What's the ULTIMATE blooper???

OK ..Ill confess my absalute worst blooper....you drug it out of me Lyris....I was finaly a real butician after all the work it seems to take to become a beautician ...it was a saterday the most busy day for me a new hairdresser trying to buld clintail ....and two ladys came in needing perms and it was my lucky day all the other stylests of many years were very busy and it was my chance to show i could do it! so....two perms at once mother befor daughter both older got rapped and applyed the timmer tickin ...did my test curles evrything lookin good mothers done first ...beautiful resaults daughter dings shampoo girl rinsing her ...calls me over when she began unrappin the rods the ladys hair was doing what we would never expect in any of our stylest night mairs braking off with the rods ! I freaked screamed for the boss ! I was crying shaking new I did everything I was traiened to do down to reading the derections just to be sure ! I was quiting hairdressing how awfull a stylest I am I killed her hair !!!!........to find out It was not my fault when I asked if she used any preveous product she dident know "SUN-IN" counted and had put it on the night befor and slept in it!!!! she ended up with a stylish short haircut (she loved) there is a God! and guss what she is still my custemer today and all her mother sayed was : I told ya your hair would fall out some day if ya cept using crap in all the time, you allmost made the poor girl quit ! lol and ten years later that is still the worst hairday ever in my life!!!lol

Ugggghhhh.....
OK, I've got two tales of hair horror for ya....

1) This happened only a few months ago...my bestest friend Jennie (I wrote a poem about her in the poetry board) had the most beautiful hair that I've ever seen outside of TV or movies. It was kind of a golden-brown, straight, shiny, and about halfway down her back. Not too thick, but not at all wispy or frizzy...it looked like the girls in the Thermasilk commercials. Mainly, it was just really long and flowed down her back like a river. Anyhoo, Jennie gets lots of attention from boys cuz she's very pretty and frankly, cuz of her great hair (and her wonderful soul :) ). Her mom (who is not a nice person at all) thought she was getting TOO much attention, and decided that Jennie's hair had to go. Jennie argued and fought but, being a sweetie who loves her mom depite her many flaws, eventually caved in...her mom dragged her to a salon and barked orders to the stylist, demanding that her hair be cut short. Thus, Jennie's glorious tresses were chopped into a very plain, very tame bob above her chin. Not that it looked bad or anything, but the loss of all of that pretty hair was a tragedy. Needless to say, there was much weeping and sorrow, altho to get her mom back she dyed her hair bright red a few weeks later. Her mom wasn't too happy about that, and she yelled at both of us for it. Shucks to her, tho... Jen's growing it out again, and she's kept the red color, which is actually quite flattering.

2)On a lighter note (in hindsight at least)- has anyone ever heard of a 'bi-level' cut? Well, when I was 10, I was a very active little brat with a mess of curly hair that was difficult to tame. My mom got tired of watching me trying to shove this tangled mass out of my eyes all the time, and all manner of clips and headbands and barettes were used, to little avail. So she said I had to get it cut...I trusted my mom, so I said OK, since I wasn't really enjoying having crazy hair anyway. Off to Supercuts we went, where my mother and the stylist had a little private conference over one of those style books that they had, with a lot of glancing over at me and nodding and such. What had been decided on was the dreaded bi-level haircut...bane of young girls everywhere. Its basically a glorified mullet, designed to keep the length behind the ears and give the feel of long hair, while the front and sides are shorter, in my case just across the ears on the sides, with wretched short bangs in the front. On a little girl with straight hair it might have looked cute, but on this girl it looked like a horrible mullet, all poofy from my ears forward, and kinda lank and wavy in the back, cut bluntly to just above my shoulder. The bangs were really short, and since my hair's curly, they just kinda stuck straight forward and out, and there wasn't a thing I could do with them. And my mom wonders how I got to be so obsessive about my hair! Anyway, there was again much weeping and sorrow, and any time I see an old picture of myself during that dark time, I cringe. That was the last time my mom decided on my hair for me...I took the reins after that. She had since apologized for it, and I have forgiven her, but if any of you have a daughter (or one comes along in the future), stay away from the bi-level cut!!!!!!

Geez, I didn't realize how long this was. Thanks to anybody who had the patience to read these. :)

Cheers!
Inga

PS-for anybody that cares, the poem about Jennie is 'Firebird'...its on the Poetry board if you're interested.

LOL Ingrid.......I had the same god awful cut with a frizzy home perm in the back and bangs that were straightand poky short ! ahhhhhhh I cant beleve they did these things to us!!!! my aunt was a wanna be hair dresser & me try any thing well...not afer that! hahahaha ...Live & lern

OK...I don't know that you could exactly call it a blooper but after weeks and weeks and weeks of suggestions and hints (pressure) I finally gave in to my mom and got a spiral perm. I really didn't want one but just got tired of all the whinning. LOL After a few weeks I got use to it and even came to appreciate it at times. Then just before Christmas after about 7 months I cut my hair to chin length. (That was another scene).
Well my hair has been on the grow over a year now. Finally below the shoulders and still growing!

Oh Duke, your Mom must be about my age. I too went for an "afro" perm in the seventies. My hair is very fine and on the thin side. The perm didn't curl it the way I wanted it to. So, I went back and the stylist did another perm on top of that one!! The result was that most of my hair broke off and I had to get it cut very short. It took about a year, a lot of conditioning treatments, and a lot of haircuts to grow it back to anything resembling normal.

I actually witnessed a Karen blooper. She got her hair caught in a ficus tree by the elevators in the building we used to work in together. I heard her calling for help and found her tangled in the tree. It was hilarious. I didn't get to see the bookstore tree incident but if it was half as funny as the ficus tree it is only too bad that someone didn't have a camera handy.

Jane

hehehehe...Karen that brings new meaning to the phrase "tree-hugging!" :-)

I learned the hard way about shop gossip. I was telling a client about another client that was driving me bonkers. I went into great detail about all the things she did that drove me crazy. When I got all done she said, " she is my aunt." Luckily, she felt the same way about her! I learned to never discuss a client with another client!

Hi Lyris. I had a blast reading all of the hair bloopers here and I was very impressed that each and everyone handled their situation with a bit of humor I have a zillion hair bloopers that I can share with you but only 2 REALLY still brings back horriable nightmares and laughter.

#1 Blooper - I was pregnant and looking for a haircut that would be short and neat. I went to a "NEW" hairdresser who had just opened her own salon. I looked through books and magazines trying to find a haircut that I would like. I found a radical haircut (this was the 80ties) It was a "AceSemetrical"?! What I found strange as the hairdresser was cutting my hair was...she NEVER looked down at my hair...she kept looking in the big mirrior. When she was finished...she swung my chair around and the look on her face made me knit my eyebrows together. It was then that I noticed HER hair...it was FRIED from hair dyes and perms. I knew I made a big mistake then! I swung the chair back around and wanted to laugh and scream at the same time. On the right side of my head...my hair hung to chin length with 1/4" little bangs...on the left side my hair was cut about 1/2" all over and I had a whisp of bangs that hung to my chin. I left feeling that maybe pregnancy made one stupid because I paid the woman and never complained.

#2 Blooper - A Friend/Hairdresser suggested that for my little "fly-a-ways" I consider a hair straightener. She went to a beauty supply store and picked 1 up for me. It was for African/Americans and contained lye but she assured me that I should just leave it on ONLY 10 minutes and it would be alright. I took to mixing the various bottles and jars of thick goo's and readily applied it to my almost waist length hair. A little got on my forehead and it felt like fire. I then noticed my hair starting to do weird things...like kinky curl up. When I touched my hair...it broke off in my hands. I pratically dove in my shower...closed my eyes...praying that this would be alright. I felt water up to my knees and wondered what was clogging the drain. I opened my eyes and to my horror it was my hair!!!! Nearly all of it had broken off and layed in the water. I jumped out of the shower, called and went immediantly to another Friend/Hairdresser...she deep conditioned my hair and cut it REALLY short. What hair I did have left was ruined beyond words. A few days later I completely buzzed my head and went for a few months hearing nothing but bald jokes. Moral to this hair blooper: some Hairdressers don't make Good Friends!

Hi Cornsilk,

Welcoem to the Hairboutique boards!

Quite a story! I remember well the stages of Olivia Newton John's hair in those days (late 70s and/vs early 80's). Bummer about the misunderstanding!! I guess that's why it's a good idea to have a picture of what you want when you go to the salon. I remember how popular those short poodle perms were with the young women at the time (bleah).