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Guessing that no one else is having a worse hair day than myself today (lost about 12 inches), I am in desperate need of hearing your stories!
To make things worse, I decided to go for a colour change, which was a big, big, BIG mistake... Now I am stuck with short hair in a shade I don't even like! I cannot wait to go back my usual colour (chestnut/auburnish).
How long do I need to wait before I can dye again, by the way?
Cowards dye many times.........
(I apologise, but I could not resist the pun.) Do you like your hair shorter?
Cheers,
John
Well, I can't answer your questions but I had a bad hair day on Monday. I got up at my normal 4:30 AM and went into the shower. For some reason I remember having soap on my mind and I went and soaped my body up as I normally do. I got out I dried off and combed my hair as I normally do, but then noticed for some reason my hair was flat. I didn't think anything of it. But every time during the day I stopped in the bathroom at work I noticed in the mirror how flat my hair was. And then it dawned on me in the afternoon. I forgot to shampoo my hair that morning. Normally I shampoo my hair first and then soap up my body. But for some strange reason I by passed shampooing and went straight to saoping. :lol: I never really washed my hair. Now that was a bad hair day. :lol::lol:
If you got it done at a salon, can they do some sort of corrective color thing? Last Christmas, I tried to go red and the result was atrocious. And I told her immediately that I didn't like it and she did several more color treatments in the salon that day so that when I left I had something that I could live with. i also got a demi permanent shade that washed out in about a month and a half or so. I am not sure what color you have though so I wouldn't know what to suggest.
I've always been happy with foils though - you get two or sometimes three shades woven into what you have to give your hair some dimension. When I was trying to go from blonde to my natural light brown I had something similar done - I had them try to match my natural shade with an allover base color, and then she foiled in a few blonde strands so that i could sort of ease into the darker shade.
And, the worse hair cut I ever had was when I went from shoulder length to short, and the hair dresser got it uneven. So the only thing to do was to even it up which meant that I had a short boy haircut. And I do not look good with boy hair cuts. Some ladies can pull that off but I am not one of them. I cried. to this day, I won't let anyone take off more than 2 inches and that's really pushing it.
Just think "locks of love, locks of love locks of love...." You did a good thing.
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Originally Posted by jgweed
Not sure yet... Hoping it will grow on me (pun intended! :p)Quote:
Do you like your hair shorter?
Cheers,
John
It was more than just a desire to have my hair shorter. Needed to get it cut so I am glad I have done that. The rest I will deal with, I guess :)
Virgil> Thanks for sharing! :p
Shalot> I dyed it myself... and mine is kind of boyish cut too... one and half inch at the longest places.
You know, the resemblance is uncanny... the colour too! Though my eyes are not half as beautiful!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm betting it's cute, doesn't it feel light now?
Think of all the money you'll be saving on shampoo, conditioner, and product.
Virgil, did you have Lit Net on the brain, while showering? ;):lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Scher, I sympathise with you.:( I hate bad hairdays and especially when one has come from a salon and spend hard earned money and you feel very unhappy with the results...this kind of thing has actually make me cry real tears. I once decided to try my luck at a local beauty school in my town - afterall, they have to learn on real heads, right and they have been practicing for a good while....well, what a mistake that was.:( I just wanted a cut and new perm; when the young lady was done with me the perm was nearly non-existent and the girl was poofing my hair out in all directions and spraying it like crazy. It wasn't very expensive, but it was a disaster and I had to wait a bit before getting another one. That became a whole 'bad hair month'!
Scher, I think you can have color adjusted right away - go back and complain. They should be able to tone it down or do something else to it, so you will be happy. My friend in Michigan has gone through the same thing and she had hers corrected; then she liked it much better. Good luck.
I have short hair now and like it, although this last perm is not holding up like I hoped:( and I have such thin limp hair so lately everyday has been a fair to bad hair day.
papaya, this new avy is a total scream! I am laughing so hard.:lol: Is that a toupee I see on top that dog's head???:lol: That is not our Scher is it, with her new hair????? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Truth be told, I do kinda feel a little light headed... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Truer words were never spoken! Though I have already invested on a big jar of hair gel...Quote:
Think of all the money you'll be saving on shampoo, conditioner, and product.
Janine> I dyed my hair myself.
OMG! I had not even seen this one yet...leave it to you to come up with this photo.:lol::lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
So you kind of look like this???:lol: This thread is very entertaining!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh you dyed it yourself....so you can't go back and raise cain. Well, what did you do - go blond?
On the box it said "Caramel Brown".Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I'm bringing sexy back.:lol::lol: I think the toupee is rather dapper, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
ohh think of all the fun and all the new products you can try!!!:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I had a bad hair day myself... It all started yesterday. Yesterday I decided to go curly, which really means put some product in and go, well it was rainy and humid so my hair got a little frizzy and rather large throughout the day. Today I decided to blow it out, which takes a little longer so i walked out of the house with semu straight hair. As ya'll know the plant i work at is outside and of course I had to go out to the plant several times today and of course it was raining so by mid morning my blown out straight hair looked like a big nappy headed mess.:(
I know what its like to lose a lot of hair. When I was around my mid teens, my hair used to fall down to the middle of my back. I decided to get my hair cut short (remember the dorothy hamill bob ?) well that is what I got. I remember sitting in the chair and they put my hair in a ponytail. Next thing I know they took out a big pair of cutting shears ( looked like the kind of shears you use to cut bushes) and went snip, snip. At that point I just sat there in utter shock and my mom kept asking am I ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
As far as the hair color: I usually do mine every 6 - 8 weeks.
Papaya, those pictures had me rolling with laughter.
well, what you should do is take up jogging. Get up everyday before work and go jogging for about 30 minutes to an hour. If you haven't worked out for a while, you could just sort of ease into it with walking.
After your workout, take a shower before you go to work. You will be so happy because all you have to do is get out of the shower and do some kind of hair gel thing. Also, the exercise will put you in a good mood after a while.
Try some retail therapy. buy some really cool running shoes and some salon shampoo that smells really good (you can justify the expense because you won't have to use so much when you wash your hair).
In 2 years, you will be in super shape and you will have your hair back. :) (this is how I coped with my disastrous uneven hairdo. Some of my suggestions may not appeal to you though. early morning workouts aren't for everyone!!)
You should probably go get some huge fun, dangly earrings that everyone can see with your short hair. Maybe go get someone to do your make-up. You don't have to buy EVERYTHING they put on your face.
And if you really don't like the color, you could look into getting someone at a salon do it for you. Just don't get roped in or it will become another monthly bill :rolleyes: Once you start, you can't ever stop. But if you're dyeing it yourself, I would NOT put anything else on it. You can do real damage and then you'll be completely bald. This happened to my cousin. She fried her hair with so many chemicals. The combination of whatever she used had the effect of Nair. And then she just had to walk around bald for a while.
I think I told this before but back in college my friend and I went to a bar and they had these hairdressers and make up artists there for some reason. We decided to get our hair done (styled - not cut). My friend went first. the hairdresser twisted her hair kind of like cornrows from the front to about halfway back and pinned it to hell, then he teased the rest of it to high heaven - it was huge even for the eighties. We almost peed our pants laughing so hard. There must have been about 100 pins in her hair.
As for the dye, I might try going to a salon to see what they can do.
That is exactly what they did with mine too... though I was very calm at the time (a little excited, to be honest). Then, put it into a bag and gave it to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by pussnboots
I think I will feel better once I post the hair to Locks of Love tomorrow.
Ack, don't want to wait that long!Quote:
As far as the hair color: I usually do mine every 6 - 8 weeks.
Shalot> Those are great suggestions! :) I don't usually dye my hair very often so I am hoping that it won't be ruined so quickly!
So is this the new you Scher? :p
http://www.aolcdn.com/aolr/ellen-pompeo-bald-400.jpg
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Originally Posted by Virgil
I demand to know how my photo appeared on the internet!!! And so quickly too!!!
These paparazzi!!!!
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Originally Posted by Shalot
Shalot, I think you could make a living giving advice! These are all great ideas! :thumbs_up
Maybe you are just having color shock. I color my own hair when the mood strikes me. You can color your hair again right now, you don’t have to wait. I’ve made a quick trip to the drugstore on more than one occasion when I found a color I didn’t like. Some people always color their hair the exact same color, but I’m always so intrigued by all of those boxes. I figure the possibilities are endless and I really want to just start at one end and try every color in the store:p.
I had really long hair that came down to my rear end. My husband gave me a gift card for a hair cut one day with a lady I didn’t really know, but that had done his hair. This isn’t me!! But this is the hair cut I got-
http://www.hill-liles.com/uploaded_images/66-745335.jpg
I cried until I puked! Then I bought a wig, two actually. The wigs were blond. I’m always afraid to try to color my hair blond because I have auburn hair and I think it will turn bright orange.
:lol: Yeah how did Virgil get your photo anyway? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Nice earrings! I have been wondering for sometime what Scher looked like. :lol: You know, this is the funniest thread on here tonight. Thanks for getting your hair cut, Scher and for dying it the wrong color.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
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Originally Posted by motherhubbard
this is funny on so many levels.
That haircut is something else. I got something similar once, but I was about eight, so it wasn't as tramatic as it could have been. Also, that mullet do was fairly new when I was nine. That was years ago, yet I will see this hairdo from time to time on actual people and I wonder why they keep getting their hair cut like that in 2008. That hairdo is so old!!! :lol: And it's ridiculous!!
Thank you! That makes me feel so much better! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
Next week, I will go back to being auburnish, I think.
And that hair cut... That is something!
No problem, Janine! We aim to please! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
As for today...
I think I should change the title of this thread to "Bad Hair Chronicles"!
I jumped back with a scream when I saw myself in the mirror first thing in the morning. I was barely awake then and gave myself a nice. little scare. Some part of hair was pressed, some other parts were sticking up as if someone had electrocuted me while I was asleep during the night. I guess the fact that I had indulged in a hand ful of gel just before going to bed did not help either.
The good thing is I posted my hair earlier this morning; so it is all over (not that I was gonna try to attach it back on but...)
I am getting used to the idea and beginning to feel good about not only getting it cut but also for having short hair. It is fun.
Papaya> Imagine how it is having long hair in the UK with constant rain and damp weather. I gave up long ago trying to keep it nice and smooth; so what they call me crazy old lady with even crazier hair? :D
This reminded me of one of my times in primary school :D. See, I used to have really long hair, and I loved having it in tiny braids and when you take them out your hair goes FRIZZY. So I'd had in the plaits for a while right, then I took them out and had the massive frizzball thing going on, and decided to have my hair in piggytails, so like I had massive fluff balls on either side of my head. Now, the horrible bit is that we had an assembly thing with prizes given out and I had to get up in front of the entire school with my crazy hair!! :lol:
Also I got my hair cut on impulse not long ago. A friend told me he liked it short so I went, okay, I'll get it cut! So I went out, told mum I wanted a hair cut, we got in the car and found a hairdressers. I got 7 - 8 inches cut off.
My worst hair day. Well, when I was about 11 in the 6th grade I moved to the US. I had extremely long, curly hair and no knowledge of hair produxts at all. The kids in my class teased me about it for months, until I got mad and got my mother to cut all my hair off, like this: http://planetsave.com/files/2007/08/...400a030207.jpg
and then as it grew: http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...ruecke_big.jpg (except it was chestnut)
It was a bad hair year (and for 3 years after that!)
Happy to oblige: Bad hair day, you say? How about a bad hair life? I'm getting very thin on top these days. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
/Claes
aBIGsheep> Now that is some hair do!
Claes> "Future is bright!" :p
Poor Baki! that's rough.
Scher :lol:Is it bright and shiny, too?...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
....poor Claes...don't do the toupee thing though; you look good with thin hair!
Papayahed, yes, I do indeed think that look in your new avy is 'dapper'! :lol:
...and I loved your bad hair day at the job story...it was so funny...of course, not to you at the time!
Thanks Mh. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
Yeah, my hair is less lucky than I am, just the other day my stepdad used my hairbrush and gave me dandruff! :bawling:
How would I know? Let's ask Claes! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Claeeeesss! Oh, Claaaaeeeessss!!!Maybe Papaya would let him try her toupee! :DQuote:
....poor Claes...don't do the toupee thing though; you look good with thin hair!
I didn't know one could "catch" dandruff from others... Thought it had to do with your own scalp (dryness etc).
Claes is out shopping for hats! :lol: Yes, Papaya, do share that lovely thing with Claes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I don't think that is possible either. It is from dry scalp.Quote:
I didn't know one could "catch" dandruff from others... Thought it had to do with your own scalp (dryness etc).
I like long black hair.
Mine now is long, I never had it this long before.
Whenever I cut my hair, I cry myself out. I do it literally all the way back home.
I never recall cutting my hair once but the last time. Every time I went to cut it, came home crying and ended up calling a hairdresser to come over and cut it again. So yeah, I always cut it twice to punish myself for cutting it in the first place, under the excuse of " it didn`t look good".
I usually pick my haircuts, but the hairdressers here don`t understand my style - i`m serious about it- and i`m not the type of people to tell them what I am, I just ask them for the cut.
Last time I cut it, this happened:
My friends (they were 4 with me) talked to me at the barber shop "are you sure you want to do it? Will you cry and nag to your mom when you go home?"
I simply replied, "No, it`s too long and I only want to the fix the top phase".
A friend of mine went secretly to the barber telling him to do EXACTLY like I will be telling him.
And this time I didn`t cry, because it actually looked longer.
About dying the hair, mine is pretty hard to be dyed. It`s naturally dark black with a silver light-reflection.
OK...Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1...808d90cwa3.jpg
I think he looks better au natural...
No seriously, you can. I've never had it before and when someone with dandruff used my brush I do and so does my mother!Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
At least it's not lice (again) thank the hair gods *bows*
I think that the mullet is slowly returning.
I haven't seen it anywhere except in MacGyver, but you know, it will be retro (which means absolutely fashionable) quite soon.
So, when you are having a bad hair day you can comfort yourself with the fact that at least mullets are not in fashion - if it was, then your had would be considered inferior to a mullet (since it would be fashionable) and that would be seriously creepy.
You know I have been holding onto this thought since your post, Tal... but I am also a little worried that my hair might turn into a mullet as it gets longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin