Hair Disasters u can laugh about now!!

[sheava]

Two of the worst things that I've ever done to my hair that I find hilarious now?


And on both occasions, when she saw what I had done, my mother nearly killed me.
She had a little bit of mercy on me with the comb incident, because I was still small.
But with the clipper incident...wooh lord. She beat me so. damn. bad.
At one point, I swear I heard that voice from Mortal Kombat say, "Finish Her". True story.

OK, the bolded part above had me actually lauging outloud. Too funny

 

[Janet']

The Braid Fiasco of '97:

I was doing extremely well with the car of my hair. I had just graduated from high school, the year before and was a freshman in college. My hair had reached APL (a feat that had not happened since middle school). I decided that I needed to put it in a PS, after all, it was the summer and I wanted to really shock my friends when I came back to school in the fall. My idea of a GREAT PS was microbraids done by a braid shop...I was referred there by my bestie at the time. I had never had extensions in my hair up to this point, so I was very naive as to how everything was supposed to go.

The lady took me next door to a local BSS and told me that since my natural hair was so long, that it was going to be an additional $25...I had to buy my own hair (which she picked out) and the hair did look dry, but again, being naive- I went with her as being the expert.

Fast forward...After about 6 hours and $275 later, she and her friend were done...When I looked at my head, I noticed that most of the braids were NOT micro at all...but whatever...I was instructed to wash once a week by braiding my hair into 4 big platts (sp)...

Fast forward again: A week later, I go to wash my hair, I platt it up into 4 braids, wash it, get out of the shower, go to un-braid and the hair had FUSED togetherLiterally, the hair would not come out of the braids, it was like I had 4 big mats in my head and because I had braided the hair close to the scalp, there was so much pressure on it--it just was not a good day for the kid

I made sure that my mom took pics of the catastrophe and I went back up to the braid shop, the next day, hair still matted and all...Of course, the lady who did my hair wasn't available- she went to Africa to visit family When I asked to see the owner, she wasn't available either- I knew from their tone (even though I had no idea what they were saying) that something was VERY wrong...I left out of there crying...and went down the street to my hair stylist...As soon as she saw me, she just shook her head...

After about 6 hours of intense hair-surgery and reconstruction, I went from having APL hair to anywhere from nose to chin to lower neck length hair in a matter of 2 weeks...What started out as a protective style, ended up being a hair nightmare

To this day...when I see microbraids, I shudder...

 

[wavezncurlz]

2 stories
Late 80's early 90's - Got a bi-level cut (think Salt and Pepa). It looked great when the stylist straightened my hair. Of course, I usually wore my hair curly (even when relaxed) and it looked a HAWT mess. Also, it was PITA growing the hair out even. I was uneven for a few years.

Pregnant in 2005. I was looking for an easy style for labor. I went to a braider who took several hours putting these TIGHT braids that went straight back and touched my butt. I was so uncomfortable at 9 months pregnant. And when she was done, I looked horrible. My face was all swollen and my nose stretched across my face due to the swelling I had. With a style that had no bangs or anything on my face, I looked sick. Plus my head hurt like h#ll. I got home and my husband said "How much was that? I'll pay you to take that s*$*%t out! I took it out the next day. The throbbing was unbearable. I ended up wearing a big ole afro puff for labor. It was all good.

 

[sylver2]

ive never heard it can you tell it again?

its on the 1st or second page

 

[ConsiderCamille]

I relaxed, then bleached bottom half, then dyed black, THEN put in braids and didnt moisturize ALL in a week....

that led to my BC last year...since then I am a hair fiend!

 

[ilah]

I did the worst thing one could ever do to their hair. I'm not gonna say how old I was because I was old enough to know better. I relaxed my hair - Then dyed it - on the same day

I ended up leaving the bleach on too long and then leaving the color on too long to try and correct it. Instead of the red highlights I wanted the entire top portion of my hair was fireball redish orange (had to use black eyeliner smeared on my hands then on my hair to darken it up) - At first I thought I did something cute but not even a week went by and all my hair started to fall out. My hair went from SL to less than an inch on the top in less than a week. My mom felt so bad for me she paid to get me a weave put in........dumb.

 

[MizzCoco]

Woo, boy my poison was color. About 3 years ago, I wanted to remove all the jet black permanent dye from my hair. So I bought some Oops color remover. Maybe I didnt read the directions, because the dye was stripped only from my roots. It was bright orange while the ends of my hair were a dusty brown.... I looked a hot mess. I ran to my hair dresser's to get it fixed. Unfortunately it was Friday, the busiest day of the week. Everybody saw my jacked up hair, and laughed so hard they nearly fell out of the chairs! My stylist did a great job masking the ugliness, sat me under the dryer with Redken Anti-snap for about an hour, and I ended up with the best color job I've ever had, and I still had my hair as well!

 

[MonPetite]

When I was four I tried to help my mother "trim" my braids by getting the scissors (worrisome enough!) and cutting out huge chunks of my hair.

Thankfully, I was too young to have a concept of beauty!

 

[**SaSSy**]

When I was about 12 to about 14 yrs old, I would hot comb my front sides because they were "nappy" after a few week of my touch-up. I'm thinking my hair just kept reverting, or growing out too fast in that spot, but in reality it was NG that would come from the same breakage spot. So for many years my front sides would be no more than 2 inches. On top of that the stylist I was going to was telling me my hair is "tougher" to keep straight on that side.

 

[Ms.Christ3n]

When I was in high school I decided to razor cut my own hair......with a shaving razor! I didn't completely mess up my hair but my ends were entirely too thin for my taste. I ended up blunt cutting my hair to SL from BSL.

 

[MissRissa]

LOL YOU WIN!!! omg i just laughed for like 15 minutes.

These stories are cracking me up. The biggest one I can think of was that when I was around 13 or 14 I used to always do these fake rodded ponys. Somewhere along the way I figured out that I could just put the fake hair on rods and put it in the microwave so the rods would dry and I wouldn't have to sit under the dryer. I snuck and did this several times, mind you I was rolling the hair up with brown pro-styl gel.
One night we had a dance at school and I snuck my hair in the microwave for my rod phony pony not realizing that I had left a bobby pin on the fake hair. Long story short, I blew up the microwave and my hair, my mother nearly killed me, and because I didn't believe in leaving the house in my real hair I went to the dance in a burnt up ponytail smelling like hot brown gel...good times.

 

[BlkOnyx488]

I got quite a few
let's see I remember during my teen years using a curling iron on my hair, hold it in one spot for 30secs. when I took it off my hair was bone straight no bend nothin. so I put the iron back on my hair same section, this time I held it there for 60 secs, no curl bump nuthing. eventually I decided it had to much product on it LIVE and Pink Oil Lotion. So I shampooed it, no Conditioner, blow fried it, and started all over again. My poor head of hair how I tourtured her.

Another time I set it on fire trying to burn the ends of my braids with a lighter. the worst part about that is I was at my sisters house and my sis her DH and all my nieces we crackin up laughin at me, after they helped me put the fire out. I can laugh now. fortunately the damage wasn't too bad, I left those braids in for 3 months when I took them down the damage was gone.

I think I told ya'll before about the time I wanted to transistion from my curly kit back to a relaxer, and I was told I could do that with a new era chemical treatment. welp as a result I had a bald spot on the top of my head for almost two years, and one of the few teenage girls in history who had a come over

Ok that's all

 

[aurora3140]

Here's mine:

I worshiped "The Little Mermaid" when I was little. I literally watched it every day at one point. Once, I even kicked my neighbor friend out of my house because she wouldn't watch it with me.

Anyway, there's a scene where Scuttle takes a dinglehopper (aka fork) and twirls in his hair and when he pulls it out, it's all poufy and pretty.

The good news is that I knew better than to use a kitchen utensil in my hair.

The bad news is I had to have the comb cut out of my bangs.

 

[drappedup]

LOL these are hilarious!

I have a few, mostly random WTF ones. For example, one that my family still laughs at me about is the time I somehow got the clasp of a necklace stuck in my hair, hahaha. >.< I was about 6ish at the time (between kinder & 1st grade), and I was playing with this medallion necklace my brother had bought me. I kept putting it on and taking it off. But I got tired of having to struggle to wrap it around my neck and then fasten it from the back. DON'T ask me why I kept putting it on/taking it off. I was messing around with lip gloss and Halloween costumes and jewelry and stuff. I have no clue why I kept taking off the damn necklace, though, lol, just to put it back on 5 minutes later. It's one of those FACEPALM childhood moments I honestly can't make sense of, looking back, lol. So I had the bright idea to start trying to slip the whole thing OVER my thick hair and head without unclasping it. It seemed like a no brainer. So easier and quicker. It worked at first. Then on the second try.....it got stuck. Lemme tell ya, 100% honesty right here, I have a big dome, LOL. Always have since I was a kid. Tiny little munchkin with a big head. I still do have a jumbo one. >.< Sooooo wasn't exactly smart. The clasp somehow got tangled in some of my frizzy roots in the back (it was summer, I hadn't had a relaxer since before school had ended, and my mom didn't really know how to tame my crazy thickness so when I did go w/o relaxers my hair was a little crazy, heh!), and it was NOT coming out. I tugged, yanked, jerked.....yeah, not happening. Ended up frustrated and crying. Like any other kid who couldn't think up a solution (lol, wait I still do that!! ;P). I didn't want to tell my mom and have her scold me, or show my older brother and have him laugh at me. Then, light bulb turned on! Why not just grab some scissors and carefully, "carefully" snip-snip to get the damn clasp out of my hair?! Seemed simple enough. I grabbed some scissors and used some mirrors and cut. Wellllll.......didn't turn out too well, lol. The clasp and necklace weren't stuck in my hair anymore, but along with it came a chunk of hair......that was obviously absent from my roots. >.<

My mom freaked. I had cut off an entire piece from my roots. Very obviously. LOL. I cried so much....I felt like one of those middle age men who're just starting to go bald and you see that little hairless spot on the top of their head, lol. It sort of looked like a mini bald spot. We had to do this awkward comb over type style the whole rest of the summer up until it finally grew back in. But I have never heard the end of it. I'll tell ya, I have NEVER tried to force a clasped necklace over my head again! -_____-'

Lesson learned!

 

[joyous]

When I left my weave in for 11 weeks and the hair underneath dreaded. I has to cut off twelve inches of hair. It was a blessing in disguise because I found this board right after while searching for heathy hair tips.

 

[sylver2]

bump ..this thread was so funny

 

[sylver2]

-self relaxed and didn't use a neutralizing shampoo. used some vo5. yes my hair broke off. it took me awhile to realize it wasn't the brand 'gentle treatment' relaxer i used..but me..lol. thts why i had a pixie cut in 95.

-self relaxed and only got it on an inch of my ng. so the roots of my hair was touched up, the middle of my hair strands was still new growth. hair started breaking off at that middle..leaving me with broken off 2 inch straight roots :-(

 

[Oasis]

last Thursday i took out braids that i had in for almost three months instead of detangling i immediately pre-pooed, shampooed and conditioned. Monday i dyed my hair jet black and still didn't detangle. yesterday i did a light protein treatment because i knew i was flat ironing today and did a DC afterward. still didn't detangle. when i woke this morning i had to acknowledge the dreads that were forming. it took me hours to detangle and when i was finished i had a ball of shed hair the size of a poodle. i've been on hair boards too long for this ****.

back in high school i took out micros that i had in for 3 months and again, didn't detangle. i wasn't natural at the time or planning on it but i hadn't gotten a relaxer in a long time. there was absolutely nothing i could do with my hair. i tried to comb it but the comb wouldn't go through it. i put globs of gel on it to slick it in a pony and nothing worked. finally i put on a hat because i was going out to eat and i ended up crying in my plate at the restaurant. the hat was soooo freakin' tight i couldn't breath and my head was throbbing like a &(%*#&. i cried the entire dinner but i never took off the hat.

before hair boards i relaxed root to tip with no-lye super strength box perms and left them in for an hour, sometimes longer.my hair was an overprocessed mess.

i pressed my hair at the highest temperature setting every.single.day.

surprisingly but hair was always about APL.

 

[Goombay_Summer]

Biggest offense was having a jheri curl in the nineties and then being upset because my mother would not allow me put any type of color in my hair to rectify the situation I decide I would dye my hair using red kool aid. Since I was doing extremely well in the brilliant idea department, I decided that in order for the color to be more intense I should not wash it out .What I failed to take into account was that the activator gel and my white uniform shirt were a recipe for disaster. What happened was that the following day I walked around campus looking like I was auditioning for a role in a horror movie and everyone wanted to know how I injured myself.

 

[Goombay_Summer]

In the early to mid-90s why did I stop at nothing to get my hair cut in the lastest "in style" in the Bahamas at the time? You know it was only a couple years ago that I came to the realization that I had what the Americans call a "mullet" if you can visualize this, my hair was cut to about 2-3 inches in length from a part in my hair from the back of my ear forward with the remainder of my hair a little below SL....I was in love

girl me too i thought I was so flyyyyy!

I am jealous because at least you all had an opportunity to wear the mallet, I was the only one of my friends who did not have that haircut and I actually cried about it.

 

[SerenavanderWoodsen]

Everything. When I was about 15 I dyed my hair lighter but that wasn't enough so I went ahead with two boxes of auburn dye thinking it might bring me up to blonde look but of course it didn't. Then when I was also 15 I got my first relaxer but it didn't take very well so I got another FULL HEAD corrective like a week later. Keep in mind that I had color processed hair too. My hair looked gorgeous but within 2 months I lost about half my length to split ends, it was frightful! Finally, my beautician just cut my hair up to shoulder length and that was the end of my long hair . I remember a guy telling me I was crazy for cutting it. He didn't understand why it was done lol.
Then finally it got so bad that another beautician ( the one who did the initial relaxer) cut it up to neck length!! I could NOT deal. That was the summer I discovered extensions. I had these HUGE THICK tracks put in between my hair by a Dominican hairdresser who knew little about weaves, ohh it was soooooooo bulkkkyyyyyy, you wold NOT BELIEVE IT!!! I wore that for years.
Then she decided to relax my hair and gradually my front was broken down to about 2 inches. I had to wear headbands to cover that mess.
No more major disasters since but I did dye my hair brown with separate developer and dye in 2007 which was a highly informed decision because of lhcf and completely averted disaster, no major issues at all.

Oh boy...thank goodness for the internet, first Hairboutique, BHM and LHCF.

 

[mzteaze]

I rarely did anything with my own hair as a kid, so I averted much of the experimental issues EXCEPT:

1) My aunt used to give me ADULT perms as a kid. She was not trained so it would burn and of course there was loss of hair. Ugh.

2) My mom always took me to the salon as a kid to get my hair done so I grew up always thinking that I couldn't do anything with my hair. But on time, we went to a local shop in downtown Glen Burnie instead of our usual place in Baltimore. Welp, this chick saw us coming cuz she gave us matching clown hairdos. My hair was slicked down with heavy greasy and standing on end all at the same time. I had two points on the side and a big piece sticking up in the middle.

I abused my hair as soon as I learned how to use a curling iron tho. The torture I inflicted by spraying with hairspray THEN using a curling iron for body. That was bad.

OR the crimps I used to get done at the salon....and the creative ways of sleeping on my arms or with my head hanging out the bed to keep it looking close to right. those were the days of hair spray, mousse and curling irons to death in that order.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

I thought I could get rid of a jheri curl with relaxer. I ended up almost bald. I tried Copa and ended up with severe breakage. I used the so called Naturalaxer and it did nothing for my hair, but leave it a dry mess. The Miniglide burned my hair off. Come to think of it, I still can't laugh at these disasters.

 

[BeautifulFlower]

In high school, I put blonde highlights in my hair. I look like Storm from Xmen. It was my mess and my hair started to break off. Never again with permanent color.

I tried curlformers and ripped out some hair. Never again.

I tried a hot comb by myself once and singed off a piece of the front of my hair once. Hot combs are for professionals.

I went straight from detangling after having a weave and lost alot of hair detangling the matted mess. Never again.

 

[Mizz Diamonds]

i loved this thread

 

[MyInvisibleChyrsalis]

This wasn't my story, but unfortunately I was heavily responsible. In highschool my friend introduced me to the wonderful world of weave.

She wanted me to braid her hair up and put the weave in. I can only imagine that she got the recipe for a sew-in horribly wrong, because she asked me to braid her hair into cornrows, and then put in the weave. Well the only way we knew how to install a weave was with glue.
erplexed

I slapped that weave, (oh, it was such pretty weave), with some glue directly onto her braids. And it was super cute!:Flahsssss: And you know we did it for a boy she liked, so confidence was HIGH that day.

Until we realized when it was time to remove that the glue had to be cut out. She was:gunner7:

 

[Dizz]

sylver2 Damn, girl!


I was (and still am) a huge fan of the classic Disney movies. When Mulan came out, I was so inspired by this that I got a scissors did the same thing.

And in middle school, I had these box braids that were in for ... a tragically long time. A few fell off around my hairline, and eventually my hair grew out and matted what was left of them in. Instead of taking them out, I would brush back my giant mat of new growth with water and pink oil and tie it down with a scarf. When it got too bad for that, I just kept the scarf on... everywhere I went. My roots were so thick and the braids were so sparse that my head looked like a jellyfish.