Comments on: WWYD: The Bad Haircut

By: Hayley Judd@twitter

Hayley Judd@twitter — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:25:34 +0000

I know exactly what I would do because I have done it! I cried. A lot. It was super-embarrassing, but I couldn’t help myself. They cut way too much off and tried to put in tons of layers (even though I have very fine hair and I always tell them it can’t take much layering) and I essentially had a hole in the side of my hair, three months before my wedding.

They comped the haircut (and I tipped anyway, because I’m a wimp) and I never went back.

I don’t recommend this way of dealing with it (or anything).

By: Elsajeni

Elsajeni — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:05:29 +0000

@Michelle Oh man. I also tried to get coppery highlights (well, lowlights, I guess, since I’m blonde?) in high school, and came out with PINK STRIPES. NEON GODDAMN PINK. I didn’t say anything at the time either, but I started crying in the car and my mom just rolled her eyes and turned around and drove back.

By: Faintly Macabre

Faintly Macabre — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:39:39 +0000

@RosemaryF I’ve had friends go, “Why are you waiting until you’re back home in a few months to get a haircut? That’s silly–you’re so picky!” Even when I explain that there have only been two people who’ve ever done a good job cutting my hair (and even then it wasn’t perfect–my hair plays tricks), they just don’t understand. After the first good haircutter I found (through naturallycurly!) moved away without a trace, I spent about a week researching salons online. Until I was 18, I had a center part, no layers, shoulder-length or longer, and was told by ignorant hairstylists that my hair was coarse and thick when it’s actually fine, just very curly. How we suffer!

By: WaityKatie

WaityKatie — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:17:31 +0000

@redheaded&crazy I, too, went in for red highlights once and got BLEACH. In my HAIR. Then he sort of painted the red on top of the horrible mutilated bleached strands, which did not work, as about a week later the red started to go away, leaving gruesome blonde streaks in my hair. Very Bride of Frankenstein. I never went back there because I was too afraid of what they would do to me next, and just tried to survive over the next few months using one of those red-depositing shampoos. SIGH.

By: WaityKatie

WaityKatie — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:14:54 +0000

@Megano! They are both good but *Felicity As Russian Spy* is better than alllll of these.

By: Titania

Titania — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:09:42 +0000

I read somewhere that it takes about two weeks to adjust to how a new haircut looks, so that’s usually how long I wait. If I still hate it after two weeks, I go back and ask them to fix it.

By: RosemaryF

RosemaryF — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:31:34 +0000

@e I found a stylist using the naturallycurly.com boards and I will go to that man until I die. Lord help me if he ever retires. (He was the second one I tried off the boards. The first one was ok, but I wasn’t blown away like I am with this guy.)

By: cmcm

cmcm — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:36:57 +0000

I used to go to the same stylist for years because I liked him, even though sometimes he did not really listen to what I wanted (it’s probably my fault for being vague and then getting embarrassed and being like, “I dunno, do what you want!”)

Anyway, the one time I very specifically said that last time he made my hair flip out too much and it was too Rachel-y he somehow heard that as GIVE THIS GIRL THE RACHEL.

And I never went back. The end.

By: ennaenirehtac

ennaenirehtac — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:05:07 +0000

I recently had my hair cut badly at a salon. I brought in a picture and everything! Anyway, the next day I came back and requested a fix from the same stylist. She made it better, but still not great. I requested that she add more texture at the bottom and she said that it wasn’t possible with my hair (which is untrue, as I’ve gotten a textured bob so many times in my life). I ended up going to a different salon that gave me a real haircut (and great color, too!). In conclusion, giving them a chance to fix it is great, but sometimes you’re just going to have to go elsewhere.

By: e

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:44:59 +0000

@RosemaryF I strongly agree. This happened to me and everyone said to go back but since I’d asked for more layers and keeping the length and he gave me no layers, chopped off all my hair into a triangle, and then curled it all up so i couldn’t tell till I washed it, dried it, saw what happened and cried like a baby…I couldn’t bear to. Instead I called around to various salons, checked them out on yelp and got the receptionist to tell me who was best at fixing something like that. And at that salon I’ve had nothing but perfect haircuts from people who read my mind. Look, if it was a sandwich I’d say go back, but it’s your already too short head. If they mess it up again are you going to walk around for 6 months hating it?