What's the ULTIMATE blooper???

Oh man.. I have one to end all blooper stories. Thankfully it didn't happen to me, but it did happen to one of my best friends, recently actually. My friend is a very beautiful girl, the product of a filipino, mexican and white mix and she was is absolutely gorgeous. When we first started out, she had about shoulder length medium brown hair that she straightened every other day with a straightening iron. Yeah, I know what you think, damage city, but it wasn't that bad. She ended up getting highlights and her hair was a dirty blonde color that was VERY pretty on her. Then, for God only knows why, she wanted black streaks in her hair which didn't work out too well so she dyed her beautiful hair completely pitch black -- it didn't look bad on her, in fact, she still looked very pretty and even more exotic with dark hair. But then, a few months later she wanted reddish black hair -- and dyed the drugstore box dye over her already dyed black hair. She got sick of it a few months after that, and dyed it pitch black again. Then, she got in some real hot water with her parents(we're talking months of grounding) and they forced her to go to a cheap salon and get her hair STRIPPED. Her hair was already damaged from her cheap products(pantene!!!) and every other day straightening, and this dumbass "hair stylist" lifted her hair to an ORANGE BLONDE. She HATED it and it looked awful on her. I finally got her some salon products after that and she began, once again, to dye her hair to a light blonde to get rid of the orange.. the end product looked as coarse and dry as a twig about to be snapped. And she continued to straighten it. Well, during spring break her angel of a grandmother took her to an expensive salon and the guy there refused to do anything to her hair except deeply condition it and cut it almost all off. She agreed and now sports a still somewhat damaged(she still goes to him for weekly conditioning treatments.. he's an angel and has personally cut my own hair and we all love him.) short cut. Thankfully, she's beautiful and she can wear extremely short hair, but good lord...

My worst hair blooper happened when I was living in Italy in the early 80s. I went to a hairdresser for a little trim of my growing out hair (just above shoulders) and she basically shaved it off. I looked like a spring chicken for months....And, yes, I speak Italian.....

ok well im sure mines not as bad as some of the others...its kinda a half year long disaster. in november of 03 i bleached my hair from brown to light red (i actaully meant to lol). then i had strep in december which gave me ocd tendencies, so i would compulsively "trim" my hair. this left it "uneven" to me so i kept cutting it to make it "even". finally i got fed up and went to "mastercuts" so they would even it out. well i asked for a trim in the back, well the lady was flirting with her boyfriend while she was cutting my hair. she ended up making it worse then when i started, and she cut about an inch off the back, so i had a fullet-ish haircut. (longer in the front then in the back), but im a boy so it looked very weird. so i got my regular haircut lady to fix it thank god. then in january i dyed my hair black. not a very good choice. it made me look so pale. when i showed my mom i think she screamed if i remeber. so i tried dying my hair brown, but it wasnt showing up over the black dye. so i bleached my hair and it turned a dark red which i was convinced was so ugly. it was like the tacky fake color that old ladies dye their hair. everyone but me liked it which made it worse. it faded out to the color i originally had it in november though. ironic. now im growing my natural hair color back. the end. pheew.

I have a horrible hair blooper. About a year ago, I decided to highlight my hair with an at home kit. I left it on the front too long, and ended up with two white blotches on the front of my hair. They actually looked pale white. Then, I tried to dye it to get it to turn a pretty blonde, and they ended up turning this gray color, or something that wasn't even a color at all. Then, we died it again with with a darker blonde, and it finally looked normal, all except for this purple streak next to my ear. The purple streak finally came out, but let me tell you, I almost had white hair there for a while! It was scary.

My daughter had been putting streaks in her hair using cream bleach to lighten it first. I bought her a box of proper hair bleach, and she did the whole top of her head without thinking too hard about it.

When she saw that there was a huge white circle in her hair, she went to the bathroom shelf and grabbed a box of Loving Care redwood color - dark reddish brown, that I kept to touch up my gray. Without reading the warning that said Not to be used on lightened hair she applied it.

When I came home, she had a blotch on top of her head that was brilliant copper penny colored. Took forever to grow out, she ended up coloring it black.

I didn't know anything about hair color at the time, so I couldn't help her.

mtcruiser12 wrote: I especially do not recommend for anyone to use a product called Sun-in. It will turn your hair orange instead of blonde!

I've read many posts on these boards about sun-in and that seems to be the general consensus! I know I won't be using it.

Kathy

I got this one: The Scene Stealer
Stand back! You’re an extrovert with a finger on the pulse of cutting-edge style and the can-do attitude to pull it off. From betting it all on priceless platinum to overindulging in deep scarlet red, you aren’t afraid of anything when it comes to your hair colour! You’re an ever-changing chameleon, transforming when the mood (and look!) strikes you! People step back and take notice when you saunter into a room. And you wouldn’t want it any other way!
I can kind of agree with some of it-- I have taken a lot of risks with my hair, even if sometimes it's come back to bite me. . . but I am, strangely enough, terribly shy, introverted, and hate to call attention to myself. *sweatdrops* I'm such a walking contradiction. . .

Here's mine...

The Flirty & Fun Free Spirit
You’re playful, diverse and one hell of a self-aware chick! You don’t take the whirlwind world of fashion and beauty too seriously. With a belief in enhancing what you’ve been naturally blessed with, you’re likely to crank up the heat on ginger red hair or brighten your blonde to beach-bum levels. You’re stylish and trendy without much effort and are happy to watch most of the outrageous looks pass you by. But when you want to...POW! You pull out all the stops and look utterly amazing!

The Girl Next Door
You can best be described as modest and somewhat shy. Experimenting with the latest shocking colours and techniques isn’t really your cup of tea. Your mindset is, ‘Why do something to my hair that’s only going to be passé in a week?’ Natural medium-browns, golden, sun-kissed blondes and hi-shine, glossy black; you’re into the classics because they never go out of style.

Hmm, don't know if that describes my hair personality. I'm all about drastic changes to my hair. Long to short in one sitting, red to dark brown and back again...

My bloopers all involve hair color experimentation. The worst involved bleaching the color out of my dark brown hair and then overlaying that with a strawberry blonde color late late at night. Except that it turned out really bright orange (think traffic cones) and I had to work the next morning. So I was up at 5am at Wal-Mart--wearing a knit cap over my hair to hide it --buying a box of Ash Brown color to dye over the mess I made. It turned out okay. That was the day I found out that my hair could go fifteen rounds with whatever I could throw at it. Yeah for resilient hair...

I had my hair white for many years, it looked great and didn't look damaged, and was long to bsl. I got sick of all the attention it got me after a few years though, and dyed it darker. The darker dye started to fade after a month, so on a whim I picked up a box of henna. I saw the warning on it not to use it on bleached white hair, but mine wasn't white anymore! And I did it on bleached yellow hair as a kid and it was no problem, so it couldn't be that bad, I was sure I'd be fine.

I was NOT fine! When you dye hair that has been bleached white with henna, you get sea monster blue-green that won't wash out and won't ever fade. I walked around as Nessie for about 6 months, trying to cover it with black (red-based) permanant dye, red colored shampoo, soaking my head with cooking oil to get the henna to come out. Nothing worked of course. After about 6 months the shampoo quit making it brownish and my hair was starting to look bright red and green. So instead of wearing elf shoes to work and singing Jingle Bells in June, the blue-green was now grown out to my ears, so I cut it into the ear-length bob. I'm still waiting for my hair to grow to it's original length.

The sad thing is, the one thing I always wanted since I was a kid was super long hair! Never have been able to achieve that yet. I now do a couple of blonde streaks in the front of my hair, but otherwise, I don't dye it anymore, and I'll never touch henna again.

Edited to add that if you click on my hair safe barette link in my signature, then click "my little hair journey" at the bottom, you can see pictures of all my haircolors.