Worst hair cut experience. Tell me about yours so I don't feel so bad.

[Maddy McCall]

I've got my worst experience right now. I always wear my hair in a graduated bob, with short soft layers on the back, tapering around to long non-layered around my face. I've worn the same hairstyle for a decade. It's not the hairstyle you see so many people wearing nowdays--it's shorter-layered in the back, angled toward the chin, but a little shorter and more layered.

So, my hairstylist moved to Texas, and I'm left without one. I made an appointment at "the" salon in town and went to have my hair cut this morning.

Now I've got a freakin' inch-thick WEIGHT LINE across the back of my head. I look like I could be on some eighties sitcom. It's worse than a mullet. It's AWFUL.

While the stylist was gouging at my head with the clippers, I wondered, "What the ef is she doing back there with CLIPPERS?" She gave me the mirror to look at the back and I almost passed out, it was so bad. My next mistake was asking her to take some of the weight off the back. She pulled out the clippers again, and made the weight line higher. Oh god. Thank god another sylist I used, who lives 75 miles away, is going to straighten it out tomorrow, if it can be straightened out without giving me a high-n-tight. :cry:

Tell me about your worst experience, so that I don't feel so bad about mine.

[1gobluedem]

1. I asked for a layered cut and got a mullet

At a resort near Phoenix two weeks before my brother's wedding. It looked so horrible that none of us got any of the pictures with me in them. Took AGES to grow out.

[Maddy McCall]

4. Tragic.

Oh man, I'd have died. She cut off long layers on the side and gave you a mullet???

I'd have died right there.

I'm not vain about much...but I like my hair in the style I like. I feel like I'm not me without my hairstyle.

:cry:

[idgiehkt]

31. same here, my second year of college

it took forever to grow out. :cry:

[Katina]

2. I asked for a trim & a body wave

and the bimbo overprocessed my hair so that if frizzed up like poodle hair. Then it started breaking off in clumps. I spent a week with mayo on my hair just so I could go to my brother's wedding. I had below the shoulder length hair and had to have it all cut off. I've never forgotten it. HORRIBLE! :grr:

[Maddy McCall]

5. Jesus.

I thought my experience was bad.

:(

[Katina]

6. Don't you feel better now?

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

10. Mine is much more easily repairable.

I can't imagine having that much damage to my hair as you had.

I don't color my hair (yet), but I get it foiled several times a year. Thank god I didn't ask her to foil it...I'd look like Mo with skunk stripes!

:hi:

[Katina]

15. I never got another perm after that

shell shocked as I was. I am lucky in that my hair grows quickly, so after the wedding, I had it cut short and let it grow out with regular trims to get rid of the remnants of the perm fiasco(at a new and good place) so by the following summer, my hair looked great again and was just above my shoulders.
It sounds like you have a great head of hair and your friend will make it look fantastic.

[Maddy McCall]

18. Thanks, Katina...

I have really thick hair, so I guess I'm lucky. I don't like to spend a lot of time on it, and the style is an easy one. I'm hoping it grows out soon.

I can't imagine how horrid it was for you to see what your stylist did. *faint*

[VenusRising]

3. Oh Maddy! I'm so sorry.

Some people should not be allowed to have scissors or clippers. :hug:

I went in to have my hair colored. My hair is usually dark brown with some red in the sunlight. Well, I liked the color of the red and asked for my hair to be all that color. When it was over, my hair was as orange as yellow-orange as a marigold. I went to the salon in the morning before I had to work that afternoon, so there was no way to have it fixed before work. It was awful!

[Maddy McCall]

7. Why in heaven's name...

could the stylist not see the difference between red and yellow? Did you get it fixed quickly?

This haircut is so bad, I'm going to wear my baseball cap until I get it restyled. I look like Mo on the Three Stooges.

And, :hug: back...and thanks for the hug. I need a big hug and a good stylist right now...and a beer.

:cry:

[VenusRising]

17. I wish I knew why she didn't know!

I got it fixed about a week later when my schedule finally allowed it.

I'm so sorry Maddy. You should go and give that stylist a


:hug:
:beer:

[Maddy McCall]

19. Well, I'm going to print it and take it to my stylist tomorrow...

and tell her, "This is what I DON'T want to look like."

:rofl:

Seriously, I am.

:D

[skygazer]

8. My worst haircut experience was actually someone else's

My best friend had one of those Flo-bee things that he always used to cut his hair. He actually did a good job with it but I used to tease him about it all the time.

Well, one day, he came to my door with a really bad cut and, figuring it was a Flo-bee accident, I quipped, "Gee, I hope you didn't pay money for that haircut!"

Turns out he did - he'd taken my ribbing to heart and decided to have a pro do it. The look on his face was priceless but I felt so bad. :(

[Maddy McCall]

11. LOL!!

:rofl:

Thanks for making me laugh. :rofl:

I always wondered if those flobee things worked. :D

[Inchworm]

9. When weather broke this year

I couldn't stand it and thought I'd cut my own hair. The scissors were dull, and it still hasn't grown out enough to go to a professional.

I have my opening statement ready for when I do go though...

"Fix my head!"

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

13. I already called my out of town stylist and told her what happened.

She was laughing at me on the phone.

She's going to fix me tomorrow...that's what I told her: "Please fix my hair!"

:D

I won't ever cut my own hair...but I could probably do a better job than what this person did to my hair today. :)

[TheProphetess]

12. Yikes! Hair is a very sensitive issue for me

because I have naturally curly hair and a hair cut can easily go wrong. I wear it fairly short anyway, but if they take off too much, it sticks to my head and I have no height and nothing to work with. So, it's a fine line between a great cut and "I'm bald!"

Well, in graduate school, a got a really bad cut - it was so short that it was awful. Everyone noticed and commented on "how short you cut your hair!" I was pulling on it for weeks trying to get it to give a little. It was a nasty experience.

Thankfully you have someone to help out. Good luck! :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

16. That's how I am.

I wear my hair pretty short, and I want the cut to be something that just "falls" into place without a lot of worry. I have never realized how talented my former stylist was until today.

:cry:

Thanks for your empathy. :hug:

[CottonBear]

14. This happened to a good friend of mine:

His best friend is a hairdresser. He wanted to condition his hair. She told him to get nuetral henna. He bought some and mixed it up and conditioned his hair. When he took off the towel to rinse it off he saw that his hair was bright circus clown orange!

The henna had been mispackaged. :(

She couldn't fix it right away because she was going out that evening. He went to the drug store for cheap dark brown haircolor and he colored his hair and it turned sort of an Elvis black color. :(

The next day she gave him a buzzcut.

Oh the horror of orange hair. :(

**********************************************************************************************

I hope your hairdo fix works. Hopefully, your hair will grow out quickly and you'll have your favorite hairdo once again.
:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

22. LOL.

I'm sorry I'm laughing, but I NEED to laugh. I cannot imagine! At least I still have my color, I guess. :D

Thanks for the good wishes. My stylist tomorrow is great. I know she can fix it. :hug:

[CottonBear]

LOL! At least you still have your color! Good luck tomorrow!

Post and let us know how the "fix" turns out! :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

27. Will do!

I'm really praying that this doesn't end up with a "I can't fix it" response, and a mandatory pixie cut.

:D

[rubberducky]

20. It`s only hair and will grow back. No big deal.

I learned this when my son was growing up. My extended family would howl everytime they saw my son. He would go from shaved head to long hair,to braided hair to whatever was the latest and greatest hairstyle of the time. "the family" did not seem to understand that it was only hair. I`ve had good haircuts and bad haircuts, but with a little time it will change. Try not to sweat the small things! You`ll be a lot happier!! Just my 2 cents

[Maddy McCall]

23. Like I said above, I'm not a vain person...

I don't usually wear make-up, and I depend on a good hairstyle that fits my face to carry me so that I DON'T have to wear make-up. I dress very casually--my haircut is the one thing I want precisely right.

[SacredCow]

21. haven't seen a weight line in ages....

but boy did I love them in the '80s.

I never really had a truly tragic haircut, or maybe I just never really cared that much since mine grows so fast. But I can tell of my sister's self-inflicted drama....

She decided she wanted highlights. Mom said no, so one day when just she and I were home she went to the corner drugstore and bought a home kit that a friend suggested. She set to pulling strands through the cap while I was being the nosy little brother. I happened upon the box, which was called "FROST & TIP." Her hair was the same color as mine- Dark brown. "Ummm, Sis? I don't think this is a good idea...." She expressed her general disagreement and continued with the process. Half an hour later, her brown hair was streaked with white. Not light brown, not, dark blonde, not even light blonde. Stark, freakin' white!!!! Much to my amusement, of course. Out comes my camera, and begins the mother of all fights. Cue Mom's arrival home to find the house wrecked and her daughter looking like a zebra. When the smoke settled, Mom went to the drugstore and bought a repair kit, which worked but all of the chemicals really fried her hair so it still looked ridiculous. But it finally grew out, and to this day she'll slug me in the arm if I bring it up.

[Maddy McCall]

25. Ha!

That's a great story. Sisses should listen to their brothers sometime. :rofl:

[barb162]

55. Oh, I would have slugged you too

You remind me of my brother!
haha

[caty]

24. I have a thing

about the length of my bangs. I went to get a cut once and told the stylist not to cut my bangs because they were the perfect length. In the middle of the cut, she grabbed my bangs and whacked off about 2" before I could stop her. I asked her why she did that since I told her to leave my bangs alone. She said that she thought I would look better with them that short. I was so angry that when I went up to the counter, I told the woman there what had happened and told her that I was not going to pay for the cut. I walked out and never heard a word from them.

Try to find a picture of the kind of hairstyle you want and take it with you next time.

[Maddy McCall]

26. How rude of her.

What SHE thinks isn't what matters. It's what the customer thinks, right?

I was trying to explain the cut to the sylist today, and she cut me off mid-sentence and said, "I know what you want." Well, her idea of what I wanted was not my idea of what I wanted.

:(

[Maddy McCall]

28. I've GOT to go clean my house...I'll check back on this thread tonight.

Thanks, DUers, for making me feel better.

:grouphug:

[hfojvt]

29. I asked for my hair to be cut short

and she totally exposed my ears, creating a massive Dumbo effect. This haircut was so bad as I walked down the dorm stairs in full view of the cafeteria I could see a sea of heads turning to look at me. Presumably the person sitting across from them had just exclaimed 'holy sh*t, look at that haircut'.

Of course, far worse than that was the one I gave myself. I always thought I would shave my head some day. So one day, being in a particularly pi$$y mood, I decided to do it. Only as I got halfway through the mirror was screaming at me 'Oh! My! God! What have you done??' There was no choice, but to continue, but I did not have the nerve to shave it clean, so I ended up with kind of a crooked, but really short mohawk. For months after that people who hadn't seen me for a while would jump and tell me something I did not know 'you got a haircut!'

[Adsos Letter]

30. Night before my daughter's wedding

...last Thursday night, to be exact.

I have worn a full beard and mustache for 14+ years...

I tried trimming the 'stache as usual but clipped it too high (I was really tired); however, I kept futzing with it trying to correct the mistake.

Finally, I had to shave off the mustache.

With just the beard and no mustache I looked...Amish...totally.

I call my wife in. She-who-must-be-obeyed cannot stop laughing...

Trying to ignore my wife's hysterics I look to my mother-in-law and oldest daughter (she-who-is-about-to-be-wed) for their opinions.

Both hem and haw and mutter something unintelligible...

She-who-must-be-obeyed has laughed herself into some kind of fit and is trying to drink some water without choking...she is having trouble with it...

I look at my younger daughter who, having wisdom beyond her years, has remained silent throughout.

"Well...?" I ask.

"Shave the beard, Dad".

So I shave.

And the next day I am at my daughter's wedding, clean-shaven, a look I haven't worn since my late 30's (I am now 51).

A lot has changed since my late 30's...

And I gotta' answer questions about it All. Day. Long.


BEFORE:






AFTER:





:D

[Adsos Letter]

34. Hmmmm...I think I might have stepped into the ladies section of The Lounge...

*sigh* just add it to the rest of my week...

:rofl:

[amitten]

58. You look MUCH better now! Keep it. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

60. LOL!!!...thankyou amitten...I think...

actually I am going to keep it 'cause it feels good and my chin isn't as pointy anymore. :rofl:

Now, I just gotta' get in the habit of shaving most days.

:hi: :D

[Dora]

62. That's a beautiful picture.

What a happy family. Congratulations! :)

[Adsos Letter]

78. Thankyou Dora

Our family is close, and we have worked to make it that way.

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

69. For the wedding,I actually like the second photo better.

You look very handsome for your daughter's wedding. I like the beard, too, but the clean-shaven look suits you well when you spiffy up.

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

77. Thankyou Maddy...

In that tux I feel like I look like a member of the old Soviet Politburo...plus a rose.

:hi:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

32. walked in with hair over 3 feet long

asked for a trim and left with a bob way above my shoulder blades. I cried for days. I will never get another hair cut from somebody who claims to speak English but doesn't understand the difference between centimeters and inches.

[terrya]

33. In the 70's, I got a permanent.

It was the most hideous looking thing I could have ever done to myself. I went and got it straightened out after a week.

[mzteris]

35. I got several for ya -

When I was about 26 and married, I decided to dye my brown shoulder length hair blonde as my then hubby "liked blondes".

I went to the store and got the kit. Et voila. ORANGE stripy hair. So I called a friend who said I should have gotten two boxes and left it on longer. So I went and got another box and did it again. Sorta apricot and orangy stripy.

The hubby comes home and cracks up. I start crying. I go back to the store and get the brown and dye it back. It's kind of a weird brownish with orange highlights but I could live with it.

But wait - there's more.

So not too many days later - I went to the hairdresser to get a perm and a trim.

My hair FRIED (of course) and she had to cut it short short short. I looked like a Brillo pad. It was so bad that on the next Monday morning when my carpool came to pick me up, one of the guys actually fell out of the car he was laughing so hard when I walked out.


Next story:

My daughter was about 9 years old. She had very long very very thick hair - it was pretty straight. One day after I left for work and she was SUPPOSED to be catching the bus, she went back in and decided to use my "hot curling BRUSH" on her hair. She rolled it up to the scalp. It got tangled in her hair and started burning her scalp. She panicked and cut it off.

She had about a silver dollar sized bald patch on the left side of her head. Half of the left side of her head had jagged hair of varying lengths from 1/2 inch to several feet and everything in between. She called me at work crying. I started crying.

I rushed home - took her to a hairdresser who trimmed it up as best she could. We decided on a far right part and she'd comb over the "bald spot" with the hair frmo the right side. Only one problem, she had a dance recital in three days - and it required that she wear her hair pulled back in a bun! Bald spot shining and little spikes everywhere.



Next story:

My daughter (same one - still very long thick hair). In highschool (sophomore, I think) she had a part as a Polynesian dancer in the musical South Pacific. The director wanted the girls to put a black temporary rinse on their hair so they'd look "more authentic". So off I go to the store (you think I'd've learned) and pick up some temporary black haircolor.

She had black blotches/stripes in her hair all down the back. Got another box. Still more stripes and blotches. The front looked "ok" - but very black. It never washed out - like it was supposed to. And it finally just grew out - with some healthy trims but it took nearly two years.



Next story:

One of my foster boys decided he wanted to trim his hair while at school one day. He cut a chunk out of his hair in the front down to the scalp. Thank god he was a boy - we basically shaved it.

[Sequoia]

36. I asked for a spiffy hip chick cut and my hair dresser said:

I even showed her the picture (back in the 1980's but not that Valley Girl look, more punky) "Oh, that's too young for you" so she gives me a cut that made me look like Hitler. All I had to do was tape a black comb under my nose. "Now, isn't that cute!" she cried. Never went back. So, fast-forward to last year in cow town were I live now I stroll in to one of those walk-in places and want my hair short, "Does your husband know you're getting your hair cut short?" "I think you should have a style like Dorothy Hamil" or whatever that ice skating person was.

The sharpest and best cut I got was at Santa Monica's Vidal Sasson salon where the students were learning to cut.

[quiet.american]

37. Paid $200 for ash-brown, came out with I Love Lucy-red.

I've worn my hair every length and color from Grace Jones jet-black buzzcut, to platinum-blonde shoulder-length. Okay, here's my story from about six years ago:

I was in an in-between stage (short-medium hair, natural color brown) and my long-time stylist had just dropped out of the business for a while.

I decided to go to a salon that was supposed to be "the bomb" for African-American hair.

Told the stylist (we'll call him Mr. G. -- with his opinion of himself, perhaps I should be using the title, His Highness G) and told him I was in the mood for an ash-brown look. First, he gravely informed me we would have to strip my hair first and then put the color in as though he were informing me getting this color would require a lobotomy! By that time, I'd had my hair bleached six or seven times in my life, no big deal (and my hair was in very good condition), do it already.

Okay, so we pick out the color sample together.

He goes to work. While the color's setting, I get my eyebrows plucked, a process which turned out to be 45 minutes of sheer hell and pain with results I could have come up with in 15 minutes at home with my tweezer.

Okay, while the color is in my hair, Mr. G informs he's put something special in the color that will really make it fantastic.

Hmn, I think to myself.

He rinses me, towel-dries my hair, turns me around to the mirror.... and OMG... I Love Lucy-red is staring back at me.

He's beside himself with pride and joy at what he has wrought, so much so that to this day I regret that I couldn't burst his bubble with a WTF have you done to me!!!

He then proceeds to give me a cut (I'm sitting there at this point stunned speechless) that was so mediocre, I don't even remember what it was, all the while giddy and proud over his "accomplishment." Meanwhile the two other customers in the salon were sneaking me looks of pity.

It was the worst!

[Burma Jones]

I'm 14, playing Varsity football and just about to start High School

I go down to the Navy Base for a haircut and the barber gives me a USMC special...I was major dorky looking

[Evoman]

38. Mine story isn't that bad.

I've always liked my hair longer on top, and buzzed short around the sides. Then I just let it grow for 3 months, then cut. Repeat.

I went to the hairdresser one time, and asked for that cut. She gave me a mushroom cut. MUSHROOM. It looked like someone put a bowl on my head, and just cut around. And this was when mushroom cuts WERE NOT IN STYLE. I basically looked like one of those medieval pages.

I ended up getting my aunt to give me a buzzcut.

I also find, in general, that its a bad idea to go to the same haircutter more than 3 times or so. AFter 3 times, they start getting lazy and taking you for granted. And then they give you a shitty cut, even if you liked all their haircuts before.

[texas1928]

39. Thread Needs Pic.

We really need Pics.

[Rising Phoenix]

40. eeek

so I went in for a trim....my hair was short and spikey, kinda punky and raverish. I come out with a, and I shit you not, a Liza Minelli do. I cried right then and there. Even Sniffa could not hide his horror.

It was bad.

Sorry about your bad haircut, hope they can fix it.

[LaraMN]

41. I went insane when I was pregnant, and cut my hair with a pocketknife,

while a passenger in a moving vehicle.
It did not turn out well, but it grew out. It did less damage than my similarly insane over-plucking of my eyebrows during the aforementioned time period.

[amitten]

59. Whaaaa...?

What so motivated you? While in the car, no less...?

[Kali]

42. um...

PIX? :evilgrin:

[pinniped]

43. Some lady gave me a bad haircut, so I went to another joint later in the day.

This other joint was on the same block as the first joint. As I was waiting, the bad haircut lady walks in and says something to one of the workers. I told them I had to go to class and left, never patronizing those two joints again.

A couple years later, I was at another joint a few blocks away and this lady starts working on my hair. She didn't seem to know shit and then I recognized her as the same lady from before. Years later, she still doesn't know shit. I then asked the owner to finish my hair.

Now, I only patronize one salon and only the licensed owner cuts my hair.

[GOPisEvil]

44. Post pictures here - you'll feel better!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6637243

Or is that *I* will feel better! :D:hi:

[querelle]

45. When I Was Seven Years Old..........

My cousin cut my hair with pinking shears. It was kind of funny at the time. I thought it was cool. My mother on the other hand..........

Q

[Nikia]

46. My mother-in-law's hair dresser convinced me that I needed long layers

I said that it would be alright to do as long as they were long. I told her that I did not want short layers as my hair was curly and looked weird when the layers up on my head were curling different ways than the next layer down. While distracting me with eat disorder conversation: "Oh, you are so thin. I wish that I was as thin as you. How much do you weigh? You must be lying because I weigh less than that and I'm huge and you are so thin". I was suffering from anorexia and evidently this woman was also. Anyway, while having this conversation, she cut the top layer down to above the top (not the bottom) of my ears. It curled out in the opposite direction that the layer in the middle of my head curled. I couldn't even put it back in a pony tail for months. Since then, I have told the stylist not to layer my hair and cut trim the top layers less than the bottom. Three years later, my hair is finally all shoulder length or below again.

[havocmom]

47. My sis was preparing for her wedding trip to Mexico. Wanted care-free hair

Decided on a bob and a perm. The hair-murder said 'You have very resistant hair. The chemicals will have to stay on extra long.' Left the perming solution on my sister for well over an hour.

My sister's hair broke off at the length of about 3/4 of an inch from her scalp! Hairdresser said it wasn't HER fault....

Wedding trip postponed for a few months so her hair could grow out a bit. Lost some money on the delay. Developed high blood pressure from stifling the urge to throttle the itchy Bee for several weeks. Had to go about her sales/marketing job in her professional community nearly bald.

THAT was a horror story.

Maddy, hope your do gets all fixed. Have some wine. :hug:

[dembotoz]

48. my mom cut my hair ONCE

they were trying to save money.
And besides-only a trim right?

It is now a classic family story, but my god-
stevie wonder could have done a better job with a rusty chain saw...
they took me to one of their friends house to try to salvage what they could
Just a trim ended up a crew cut

I WAS NOT HAPPY

[bridgit]

49. hubby cuts my hair weeeee!

:bounce:

[fortyfeetunder]

50. sheared like a lamb

I have mixed grades of hair...some is straight, some are patches of kinky curly hair. And the kinky-curly part does not grow. I have to style my hair so it hides the kinky-curly part (that never grows over 3-4 inches at best)

I made the mistake of going to a hairdresser who couldn't handle styling it, and she said she had to cut it all off so it would grow back evenly. When all was said and done, I looked like a lamb that had been sheared. I was in college then. Needless to say I was the talk of the campus. When my family saw me, they were more or less horrified.

After a couple of years, I quit the super short do because it became high maintenance -- a haircut every couple of weeks because the straight stuff was growing like gangbusters while the kinky-curly patch was just there, barely growing.

Needless to say, I just don't let anyone touch my hair.....

[LibDemAlways]

51. OK, I've got two for you - one a hair-cut story, the other a

hair-style story.

Haircut: My hair was approaching shoulder length. This was in the Dorothy Hamill wedge era, and I decided I'd try something shorter. So I walked into one of those "no appt. necessary" places and asked the woman, who spoke little English, to cut my hair short. Jeez, she practically scalped me. It was awful. She started hacking away and it was uneven. So she hacked more to even it up and before long I had about an inch of hair all the way around. She started shaking her head and mumbling to herself because she knew it was bad. Never went back there again.

Hair Style: I was getting married the next day. My mom made two appointments - one for her, followed by one for me. I dropped her off and ran to pick up my dad and brothers' tuxedos. The guy at the tux shop couldn't find one of the vests and kept me waiting. Anyhow, I arrived back at the hair salon 15 minutes late for my appointment. The woman absolutely refused to take me. She didn't care that I was getting married. I had thrown off her schedule and that was that. It was late in the afternoon and, in desperation, I ended up at another one of those "walk-ins welcome" places. A young woman newly arrived from someplace where beehives were in fashion (This was 1973) managed to take my baby fine hair and literally made it stand up so I looked like the bride of Frankenstein. It was horrible, but she thought it was great, and I didn't have the heart to tell her how truly awful it was. She must have sprayed a gallon of hairspray on it. When I got outside, I drove around to the back of the building and started a massive comb-out effort. It took about an hour before I could face anyone I knew. The next day I just took a curling iron to it and it looked fine.


At least hair mistakes can be corrected. I hope you find someone who better understands what you want the next time around!!

[Blue-Jay]

52. One time, I got a bad haircut.

After a few weeks my hair grew back.

It was terrible!

[JackBeck]

53. I was blond once.

And my hair turned to straw. It fell out any time I touched my head. Thank Jeebus my Italian kicked back in and I have a wonderfully luscious full head of hair.

Looks like my clarion call went out to the gay bois and they passed on my message. We have an awesomely intricate network. We take care of the good ones. Sorry. I'm sure you deserved worlds better. C'est la vie.

[barb162]

54. Senior yr. high school, an important concert, last one of the year

I brought a photo in to the stylist if she could do it with my hair and she said yes. It was some sort of upsweep as I recall, off the neck. She made no attempt to do it; she kept screwing around with my hair in a shoulder length style, teasing it and all this other crap. I finally asked her to get the picture and asked what the heck she was doing. She had no answer. I walked out with my hair all messed up, never went to the concert, never got to wear my extremely expensive, stylish dress, etc.

I remember Oprah talking about a stylist once who burned her hair and scalp and her hair was actually out in spots.

I guess if you have your scalp on one piece, consider yourself lucky!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

56. I've had the same basic hairstyle all my life.

That help?

[SPKrazy]

57. Well long ago I got drunk and cut my own hair...

:P

let's just say i went and got it cut professionally as soon as possible. I did this right before Easter too as I recall and I felt kind of stoopid when i went and ate easter dinner at my folks. :P

:rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. My wife went to get styled at the beauty school, because it's "cheaper."

Came home with a charge for $170.

Granted, her hair looked fabulous. But I've never spent over $15 for a haircut; and if it came out bad, I could always just shave it off.

Maybe it's a man thing. :shrug:

[datasuspect]

63. i can't find a true barbershop

you know, the kind that was the sole province of men, with all the knickknacks appropriate to male places: whiskey; girlie mags; bookie; and some old italian guy giving short haircuts and shaves.

i DO NOT want some fresh cosmetology grad giving me a "village idiot" haircut or a cut that looks like your hair is all messy.

i like the classic "mobster cut" (cf. bob deniro's character in goodfellas) that's how i like my haircut.

[LibDemAlways]

64. My dad misses those, too. He's practically bald, but

he used to enjoy going to the local shop to check out the Playmate of the month and get a "trim" while listening to the men talk sports or local politics. Now he occasionally visits Fantastic Sam's and it just isn't the same.

[Maddy McCall]

66. My dad goes to a classic barbershop.

The best haircut I ever got was from a woman who was a trained barber...but back to your topic.

Yeah, my dad's barber is a big guy in a tiny shop, with one antiquated chrome and red-leather chair. He has the strop, the jar of green antiseptic, and the other acoutrements you mentioned, minus the bookie and the whiskey.

My dad pays $10 for a haircut (the entertainment while he's waiting is free :D) . Can't beat it.

[dropkickpa]

72. Tim's

is about 2 blocks down the street from me. Tim, if you are lucky, will take only 30 minutes to give you the regulation navy cut he learned before going to Korea. Only 30 minutes for this fine 5 minute do because all of his buddies hang out there and the phone rings every 10 secs with people making books.

My dad loves going there, will almost never go anywhere else.

[NewWaveChick1981]

65. I feel your pain...

:hug: :pals: Eight years ago, I decided to get my long hair cut into a slightly shorter (but still long) style. I also wanted to get it colored because of the gray peeking out. I went to a stylist that a good friend had recommended and told her what I wanted. I also showed her a picture to get an idea of what I was looking for. My request was not complicated or unusual. I ended up with GOLD hair (not blonde---brassy GOLD :cry:) that was cut in what my current stylist calls The Reverse Triangle. :cry: She butchered my hair, and I was mortified. She knew I wasn't happy with it and tried to fix the color, which just made it worse. She ended up not charging me for it, but I had to find some way to deal with that fiasco. I used a do-it-yourself hair color that was much better, but because she'd fried my hair with the other color, my hair was a frizzy mess. I used every conditioner I could think of, and it was better but not great. I had to let the mess grow out and then get it cut much shorter than I wanted. :cry: However, that's the only way I could get back to normal. Thank Jeebus I found a great hairstylist who has sense. When I showed him a picture of what the original mess looked like, he nearly fainted. He could simply not believe a hairdresser could be that awful.

Currently, my stylist cuts my hair and I color it myself and do highlights. :) I'm very happy about the results!

I hope you get it straightened out. :hug: I know what that's like.

[SoxFan]

67. Fort Benning, GA

Ft. Benning, GA
May 2, 1991
First full day of infantry OSUT
Not a pretty sight

[Maddy McCall]

68. UPDATE: My hair is fixed! The stylist did an awesome job.

It's a little shorter than I like, but that's ok...it'll grow to the regular length in a couple of weeks.

When I first walked in and turned around and showed her the back of my head, she gasped. She called the other stylists over to look at it. They couldn't believe that anyone with a license had made such a mess.

LL went to work on me, and now the back is in soft layers (how she was able to hide the clipper gouges, I'll never know), and she blended it all by adding some soft layers to the sides. She did a great job. When she finished, she said, "Now, I want you to go back to the woman who butchered your hair, and show her this. Tell her, 'This is what this haircut is supposed to look like.'" :rofl:

THANK YOU DUERS!! For sharing your horror stories with me--you made me feel so much better through your comisery. :D

Gotta run do some work in my yard...thanks again for all the stories.

:grouphug:

[truedelphi]

71. Whew! glad the agony is over.

I hope you go back and let the other hairstylist see the new improved you.

Any hair stylkist can have an off day - but the lady with the clippers really put some effort into ruining your bob.

[CottonBear]

76. Woohoo! I'm sure you feel much better now!

:woohoo: :party: :toast: :woohoo: :party: :toast: :woohoo: :party: :toast: :woohoo: :party: :toast: :woohoo:

Have a great weekend! :hi:

[Taverner]

70. I got a perm

Yes a guy in the 1980's with a perm - common - except it looked terrible on me.

Again, this was MY choice, so I had no one to blame but myself,

[SarahB]

83. Pic?

:D

[mulsh]

73. purse covering her hair tears streaming down her face

she came to my place one evening a couple of years ago. as soon as I closed the door she pulled the purse off of her head and said,"tell me how horrible this looks, be brutally honest." It was bad, way bad in a very cutting edge way. She said, " I told the stylist I want something simple. I knew I was in trouble when the second stylist showed up with a second blow dryer." then started crying again.

My buddy Mary's hair had always been simple and beautiful, long or short, very dark, just a couple of quick brushes got it in shape. all she wanted was a little trim. she ended up with an architectural mess. something that would have taken an hour to replicate. ghastly. what can I say, she asked if i had some pruning shears, a weed whacker, a razor anything. together we cut and shaped. she ended up more less with a modified flat top but the mess was gone. other friends said she looked "cute" a couple of days later when she could finally face her adoring public.

As for my personal tale of bad hair. Mary & I worked in the same office, I was one of 2 men who also worked there. One morning 3 of the women showed up with truly awful hairdos. they knew I was going to the barber that afternoon and all of them warned me not to, something about the compunal curse of bad hair. I went anyway. told my barber to "cut it short" then continued chatting with him. when he was done I looked like a guy in boot camp. the barber said," you said cut it short" I said, "it's cool, it's hair, it will grow back." The women at the office had a good laugh the next day.

[dropkickpa]

74. I did it to myself

I'd had dyed black hair with red streaks for almost a year and was very bored of it. I decided the I needed to be blonde. I have actually done this several times, so I was all rarin' to go. Yeah, not gonna happen this time. After processing the living hell out of my hair over the course of two days, I was still Carrot-top orange. So I clipped my hair down to 3/4 of an inch and dyed the remaining fuzz a dark brown.

I only get angry when I've paid for a shitty haircut, and that's just because I'm a cheap ass sumbitch and want my money back (I usually demand it back and get it). Even though I'm a girl, I have no problem with shaving my head, and, hey, it's hair, it grows back.

Dropkid, on the other hand, I get real feisty about. She has beautiful brown hair with killer natural red and blond highlights that goes almost to her butt. She has cut her hair 3 times, each a disaster. The last time was the ol' "I'll cut my bangs" thing, you know, the one where the bangs are cut to just 1/4" long. Well, this time, she cut on the side where her front (she has several) cowlick is. Those damn things stood *straight* up in the air until about a week ago.

[mwdem]

75. Not a hair cut,

but my hair has been growing out due to chemo last year. I've not found a hairdresser since I moved here, so it's been hit or miss. Usually miss. My used-to-be straight hair came in curly, so I always asked for someone who could work with me on that. Every time I try someone, I walk out of the salon with big Texas hair, and I don't know how they did it! My hair is thin, curly and short. I'm still optimistic though...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

79. If you're ever up this way,

I know someone who is amazing. I won't go to anyone else; which can be a problem, as he periodically drops off the face of the planet.

How are you feeling? :hug:

[mwdem]

81. I'm feeling better every day.

I may be in the Northeast again in August. Thanks. I had a hairdresser like that when I lived in the Kansas City area. I followed him to four different salons in six years, but he was fantastic. He disappeared soon after I moved away.:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

88. Great!

Think you'll come to the DC area? If you do, be sure to let me know! Here's to feeling better every day! :toast:

[bikebloke]

80. Had so many, I hate to get it cut

I visit the shearing shed twice a year now. Who wants to wait for six months to a year or for a sloppy cut to grow out, before trying again. The worst ones are when you get home then have to take a pair of scissors and even up the sides. When they leave one ear covered and the other clear. Luckily, I finally found a good cutter.

[no name no slogan]

82. In 1979, I joined this crappy nu-wave band...

Our music sucked really bad, so we all decided to get "cool" haircuts so we'd get noticed.

What a freaking mistake that was...

[RedCappedBandit]

84. I had shoulder length hair...

and my mom assaulted me with a buzzer!








..I may have asked her to in advance though..

[BlueIris]

85. That time the sylist accidentally put wood glue in my hair.

Okay, so it probably wasn't literally wood glue, but it looked, smelled and felt exactly like wood glue. When it (sorta) washed out, the cut was fine. But it was a damn annoying week until it did.

[Lindsey]

86. It wasn't a haircut but a coloring...my regular stylist wasn't available

so I went to the salon at the hotel where I worked. I simply wanted Auburn highlights. Well...when it was over...my hair was fusha (that's basically a reddish- purple. I had a really important meeting on Monday and this was Saturday! I called my regular stylist (who also happened to be one of my best friends)in a panic. She opend up her shop the next day (Sunday when the shop was normally closed) and did what she could. She toned it down quite a bit but when people walked into my office on Monday morning I still got "what the Hell did you do" from my co-workers who were laughin' so hard that I couldn't help but laugh too. I just told 'em that they should have seen it on Saturday!

[Turbineguy]

87. I used to go to a barber

in Yokohama. He was quite elderly and unbeknownst to me, had become nearly blind. The last haircut I got from him, I got up the next morning and noticed there were bald spots. It was a while before I checked in there again but his Daughter had taken over the business.

If I understand your hairstyle description correctly it's the same one my Wife wore when I met her. I always liked it, but she does not wear it that way anymore.

[jmowreader]

89. The Communists had to fix mine!

The Conference on Disarmament of Europe was a strange organization, to say the least: All they ever did was monitor huge war games. If your exercise was going to have at least 15,000 players, the CDE would be there.

I got chosen to monitor a bunch of these. On the third one, my team had to go to Rose Barracks in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, to pick up the various vehicles and "other stuff" we needed for the operation. I figured I wanted to look my best for the Soviets who would be accompanying us, so I went to the barbershop and described the normal haircut I always got--medium short, a little blocked in the back, like a German businessman's haircut.

Little did I know this was the barbershop the infantry guys liked to frequent. You know what a high-and-tight is, correct? Well, this was high and tight on one side, higher and tighter on the other, and high and wavy in back. With divots from highing and tighting the fucking thing. And THEN I got told that Bad Kreuznach Garrison regulation states that if the haircut meets Army standards you will pay for it, and all the haircuts they gave did. Apparently WAY too many guys were not paying for these fucked-up haircuts and instead of firing the barbers they just ordered the troops to pay up.

All right. I can deal with this. I can just keep my helmet on the entire time I'm in the woods, not let the Soviets see this, and I'll be fine.

About three days into the operation, I got stupid and took my helmet off. The Soviet major who was with us said, in English--he hadn't spoken a word of English the entire operation--"that is the worst haircut I have ever seen." Yes sir, it's the worst haircut I've ever seen too...and it's on MY head. I am not happy. "Well then, you must come to our kaserna after the operation and allow Junior Sergeant Ivanov to give you a proper Soviet haircut." I explained to my Officer in Charge what the Soviet major offered. He was amazed: "They're actually offering to let US come onto a Soviet base? How good's your memory?"

Well...after the operation was completed, we let the major bring us onto his base and introduce me to Junior Sergeant Ivanov. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. It was on his ID card. I think I would have murdered my parents, but Junior Sergeant Ivanov was okay with it. He used a hand-squeezed set of clippers to get the top even, and then shaved the rest smooth. I looked like a fucking monk, but it was much better than the Butcher of Bad Kreuznach came up with. I paid him for his fine haircut with two bottles of Tabasco...

and then I went back to Berlin and wrote one of the more entertaining intelligence reports you'd ever be likely to see.

[AngryOldDem]

90. Got an extremely short cut and it was uneven

I was in college and I came back to my dorm room in utter hysterics. I took the resident assistant and most of my floor to get me calmed down.

My next bad haricut experience was when I asked for a bang trim just above my eyebrows and the woman cut them up to the middle of my forehead.

It is a bitch when you lose a favorite hairstylist, and I'm like you, any more I will drive out of my way if I know I'll get a good cut.

[GRLMGC]

91. Not a haircut but a horrible dye job

For my sixteenth birthday, my dad took me to his wife's friend's salon. Her daughter, whom I had always assumed was around twenty years old, dyed my hair. She recommended going a little lighter on my hair and then getting highlights on top of that. I chose a color that looked like a lighter brown. Now, my hair has naturally red highlights and the color came out this horribly unnatural, brassy orange color. Now, while my hair was being processed, I heard this girl talking about how she was waiting for pictures from her fifteenth birthday which had been six months before. So, this girl was younger than me and had no freaking business dying my hair. It was horrible and I couldn't stop crying. I had to spend all my birthday money getting it fixed at another salon.