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Hair disaster

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Shenton · 28/02/2015 16:51

So the first pic is me with one length half a head of highlighted hair, not perfect by any means.
Second pic is my "trim" some layers are now shorter than a bloody fringe.
Third pic is another hairdressers attempt to sort it out.
It's so thin and wispy now you can see through it.
Any ideas ?
3 years ago my hair was as long as the first pic and I was growing it ... This keeps on happening to me ??

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nilbyname · 28/02/2015 17:53

Um..... I'm just not seeing what you're seeing and I would say the hairdrsser might say the same!

Your hair in the pic in the loo looks lovely.

Your fist pic, you're hair looks overly processed and a bit blAh.

Your befor and after pic, well yeah the before pic- horrendous!

TheCowThatLaughs · 28/02/2015 18:06

Agree with nilbyname

hugoagogo · 28/02/2015 18:07

Dunno what you want us to say. You've been back, but still aren't happy. I think the only thing you can do is go back and have it shorter.
My hairdresser won't do extensions if you are pregnant- I can't remember exactly why.

Tanaqui · 28/02/2015 18:15

I am sorry but I agree in pic 3 the ends look really straggly- so sorry :(

I would bob it? And then maybe let the blonde grow out?

You so have lovely arms though!

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Shenton · 01/03/2015 07:43

Thank you
I guess I was just looking for advice as to whether to chop and start again ... Again lol
Or live with it and just wait it out having come this far, it doesn't suit me up which hardly helps matters

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Shenton · 01/03/2015 07:44

Plus if I bob it I have to blow dry and straighten every day which hardly helps the condition ... I hate my hair

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Tinofroses · 01/03/2015 07:50

Cut it and start again and tbh I would go to a new stylist . Put some treatments in to improve the condition. After years of home colouring I'm in the process of getting it looked after properly in a salon.

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Shenton · 01/03/2015 09:04

I've never coloured at home in my life ... I think that's what riles so much !

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PumpkinsMummy · 01/03/2015 09:36

Were the two hairdressers from the same salon? Only, if you are going in to complain and they are at different salons, they could each argue (with a certain degree of truthfulness) that it was the other one who ruined it. Could you do a pic of how it looks now you are home so we can see what it really looks like without the stylists gumpf, and maybe someone will be able to come up with a solution?

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Shenton · 01/03/2015 09:41

So that's it now ... Cannot be straightened as it's all over the place

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Shenton · 01/03/2015 09:44

I certainly take your point pumpkin will be careful in what I say, the 2nd girl literally just did colour though.
Am considering this but I'd be heart broken to lose all the length

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21questions · 01/03/2015 09:44

My hairdresser did that to me op and I just basically wore it up until the layers grew out, pinning back the short ones as best I could. I also had the length trimmed to shoulder length so they could meet in the middle.

I hated it so I know how you feel. It's all one length didn't take as long to grow as I thought it would as the layers get longer it gets easier.

nilbyname · 01/03/2015 21:50

Hmm....
I can see it looks a bit fluffy as though it's been thinned too much?

I would go for that shorter wavy Bob with just a t-bar of high lights that will grow our super easy.

Invest in some good treatments to give your hair a boost.

Blondii · 01/03/2015 22:31

I think if it were me I would cut it into a bob on the shoulders which would instantly thicken it up again. The layers will enable you to do the popular messy bob styles that everyone has at the moment.

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Mixtape · 02/03/2015 00:00

It does look disastrous to me too, sorry OP Sad

I would go for the style that you posted a picture of, the shorter hair - there is no point keeping that cut for the sake of the length.

SpicyBeat · 02/03/2015 10:22

I'm not going to be polite, they've done a hack job on it. The top layers are way too short. Even the middle layer is too short really.

I've been there and I would strongly advise cutting it off to an inch or so above the shoulder while you grow it out. I know it's upsetting when you didn't want to lose the length but it will look so much better than trying to grow it out like that. Don't go back to that salon!

hauntedhenry · 02/03/2015 10:49

Go for the bob, it will look much better. I had a Rod Stewart haircut last year and ended up having a Norah Jones style bob. Vast improvement and it has now grown back and looks better than before.
You have my sympathy op!

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Shenton · 02/03/2015 13:15

Thank you everyone ... Glad I'm not over reacting, kind of knew I wasn't.
I'm off for the chop tomorrow ??????

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ImABigOleBadLass · 02/03/2015 15:03

OP - you look like you have the same sort of thick but wavy hair I have... the blunt cut is your friend! I start screaming it if they come near me with any sort of thinning technique now. It just makes my hair look straggly. Ugh. P.S. Toni & Guy gave me a Rod Stewart / Wiggy from Hit Man & Her cut last year when I was in the middle of growing it back after illness. I was devastated. Cutting it off and starting again is the only way, I'm afraid, unless you want to wear it up for the foreseeable...

PumpkinsMummy · 02/03/2015 15:57

Poor you op, that does look bad (sorry!) Are you confident another stylist at the salon could fix it? When I had a disaster like this I hot footed it to another salon (who were appalled at the cut) and they fixed it as best they could. It grew out into a lovely style and I found a great hairdresser as a result, so you may yet have a silver lining.

purplepenguin86 · 03/03/2015 00:45

I think it looks considerably better in the curly Sunday picture than in the pictures you posted before! I was going to say I agreed with chopping it, but if you keep it more curly I reckon you can get away with keeping more of the length as the layers aren't as obviously crap then. Personally I'd go shorter, but it is up to you obviously!

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 03/03/2015 01:32

I don't like it either, OP. I once had a stylist wafting thinning shears over my hair "to get rid of some weight" - except it's the weight that stops it all frizzing up into Anita Dobson hair Angry I now intervene to prevent another such incident...

Anyway , I'd go for a bob too, and let it come back towards natural colour and use done intensive treatments on it so that by summer you can go lighter again if you want

Watchmestumble · 03/03/2015 07:11

It looks fine to me but you know your own hair. I would just go for a long bob and grow it.

Once I had a lovely layered bob, then the hairdresser started cutting into it, feathering it so much it was just all wispy. The next day I went to a different hairdresser, had all the wisps cut off and it looked like a bowl. Anyway it grew!

WipsGlitter · 03/03/2015 07:20

I have very thick hair and have also been mullet-ed "to get rid of some weight". I am very wary of the thinning scissors now!!

I'd chop it get rid of the straggly bits.