What was your worst hair disaster ever?

When I was in grade school my mom would cut my hair. It was always lopsided and my bangs were like 1/2” long. I looked so stupid.
In middle school it was cool to have a spiral perm and bangs that fluffed out like a tumbleweed. I look back now knowing how stupid it looked, but I don’t regret it at all because it was the fashion at the time.

Just before I got married I was getting a perm (remember those?) and the hair dresser was taking the perm rods out of my hair and gasped. I looked like a poodle in my wedding pictures.

I had grown my hair to about the middle of my back and decided I wanted to chop it off in a cut similar to the Posh cut (this was before she made it popular). Well, the lady got the basic idea right, but when I left the salon, my hair was so choppy and messed up that it looked like Helen Keller had cut it!

When I was 16, a friend and I thought it was be fun to buy those at home dye kits and do each others hair. Well hers turned out great while mine turned out uneven and my hair looked green/grayish. I was devestated. We went back to buy another box, applied it, same thing, it looked shitty. I had to go to a pro and they striped all the color out of it leaving it white then applied a full color of brownish/red. Yuck. I thought my world was going to end.

While drunk the night before a job interview, I decided it would be a good Idea to cut and comb out (with olive oil no less) my colored dreads out, and give my self a haircut. As you can guess, it was a disaster. It ended up looking like a chemo type thing, and very much self inflicted. I did get the job, so it must not have been all that bad…or maybe they were desperate!!

I was getting a perm when I was in 7th grade (so kewl, I know) and the lady asked, “Do you want me to perm your bangs?” I guess that’s what you get for getting a perm at Fantastic Sam’s. I said yes, being 12 and having no bang-perming expertise. Needless to say, I ended up with a row of red curls lining my forehead, at about 1/2 and inch long. Annnndddd, it was right before picture day at school. I tried desperately to wash the perm out, but had no success. The picture will haunt me forever!

I cut my own hair usually, its pretty easy since i just have a Number 2 Clip all the way around.

So one day i cut my hair and while im taking a shower right after i notice some hair i missed and it was like a patch of hair uneven. I hop out the shower and turn the clippers back on and hit the spot…what i forgot was to put the Number 2 Clip back on so i ended up the a bald spot…

Needless to say 10 minutes later i walk out of my room bald and my dad asks me “What the hell happened in there?”

Two:

1) My hair is fine and curly. At 18 I wanted to see what it would be like to have straight hair without having to blow it out. The hairdresser picked out what he thought was a weak solution. He put it in, rinsed it out, gave me a blow dry and sent me on my way. I looked fine. My hair was bone straight, even after washing and air drying.

About a month later, when about an inch of new growth came in, my hair snapped off at the crown. Just at the crown. The rest of my hair stayed long. You can well imagine my shrieking and sobbing. I went to see him and made him refund my money. I had to wear a high pony tail for almost 2 years, until my hair was long enough to cut evenly to an above the shoulder length.

2) I went to a different hairdresser a few years later to get my hair colored a deep auburn. She put in a bleach, unbeknownst to me, and walked away to chat on the phone. About half an hour later, she rinsed it out and I was platinum blonde. My skin is about the same color as Tina Knowles’, to give you an idea of just how wrong I looked. My (naturally blond) BF at the time took one look and collapsed into laughter. He had to leave the salon, that’s how hard he was laughing. I was not charged and the stylist fixed it, but I’ll never forget the looks of the other patrons when they saw my hair unveiled. Bug-eyed to a woman.

There was a late ‘80s movie titled Hiding Out starring John Cryer. He was a Wall Street trader who witnesses a mob hit and enters the witness protection program. They decide, because of his youthful looks, to pass him off as a high school student.

He did his hair in a short mullet with the sides dyed pure white.

So did I.

I went in to get my hair ‘highlighted’ and when the girl was done, I actually had a ‘frost’ job! I have natural brown hair (I did then anyway) and after she got done it was pretty much all blonde or frosted! I went home and actually cried for like a week off an on after that!

I had to have a really short haircut later cause it would have taken way too long to let it grow out. Luckily my hair grew really fast so it wasnt’ so bad, but then I was very cautious after that on ‘where I go’ for getting my hair done!

My one disaster was color related, too. Our daughter went to beauty school when she got out of high school. So I went over to the school one day wanting a frost. Her instructor told her what colors to put together. She put it on, & as it processed, it turned the most “lovely” shade of green. I about had a stroke! Other customers were coming in the door & saw me sitting there with green hair. The got it fixed, but needless to say, I never did THAT again!

A year ago I went to the hairdressers and asked for a side bangs that went alll the way across my face like ashlee simpsons bang. She parted my hair to the side and cut a very wide bangs just like I asked. But she parted it too far to the opposite side so when she let it fall naturally the bang went from the middle of my forehead to past my ear. It looked horrible because there was my bang that went halfway around my head. Its almost grown out but now its damaged, dry and wont straighten properly. Now I have bangs that go all the way across my forehead. It looks exactly like Miley Cyrus bangs: http://www.usmagazine.com/files/miley_blog_11.jpg At first I hated them but I fixed them and they look fabulous!

my high school yearbook picture.

in middle school, my mum allowed me to experiment with my hair.
let’s just say, i’m sure glad that that’s out of my system…

O had to look back and see which one I used back then. There was also the first time I used a gas ignighted firelace. I turned in the gas then went looking for a match. I lost hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. In retrospect, I considerysrlf lucky. At the time I was so depressed because I couldn’t afford a wig.

iPhone won’t let me correct the phrase ” considered myself lucky. ”