A Rachel. A friggin Rachel.

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The title says it all. I have been growing my hair for a year, after I had massive hormone problems, half dropped out, and I had it cut from armpit length to jawbone length.

It had finally made it to my collarbone, partly because I avoided the hairdresser for 6 months (except for 6 weekly grey-terminating root jobs). So I thought I'd book a trim. I am an idiot, the hairdresser is an idiot, and I now sport a Rachel from Friends circa 1996 crap hairdo. I am gutted.

I have thick slightly wavy hair, and if they cut in layers (which I always expressly say 'don't') the top ones turn in at the base, while the bottom layer flicks out. I look like a 90s mushroom. Bwaaah, sob sob.

If anyone else has hairdresser inflicted bad hair then please come and join my massive pity party. I have streamers and

No I bloody don't, Artex, but every chuffing hairstyle I request results in a Myra. Must be my default do. All that blow drying....

The wispy fringe is exactly why I cut my own fringe these days. Even my best mate who cut my hair for years couldn't bloody get it right.

I stopped her cutting my hair a while ago though and had my hair cut for the first time by someone else recently and I love it! It is a bit triangular BUT it suits my face and I've had lots of compliments does a twirl

Three words.

Tinsel wig fringe.

I hate her.

Ahem

People love my hair, it is shiny and straight, and looks healthy, but this does not stop it looking totally shite with the wrong cut -- years back i too had a 'two styles' haircut, you know, the one with a bob, but longer bits underneath .. DH said i looked like the alien from Mars Attacks (not good)

And just recently had an awful haircut. My hair is super straight and fine, and i'd had it cut from bra length to shoulder a few months previously, and it looked nice ... my usual hairdresser was giving me a 'trim', next thing i know it's up my neck and all sorts of lengths, bits poking out,the lot .. i was not happy ... ended up ringing a much more expensive salon and getting their last appointment of the night ( had to was going away the next day with the girls and couldn't go with shit hair !!) and he transformed it into a sleek shiny gorge 'do' had nothing but compliments ! however, it's still too short for my taste, so now doing the whole tedious growing out !

Know a girl with a wispy fringe and every time i see her i think 'no, no, no'

I sympathise, I always get told I have the face for a bob cut, I hate bob-cuts!

curmit - pituitary failure, so thyroid, oestrogen deficiency, cortisol deficiency... you name it. My hair was actually fine until they discovered the problem and replaced everything, then it went into mad growth phase and all the old crappy stuff dropped out.

Anyway, i wish I could say the Rachel was my worst haircut. That gies to something resembling this:

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Wiggy from Hitman and Her shows age

Rather a Rachel than the Brian may/Russell brand hybrid I was given a few years ago

I'm currently sporting the worst fringe known to mankind.

I don't even have a hairdresser to blame. my fucking mother did it.

Luckily my hair grows fast.

And this is why I continue to go to the same hairdresser who is expensive, but has never given me a bad hair cut. Even the time he cut it quite short (and I cried at home afterwards and refused to go out) turned out to be inspired. I DREAD a bad hair cut.

ah sympathies. Pituitary, and Wiggy. ;)

Is the rachel due for a comeback? My friends were talking about it recently, we were too young at the time but were discussing if now is the time for a revival - i forgot it was so mushroomy i pity you all with your foisted on rachels :(

It looks much better now it has been washed and Babylissed to death

Less like a Rachel, anyway - dear god, why did he flick out the bottom layer when he dried it??

I do struggle with the notion that thick fine hair needs layers or it will turn into a triangle. Mine seems to do better for being all the same length and blunt cut. When I have layers, it seems to puff up like a massive Polly Pocket helmet.

I hate my hair.

I had a Rachel for AGES - found that curling it with straighteners really helped, made it look less flicky and more bouncy, gets rid of the mushroom effect too.

I've now got ridiculously long hair and refuse to get it cut. Obviously traumatised by the Rachel.