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Taking a break from decorating talk today to blog about what really matters: my hair. Just kidding, but I do have a little gift for (one of) you so stick with me.
I don’t think any girl is ever completely happy with her hair. I’ve done some pretty stupid things with mine, including getting a super tight perm (bangs included) the summer before I started college (whaaaat???) and cutting off my long hair right after getting pregnant for the second time:
They say you should never do anything drastic to your hair while you’re pregnant. I should’ve listened to them. I loved it for the twenty minute drive home—and then not so much after I walked in the door and saw my husband’s reaction. . . . (He will deny this.)
I invested a lot of thought and effort into my hair during my twenties. But, I’m finding that as I get older, I don’t have the interest in spending tons of money or time on it. (And, I get so fidgety sitting in that chair for very long—anybody else?) I would like to say that I’ve become low-maintenance, but that’s probably pushing it :)
For the last couple of years, I’ve just gotten trims and I’ve even started coloring it myself occasionally (because I’m not low-maintenance enough to let the grays show).
(All of that work, and I’d really just like to have hair that looks like my three-year-old’s.)
So, in the spirit of better hair, and because I appreciate my readers, I have a little giveaway. Misikko (a site that specializes in flat irons, hair dryers and curling irons) recently sent me one of their Hana Pro 1” flat irons to review. But, since my hair is at the stage where a big curling iron works better than a flat iron (and I just bought a new one not too long ago), I’m passing it along to one of you.
$130 value
To enter, just be sure you either subscribe to my blog or are a Google Friend Connect follower. And, leave a comment on this post telling me the stupidest thing you’ve ever done to your hair. I’ll choose a winner based on the worst/funniest/craziest response :) and will announce on my Facebook page on Wed., October 3rd. Looking forward to reading these. . .
PS–Be sure I have a way to contact you if your profile isn’t linked to a blog. Thanks!
Ooooo, first comment….lots of pressure! ;) The worst thing I have done to my hair is to get the beloved “Rachel” haircut with lots of layers…..let’s just say a girl with fine hair shouldn’t get short layers. As soon as my stylist spun me around my stomach dropped. I hated it! Because I had been to the same stylist for years I tried to act like it was ok but as soon as I hit the pavement in the parking lot I started crying. I could never style it myself (how does that always happen….the stylist can do it but I NEVER can?!!?!) and with a layer that hit the top of my ears I was screwed. It took forever to grow out and I quickly got a bob cut, which I loved. Ugh, I hate hair and wish I could just have lovely hair that was easy. Nope!
I’ve done many a stupid thing to my hair. Let me count the ways…I had my hairdresser cut the sides short and the back was long, I cringe when I think of how mullet looking it was. A few years later I had a perm and was a frizz head until I couldn’t stand it any longer then chopped it all off. I’ve had super short and super long hair. Let’s just say been there done that (too often).
So, I have very dark black Kardashian hair but for a while I was convinced I needed red highlights. I was smart enough to know not to bleach my hair to make them come out. However, I spent a fortune on washes, dyes, everything that never even came through on my hair!
Loved all your hair pictures. Sadly I have had pretty much the same hair since junior high. I am not adventourous in the hair dept. I did cut it short this year but that was the extent of my hair impulses. This comes at the perfect time as my straightner just broke- seriously I need to win. I have an afro right now!
I’d have to say my biggest hair woe was a perm in 9th grade. My aunt, who is a hairdresser, refused to do it because she knew it would look bad but I wouldn’t listen. I made an appointment at another salon and, of course, hated my perm! My flatiron recently broke and I’ve been using a tiny travel one because I don’t want to spend the big bucks on a new one!
Love your current hair! Stupidest thing I’ve ever done is *ahem* cut it myself. And yes, I’m an adult! Let’s just say there were weird chunky side layers for quite some time!
I put “sun in” in my hair for a day out in the boat. I was supposed to get sun kissed highlights, but instead I got orange crispy hair!!!! It was awful, and the only real fix was growing it out for a year :( After that I’ve left my highlights to the professionals :)
I put “sun in” in my hair for a day out in the boat. I was supposed to get sun kissed highlights, but instead I got orange crispy hair!!!! It was awful, and the only real fix was growing it out for a year :( After that I’ve left my highlights to the professionals :)
I put “sun in” in my hair for a day out in the boat. I was supposed to get sun kissed highlights, but instead I got orange crispy hair!!!! It was awful, and the only real fix was growing it out for a year :( After that I’ve left my highlights to the professionals :)
Good gracious, Emily. I do believe all of your “bad” pictures put us to shame – you look gorgeous in every one! I am perpetually in the process of growing my hair out or cutting it short. Since I seemingly know of NO GOOD WAY to grow it out, I have perfected the BOBBY BRADY HAIRDO (think later episodes) more times than I’d like to count.
Loved your history of hair pictorial. I’m a Greek girl with unruly frizzy hair My hair doesn’t grow into long curly locks it explodes into a fuzz ball. Craziest thing I ever did to my hair? I ironed my own hair with a clothes iron. This was waaaay before flat irons were invented. Let me just say I still bare the scars on my hands and forehead.
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I have dark brown hair and a medium complexion. My freshman year of college, two friends decided we should all dye our hair. So we went to the supermarket and picked out what colors we wanted. There was a box marked “natural black” with a picture of a very beautiful exotic-looking girl. I thought to myself “Ooh, that would make me look a little more exotic too!” I was sooo excited to see the new me. Unfortunately, “Natural black” was anything BUT natural. It was more like… shoe polish. Blacker than my black coat. In fact, I came to realize that even my best girlfriend from Taiwan has a lot more brown in her hair than I thought, and maybe no one really has purely black hair. So after a few days of trying to wash it out a hundred times, I finally paid an exorbitant amount of money to go to my roommate’s fancy stylist in downtown Seattle to get my hair oxidized, which took out most of the dye and made my hair look… exactly the same as it had before I dyed it. About a hundred dollars and four embarrassing days later :).
Two trends that should never be brought out of the style vault. “The Rachel” with my naturally curly hair. I call it the fluff mop. Yes, little butterfly clips were in then too, so this added a special touch. What was I thinking? The ultimate trend to top this all, Sun-In! For that oh so un-natural sunned look.
The worst thing I did to my hair was a perm in the bangs in the 80s!
One of the dumbest things I ever did to my hair was to actually pursue a PERM! I had short hair at the time in a bob-like style. So, the moment I got the perm, my length of hair shrank to become even shorter up to about cheeks. On top of it all, my braces and glasses added a very nice touch to the look!!! I was a hot mess… never again.
the stupidest thing I ever did to my hair was shave my sideburns into blocks and extend it back above my neck…I was young so please don’t judge! lol
The worst thing I ever di was not speak up when the stylist was hacking off all of my hair. Somewhere we had a miscommunication and I ended up with a bowl cut. No joke, I had complete boy hair. Right before my freshman year no less. I am still too afraid to get my hair cut above my shoulders because of this. AND my flat iron just bit the dust so I could really use this giveaway!!
The worst thing I’ve ever done to my hair was to let my friend give me highlights when we were in high school. Instead of subtle stripes, they turned out like giant spots. We frantically called every salon in the area trying to find one that was still open at 8 pm to fix it.
my dumbest thing was not a hair cut, but a style for prom. getting ready for my junior prom i told the hair stylist i want large loose barrel curls pulled half up. i have really long, very thick hair (takes me 30 minutes just to blow dry, not to mention straighten and/or curl – my hair also holds curl wonderfully. well, apparently she just heard curls, and used THE SMALLEST curling iron. i looked like a deranged Shirley Temple/80’s southern beauty queen. when i saw my mom i knew it wasn’t okay. i cried the whole way home. my mom shoved me in the shower as soon as i got home to redo it. my date waited patiently in the living room for a LONG time. my brother ran around me taking pictures of my crying and redoing my make-up and hair. 10 years later and i am still traumatized!
I’ve never messed with my hair too much except that I usually grow it out, cut it off and repeat…
Would love to win!
My worst hair cut was when I was in college. I wanted something with layers, but didn’t have a picture to show the stylist. But she essentially ended up chopping my hair off! I hated it! The shortest layer was about 3″ long….I went home crying. The next day I went and got extensions BRAIDED into my hair. Yes, extensions so my hair would at least come down to my chin. When I told my friends they all laughed hysterically and then wanted to see the braids. Hahaha. It was awful, and has totally traumatized me!
Oh lord. I could write a novel. I let one of my girlfriends Iollege dye my hair with of those at home kits. It wasn’t pretty.
Cutting my hair after a break up. Why do we never learn that you shouldn’t make changes at that time!!!
After my first baby was born I had a case of temporary insanity and thought it would be a good idea to get a chin length, permed bob. I kid you not, I’ve seen looser curls on poodles. My baby, 7 months old at the time, took one look at me and burst into tears. I guess the advice about not doing anything radical during pregnancy should extend into the first year after the birth too.
Worst thing I ever did was try to give myself bangs the summer after sixth grade. I went and got some scissors and pulled some hair down to my chin and snipped right by my eyebrows. Well, no one tells you that your hair is going to bounce up a few inches so those bangs were in the middle of my forehead or higher! Looking good! And then I got to start middle school looking like a freak…good memories :)
The worst thing I ever did to my hair was perm it…seriously…it was so fried that my thin bangs FELL OFF!!!!!!!!!! (burned off?) lol It was SO tragic that I refused to take pictures at a school dance with my boyfriend! (I am cringing and laughing simultaneously right now!) One might think I would’ve been so happy when they started to grow back, but no. No, no, no, no. They were spiked down the front of my forehead for, what seemed like, the better part of eternity. AWKWARD. Sad thing is, I got another perm 2 years later. Yeah. I can’t even talk about it. Let’s just say, the same thing happened….only it was around my crown this time. I ROCKED my cheerleader ponytail that year. Daily. AND, as if that wasn’t enough of a tragedy, I did the really blond chunky “Kelly Clarkson highlights” from her AI days in my hair right before my first semester of college. (I should add that I’m a brunette.) UGH. LESSON(S). LEARNED. Just thankful that my mom never cut my hair into the ever-so-popular-at-the-time mushroom cut. I had a cute shoulder-length bob in kindergarten….when good hair didn’t really matter. You might start to wonder, “Emily, did you EVER have decent hair?” Well, I am married with 2 kids, so I guessed it straightened up somewhere along the way. ;-) I, too, am an Emily from KY. I would tell you where, but I’m about to break into hives at the thought of my yearbook pics. being sought after. My flat iron just bit the dust, too. This is PERFECT timing. Maybe the hair gods will finally shine down on me?!?!
I don’t have any great stories about my hair. It’s naturally pretty curly but I’ve had everything under the sun done to it. It’s been every color, short, long, had Japanese straightening, home straightening, thick and really thin when it all seemed to fall out post pregnancy. If it were socially acceptable I’d be bald in a second. I’m so over hair!
@emilyaclark bleached my black hair, then dyed it pink. the pink wouldn’t stick, so dyed it black. fail. cut it all off. I was 16!
bleached my black hair, then dyed it pink. the pink wouldn’t stick, so dyed it black. fail. cut it all off. I was 16!
Back in the 70’s when “fro’s” were in, I had the stylist roll my hair in perm rods. After it dried, we just removed them…did not even
comb them out. Went to a wedding looking like that. Thought it was so cool until I saw pictures…GAG!!
First, October 3rd is my due date:) Would be great to get a baby and a flat iron.. right??
okay, so the funny story actually has to do with my husband. Yes, he straightens his hair every.single.day.
When we first met, he tried to hide that from me, until one day I went over to his house. He left it sitting it out. It wasn’t just any straightener. It was the MASSIVE kind made by walmart. When I asked him about it, he ashamedly told me about his naturally wild wavy hair. I watched as he showed me how he straightened. TOOK HIM AN HOUR!
So for christmas, I bought him a skinny Chi. People to this day give him a hard time that I bought him a straightener. I’m not allowed to take it on trips because that means he will be left without it. Hilarious.
also… his hair is not starting to get fried. His hair lady still hasn’t figured out why… hehehe.
=c/ Back when I was a teenager I decided to try to straighten my naturally curly hair with a regular home permanant. I had heard that you could straighten by not using rods and combing it straight.Nope.But,I was at a friends house and the kicker was we thought it would be easier to wash it out with the water hose outside!..haha, nope again. My Results was me..the popsicle and Hay for hair! It was so burnt,it was awful!!
My Mom never let me live this one down!! When I was 14, I was very devoted to my sun-in, loved the beautiful orange it gave me (not!). Well, what you’re not told is anything you put on top of sun in stays. Forever (until it grows out). At a girlfriends bday party, we all decided to temporarily dye our hair with kool-aid. I chose Cherry. So cherry kool-aid on my orange sun-in hair gave me a fire-engine red. It was not my best look!
I (rightly) decided to grow out my bangs long ago. During the process, when they were at that awkward too-long-for-bangs-not-long-enough-to-not-be-bangs stage I let one of my close family members convince me that if I let their beauty-school friend perm just the bangs, they’d stay out of my eyes.
So I did.
So for a while I had all-over straight hair, and too-long permed bangs.
It’s not a look I’d recommend to anyone ever. I hope that girl never graduated beauty school, what person in their right mind even does that to someone?
I’m still too traumatized to have bangs again.
Yeah, that is easy for me… I FRIED my bangs with a curling iron two days before my wedding. My hair is thin but my sisters is not! I didn’t look at the temp before curling my bangs. My bangs were falling out in clumps and those few hairs that did stay were sticking straight out from my forehead. After many tears, I went to our hair stylist ( whom I have seen since I was 8) and she Helped me “hide” all the fried hair. :)
Weeelll, at 16 I had my sister highlight my hair. She really bleached it, in a month the grow out process started and I looked like a skunk. A beautiful dark stripe right down the middle of my part. Oh those high school years. Then I let my roommate perm my hair in my 20’s. You know the poodle look, that’s right I had that one too!!! After that one I wouldn’t let anyone but a stylist touch my hair. Such good memories!!
Is any girl truly happy with their hair!?! (Or atleast 24/7??) As I’m approaching my 30s I too am being less high maintenance with coloring my hair and have started to do my own touch-ups rather then have a closer relationship w/ my stylist then my family! :) My first and WORST visit to get my hair colored happened in high school. I had pretty brown hair, which at the time was a bit mouse-y for me and not blonde like the rest of my friends. I though I’d change that by getting lighter highlights (the frosted look) and ended up with GRAYISH blond…I LOVED it..until a month later after looking at pictures and realizing, I just RUINED my hair and paid over a hundred (lots of $ to a high-schooler!!) to get GRAY frosted hair!?!? SERIOUSLY!? Biggest mistake ever!!! But it was definitely a lesson…learn to love what you have and enhance that rather then wish you are a different color/size/etc! :) Still learning :)
I dyed mine myself once, the kind where you pull it through a cap. I looked like a zebra in the end. Horrible! Anyway, count me in, as it turns out, I really do need a new flat iron! xoxo
I want this flat iron so bad! okay i have 2 stupid things. In 8th grade I got the ugliest haircut….looked like a mushroom head. it was bad. the second was letting a girlfriend highlight my hair in highschool. she used one of those brush on kits…i looked like a skunk. horrible!
i kinda like you as a blonde…
and personally i feel like i’m in a hair style rut. i just can’t get it figured out here lately. i think you first need to come to terms with what kind of hair you have. i have fine/thin hair. no cut in the world will make it thick… i just did the ombre thing and i’m already thinking about chopping it off and trying something else. sigh…
Oh geez. Well, the biggest mistake I ever made was having a friend cut and color my hair. Needless to say I had choppy chunks of hair missing and my very dark brown hair was then orange. Awful.
While in college, the super short boy cut reared it’s ugly head. I’m 5 ’11’ and was rail thin at the time. I can’t tell you how many times I was called sir by a store employee when approached from behind! I couldn’t wait to grow that one out.
In high school, I cut my hair short and regretted it the minute I saw her cutting off a long section. I also cut my hair short after having my first baby. I think I cried for two days.
emily – i am not entering to win, someone else deserves this since i have a great one of my own. but i wanted to tell you i LOVED this story (and of course the pics of my favorite little girl in blogland). I actually think you looked STUNNING a little blonde. Arent hubbies reactions hilarious? They want to tell you that they are happy with whatever you choose, but you can definitely tell if they like it or not. My hubby denies to this day that he HATED when I dyed my hair near-black. But I know he did.
One word: asymmetrical. UGH. It was the worst! Kate Gosselin, anyone?
The worst thing I ever did to my hair was set it on fire blowing out my birthday candles.
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Singe.
I’m totally going to pass the blame here, but the worst thing done to my hair was done by my mother. When I was in sixth grade, she decided that it was a great idea to perm my bangs. Only.
Now, add to that the fact that this was the early 90s. So quite often, I walked out of the house with permed bangs … and crimped hair.
Take a minute to imagine that.
The stupidest thing I’ve ever done to my hair is a super sshort hair cut! Like up to my chin! I dont know how I survived until it grew out!
three years ago i dyed my hair so dark it was almost black (im blonde). I loved the color, but once I decided to go back to blonde it took almost a year (and lots of $$) for it to look right again. I looked like Lady Gaga for about 2 months with bright yellow hair!
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I chopped it all off boy-style six weeks ago. I now look like my brother. Tragic :) I’m working on growing it out and would very much benefit from a flat iron in about 6 more weeks! Also, I went through a blonde period recently, too, and now that I see photos I wonder why the heck people did not tell me to stop!
In a word – PERMS. Yes, plural… I’m dumb enough to try it twice! My super thick hair turned into a giant triangle!
Also? Both your girls DO have gorgeous hair…maybe the big girlie bows are a pre-req for awesome hair-dos?? :)
One of the most stupid things that I did to my hair, was when i was a teenager, and you know, didnt have much sense, and wanted to look like a model. Well, to make a long story short, I first had a permanent in my long,straight hair. Something went awfully wrong, and it ended up looking like that curling ribbon, only in a bad way……..all stringy loops, and flat on top and sticking way out on the sides. I was so humiliated, and knowing i had to keep going to school after the weekend ended(since my parents refused to let me drop out just because of a hair disaster), I went to another hair salon. Of course, being as I was a walk-in, I must have gotten the new trainee. I told her I wanted a haircut to my shoulder length hair. Well, after what seemed like hours of cutting, looking and determining that both sides were different lengths so more cutting, I walked out with a Pixie cut. Well, that would not have been all bad, but my Pixie looked like a rat that stuck his finger in a light socket. It was so awful, that I then went and got my ears pierced to offset the bad hair. Well, to make it even worse, it made me sick to my stomach to turn the earrings, so I ended up taking both of them out. And, then I had to go to school on Monday with terrible hair and red ears with holes in them! The good thing is nobody even recognized me…well, until a 2nd look!
I got into letting it grow really long and then chopping it off short. Needless to say after feeling old with short hair I vow to never do that again. Being 40 makes you wiser.
The stupidest thing I’ve ever done is too. many. highlights. I’m one of those girls that is NOT meant to be a blonde. The darker the better for my face! When I look back at those blonde pictures I cringe and re-vow to never do it again.
Back in the 90’s I got a perm and my first highlights on the same day! My hair is super thick and it was right below my shoulders. My stylist permed it first and instead of doing a spiral perm, he did a traditional perm. It took 2 hours just to roll it with the amount of hair I had. Once it was finally done, he slapped the highlighting cap on (this was before foils) and started using that little crochet hook thing to pull sections of it through the holes. That’s not so easy with WET hair! At one point, he stopped because he thought I was going to faint. It really hurt! My hair is dark brown, so naturally I thought auburn highlights would be a good idea. My stylist thought maroon highlights would be a better idea. As a compromise, HE MIXED THE TWO COLORS! Because I had so much hair and there was only so much he could pull through that cap, I wound up with stripes. Some were auburn, some were maroon, and all of them were terrible against my natural color. And it looked all the more spectacular on a huge main of over-permed hair!
I just have to comment that I loved the picture of your hair blonde! I was going to write how you should color your hair blonde and then I saw the comment you wrote below it! It makes your face softer and your eyes bluer…but I totally understand the upkeep factor.
You are always beautiful!
In high school I dyed it pink. After my oldest was born I got a perm. The perm was definitely the worst. If Carrot Top and Bob Marley had a love child I would have been a clone.
When I look back at pictures, I wonder why no body told me I didn’t look good as a red head. Not a good color for me. My hair is totally curly, but I like to use the flat iron to change it up sometimes.
I have hair similar to your color and decided to go blonde via hilights – super blonde. I called it porn blonde….ugh. The next day my grandmother passed away. I knew I couldn’t go to the funeral and viewing services looking like I did, so I ran to store and grabbed some brown haircolor to “fix it” myself. At midnight the night before my grandmother’s 8:30am funeral services….my hair came out GREEN. GREEN GREEN GREEN. It was horrific. I put it up in a tight bun and wore a hat.
What a fun give away! What have I NOT done to my hair would be easier to answer. I have naturally curly hair and why I think I can get my hair to look like a magazine picture I’ll never know. One bad hair cut after another. I guess the worst/most embarrassing thing I have ever done was try to go from dark colored hair to blonde hair-real quick. I bought this stuff at the drug store that was suppose to remove color AND dye it blonde. Yeah, NOT a good idea. Had the most orange hair you have ever seen. I called my stylist telling her what I had done, she got me in but with all the stuff I had put on it all she could do for the time being was put a toner on it that didn’t that much, so I got to go to classes and work as a waitress with that nasty hair for a week. I had never been laughed at so much in my life. I was traumatized. haha! And did I mention it also fried my bangs where they were just spikes? It was traumatic. Bad. ; )
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My friend and I used to highlight each others hair when we were newlyweds with no money. We both had fairly long hair and so pulling it through the cap was not always easy. I got mine through the cap and put the highlighting solution (BLEACH!) on it. When we went to remove the cap my hair was a tangled mess. The same thing happened to my friend. Her husband walked in during our panic, saw his wife and said, “I am leaving, when I return I want my wife back without white hair streaks!” He was rather particular about her hair and so we spent the better part of the afternoon rinsing and putting about a whole bottle of conditioner on our hair to get the tangles out so we could pull the cap off. We then proceeded to the store to buy color to “fix” her hair. It actually turned out good but in the process we just kept seeing ourselves as two bald young brides!!
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The stupidest thing I ever did to my hair was to cut it all off, Halle Berry pixie style, three months before my high school prom. Even today I look at the pictures of my prom and it makes me want to cry. It was a nightmare to grow it out as I have curly hair. Oh but that wasn’t a lesson for me, oh no, I did it again six years later when I was pregnant. Call is a hormone rage or the fact that I had really bad morning sickness and threw up all over my hair one morning, and now every time I look at my maternity pictures I laugh, and wonder when I’ll do it again. If history is any indication, I’m pretty sure I still haven’t learned my lesson.
Thanks for the giveaway! I have done many things to my hair that have caused regret later…but the worst was dying it red and cutting it short at the same time. I love red hair – just not on me!;-)
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The worst thing I ever did was decide to get a really short bob right before my senior year of highschool. Well the cut did not turn out how I imagined and I looked like a boy!! It was traumatic!
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The dumbest thing I have done is had layers put in starting from way up at the crown of the head. It might now sound dumb but I have very thick wavy curlylike kinky hair. It is hard to control when it is short. So I had layers going all the way down to just below my shoulders. It would not have been so bad if I had had a way of keeping it flatter at the time. I also did not know how to use styling product at the time. It was just awful. I looked like bozo for a bit of time with ash blond hair.
I also should have listened to that “never do anything drastic when your pregnant”. I let a co-worker give me a makeover when I was 7 months pregnant! Oops. Not only did she chop off all my hair, but we discovered that I had a colic in the back of my hair when it was cut so short! Her response was, “no worries, I can fix this!” This ultimately lead her to “shave” the colic off!!! Needless to say, I was crying for weeks. I looked like a giant fat whale! Not the look I was going for 7 months pregnant!
I’m ashamed to say that I’ve used an iron to straighten my hair, not a flat iron.
By far the dumbest thing I’ve ever done was try to bleach it (on my own, out of a box) We are youth group leaders at our church and had to disguise ourselves for an event… I implusively bleached my hair. It was orange. The next day I tried to bring it back a little to the original color and so in 24 hours I had colored my hair twice (out of a box) That was a couple years ago and I recently chopped my hair pretty short to finally get rid of all that “blonde” NEVER again will I try to go blonde!
Like you someone should have told me that I was not meant to be blonde! However, last summer I made the mistake of trying out platinum blonde. That was mistake #1. I left it that way from June to August. One week before my cousin’s wedding I had to travel out of town on business solo for the week and then meet up with my sales manager for breakfast on the last day of my trip. I decided the night before to go back to brown BY MYSELF. So I headed to the drugstore and in my hotel room using the white fluffy towels (Sorry to the Hampton Inn in State College, PA!) attempted to use a box dye to go from blonde to mousy brown. Mistake #2. URGH. Hello Kermit the Frog! Green hair. Twelve hours to meet my boss at breakfast. Not to mention 36 hours before the cousin’s wedding, eight of which included drive time to get there. I did my best to style it real pretty like and sucked up all the pride I could muster and went to that breakfast with a smile on my face. Thankfully, my boss was a lovely lady with a full thick head of gray hair and laughed it off with me over mimosas because her has a twinge of green in it too. However, nothing was as funny as the looks I got from people and the waitress in the restuarant. I like a shock factor in my day and I was happy to supply them theirs. When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Well, I guess I had limes that day (they’re green!) so I made limeade instead of lemonade. I stopped at another store on my way home and picked up a box of black and used the PA Turnpike rest area bathroom to do my best to make it presentable for a wedding. Nothing like using a sink and a hand dryer to get more crazy looks. I felt like people where looking a me thinking I was on the run trying to change my identity like in the movies. It worked and was one of my favorite colors I’ve had so far.
I have wavy frizzy hair and use a straight iron almost every day.
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Bangs! Awful!
Oh, you’re so cute. I went bananas and cut my hair super boy short when we were engaged. The other day I mentioned doing that again and he says, “Um . . do you want me to bust out the San Francisco photos.” I thought he liked it. Apparently not! Long it is ;)
The stupidest thing I’ve ever done was chopping off my hair while pregnant….during BOTH of my pregnancies. You’d think I would have learned :)
Unfortunately I have quite a few to share!
The first would be when I decided it was cool to have wispy bangs. I ended up cutting a chunk of hair about 2 inches long that stuck straight out. That one took a while to grow out.
The second was when it was cool to have two blonde chunk highlights around your face. Unfortunately… I ended up with a 2″ dot on the front of my head. It was so not a good look. I wish I could share the picture, but kind of glad I can’t!! This one had me in major tears when I got home!
And there was the time I decided to get rid of my always highlighted blonde hair and go jet black. I scared myself for the first two weeks when I looked in the mirror. I actually met my hubby with this hair color! Thankfully he fell in love with me in spite of my hair!
There were other times when I cut it all off after pregnancy, decided I needed red highlights, and oh the many times I thought I needed bangs… Thankfully not all at the same time!
The most recent bad hair was trying out a new hair salon near my house. We live near Dallas, but this place was out in the country. I left with highlights and a few extra blobs of color randomly on my head… A lot of toner later and parting my hair a different way I was able to hide it until it grew out. Won’t venture out there again! At least they gave me a refund!
I actually could really use a new flat iron! I have naturally curly hair so I have to straighten it everyday!
This was such a fun post! Thankfully we can all laugh about our crazy hair days!
When I was in high school I had a perm, and I cut bangs. Let’s just say that the combo of the 2 didn’t look very good, especially when I tried to straighten my permed hair. I was a blond fuzz ball! I subscribe via google reader.
I once got so frustrated with my hair that I cut off my 6-inch pony tail. WHAT WAS I THINKING?! I know I didn’t realize this would create a major angle with long hair in front and VERY short in back. :)
When I was in college I didn’t have the money to get my highlights touched up so I decided to color it myself. It turned white blonde with orange roots. Thankfully, my boyfriend (now husband) took me to get it fixed, but he liked the white blonde look regardless of the orange roots. Men!
In high school, I had blonde highlights. One night, I decided I wanted to be brown with some auburn highlights. I bought some hair dye, and colored it myself! When it was ready to wash, my hair was carrot orange! My hair dresser ended up having to dye my hair so dark (it was almost purple it was so dark) to cover up the orange! I learned that dying hair at home is not for me!
The worst thing I did to my hair was a perm I got after I moved to New Jersey after college. I felt like my red, bobbed hair was too flat, so I got a perm. I asked for some long layers, so I wouldn’t have triangle-head. Well, she made my shortest layer bang-length and teased it all out. I wound up looking like little Ophan Annie! When I went home, my husband laughed when he first saw me, and I cried. Poor guy didn’t know how to console me! I had lots of fun growing that out (not).
I asked my cousin, who was in cosmetology school, to give me blonde and red highlights. She did the blonde highlights first and it looked great after washing everything off. Next up was the red highlights… and then after a hair washing, my hair was now PURPLE. Like, dark wine purple. She panicked and bleached my hair. Now my hair was WHITE-YELLOW with fried ends. She cut off the ends and then gave me a perm a week later. The perm didn’t hold, so she gave me the opposite of a perm. The result? A very short, frizzy, almost-white hair. Good thing I was in college and could just pretend it was on purpose… GEEZ. It took me years to recover from that disaster!!
Your ‘bad’ pictures look great to me! I tried a home highlights kit one time. I don’t recommend doing that. They turned orange. I looked like carrot top, sans the plastic surgery. Luckily my hair grows pretty quickly. Thanks for the fun contest! These responses are really funny!
I have dark brown hair. In high school I decided after my boyfriend broke up with me for a blond I would dye it. All done in the professional enviroment of a friends bathroom. My hair turned bright orange and fried the heck out of it. I had long hair and had to cut it very short and it took months and months of visits to a professional to fix it.
When my dark headed daughter mentions wanting to go blond I cringe!
well…probably going blonde, since my natural color is darker than yours! i hate i can’t go back but my hubby nor my hairdresser want me to! you are beautiful any way your hair is styled!
When I was 15 I went into NYC with my best friends, saw a punk girl walking around a flea market and decided then and there to shave my head, but leave the bangs. We walked over to a salon called “Astor Place” and got myself “an Astor Disaster”. My mother was so devastated when she saw me, she broke down crying asking if I was on drugs or having sex. Here’s the secret to shaving your head in high school: guys only like chicks with long hair, or just hair. So, it gets better: My Mom bought me a wig, and made me wear it for 3 weeks until my hair was a long crew cut. I would like to say I never cut it that short again, but after the birth of my second kid I cut it into a crew cut and then started regrowing it the day after. My hair is long now and I would love a new flat iron!
Thinking I’d ‘save’ money, I attempted to use a home highlight kit once with disasterous results! I had the hood on, had pulled the hair through the tiny holes and applied the solution. All of a sudden, my scalp was cold – the solution was seeping under the hood! I look down at the counter only to see I had completely neglected to add one whole bottle of solution! The result was a lovely leopard pattern on top of my head. I proceeded to put on a hat, go to the store, drop more cash to re-color with a solid color which on top of the leopard print, resulted in carrot orange, went back to the store again to attempt one more re-color. Then, at last, I headed for the salon and dropped more money on getting my hair color corrected. After all was said and done, it would have been a time and money saver to start off in the salon!
Please I need to win this!! My gray (no blonde) wire-y hair could use it!
Stupidest thing.. well there have been lots of tears over the years.. yes tears. My hair is like my crown. Unfortunately, I spend way to much time trying to control it…
I got a perm, a tight perm, right before my BFF’s wedding. and she made the bride’s maids wear bows in our hair. I felt like a poodle all day!
Cut it really short after having a baby. Just highlighted the extra weight. Not cute. You, however, were cute with all those haircuts!
Being the third girl in my family I learned a lot about what not to do from my older sisters. However, the worst – absolute worst – thing I ever did to my hair was when I was 12. My family had been at the beach for nearly two weeks and my dad had come down separately in our new convertible (1989 Ford Mustang with red exterior, black top, and white leather interior – classy). I was the lucky child who got to drive home with him!
Before we left town, we stopped at a convenience store to fill the car up with gas. When we walked out after paying, we’d also purchased a two-liter of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Sun-In. We thought we were such rebels! Every hour or so, we would respray our hair hoping for the lightest “sun bleached” hair we could get on that six hour drive.
Did I mention I have dark brown hair? Dark brown hair that would never – and will never – be “sun bleached”?? That’s right.
When we pulled up in front of our house, the Sun-In had already had an effect. My hair was copper! Highly polished copper! Ohhhh, it was terrible!
The worst part was my punishment (because obviously my mom did not approve of our plan): I had to grow it out. No re-dying. Just as I was starting middle school. I watched it grow for two years before it was long enough to chop off!
Last weekend was my brother’s wedding. The couple who sat behind us in church my whole life was at the wedding. They retold this story to my husband, saying how much fun it was to watch it grow out and know how awful it must have been for me to have two-tone hair. I obviously traumatized myself and all those around me if, twenty years later, they’re still remembering the story!
In my defense, I was 15, but I let my mom cut my hair…outside ( no hair mess inside ) and because I was the last of us six kids getting a cut that day, it was starting to get dark! The little light by the back door couldn’t save me, and I ended up with a chunk cut out of the middle on the back of my head, and the rest was shoulder length with funky layers! I love my mom but that was the last time she cut my hair :) Great memories and lessons learned!
I have done many a stupid trend in my day. Like the time in jr high I was determined to have the spiral perm that my friends had so my mom took me 4 times to the salon to get it permed because my virgin hair wouldn’t “take” the chemicals. After that my hair was so damaged that it changed color. It took months for it grow out enough to cut it into a bob. Super short hair in Jr. high was NOT cool. As bad as that experience was, it is not the worst. The worst was about 8 years ago when my husband and I were newly married. For the entire time that my husband had known me ( dating, engaged, and 1st year of marriage) I had heavily highlighted blond-ish hair although my natural color is a medium brown. Well I decided that the highlights and heat styling were damaging my hair and the maintenance was expensive especially on a newlywed budget. So I “went back to my natural color” which was brown. But not only did I go brown (with red undertones per my stylists recommendation) I also cut it in an inverted bob which was longer in the front and shorter in the back. It was a drastic change and to top it off, I thought it would be fun to Surprise him with it. NOT A GOOD IDEA. He took one look at it and hated it. I mean HATED it! He spent 30 minutes telling me how bad it looked, how unattractive it made me look, how could I do that, what was I thinking, I looked like a cancer patient,etc…Needless to say, I was crying about 2 minutes into his tirade and we didnt speak for 2 days. He slept on the couch at our friends house (who thought we were going to divorce over this incident.) Worst hair experience ever! We are still married today, almost 10 years now. But I do not spring hair surprises on him anymore. It has also been highlighted for most if the remainder of our marriage.
Dude! At 14 I decided to bleach two strips on either side of my head (I have a middle part) in preparation for dying them PINK. However, being a natural brunette (and having never done anything to my hair) I basically killed both strips. I had straw hanging on either side of my face (mid-cheek level) for years as I let it grow out. Plus it was an awful yellow-orange that never actually held the pink dye…I haven’t touched my hair with color since!
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Perming it last year by a stylist who hasn’t done one since school. Suffice to say, it didn’t turn out the way I wanted. Can you say “Poodle Hair”?
I went to a new hairdresser for the first time. My husbands class reunion was the next day and I wanted to look really good since I didn’t know anyone there. I told the hairdresser I wanted something different.That was my first mistake. I have naturally blonde, long, curly hair. He thought I should go strawberry blonde and a bit shorter. Sounded good to me. Two hours later he took off the towel and it was red! Not strawberry blonde but shocking bright red. He said not to worry, once he dried it, it would lighten up. I had my doubts. So then he started cutting. My hair was down to the middle of my back. He was talking as he was cutting and I was getting alarmed at the amount of hair I was seeing on the floor. The more he talked the more he cut. He turned my chair around to the mirror and it was up to my chin! I freaked out! Then he started drying it and it was definitely not lighter. It was still bright red and it was incredibly poofy! Hair as curly as mine should never be that short. The shorter it is the bigger it is. So here I was the day of the reunion with flaming red, super short poofy hair! I was so humiliated and I know my husband had have been to. He kept looking over at me all day with a shocked expression on his face. To see all these people he hadn’t seen in years, with his wife that looked like Bozo the clown!
Needless to say I’m back to my long blonde hair again and I am way pickier about who cuts my hair.
in an attempt to hide my grays left the new dark brown dye on the longest time and it came out practically black…and of course it was permanent and had to grow out…
I decided it would be wise to put some highlights in the front of my hair with Jolene facial bleach during my freshman year of college. Holy bronze, it was not a good look!
My biggest regret was a spur of the moment decision to get my hair cut at one of those super places. It was during the Rachel phase and I ended up with the worst Carol Bradey haircut! I had to have it cut pretty short which was tramatizing to a teenager.
My biggest regret was a spur of the moment decision to get my hair cut at one of those super places. It was during the Rachel phase and I ended up with the worst Carol Bradey haircut! I had to have it cut pretty short which was tramatizing to a teenager.
I’ve decided I am NOT a short hair person after cutting it short too many times and then hating it! I cut it short so that it’s lower maintenance, but it turns out, my hair is actually harder to style when it’s short. Now I just keep long layers and trim it every once in a while :).
I follow your blog on google reader : ) … In high school I thought it would be so cool to dye my hair blue (temporarily), but it turned out that the salesperson gave me this moldy green color instead, needless to say it was not attractive. (Although blue probably wouldn’t have been either!)
I went blonde years ago too – hated it! Brunettes rule!
sally.lustig@yahoo.com
Oh this one is easy… just after college, I moved to a big new city for a job where I didn’t know anyone, so I spent alot of time at home watching movies. One night after watching some Kate Hudson flick (I forget which one), and a glass or 2 of wine later, I took it upon myself to try a home perm kit so that I could have cute curly hair like Kate. This was a colossal failure – it looked HORRIBLE! Fast forward 8 years and I still have an akward part/cowlick on the top/back of my head. I can’t even bring myself to tell my hair stylist b/c it’s just too embarassing – so when they ask about the cowlick, I just say “I don’t know, it’s weird, right?!” Lesson learned, NEVER do a home perm, and NEVER do anything to your hair after you’ve been drinking!
Wow, over the years, crazy things we do to make ourselves look and feel better. Back in the 70’s getting a perm, OMG, the perm was way to tight and I had to live with it, not easy when you hate it, couldn’t cover it up, it was the worst. When I was younger, I was a real blonde when I went swimming in a friend’s pool, my hair turned GREEN, from the chlorine, and stayed that way for days.
Funny things I can laugh at now, but not so funny then. I do need a straightner, would love to win
Cheryl – realestatecjv@aol.com
I was in my junior year of college when I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years. So of course I decided to make a “change” and had my hair permed with a new kind of perm that was only supposed to take 12 minutes and give me pretty loose wave. I had stick straight, baby fine hair, which always needed extra time to process, but the stylist told me this was a new system and would work. Six days later my perm fell out, my hair was perfectly straight and I went to complain to the salon because I had spent $60 (it was the early 80s)on this perm that didn’t last a week! To appease me, the salon decided to PERM MY HAIR AGAIN!!! And since I was using “professionals” I assumed they knew what was safe. My hair was a frizzy, straw color, crunchy mess, which over the next few months broke off. When it was long enough I cut it to a few inches long and that is when I met my future husband. (If he could like me when I looked like that, I could never do wrong?)
My hair has changed to a more wavy texture (probably due to the amount of grey that has crept in, though I hide it with hair color) so I could use a flat iron now.
I am naturally a auburn-ish brunette and decided once to die my hair black. What was I thinking?!?
Plucking the grays… Bad bad bad.
I decided it would be super easy to do some DIY highlights (on my super dark brown hair) by just buying a really light brown/dark blonde….right?! No…no, not at all. I had tiger streaks (somehow it turned ORANGE…as in, GO VOLS) in my hair. Did I mention I did this on a Saturday evening & had to run to Walmart late at night so I didnt have to go to church lookin’ like a crazy fool.
Wow…looks like you struck a common cord with this topic! Ha! literally laughing out loud at some of the tales. Mine is about the decision to finally get bangs. Why I thought I could ever pull it off with my cowlick, I dont know! Then the hairdresser snipped the bangs WAY too short so when they dried the cowlick made them stick straight up! Ugh! I was so mad and cried all the way home…especially when I would get a glimpse of my forehead in the rear view mirror! That was my last time to that salon. From that moment on I vowed…mo more bangs EVER again!!
Worst decision: elementary school perm PLUS chopping off a big chunk of my bangs (which were, off course, curled BIG and fluffed and hairsprayed) because a couple hairs wouldn’t lay right. I was a 8-year-old hair diva, apparently! Great giveaway :)
The week before my senior year of high school while on vacation (in NC!), I attempted to trim my hair but ended up looking like the kid from Dutch Boy paint. Google it. It’s hysterical.
Oh, and your short hair was cute! I have a heart-shaped face as well, and my mom always tells me I look best with a bob hairstyle. (But I’m growing it out now.)
Thanks for the post and chance to win!
Sorry, here’s my contact info:
(not to be presumptuous)
jessica dot trygstad at gmail dot com
Honestly if my hair EVER looked as good as even what you’re calling your worst hair pic, I’d be totally happy!
The most recent “worst thing” I did was doing a walk-in with a stylist who looked like she had no idea about hair cutting/styling! I did this right before our grown children were coming for a visit and I knew we’d be taking pictures. (It was our 35th anniversary.)
Needless to say, even the thought of using a curling iron, flat or otherwise, is TOTALLY out of the question because she cut it SO short it’s just now growing out to a short pixie cut! (Not what I wanted at all, by the way!) And that’s been 2+ months!!!! Arrrrrgggg!
I’m going to back to cutting it myself! :-)
I have always had dirty blonde hair and have dyed it since I was 14. I’m now 29 and decided it would be fun to dye my hair a deep red for Halloween-(I was Joan from Madmen) 1 month before my engagement party. I regretted it the next Monday at work and went through a terrible 6 month transition where my hair represented many shades between red and blonde 5 months before my wedding! Never again- it was fun for a bit though.
When I was 10, I had very long, wavy hair. It was so long I had to lift it up to sit down! I was spending a month one summer with my cousin. She was going to get a haircut at a salon. Wow, I wanted to get a haircut, too. My Mom had always just trimmed my hair and I had never been to a salon. So, I wrote my parents and asked them for $5 to get a haircut. (Yeh, $5! Can you imagine that!) Anyway, Mom sent the money and Carol and I went to the salon. After she got her haircut, I told the stylist I wanted the same cut as she got. The stylist was nervous. She kept asking if I was sure it was okay with my parents. I said, of course, they gave me the money. So, she proceeded to give me a “pixie” cut. From hair long enough to sit on to approximately one-inch all over! Today, I would have been able to donate all that hair. There was so much hair on the floor. I loved my new cut. When my parents came to pick me up at the end of the month, my Mom swooned and cried when she walked in and saw me. My dad just started hollering, “look what you’ve done to your hair – look what you’ve done to your mother”! My aunt just kept saying, it will grow. Hmmm, I don’t remember anymore long visits there on my own! LOL! 50+ years later, my hair is almost shoulder length and I could use a flatiron! Love your blog, by the way!
Linda, ljat1@aol.com
The stupidest things I’ve done was the first two or three times I tried to die my hair at home, I didn’t really know to be extra careful with longer hair and ended up splattering hair dye all over our bathroom door..and some on the wall, then somehow some even got out in the hallway on our linen closet. Then thinking my husband was going to be furious I tried to cover it up with liquid paper because we didn’t have any paint in the house. Needless to say, it looked ten times worse! I had to come clean when my husband got home, and thankfully he laughed because it was so outrageous and we’ve had many laughs since. (the door is now freshly painted over :) )
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Ooh, I have some good ones…. when I was younger I asked the stylist to “feather” the sides and ended up with a full on mullet!! (I had to wear headbands for a very long long long time.) Then there’s the time I decided to get a perm right before the first day of high school. Not only did it look bad and smell bad, but I can remember a guy asking me at school if I “purposely” did that to my hair!! oh the agony!! haha. What makes me feel better about it now is that I will know how to help my daughter with her hair so she doesn’t have to go through the same!
I think I have done them all…from the Faith Hill short flipped “This Kiss” hair to super long and from dark brown to bright blonde. Being a mom of a toddler now I am with you on being lower maintenance, have returned to my natural brown color after spending the last 10 years with lots of blonde highlights. I, too, made a pregnancy-hormone hair decision and cut it all off when the babe was a few months old! No ponytail=big mistake, haha, been growing it out ever since and finally below my shoulders again so I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to give this new flat iron a try!!!
Two words for worst hair I ever had: SUN IN
yep…orange hair right before starting high school with glasses and braces. Yikes!!
I’d love to try out a flat iron as I never have before!
Lori
stitchpro at hotmail dot com
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I think your hair looks lovely in all the photos! I’d love to participate in the giveaway but I’m already in love with my Karmin G3 styling iron, so good luck to the winner!
FIRST LET ME SAY I KINDA LIKED YOU AS A BLONDE :) SECONDLY, THAT SHORT DUE WITH THE CHUNKY HIGHLIGHTS HAS *NOTHING* ON WHAT MY BEST FRIEND AND I DID ONE BORED SUMMER NIGHT! I HAVE NATURALY CURLY JET BLACK HAIR. AT THE TIME MY HAIR WAS DOWN TO MY BUTT.I GOT COMPLIMENTS ALL THE TIME. IT HUNG IN LONG RINGLETS. NEEDLESS TO SAY THE “BOB” WAS POPULAR AT THE TIME. SINCE I WAS STARTING HIGH SCHOOL THAT MONDAY I WANTED A NEW DO. MY FRIEND CUT MY HAIR JUST ABOVE MY SHOULDERS AND JUST BELOW MY EARS.*AND* SHE TOOK A STAB AT GIVING ME CHUNKY HIGHLIGHTS. NEEDLESS TO SAY, WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE I LOOKED LIKE A FRIZY HEADED TIGER!! MY CURLS LOPPED OF HAD NOW BECOME AIRBORNE AND TURNED FRO LIKE WITH BIG TONY THE TIGER ORANGE STRIPES ALL AROUND MY HEAD!WORST DAY OF FRESHMAN HIGH SCHOOL EVER!!!!! TO THIS DAY MY FRIEND CALLS ME TONY FROM TIME TO TIME
P.S. MY MOTHER GROUNDED ME FOR 2 WEEKS AND REFUSED TO TAKE ME TO GET IT FIXED!
It wasn’t what I did- it was what my mother did:)
When I was around 3 or 4, I would take my piece of gum out of my mouth and stick it in my hair. No idea why. So my mom threatened that if I did it one more time, she was chopping off my hair. Don’t ever test mama. She gave me an at-home hair cut and people thought I was a boy for nearly 6 months.
Ok, it is 1980. About a week away from the prom. I had pretty long hair and wanted the curl and waves to look like farrah fawcett. My friend told me to go get a perm but use big rods so it wouldnt be too curly. We didnt have much money and my mom said we should go to her hairdresser cuz she was kind of cheap. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I walked out of there with a Michael Jackson fro. I was mortified. My sister laughed her ass off!!! I cried for days and washed my hair about 100 times hoping it would wash out. Needless, to say i went to my prom with that hair and yes i did survive it!!!
In the early 80’s, I convinced myself to cut my long, naturally curly auburn hair..into a “Dorthy Hamilton”. Huge mistake. Huge. I looked like a boy and it took forever to grow it even to my chin. Never has my hair even grazed my shoulders again. Eva.
You look good with short hair- me, not so much!
When I was just out of college, I had bleached blonde hair and sort of a punky short cut. I had a job interview with a foster care agency, so I decided to dye it back to my natural color, which is a dark brown the day before the interview so that I would look more respectable. However, I didn’t know that when your hair is bleached, it’s very porous so it will take in whatever hue the dye has, so I ended up with purple hair for my first serious job interview!
I chopped my hair to look like Meg Ryan from “You’ve Got Mail” in high school. What high schooler wants to look like a lady in their mid-thirties?! Well, if that was my goal, then I certainly accomplished it!
Oh boy – I’m going to give away my age now….but here goes. The absolute stupidest thing I’ve done with my hair (and trust me, I’ve done a lot) was during my 20’s. I had naturally blonde, naturally straight long thick hair. (Which was the style then during the late 80’s) Does anyone remember Olivia Newton John and that song “Let’s Get Physical” where she bounces around with an unusual layered, very short on top and longish back – kind of like a ‘mullet’ ? YEP, that’s what I did – what a disaster ! A million layered mullett ! I was so appalled I actually called in sick to work for 3 days in a row, – I couldn’t face anyone !
Oh, my and everyone else has a long list I am sure. There was the time, I hacked it off with the sides short and the back short, but with a flippy tail. It was “suppose” to look cute, but not so much…it turned out more like a mullet. Ugg. Then there was the spiral perm that looked horrible then they cut it and layered it and I looked like a clown. It was awful. There are many more…like the trailer park frost look….oh sigh…
Well, here it goes! My anniversary was in March. We have four children, 13, 11, 2 and 1. As you can imagine date nights are rare! My sweet husband planned an entire day for us begining with a hair appointment at my fav spa/salon. It had been nearly two years since my hair had been in professional hands, thanks to my recent back to back pregnancies. I had grow out past my ears in a lovely dark brown shade and platinium blonde from there to the middle of my back. I was beyond excited to be back to my former self!
We started our day off early and just before I left the house all prettied up the salon called to cancel my appointment due to my gal being sick! I cried. Then my so sweet husband recommends we run to walmart to get a box dye. I really didn’t want to but my husband encouraged me and offered to do the coloring himself. “We” chose a nice dark strawberry blonde headed home and got to work. I reshowered and then looked in the mirror. Decided I could better judge once I dried my hair. Oh boy was I in for a shock, I actually let out a scream which sent my entire family running my room. My hair was red on top and where the blonde had once been was neon pink/orange. It was a nightmare!! I cried and my husband tried his best to make me feel better. My mom offered to come back to babysit on another night since she couldn’t imagine me going out with bright neon colored curls. As a mom I know if I pass up one date night I may not see another one for another year! I couldn’t do it. I put on my make-up, lashes and all. Re-prettied myself and left for our date. LOL, the night was a success. I felt beautiful and my husband told me so every 5 minutes. I forgot about my hair unless I happend to walk past a mnirror or noticed someone starring. That was by far the worst thing I have ever done to my hair! So glad I didn’t let it ruin my date night though. I did get it properly fixed about 2 weeks later!
The worst thing I’ve done – trying a super short and layered cut in college – I do not have the kind of time or skill to make that look cute every day!
THANK YOU for the opportunity to win!
The craziest thing I have done to my hair: well, I have two (2):
1) I was in my early 20’s and just home from college….I still spend a HUGE chunk of change on my hair at the salon and my hairdresses was known for “doing what she wanted to do to your hair.” My appointment was for 8:30 p.m. and it was already 10:00 p.m. I was frustrated and decided that I would comb out my naturally curly hair thereby saving time when she finally got to me. Well that crazy comb was some kind of ‘back comb” and I got that sucker tangled in my hair so badly that I had to call my best friend to come to the salon and she meticulously picked strand by strand out of that comb so that “Wilma” did not have to cut it out. (I had long hair and it was stuck right in the middle of the back of my head). Needless to say I made it home at 2:30 a.m.
2) I have learned many things since my college days…one is to save the $100.00 + per month and color my hair at home. I love the Nutrisse line of hair color and they supply you with a “mid month” color extender. I have been using this hair color for several years and have never used this extender. For some reason just after Christmas and right before New Years I decided to “extend” my hair color. I carefully followed the directions and sit to read and wait on my processing time. I jumped into the shower to rinse and upon exiting I looked directly into the mirror to find Ronald McDonald R-E-D hair. Now – my normal haircolor is “dirty blonde” (wink wink). So I am standing in the middle of the bathroom doing deep breathing techniques to calm myself…so I decide to dry it to see if it was “really that bad.” Oh my goodness! It was worse than I expected. I immediately called the 800 number on the box to explain what I did – how long I processed, etc. The could not come up with a reason as to why my color changed so drastically, but told me a product I could purchase to remove the color and then they graciously replaced the cost of the hair color. My husband, bless his heart, kept trying to soothe me…”honey its not that bad!” UGH!
Again, thank you for the opportunity to win. Blessings,
Melissa
When I was in 7th grade I begged my mom to let me get my hair permed. I have A LOT of thick hair, so I ended up with a huge ‘fro. I wore my hair in a ponytail everyday for months until it grew out.
Or when I decided to let my college roommate dye my hair a REALLY dark brunette (I’m a natural blonde). She missed a few spots, so I had blonde spots for a couple days until I could get an appointment with my regular stylist. Even after the color was done correclty it looked horrible, but I had to live with it for awhile until the stylist could slowly lighten it back. And my hair doesn’t grow as blonde anymore…I completely ruined it.
Oh gosh I didn’t read the others yet and I should have before I go into this. Oh well. It’s a long story but I must tell a bit to explain my most( one of) moment. I was losing my hair because of a chemo drug. But not all of it. Half it. It was very thin very frizzy very out of control and very very red orange yellow bronzes colored,( get the picture?, I’m a brunette who was a strawberry blonde when little so a lot of red still in my hair that had been colored with a supposed very gentle color process so u could not see the holes in my hair like you could with it dark. Well as you can see, it did not turn the color I was promised. And, I was sworn to that it was a misfire chemicall reaction that just did not like me or my hair. Yes, this very experienced, obviously, colorist, told me.
I did it on a whim in Houston galleria. Well needless to say, I now had frizzy, SPARSE, orangey, yellowy,reddy, hair akin to those lovely pieces of confetti that are not curly-q but more zig
Sorry couldn’t type for some reason. Anyway I sat in my car at a light on Kirby at Westheimer(major intersection) put my head head on the wheel and bawled. I mean an ugly bawling. When I was honked at several times I held my head up and put foot on gas and drove though, I had not been honked at bc the light changed, no no, a guy I had a huge crush recognized my car and was wanting to wave. Well I obviously pulled out, hit the person in front of me and then had to get out of the car with mascara and makeup running down my face, this stuff that was growing out of my head, and to top it off, I was in such a hurry to leave I put my shirt on backwards AND inside-out. Do you have the total picture? And to my total horror he then had pulled over to apologize and had gotten out of his car and was walking towards me when we caught eyes. It was his first true glimpse of what I looked like at that moment. He actually turned several shades of fuschia then white. He totally had stopped in his tracks then tried to play it off like nothing had just happened. Finally he started laughing so hard that the guy I hit started laughing which only made me cry harder. The moral to this? I have been married to this wonderful man for 22 years:). But one of our vows was to always look where the label is in my clothing when dressing and another? Never dye hair with chemicals that that have feelings.
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My hair is naturally curly and in college, my cousin convinced me we could straighten it with a chemical straightener. (Sadly, I went to college before the flat iron was invented!!)
Anyway, what happened instead is that we chemically burned my hair off. It turned to rubber and was breaking off in the sink as we rinsed it. I had to go to the mall (because it was late in the evening) and pay to have it all chopped off. I cried. And it grew back in even curlier!!
I tried to look like Farrah Fawcett in the 8th grade. But I had so many cowlicks up front, that it came out to be a total mess!
I had my mom perm my hair (shes a stylist) when I was in Jr High…and then I cried for a month.
I really had a crush on the boy that took me to the senior prom. The DAY BEFORE the prom I let a friend of mine put a perm in my long hair. When she took it down I immediately looked like a poodle and smelled like a skunk. The ends were completely fried and I was very close to tears! She could sense my panic and saw my obvious hair fiasco and decided she would remedy the problem and cut my hair. Enter mistake number 2!!!! She cut my long hair into a mullet!!!! Dear Lord, the day before the prom with a frizzy, fried, skunk smelling, poodle on my head!!! To make it worse, I was very thin and had a dress that was strapless with a fitted bodice and poofy skirt!! :0( I will never outgrow the trauma of that weekend. Oh yeah, the date to the prom was nice but when everyone was going to nice places to eat, my date “suggested” we go to a nice restaurant out of town and when we got there it was closed! Hmmmm, coincidence….I think not, but who could blame him!!!
As a teenager, I did a home spiral perm… smelly and yucky!! Thankfully, I have not done anything to crazy in years!!
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Wow, the biggest hair fail happened when I was a freshman in high school. I had my hair cut in a short pixie style. I have super curly hair I straighten with a flat iron so I was ok until it started raining & then I looked like I’d stuck my finger in a light socket!
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I also fall victim to the “doing stupid things when pregnant” part, the last one was getting full highlights (read: 3 hours) a day before having baby #3. Seriously, I thought I would pass out and/or have the baby in the salon!
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I cut my hair short less than a week before I was going to be a maid of honor. I wanted to go short, but it came out so short that it would not lie down on my head. It stuck straight up. I took one look one look and saw… my brother! it was awful. The stylist could not put enough product in it to fix it. It was not better by the wedding. Definitely the only time i have had to force myself not to cry in the chair. Eeek! Thanks for the chance to win and for sharing your hair stories!
When I was pregnant with my first child we moved from Virginia to Oregon due to my husband’s job . . . and I decided to give myself a haircut. Maybe I did it because . . . well we all know how difficult it is to find a good salon and hairdresser and I guess I was the best qualified person around. Take it that I have no experience or training in cutting hair, but for some strange reason (I think it was due to the increase in hormones) without hesitation I gave myself a new shag haircut. And I mean A NEW HAIRCUT! It was probably 2 to 3 inches all over. I wish I had a picture to show you- it was awful!
I walked into a salon who was donating all proceeds from that day to the American Heart Association. I told the girl to do whatever she wanted, “but don’t make me look like Kate Gosselin.” Apparently she didn’t hear the word don’t. To make matters worse, I have enough hair for 4 people. So I had Kate’s reverse mullet and an afro at the same time. I walked out of the salon and immediately started growing it out… that was almost 4 years ago and it’s just now at my boobs hahaha.
This post cracks me up….mostly because I can completely relate. :) I was with you on the perm—in my—-bangs?!!?! Why? Haha. Thanks for the chance to win.
I think the worst thing I did was have my gorgeous long hair (that took forever to grow out) cut into a short bob right after our wedding. I hate how I look in all of our honeymoon pictures because I simply could not style it properly. Ugh! I’m back to long hair now! PS I ALSO want your 3 year old’s hair – so gorgeous!
I also did the Sun-In thing, many years ago…with a hideous orange-hued result. It was awful. I think, though, the worst thing I did was try to trim my bangs (I was about 13 at the time) right before church one Sunday morning. My dad evened them out, but they were SHORT. I have never cut my own hair since…
Ugh — I’ve been coloring my own hair for a few years too, but it doesn’t work so well when you’re trying to lift 10 shades from your natural!! My flat iron is about 10 years old, so I’d love a new one…and a good one at that…that won’t destroy my hair!
I love when you show us pics of you!!!
ooo I’m way down at the bottom here, hope you get to me….craziest thing I’ve ever done, would be, ironing it. Yep, for Halloween when I was 20 I went as Cleopatra, and I had hair down to my waist, only it’s naturally curly and shrinks up shorter when it’s dry. Because when I was 20 was way before hair straigheners, I had to find a way to get my hair super straight, so, I laid it out on the board and ironed it flat and it actually worked!! People didn’t recognize me because to be honest it was the 80’s and big hair was very ‘in’…I always had big big hair, so to show up with completely flat straight hair, was super funny! The best part was, the area around my head was somewhat puffier, because I couldn’t get the iron up that close to my head…I love a good straightener now, and mine just died. I’m saving up to buy a new one…unless…
ooo I’m way down at the bottom here, hope you get to me….craziest thing I’ve ever done, would be, ironing it. Yep, for Halloween when I was 20 I went as Cleopatra, and I had hair down to my waist, only it’s naturally curly and shrinks up shorter when it’s dry. Because when I was 20 was way before hair straigheners, I had to find a way to get my hair super straight, so, I laid it out on the board and ironed it flat and it actually worked!! People didn’t recognize me because to be honest it was the 80’s and big hair was very ‘in’…I always had big big hair, so to show up with completely flat straight hair, was super funny! The best part was, the area around my head was somewhat puffier, because I couldn’t get the iron up that close to my head…I love a good straightener now, and mine just died. I’m saving up to buy a new one…unless…
my friend and i each grabbed the “coolest” color at the drugstore…hers was CARROT orange for her strawberry blonde hair…mine was magenta for my dark brown hair. 30 washes was FALSE by the way….it had a purple tint for years :P
I’m a pasty, freckled girl so I was surprised when blonde actually worked for me. It was then that I figured, if I can do blonde, then I most certainly can do red! I picked out this really pretty auburn color at the drugstore and proceeded to dye my hair. No one ever told me that you can’t go from platinum blonde to red. My hair was fire engine red…it was not a good look.
Oh, I cut it all off when I found out I was pregnant with baby #2 — a Chinese bob — not a good style for naturally curly hair!
I cut my hair all off days before my wedding!
Great giveaway! I was just thinking in the shower this morning that I should start saving for a nice straightener.
I am half-Japanese, but growing up I had a natural white-blonde streak in my hair, starting in the forehead area. In 5th grade my idea of cool hair was to cut and curl into bangs only the 2 inches of blonde on the right side of my forehead. It looked terrible. I still cut my own hair, but never have tried that particular ‘do again.
I have really dark brown hair. When I was in middle school, I let my friend give me highlights. We were in 7th grade. Something went wrong abd it turned out orange. My mom wouldn’t let me get my hair colored so I walked around looking like Garfield. They took FOREVER to grow out.
After reading most of the comments and all of your blog, I am so happy to not be alone in the world of hair and what to do with it !!! I too have done the perms, the bobs, the colors from home products, to bleach blonde at the hairdresser, can you say straw texture ?!?!
But the craziest thing I believe I have ever done was once in a pinch, it was getting darker, and I was a true FL blonde all my life, I hated the dirty blonde brown, and yet couldn’t afford professional treatment. I read some labels on the home kits and decided I could be really blonde simply by getting the spray bottle of Sun-in and pouring a “little” extra peroxide in it. Welllllll, it definitely changed the color. I was a brilliantly colored fake blonde, yellow headed creature. It was pretty awful and did a lot of damage to my hair as well.
Would love to try the cool flat iron :-)
After resisting the pressure from a well-meaning friend with beautifully dyed hair to dye my hair for the first time…as a teenager… in a hotel room… on our way to summer teen camp (the sensible part of the story), I went home and tried it by myself. After a fairly painless process, I had to hurry out the door to meet a group of friends…and didn’t bother to blow dry my hair. Upon arriving, I was a little perturbed when one friend kept trying to get my attention while I was trying to be friendly to a newcomer in the group. After much pleading, she pulled me aside and asked me what on earth I had done to my hair. It. Was. Green! Not just subtle, maybe just dirty brown, but the Anne-of-Green-Gables-Puke-Green-Cut-It-Off-Now kind of green! (And this was almost twenty years ago and definitely not cool.) Needless to say, I got lots of attention that night (and joined in the laughter)–especially when my hair happened to hang down near the grass during a game. Not sure which was worse, though, the green or the condition of my hair after trying to correct it, but, alas, that’s another story…
I cut it short when I was pregnant – and only looked cute in my first trimester. The further along, the fuller my face got = not cute.
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I had long natural blonde hair – all one length. A haircut or a trip to a salon was not in our budget was not in our budget, so I went to the beaty college to get a trim. I came home with it layered to death and short. I thought my husband was going to kill me and I could not believe they had cut it so short.
Last October I decided to color my hair myself. I picked out the prettiest shade of light blonde. (my hair is naturally a dark, dark blonde)After applying it to my hair, letting it sit the appropriate amount of time and rinsing it, I was horrified when, after towel drying it, I looked in the mirror. It was ORANGE! Not just barely, I mean full blown ORANGE!! Both of my boys thought it was perfect since it was October. They both fled the house and soon returned with all of their friends from the neighborhood to show them mom’s Halloween pumpkin hair!
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When I was probably 4 years old I got my ears pierced. I wanted everyone to be able to see my pretty earrings so I asked to have my hair cut short on the sides. Needless to say I ended up with a haircut that pretty much resembled a mullet. I am mortified by my preschool picture! Piece of advice…never let a 4 year old choose their hair cut. :-)
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New reader here (I was lured by bay window curtain rods!) but this post and all of the comments made me laugh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has done so many monumentally stupid things in the name of beauty. I’ve done perms and drug store colors and bangs and layers and…you name it! All to get my mostly straight bland brown hair to look glamorous. The worst, though, was in 1986 when I allowed my mother and her friend to “frost” my hair. This was the trend for 40 something women at the time, and I still don’t know why anyone thought I should look like that. They deliberately left it on longer than the instructions said because I’d look “great” even blonder than the girl in the picture. The result was gray hair. I mean, truly gray, like a very very old woman, but only in streaks. The rest of my hair was still the same brown. I don’t know how I managed to get through school the next day. Luckily my mom realized the trauma and took me to a professional to have it fixed but WTH? Who thinks a 17 yo needs frosted hair? Thanks for the memory!
I’d say the worst thing that has happened to my hair is some currently unexplained alopecia – hair loss – literally patches of missing hair. Not sure what the issue is – might be thyroid or hormone related? Because after Jocelyn was born, I got eczema, became gluten intolerant, and now major hair loss! Oh, and to top it all off, the new hair that is coming back in some areas is white. boo hoo!! This is quite a situation for someone who has never really had major hair issues (I mean there was the occassional bad choice in home dye hair color or the time when I got it cut boy short) but I’ve always taken for granted that my hair would be there to distract from other imperfections! Not anymore! My straightener is pretty much dead, so a new flat iron would be so great to have! Hopefully I’ll have some hair to straighten when all is said and done!
Gosh, I have done so many crazy things to my hair from using Sun-In and my hair turn “green”…to coloring my own hair, perming my own hair….you name it I’ve probably done it. I have even cut my own hair starting out it was at my shoulders and by the time I was done trying to “even it out”, my hair was to my chin…It was not good at all…I’d love the have the flat iron as my is on it’s last leg:)
I had an asymmetrical hair cut. Awful!
I bleached out my dark brown hair,then colored it turquoise – and I had polka dots. Then I started trying to find a job (to no avail) and then it started breaking off and growing out. OMG it looked AWFUL. So I tried to dye it back to my natural dark brown, and it turned out almost black. Very goth looking before goth was cool (I’m very fair skinned) I’ve done other things since (like the too short cut I have right now) but this was definitely the worst. Thank goodness my hair grows fast!!
i think the perm i had in the 6th grade with the unpermed bangs so i could kep them straight or curl them or even crimp them… that was BAD. but it went with me double layered neon socks and scrunchies.
i think the perm i had in the 6th grade with the unpermed bangs so i could kep them straight or curl them or even crimp them… that was BAD. but it went with me double layered neon socks and scrunchies.
i think the perm i had in the 6th grade with the unpermed bangs so i could kep them straight or curl them or even crimp them… that was BAD. but it went with me double layered neon socks and scrunchies.
When I was about 8 I went to the salon with my mom, who was getting a perm. At this time, I had had long, stringy, unruly hair that I never did anything to except have my mom curl my bangs. Every morning before school (early 90s) she would curl various layers in different directions and then tease it out into a big pouf with lots of hairspray. I guess this became tiresome for her, so when I was at the salon with her, she asked the stylist to perm my BANGS ONLY. The perm came out about as well as you would expect and I looked like a mix between a wet rat and a poodle. Oh, and I also wore glasses and braces!
In college my roommates and I decided to dye our hair. We all went to the drug store and purchased dye. I spent a lot of time picking out the perfect color – I picked a color that I thought would highlight my eyes.
When I was done everyone asked if why I pretended to dye my hair – apparently I dyed my hair the same color it already was. I honestly didn’t realize the color I picked was similar to just like my own hair color. Not one person told me it looked different. Yes I was that dumb!
There are a lot to choose from, but, I will give you the one that lasted the longest. I always had thick hair. It was never stick straight but straight enough and had body. About 15 years I got a perm..a tight spiral perm. My hair has never been the same. The perm never fully grew out so now my hair is kind curly…but mostly frizzy. Ahhh c’est la vie :)
Worst two. First was when I decided I was tired of highlighting my hair so I did box dye and it was super dark brown and splotchy. When I went to a salon to try to fix it, she stripped and colored but somehow my hair had a blue tint to it all it. Went back and it was chicken fat yellow! Finally went to Toni and guy and she was able to run highlights thru it to help it. Did I mention this was two weeks before I was a bridesmaid?
Second was my husbands military ball. I was totally freaked out about getting my hair done in a different town. Turns out my updo was a freaking rats nest…literally. I had requested one of those ponytail bun w pinned curls and had pictures. I had to go over to a JCPenney salon to get it fixed and while my hair was plastered to my head pretty good, it looked much better!
Actually, blonde hair looks great on you.
And I’m in love with your kid! She’s so adorable!
Have a nice week :)
Stupidest thing I’ve done with my hair is bangs. I have natural super curly hair, so if I got hot in the least bit, they would curl and go crazy.
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Triangle head. Yes, I got the hideous 80’s perm with a blunt, slightly longer than chin-length hair cut and permed bangs! Since there were no layers, the perm started tight at the crown and just widened out to give me a full triangle effect at the bottom. I looked like one of the female comic strip characters…I think from Dilbert?
I’ve never had to guts to do anything dramatic or crazy to my hair- so I can’t say I have any regrets! I’ve been told my hair is my best asset so I have found a cut and style that work for me and I just stick with it!
I’ve not really done anything wild or crazy to my hair (as a matter of fact, my hairdresser told me last week that I have “virgin hair”) but when I was pregnant last year I decided to get it all whacked off… and regretted it the minute I looked in the mirror while still in the chair :( I went to the grocery store afterwards and remember looking at womens hair and thinking “oh, I just love your hair. Why did I do this?!” Thankfully, a year later it’s grown back out and while I’m pregnant again, I have definitely learned my lesson and will only be getting trims this time :)
That would be the summer of “Sun-In” somewhere around my senior year of high school. I cringe when I look back at those pics.
When I was five, we had a babysitter over, and I had my hair in pigtails. That was back when the only rubber bands you had were real ones. You had to cut the rubber bands out, and I decided I was ready to take the pigtails out. The babysitter wouldn’t get off the phone, so I decided to take matter into my own hands…but instead of cutting out the rubber band, I cut off the WHOLE PIGTAIL!!!!! Yes, the whole pigtail! When my mom got home and found out, she stayed up all night crying. The next day I went to the salon, and got a fabulous boy cut!
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I was living in a third world country on a church service mission. I had been gone a year and I wanted to get my hair trimmed. My friend that I was living with offered to “trim” my hair for me. While we were riding on the train one day a man was selling hair cutting scissors for $2, so we bought them and she “trimmed” my hair. My hair was half way down my back and it ended up being to the middle of my ear. When we got together with some friends later that day, they laughed and said I looked like a skater dude. Luckily I had 6 more months in the country to grow my hair out before I had to come home.
The stupidest thing I’ve ever done (and continue to do) was to neglect it!! You can change your hair in 5 minutes with a flat iron!! Hope I win :)
Oh boy where to begin?! I had gotten my hair cut and colored by the same stylist for years but right before moving south of the boarder I decided to go dark brown. Months later I’m back in the States and ready to find my stylist – no luck. I get a box of dye, colored my hair and all went well except I didn’t like it. I go into a salon and was told I had to strip my hair. Long story short my hair was stripped not once but twice and instead of the medium brown with a touch of red I ended up looking like Ronald McDonald’s sister — if he had one that is. Oh the pain and suffering was unbearable. Not only was my hair a crazy red but it was damaged to the point where pulling a few strands of hair between my fingers would cause it to break off. This was two years ago and thankfully all the damaged hair has been chopped off little by little. Today I’m back to my normal wavy, curly, kinky, thick, frizzy and unruly hair. This flat iron would absolutely be put to good use if I win.
I let my twin sister give me highlights… in our mid 20s… definitley old enough to know better. Not only did she not pull the cap tight enough, but she only pulled hair through the big holes. I ended up with banana yellow spots the size of quarters all around my head. Worst part was going to my nana’s house the next morning on my way to see her hairdresser and have her laugh at me.
I have to admit though that Mrs.K should win, hands down. I just about laughedmyself out of my seat when she said her husband straightens his own hair!
high school. Sun-In! bad.news.bears. I had shoulder length hair and I’m short… AND my hair is brown — much closer to dark brown than light brown. In the summer, I get natural reddish highlights. Well, I was coming off of summer and wanted “more” highlights. spray in sun-in, use the hairdryer… I wanted more. I couldn’t see the highlights. I continued and continued the process. once there truly was not much of the bottle left… I decided I should just wait a bit, CLEARLY, there must be some difference in the color of my hair. OH BOY — was there. I just couldn’t see it until it started to GROW out! AHHHHH. what a LINE! and NO way to reverse the sun-in. I was SO wishing there was a SUN OUT product and TOO afraid to use anything else on my hair to change the color, I endured the long and painful process of growing it out!
The worst thing I did to my hair was attempt to dye it red (from blonde). Let’s just say that I ended up with orange hair reminiscent of a circus clown. It took one very long day at the salon to re-dye my orange hair to resemble more of a strawberry blonde shade.
The worse thing was to allow my Mother’s beautician to style my hair for the prom….my mom was so mad when I cam home and took it down and combed it all out…it was a mess!
The worst thing I did to my hair was in fall 1995. I had worked at the beach all summer and my hair had lightened to a pale, bleached blonde. Returning to college, I wanted my natural, sandy brown color back. On my college-student budget, I hiked to the nearest drug store and purchased a lovely shade of ‘Ash Blonde’, which appeared to be my exact hair color.
Got back to my dorm room, tore open the box and followed all of the instructions. 20 minutes later, my hair was a lovely shade of…moss green. No lie. I immediately tucked it all into a hat, and went to the most expensive salon around. Apparently, the sun had removed all of the pigment from my hair, and the color I had chosen, that ‘perfect ash blonde’…well, ‘ash’ has a green base…so my now pigment-less hair pulled that green base. After 3 sessions (a week apart) of bleaching & removing the color, and then re-coloring my hair, it finally was returned to my natural color. Proof that a $4 box of color ended up costing $360 in the end.
i’ve got two bad hair stories for you:
The first one happened in 6th grade. Being the silly girl that i am, i took a roll brush (a small one with plastic bristles) and rolled a large chunk of my hair all the way to the root. and then i couldn’t get it out. Being the silly girls that we were, my friends suggested using water and conditioner to get it out, which only made it worse. I ended up having to go to a salon, and the lady couldn’t get it out either. She had to cut my hair…a large chunk of it….at the roots…right above my forehead. i wore a headband for the next 2 years, which also happen to be the awkward years with braces and junior high. oh, it was awful. i had a headband in every color.
The next experience happened in college. My hair is very curly and i like it straight. When the brazilian straightener came out, i was one of the first to get it. I should have known that they had not quite gotten the hang of it yet, when i had to sign forms saying i wouldn’t sue if something went wrong (i don’t remember if it was actually suing, but it was something really similar). 5 hours and 2 coats of that stuff later (and $500), my hair was straight as a board. And then it fell out…in large chunks…and that was the last time i did that (9 years ago).
I deal strictly with straighteners now, and could desperately use a new one! Save me from another drastic hair episode. :)
Ok, so you remember the movie “Picture Perfect” with Jennifer Anniston in the 90s? I was obsessed with her hair as pre-teen/teen. She had the perfectly shaped long bob and the very front pieces of hair at her part were all blonde. I loved it. My mom and I went to the salon for me to get my very own all blonde little wispy bits on either side of my part. Like we really planned this out. Once sitting in the chair, the stylist asks me “What are doing today?” My response, “BANGS!” Bangs???!!!??? My mom’s face in the mirror was priceless: shock and horror. She remembered what it was like for me as an 8 year old to grow out my previous bangs, awful times infinity. But no, Bangs it was. And Bangs I got. Sometimes I wonder how those little wispy blonde bits might have changed my life…
I added BLONDE highlights to my nearly black hair. Did I mention it grows an inch a month? I looked like Britney gone wrong!
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DIY pink highlights. That pretty much speaks for itself. In college, a friend and I decided that pink highlights would be awesome and picked up a box. I did hers, she did mine. We waited the recommended time and I washed mine out first. I’ll never forget my friend’s first comment- OMG, I turned Karen into a muppet!! Instead of having pink streaks, I ended up with a large pink blob at my part- it had all bled together. I changed my part to the other side and it hid the blobby part. I certainly learned the wrong way to highlight hair on that one!
Oh I have done so many crazy things to my naturally curly (unruly) hair. But the worst has to be the time that I convinced my best friend to help me straighten my hair with one of those home kits. This was before they had flat irons. Well I convinced her to leave it on a little longer since straighter is better, right? Sooooo wrong. My hair was so straight it looked like an asian wig! Better yet when I tried to comb it, my hair started falling out!! I learned a hard lesson that day.
My worst was in my 20s. I am a natural blonde and I decided after many years bleaching and highlighting it lighter and lighter that I needed a change, I went to my hairdresser and managed to get on board with the idea that coloring it brown would be great. did I mention I am blonde, blonde eyebrows etc. So it looked like a wig ! Photos I have from that time are crazy, I went to 2 weddings, a bachelorette party and a christmas party with that hair, the photos are endless and priceless. i finally went into a different hairdresser with a pic of my blonde tresses and begged her to make into that person again, it took 3 sessions!
Stupid would be flipping it out and in and the wispies I had in my face for my sisters wedding. Kind of sideburn looking things. GROSS
Wow! I love your hair blonde! But to answer your question, I let my local beauty school dye my hair platinum blonde. I cried for hours then finally bought some darker hair coloring and tried to fix it myself. Huge mistake! It turned orange. Long story short I had to go to a professional stylist to undo my crazy mistake.
I, too, have become low maintenance – used to spend $85 a month at the salon in addition to all the styling aids and products; now I just color the roots with $5 color from Walgreens & get a trim 3-4 times a year. I love your blog and I read it every day. By the way, you look great as a blonde!
Wonderful your hair look fantastic.I think you choose a good to straighten up you hairs at this stage.Thanks for images.
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