Did you ever get a haircut that was so bad you wanted to hide?

[Paper Roses]

I just had a simple cut. No big deal, just duplicate the line of my prior cut, just a little shorter.

I had to use a different stylist, my regular girl was on vacation. Fine, how bad could it be?

I am sick because there is obviously nothing I can do but wait until my hair grows out and then have it shaped. How could anyone do such a miserable, uneven, too short cut?

I could complain but it would be a waste. It still has to grow out.
I hope it grows as quickly as it seems to do when I don't have this mess to look at. It is so short and chopped that I can't even use a curling iron. Never use anyone except the stylist you know.

Geeze!!

[Bertha Venation]

1. I know how you feel.

I go to Hair Cuttery and most of the time my do sucks. :(

[elleng]

3. I've gone to Hair Cuttery twice, in different cities and states, and my do.s have been fine!

My WORST was as a young teen (?) my mother thought I should try a permanent! I was permanently horrified! Sure didn't feel like MY hair!

[rurallib]

2. Well, every haircut I had as a kid

haircutting night consisted of my father, a hairclipper that shaved it down to the skull and a case of beer.

[hamsterjill]

4. Oh, yes!

A friend of mine had just graduated from "beauty school" and needed to practice her perms. I agreed to "help" and it was a BIG mistake!!! I have very fine hair, and I will never forget the fried frizz.

I had to slink back to my regular hair stylist and beg for help!

[soleiri]

5. yeah, just did.

I had long hair past my shoulder blades, I asked for it to be cut so it was just above my shoulders in long layers, with side-sweepy long bangs, not complicated. I ended up with short layers and what I was later told was a "shag" haircut.
I wore it in either a pony tail with bobby pins holding down the stay parts, or a headband for two weeks when I finally went to a better salon and an awesome hairstylist fixed it for me. Funny thing is, I actually like what she did now more than I liked what I originally wanted.

[cwydro]

6. Had that happen to me about 20 years ago.

I decided to splurge and go to a fancy salon instead of my usual place.

Big expensive mistake and it sounds like you got the exact same haircut. Too short for me to do ANYTHING with and with my head of cowlicks it was a nightmare.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. When I was 12, I went into the barber and told him I wanted a good trim.

A good trim to him equalled a buzz cut. I wore a hat quite a lot the next month or so.

[graywarrior]

8. Yes! Which is why I have not had a cut since April and will not have one ever again.

[MorningGlow]

9. All my life, baby. All my life.

I have very fine, but curly, hair. If I have it all one length, I look like Roseann Roseannadanna. If I get it cut in layers, it curls up at the back till I look like a golf ball. This shit will NOT. LIE. DOWN.

I have to look at my haircutting history the other way: I have had one GOOD haircut my whole life. Unfortunately, the stylist was in the Boston area, and I only went to her once before I finished grad school and moved back home. :(

I think my two standout hair nightmares were both in my youth: When I was around 7 or 8, my aunt decided my bangs were too long and sat me down to give me "a little trim". Yeahhhh. "Oh dear, it's uneven. Hold on." snip snip snip "Ohhh, now it's uneven the other way. Hold on." snip snip snip etc. Until I ended up with a little tuft sticking out of my forehead!

And YES it was right around school picture time! Isn't it always??

The other one was when I was 12. The day before my cousin's wedding. I had managed to get my hair a decent length, but my mom took me to a new stylist who wanted to "make the most" of my curly hair. He promised me that by the time he was done, I'd look just like Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born. (Back when the Caucasian 'fro was desirable.) Yeahhhh. By the time he got done, I looked like a friggin' Q-tip. It was WAY short up the back of my neck, with all the curls on top only. I was heartbroken, because not only was I sensitive about my looks as only a pubescent girl can be, but I had bought a lovely eyelet sundress with a tiered skirt and scooped elastic neck that I was really excited to wear to the wedding, but I looked like a FREAK in it, with that 'do. The two did NOT go well together. AND it was mere weeks before I started a new school--eighth grade--the WORST. The only reason I wasn't killed was because it was a small Catholic school, so the kids were marginally better behaved than my former public school.
:rofl:

Ah, Paper Roses, this too shall pass. But I can promise you, from experience, that pulling on your hair won't make it grow faster. ;)

[Skittles]

10. on the occasions I wasn't paying attention and they cut my bangs too short

man I really, really hate that

[av8rdave]

11. When I was a kid, my mother cut my hair to save money

I went through that twice each month.

[dembotoz]

12. my mom tried that once , then she had to take it to a friends to try to fix it

but the damage was done....

[av8rdave]

13. My situation was worse. My mother thought she did a great job at it

She didn't.

[LisaM]

14. I once had to get it cut because my sister put a huge, single streak down the back

We were doing "highlights" in my hair, which was pretty long after my senior year in high school. We mixed it up and I did the front and she did the back. She put all of it in one place, and I had a long streak down the back (to this day, she insists that I told her to do it that way). Anyway, off to the hairdresser, where I got a very, very short cut. A couple of weeks later, I was moving into my college dorm room. There was a knock on the door, and one of the two other people from my high school who was also going to Michigan asked me if LisaM was in.

[EndersDame]

15. I kinda had a Sarah Palin look goin on for awhile

I got my betty page bangs cut back in May or June of '08 and by the time sarah palin was elected my bangs grew out kinda like hers and I wear glasses with similarly shaped frames as hers. As I was walking around my former campus in Waco guys were sayin I looked hot like Palin. Worst. Pick up. Strategy .Ever

[Petrushka]

16. Went to my daughter's hairdresser last Wednesday . . . wanted a plain ole short bob . . .

. . . came out thinking I looked just short of scalped. Then, on Saturday, the
driver's license photo taken at the DMV provided confirmation. Oh, sure! My hair'll
grow back; but, for the next 4 years, that photo might be mistaken for Grandma Lee's!

[Odin2005]

17. No, but a friend did recently.

Poor Laura, some of her hair on one side of her face was longer than the other side. Angry 20yo woman ready to run people over with her electric wheelchair alert!!! :rofl: She went in a week ago and "fixed" it by getting a short emo-like style. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Done it to myself, and more than once.