Comments on: Please let me have: your worst haircuts

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:11 +0000

I have really straight, but pretty thick hair. (it is pretty, but I mean that it’s not incredibly thick, just somewhat thick) It does NOT hold curl. (Despite the fact that I’ve always wanted it to- you curl my hair and by the time you’ve finished with one side, the first side has fallen flat.) It’s really hard to give me a bad hair cut, you can’t really layer it, you can’t thin it out, you can pretty much just cut it straight. Which is why half the time I just cut my own hair.
I didn’t have hair until I was about 2-3 years old. I mean, NO hair. I had peach fuzz, and then stringy wisps of hair from about 2 or so until suddenly, at about 3 I got a full head of hair. When I was about 2 1/2, the daycare that I went to took class/individual photos. My mom put me in a sweater, but told the daycare workers not to pull the sweater off just before the photo was taken, as my hair would get really static-y (as it still does). Well, of course the day care workers just yanked that sweater off and took the photo. I look like a little lion (I have red hair). I think it’s the cutest picture, but my mom hates it!

By: T Conklin

T Conklin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:44:57 +0000

My worst haircut was about the time Sinead O’Connor was in the mainstream. I had shoulder-length hair but was in desperate need of a trim. The place I usually went wasn’t open so I tried a new guy. I joked about my hair being such a pain I was tempted to be “Sinead O’Conklin”. He took me at my word and cut my long hair 1/2″ all over my head. When I went back to work (this was on my lunch hour), one of the guys I worked with looked at me and said it made me look younger. I told him I didn’t care to look like an infant. Then I called my husband and warned him. I’m really careful about joking about haircuts now.

By: Mom2boys

Mom2boys — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:22:15 +0000

I have noticed that a lot of these posts are from people who have naturally curly hair. I just couldn’t pass responding to this blog. Unfortunately, I am one of those people also. My story starts out the same, with the parent that thinks they are a hairstylist, and are really a torture warden in disguise It’s very hard to have curly hair in the straight locked-time of 70-80′s. I remember getting the unfortunate Dorothy Hamill haircut of the 70′s. The time that really makes me cringe is when I was trying to grow my hair out from being super short to even a decent length when the torture warden stopped chopping my hair and I went to a professional. I looked like a q-tip for many years. My hair was too short to even wear in a pony tail. My redemption was that by the mid 80′s, I got the length to grow out and people were paying big money to get my hair. To this day, I can’t even trim my own bangs, or color my own hair. I won’t even touch my children’s hair.

I think the torture warden still uses a flow-bee to this day to cut their own hair.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:39:28 +0000

I don’t know how to describe my worst cut except it resembled a 1940′s style. I swear the woman did it because her boss doesn’t like me and the idea was to deter me from coming back.

When I was a kid my grandmother cut my hair. She did the “standard” style that was described in the booklet that came with the electric clippers. I wanted to pretend to have sideburns so she would leave little bits of hair to comb down in front of my ears. It looked like the hairstyle that some lesbians are wearing these days.

Right know, I haven’t had a haircut in 3 years. I look like General George Armstrong Custer with the long wavy hair and goatee.

By: Antisocialite

Antisocialite — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:13:53 +0000

My worst is a lot like Becky’s … among the parties involved, it is still referred to as the Infamous Tequila Haircut. You can imagine the circumstances. The perpetrator/stylist, my best friend’s husband, insists to this day that he was not drunk at the time, but given the results, I believe otherwise.

Basically, I wound up looking like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, which is unfortunate when you’re, you know, a girl. And not a cartoon character.

The guy I was seeing at the time avoided me for two days after he saw it, then dumped me, possibly also making it the BEST haircut I’ve ever received.

By: kati

kati — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:06:22 +0000

my worst haircut was this atrocious attempt at a very cute short cut that my mom had. Of course, my mom didn’t have curly hair so I ended up looking like an italian lionel ritchie. not quite understanding the nature of my curly hair, I got THE SAME haircut in high school and looked just as awful. since links are not allowed in comments, you can click my website link to take you to the photo in my flickr photo stream. bathe in the glory of the terrible haircut.

By: jewels

jewels — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:39:13 +0000

This is not my bad haircut, but my 14 year old son’s. He had shoulder length hair which I didn’t mind but he wanted it shaped. I made the mistake of giving him $10 to go to Supercuts and of course he spent the money on junk food. When I got home from work, I found a HUGE pile of hair on the porch. At first I was a little angry, then I started chuckling to myself and couldn’t wait to see it. I drove to the park he usually hangs out at and his friend had done a pretty good job cutting the front short, but the back was all one layer. Kind of a goofy mullet. I just laughed and asked him where he got his haircut. He still had the nerve to tell me Supercuts. And yes, I made him wear it that way for a while to teach him a lesson.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:56:46 +0000

Growing up, curly permed hair was the fad, and I had long super straight locks. To save money, my dad was going to give me a perm. He would give my mom her perms (again to save money) – only thing is she has short hair. So this is the only way he knew how to do it. He tried to roll my long hair but decided we should cut it “a little.” I ended up at a salon after that trying to fix the mess he made. Still determined to get that perm though, so this salon did it. Only thing was this lady trying to fix my hair was probably 50 years old. And she cut, permed and styled my hair just like hers. I had a curly microphone head. I looked like a cambell soup kid. It was really bad. And firmly believe this situation is why I get tense getting my hair cut even to this day.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:59:02 +0000

I’ve been messing with my hair for as long as I can remember, so I’ve had lots of bad cuts. I think the blue-ribbon piece was my second year of college, when I asked a friend if she would try cutting my hair. I made the mistake of thinking any girly-girl can give a guy a basic haircut. It ended up looking so bad, I shaved my head the next day. The only picture of me with the shaved head is right after playing muddy backyard football with my friends.

I looked like a Zombie Army Ranger.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:19:08 +0000

Fortunately I haven’t had too many bad haircuts, mostly because I leave mine long.

There was one summer in college where I worked as a field researcher in a salt marsh. Although I was trying to be careful, the combination of wind, salt, and too much washing left my hair a frizzy, split-ended nightmare by summer’s end, and my hairdresser had to chop a lot of it off. I’d never had short hair like that before and it was very traumatizing, although my friends said I looked ‘okay.’