! I was in the eighth grade, right before school pictures....it's a wonder my mother didn't kill me! LOL
Johanna64
November 29th, 2008, 03:07 AM
Sorry, I just have to say how disgusted I am with bleaching. I have a girl in my class whose hair looks like straw, breaks off and sheds like crazy, her hairs are everywhere. I just feel an urge to shave her head and grow new healthy hair :P
Looks like my hair,after I bleached it two times in two years.
I'm glad it's almost grown out and I never gonna bleach my hair again!!
Ven
November 29th, 2008, 10:29 PM
In Junior High, I had a "pledge fight" with my best friend. You know... the stuff you use to dust the wooden furniture in your house. It was a friendly fight. We had a blast. If I am recalling correctly, I had shoulder length, very thick hair that poofed out like a mushroom :o and she had lovely, long, straight waist-length hair :love:. It took several washes to finally get the stuff out of our hair.
~Ven
Philomela
November 29th, 2008, 10:35 PM
Henna for about a couple of years. Never again.
Enoimreh
December 1st, 2008, 09:20 AM
I have:
Dyed it a different color every month for 5+ YEARS.
Got It Permed and Bleached at the same time
Cut My Ankle Length hair off to a pixie
Dyed My Hair with Koolaid
Used Color Oops
Yanked my brush through every day
Used a regular iron to straighten my hair for 3 years straight
Used Peroxide,Clorox, Sun-In,Lemon Juice ,You name it to bleach/lighten my hair
Cut my floor lenght hair (i was i think 4ft at the time) off with safety scissors.
and Cut 12 inches off the underneath of my hair on one side only when it was only about 14 inches long
morguebabe
December 1st, 2008, 09:46 AM
I've permed it.
And I've bleached the entire head more than once...(I still bleach sections)
justgreen
December 1st, 2008, 10:28 AM
I used hair spray on the length two Christmas' ago, :justy:
Then about a month ago, I used a TINY spray of Sexy Hair, the one in the big tall red can?, on the top of my head. UGH, I had to clarify to get it out, then over condition my hair for a week. *justy reminds herself to stick to her rotated stash*
Enoimreh
December 2nd, 2008, 07:39 AM
Oh I forgot one...i've "cut" my hair with a lighter.
chantiny
December 3rd, 2008, 06:46 AM
For halloween when I was about twelve, I decided to dress up as a zombie... which meant smearing Nickelodeon's Gak (for those of you who don't know, it is a glow in the dark clear silly putty that is slightly more goopy) all over my head and letting it dry, and having my friends cover me with 3 cans of silly string, waiting for THAT to all dry partially in the gak.
After the almost year it took to stop finding hardened little crusts of goo in my hair, I bleached it and put purple manic panic in it. Looked awesome, for the two days it stayed. Had crunchy white-blonde hair after that, and just let it grow out.
My current no-no habits I'm trying to break are not just breaking through tangles when I'm angry, not wearing my hair in the exact same ponytail in the exact same place 24/7 and braiding it for variance (lots of breakage from that, I have a little coat of frizz on the crown), and thats about it!:rolleyes:
Kellie_Brunette
December 3rd, 2008, 04:59 PM
When I was 15, oh about 1981 (a long, LONG time ago), I used Sun-In...
And the result was minor so I applied it again... and again, and again, and again. Finally, it was blonde (I have dark brown hair) and completely and utterly FRIED.
It was horrid stuff. I had to get it cut off and wait for the rest to grow out. My hair was terribly for about a year.
The silver lining to this story is that I've never used such products again!
MAO
December 3rd, 2008, 06:46 PM
Lets's see.....I've permed it a number of times. The last time I didn't like how it came out so I spent a lot of time trying to straighten it. And when I was in 10th grade my love affair with red hair took over and I used to dye my hair at least once a month with boxed dye on the WHOLE length, cuz it always fades so quick. And it would fade so quickly b/c I washed and blow dryed it EVERY single day complete with drying alcohol based hair mousse. My hair was a dry frizzy mess! Oh yeah, and back in junior high I used to do the thing with my bangs, try to tease them as tall as I could. So I had permed hair with big tidal wave bangs. Man I used to use a lot of hairspray!! I cringe to think about how much money I must have spent on hair products in my life! Now I try to use as little product as possible in the pursuit of healthy hair and stick to henna for my red hair.
Crazy Lady
December 6th, 2008, 12:44 AM
Two summers ago, I bleached and dyed my hair for the first time. My hair must be pretty strong, because we had to use two boxes of ultra-powerful bleach and leave them on for a very long time. I wanted blue, but it came out a blue/green which was pretty cool. After that i proceeded to change my hair color frequently for the next 5 or 6 months. Unfortunately for me, I didn't find lhc until after I had bleached my hair about 10 times. I'm amazed that my ends have recovered as much as they have. They feel like real hair again :)
JamieLeigh
December 10th, 2008, 10:28 AM
I think the most evil thing that was ever done was done by my Mom when I was in 4th grade...she gave me the quintessential 80's-little-girl-French-Poodle-perm. I eventually got a HUGE tangle under it and had to get it cut shoulder-length in 6th grade.
As for me, the worst thing I did was not take care of it properly...as in, raking brushes from top to bottom without detangling properly, and not conditioning well or trimming the split ends off. I had to cut a LOT off of it after high school; it was nearly knee-length, and went to below shoulder-blade. Plus, I had bangs, which was also my Mom's doing, but it took me forever to grow them back out. The front part is just NOW 40", with the rest of my hair.
AutumnSky
December 10th, 2008, 10:46 AM
Two words: Spiral. Perm. Awww yeah.
Then there was the summer (middle school....I was unwise to the ways of the world), that mom wouldn't buy me Sun-In (remember that stuff? I so wanted to be blond!), and she muttered something about it being "just lemon juice and peroxide". Clever girl that I am (was), I mixed up a spray bottle with lemon juice and HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, and put it on my hair all day, every day while I was baking in the sun covered in baby oil. (Wanted to be tan too.....)
I have pictures still.... sticky, frizzy, straw. what a mess that was!
Angellen
December 10th, 2008, 06:49 PM
Honestly, the worst thing I've ever done was neglect it. I had classic length hair when I was younger, but I wouldn't brush it regularly, so there were always snarls and I went to the beach almost every day, so the ends were dry and frail. The last six inches of my hair were copper-blond in color from sun and mechanical damage, and I have naturally brown/black hair. That was not good. Even bleaching and dying it purple wasn't THAT bad.
Mearwynna
December 10th, 2008, 08:12 PM
Oh, gosh. spiral perms are the worst. Instead of getting it removed, I decided to brush it out. Took years for my hair to recover.
Second bad thing I did was thinking that I should cut it. Now I have to start over. <grumble>
Shadow
December 15th, 2008, 05:23 AM
About 5 years ago I had a hairdresser who interpreted my request for a darker Ash blonde colour as Deepest Auburn. I had to have my hair stripped twice in an attempt to get the colour out which left it so damamged that I actually shaved it all off and started over.
Very distressing, but lesson well learned.:(
Twitter
December 15th, 2008, 04:44 PM
I too have used the dreaded Sun-in..with a blow-fryer, not the sun. It turned my (already dyed) hair kind of a orange-copper color, not good.
annys
December 18th, 2008, 08:20 PM
Two words: Spiral. Perm. Awww yeah.
Then there was the summer (middle school....I was unwise to the ways of the world), that mom wouldn't buy me Sun-In (remember that stuff? I so wanted to be blond!), and she muttered something about it being "just lemon juice and peroxide". Clever girl that I am (was), I mixed up a spray bottle with lemon juice and HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, and put it on my hair all day, every day while I was baking in the sun covered in baby oil. (Wanted to be tan too.....)
I have pictures still.... sticky, frizzy, straw. what a mess that was!
What is it about middle school- I did the perm thing too. UGH!!!
gdimoonbeam
December 18th, 2008, 08:52 PM
The 1980's.
AutumnSky
December 18th, 2008, 08:55 PM
The 1980's.
**shudder**
joyjoy
December 18th, 2008, 11:51 PM
Definitely the worst for me was the perm I got back in high school.
It was a short cap of curls that might have been cute, if it hadn't been overprocessed. My hair would just crumble away.
No perm solution anywhere near my hair ever again.
Finoriel
December 19th, 2008, 03:02 AM
Long time ago when I was sick of all the redhead-jokes at school I wanted to bleach my hair.
My mom did not allow it, because I was just 12 or 13 at that time.
My grandma had the great idea to tell me that you could lighten your hair with swimming in the ocean and letting your hair dry in the sun or leaving on lemon juice on it.
I had the evil genius idea to combine those methods for maximum effectiveness. Spray on salty lemon juice several times a day and go out into the sun to let it dry and "naturally" lighten my hair. Every single day for the whole spring and summer. *cringe*
Very bad idea of course. :lol: A birds nest in fry_city would have looked better. Ripping through it with a ball tipped brush to detangle the mess did not help either.
:wink: You live you learn.
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