Bad hair day stories

janiejoey

janiejoey

Cathlete
Hi all,

Have insomnia tonight, so thought I would ask this question. Anyone have a bad hair story? Please tell.

Janie

The idea is to die young as late as possible

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I once got my hair cut really short and it was shoprter than most boy's. I guess the hairdresser and I didn't communicate it well. I also wanted to go red and it came out a shade of orange that looked awlful! I cried for days and never went to that hairdresser again!
Ellen
 
For some unexplained reason, until the last 15 years or so, I fought the natural instincts of my naturally straight -as a-poker (as my dear grandmother used to describe it) hair. Perm, perm, perm!!! They were all bad! The worst was when I went to a salon that I'd never heard of, asked for a perm, and, when it was done, instead of having the soft wavy pre-Raphaelite tresses that I'd imagined (I don't know why...I'd never achieved them before), I turned to the mirror to see that my once shoulder-length hair curled so tightly that it barely came below my ears. To make matters worse, the stylist twirled me around to everyone in the salon and said, "Look at Teresa's curls!!!!" I was mortified.

When I got back to my apartment, I saw my landlords, former hippies-turned-college-professors, who declared that they loved it because I looked like black activist Angela Davis. Now, Angela Davis was really cool looking, but being a green-eyed pale Irish-American, I really couldn't take it as a compliment.

Unfortunately, that wasn't my last attempt at perming. The last time I just had to cut my hair to above my ears to get rid of the damage!!!!
 
Oh my yes, I've made some poor choices. Several of them involving perms;)

I remember one where the back was really short and the top was all curly and permed.

I also had some experiences with Sun-In, which turned my hair a very nice shade of orange. Ugh.
 
Uh, any picture from high school for sure, I was an eighties gal with the whole eighties hair. I even wore the bow wrapped around my head ala Madonna Wannabe!

Once I wanted to be a redhead and depsite my stylists warning I took the plunge and ended up with the worst strawberry blonde color you have ever seen, it wasn't even human I tell you! It took forever to get back a normal type color. Oh, and I dyed my hair black at home one time, even worse, I looked like the walking dead....

My most fun look was braids. I had my friend braid at least 300 tiny, tiny braids that hung all the way down my back...you get the hair at Sally's, it comes in bags! It took 3 days to finish, but at the time I loved it! I wore really cool head scarves and fancied myself dating someone like Lenny Kravitz..it was my hippy chick phase I guess:7 I have done it all except short hair.
 
When semipermanent haircolor became the "in" thing when I was in middle school I turned my hair normally dark brown hair a very interesting shade of burgundy---and then tried to deny that I'd done it to all my friends. "Oh no, it must be the light in here." "My hair turns a weird color in the fall..." Yeah...;-)

My older brother, whose hair is much lighter than mine, dyed his hair with cherry Kool-Aid. And yes, that's the color it came out. His hair was also long, like below his chin. I still remember the looks he'd get from little kids on the street. And the thing about Kool-Aid is, it doesn't really ever come out, you have to grow it out and cut if off :7

My DH recently wanted me to shave his head, as in entirely bald. He has very light skin and red hair, so he looked BALD. As in street-tough, skin head. I never laughed so hard in my life as when I was buzzing it off and gave him all kinds of mohawks :+ Luckily his hair grows very fast and a couple weeks later he was no longer Uncle Festered.

This is fun!
Mattea
 
how about...forgetting to rinse the conditioner out of your long, hair, going to work with wet hair (not unusual, as it dried on the way to work, I threw it up)...only to realize later what happened and being stuck with very greasy,embarassing hair ALL day long! :)

Yesterday..being caught in a downpour....I have to curl or style my hair just a bit on the top, even if it's up or I look like a madwoman, I swear!!!!
 
One time the person who usually cuts my hair was on vacation. My hair was getting really yucky so I went to one of those mall places to get it cut. She cut my long hair into two way to short for my taste lengths. I had to go back to my normal person to get it fixed. It looked so choppy. I guess she misheard me when I said layers and thought I said layer or somethingx(
 
I have medium to long hair that I pull the front back into a barrett and leave the rest down. I don't know how but about once a week when I come home, my DH will say "what's up with your hair?" I go look in the mirror and it looks like someone took a crochet hook and pulled up a chunk of hair in the middle of my head. Of course, I have no idea when it happened and I've made several stops since leaving work walking around wiht my hair sticking up like that.
 
I think I could write a book on the awful hair choices I've made.

My first bad decision was of course, the mullet. It was so awful I convinced my sister to get one too! She's still mad about that one. Sorry Amy!}(

Throughout the years, I've died it with Henna (which wasn't so bad), died it with black paint (not one of my most intelligent days), died it with kool-aid, and died it with Manic Panic. The craziest thing I think I've done though was to shave my own head. I though it would look all cute and pixie like (obviously I like that look), but instead, I came out of it looking like I lost a serious bet or was on my last breath or something. I still like the look on some women, it just wasn't what I envisioned for myself. It did look good after about 4 months though. Believe it or not, its way past the middle of my back now and sometimes I still get the urge to chop it (NOT shave) it all off again.

Carolyn
 
Dreamyjeanie,

I used to have a co-worker who would pull her hair back in a ponytail and then ask me if she had any "sharkies." That "chunk" you're talking about was what she was afraid of!!!
 
"what's up with your hair?" I go look in the mirror and it looks like someone took a crochet hook and pulled up a chunk of hair in
>the middle of my head. Of course, I have no idea when it
>happened and I've made several stops since leaving work
>walking around wiht my hair sticking up like that.


OMG, LOL at this.
I had badly damaged hair from Sun In and then had rust in it from our well water when I was a teen. The hairdresser sent a chunk off to Clairol labs. I can't remember what product we used to get rid of the brassy rust, but I remember my friend laughing at me a mumbling about Rustoleum...
 
In college I hung out with a "progressive" crowd (we all THOUGHT we were progressive atleast). My junior year I got my hair cut in an asymetric cut - buzzed on the one side spiraling down to a rat's tail that ended mid-chest on the other. I actually got quite afew compliments but always from the "odd-crowd". My mom just shook her head and kept her mouth shut. I tried it once again a little later with permed hair - I just looked like I got drunk and cut my own hair.


Now, I do have a story of my DD14 who was 4 at the time. We were coming home after a tough day at Montessori school (her, not me - I was at work). She was carrying around a stuffed Tasmanian Devil toy. We got home and she walked in the door, the weight of the world on her little shoulders. She tossed the doll onto our wicker chair, looked up at me and sighed, "Mom, Taz is having a bad chair day." We still laugh about that...
 
When I was in high school I went to Europe for 2 weeks. I have very dark brown hair. My friend and I thought it would be fun to put highlights in my hair. We bought BLONDE highlights for blondes, not brunettes. We did sucha bad job and turned most of my hair yellow. Oddly enough I had black hair dye in my room so we thougt we'd just cover it up. It took on some hair and not other sections. I looked like a TIGER! My flight for London left the next morning (and all of this was going on at midnight). Fortunately there was just enough time for an emergency trip to the hair dresser!

Thanks everyone for the laughs!
 
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