Hairstyle looks like a mushroom!

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My hair badly needed cutting as it was overprocessed from too much colouring. My hair is quite thick and has a natural wave to it. I went in to a new hairdresser’s with some pictures from pinterest that I liked and that I thought looked like they would work on my hair type.

As always seems to be the case, the hairdresser decided to give me a nice short bob. With very long front bits hanging down like spaniels ears. She proceeded to blow dry it with a big round brush and then straighten it into an almost sleek looking bob which I knew I could never recreate. It looked ok but it’s not what the pictures were like that I showed.
I also am crap at blow drying my hair and don’t like it poker straight either. Why do they always want to dry it like that?

Anyway, I didn’t like it but thought I’d get used to it. It’s now 2 weeks on and I still don’t like it and I can’t get it to do anything. It looks all uneven with the big longer bits dangling at he front. It’s also goes out wide at the sides like a mushroom!! The slanty fringe that I asked for hangs by one limp strand over my eye.

I know all I can do is grow it but is there anything I can do in the meantime to lessen the mushroom effect?!

Why oh why do so many hairdressers not take any notice of the ideas you have? I feel like I’ve had this bloody mushroom bob cut one too many times now. Is it the standard cut for a hairdresser or what? Regardless of hair type?

Oh OP it sounds like you have the same issues as I do! I've had it all....mushroom bobs, Suzie Quatro layers....I looked like Brian May one time!

I am 46 and have finally realised the only style I can manage and which isn't enormous, is long with layers at the front and I often wear it up.

But that doesn't help you right now! Have you tried using straightners to flatten it a bit?

Oh god I have fine hair but I have been where you are. Why are so many hairdressers obsessed with blow drying hair with giant spikey round brushes?
Noone wants to look like Wendoline from Curse of the Wererabbit!

Oh God hugo that is actually what it looks like, plus dangly bits at the front!
Henny 😂 at Brian May!! I too prefer mine long with long layers. When I do it nicely at that length it looks lovely. The trouble I have with it long though is that it takes a lot of time and maintenance to get it looking nice and I just don’t have that much time in the mornings. So it would end up looking wild and unkempt and so dry due to colour.
I honestly don’t know what to do. Feel like I’ve tried everything.

I think you have two options; either get a lot of shorter laters put in to take out the weight. The downside is you have to keep it up, or suffer growing it out.

Or just get your dangly bits trimmed off and wait for it to grow while messing about with products and clips to mitigate the mushroomness.
If long term you want your hair longish, the second option is probably preferable.

Please help!

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This is what I wanted. Why did I end up with something that is nothing like it?! Does anyone know how this hairstyle is actually achieved?

I ended up with the same haircut as you op. I went back a month later and got the dangly bits cut off and it looks so much better. She cut it in a blunt all the one length short bob and it looks really good compared to what it did. I think if I knew how to do the wavy look I could nearly achieve the style in your photo. My hair is a bit shorter and I think the hair is slightly graduate in your photo. It is a lovely style in the photo

I'm a barber :)
But trained as a hairdresser first

That style is a heavily razored or sliced into bob-it has structural layering or internal layers (well that's how id approach it to create texture and shape without going triangular)
It would need to be carefully razored too or else if not waved as it is in this pic you'd see a mess of cut lines.

iMum thank you for explaining. What sort of hair type would it work best on?
Derby I think that's what I need to do, get the long dangly bits cut off first, they just look like they shouldn't be there. Then I'm going to have to grow it a bit longer.
What is needed in a cut to avoid the mushroom look? I'm not sure if it does this because of the style or my thick hair type?
I just wish I could find a hairdresser who gets me..

The last time I went to a Salon I got something like this because they are so over the top with the blow drying.

I cut my own hair now.

When I got mine cut straight and quite blunt with no dangly bits the hairdresser suggested taking thinning scissors through it rather than cutting layers. At first I said no because I have had very, very bad experiences with thinning scissors in the past. But she managed to talk me into it and what she did turned out surprisingly well. It feels more modern and in a good shape to grow. I have thick hair that can go a bit frizzy but this style keeps its shape.

Should have said the thinning scissors was just through the ends. I was so glad to get rid of the mushroom shape. I felt so old fashioned. I never want to go back to feeling like that.

I have thick hair and have lived the mushroom nightmare many times.
They need to really go at it with those thinning scissors. That helps. No power on earth can stop them with their big bouffy brushes but if they’ve thinned it enough it’s ok when I wash and dry it again at home.

Omg this is me right now. Last haircut was a mushroom disaster (I thought only I used that term!), and the big brushes... what is with that? I also wants the messy hair that OP posted. Currently growing it out and keeping clips in... gah!!!

When I was about 19 I went and got my (then waist length) hair cut because I actually WANTED a sleek bob. What I got was a Myra Hindley cut.

My hair is fine but I've had many mushrooms over the years. Didn't go to the hairdresser for a long time as that's all I ever seemed to end up with!

My mum has been mushroomed so many times - by different hairdressers and when she has gone in with completely different pictures of styles she likes - that we have joked there must be some sort of mushroom conspiracy among hair stylists.

I’ve never been mushroomed and hairdressers don’t get the big bouffy brush out for me. Oh no. I have dead straight, thick hair that they just love to get the straighteners out for. Like it’s a challenge to make my extremely straight hair even straighter. I have asked for a bouncy blow dry so many times, yet alwats come out looking like Madonna in the video for Frozen. Exceot for the time I came out looking like one of Metallica.

(Feel your pain, OP. Definitely get the long front bits lobbed off as a start)

I second the straighteners on the sides - I get mushroom head if I don't use them. I've got a £15 pair of mini babyliss ones and it takes a few extra minutes in the morning.

Ok so if I start by getting the long dangly bits at the front cut off, should I go back to the same hairdresser or find somewhere else? I definitely don’t want any more taken off the rest of it as need to grow it longer so it’s not like I’ll be asking for much off.

I just really don’t understand why so many hairdressers don’t listen to what it is that you want done but instead do whatever they want.😫

get a lot of shorter laters put in to take out the weight. The downside is you have to keep it up, or suffer growing it out.

No to shorter layers. That way Suzie Quatro lies. When your hair is thick, short layers just make it more voluminous.

I think OP it's either get it short, or keep growing it out and have a deep conditioning treatment.

The hairstyle you wanted won't work on our type of hair...only on finer hair. The model's hair isn't thin...but it's certainly not as thick as mine and I suspect...yours.

This thread has really made me chuckle, no offence OP but I think ‘you’ve been mushroomed’ should be In classics! I have visions of you sporting this lovely style.

Look how much better she looks with some layers though.

Oh no. I have dead straight, thick hair that they just love to get the straighteners out for. Like it’s a challenge to make my extremely straight hair even straighter.

^

Definitely a theme developing here.

Last hairdresser I went to sectioned my fine, thin hair into 15 (fifteen) sections and blowdried each one individually. Then straightened it. I looked like I'd been deep fried.