Your biggest hair oops EVER
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Topic: Your biggest hair oops EVER
Posted By: julesyjul88
Subject: Your biggest hair oops EVER
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 4:50am
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So I was just curious as to what everyone's biggest hair oops ever was.
Myself,I have had ALOT in my past before I knew much about coloring.
But it doesnt have to be coloring.Could be a bad cut,color,or both.
Maybe a bad perm? Maybe you got gum stuck in your hair.Maybe you just woke up and had one of those days,or maybe you've never had one.
I'll start.
My worst was when I was young and pretty dumb about coloring.I didnt know color couldnt LIFT color.
I had extremely bleached blonde hair and decided RIGHT BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY to go darker.I picked a random color and dyed it.
It came out too dark and unreal looking.I decided since I still had a box of blonde dye I could just put on and it would go back to blonde.
haha,silly rabbit!
It basicly looked half blonde and half dark with streaks and looked greenish too.
I made an appointment at a salon the next day,and every stylist in the place was trying to figure out how to fix me.The stylist colored my hair three times before it finally took.
The damage was so great though that she had to cut my hair the shortest it has ever been in my life.The top of my hair was like mush and rubbery .She said if she didnt cut it it would have broken off or fallen out anyways.
It took almost a whole year for my hair to look decent at all.It was my worst hair oops,and my worst birthday EVER!
At least I can look back on it and laugh now.
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Posted By: paper
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 8:51am
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haha that is pretty funny. I'm sure it didn't seem that way at the time!!!
Well, I'm new at coloring so no oops there. The worst thing that ever happened to my hair was when it was long, one length to my bra strap. I asked the hair stylest to trim the back, cut bangs, and cut long layers from bang to ends. Well......she cut the back to shoulder length and layered it all over with short layers. I was devasted, my long hair was gone!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Jojoswr
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 11:23am
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One time, a stylist just used a highlift blonde rather than bleach. Left me very orange. Looked like carrot top. Had to go elsewhere to have it bleached further and toned. Yuck.
Now I do it myself with much better results.
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Posted By: Ally<3
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 7:06pm
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The same old story - early highschool, a box of bleach from the drug store, uneven orange dry hair, heavy humiliation, many boxes of brown dye, and a very short cut at the hair dressers. Oh, and even when my hair was dyed the bleached ends would hardly take the colour, so I had faded ends and dark roots, and months and months of trying to get my hair back to good condition. Sigh, to be young and dumb. ------------- |
Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 1:42am
Thanks for sharing gals. Before I came to this site I thought I was the only one this stuff happend to! 
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Posted By: Lickalime
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 3:52pm
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I shaved half my head. I was in high school and wanted something different. so I pulled my hair in a half pony on top and had my sister draw a line (or maybe part my hair) with a comb just above my ears. anything that fell below the top of my ears I had my sister shave off
we then took a box of Pizazz (does anyone remember that brand of hair dye?) it was a bright purple color and my sister colored what was left of my hair outrageous purple. my parents were pissed! I got teased when I got to school and was talked to about my hairstyle. the school threatened to suspend me - it was a private school
thinking about it now, it was a really stupid thing to do. talk about waiting a long time for a hairstyle to grow out. I thought it was the coolest hairstyle ever ------------- I am at 32" ~goal length 36" |
Posted By: kennedy_700
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 5:06pm
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an at-home highlighting kit when i was 17. i also let my mom help, another mistake.
i had neon yellow roots and neon orange ends. it wasn't a pretty sight; i started crying on the way to school and couldn't show my face. my stylist fit me in at 7 am the next morning, and i emerged with the look i had originally wanted, but not after almost five hours of intense repairwork. ------------- "A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. -Anton Chekhov |
Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 5:33pm
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Lickalime...I shaved my head once too! But only underneath my hair in the back. I thought I was being cool as the style at the time was grunge.
You're right it takes a long time to grow out,and you go through some really awkward stages! Ugh,the things we do in our youth!
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Posted By: Luvbug6315
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 3:15pm
| I was in elementary school and I let my aunt "highlight" my hair because she promissed she knew what she was doing. Well, She decided she didn't feel like pulling it through the cap (we used a cap back in those days) and that combing it through would work the same way. Now, this was my first experience with any color and my hair was waist lenghth and dyed a very unnatural color of what looked like yellow. Horrible! |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 8:27am
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I had platinum blond for 6 years, got sick of the attention and decided to go back to my natural. Before I did that though, I was going to have some fun first and try black. I chose henna, over heavily lightened platinum hair! I had dyed it dark blond once before doing the henna so I told myself it would be alright to ignore the warning on the henna box about not using it on lightened hair. It turned sea monster blue-gray-green (not even a nice turquoise that might have looked good with my skin tone!). And it never came out, even after 6 months. Yes, I walked around with it for a couple of days, then hid it with red and brown pigment depositing shampoos for 6 months. It finally started even showing through the shampoos as green stripes, so I finally decided I was sick of hiding it and cut off my bra strap length hair into an ear length bob. (I think I even still have pics of this story on my hair journey on my site if anyone wants a laugh). ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: paper
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 8:39am
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That is an amazing story Susan. Thanks for sharing. Your hair looks in good shape now! I have couple questions. Do you still dye your hair, and what is your goal length? ------------- |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 12:57pm
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I was highlighting a small piece in the front and some in my bangs, but for now I stopped doing that, otherwise I haven't dyed it since it got cut short in '03. I don't really have a goal length anymore. I don't think I want it any shorter than it is now, but I might get too annoyed with it if I sit on it. I will see when it gets there and keep it at tailbone length if it bugs me. Thanks for your interest and compliments! ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |