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Tell me your worst hairdresser experiences?

25 replies

NotInTheMood · 18/04/2011 09:39

Ive had a few dodgy cuts and colours but ive just had the worst experience with a mobile hair dresser she's ruined my cut and colour :-(

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Flame · 18/04/2011 09:46

The McClusky.

The pic looked really good. It was a hairdresser I knew and trusted.

She managed to make me look like Mrs McClusky from Grange Hill. I sobbed. I wore a hat. It was a smidge better when my new hairdresser attacked it. It refused to grow for six months....

whoneedssleepanyway · 18/04/2011 09:58

Highlights that burnt my scalp and left me with blisters....and a dodgey colour.

The foils started heating up on my head and became scalding hot burning my scalp, the colourist had to rip them out resulting in spreading of the bleach on the top of my head so not nicely streaked as intended. And they made me pay for it, although did then do a correction job for free a couple of days later.

They reckoned it was a reaction of the bleach with the hair products I was using at the time (pantene)...

tulpe · 18/04/2011 10:11

1989: asked for a layered bob with choppy fringe. Got layered bob but ended up with a blunt cut, 2cm long fringe.......I cried buckets. And I was stupid enough to pay for it.

I am still very nervous whenever I have my fringe cut.

TheGirlWhoIsBootilicious · 18/04/2011 10:30

Have had too many hairdressing disasters but this one springs to mind.

Went to hairdresser who was a friend of a friend.

Told her I want a colour, auburn with a few copper highlights. She put me under the dryer to "speed up the colour", I was under there for too long I guess and I ended up with orange hair!

After a couple of days bits of my hair started breaking off and it took about 18 months to sort out.

FetchezLaVache · 18/04/2011 10:32

I asked for a wispy fringe; I got a pudding-bowl of a fringe cut from the crown of my head.

MoonGirl1981 · 18/04/2011 11:07

Hairdresser called Maureen (Odd Down, Bath, forget the name of the 'salon') my mum used to make me go to when I was about ten. She was vicious. Used to comb my ears as though she hated me (I'd done nothing wrong :( ).

Also Toni & Guy (Bath again, NOT the place to go to get your hair done). They offered a head massage which involeved them jabbing their nails into my head for two minutes, trimmed my hair okay but then combed/dried it flat against my head so it looked like I had hardly any hair (my hair is prper thick too). Looked awful, was embarrassed to walk home with it.

Horrid girl in the Barber shop trio, Trowbridge when I took my son. She clearly resented cutting and 18 month olds hair, said bitterly 'I can't understand you, talk properly' when he spoke (he was still learning, didn't say much until he was two). I took him out before she even started. He's seven nw and still hasn't had a haircut!

Bit like therapy this, isn't it?

xxxxxx

DottyDot · 18/04/2011 11:10

I used to have short hair, cut around my ear many years ago and had a hairdresser who literally cut the bottom of my ear off....

the bleeding was incredible and my ear's still a weird shape at the bottom.

I probably could have sued them but instead left a tip... Blush

TapselteerieO · 18/04/2011 11:44

I was 7 months pg and it was my birthday, the trainee washing my hair didn't check the water temperature and scalded me, I was in shock afterwards, shaking and just generally very upset - my scalp was painful for a long time afterwards too. The guy who cut my hair did give me a very good cut but that didn't make me return!

Hideous barber who tried to tie my ds to a chair - I actually cried after that experience, ds was hysterical, and it took years to get him to go to the hairdresser again, never went back there and always tell people how horrible she is.

Ashbury · 18/04/2011 12:38

Only a couple of weeks ago. The layers on each side ended-up at different lengths, the back length was hardly touched thus creating a slight mullet effect, and then strange wispy bits were cut around the face. I knew it was going to be bad as the hairdresser just seemed to be picking up random sections of hair and chopping at them, whilst her colleague was sitting perched on the table/shelf thing infront of the mirror - practically in my lap! My hair was awful (didn't realize how awful 'till I got home), and the whole experience was crap. A week later had another hairdresser (different salon) sort it out.

olderandwider · 18/04/2011 12:47

I'd asked for a loose bubble perm (twas the 70s). I knew it was all going wrong when hairdresser wheeled out the tiny rollers, rather than the fat ones. I squeaked feebly about wanting big-ish loose-ish curls but to no avail (sob).

The moment when she took a towel to my wet, permed and very wavey locks and rubbed vigorously to produce a halo of brown frizz around my face is seared into my memory. I got it all chopped off soon after...Took me years to get over it, years I tell you (sobs again)

mrsravelstein · 18/04/2011 12:50

toni & guy in bromley about 7 years ago. went in with very long thick hair with a few long layers in, asked for a good allover trim. she kept getting distracted, ended up cutting layers on one side literally about 3 inches shorter than the other so went to even it up. then cut the other side too short (the classic trying to balance a table situation). i came out with a mullet, terrible short layers all over, including tufty 2 inch bits on top. only time i've ever cried. salon offered to put it right but by that point i wanted out. got a friend to chop it all off to chin length bob which helped a bit. never been back to t&g!

whitegold · 18/04/2011 14:05

About 10 years ago I'd been getting lovely subtle caramel coloured highlights in my long dark hair... went to a cheaper salon for a root touch up one month I was a bit skint - they spent 20 minutes pulling my hair through the little holes in the cap which hurt so much it made my eyes water (my normal salon used nice L'Oreal foils instead) - then dyed my entire roots a bleach blonde colour. It was awful and didn't match at all plus completely dried my hair out. But I still paid the 30 quid or whatever it was and left. Had to go to my normal hairdressers a few days later and pay more than usual to have it corrected. The moral of the story - you get what you pay for!

TeaOneSugar · 18/04/2011 14:29

Just before Christmas, I had booked a blow dry for my DH's work do, I rarely go for a blow dry but thought it would be a nice treat.

My usual hairdresser wasn't free so I booked in with a new stylist, I have a straight bob so you would think any hairdresser could manage that OK. I asked to some "body" and explained I was going to a christmas party.

She washed it, put velcro rollers in it, used straighteners and a brush and dryer, and numerous products, and it looked no better than if I'd done it myself on a particularly stressful Tuesday morning before school run/work.

I left and went into a local shop, looked in the mirror again in the ladies, and decided I couldn't possibly pay for such poor service, and went back in, luckily the manager spotted me as soon as I came back through the door and was great, she discretely sent the girl who did it originally upstairs and managed to get my usual hairdresser to sort it out and I got some lovely shampoo as an apology.

Very very embarrasing, but better than going home and washing and drying it myself, which was the alternative.

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KathleenMay · 18/04/2011 14:50

A trial do for my wedding. Went to a hairdresser with a picture of a soft updo, you know kinda wavey and natural swept up in an elegant way at the back. Well my God. She must have been a butcher in a previous life. Took 3 hours as she was always going off to someone else, washed it, tied in rollers so tight it brought tears, took them out brushed and faffed till the effect of the rollers was gone, stitched my hair up to my head with over 100 safety pins (ok they were kirby grips, but it felt like safety pins), used half a can of hairspray. By the end I was fighting back tears and just paid and left to get out of the place. Always regretted not going back and telling her she was a disaster. Looked like a saloon-girl wh*re from a bad western, with rock-hardhair. Straight home and into the shower. In the end my mum did my hair and it was lovely.

FanjoForTheMusic · 18/04/2011 15:04

I was the victim of a dodgy do on Thursday. Sad

SomersetBelle · 18/04/2011 20:06

I was 14, and asked hairdresser (my mother's friend) for layers. She looked at me oddly, then proceeded to cut my hair into two separate layers. One shoulder length layer and then another about chin length. Seriously. I looked like FunHouse Pat.

Had to have it cut really short (by another hairdresser) and then got teased for months for looking like a boy (which in truth I did, but still)

MayorNaze · 18/04/2011 20:12

oh god

am going to be model at hairdresser tomorrow

so should have not have read this thread Shock

TheOriginalFAB · 18/04/2011 20:14

When I was 21 my fringe was cut about 2 inches above my eyebrows.

When my baby was having his second hair cut and the trainee cut his ear. He is nearly 6 and still talks about it. I had no idea she was a trainee, she never apologised and I still had to pay.

Bucharest · 18/04/2011 20:16

I see your Mrs McCluskey and I raise you my Bonnie Tyler.
It was 1996.
I next set foot in a hairdresser in 2005.

Ladyegg · 18/04/2011 20:29

MayorNaze, don't worry, the best hair cut I ever had was with a trainee at Toni and Guy's!

I have had 2 disasters with Toni and guy, though. First was I went in with very long one-length hair and showed her a picture of what I fancied (shoulder length, few layers, wispy fringe). Bossy, self-important stylist said straight away said that it would never look like the picture as it had been styled professionally with lots of products, but she could use it as inspiration. Anyway, ended up with over layered wispy hair, a too-short fringe with layers so short on the top of my head I had to buy hair-grips to pin the stubby bits of hair of hair down. When I made a comment about how much she was thinning it out, she said that it was not important how much we cut off, more what was left and where! Hmm

Second time, but different branch of Toni and Guy, was my wedding anniversary and was having a treat while DH had the DCs. Girl with silver hair (by choice!) asked me what I wanted, I told her to just match up what I already had (3 colours of caramel and beige-y highlights. Easy.) Left with brassy orange hair and £140 lighter!

Never going to Toni and Guy's again!!

Hope you can get your hair sorted out soon.

oliviafrombolivia · 18/04/2011 20:44

I once ended up looking like Rod Stewart (sadistic hairdresser in Sydney)

babyicebean · 18/04/2011 21:30

The first was at a local salon late 80's, friend and I went in for a perm as they were fashionable at the time, I went in with long waist length hair and came out looking like the love child of Crystal Tips and Michael Jackson.Was about 15 at the time and wore hats for a good year.

Second, went to Toni and Guys as a 21st birthday gift,again with long hair, the perm has long gone,and I wanted a trim.They cut it from waist length to just above bra length.

madhousewife · 18/04/2011 22:46

I can't stop laughing!

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