Ever get a bad haircut? Share your story!

[HunnyPots]

Make me feel better about the atrocity that is now my hair!

Today I finally get up the nerve to get my hair cut short for the first time in about five years. Looked at pictures with the stylist, talked about my hair texture, my styling abilities, etc. and we agreed on a cut from a book. Does it look even remotely like the picture? Uh, no - not at all!

It's like that episode of friends where Phoebe cuts Monica's hair and turns her into Dudley Moore instead of Demi Moore! UGH!

And before you ask, yes I did let her know I was not satisfied and she tried to fix it but the more she tried the worse it got so I figured I better leave while I still had some to work with.

 

[Daxx]

I had short hair that I just wanted trimmed to look like a photo I brought in. The stylist who did my hair chopped it super short so it looked more like Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby than the photo I brought in. I was livid and could not wait for it to grow out! I kept my mouth shut b/c there wasn't much the stylist could do -- wasn't like she could glue the hair back on (this was before extensions!).

Another time, I went to get highlights (different salon, different person). My hair was short, so the highlights should've been painted on ... but the guy insisted on pulling my hair through the cap. What did I know ... he was the professional! When he was done, it ended up looking like splotchy leopard dots all over my head. I didn't think he'd be able to fix it, so I went out and bought some of that semi-permanent hair coloring and fixed it myself at home.

After that, I asked a friend who did her hair/highlights and that's where I've been going ever since. I'm thrilled w/my stylist and the person who does my highlights!

 

[CathrynRose]

I had short hair that I just wanted trimmed to look like a photo I brought in. The stylist who did my hair chopped it super short so it looked more like Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby than the photo I brought in. I was livid and could not wait for it to grow out! I kept my mouth shut b/c there wasn't much the stylist could do -- wasn't like she could glue the hair back on (this was before extensions!).

Another time, I went to get highlights (different salon, different person). My hair was short, so the highlights should've been painted on ... but the guy insisted on pulling my hair through the cap. What did I know ... he was the professional! When he was done, it ended up looking like splotchy leopard dots all over my head. I didn't think he'd be able to fix it, so I went out and bought some of that semi-permanent hair coloring and fixed it myself at home.

After that, I asked a friend who did her hair/highlights and that's where I've been going ever since. I'm thrilled w/my stylist and the person who does my highlights!

You realize Im now offended, and you no longer have a disclaimer - correct?

 

[HunnyPots]

Oooh... I remember the Mia Farrow cut - not much left to work with there

I've got an appointment with another stylist to try and get my "Dudley Moore" turned into something I can live with...

You know, these celebrity cuts aren't as much fun as they sound.

 

[Disney Ella]

When I was pregnant, my hair was at my shoulders and straight and I wanted to add a little shape to it. I had a picture that was about 1 inch shorter than my hair was and showed it to the stylist. I had my glasses off when she cut it, couldn't see, and was very surprised to end up with hair just below my ears - which looked terrible and nothing like the photo. I wouldn't have even have cared if it looked nothing like the photo if she hadn't hacked so much off. I had been going to this stylist for a few years and she was always talking about going to college to study marine biology and was actually going to do it in the next month, so obviously her focus wasn't on hair anymore. I was one depressed pregnant person!

 

[Kitty 34]

Gosh I just got eight inches cut today but so far I like my hair cut even though it's quite different!!! I went from looking a little bit like Joni Mitchell to one of the Beatles.....in the 60's!!

I did once have a haircut that was two inches shorter on one side and I didn't notice it until I got home because of the way she had blown my hair dry and I had put my hood on because it was the middle of winter.

 

[CathrynRose]

Ive been really lucky. But it helps I went to beauty school when I was 19.... I watch them like a Hawk. I think I make some people nervous. "WHAT are you doing?!??!"

So, I have been able to walk into BoRic's on a spur of the moment and give them specific instructions, holding a hand mirror, and they follow what I say. And pay $9 for what I want.

Now. my g/f owns a salon. So I do the same thing to her, but she'll yell at me.

 

[Cool-Beans]

OMG. I got what came to be called "the lesbian cut" once. My hair was shoulder length and I said that I'd like to keep the same style, but wanted it to fall about an inch down from my earlobe. Put my finger there and all, to show her about where I'd like it to be.

While she was cutting it, she asked several times if I didn't want some layers put it, it would give my hair "lift", etc. So, fine, if you're so gung-ho to give me layers, fine. I agreed to trust her on layers, but told her I didn't want anything too "hip" or funky. No teenage girl cuts for me, please. And I was a mom with young kids, so I didn't want anything I had to spend a lot of time on.

She cut all my hair off. It wasn't even long enough to grasp and hold. Then she used the buzz things on my neck like they do on boys. I had no hair.

It's the worst cut I ever had and I was so disappointed.

But it grew. On the upside, I didn't have to use a comb or brush for months.

 

[agnes!]

I've had some *bad* haircuts. My most recent one was about a year ago from someone who had been doing my hair for a couple of years. I had alwys liked when she cut my hair, but the last one I got from her? I HATED it and actually cried over it. (Yeah, yeah, how shallow, hair grows back, etc., etc.) Seriously, though, when I walked out my hair looked worse than when I went in and I turned to my DD and said "I will NEVER get my hair but there again. EVER." The funny thing is, I have great hair. Very thick (but not coarse) and dark - just now starting to go grey around the temples a little bit. But this woman *ruined* my hair, gave me completely the wrong kind of cut.

And perms?...
My first perm *ever* fried my hair so a lot of it broke off about two inches from the scalp. What a thing of beauty. NOT.

When I got my hair done before my wedding, they missed a spot when they permed, so there was a section in the back that just flopped (until they "sort of" fixed it).

Suffice it to say, I am no longer chemically-dependent.
agnes!

 

[Papa Deuce]

according to my wife, EVERY haircut I get is a bad haircut....

 

[HunnyPots]

Well, I no longer look like Dudley Moore! I now have this sort of spikey pixie cut which is much better than the first, but is still gonna take some getting used to!
The front looks pretty good but unfortunately the first "stylist" cut the back so short there wasn't much that could be done back there.
Four weeks till vacation... I hope it grows fast!

 

[Blessed99]

When I was a teen ager, my hair was to my waist. I wanted it short for the first time, I got it cut and was very pleased until I got home and my Brother told me I looked like Rod Stewart got into a fight with a lawn mower . Looking back at pictures now, I realize he was sort of right, but was sure mad then!!

Kelly

Me Kelly and DD 8 Kamryn

 

[It's A Happy Day]

My is aptly titled "The WORST cut I never got"

my sister recommended the stylist - Sebastian....I should have know and ran then but I trusted my sister (I must have done something to her and it was payback time ) It was about 3 weeks before my wedding and I needed my hair basically trimmed and reshaped. Nothing major, nothing difficult, no big change, I was getting married in 3 weeks, remember. So I sit in the chair and this man with a "french" accent (not sure if it was french but that type of accent and you can create it and listen to it in your head to get the idea) He proceeds to put the cape on me and asks what I want done, while he is combing my hair out. He then proceeds to tsk tsk me while flipping the ends up saying "no, no, no, you need to take off about 4 inches, zis hair is dead, no good, no good." WTH!!!! Listen, I am getting married in 3 weeks, I do not want anything drastic, I am doing an updo for my wedding and cannot lose 4" of my hair which is only just past my shoulders, fine, and doesn't grow very quick at all! The last time I went "short" and it was a bob, it took 6 YEARS to grow it past my shoulders again! So I told him no, I only want it reshaped and trimmed - you can take off 1-maybe 2 inches but I don't want to go drastic until AFTER the wedding. So he kind of pouts and snips and combs and snips and blow dries and I leave. I swear he snipped around my head but never cut the hair because it seemed to be the exact same thing when I left! So I now speak of that salon experience as the Worst cut I never had

 

[lemondog]

I was 13 (bad enough) and my mom took me to a place where the receptionist had pink spiky hair. I should have gone running at that point. I told the stylist I wanted a couple of LONG layers to help thin my hair. I ended up looking like Tina Turner, circa 1985.

Well needless to say I was traumatized...I mean, that hairstyle does NOT look good on a chubby white girl with braces. I think I curled it daily for MONTHS until it grew back out.

 

[Talking Hands]

HAd a bad haircut last September. Look totally fizzy and nasty. Fortunately one of the cosmetology teachers at school came to my aid and shaped it up so it looked great. He also told me exactly what to tell the regular stylist. Just got it trimmed the other day and it looks great.

 

[Iott Family]

I am sporting that fixed version of a bad haircut right now! I asked for a trim and got a hack job, wore it for a week and decided I couldnt handle the grow out time so I went back for that fix cut and now its short. Cute, I guess...but short for me! It such achange that my mother saw me on sunday and was shocked. talk about feeling self conscious when people notice how odd your haircut is for your usual style.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN!

 

[HunnyPots]

I was 13 (bad enough) and my mom took me to a place where the receptionist had pink spiky hair. I should have gone running at that point. I told the stylist I wanted a couple of LONG layers to help thin my hair. I ended up looking like Tina Turner, circa 1985.

Well needless to say I was traumatized...I mean, that hairstyle does NOT look good on a chubby white girl with braces. I think I curled it daily for MONTHS until it grew back out.

Chubby white girl meets Tina Turner? OK - you win!

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

I had a haircut once that was so awful my boyfriend walked past me without recognizing me. Think of that classic mens sidepart with no layers or feathering on a girl. Yuck!

He is still terrified everytime i go for a haircut and the bad one was 25+ years ago.

 

[I Love Pluto]

I remember one haircut which horrified me. It was in 1968 when I was a first-year music teacher. I was showing a filmstrip of The Nutcracker to a 4th Grade class. The filmstrip projectors were quite different then, and the strip got caught in the machine. I leaned over the machine to fix the strip and my very long hair got "caught" in the fan. It was tangled and stuck in the machine quite close to my head. My principal came to my aid. We tried to untangle as much as possible, but he ended up having to cut a large clump of hair rather short. I ended up at the salon that afternoon, and left with a very short haircut. I will NEVER forget this disaster!

I never got close to a filmstrip machine again!

 

[MoniqueU]

Once years ago we were really really broke. I saw a sign for 5 dollar haircuts and told my husband to pull in there. He gets out sits in the barbers chair and the guy starts up te flo be. The guys hands shook from something, most likely DT's from the look and smell of the guy. Well his hands shoock so bad he balded a spot in the back of DH's hair. He had to wait like 4 weeks to have it grow enough to get it recut. I laughed my butt off over that onel