Do you have a hair horror story?

My horror story is actually the reason I grew my hair long the first time.  I was in high school and was growing out my pixie cut for the first time in my life.  I was still swimming competitively, so I needed a style that was easy to manage.  My mother thought a body perm would be the answer, so off we went to the salon.  The first perm did not take, so they processed it again (THE SAME DAY!) with a stronger solution.  The chemical process burned my hair so bad that it broke off at the scalp.  I ended up wearing a wig for a month until it grew out enough to be called a pixie cut again.  I was so afraid to go back to a salon after that, that it was 12 years before I stepped into a salon again.

Yes, but the horror of losing hair of that length would be much more tramatic than my shoulder length hair at the time.  I have been very leary of chemical processes ever since, as I am sure she is.

Oh no! That's awful!! How long was your hair then?

lol! I know what you mean though!

My hair horror story was when I was about 5, my hair was hip length (it grows fast!) and I had fallen asleep. My brothers are 4 years older than me and twins and get up to a lot of mischief. Well, they decided to put gum in my hair! And when I woke up I couldn't brush it and I found gum there, since I was trying to brush it, it went all over the place and so I ran to my mother screaming! And the only way I could fix it was to cut it off  , but it was only a little bit and it didn't even look uneven because my hair is so thick and it was in the underside. Actually when I was young I never took care of my hair so I got massive knots and my mother frequently had to cut them out because they were *impossible* to brush out. But thankfully my hair is growing back very healthy! 

WOW after reading some of your stories my bad perm  doesn't seem so bad and doesn't make a very good story.  I grew my hair out because a very bad perm burnt my hair...no real fire was involved...just a bad perm and hair cut.

ginny

I had a good friend in high school that lost some hair to a fire, also, only it was intentionally done by someone behind us on the school bus we were riding in!

My horror story is not as dramatic as the fire as I look back now, but it was then:  

My hair is naturally dark brown (maybe I'll have a chance to post a picture some day   ) but I have a "blonde streak" in the back.  It is just a 1" diameter spot on my head that has no pigment (it runs in the family.)  Way back when, Sun-in was used all the time to lighten your hair to appear as if you had golden highlights (it was a spray you put in before going out in the sun)   The same company came out with an actual bleaching kit that was supposed to achieve the same thing.  We decided to use that instead of waiting for the sun to do it's work.  My hair turned a strawberry blonde which i liked.  My Blonde streak appeared very light blonde.  We liked how that looked, too, so we decided to frost my hair to add more "streaks"  Back then, we used a rubber cap with holes that you pull sections of hair through with a crochet hook.  That, in itself, is painful and hard on the hair.  Once all the hair you want to frost is pulled through, you add the chemical.  When we were done and had MOST of my hair back where it belonged (some came out in the cap) my hair was ALL WHITE      

We went straight back to the store and got dye to match my natural color and dyed it back. All this in one day!!  If I only knew then what I know now  Soon after, my hair (if you could still call it hair) turned an odd shade of orange and I had to grow it out.  Whew- that was a long one

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I hope so too...No perms or any other chemical treatment is going to go near my hair....maybe I'll try the sock thing again but that is about all

ginny

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If the red streaks were created using a permanent dye, the damage is permanent, just "covered" by the subsequent dye to return your hair to its more natural color.  Unless you have cut all that hair off, your ends would still have the processing on them.  Good conditioning and oiling can minimize the damage from the chemical processing.