CONFESS!!!!!! What's the worst disaster you've ever done to your hair

[LynneSin]

Admit it - somewhere in one of your scrapbooks is a picture of the disasterzone called your hair. What's the worst thing you've ever done.

Probably a tie between 2 for me.

In high school I was trying so damn hard to do the "Farrah Hair" but the only problem is I have this baby fine hair that unfortunately usually lost out to gravity. Rumor has it there is a hole in the ozone somewhere over rural PA from all the damn Aquanet I went through in order to make that hairdo work (which never did).

Second would have to be about 8 years ago. I discovered about 10 years ago that if I color my hair it added extra body to my already baby fine hair. I usually picked a blonde shade close to what I had although sometimes I'd go a lil darker and sometimes a lil lighter. Well one time I thought I would try going red and I used that Clarols Natural in a bright shade of red. UGH - my hair came out to a bright Ronald McDonald Red and to make matters worse, it was unevenly distributed throughout my hair. And to make it even MORE worse - I was starting my brand new job in 2 days and I couldn't get the color out even when I tried using a different colorant. I found a hair cuttery opened on Sunday that was willing to get it back to normal

[kick-ass-bob]

1. In High School, I tried to duplicate what the hair cut lady did

I had long hair and wanted some style to it - well, my hair was curly, and it turned out to be Bon Jovi hair - not what I was looking for.

[sundog]

2. oh! oh! i was baked & went to shave it, but forgot to put the guard on

:o

:blush:

what was i thinking :shrug:

[Wickerman]

3. most recent haircut

cut it real short, no bangs. First time in about 20 years. Already grey as heck, this time, by cutting it short, I discovered that all those barbers, hairstylists, wives. girlfriends, whomever who has cut my hair over the years and bitched about how thick it was were wrong - I AM going fucking bald and all of you said I would never have to worry about it. :cry: Damn, getting old sucks, but beats the alternative. :D

[terrya]

4. Years ago, I got a permanent

It was in the early 80's. A lot of guys were doing it, and I thought "why not me"? I did, and it was the silliest damn looking thing I could have done to myself. After some of my co-workers were trying to keep from laughing, a few days later I went back and had straightener put in my hair. My hair then had the consistency of straw for awhile.

[sundog]

ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa

:rofl:

[meegbear]

9. I got a "no rod" perm ...

was told I should get it because I have fine hair and it will "thicken" it. Ick.

[terrya]

14. Remember when Robert Reed got a permanent on "The Brady Bunch"?

That was exactly what mine looked like. :scared:

[meegbear]

24. BHAW-HAHAHAHA!

[arwalden]

41. Cool! I Tried That Look Too...

... it didn't work. The perm relaxed quickly and it turned my hair orange. I never ever went back to the community college's school of cosmetology to get "student discount" haircuts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. As a former hairstylist, I can honestly say none.

I was busy messing up other people's hair. ;)

Not really, I never had a single person cry in my chair, and I became a master colorist before my son was born. :hi:

[otohara]

6. My Punk Days -

they cut just a tad too close to my scalp and it looked as if I had a wound - I had to color it in w/ eyebrow pencil.

[Rising Phoenix]

7. Liza Minelli hair...

I was wearing my hair short those days, and instead of giving me a cute punky do like the picture I showed her, I looked like Liza. It was way too short to fix it, I cried the whole way home. Sniffa felt so bad for me. Whenever I ponder cutting it all off again he says "remember Liza" I think twice

[LynneSin]

11. I got a Linda Evan's Dynasty cut once

I swear she did it just like that and I had a big date that night and I looked like fricking Linda Evans

:grr:

Never went back there again!

[demnan]

8. I died it a dark red

and at the same time it had a bad choppy cut. I found out that I was not ever meant to be a red head.

And now, I'm growing my own highlights! I think I'm going to get blond highlights to cover the grey ones.

[NewJeffCT]

10. in a bar once...

it was a crowded bar & somebody threw gum that landed in my hair... that was a nightmare. This was in the early 90s.

stylewise, I've always been pretty (gasp) conservative with my hair. The biggest thing was when sideburns came back in style with that hip new show at the time - Beverly Hills 90210 - I grew some sideburns, but nothing as lengthy as the main guys on 90210.

[Shell Beau]

12. Anything that involved the 80's!

[Left Is Write]

13. Oh, probably the time I inadvertently turned it green.

[WCGreen]

15. I left this "dude" talk me into dying my hair back to it's

original "blond" after I first started going grey.....

Oh, let's just say I sure didn't look like me....

And I promise, as the lord is my witness, that I shall never, ever dye my hair again....

[pansypoo53219]

16. other than cutting my bangs too short

i once tried layering it. my hair got spit-ends in revenge.
but my hair grows fats and behaves pretty good.

i am blessed.

[VelmaD]

17. I have had 2 disasters...

When I was a senior in high school I lopped all my hair off and got a really tight perm. That was scary enough but what was worse was how it looked while it was growing back out. Eek. My senior pictures are something NO ONE will ever see.

My other disaster happened when I was in high school as well. We went to the beach on a band trip and I put a ton of that sun-in stuff in my hair. My hair being dark brown...it turned my hair the color of a bright new copper penny. Which isn't really a bad color in and of itself...it just isn't a color that looks good on me.

[graywarrior]

18. I have a note on my refrigerator that says

I will never again get my hair cut at a salon.

I got a $50 haircut 3 months ago this week and it STILL looks like SHIT! Bowl shaped from crown to ears, then slippy wings shooting out from under bowl. The worst haircut I ever had.

From now on, I cut it myself...if I cut it at all.

[last_texas_dem]

19. Several

After growing my hair out without a cut (only the occasional trim done by myself) for the last couple years of high school I decided to keep my hippie hair but get it cleaned up a little, which it needed. Well, the lady who cut it massacred it and ended up giving me something that looked pretty close to a middle-aged woman's "bob" haircut. And this was two days before I started college...

I've had two other bad-looking cuts by choice: an undercut (thankfully, for just a couple months in high school) and a totally clean-shaven head- which I got last summer and which convinced me to grow my hair out long again!

[graywarrior]

20. What is it with the bob cuts?

From now on my hair will reflect how I feel-FREAKY!

[Taverner]

21. I went blonde

It was horrifying

[Kathleen04]

22. OK this was so stupid--but

growing up I had big poufy hair..so one day, in an effort to weigh it down..I put Vaseline in my hair. Yeah, BAD IDEA. I just did it as an experiment but of course the stuff is water resistant, so I had to shampoo about 5x in a row for it to even be OK and it was still greasy. Gross.

[LeftyMom]

23. Short hair

I look *absolutely awful* with short hair.

I can't complain too much though, at least my hair grows back fast. My poor baby sister got her hair burned off by a perm. She had an inch or two of dry crispy hair left on her head. :( That made my ill-fated attempts at short hair look like a pantene comercial by comparison.

[JimmyJazz]

25. I confess. I colored my hair dark, straightened it and gave myself

an Annabella Lwynn mohawk. Please don't tell anyone :)

[Taverner]

33. Hmmm JimmyJazz with a 'hawk

We must see pictures of this...

[Cathyclysmic]

26. Me and Mr Beastman.....

[LynneSin]

30. my, what a cute lil um, girl?

yes, girl - right?

:shrug:

[Cathyclysmic]

40. yes

unfortunately, she past away...of aqua net poisoning when she was only 7.

:cry:

[El Fuego]

27. OMG.

I have one when I was really young and another when I was old enough to know better...

The first is when my Mom talked me into a Dorothy Hamill cut which does not, I repeat DOES NOT, work with curly hair!!!! Arrrghhh it was total trauma...:cry:

The second was about six years ago when I had this brilliant idea that I would straighten my red curly hair myself with some totally toxic chemicals from the drug store. It ruined my hair! Looking back on it I'm lucky that I didn't lose my hair. My hair didn't even feel like human hair afterwards. It was straight, but straight like a barbie doll's hair that's been laying outside in a ditch for two years. And here I was waiting for the love of my life to return from a six month stay in Europe... it turned out he never came back because of his job, which was kind of fortunate since I was so worried about what he would think.

The straightener also stripped all the color out of my hair and turned it blond. I decided to go with it, and I've been blond ever since.

[MissMillie]

28. At the time it didn't occur to me that it was a disaster

but I dyed my hair so blonde that it was white. (This was back when I was in high school... oh so many years ago.)

[XemaSab]

29. 6th grade

I had my hair cut REALLY short and everyone at my new school thought I was a boy.

And the worst part is my hair is really curly and floofy, so it looked AWFUL for YEARS. Stuck out BADLY and my mom wouldn't let me put any shit in it to make it less floofy.

[Trigger Hippie]

31. Stupid perm in the late 80s

in junior high. Ugh. Before that my hair was pretty straight and now it's crazy wavy all over the place. :(

[Chovexani]

32. I had a disaster with Manic Panic once

I wanted neon purple streaks so I had to bleach my hair first...only the bleaching didn't come out right, so I figured the purple would cover up my fuckup. Uh, no.

I looked like a skunk. :(

[Xithras]

34. Heh, my ex actually made my hair fall out.

When I was young and foolish in high school I used to do all sorts of weird things with my hair (which was odd since I'm a guy and live in a fairly conservative area). One day I decided to dye my naturally curly, brownish-red hair DARK RED...I think it was actually called "Satan Red" or something like that. I loved it, but my girlfriend hated it and in a drunk stupor I stupidly agreed to let her change it the very next day. She decided to take it white on top with green on the sides (the style worked at the time), and started off by bleaching my hair, and then dying the bleached sides green. After she finished that, she decided that my curls "screwed up" the hairdo and applied a straightener.

By the time she was done, my hair had the consistency of grass that hadn't been watered in six months. It was actually breaking off when I ran my hands through it and was totally unmanageable. When I woke up the next morning, I had a bed full of hair, and I actually clogged the shower when I was getting ready for school.

Needless to say, I wore a hat that day. After school, with actual BALD SPOTS showing up on my head, I went ahead and shaved it clean.

[LynneSin]

36. This, by far, wins as the most hilarious bad hair story ever

:spray:

[Xithras]

42. It wasn't hilarious at the time

I learned the hard way that I have a particularly ugly scalp. To add insult to injury, I also nicked myself several times shaving and had to walk around with bandaids on my head for a day. To make it even worse, the first bit of hair that started regrowing got very badly ingrown, and was brittle as heck. I ended up having to shave it again a week later...letting someone else do it that time.

I never dyed my hair again after that (well, I still do highlights from time to time, but that's it). What really bugs me is that my curls never came back either. My hair has a bit of a wave and isn't straight by any definition, but the random looping curls that used to give my hair personality never came back.

[LynneSin]

44. oh come on though - you have a good laugh about it now

don't you

:cry:

[Xithras]

47. Now? I think it's HILARIOUS

You know, I've never posted a picture to any of the gadzillion "Post a picture of yourself" threads, but if I ever do, it'll be a scan of a photo taken a week after this happened...with my bald head covered in bandaids and big, puss-filled ingrown hairs :D

[SarahB]

35. I overdid it once with the blonde.

Tried to make it darker and turned it purple. :scared:

$150 later at the salon to fix it (and this was in 1988). :grr:

No pictures though.

[davsand]

37. Oh, gee, which mess do I admit to?

There was the "Ash tones" henna pack--which made my hair green. That was pretty bad.

There was the time I went to my hair dresser's house and we had a few cocktails before he cut my hair. The summation on that one is it is a REALLY bad idea to let a guy who just slammed half a bottle of Tequila do any kind of a-symmetrical punk cut on your hair. That one took a while to grow out.

The absolute WORST hair experience, however, was the salon perm that didn't take. I was stupid enough to let the same woman re-do that perm a few days later. I literally walked out of that salon leaving wads of brillo pad (it had formerly been my hair) in my wake. It was breaking off in handfuls.

That one was bad enough that I threatened the salon that I was gonna sit outside with a sign saying they screwed up my hair. They still refused to give me a refund. I promised to take out an ad in our local paper complete with pictures of my bad hair. They finally relented.

Yep, I have had some bad hair, but it always grew back.


Laura

[Poiuyt]

38. I cut my hair to make it look like I have male pattern baldness

:)

[livetohike]

39. A shag haircut in 1971

It took forever to grow out. It was the wrong style for thick, curly hair and I couldn't afford to keep it trimmed (college student then). It was the worst thing I have ever done to my hair.

I grew it waist length and that is where I keep it.

[Nikia]

43. Cut my bangs myself

My mother used to criticize my hair for being bad whne I was a child and teen. She never bought me styling products nor took me to get my hair cut often enough though. One time in the seventh grade, my bangs were getting long and I decided to cut them myself. I looked in the mirror and pulled my bangs straight and cut across. Then I let go of my remaining hair. My hangs were much shorter than I intended to cut, almost non existant. Strangely, my mother never said anything about my hair cut.

[RedCloud]

45. I invented the "tidal wave".

I piled all my hair up on one side and then gelled the hair to look like a surf breaking.

I was in the fifth grade and my dreams were smashed as none of the other kids wanted to follow my lead.

[Dukkha]

46. bleached it orange

I tried to go from goth black to platinum.

fryed it so bad I had to cut it all off

[deadparrot]

48. When I was about five, I went to California

to visit my (still very cool) aunt. She put lemon juice in my hair, thensent me out to the beach for two straight days.

Now, I have medium-to-dark brown hair. When I stepped off the plane, my mom found a bleach-blonde, straw-haired kindergartener.

My hair was stiff and straw-like for weeks, and I was blonde until about Thanksgiving.

[bertha katzenengel]

49. Permed it. I looked like Mike Effing Brady.

:eyes:

[Doctor_J]

50. I had teh Tommy James look in HS

(class of 74). What's worse, in my yearbook there's a pic of me hoofing at homecoming with that hair and some white shoes.

It was big! Kind of like this:

http://www.tommyjames.com/photoshow.php?g=scrapbook&p=25&frpg=4&f=#pic