Hair cut from hell!

SmallEnglish

I also think taking a picture is the best idea, especially when what we think is the term for a certain style, colour or technique can actually mean something totally different. Take my friend who went to a salon and asked for her hair to be dyed dark brown with "red flecks". What she meant was mahogany lowlights. But what she came out with was scarlet streaks. :rolleyes:

flea72

i think by asking for a cut similar to lulus you both have to have the same cut in mind - which did you want her ginger bob with fringe (ala 1960s), or her latest short blonde textured style

It is always best to take a picture from a magazine of a haircut of an 'unknown', as weve all seen the look the hairdresser gives us when we take in a pic of Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, etc. (ie no matter how i cut it, you aint gonna look like that)

I just dont think hairdressers understand the publics terminology - if i say 'about an inch', what im really saying is 'just the ends'. If i say i want streaks, i mean i want a natural sunlightened look, not zebra stripes or bird !!!! lumps - when i say i want to go shorter, i dont mean i want to look like a boy, i want it to still look the same style as i have now, only a bit more shorter than the 'inch' mentioned above

Flea

Rockporkchop

pulliptears wrote: »

Stems from my childhood.... I had long thick hair to the back of my knees. By the time I was 11 I was suffering headaches most of the time and the Dr's concluded it was the weight of my hair and it would perhaps be better to loose some of the length.

Pulliptears - did it help with your headaches?!!

Sorry about your haircut OP, no words of wisdom I'm afraid as I have hated going to the hairdressers ever since my Jennifer Aniston fiasco some years back.

TomsMom

I've been with my hairdresser for a long time now and she knows what I like, but when I first started going I took in a picture out of a magazine of how I would like it. I also took in a photo of me with a disastrously short haircut some scissor happy hairdresser once gave me and told her "Please don't do this to me, it really doesn't suit me!"

pulliptears

Rockporkchop wrote: »

Pulliptears - did it help with your headaches?!!

Sorry about your haircut OP, no words of wisdom I'm afraid as I have hated going to the hairdressers ever since my Jennifer Aniston fiasco some years back.

It did actually, the weight of all that hair tied high on my head was the cause I have incredibly thick hair....
My hair is now down to my lower back, and I still cant tie it up because it will make my head hurt. No way am I cutting it lol

brazilianwax

I feel your pain, OP. My last haircut was the exact opposite of the "trim and tidy up" I asked for.

I ordered clip in extensions but the cut was so awful that I couldn't get them to work.

Now 3 months on it's getting back to where I wanted it to be 3 months ago, and people keep telling me how nice it is.

Luckily I have some chunky purple streaks (home jobby) that detract attention from the awful layers the hairdresser 'accidentally' put in.

I'm sticking to my (expensive but attentive) original hairdresser from now on...................... or at least I might in another 3 months :rotfl:

Ballymackeonan

I've stuck with the same hairdresser for about 25 years - I'm very short-sighted, so don't have any idea of what's being perpetrated on me until I put my glasses on.... And there were some disasters (in one case, I even considered buying a wig..) It's worth a 50-mile round trip to have a consistent, flattering cut (and there are some particularly good charity shops near his salon, so it's even more worthwhile!)

custardy

i would say if you get a good one you like
take a photo of it that day and then take that photo with you from then on