QuoteReplyTopic: What was/is the absolute UGLIEST color youve had in your hair... Posted: April 06 2004 at 3:52pm
...intentional or otherwise?
My worst color was a cool blue-black that looked very unnatural and unflattering on my fair, warm reddish-gold skin tone. It made my face look like a mass of radio-active cotton-candy. Yuck. Actually, it's a close call between that and Manic Panics Neon Lizzard green.
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Unintentionally bright carrot-orange :-P . I had to put on a wig and go out for an emergency brown to cover it up :-P . Although it might be a tie between that and the time I tried to put in blonde streaks, when my hair turned a pale oreangry-goldy shade, except for the roots, which turned completely white :-( ! I had to do an emergency brown run then, too, of course. I'm so ghetto *laughs* whenever I mess up my hair I just buy cheap brown dye at the store to fix it rather than going to a salon like sensible people :-P .
By far, it was the time I was 18 (in the early 80s in a very small rural town) and went to the drugstore for "light brown" hair. I'm about a Level 4 naturally. Didn't do any tests, just plopped the whole thing on head and Hello Orangehead! Went to my friends house to make sure I wasn't just being picky. She almost died. Rushed me to her hairdresser who's "fix it" was to turn my hair Cleopatra purple-almost black. It was the middle of summer. In this little conservative town, I looked like I was into Goth before its time. Ugh...was horrid.
Whew! I learned my lesson and have never taken matters into my own hands again. NOT!! I still experiment and I still screw up, but I don't panic as much as I used to.
When my hair was dyed black I looked goth. I am extremely fair, so the black was not flattering at all. I seriously looked like snow white. Even though a few people thought it looked great...I hated it. I like my hair dark...just not that dark!
LinnY :-)
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Oh yes, I had black hair for most of high school. I'm very pale, so the other kids kept saying I looked like Lydia from _Beetlejuice_! I didn't think of it as a dye disaster, though, because it was intentional, it was the shade I wanted at the time, and I liked it enough to keep it for probably close to three years before I got tired of it. The growout from that was a pain :-P . I'd tried to bleach the black out, but it didn't work, so I had black hair with blonde roots. I had a kind of goldy-blonde hair for a while once I got rid of the black, which at the time I thought was good, but recently I saw a pic from then, and it was awful :-( ! Even though I'm fair-skinned, I just don't seem to look good blonde-- blends in with my skin too much. . . and then there are the dark roots :-P . . . Bleh.
I was blonde...but only when I went tanning...once the tan faded I didn't like it at all, since I'm very pale. I didn't want to go tanning year round so I decided to go dark again.
Went in for highlights. Went to THE most expensive place in town and asked for their color specialist. Told her I wanted, "anything but red. I hate red." Yah, it came out Irish Setter red all right. She said, "Oooh, isn't that pretty and it's not red." Gawd (I hate it when they try to cover the A*# like that). Called back and said, "I can't even go to work."
She told me to come back in and she would correct it. When I got in the chair, she slapped on some goo and laughed and said, "No, don't look when I pull this off. We have take your hair up to white and then re-color." OMG! So, the result. Golden Retriever/Daffodil yellow. It was so ugly and I was forced to go to work. A young guy walked by at work and goes "I really like your hair, it's very punk rock." We're talking crossing guard/Maxx Headroom yellow. Not to MENTION the tiger stripe and bleach dots throughout my hair. Uh huh.
I had to demand my money back from the salon...I think I even left a tip the first time because I was too embarrassed not to. They wouldn't return the tip. Cost $100 + tip (this was a lot of money then, especially in my town and especially since I was only making secretary wagesl).
Had to go to another salon (on Christmas EVE), and have her do a color correction. Yep, more bleaching, etc. It looked okay....but, not the gorgeous head of hair that I was dreaming of in the first place. Man, no WONDER I used to have hair nightmares.
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I bought Clairol Herbal Essenses Spicy Ginger, thinking it would be similar to the Fiesty Pumpking I usually use, DOLL HAIR! Raggy Andy would have loved it. Called Clairol, was told to use Mocha Frost Hydrience to tone it down, right down to dark black coffee brown. Now am thinking of stripping the whole mess out of my hair and trying again, but don't quite know what to use. All I want is to be a redhead again! This is just icky. Kinda of faded to brown with a few glimmers of red and a lot of gold on top. Next worst, Preference Dark Auburn way back, even my teenaged (at the time) son laughed his butt off over the purple hair with orange hightlights.
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this happened about 5 years ago. i went to my usual stylist for my usual root touch up to my red hair. i was the last client of the day and she must have been extremely tired; when i left, my roots were eggplant purple next to my light auburn hair. "OH, it may wash out," she tells me. It was so bad that when i went to work the next day, my MALE boss made me leave, told me not to come back until it was fixed!
She had to bleach out and recolor the roots and then was left with a few splotcches where the bleach got into my good color so, she put some blonde hi-lights to "hide" it. Not too bad of an outcome on the color but it totally fried my hair.
CO wash only since September '04! Dyed red botticelli curls (3b), fine and just past shoulder length
One of my favorite experiences was with Clairol Balsm Color in Palest blond. It turned my medium brown/dark blonde hair a bright, brassy strawberry blonde, which is not a flattering choice for someone with pink skin. It also crispy-fried my hair and it didn't even come with an after color conditioner.
Asked my beautician make my a little darker since the highlights were looking brassy and a bit ghettoish. She colored only the roots a purple, eggplant color and left the rest highlighted. Went home and I had about four different colors in my hair. From light brown, auburn, eggplant, blonde and dark brown. I could not believe it.
Anyway long story short, I finally decided to go back to my naturally dark brown hair. Another stylist put a semi permanent color by Aveda, cut my hair since it was severly damaged from all of the bleaching. There were chunks of my hair that were completely white (my natural dark brown is almost black - just to give an idea of how much was stripped from my hair). Anyway, the new stylist said that my hair needs to go on a retreat and so here I am growing it out and I'm going to stick to my natural color from now on. Going to focus on keeping it healthy and shiny, with a very nice cut at all times.
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It was electric baby pink.... by accident Frosty green.... By accident Bozo the clown orange .... By accident...
The list goes on...LOL
I finally have it down to quite a science depending if I feel like being a blonde or brunette. I KNOW EXACTLY how to get what i want and do it myself because I'm tired of salons doing it WRONG.
The worst color I ever was the result of impatience and was pretty much a complete accident. I had decided, stupidly, to dye my light brown hair very dark brown (it was almost black) at my friends house because she was and we thought it would be cool to have the same hair color. Bad idea, seeing as how I have very pale/fair skin. I mean, we're talking Snow White fair, with some light freckles across my cheeks, and hardly any color in my skin. I looked washed out and sickly. It was definitely not a pretty sight. So, dumb as I was, I went home upset and my mom, in an attempt to alleviate the problem, got a bottle of color remover that I think was called Purroxide (or something along those lines, I guess it was supposed to be a clever play on words, but that's beside the point) and we applied it the next day to my hair according to the directions. Oh my goodness, was my hair brassy and orange. Yuck! I think I was less upset about the atrocity that my hair now was than the more natural dark dark brown I was trying to strip from my hair. I must have been in a state of shock because I just kept laughing, realizing how incredibly dumb I was and my new look was no one's fault but my own. Well, my hair was fried and frizzy and orange, and I've never done anything like that since. I did that when I was 16 and now I'm 22 so I hope I've learned my lesson.
I ignored the warning on the henna jar that says "do not use on platinum or bleached blonde hair". I did henna on hair that had been bleached when I was a teen and got a nice redhead look, so I thought it would be okay...my hair had been dyed platinum, but I had dyed it light brown since then, so it'd be fine, right? WRONG! I got SEA CREATURE BLUE GREEN!
Sort of a gray blue green really...and I look best in bright colors, so in addition to looking like Nessie, my skin looked terrible with it. The worst part about it is that you can't dye over henna. It was over.
I tried putting black over it with a red base to cover it. That worked for a week, then the black just slid off and I was green again (and I was on vacation in another country for a month, so I couldn't do anything about it and had gray green hair in all the pictures). Dying it was just killing my hair for it to slide out in a week, so that wouldnt' work. I tried the hot oil treatments that were supposed to remove henna, they didn't work (hair was too bleached before I guess). I used a red shampoo for 6 months to try to avoid cutting off all of my hair....that worked for about 6 months, turning it an unflattering, but normal red/brown, but then it stopped working so well (don't know why) and I started to have both red and green striped hair. I had to cut my hair up to my ears. Man it sucked. I hate that length on me and it was so annoying not being able to do anything with it! I'm still trying to grow it back to it's former length, it will be about another year before it gets there. And its all, my own dang fault.
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I still experiment and I still screw up, but I don't panic as much as I used to.
