CONFESS!!!! What was the dumbest thing you ever did to your hair!!

Fess up, lurking deep in your closet are pictures/memories of you with really really bad things done to your hair.


My worse? When I turned 30 I started coloring my hair - mind you,I'm already blonde so I'd just take something about the same shade and do it myself. The coloring would add extra body to my hair. Summers I'd go a bit lighter and winters I'd go a bit darker, but most people could barely tell I had done anything to my hair.

Well one time while picking out some hair color I decided this time I was going to go Strawberry Blonde. I thought it would be neat to add some red to my hair and figured I could do it myself.

I ended up coming out with this very hideous Ronald McDonald Red that wasn't even spread evenly around my hair. To make matters worse I tried coloring it back to blonde and it didn't do a thing. So then I tried coloring it darker - and it didn't do a thing.

A friend convienced me to go out drinking tonight, she said it couldn't have been that bad. But when she saw it - she found a hat in her car for me to wear.

Worst thing was Monday I was starting a new job doing computer support for pharmaceutical lobbyists (yes, worked for lobbyists - this was the 90s).

Fortunately I found one salon opened on Sundays - Hair Cuttery. It took about $100 for them to completely remove all color from my hair and then add new color back in

:cry:

i kept it through my wedding and then my wife asked me to get rid of it. it was the classic 80's look.

And wanted to bleach it out (I'd done this in the past, no problem). Apparantly, my hair decided that this was a fucked up idea this time and rebelled. SEVERAL sessions of color stripping and bleaching later, I dyded my orange mop dark brown and went and got it all cut off the next day.

I've done just about everything humanly possible to my hair and I've never had that sort of hair disaster before in my life. I decided to see what my natural color looked like and have been growing it out for the past 2 years. Meh, my natural color is not very exciting.

I had a friend who offered to frost my hair for me. I was expecting a few blond streaks, but she got a little over-enthusiastic with the peroxide, and I wound up looking like Jean Harlow. I was horrified, and she said "It's okay. I can fix it..." Famous last words. She ran out to the drugstore, and bought a package of "Loving Care" in a light ash blond. Both of us were college grads, but neither of us bothered to read the warning "Not intended for use on bleached hair".

My hair turned an interesting shade of green, resembling over-cooked Brussels sprouts. By that time the drugstore had closed, so the next day I had to report for my next clinical rotation with green hair. Appropriately enough, it was on a psych ward.

That afternoon, I had a hairdresser dye it back to its normal light brown.

It lasted exactly 5 days. Enough for me to realize what a colossally stupid mistake it was. I went back to the same place I got it...and had my hair straightened out. And even after the straightening, with my hair straw-like from the straightening chemicals, it STILL looked 1,000,000 times better than the permanent I got.

my perm lasted for damn ever...I finally cut it out.

Super tight super frizzy perm.

Oh wait - I almost forgot...I tried this one too with my super thick, wavy hair:




It would not work EITHER

Thank GOD for the hair product of today...back in MY day (ahem) flat ironing hair had an ENTIRELY different meaning (literal) And pop cans were used as hair rollers.

This was back when there were funky shades of blonde colors. The color I used was supposed to put just a very light tinge of pink in my hair. Well, it put streaks of hot pink all over my head. Fortunately, I was able to fix it myself.

:puke:

I was in college and at the height of my Mike Patton/Faith No More obsession. I had really long hair, and I dyed it just like his hair in the "Epic" video. Twas a lovely maroon. Shaved the sides, too.

Yup...kinda dumb.

x(

:woohoo:

My hair is dirty blonde (blonder in the summer) naturally. I was Cruella Deville for Halloween one year so I thought I would dye it balck and add in a white stripe. My hair doesn't hold dye for very long, so I thought the black would wash out in a couple of weeks like everything else. Wrong! I ended up cutting 6 inches off and spending over $200 to get the black taken out. I was at the salon for 4 hours and the lightest they could get my hair was dark auburn. Never again.

What did I learn from this? To stop fucking with my hair. It's all one length, undyed, and the only "product" that goes in it is shampoo and conditioner.

But LeftyKid has a blue mohawk. His hair's cooperative.

with dull scissors and no mirror.

Thank you, Budweiser, for the haircut.

:hi:

:rofl:

pick on the drunken hillbilly. :D

:rofl:

which would have embarrassed Tony Hawk or a Scotsman.

My favorite was the devil locks or some of the strange braided variations on shaved/2-3 feet long hair thing. I might do it again someday just to surprise people.

:cry: :yoiks: First, in 1990, I got a perm. WRONG!!!! :cry: The guy who was my hairdresser at the time totally fucked up my hair, and was a disaster. Even he knew it was horrible when he got through with it. :( He's the Honky MoFo that talked me into it! :grr: I did everything I could to make it look better, but instead of doing more damage by chemically straightening it, I used curling irons and hot rollers. It was tolerable for about three months, then I had about four inches chopped off. :( It finally all grew out, but I swore off perms. I also never went back to that hairdresser.

Second, I went to a hairdresser for a cut and color about five years ago. She did a so-so job on the cut, but she turned my hair GOLD. :cry: :yoiks: I was mortified, and she knew it was really bad too. She didn't charge me at all, and I never went back.

I found an excellent hairdresser who has been really good to my hair about four years ago, and unless he goes out of business, I'll stick with him. :D

I found one who does miracles with my hair & even though I haven't lived in that town for 7 years, I still go back to get my hair done.

dg

;)

I always wanted red hair & in the 80's, Clairol or some such had some product on the market that would temporarily (lie) dye your hair. I thought it would be a good idea to test coloring my hair red before I actually did it. Unfortunately, this stuff turned my hair pink & did NOT wash out in 2 weeks. For some reason, this product is no longer on the market. Go figure.

And then there was the time that I went in for a perm & told the stylist to only leave the stuff on my hair for 10 minutes because longer than that was too much for my hair. Suffice to say, I ended up with Roseanne Rosana Dana hair FOR SIX MONTHS!!!! I even broke the cardinal rule of perms by immediately washing my hair upon arriving home, to no avail. My hair was so tight, I had to buy a pick to comb it with. I have never permed my hair since.

dg

pretty cool at the time, but little did I know it would be a proto-mullet

:blush:

What can I say? It was 1984 (I was in my soph year in college) and Chrissy Hynde was my idol. The mullet went well with my pegged black jeans, men's blazer, and pointy-toed boots.

The worst part was I have curly hair, so to get the proper Chrissy mullet I had it straightened. A "reverse perm" (combing perm solution through my hair) didn't work. I ended up using lye paste--the hardcore burn-your-scalp stuff that relaxes AA hair. I used it so often that I burned the back of my hair all to shit and had to get it all chopped off. Went back to my natural curls within a couple of years, so I looked normal by the time I graduated.

:eyes:
Delaware.
:P

Pennsylvania is filled with all the Pharmacies. I was living in PA at the time

you were hired.
:D

seriously, this is about as old as some of the leftovers I found in my fridge!

:cry:
:silly:

I think she should ask for a refund

:rofl:

oh yeah, i looked just great, a regular bad ass. I don't even want to think about all the perms.

Ended up kinda orange. Hated it.

Bake

and discovered that repeated applications resulted in yellow hair. Not blonde. Not pale orange. Not wheat-colored. But bright yellow. Like a waxed lemon :)

I was headed on a 14 day river trip then off to work in Alaska for the summer, both with limited (or no) access to plumbing

my poor hairdresser almost died when i INSISTED she chop it all off

it was actually not too bad, soft little curls all over my head for a couple months but I looked pretty butch :evilgrin:

aaaahhhhhhhhh!!! what a fucking mistake THAT was.

It worked for Dorothy.

Me, not so much.

In 11th grade, my nickname was "Squirrel"
because of that haircut....

Which works if your hair has the body to hold those heavy flips you do around the end and oh, mine doesn't.

There is a hole in the ozone layer over the hills of Perry County from all the AquaNet I would use to keep that sucker in place!

Do not play with fire, especially when you are old enough to know better.

It was 1988. I've had my hair every color and every length since then, once it was an inch short and blond, but the Big Hair was the silliest looking thing I ever did.

Couldn't do a thing with it. It was an hourly struggle to make it lie flat. Finally I just gave up and resigned myself to looking like a doofus til it grew out.


It was a bad idea.


:dunce:

:D

:(

I forgot. I had a rat tail once too :blush: real classy..

I grew out my hair to "rebel". when i turned 30 my girlfriend at the time talked me into cutting it off. (granted I donated the clippings to locks of love, all 24 inches of em.) Damn if i didn't become invisible. I looked like everyone else. I hated it. I have since dumped her and grew it out again.

I have had burgundy hair, big time asymmetrical cuts, but nothing beats that.

No pictures of that era remain... :evilgrin:

jobs, and for one of them, I had to get up at 5:00AM--and I am NOT a morning person. I didn't want to bother with my hair, which is naturally fine and straight, so I got what amounted to an Afro-like perm. Just fluff it up in the morning, I thought.

When my brother saw me, his first words were, "You look like Art Garfunkel."

It really was ugly on me. I grew it out and then had a hairdresser friend give me a nice sensible bob.

Only because my hair was naturally Strawberry Blonde at one point so the bad perms looked like something out of god knows what - like I was the love child of Ronald McDonald.

Needless to say I haven't had a perm since the 90s.

Yep, back in 1965 I thought the 'Cher look' was da bomb.

So my best friend and I ironed our hair almost everyday
before school.

We got tired of ironing it, bought hair straightener which
after applying it, caused the ironed hair to fall out!

We both had the Sinead O'Conner look by the time we
were finished.

Without a doubt, THE dumbest thing I did with my hair.

it was either the time I used a no-lye relaxer to straighten my fro or when I dyed it with Red Henna... both horrible memories!:blush:

Two days after applying the relaxer my, now, stick straight hairs broke off about an inch from my skull. I wore a pith helmet the rest of the summer.:tinfoilhat:

As far as the red henna goes, I'd only recommend it too folks who want to look like Bozo.:+

He screwed up in one spot, making my hair about a half-inch long.

Haircutter had to practially shave me bald to even things out. And of course this was a week before Christmas.


Everybody wanted to know when I joined the Marines!

Oy, vey...

and fairly neat. It's naturally very wavy & thick, so if I let it grow too long, it grows out and it looks like really awful when its humid out if its longer.

So, I've always had it fairly short.

Only difference has been parting it in the middle or on the side. In the early or mid 90s, I grew my sideburns a bit longer in the Beverly Hills 90210 style at the time.

when I was 7. It was my grandfather's suggestion. He did stuff like that to me all the time. My grandmother was pissed. She screamed at both of us. Told me grandpa was full of shit, so I should stop believing everything he told me.

I have dark brown hair and I used to dye it a lighter shade of brown. Then one time I thought Auburn would look nice. You know, brown with reddish tints? Yeah. No. PURPLE. Like Sharon Osborne's hair a few years ago, but even more...vivid. I also had to pay a salon to strip it and start over. x(

The horrors.

Along a similar vein, in high school I willingly dyed my hair bright red (as in, fire engine red) for Halloween. It was supposed to wash out. It didn't. Well, it kinda did, I guess, but it stained my hair horribly.

I don't dye my hair anymore...or if I do, I let a professional deal with it.

As if I didn't look uncool enough back then... :eyes:

It looked like an Afro on a white girl...bad hair stlye and everyone laughed at me. Oh and highlights once that came out looking like straw in my black hair.

and stories like yours are the main reason why I haven't been able to bring myself to do it. :)