What's the ULTIMATE blooper???
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Topic: What's the ULTIMATE blooper???
Posted By: Lyris
Subject: What's the ULTIMATE blooper???
Date Posted: February 14 2003 at 12:13pm
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I'm curious who here can offer the worst hair blooper ever--not just trying to dye your brown hair blond and getting orange....we've all done that or something similar. I'm talking really, really bad. What's the worst change (cut, texture, style, color, etc) you've ever experienced or have seen on someone else? Mine: This didn't happen to me (thankfully) but to a college classmate. I knew this beautiful gal--was a catalogue model, even did some live work I think--with the most gorgeous straight, shiny blond hair. She wore it long (bra strap length) and all one length. It was the kind of hair I could l only dream about. Very pretty. Anyway, after I had known her for several years this girl came into class one day with the most complete hair transformation I'd ever seen. Where to start? First, her hair was brown. Not even a nice rich chestnut but a grayish, dishwater brunette shade. Secondly, it was chin-length and layered with big chunks hanging down around her neck. She also had bangs that fell just to her eyes--as if she was in that awkward growing-out stage. Finally.....she'd had some sort of "texture" put in. Good grief. It was sort of a frizzy wavy texture that was probably intended to add body but succeeded only in adding to my disbelief. Really, the before and after effect would blow your mind. Anyway, I think S. knew that this just wasn't the look for her. The last time I saw her she'd grown her hair out to just above the shoulders, but it was all one length, straight and dark blond. It was such a radical change...from one extreme to the other. What's your story? ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
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Posted By: Booie
Date Posted: February 16 2003 at 3:01pm
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  ------------- Booie |
Posted By: duke
Date Posted: February 17 2003 at 8:42pm
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I've posted this before. About 1975, my mother (who now has long hair) went to get her hair permed into an afro - this was evidently popular at the time and I'm not sure if it was just fashion or one of mom's friends who got her to do this. The stylist left the perm on too long or something and her hair came out fried. Mom didn't like the results and though you're not supposed to wash your hair right after a perm, went ahead and washed at home. She soon found that some hairs were breaking off. She looked bad for 6 months and then got her hair cut. It was short, but at least the perm part was reduced to a minimum and I think she liked it. B.T.W. this was a few years before I was born and there are no pictures I know of so I can only imagine how bad this was. Must have been an awful experience. As I always say, the person who invented perming deserved the award for the most useless invention of the year...  The really sad thing about it all is that the way the stylist cut her hair just before was such that mom loved it a lot; she thought she looked great and afterward, she really regretted not having simply told him to stop with the cut. |
Posted By: Ingrid16
Date Posted: February 18 2003 at 2:30am
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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. ------------- If I had wings then I could take you in I'd stay on the ground and show you some things The grass is strewn with blades of gold all sights and sounds I have been told all hopes, desires, seem to sing |
Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: February 18 2003 at 7:47am
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Inga that's horrible! Both stories. And wow....sometimes I think MY mother is being wretched, but when it comes to hair she can't hold a candle to yours or Jen's experiences. I strongly believe that the only person who should make drastic decisions about a head of hair is the one wearing it! Yikes! ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
Posted By: Booie
Date Posted: February 19 2003 at 9:49am
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  ------------- Booie |
Posted By: duke
Date Posted: February 19 2003 at 12:33pm
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Sheesh, some of these mothers sure do have issues. Seriously, I think that grownups sometimes tend to enjoy seeing bad haircuts as something cute on little children. I get sick every time I see a little girl with the hair about shoulder-length in the back and more or less short-fuzzy-banged at the front, sort of like a mullet. These styles may be more practical than cute. |
Posted By: Rachel A
Date Posted: February 19 2003 at 5:56pm
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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! ------------- "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" |
Posted By: Ingrid16
Date Posted: February 20 2003 at 2:43am
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Booie- my sympathies. At least I know I'm not the only one :) In defense of my mom, she didn't mean to traumatize me with that haircut. It was supposed to be practical...so that her little girl could still have long hair without it hanging in her eyes all day long. It wasn't in any way a power thing or an attempt to stifle me. Actually, I get on wonderfully with my mom (altho she HATES my hair short, like it is now). She's really my best friend, except for poor, unfortunate Jennie. Now HER mom on the other hand...yeah, 'issues' is putting it lightly. God help the woman. ------------- If I had wings then I could take you in I'd stay on the ground and show you some things The grass is strewn with blades of gold all sights and sounds I have been told all hopes, desires, seem to sing |
Posted By: demodoll
Date Posted: February 21 2003 at 10:15am
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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. ------------- "It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal |
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: February 22 2003 at 4:34pm
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Hi Demodoll, Great topic. My only problem is thinking of the worst blooper and then I remember mine and well, you know how it goes. It is easiest to remember our own hair traumas. When I was a young girl my Aunt Margie and my mom conspired to put my hair into a Shirley Temple perm that seemed to take 1000 years to grow out and left my hair frizzed to the max. Then there was the time in high school when I wanted to impress Tom Brennan...who only liked redheads...by dying my hair red. Unfortunately I used a red home hair color that clashed with my naturally blonde hair and turned it bright neon orange. My HS buddies laughed their asses off at my hair but Tom got the brunt of it because everyone blamed him for my hair nightmare. Yes...I did tell everyone that I colored it for him. :-) Then there was the time my hair got caught in a tree at a bookstore about 5 years ago and I had to drag the tree to the front desk to be untangled. Oh yes, and the time a stylist turned my bra length hair into a huge head of ringlet hair. I alternated between laughing and crying. So many bloopers, so many laughs. Of course I get literally hundreds of emails from people who have done everything from pour prune juice on their heads (to try and darken the color) to people who have conditioned with molasses and vasline, that will not come out. I had my own tangles with a jar of castor oil that I posted on a different board here at HB.com. Thanks for the topic. Such a great one. Karen ------------- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-) |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: February 22 2003 at 6:12pm
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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 |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: February 22 2003 at 7:08pm
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LOL! ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: February 23 2003 at 11:04am
| hehehehe...Karen that brings new meaning to the phrase "tree-hugging!" :-) |
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: February 23 2003 at 2:22pm
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LOL. Yes. One of those moments that I am grateful was not part of a reality TV show. LOL. ------------- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-) |
Posted By: creative genius
Date Posted: February 24 2003 at 8:24am
 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!------------- PTL |
Posted By: Booie
Date Posted: February 24 2003 at 8:55am
LOL ...Know what i did one time sayed to a clint so I heer your brothers gettin married ! ( i smiling all happy for the guy s brother) ....the clint gets this realy weard look says ..MY BROTHER?...HES ALLREADY MARRIED ! WATE TILL HIS WIFE FINDS OUT! .....i was so confused ! ....I saied he wasent tryin to hide it or nothin ....how weard ...to find out I had two clints confused ...I thaught this guy and the other guy were brothers the whole time both had mom's with the same name and brothers with the same name's ......what is the chances of that????? lol  ------------- Booie |
Posted By: LongBraidz
Date Posted: March 21 2004 at 12:23pm
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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! ------------- "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Kahlil Gibran~ |
Posted By: Cornsilk
Date Posted: April 01 2004 at 8:27pm
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Hi, this is my first post ever to this site. I just had to respond to this funny question although my ultimate blooper still embarrasses me. It was July 1, 1981 (I'll never forget the date), and I was almost 21. I had spent the spring semester studying in Italy and then I backpacked around Europe for 6 weeks after that. During that whole time I never trimmed my hair. At the start of the semester, it was around bra-strap length (though I did not use that term at the time) or a little longer. Stick straight and honey blonde. By the time I came home at the end of June, it was probably 4 or 5 inches longer (my hair grew fast back then), getting near waist-length. It needed a trim really bad - there were lots of split ends and dryness. Maybe because it looked so ratty at the ends, or maybe because I was about to turn 21, I decided to get a major change. I went to the only hairstylist I had ever been to, a woman named Sara, who had trimmed my hair a few times since I was in high school. I told Sara I was ready for something different, planning to get her suggestions. She said, "How about I cut it like Olivia Newton-John?" Here's the embarrassing blooper part... In my mind I saw Olivia Newton-John in the movie Grease, which was a couple of years old by then. Remember her hair in Grease, blunt bangs, around shoulder length and flipped up in back? Kind of a cute schoolgirl look. Well, that would have been a radical change enough, like a foot shorter, and I did not have bangs. So I thought about it a while and said, "Okay, go for it!" Sara asked, "Do you want to watch?" I said (another blooper here), "No, I can't bear to watch." So she turned the chair so I would not see myself in the mirror during the cut. Well, she was not thinking of Olivia's hair in Grease. She was thinking of her hair in "Physical!" I ended up with short layers all over! Which took forever to grow out. ------------- Yesterday's history. Tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a beautiful day. |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: April 04 2004 at 2:16pm
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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). ------------- |
Posted By: lil bunny
Date Posted: April 24 2004 at 10:11am
| 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... |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 3:49am
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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. |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: May 29 2004 at 10:06pm
| 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..... |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: June 04 2004 at 4:51pm
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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. |
Posted By: Samrk
Date Posted: June 27 2004 at 2:23pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: babybxoxo
Date Posted: July 24 2004 at 10:40pm
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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 |
Posted By: mtcruiser12
Date Posted: August 08 2004 at 3:18pm
| 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. |
Posted By: nygal
Date Posted: August 08 2004 at 7:37pm
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Hi mtcruiser12, welcome to the boards! You were lucky. Have you tried that at home kit again, or should I even be asking? ------------- I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. .....Steven Wright |
Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: August 09 2004 at 9:48am
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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. ------------- 
Just looking for a few good hair slaves - is that too much to ask? |
Posted By: mtcruiser12
Date Posted: August 09 2004 at 3:28pm
| No, I haven't tried that highlighting kit again. I am about to give some important advice to anyone--leave your hair alone! Do not dye it! You may end up with disaster! I especially do not recommend for anyone to use a product called Sun-in. It will turn your hair orange instead of blonde! |
Posted By: nygal
Date Posted: August 09 2004 at 4:43pm
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 bought some batteries, but they weren't included. .....Steven Wright |
mtcruiser12 wrote:Posted By: mtcruiser12
Date Posted: August 09 2004 at 6:40pm
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Hey, you all should go to this website that tells you what your hair color personality is. You take this neat little quiz and it tells you your personality by what you've done or would do to your hair. Here it is: http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_beauty/tests/haircolour_personality.htm - http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_beauty/tests/haircolour_personality.htm |
Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: August 10 2004 at 5:12am
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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. . . ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: August 12 2004 at 8:09am
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this is what i got....... The Glamour Gal Alluring. Sensual. You’re a confident and statuesque beauty who knows how to work what her mother gave her! Whether it’s 14-carat blonde, intense copper red or sparkling sapphire blue-black, you showcase your hair like a priceless jewel. Not a complete slave to fashion, you know how to flaunt what looks best on you. You don’t shy away from the newest and hottest looks, but you also know that the eternal style of simplicity (à la Grace and Audrey) will always be a perfect stunner. |
Posted By: nygal
Date Posted: August 12 2004 at 9:31am
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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! ------------- I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. .....Steven Wright |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: August 16 2004 at 7:42pm
Don't insult Goths please =/ Some of us might either happen to be one or find Goth Girls among most beautiful on earth. |
Posted By: gizmo
Date Posted: August 26 2004 at 10:48pm
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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...------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: November 22 2004 at 5:26pm
*hehe* Funny you should mention that. My uber-gothiness was the cause of my WORST hair blooper. Of course, it was dyed black. I loved it, but my mother didn't. Being the loving daughter that I am (and getting tired of her months of whining) I consented to go to her stylist to have the black stripped out to bring me closer to my natural light brown. I went to her stylist, she was putting the stuff on my hair, then she tossed me the package and said, "Can you read that little print on there?" Needless to say, I was not amused to find out that she had NEVER done this before. From the root two inches down was school bus yellow, and the rest was black and brown streaked. She had to put a purple-based dye on to cover up the mess. It was a nice colour, but you know those really cheap plastic knock-off Barbie doll's? Their hair *crunches* when you scrunch it? Yeah, mine did that. It felt just like cheapo plastic doll hair. Soooo.....it had to be cut. It was frizzy and awful. We cut it to my chin and did tons of leave in treatments and deep conditioning, but it was never the same. Then, one day my new stylist lost her freaking mind and, I assume, misheard me saying cut it to my earlobes instead of my chin, and cut it to the tops of my ears! I had this awful little mushroom-looking puff of hair perched atop my head. I screamed, put on a hat, and called yet another stylist for a fix. I walked in the next morning, took off my hat, and the stylist said, "OH, my god!" I asked what we could do, and she said that all she could do was buzz me. So, I ended up bald. This was three days before I left for college, btw, so I was not amused. On the plus side, my mother has never tried to get me to do anything else with my hair after that. |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: November 23 2004 at 7:15am
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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. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: MoNiCaxOC
Date Posted: December 27 2004 at 9:43am
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Last night, I decided that my blonde could go a little blonder. I had really pretty highlights from my stylist, but I wanted the reddish undertones to be gone and be a platinum blonde. So I dumped some 40 bleach on it and it came out a bright white/yellow. It didn't look bad but it just didn't look right on my and I hated it!! So I bought some dark blonde/light brown dye. It turned my hair PLATINUM GRAY! When I took the towel off my head my fiance's mouth dropped...!!! I freaked!! I was crying and crying but I went to the store and got a dark auburn color and now it's better. I miss the blonde though. :-( But everyone says I look way better brunette...I might get some highlights in it someday.... What do you think my stylist will say?? She loved the blonde!! Is she gonna give me crap?? I get all nervous having to go back to her now... ------------- This is because I can spell konfusion with a K It's hard to like it It's to dying in anothers arms And why i had to try it... - Something Corporate "Konstantine" |
Posted By: redhairedgirl
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 12:36pm
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My worst hair disaster happened last month courtesy of my ex-best friend. She had been going on to me for months about how much sexier and more modern I would look if I had short hair. At this point my hair was nearly down to my butt. So I decided I would have a bob. She came with me to the salon and to cut a long story short lol, I came out of the salon with the back and sides in a buzzcut with the top kind of short and spiky. I was really unsure about it, but she kept on telling my how great I looked. Anyway the next day she admitted she only persuaded me to have my haircut to see if I would go through with it! All I can say is it is a good job she can run fast and I was wearing heels, if I had caught her, hmmm. Got extensions just shortish ones. Will go long again next time. So a happy ending ------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 11:15pm
OMG!! Some friend! lol!
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Posted By: redcheese
Date Posted: April 02 2005 at 11:04am
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My worst blooper (I mentioned this in another thread, but not in all the gruesome detail!) I have naturally red-copper-colored hair. It's not an ultra-saturated red, but definitely a bright orangey color. Just before I began my sophomore year of college, a friend coaxed me to try this Feria blonde color--sort of a light warm blonde, but not bleach blonding. It really didn't lighten my hair much, so I didn't think much of it. The first night I was back on campus, I took leave of my senses and tried Natural Instincts BLACK HAIR DYE. I like semi-permanent color; I've tried a lot of shades of L'oreal Colorspa. So, I figured the Clairol black non-permanent dye would be a great idea, thinking it'd wash right out. I didn't realize this at the time, but 1) semi-permanent dyes that are much darker than your normal color tend to be rather permanent; and 2) if you lighten your hair, chances are it'll be more porous and seep up color faster. Worse still, it was uneven and mottled. It was horrible! It wasn't even like a glamorous, shiny, raven-y black. It was completely flat black, like someone had dumped ink on my head. My hair was a little longer than my bra strap line at the time. It was SOOO uneven and patchy toward the bottom--I had to recruit a friend to chop it off to my shoulders. We tried a few lighter shades to pull it up to a brunette. That worked okay and I could finally go out in public without a hat. But I still wasn't happy. It occurred to me that violent orange colors are easy to obtain with cheap bleach. So my friend assisted me in putting some bright orange highlights in the top and front of my hair, with a few more less-dramatic streaks throughout the rest. That worked pretty well and at least provided the illusion of red hair. She actually did a pretty good job too--my new roots blended in very well with the bright orange. Surprisingly my hair wasn't damaged at all, and I experienced minimum breakage or frizzing even with all it had gone through. By Christmas Break, I had enough new growth to cut off all the black and get a short pixie-punk cut, which suits me pretty well. I definitely learned my lesson, though. |
Posted By: norskygrl21
Date Posted: April 15 2005 at 4:19pm
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I have had a lot of hair bloopers in my short 25 years, but the worst by far was the decision to dye my beautiful honey blonde hair dark, dark brown, probably about a level 2. My natural level is a 6, so it is not even like I was trying to go back to my natural color. To make matters worse I had to cut three inches off it after I colored it dark to salvage the ends. Here is where the real problem started. About six months later I decided I wanted to be blonde again, and when I decide something I tend to be impulsive. |
Posted By: xxxzvp
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 11:23am
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My wife has kept her hair quite short for the past couple of years, much to my delight,but her stylist is not really very good at short hair. She always ends up with uneven sideburns, or something else wrong. I told her that my barber only gives short haircuts and should be able to do her hair no problem, and she agreed to give him a try. She explained to him that she had her hair cut about 6 weeks ago and only wanted a trim. At this time her hair was about an inch long on the sides and back and two inches on top. He gave her a very dramatic military style cut, buzzed to the skin on the sides and back, and half-inch long on top. Then he even shaved her nape with a straight razor. She was in shock, but I was delighted. After the shock wore off, she admits that she likes the new cut, but would have never asked for it. |
Posted By: sweetfoxyroxie
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 5:24pm
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My worst blooper is my high shcool boyfriend telling me he thought Winona Ryders hair looked good short. I went to the salon (best cuts of course) and told the lady I wanted a pixie cut. Well she was Russan and spoke very little english and she ended up giving me a male hair cut. Seriously! It was so short and boyish I couldn't even spike it up to make it look cool. So I went home and shaved my head bald. The next day at school I was wearing a hat and my teacher told me I had to take it off. When I did everyone was dying of laughter and rolling on the ground laughing including my ex who broke up with me on the spot. What an ass! And now here I am trying to grow it out it again... for the 5th time it is taking forever but I am going to do it! I am determined! |