DIY Hair disasters

Has anyone here experienced any DIY hair disaster? Any words of warning for other people out there who might consider dying or cutting their hair themselves?

Since I started this thread it's only fair that I spill the beans first. :)

I have red/ginger hair, colour-wise, I could be a long-lost Weasley family member :lol: I quite like my hair's colour, but like most people, I do get bored with it occasionally. I used to have black hair for a while, but it makes me look strangely like Morticia Addams.:lol: So a few years ago, I thought "Why not try blonde hair for once?" I bought hair dye and applied it just like it said on the box. But unfortunately, it's really difficult getting the red colour pigments out of your hair so it ended up a really nasty shade of yellow! Not only that, the skin on my head was also itching like crazy and the whole dyeing process was really painful. I ended up putting red dye on again, looking almost exactly like I did before.:sigh: I'd like to say this has cured me of dyeing my hair by myself, but I'm still at it sometimes. I just won't go near blonde hairdye anymore... :lol:

Well mine isn't really DIY disaster, because it was my sister, but close enough. Never, and I mean NEVER, let your 14 year old sister cut your bangs...no matter how well she does her own!! ESPECIALLY if you're getting family photos taken in less than an hour. :no: It was horrible. She assured me that she could do it...and I believed her because she's been cutting her own bangs for a long time and they look great. So I let her do it and then she did and I looked in the mirror...and started bawling. She had cut them like an inch or two shorter than I told her to and they looked really bad! She felt so bad that she started crying, and kept saying she hadn't meant to.

In the end it was all fine...my mom and my older sister fixed it and I actually looked really cute in the pictures. ;) My little sister made it up to me by doing my makeup instead for the pictures...she's awesome at makeup.

But for a while there it was horrible. Thank goodness we can laugh about it now!

Oh wow!

I once dyed my hair in college with Herbal Essences. BIG mistake, I left it in too long and it became permanent. I tried to go to the salon to fix it and $110 later I had orange spots... It was a serious nightmare. It took a whole year and some to grow it all out. Oh, and did I mention, it was black, pitch black, blue black even. No more dying for me, unless it is in a salon.

I have plenty of hair disaster stories ^^;
First, my hair is crazy long... (Past my knees) ... And, every time I want to dye it, hair stylists, and store peoples greatly under-estimate the amount of dye I need, (They suggest 2 bottles.. But, my hair is a lot thicker than it looks, so I actually need 7) so I end up with spots..

This one time, a few years ago, a friend of mine asked if she could dye my hair pink... I didn't know much about hair dying at the time, so I believed her, when she told me I'd only need 1 bottle of bleach, and one of pink dye.. .. In the end, there was no where near enough, and, my friend wasn't as skilled with dye as she thought, so, my hair was covered in pink, blonde, and black spots... ... I never trusted her with dye again..

I tried to streak my hair once, with those streaking kits that are intended for dark hair.. ... Since my hair was dark, I figured it would work like it was supposed to.. But, the box didn't say that it wouldn't work on hair that was already dyed, and my hair was dyed black.. So, I tried it, and my roots turned bright pink, but the rest stayed black.. .. It looked pretty bad..

... I've had no problems cutting my hair myself though... I don't trust professionals with my hair.. A lot of them don't do what I want.. they do what they think will look good, and, I never like it.. that's why I haven't had a hair cut in 10 years.. If I desperateley need a trim, I'll do it myself..

I have slightly wavy mid-length hair (dark brown) and I've never dyed it. I wanted to add some dark red to it, just slightly, but my stylist talked me out of it. She was like, "Don't start messing with it, it's healthy! Leave it!" I suppose I'll dye it one day...but for now I don't do any major changes to it.

I got bangs a while ago, though, and I love them. I usually wear them to the side. Hmmm...hair disasters...well I went to a different stylist to get them trimmed about 2 months ago and she cut them waaaaay too short (not Bettie Page territory, but too short for my taste) and I had to wear them back until a few days ago...that's my only real hair disaster...SO FAR...:lol:

For everyone who has cut their hair/bangs too short: My little sister swears that gelatin helps your hair grow faster. She recently just got hers cut and hated it. She's been taking gelatin tablets and eating Jello like crazy...and her hair does seem longer. :err:

I've had a couple of DIY disasters. :lol:
Firstly, I got bored with my blonde highlights and decided to dye my hair dark reddy-brown. Unfortunately it didn't mix well with the blonde so it ended up turning out a bright orangey colour. I washed and rewashed my hair for about two hours but it only faded slightly. I had to endure taunts of 'You've been tangoed! Haha!' at school for the next few weeks until I managed to sort it out.
Second was trying to cut my own fringe. I was bored so started experimenting with nail scissors and got a bit carried away. Before I knew it, I had a short, wonky fringe. I tried desperately to snip at it and make it even but everything made it worse. Luckily, I just clipped it back with hairslides until it grew out so nobody noticed.

Hair disasters... I'm the one if you want hair disasters...

Okay, it starts at the beginning. I dyed my hair for the first time two years ago. Beforehand it was gorgeous! Long, deep set thick ringlets, I only needed to wash it every other day for it to look perfect 24/7....
My hair is the reddest form of strawberry blonde you will find... so in some lights it looked a blondish colour, and some lights it looked a deep red...

Then I had a crazy idea to have it cut, dyed and chemically straightened.

Never! NEVER! get your hair chemically straightened... Firstly, the cut was adorable, I loved it! The shortest my hair had been in a long while, it still cascaded past my shoulder blades... A couple weeks later I had it straightened... For the first few days it was unbelievably amazing, then I washed it. >.< It was straight but I used this different shampoo and I was styling it all wrongly. I dealt with it. Then when that had settled down a bit I had it dyed a dark brown and that was luscious: until my roots grew through.

Dark brown hair a almost flourescently orange roots do not go! There is a photo somewhere and the line where my hair parts is the most obvious part of the photo!

Since then, the dye has grown out, the hair is most a messy frizz, and I am always cutting my hair because it is so brittle.

I have had random pink highlights added recently and it looks great. My style has changed to a more alternative look, so the barnet is not as prominent and the pink goes well.

Learn from my experience, never have your hair chemically straightened!!!

>.< :)

I tried to streak my hair once, with those streaking kits that are intended for dark hair.. ... Since my hair was dark, I figured it would work like it was supposed to.. But, the box didn't say that it wouldn't work on hair that was already dyed, and my hair was dyed black.. So, I tried it, and my roots turned bright pink, but the rest stayed black.. .. It looked pretty bad....

I did that just recently although my roots turned brassy orange (it was supposed to be dark auburn) and my hair was coal black! I guess the contrast between the light and dark made the auburn look more like orange but honestly, I did not relish walking around looking like a halloween disaster; however, my husband found it quite amusing.:lol:

The rule of thumb, which I knew but thought "perhaps it will work since it's been so long since I last dyed my hair black", is that you can't use color to lift color - only to cover color. So, if the color you want is lighter than your darkest color, then you will have to pull the color out with bleach before dyeing it the prefered color.

Also, speaking of fringe/bangs - the worst thing I've ever done to mine other than cutting them crooked or too short, was catch them on fire while leaning over a gas stove to light a cigarette. That was a true "Duh" moment!! :p

I usually do cut myown hair and when I finally get around to having it professionally done, the poor stylist turns green when she sees how I've hacked it. Takes a while for her to straighten it out.

But most of my hair disasters involve dyeing. Started out very young using one of those spray dyes. My hair is naturally a very dark brown and I decided to dye it with a gold spray. I was about 14, and that's my excuse. Fortunately it was washable, but I used up every towel in the house and ruined quite a few of them. That brought down the wrath of the parents on my gold and brown head.

You'd think I would have learned my lesson, but no ... Stripping turned my hair various shades of orange and/or purple at different times way before that was fashionable.

I think the worst was when I got tired of the dark auburn with light auburn highlights. I decided to dye it dark again. Read the directions that said not to use on stripped hair, so of course I ignored that (that's an unfortunate character flaw of mine). The next morning, my hair was black with white streaks. I decided it looked cool until that afternoon, when I discovered that working under flourescent lights caused the white streaks to turn green. It took many hours and a lot of $'s to have the green removed.

Still I charge on with dye bottle in hand ... the last disaster being when I forgot that peroxide turns my hair an unfortunate shade of red. Even the Weasleys wouldn't let me into their family.

I witnessed a hair dye disaster one time. My friend had really light blonde hair- almost white. She tried to dye it, but didn't read the label on the dye that said it was for dark hair so the color came out pink. She tried another dye to correct it and came out with dark blue. She tried to start over from there and bleach it back, but the color she ended up with was blotchy purple-ish. And then she just wore a hat for a while because her hair couldn't take any more.

I've never done anything permanent with hair color disasters. I did have greenish blonde hair from a pool where I was a lifeguard one summer. Someone told me that rinsing it with lemon water would fix it- nope. Then someone said if you a dissolved aspirin in water, that would take the green out, but it only brightened the green up.

I tried to bleach my hair platinum blonde (I'm a mousy blonde naturally). I applied the color unevenly and it was bright yellow on the top. That was horrid.

Then I dyed it a really awesome bright red color, but the part of my hair that had been bleached (now growing out as the bottom half of my hair) didn't absorb the color correctly, so it looked awful.

And now my mom doesn't let me do my hair myself. But the girl who does it at the salon does do an awesome job, so I'm not complaining.

I've never had a cutting disaster, though. Most of my hair has been growing out for while and I'm trying to get it all the same length, so I don't really touch it. I do trim my bangs because I can't stand when they start to get long...luckily I can do it fairly evenly and don't care how short they end up in the process, because I love short bangs.

I have crazy curly hair and sometimes I am too broke to get a hair cut, but usually you can't tell because my hair is so curly. Well once I straightened my hair and noticed that I needed a trim bad so I put it into a pony and cut it myself--big mistake. It looked so uneven. I didn't really care but my mom freaked out. It was pretty funny, she made me sit in a chair so she could fix it and kept muttering under her breath about what an idiot I was.

I also dye my hair ALL the time. I get bored with it so easily. Well I had dyed my hair this reddish color, but I had used 2 different hair dyes to do it, and when it came time to redo the color, I was going to get the same ones because everyone liked it so much, but I got to the store and I forgot the colors I used. LOL. I picked two out that looked right, but the dark red one turned my hair stop sign red and nothing would cover it. I tried lightening it with light blond, then tried to darken it with pitch black. That color stayed strong though man, nothing made a mark, so I had to wait like 3 weeks for it to fade out a bit lol. I felt like a moron. It was not my color.

My friend always cuts her own bangs. :rotfl: I don't know why, since our other friend has been through hair design school and would do it for her. :huh:

But one day she was at work and decided that her bangs were too long and that they were annoying her. So she started trimming them at her desk. They ended up really short and uneven. :lol: So she was going to clip them back, and realized she didn't have any hair clips...so she hunted around and found a paper clip and put it in her hair. :rotfl: All that day, people would come in, look at her weird, and be like, "...umm...you have a paperclip in your hair." :lol:

Wow, I feel so at home in this thread...

When I was like three years old, I took the scissors while my parents were asleep, hid under the lounge room table and went crazy... LOL my mum was horrified. Another time, I was about seven, I cut my ponytail halfway down... Then, a couple of years ago I cut my fringe. I didn't have an actual fringe, just hair on both sides of my face. I decided to cut it, and it ended up being shorter on one side than the other... one of my friends gave me heaps about it. I still have difficulty laughing about that one...

Recently, I thought I'd trim my fringe a bit... I always do it and usually it looks alright. I have a side fringe, so I have to cut it at an angle, but I didn't do a very good job on it... it was practically a straight cut. Not to mention I have what I call a cow-lick (not sure if it has another name), so half of the fringe ends up on one side of my face and not the other. Luckily it grew out and looks a bit better now...

Not a DIY incident, but last year I went to this salon to get my hair dyed blonde. I don't know why I allowed her to do it, but I let the hairdresser convince me that it would be too shocking to dye it all at once, since my hair is a dark-ish brown. So instead we decided I'd get foils and go blonde gradually. Big mistake. She messed it up (the dye ran and I ended up with these huge uneven bands) and I walked out of the salon crying... I was supposed to be going overseas two days later, so I didn't think I'd be able to get it done properly. Luckily they made an appointment for me the next day, so they could do what I'd wanted in the first place. I ended up getting the whole thing for free, as well as some free products, so it was good :D. But now, I don't listen to hairdressers when they try to convince me 'it would be better to do so and so'.

Not a DIY incident, but last year I went to this salon to get my hair dyed blonde. I don't know why I allowed her to do it, but I let the hairdresser convince me that it would be too shocking to dye it all at once, since my hair is a dark-ish brown. So instead we decided I'd get foils and go blonde gradually. Big mistake. She messed it up (the dye ran and I ended up with these huge uneven bands) and I walked out of the salon crying... I was supposed to be going overseas two days later, so I didn't think I'd be able to get it done properly. Luckily they made an appointment for me the next day, so they could do what I'd wanted in the first place. I ended up getting the whole thing for free, as well as some free products, so it was good :D. But now, I don't listen to hairdressers when they try to convince me 'it would be better to do so and so'.

Oh my goodness! :wow: That's terrible!! I know what you mean with hairdressers, though - they always convince you to do something you don't want done and you always end up being right anyway :D

My main DIY disaster was when I thought it would be a great idea to make my hair look nice and colourful by putting in highlights. For some unknown reason we decided to go for copper highlights (my hair is dark brown :rolleyes:). So anyway after my mum had done it I knew something was wrong. I washed it all out and blow dried it, then realised that I had bright blonde streaks all the way through my hair :whistle: It was absolutely terrible, and I was terrified about going to school the next day. Added to the fact that back then my hair was a complete frizz ball. Luckily, my mum went back into town to get a bottle of dark brown hair dye and half fixed it. I'll never do that again :lol:

i died my hair yesterday and it turned out too blond ,not what i had in mind.Is there any way i cna darkenit a bit without havin to die it again and totally kill my hair.My husband hates it,and i hate ti that he hates it.

i died my hair yesterday and it turned out too blond ,not what i had in mind.Is there any way i cna darkenit a bit without havin to die it again and totally kill my hair.My husband hates it,and i hate ti that he hates it.

Well, after a while the colour fades...however for you if it's too light your hair could fade a lighter shade. The only way I can think of to darken it would be to dye it again. Or if you want to completely remove the dye there is this hair dye removal stuff that you can get from most chemists. I don't know of any other way to darken it :) Hope it turns out alright :D

I can't believe I forgot to mention this one! Two days before my sister's wedding, my mom decided she needed to dye her hair. She has red hair that's just starting to get a little gray, but she wanted it to look great for the wedding. So my friend and her mom came over, and her mom did my mom's nails and they were really cute. And my mom mentioned about her hair, so my friend's mom said she'd do it for her. So they got all set up in the kitchen, and she began to dye my mom's hair...

When she finished, it did look a lot different. :whistle: My mom went in her room to dry it so we could see what it really looked like...and when she came out, we all realized her hair had turned bright pink! :rotfl:

She called her friend who is a hairstylist, and got an appointment for early the next morning to fix it. And her hair came back out a lovely deep reddish-copper color. But for a while there my mom had pink hair! :p I SO wish I had thought to snap a picture. :eyebrows:

thankou loony mgic,i think ill dye it again...i dont want it to fade to a lighter tone.Thankyou.

My aunt dyed her hair auburn a few years ago. Well, at least that was the advertised color on the box! Her hair was jet black afterwards. AAHHH!

She called 1-800 LOREAL and the person on the phone told her to repeatedly wash her hair with Prell shampoo. It worked!

I'm not sure if it works on a blonde dye though.

So, if anyone out there uses Prell, I would recommend switching to something a little less harsh. ;)

i died my hair yesterday and it turned out too blond ,not what i had in mind.Is there any way i cna darkenit a bit without havin to die it again and totally kill my hair.My husband hates it,and i hate ti that he hates it.

You could use henna to colour it, that's more natural and usually looks good :D

i thought you used that to decolour...

im such a geek i dont know much about this things...

Narrowly avoided disaster last night. One of my friends was dying my hair and the hair of another friend. They bleached the other girl's hair first and because she's brown haired it turned bleached really quickly. But see I'm a red head and everyone just kept saying that my hair didn't seem to be going any lighter. So we ignored it and my itching scalp until suddenly my friend jumped and pushed me up the stairs to wash it out.

Shock white is not a good look for me. Luckily it was only the front of my hair and the blue covered it up nicely.

I cut my hair myself about 6 years ago. I got bored and decided that I wanted a fringe, needless to say there was one bit in the middle that was much much shorter than the rest. In art one day, we had to draw portraits of the people sitting opposite us...the girl opposite so kindly pointed it out to me. More than once.

Then there's my lovely "I want to be a red head" story. I bought a lovely colour that said something like "Aztec Copper" on the box, it was really a gorgeous colour, deep auburn. I have medium brown hair, so I figured yeah why not. It ended up going bright bright bright orange, Ronald McDonald orange. I don't know what went wrong, but my brothers would not pack it in, they though it was hysterical.

Once when my mum dyed the grey out of her hair with a red Herbal Essences, it turned the dark bits of her hair a lovely red colour, and it turned the grey bits in her hair bright, and I mean BRIGHT orange. That was funny!

She cut my fringe once so that it was about an inch long- and it's usually about 2 and a half inches...I cried

I streaked my hair red once and it went pink instead, which isn't bad in itself, but I then redid it when the pink started fading, but my mum did it in different places than the last one, so I looked like I had naturally pink hair with brown streaks. It was amazing! That wasn't really a disaster, but it was a good thing that I had already left school by the time my mum did it the second time...My boss thought it was hilarious

The worst hair mistake I have ever made was when I convinced my friends mum that I really wanted a lighter streak down one side of my face. I've been dyeing my hair since I was really young, about 12, and at this stage I had been dyeing it different shades of red for about half a year a year. But the one thing that I never really thought through was blonde+red= ORANGE. I ended up with an inch thick orange streak down the left hand side of my head. Not a great look. In the end I started brushing my part over it to split it up a little which worked, and once the colour went more golden it looked ok. However the problem was then that I couldn't get it out! I'm just having to let it grow out :s . Two years, about 15 hair dyes and several radical cuts later (i get bored with my hair easily) and it has nearly gone, except halfway down my head there is still a very little patch of lighter hair.

Note to self, the only highlights for me are PROFESSIONAL ones. I don't mind dyeing my hair at home, but I think I'll stick to the hair dressers for streaks from now one, :]

I have platinum blonde hair that's almost white. And I love it, but I kind of grew tired of people constantly coming up to me and touching my hair, etc. Its really annoying. So i decided to try that coloring cream from L'Oreal, and tried to get some blonde streaks. I ended up with bright orange streaks, it was terrible lol. Good thing it faded quickly.

My next idea was to get black tips, because a lot of people had been suggesting it. Lets say the harsh difference between white and black wasnt very flattering either. It gradually faded to varying shades of brown, but I had to let it grow out before I could completely get rid of it.

My latest hair coloring has been to get purple, blue, and green higlights all throughout my hair. It looked neat for a while, but its faded tons now and I cant wait to get rid of it. I'll either have to bleach it or grow it out (which will take a long while).

When I was 10 I tried to dye my hair blue with food colouring.I have naturally really blonde hair so it looked pretty good until the next day when it had to be washed out and my hair turned a sickly green.

Oh wow! That must have been horrible! How long did it take to wash out?

It took a few days. Quite embarrassing at school. Ah well, I was The Girl With Green Hair.

It took a few days. Quite embarrassing at school. Ah well, I was The Girl With Green Hair.

Apparently putting tomato sauce in your hair (if it's blonde) gets rid of green, a girl I used to know was in a swimming team and knew it because chlorine gives blonde hair a greeny tinge.

Mines not probably as bad, but my recent hair disaster when I was trying to dye the under bit of my fringe so it would appear as if I have blonde streaks through my fringe (noting my hair is pitch black). As I took out the foil I had dyed my whole fringe orange, I couldn’t risk re dying it as if I tried to bleaching it again the bits of hair in my fringe would break off. Took me a while to grow back, yet I still have orange tips till this day.

THE CURSE OF THE ORANGE.... has anybody NOT been struck with it?

I havent had bad times with this. But i hate it when it's almost fading and not faded yet :grumble:

Well, I don't dye my hair, but I put temprary sprays in my hair for costumes. They sometimes take a while to wash out, especially glitter. :shrug: I highlighted my hair once a blond-ish and it was almnost too much so it looked like I should have just dyed the rest of it blonde (:p).


My mom bought her regular reddish brown hair dye and it must have been a fluke in packaging because her hair was purple when it was dried out. :wow: :err: My friend came over the next day and she looked at my mom's hair and thought it was the coolest thing, (my mom still hated it). she re-dyed her hair a day later back to the normal color and the day after that I go back to school only to see my friend with that purple hair. :wow:!!!! :lol:

I've never been hit with the orange disaster, but I am one of the few people I know who has. I have a friend who dyed his hair blue, which was fine for all of five minutes, and then when he washed it it went ginger...

I dyed my boyfriend's hair blueblack once- I was the only one who liked it

I've never really had any DIY disasters, but my sister and her friend who went through the stage of loving to dye their hair. :rolleyes: My sister tried dying her hair purple and it came out pink. My brother helped his then girlfried dye her hair. He picked out the color (I think they were going for a red) and her hair came out purple.

My friend who was going to school to be a hair dresser for her final exam had to do like 5 hair cuts and she wanted me to be one of her victim volunteers since I have a very different texture than many. Anyway, she was trying to give me an edgy trendsetting style and it didnt turn out too well. She wanted me to have really blunt bangs and when you have curly hair that just doesnt work out! It was like a cross between a mullet and long buzz cut... I cant explain, it was just ugly and I had to lie to the guy overseeing the exam and say it was exactly what I wanted.

Well Ive never really done anything to my hair, I mean I get it cut, and stuff but it turns out ok, and my hair is black so I dont wanna dye it,

bbuuuttt

my best friend has darkish lighish brown hair so she decided she wanted to be different, so she got the dye thing, and did it, and boy howdy was it different.... it was like UT orange.... y'know that odd burnt orange? Anyway she said to me, "Its horrible! My grandma messed it up!" and being the good person that I am i said, "It looks fine" then I ran.... and the same friend tried it again, only this time it was half-brown half-marroon.....


My other friend has really curly hair, so she erm straightened it, it usually looks awesome straight except she put half of it into a ponytail. So she was like half-prep half-emo.... it was weird...

my brother has one side dark purple, the other light purple- I hate it

Ok...my hair is this weird shade of reddish-brownish-blonde, and I've been begging my parents to let me dye it Malfoy blonde for years but they say no every time. So one time while they were gone, I got the crazy idea that I was going to put silver-blonde streaks in my hair with (of all things) a marker! It took five washes to get it out!

I once streaked my hair with nail varnish- not a good look

:lol: oh dear...I've not really had any real hair disasters, I tried to dye it red once but you couldn't tell

I think the worst was when I decided to streak my hair bright blue (I have black hair) right before my cousins wedding when I was 16. Needless to say my mother was not happy. Though she did my hair so that most of the blue was hidden. :) Oh the foolish days of my youth seem so long ago.

Ah, hair disasters....

When I was about 12-13, I wanted some streaks in my hair, actually, they were supposed to be 'copper', and I did this the day before school started after term, which is not a good thing to do.

My sister and mum did it for me, and the horrendous thing was that it turned the 'copper' streaks orange! The day after I had to go to school with my hair orange and brown, and I was called orange, orang-utang, etc, and I know that some people took pictures of it for the laughs. That night my mum re-dyed my hair to brown, however it was more auburn, and that's the way it has stayed ever since.

However I did miss the orangeness of the hair, it was cool but totally not normal. I wonder why I never got kicked out of school :/

Another bad D.I.Y. hair mishap was when my sister wanted her fringe cutting for a cosplay convention, and she asked me to cut it, actually, mum did, because I cut my fringe to be a side fringe when I was 14. However, I kinda cut it the wrong way and she was NOT happy!

And another time I was asked to trim my older sisters' hair and I kinda cut it tooo short, not a trim, a cut XD

I dyed my hair black in april...and i decided to dye it back to as close to my natural color as possible like chocolate brown and we got the brown dye..put it in..i had brown roots and black hair...it was awful...we went to a professional shop [sally's beauty supply shop] and i had to STRIP the color out of my hair....it was sooo frightening to me..i heard thats an awful thing to do...I did it..it turned it like dirty blonde[it's supposd to do that] and then i dyed it brown [like nathan kress's color and or selena gomez's color....brown (dark chocolate brown-ish)].

It's bad for me because I can not handle the fumes...I will pass out!

Story 2:
Years ago, I dyed my hair beach blonde...My mom started putting on the hair color...minutes later. My eyes rolled back, and I swayed back and forth...I passed out on the floor...Woke up several minutes later with hair dye in my eyes, all over my clothes and all over my face..It was awful....OMG I'll never EVER have that happen again.

My hair is currently two tone black and reddish brown- not the best look in the world

My hair is currently two tone black and reddish brown- not the best look in the world

I know the feeling. About 3 years ago, I had platinum blonde on top and black underneath. But half way through my hair, the two colours mixed and I had a blue line through my hair. Trendy.

It's best to know what undertone (red/neutral, yellow/warm, or blue/cool) your hair has before dying it. For example, I once made the mistake of going with a golden blonde instead of a neutral and my hair wound up with an orangish-tint to it. It's also good to stay within two shades of your natural hair color, but I guess this wouldn't apply to those who wouldn't mind having turquoise hair.

Luckily, I never tried to cut my hair or dye it myself since I had friends who made those mistakes before I got a chance, so I got to see the effects first hand and learned to not try to do it. Also, we weren't allowed to dye our hair in high school, so I never really got a chance to go nuts with that until college, and by then I knew better than to try it myself.

The closest thing to a disaster came right after I graduated from community college. A while before that, I'd had really, really short (not boy short, but y'know, like Halle Berry short) hair with big, chunky, blond highlights. I got tired of the short hair, and I didn't want to dye it again because it cost so much, so I just started growing it out. This was the second time I'd dyed my hair in a row, and it's naturally kind of frizzy anyway, so it was starting to get pretty frazzled out. My hair is naturally a chestnut, darkish brown, so when my roots starting growing out, it was quite a contrast between that and the blond bottom part. My hair grows really fast, so by the time I was about to graduate, it was past shoulder-length, and 2/3 were brown and 1/3 blond, and the blond ends were totally fried, not to mention not really blond anymore because it had faded to a funky sort of orangey color. I did the best I could for graduation; I put every product known to man on it and spent I don't know how long with the hair dryer trying to make it look presentable...it came out okay. It probably looked like I'd air-dried it that morning by normal people's standards, but at least it wasn't a complete bird's nest. It was still two-toned, which wasn't exciting, but I took pictures in the shade, so it didn't show up too much in the photos, haha.

The worst part, luckily, came after that. I don't even remember why, but I let my mom cut my hair just to get the fried blond ends off; just sort of a stop-gap until I could get to a hair salon. She cut it off straight across at the bottom, and hey, at least she cut it straight, but it didn't exactly look stylish. I looked like an anime character with the square corners at the outer bottom. I haven't dyed my hair since then...it's too expensive to keep it up, and frankly, my hair is going gray at an alarming rate (I'm only 26!), and I want to spend some quality time with my natural hair color while I still have it.

The one hair disaster I will never forget was when I was in kindergarten. That's right, kindergarten. I hated getting haircuts because I saw pictures of all the celebrities and they all had long hair, and of course I was like I want to be like them. Finally my mom convinced me to get a trim, but I only allowed to Hair dresser to cut like and inch off. When I got home, my mom was like," But you would look so pretty with short hair. I don't understand." So of course, I tried to make my mom happy and I cut my hair with a pair of those giant scissors that you shouldn't play with when you're a 5 year old. I cut the hair on one side of my head so there was like an inch of hair left. I started crying and I went to my mom and my sister, and we had to go back to the salon to get the hair on the other side of my head cut the same way. I was mortified when I got back to school. Well, as mortifed as a crazy 5 year old, kindergartner can get.

Hewlee Mewldee : Try hacking your bangs with nail scissors

Well, I got my hair cut. And realized I HATE my hair short. So I have a little bit to wait for it to be a length I like a bit.