WHAT did I just do to my hair...

[IlsaLund]

I've always used candlestick sponge rollers in order to achieve my vintage 'do, but I tried pin curls for the first time last night.... and what the heck happened..... :eusa_doh:

While I charge my camera so I can take a picture of this disaster (because it's so funny looking), I'm curious:

What are your "hair accident" stories? Bad styling? Cuts? Color? All of the above?

I hope I'm not the only one on here who has turned around to look in the mirror and jumped back...


-IL

 

[RetroModelSari]

Uuuu..... Years ago I had the idea I would look totally stunning with red-blonde-hair.... So I bleached it blonde and than coloured it.... Guess what? I was WRONG!!!

Sari 2000

Not too long after seeing this revealing photos I went back to brunette, but the damage to my hair lasted for years...

(I just realised that my hair is rather reddish in my profile pic... but that´s photoshop-you know...)

 

[Paisley]

It was 1984. My mother gave me a permanent and it turned out really big and pouffy, even for the 80s. Funny thing was, I was more critical of it than anyone else was. Nobody gave me any funny looks!

 

[~landgirl~]

IlsaLund - why do you have a pic of that guy from myspace?

 

[MissHuff]

When I was 15 I thought it'd be a good idea to cut my hair that went down to my rear-end and get a cute 20s bob so I could get a flapper thing going for myself because I was stick thin thanks to playing soccer in the heat for a whole summer before school. WORST HAIRCUT EVER! My hair is way too limp and I have sort of a round face. It took forever to grow out and left me with an embarassing homecoming picture lol.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The last time I got a perm it was applied by a young gal who'd just gotten out of beauty school, and while I was in the chair she got a phone call from her boyfriend wanting to break up. She didnt end up paying attention and I ended up looking like Roseanne Roseannadanna. Never again...

 

[Honey Doll]

Jr high

When I was in jr high I decided to get my first "real" haircut. I'd always had long hair, cut straight across and parted...so decided to jump to shoulder length layers to be curled away from my face ala mid-80s. It was just hideous. I had zero idea how to wield that curling iron and it never looked the same twice. Not to mention the cut was an absolute hatchet job by some lady who my mother knew who happened to have a salon chair in her garage.

I cried all the way home.

Honey Doll

 

[Lauren]

I dyed my hair black in 2000- was the worst thing ever. I always looked dead. And my haircut had no definition so it just stuck to my head and was all flat looking.

Oh, and when I got two perms within a week and fried my hair. Looked great when I did it vintage, but awful everyday...

 

[Barbigirl]

a bob?

1985 -- When I was 15 a boyfriend/photographer convinced me to be in a hair show where he was doing photos. They got me on stage pulled my hair up into a ponytail (it was over shoulder length) and CUT IT OFF. Then blow dried it all foward and VIOLA! The worst cut/style I ever had. I couldn't work with and cried for two days.

My Mom ended up getting a friend of hers to shape it into a Princess Di cut.

 

[Trixie]

I did a hair show for Joico back in the late 80s. I had long blonde hair but it's very fine & they decided I'd look great with short hair. Boy were they wrong! They SHAVED the back and left the front "feathers" long but feathered them forward! And they kept my bangs! Then they made me wear this tiny little spandex skirt & bra like top and DANCE on stage after! What a mess!

 

[Kim_B]

Shortly after "You've Got Mail" came out, I wanted my hair cut similar to Meg Ryan's. I told the stylist that I realize my hair is a lot thicker than hers and will not lay the exact same way, but if she could do something similar that would be great. So she starts cutting....and cutting....and cutting...and she's chatting with her friend (who is in the salon, not having anything done, just chatting) and she's cutting and chatting some more. All the while my back is to the mirror, so I can't see what's going on (had glasses, couldn't see across the room into the other mirrors...) I'm sure you know where this is going...

She gets done, whirls me around in the chair and shoves the hand-held mirror in my face. I was shocked beyond belief! It is short - super short! Shorter than any haircut I've ever had before...it's BOY short. I tried to hold back the tears but I couldn't...my poor mom didn't know what to do! Needless to say, the lady realized I didn't like it and only charged me half. *sigh*

Every one said it looked ok, but with my round face I felt so chubby and big...bleh! I don't think I have any pictures from when this happened...I'm sure I probably burned them all!

 

[CanadaDoll]

Mine is now! I went to a new salon after being unimpressed by the last two at my salon, and this "very edgy" British man gave me the whole 'Heroin Chic' thing, it only looks semi okay if I spend 45 min flat ironing it, and then..... I look strung out!!!!! so my hair has been in a bun or ponytail since june! lol

 

[IlsaLund]

Hahahaha thanks, you ladies all made me laugh with your stories. :eusa_clap

My Mother called me right after I had posted the thread, asking me to come to her work right away (at the Red Cross. Who says "no" to someone working at the Red Cross?).... anyway, I didn't have time to redo my hair, so I just sort of brushed it and left in a hurry. One of the male nurses (va va voom, I'll post a picture of him on the good-looking men thread) cat-called me and asked to take a picture with me! I guess driving at 80mph with the windows down is the cure to a pin-curl disaster.

I've noticed that most of the "disasters" were in the 80s for y'all..... lol

 

[Polka Dot]

Why is it that movies inspire us to do awful things to our hair? For me, it wasn't even a good movie that did it. I don't remember the name of the movie, but I do know I thought Mandy Moore had the cutest haircut. It was very short and a little flippy. So I marched into a salon and cut all of my fine, slightly wavy hair off. It looked awful on my round face.

In retrospect I remember the stylist continuing to ask me if I was sure I wanted it that short, etc. She obviously knew how bad it would look, but I persisted. Thus began more than a year of growing it back out.

Lesson learned; I keep it past my shoulders now.

 

[Brooksie]

I have had my share of hair disasters...

I had my first perm when I was 14 years old, it was a toni home perm and my Mom gave it to me, by the time she was done it looked like a big ol' nasty fuzz ball, and someone told me to put mayonase on it to relax it so I did and that just made it limp and ugly, so I ended up having all my hair cut off really short and people thought I was a boy (short hair + stick figure= looks like a boy) not a good look for your freshman year in highschool.

Then in the 80's when I was in beauty school one of the students turned my hair green which would have been ok if it was around ST. Patricks day but it was not.

In the 90's my ex - husband thought I would look raveshing as a blonde (my hair is naturally almost Louise Brooks black) so I had one of the stylist that I used to work with do a very heavy weave with bleach, my hair looked like a calico cat by the time we were through and within a couple of days about half of my hair broke off and fell out,(gives new meaning to the term pocket curls ) I also had a perm about a month prior to the weave so my hair was double processed to boot.

This wraps it up for my hair from hell stories.

Brooksie

 

[Elle]

My cousin is a beautician, and I've put my life in her hands so many times, but she always does an amazing job.
Although, one time she suggested I chop my chest-length hair to an Aeon Flux-ish cut. It. was. bad. My hair is shoulder length now, but I'm still trying to battle the backwards layers I have (which make it difficult to even curl my hair).

le sigh.

 

[VargasGirl]

Then in the 80's when I was in beauty school one of the students turned my hair green which would have been ok if it was around ST. Patricks day but it was not.

Brooksie

I turned my hair green too! My blonde was getting darker as I entered high school, and I had been coloring it to maintain the childhood shade. I got sick of it and tried to dye it back to its natural ashy-dark blonde. Well, my hair soaked up the ash tone and looked green! I was in marching band and had to go to a football game a few hours later. I claimed I did it on purpose for school spirit, as my school colors were green and white. I don't know if people bought it or not...

 

[kirawoidan]

I tried to dye my platinum blonde hair back to my natural medium blonde color. When I went to Sally's the guy working told me which color to use and actually handed me the bottle. Little did I know that the "N" in 8N meant neutral and since my hair had no color whatsoever, it turned grey green. I cried and had to run to Walgreen's with a bandana on my head and buy auburn dye to try and neutralize the color. I had a hairstylist/color correcter friend fix it, but my hair won't hold the dye and it still looks like crap.

 

[~landgirl~]

Reading these is making me laugh!

I have had many a hair-disaster. One of the more memorable ones is when I was about 13, I began an obsession with Marilyn Monroe so bleached all my dark hair myself. Then a friends sister gave me a perm (and I know your hair is suppose to fall out but it didn't!) Anyway, I hated it so much I used to brush it out and would have a frizzy blonde mess. It was awful.

Here I am blonde at 17 if anyone is interested (many years after the event!) I am a lot slimmer too

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

I have had lots of different hair styles over the years, not so much disasters, at the time at least. More looking back and thinking hmmm, maybe not!

For instance at 17 I was a total metalhead, clothes and dreadlocks to match. Dyed blonde as well!

They weren't that dirty or anything though, probably no more than the ladies of the 40s who only washed their hair every 2 weeks or whatever, but none too clean by my current standards. And they did look pretty messy.