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?

Only person to get that messy bedhead look that you linked has fine hair. Preferably a bit wavy. No way someone with thick hair should have that cut.

I too have been mushroomed too many times. I've also been triangled. I currently resemble Wendoline but with slightly longer, frizzier hair and no fringe. I have to keep it tied up.

I once asked for a layered, sharp angled bob and got given what I could only describe as a really shit pageboy. It was the second worst haircut of my life, the first being the Lady Di that my mother forced on me instead of the Ian McCulloch/Siouxsie Sioux number I'd been expecting . Apparently it was more suitable for school .

There should be a support group for our type of hair! I've had it all. Absolutely do not understand how I survived high school without straighteners (giving my age away). Whenever the hairdresser says 'it will look lovely once it grows into it a bit', I know it happened again. I would advise cut off the dangly bits with a blunt cut, the best hydrating shampoo you can afford and straightening it after drying. Thinning out doesn't work for me either, it looks great on the day but an almighty mullet follows.

Never had a mushroom (I always have my hair fairly long so hairdresser mistakes are usually negligible) but sympathies OP! What's your hair texture like compared to the pic you wanted? I think some things just don't work on some hair types and additionally you need a fair bit of product and styling to attain that look, as well as the proper colouring. As far as my experience goes unless you're taking in an image where the texture and colour looks similar to your hair already, there isnt a great deal of point - you'll just get the length and layers of the photo cut in, but it will not be the same unless your hair already matches.
Without the right highlighting and colour it will always looks flat when straight too- Case in point are all the gorgeous balayage pinterest images, its the curl that makes the colour pop and blends it to the root, when your hair is straight the next day it always looks a bit like your colour just gre out IMO- certainly it doesn't look anywhere near as sleek. A wave hides a multitude of sins!

It's boring granted but I tend to keep my hair one colour in a medium length with a few face framing bits highlighted, and long layers, then I just invest the money in styling tools and products so I can change it up each day rather than having to style to suit one cut I had.

I wouldn't go back if you didn't like what they did rhe first time either, not worth the risk!

Can I join your club?

I have thick, coarse hair, that is neither curly, wavy, nor straight. Each individual hair strand will be one of those things, so you can only imagine the combined result.

Fluff. Frizz.

I am always being given cuts that are then blow-dried and straightened into a nice enough style for leaving the salon, never to be repeated again. Just why??

Is it because hairdressers are only taught how to cut? Is it because most of them only truly understand their own hair type, but really don't understand others?

Is it because most of them aren't genuinely creative, with great eyes for the right style on an individual client?

I don't know.

All I know is that my long hair was my crowing glory - was truly made for - the 80s.

It's been the bane of my life ever since. 😩

You should probably go to a different hairdresser. I went back to the same one because she had done it really nice the first time. The second time I think I didn't explain very well what I wanted so ended up with layered dangly bit bob. Third time, for removal of dangly bits and getting it shorter and less layered, I asked for just a cut not a wash and blow dry and it was really cheap. Good luck op, I hope you can get it cut into something you like

I am quite firm with hairdressers these days; I don't let them at it with straighteners, razors, big spikey brushes or even the hairdryer (unless it's freezing outside).
The whole point is the cut, so I want to see what they are doing.

Inhave that cut and thick hair, it takes a lot of work I have to straighten it then do the messy waves. Luckily my mum is a hairdresser so it's easier to get what I want, Def do not get layers it needs thinned out and for that style normally a blunt cut, curious what you mean about the dangly bits at the front and how bad they really could be lol

Go somewhere else. I have a similar style to your photo and it shouldn't have dangly bits at the front. That's because your hairdresser has cut a too sharp gradient.

My hair is slightly shorter at the back (but definitely not in graduated bob territory) as this creates the illusion of the hair falling forward towards the face. That's all. I can recommend a great hairdresser in Warwickshire for it if that's any use!

I think many hairdressers are taught to blow dry to give volume to a hairstyle as that what most people seem to want. They don't realise that some people with thick coarse hair want the opposite.

Yep, me too. I find squashing it down with a hat helps.

I have the haircut you have shown a picture that you wanted. It is longer at the front. I wash it, put some cream stuff in it for curly thick hair... some kind of frizz tamer and it just looks like this. Mine is thick but not in a Wendoline kind of way

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.

Be careful what you wish for!

My last haircut, the hairdresser copied the picture exactly, as asked. A fairly simple graduated bob. I've had hundreds of successful bobs, including several self-cuts but now I look like a medieval village idiot. The thing is, I can't even work out what she's done wrong!

I’ve had many a mushroom in my time.

I am not good with hair and I tell hairdressers this. I ask them for something that I can manage myself and they always suggest a choppy bob- I know from experience that this is not something I can manage!

Thick hair cut in a messy bob? What do you expect though?!

I’d expect that as an expert a hairdresser should explain that this isn’t advisable for certain hair types!

I feel your pain OP. Too many times I’ve come out of the hairdresser looking like Teresa May’s twin sister . I’ve come to the conclusion that at 52 I can’t carry off short hair. (I’d found a fabulous hairdresser who razor cut my hair, she was brilliant and I loved the edgy cut she gave me. Then after 12 blissful months together she left me and moved too far away 🥵) I’m currently growing my hair to about shoulder length as I haven’t a clue what else to do with it.

Rinceoir and then your clients would complain that you didnt listen to them or gave them what you wanted not what they wanted etc?

Can you clip the front bit back? That’s my usual solution to being mushroomed. I’m growing one out now.

This thread has me literally crying with laughter!
I too have thick, wavy frizzy hair and have been mushroomed more times than I care to remember!

A friend of mine calls it 'Tudor hair' 😂

I have hair like you. I feel your pain. Do you have a pic for advice to be given.

I would say DO NOT GET IT RAZORED as a PP suggested. This will leave the ends frizzy.

Some people do not understand thick hair. The look needs to be achieved with the cut alone.

I travel over 100 miles to go to my hairdresser who has done my hair for over 10 years. I tried to find local ones for an interim trim and they were awful.

This is controversial but I also think males are better. In my adult life ive only had one female hair dresser whose cut I liked.

My existing hair dresser and a new one I've found are male.

Lots of people on here with the same kind of hair. Could we offer recommendations? If you want to PM me i can tell you whether the ones I know are local to you.

Good luck OP

A friend of mine calls it 'Tudor hair'

Spot on!

Elllllle well I’m only speaking for me and I always ask hairdresser to advise on a style which is easy to manage and am very open to suggestions! I seem to always have layers suggested and some form of bob which is not easy to manage!!

From my perspective it can take a few cuts before a stylist understands how your hair falls
I'd go by the consultation-they need to ask you how you wear your hair, how long you have to style it, what equipment you like to use, do you need to tie it up? Look at the texture etc
A good stylist will advise you in a direction that suits your needs and hair.

I too have been mushroomed. The upper most layers were about two inches long and looked awful. I had to straighten my hair to buggery and use a million clips to get to look anything other than Tudor.