What's the ULTIMATE blooper???

Lol, ok I'm very daring with my hair and it really bites me in the butt sometimes...

My first big whoops was when I went to get my naturally lightish-medium brown hair dyed dark brown with dark red highlights. I wanted the red to be just as dark as the brown so it would just kind of give it a redish tint, I had seen it done and it looked good, I even brought a picture. When they were done... it was very dark brown almost black, like I wanted but the red was a cherry red color that looked faded and didn't start til about an inch down from the roots... it was really ugly

The second was when I wanted CARAMEL highlights, like a light brown honey color... The lady decided to put bleach in it... lol BIG mistake. The whole thing was blonde, and i do NOT look good as a blonde. So she put a toner in it but it turned orange, ugly orange, and then they tried to some brown back in it but it was so messed up... and fried. It's still in really bad condition thanks to her and that was about a year ago

Then yesterday I dyed the whole thing burgundy, but then I decided I didn't like it... So right now I am waited for my 25 min. so I can rinse out the dark brown dye I bought to fix this.
That one was my fault, cause I'm dumb... lol, but the first two were because of stylists, so thinking you are safer with a professional isn't always a sure thing. I say just stick with natural unless you really really trust your stylist or you are willing to take BIG BIG BIG risks

I have 2 bloopers, both I did to myself. I rarely go to a salon to get my hair done, if I do it's a student salon. So it's been trrial and error for me.

The worst was when my boyfriend and I decided to straighten our hair. We got one of those kits and left it on for the time specified. But when we were done both of us had fried hair! We both looked like we had afros. I mean it was just out to there and there was nothing I could do to tame mine. My boyfriend was lucky, he could just shave his off. I got mine cut very short at the student salon. They told me there that I should never use hair straightener. If I needed to straigten my hair to use a perm solution. Lesson learned.

The second time I decided to dye my hair black. I'm a redhead and I have very fair skin. I should have known I couldn't pull it off. I looked white as a ghost, like a goth or something. It was awful. After a few days I decided I had to do something and bleached it to get the black out. That turned it orange LOL. So I walked around with orange hair for a while and then finally dyed it back to red.

Well, when I was 14 and anorexic, my hair started to fall out and I would randomly pass out when I hit 79 pound mark. It was really dry, thin, broken, and had started graying. Ick.

Hi Cornsilk,

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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).

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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!