What's the ULTIMATE blooper???

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

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.

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