Hair Horror Stories

Jul 17, 2012

Danie D.

Right after I graduated high school, my best friend callled me up crying hysterstal during a god awful thunder storm. I hoped in my car to arrive at her house with a towel wrapped around her head. She had been dying her natural curly hair blonde for as long as i could remember. So I knew chemials were involved. But Nothing prepared me for what I was about to experience. It turns out that she had a ingenius idea to relax and color her hair in the same day. Well it all fell out... When the towel came off it looked like blonde dreads, but when you combed i out. The hair just streached, and streached, and streached, and streached until i broke off. It was literally about a inch of hair all over from mid back length.
My lesson learned make friends with conditioner, if it aint boke dont fix it, and no wo chemicals in the same day. 

Jul 18, 2012

Victoria D.

I first wanted blonde streaks/highlights when I was maybe 12 or 13. So I asked my mom to do it. She's obviously not a hair dresser, so we got that stupid kit, with the stupid holes in the cap, and she started digging hair from my scalp out of those holes. Eventually we put the dye in, but I have dark hair naturally, so it became like a golden blonde. When I took the cap off, my ENTIRE top layer of hair was this brassy, golden blonde color. I wanted to dye my hair back to brown I was so upset. I cried so much about it xD 

Jul 18, 2012

Nelly R.

When I was 15 wanted to bleach the bottom half of my hair soo bad so I decided to do it myself well I must have left it too long bcus by the time I rinsed my hair it felt like bubblegum and it was super dry and ugly I will never forget that.

Jul 18, 2012

Dee D.

When I was 13, I applied a whole bottle of sun in to my hair. I wound up looking like bozo the clown with bright orange hair.

Jul 18, 2012

Monica J.

I wanted to go really blonde. My natural color is reddish brown. Regular store hair dues didn't get it light enough. I decided to bleach my hair. So I bleached it then added in the color. My hair turned out bright yellow! And I mean really yellow, like a lemon or a banana! I waited a few days then used my hands to run a medium brown dye through it, then it was ok. But I will never bleach again!

Jul 18, 2012

Christina O.

I was thirteen when I decided to dye my hair, I got one of the semi permanent dyes that came out after a certain amount of washes, so I bought a mahogany color and my hair was fine at first and looked quite nice but after my first wash it went PURPLE!! It wasn't a school holiday and I knew I would be screwed if I came into school with purple hair but no matter how much I washed it it only went a shade lighter purple. My mum eventually had to send me in with a note explaining about my purple hair :P I will never forget that...

Jul 20, 2012

Taylor F.

It's funny how most of these stories are about bleaching!

Jul 20, 2012

Julianne J.

Once upon a time, I was probably 16 or 17, I wanted semi-permanent dark purple hair to have for my first Warped Tour. So I found some dye at Hot Topic- not Manic Panic, and I thought the color looked right, in the bottle. First mistake. Then I got the white out bleach, because the color would probably not show up just in my regular, dark brown hair color. So I had my mom do the bleaching- and she is not a hairdresser either, far from it. She didn't cover all my hair, so there was brown spots, and did not leave the dye on long enough, so my hair was yellow. The bleach literally killed my curly/wavy brown hair, normally gorgeous, thick and silky. It became so dry and brittle, frizzy and poofy. It made my hair so porous and damaged. Then I had my step-mom put the "purple" dye on. It actually showed up on my hair as hot pink. So it looked like Bozo the clown, it was so frizzy and bright colored. That summer I got hassled by some fair guy, at the dunking booth, and walked down the street as someone asked me "Is that your natural hair color?". Eventually it faded to a rosey/brown/yellow/dirty pink, and I later had it cut short, so there was some pink at the tips. It kinda looked punk rock, so that was cool. I tried getting dreads so many times, but my hair was so silky and smooth, I couldn't lock up my hair properly. Someone tried and the little back-combed braids just came loose, and looked rediculous with multi-colored little rubber bands. That was on my graduation from High School. Another dread attempt ended with braids that once taken out, had tons of lint in them, and broke my hair up, so it was weak and limp. I took the braids out and my hair looked like Hey Arnold. It had turned into an afro before I tamed it with a shower, tons of conditioner and brush/combs. After that grew out a bit, I chopped off one side short, but didn't like it that much. Then I shaved my head, liked that. I cut my bangs really short, which I liked as well and looked cute after having Betty Paige styled bangs. Last summer I got an ombre hairstyle- had my ends professionally bleached. And just that little bit of bleach again damaged my hair, and the ends got tangled and knotty- leading to naturally formed dread locks. They are messy and congoed up, but I actually don't mind too much. The one time I don't try to get dreads, I got them! So, another summer later, my head has tons of dreads, its just the sides that need to lock up. So, its more of a happy accident. Anyway, I love playing around with my hair- each look combines with a new one to make something unique and one of a kind! And no matter what, its just hair- it grows back- and there are endless styles to play with!

Jul 21, 2012

Adah D.

Well earlyier this year i was extremley into the *emo/scene* look for you hair and i decided to try and layer my own hair! I cut big chunks out and got my hair layer by myself. :( But I cut the shortest layer very short and the longest layer was pretty short too. It took me extremley long time just to get it where it is now. ugh. But i'm glad I did it so i dont make the same decision later on in life!

Xoxo , Kisses boo-boos! 

-Adah

Jul 21, 2012

Megan C.

Me and my sister wanted to add blue streaks in our hair for the summer as something that we could all have the same of but when we got it our mom/step mom got it on our heads so when you wore it in a piny tail you could see the bright blue on our scalps.. Well a couple days later we forgot about the streaks and went swimming... When we got out and our hair dried it left a grey streak in our hair and not in a cute way either.. And the worst part is that it left the blue marks on our heads.. (we all gave blonde hair) so when we wore pony tails you could see a blue mark on our heads.. So pretty right?! 

Jul 21, 2012

caitlin m.

well even though i am 15 i have dyed my hair alot the fisr time i was about 7 my mum /mom dyed it for me and has done ever since because even though shes no professional shes dyed her hair nairly every colour on earth and has alot of experiance ( good and bad ) this was the only time dyes kinda gone wrong for me the colour was foxy purple and i have naturally light brown hair it came out perfect really bold and looked fab but it stain my hair we tried everything to get it out but it stayed in for 3 years with not alot of change but it did eventually come out just before i went into middle school at least it didnt look bad on me but since then i have had it blonder ( turned ginegery ) highlights , brown , Dark brown/nearly black and atm in wanting it turquiose but i have a sensitive head and hair obv its getting better now and plus i dont wanna bleach itso im leaving it the colour it is which is close to my natural colour/color with highlights then im going to get extensions for my sweet 16 i hope ( real hair clip ins ) 

Jul 22, 2012

Michelle A.

I heard that bleaching burn the scalp so I did not dare to bleach my hair till I'm 16. I never trust salons since my style started changing and they can't understand what is the exact hairstyle I want. Haha. And because I am dying for crazy hair colors, I decided to bleach my hair so I ombred on my hair and the bleach didn't hurt at all since it didn't touch my scalp but the bleach doesn't seem to work so I went to get other brand of bleach and it fries my hair! Then I went on to bleaching my whole head with the bleach that didn't burn the scalp. Now some parts of my hair is super weak so I'm still repairing it. Not easy...

But hair will be when I'm 12, I had quite long hair (shorter than current but that was the longest I can go otherwise I'll fall sick) and I didn't to cut it the 'Japanese' hairstyle where like 1 inch of your side is shorter than your shoulder AND OMG IT TURNED OUT HORRIBLE. It's the most disgusting hairstyle I've ever had so I chopped the long part off and took quite some time to grow them out again.

Jul 22, 2012

Sara S.

When I was fifteen I had really short hair and I was going with my dad overseas to visit my family in Lebanon. I don't know why but I was embarrassed to see them with such short hair, so I went to a salon and had extensions put in to make my hair look long. The lady who did the extensions sewed tracks in my hair and then glued extensions to the roots of the top layer of my hair. It actually looked very real and very beautiful when she was done.

However, it did not take long before the extensions began to look ragged. Some of the hair would come out every time I combed or washed it, so my shorter hair was beginning to stick out as well. Basically, by the time I arrived in Lebanon it was looking pretty bad. A few days into the trip, it was so bad that my dad told me my head "looked like a goat's butt" and that I needed to get the extensions removed. They were becoming pretty uncomfortable to manage so I quickly agreed.

So my dad took me to a salon, and the stylist was able to remove the tracks from my hair very easily. The extensions that were GLUED to my hair, however, required some kind of solution that dissolves the glue in order to be removed. Lebanese salons at the time had no such solution. So they basically had to use a fine tooth comb and rip each bead out of my hair one by one.

There were 75 beads glued to my roots. This amounted to two hours of tearing glue out of my hair. My eyes were tearing up in pain the entire time, my scalp was burning with pain. Everyone in the salon was staring at me in awe, some saying I was brave and whatever. At the end they washed and blow dried my hair, which looked nice and straight. I wore it this way for a few days and was fine.

Then I washed my hair. When I looked in the mirror with my wet hair, I screamed so loud. MY HAIR WAS SEE-THROUGH. During the process of removing the beads, apparently they had also removed much of my own hair. Now all that was left was fine, limp fuzz that sat on my head.

Seven years later, my hair has completely grown back and is fairly long. I will never do anything like that to my hair again!! I'm not even sure how I coped back then---if that happened today I would just die. Lol!

Jul 22, 2012

Julianne J.

What a nightmare, Sara!

Jul 22, 2012

xxelmizxx x.

The first time i was dying my hair i did some highligts(bleach)that came with a highligt hat but we disaded not to use it so it turned out to be a disater my highligts was literly 2,5 cm thick!(I was only seven)

Jul 23, 2012

Liss J.

I left bleach for too long in my hair when I was about 14, I'm now 19 and it never fully recovered! I had a really thick, long side fringe (oh the emo days!) and I COMPLETELY melted it off, however I did learn something - DON'T comb your hair right after you've bleached or dyed it, wait until its TOTALLY dry! Oooh god it looked terrible hahaha never bleached at home again!