Bad Haircuts

[MetalPants]

A few days ago, I went to get my hair cut. So the lady starts working on me, and gets a call. She starts talking on the phone, and continues working on me, using her clippers. Suddenly, those clippers slip.

The only way to make it not look like I had a sideways mohawk was to just shave my whole head. So now I'm bald.

Anyone else ever have to deal with a bad haircut?

 

[thestrangequark]

I hope she didn't charge you!

I've had two bad hair cuts. When I was five the neighbor girl and I were playing in her garage and spilled a mess of chemicals on our heads, most of which landed in our hair. We both had to get little boy hair cuts. I also attempted to cut my own bangs when I was eight or nine.

 

[JonathonWally]

I keep my hair pretty damn short, so if she does make a mistake, I don't really care, it'll be back in a week or 2.

 

[jamestyler]

Two I can think of. First time was when the woman cutting it was talking about being a Voager fan and ended up giving me Chakotay hair.

The second was only a couple of years ago, the last time I've had a professional-ish haircut. I had really long hair at this stage and was growing out an undercut I got as my hair was thick and annoying. I went from this to this in the space of a week (apologies, both ridiculous pics, the latter of which is dreadful on so many levels) as the hairdresser decided I should even up my hair and let it grow back fully.

This meant I couldn't do anything with my hair as it's so unmanagable it needs industrial strength hair product to stay in place which makes me look like Odo.

I tried to rectify it by getting my head shaved in front of a live audience as part of an angle. Unfortunatly the clippers we had were completely useless so I went home looking like this.

I've cut my own hair since then... and it's been a hell of a lot better. Well... until recently when I decided to grow it back which put me in the awkward length stage...

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I had waist-length wavy hair for about 12 years. In December, I decided that I wanted a change, so I planned to donate my hair. I called a few salons, and I couldn't find one that would do the donation, so I decided to cut it myself and then go get it evened out. I measured and planned on cutting off 8 inches, which was the minimum to donate. Well, I'm not so good at measuring, because I ended up cutting off 12 inches, and it was uneven. I'm cheap, so I decided to go to the beauty college to get it evened out. I have the easiest haircut ever- no bangs, no layers; it's parted down the middle and exactly the same length all around.

I told this to the student cutting my hair. She kept trying to give me layers, and she kept trimming it shorter. I finally escaped without layers, but my hair was to my chin. It still wasn't even, either. The hair in the front (what would have been bangs if I had them) was about an inch longer than the rest of my hair. Since my hair was so short, the curls were intensified. I looked like Alice from the Dilbert comic strip, complete with the curly red triangle hair.

I had to straighten my hair for the next several months, which is a pain. My hair is finally back just past my shoulders and I let it go curly for the first time yesterday. I look mostly like myself again, thankfully.

 

[Hermiod]

Two I can think of. First time was when the woman cutting it was talking about being a Voager fan and ended up giving me Chakotay hair.

Sorry.

 

[MetalPants]

I hope she didn't charge you!

She wanted to. I threw a fuss, and talked to the manager. When the manager found out what happened, she looked at the 'stylist' and asked why she would even think about charging me.

 

[Hoser]

I used to go to the same place to get my haircut every other month. A new lady, an immigrant from an Eastern European country, asked me how I liked it cut. I told her to take one inch off........so she left me with one inch.
Meh, I lived.

Of course, my worst haircut was the mullet in the 80s, but hey, some of us wanted to look like MacGyver back then. I just had to promise my wife that I'd never regrow that ever, before she agreed to marry me. (I made her promise never to get large Pentecostal hair)

 

[An Officer]

She wanted to. I threw a fuss, and talked to the manager.

Did you let let the manager know she was on the phone when this happened?

 

[ed629]

About 6-7 years ago, I stopped off at a hair salon that I had passed earlier in the day. It was advertising a special on haircuts. I went in and got my haircut, not only did she give me a bad haircut (shorter than I asked for and was crooked to boot) she then said she had to charge me extra because I had too much hair. When I refused to pay the new amount, she said she would call the police on me if I didn't pay it. Told her to go ahead, she did, they came and they asked her about the sign, she said it didn't apply to me. They wouldn't do anything about it and when I paid her the amount in front of the police, she then had the nerve to mention her tip.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Why did you even LET her continue to cut your hair while she was on the phone?

 

[freak]

Two I can think of. First time was when the woman cutting it was talking about being a Voager fan and ended up giving me Chakotay hair.

That's the most hilarious thing I've heard so far on here!!! All I can say to that is oh dear lord!!
To the OP: why on earth do people do that sometimes? It's like texting while driving..it makes no sense to me whatsoever!!! Thank god my hair dresser has some common sense and knows how I am about really short hair(especially with layers!),
I have curly hair(actually permed) and my hairdresser layered it a bit too short one time and it ended up looking like a damn mushroom cause it was so poofy on top and flat on the bottom. It looked horrendous. Luckily I went back and she fixed it by evening it out. I told her not to use the razor again after that. She didn't realize how much she cut off my hair and didn't charge me for it.

 

[SicOne]

She wanted to. I threw a fuss, and talked to the manager.

Did you let let the manager know she was on the phone when this happened?

Not only should you have received this haircut for free, but they should also have to give you, say, free haircuts for 6 months or so.

 

[Holdfast]

^ I think covering his cellphone line rental for, say, 3 months or so, would be more apt, and more likely to raise a smile and continued custom despite the incident.

 

[SicOne]

^ I think covering his cellphone line rental for, say, 3 months or so, would be more apt, and more likely to raise a smile and continued custom despite the incident.

Oooh, good one!

And maybe he and the barber could pose for a picture, have it blown up to poster-size, to serve as a warning for the staff!

 

[cyph]

Well, when all else fails, just buzz with a 2 blade all around. Makes guys look rough and Natalie Portman pulled it off quite well in V for Vendetta.

 

[trampledamage]

A few days ago, I went to get my hair cut. So the lady starts working on me, and gets a call. She starts talking on the phone, and continues working on me, using her clippers. Suddenly, those clippers slip.

The only way to make it not look like I had a sideways mohawk was to just shave my whole head. So now I'm bald.

Anyone else ever have to deal with a bad haircut?

Sorry, this is just so funny given your current avatar!

I haven't stepped inside a hairdressers in over twenty years, so anything goes wrong with mine I've only myself to blame!

 

[plague]

I got so many bad haircuts when I was in the Army. My hair grows fast and my ears are pretty tight to my head, so I had to get one every week.

It seems like there was a different barber every time I went to the one on base, and almost always they would cut me and or do a really bad job. I finally bought some clippers and tried it myself. After about 6 haircuts, I got pretty good. Has saved me a lot of money, too.

I went to Mastercuts at the mall about a year ago though, because I was needing a haircut and just didn't feel like cleaning up the mess by doing it myself. I explained the style and even pointed to it in a picture on the wall. The "stylist" was so bad and cut off about a year's worth of hair when all I wanted her to do was cut off a couple inches. I ended up just buzzing it all off because I was pissed and it looked like crap.

 

[RoJoHen]

I got so many bad haircuts when I was in the Army. My hair grows fast and my ears are pretty tight to my head, so I had to get one every week.

It seems like there was a different barber every time I went to the one on base, and almost always they would cut me and or do a really bad job. I finally bought some clippers and tried it myself. After about 6 haircuts, I got pretty good. Has saved me a lot of money, too.

I went to Mastercuts at the mall about a year ago though, because I was needing a haircut and just didn't feel like cleaning up the mess by doing it myself. I explained the style and even pointed to it in a picture on the wall. The "stylist" was so bad and cut off about a year's worth of hair when all I wanted her to do was cut off a couple inches. I ended up just buzzing it all off because I was pissed and it looked like crap.

That's the worst for me, when I tell them exactly how much, in inches, how much I want cut off, and then they just go ahead and cut off a lot more than that.

I might just start carrying a ruler in my pocket.

 

[SicOne]

Where I go, they punch in my phone number and all of my stats and requests come up. I don't even need to tell them anything anymore; just sit back and take a little nap, and they wake me when they're done. Even give me a lollipop.