When Home Hair Treatments Go Bad
― lauren, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
was not expecting that at all! if anything, i expected it to do nothing.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no! so it's not even a colour you're into, i'm guessing, right
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it just looks like pukey
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
like, chemically lightened but not in a good way...
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
tza, john frieda has a line of glazes for different color hair types. i use the medium blonde on my light blonde hair and I can really see a diff. each time i use it. my hair color goes from flat and dry looking to shiny and multidimensional.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
oh!
what did you use?
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I just saw Barbarella for the first time ever and, while the movie is barely watchable at all, I do crave and covet her hairstyle(s). I wd like that hair all the time.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
your hair could totally do all that, laurel!
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
hand sex - no, big hair - yes
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i used natural instincts 'shine happy' clear gloss.
ugh.
the frieda stuff - you have to use that like, a few times a week, right? i feel like that would cancel my sulfate-free shampoo kick.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i've only seen barbarella with the sound off at mod nights but i feel like i've seen it that way about 50 times.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, every couple of days, T.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
so my hair appt is for tues but i'm nervous cuz the guy doing it this gay japanese dude who apparently has an 'attitude' according to my friend. hairdressers with attitudes scare me, cuz they always say mean things about my hair (mostly because i wait like two years between haircuts, have uncoloured roots, flakey scalp etc.)
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i always feel so judged whenever i go
just kiss their ass a lot and be like 'i'm sure you will do a fabulous job'
― tehresa, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
and say things like 'i trust you.'
i do that anyway, because i'm so scared they'll do something nasty to my hair!
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
***warning, long rant ahead, please feel free to skip!****
i'm pretty darn tolerant of haircuts, haven't ever even been close to tears after a cut, and woke up this morning and was so pissed at the cut i got last night that i nearly cried in frustration (stress about moving has me at the edge, to be honest).
i went in, said i wanted edgy but not ugly, told her this was too long for me, that i wanted the back really short, and that i kind of liked having bangs. she said she would take the back up a ton and leave the front a little longer "for interest," and totally restructure the bangs.
well, after a full hour of her cutting, my hair looks pretty much exactly the same as when i left. except flatter, since she thinned it out. the back is a little shorter, but in 2 weeks it will be too long for me, and the front literally is exactly as long as it was when i went in. bangs are a little shorter, but no real difference.
so i'm pissed at myself for wasting 3 hours i should have used packing/cleaning and instead traveled to and from a not-great haircut, not to mention wasting $50. i don't think she's actually bad, she just didn't do what i wanted and i thought i'd asked for, at all. toby thinks i should call and try to go back to have them "fix" it, but that seems really weird to me, and i'm not able to think rationally about it.
any advice?
― colette, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
er, it looked the same as when i arrived. and when it goes behind my ears (which i do without thinking about it), it actually looks MORE mom-ish than it did before.
― colette, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
you should definitely call and ask for the cut to be fixed.
― lauren, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe say something like, "perhaps i wasn't clear when i spoke to the stylist, etc etc. this really isn't what i wanted at all, and i'd appreciate it if i could come in for a clean-up."
― lauren, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
won't they just blame me for not expressing myself enough, and possibly mess it up more?
talking myself down here: -- i don't care if they don't like me, i'm moving in a few days (i do care, but don't want to) -- if it comes down to it, i'm actually prepared to take toby's clippers to my hair and just get rid of it all, and suspect it would be an improvement on this.
xpost-- that's a good way of putting it, when i say "clean up" are they going to schedule me 15 minutes? because this really needs starting from scratch.
― colette, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
yes. people do it all the time! xpost to collette
god i am so glad i have a non-crazy, non-egotistic, awesome hairdresser. srsly i understand the stress involved when this is not the case, aagh. i am even thinking about going back to short(ish) hair later this summer b/c i trust her to do something great that suits me.
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
you are the client! they did nothing of note to your hair! if someone owns the place, talk to them, but if the woman who cut your hair is just renting a chair there, i guess things are different. but still, someone's gotta be in charge.
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, she's one of the two owners, so there's not really anyone else i could go to. i'm drinking caffeine to steel myself to call her, thanks for the advice, guys!
― colette, Thursday, 26 June 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
COLETTE you can do this you paid them $$ and they have to fix it if all else fails, get a pixie!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, i will bring you along and say "make my hair look like amanda's!"
― colette, Thursday, 26 June 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Colette, it is very standard for stylists to fix their mistakes. A lot of them even give free bang trims between hair cuts.
What you are describing sounds like a cut I have been seeing a lot lately, which is a thinned out bob with shaggy bottom edge. Sometimes shorter in back like the famous bell labs' reverse mullet pic. I love the cut but my hair would be too wavy to do it.
Now that I got a professional to establish my bangs in the first place, I trim them myself. I kind of do this:
How to Trim Your Own Bangs
The important thing here is that you are making little snips up into the bang, not cutting across. Cutting across may result in "psycho bangs."
― felicity, Thursday, 26 June 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
colette, i know how you feel! years ago, when i needed a haircut, i went to a salon where one of the girls needed a 'razor' model. she said she would do any style i wanted, it just needed to involve razoring. this was around the time meg ryan had the shaggy kind of cut, so i took in a bunch of magazine cutouts and told her i wanted it shorter (my hair was almost butt-length) but layered etc etc. so a few weeks later i turn up for the cut. she hacks awhile for what seems like hours, and my hair is quickly disappearing. in the end, i had one of those horrible styles that were popular at the time with stupid young redneck girls: a long fringe parted to the side and slicked down, with a fluffy kind of duck tail at the back. i was DEVASTATED. but what could i say? it was free!
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this is basically why going to the hairdressers terrifies me and i don't go very often.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
repost from rolling 2008 beauty thread:
hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations?
― warmsherry, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
god having my hair mid-length is getting soooo oldddddd. even if i dry/iron it straight, as soon as i am in humidity the ends turn up and i look like i've spent hours perfecting a 'flip' that is just not cute. argh. GROW FASTER, HAIR!!!
― tehresa, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh i am having the same issue. i wish i hadn't cut it! but i knew that was going to happen.
― bell_labs, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i have no patience with it right now! esp now that it's a color i'm not overly fond of.
― tehresa, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations? I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)
I'm sorry about the shitty haircut Colette :( I think if you paid for a super short hair cut you could probably call and be like "okay so in three weeks it'll be too long again, can I expect a free trim?"
Anyone in Toronto should have Miranda do their hair, http://hairbymiranda.ca. She's fantastic and listens and gives the free bang trim when needed.
― Finefinemusic, Friday, 27 June 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
my Kerastase Concentre Vita-Ciment came in the mail yesterday! it will be interesting to see if it's as magical as it's made out to be (ie here http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/ItemId=70977/Concentre_Vita_Ciment/Kerastase/Treatments)
― bell_labs, Friday, 27 June 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)
I had good luck with other John Frieda products, so might try this
― warmsherry, Saturday, 28 June 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
just stopping in to say that i have the beachiest beachb hair ever right now and you should be very jealous
― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
hint: burts bees rosemary & mint shampoo bar + salt water washing
― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
awwww. this will be me in like, 24 hours!!!
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The girl in front of me at yoga the other day had such a good boy's cut and I asked her where she did it and it turns out the same place I used to go when I had short hair. Now I am wishing for 50s-style boy's hair again.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 29 June 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I know this thread is meant to be for the ladies (you have to imagine me grinning in a sinister way and winking as I say that or it doesn't work) but I think I need some sort of haircut, and since I've not had my hair cut by anyone who I didn't live with or who wasn't me in the last, oh, ten years, I don't even really know what to do. I want to get something cool, an actual haircut, but not a "haircut"
suggestions?
― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 June 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
^I'm in this same boat, more or less.
Hair's way too long right now, and I can't think of anything to do but trim it. I DO NOT want to have short hair, I tried it once a couple years ago and it was awful. Any ideas for men's long hairstyles?
Here is a hastily taken iSight photo for illustrative purposes.
http://tinyurl.com/4twegt
― en i see kay, Monday, 30 June 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I want to get something cool, an actual haircut, but not a "haircut"
No idea what this means.
― Laurel, Monday, 30 June 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Nicka, you seem to have really beautiful hair but on the non-short side for mens, I got nufffink to recomend.
i said this to ned and i feel like a hairdresser should understand what it means (mine does): you want a 'wave around the head' style haircut. which is like tousled and free but not long
― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 June 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I got lucky on Friday, the hair cuttery around the corner from my house appears to have been shuttered so I ended up spending $36 at a real salon and came out looking awesome. I'm back to my later air force look.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 30 June 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link