Hair Horror Stories and Vents

What do you mean that's normal?? 
Growing up I had a beautiful head of hair. It was thick, thick and long down my back. And super resilient, a fact that I would take for granted. In ...

"well, you wanted it that way." 
A local TV station listed a salon as the city's best, so one would think... it was safe. For a YEAR I worked on growing my hair to a length that would ...

MY HAIR IS RUINED 
Hi my name is Dianne from Sydney, Australia and I have been getting my hair dyed blonde for the last 10 years or so. I am naturally a brunette. I have ...

Dominican Blow Out 
My hair is natural so I decide to give my wig a rest and go to the nearest Dominican Shop, I notice several black girls like myself walking in and out ...

Birth control pills & Severe Hair Breakage 
Hello my name is Joann. Six years ago I was dealing with extremely heavy periods that kept me home-bound and confined to my home for the 7-8 days that ...

Texturize This!!! 
I've been chemical free for the last 4+ yrs. I fell off the wagon this past March when I couldn't deal with my natural, curly hair anymore. I went to a ...

CLIP-INS MURDERED MY HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I've had shoulder length hair since my big-chop in 5th grade. I'm now 19 years old, and, up until a few months ago, I was a hair-extension virgin.

The ...

"did you cut your hair?" 
I am 14 years old and half black, and as of lately my hair has been nothing but aggravating. Just to let y'all know, almost all my life I had braids.That ...

OMG No More Relaxer 
Okay, so here's the story. I personally relaxed my hair for over 20 years! I used Gentle Treatment. Everything was going okay. About 3 or 4 years ago I ...

NEVER SHAMPOOED HAIR!  
This will probably be the most horrific story you guys have EVER heard and believe me, every word is true. Okay so, I'm female, 19, and I have very healthy ...

"Snatch Backing" can be very dangerous! 
***This is not my horror story but a friend of mine.***

Well when I was in high school (about…uhhh… along time ago lol) those gelled up ponytails (ya ...

What Part of "a little bit" didn't you understand??? 
Very recently, I went to my hairdresser to get a wash and style. I have been growing my hair out and my goal has ultimately been to get my hair past the ...

Relaxed Regret.. 
I'm young(16 years old)and already I regret ever having my hair chemically relaxed. I got my first relaxer when I was 13 years old. My hair came out looking ...

Hair cuttery salon flat ironed my hair off 
It all started in 2008 when I decided to grow my hair long and research how to grow African American hair. Well I finally GOT the key: protected styles ...

Baldy-Locks! 
I had been wearing my hair natural for 2 years! Talk about beautiful natural healthy hair! Well I decided I wanted a change. So I did my research and ...

Clipped Ends or Hair Cut? 
I had an encounter when I went to the salon to get my ends clipped. There is a young lady I know who works at the salon who clipped my ends. I sat in the ...

Using Too Much Protein 
I was trying to strengthen my hair and used Aphoghee 2 Step Treatment for 6 straight weeks. The bottle said 6 weeks to stronger hair and I thought I had ...

Bee where it wasn't supposed to be!! 
I always had trouble dealing with curly hair when I was younger. The most embarrassing and unforgettable incident was when I was in the firth grade and ...

Long Layers... are you sure? 
Ok, so I've worn my hair long and (yes, I dare say it) with fringe since was a kid. My hair is very fine and slightly wavy (though not enough to be carefree-...

Oh Brother! What have you done now? 
When I was younger I used to wear my hair in long beautiful braids using extensions, and when not doing so I would wear it in some other cute style. Each ...

baldroomie 
As a college freshman, I was told that I could get a girl on the hall to relax my hair for ten dollars before homecoming weekend. She was supposed to ...

Dr. No Miracle 
I was in search of a hair conditioner that would help some of the itching that I was experiencing on my scalp. Here I am on my lunch at the Kings Beauty ...

BC Nightmare 
In the spring of 2007, I decided to go natural and get my hair braided with extensions while I was waiting for it to grow. I was new in town and had a ...

The Patchwork Head! 
My mom was not the most savvy in caring for her own and our hair. For the early years of our lives (up to 4th grade), we endured the horrible Jerry Curl ...

Wig-A-Boo-Doo 
Two years ago, I began transitioning my hair from relaxed to natural. If anyone has experienced that transitioning phase, you know how challenging styles ...

My not so bangin' day 
After completing my homework, I walked into the kitchen to see what was cooking, but, to my terror the island and kitchen sink were spotless- and there ...

discoloration isnt only for your skin 
When i was sixteen i decided to do something different to my hair. My hair has always been long and thick.

I went to my local beauty supply store ...

Hot Head Warm Heart 
When I was about twelve years old I went to get my first relaxer, my mother being old fashioned had started getting my hair pressed by a little lady who ...

From queen to mr clean 
Hello my name is Laqueena and man do I have a horror story for you.

It all started a couple of years ago when I decided to put some tracks in my hair....

Electric Shock Therapy 
I wore my hair in pigtails until I got my first relaxer at age 8 (I'm now 46), by 9 my hair was pressed every week, never seeing hair grow past my chin....

Why Me??? 
This is so hard for me to do. My horror story begins when I tried to look for a stylist that promoted healthy hair. So, I decided to ask around; I asked ...

Wait...my hair can melt??? 
I've always had long hair. In part because I hide behind it. I've always been the girl with the pretty face...yeah you know, that one. The chubby girl ...

Chopped and Screwed 
I saw this picture of Rihanna in a magazine, and her hair is always cute, new, hip, and fresh to me, so I decided that I wanted my hair like she had hers ...

Orange is Not the Business 

At the tender age of 17 I learned the hard way to never ever let an untrained and certified friend do anything chemically altering to my hair. I wanted ...

Worms Aren't Just For Fishing 
I am a first grade elementary school teacher. In the teaching profession (as everyone knows), I educate diverse cross sections of children. Prior to teaching,...

Gone in 60 seconds! 
I had decided to go all natural after relaxing my hair for 3 years. I had fully grown my relaxed hair out and was fully natural. This lasted for about ...

Salon Hair Dryer!! 
My hair was past my bra strap. I went to a beautician that put a super relaxer in my hair and sat me under the dryer for 3 minutes. When she finished my ...

Matted and Mad 
In November 2001, I decided to get micro braids because I was tired of doing my shoulder length hair. They were so cute, dark brown with blonde ...

Long to Gone 
I found out this story from my mother. She told it to me when I expressed my desire to get my hair down to mid chest level. She told me it used to be,...

I'm depressed but I have hair!! 
I have suffered from Depression for most of my life, and never really did anything professionally to help myself. My finances didn't allow it or I was ...

How to Lose a Close Friend 
It was the Sunday before school and I was desperately in need of a fresh press. The hairdresser I normally use was on vacation and the only other one that ...

I Burn No More 
My scalp used to burn so bad during a relaxer retouch that my hair would stick to my scalp. My scalp would ooze clear liquid and looked and felt wet for ...

What I lost in the Fire 
I always get a little upset when I tell this story but sharing it helps me get my frustration out.

I am mixed with Filipino and African American so ...

PERM BURN 
When I was a teenager, a friend told me that I needed to try something new called a perm. I have never heard of a perm because I was getting my hair ...

JC Penney Salon-A Huge Don't! 
In January of 2008, I went to a JC Penney Salon for a relaxer touch up. This was supposed to be a treat for myself, since I had been doing my own relaxers....

OMG...My 3yr old son cut my hair!!! 
It was a Monday morning and I decided to help my son's 3 year old class. Well, I was filling in for a teacher that day. The teacher put me at a table with ...

A Mess 
I have always (as long as I can remember) had very long hair (to my waist). Recently I was ill with the flu, tried to wash my hair, and went to bed with ...

beauty schools 
I went to one of those beauty schools to get my hair done and they messed up my hair so bad...she was supposed to give me a hair cut and she cut all my ...

I fought the kink...and the chemicals won.....  Not rated yet
This is a junior high hair horror story.

I was wearing the popular Jheri curl style while in junior high, until one day I saw my sister come home from ...

Color Cry Out  Not rated yet
I am the type that loves to color my hair. Once I tried to bleach it then put a color on top. Well.....I end up buying a pink color instead of red and ...

Burning up again....  Not rated yet
On one occasion I went to a high end salon and asked for a relaxer, it was quite a busy day and boy do I regret that day. After the base was applied everything ...

Had to break up with my stylist  Not rated yet
I've been going to my stylist for 8 yrs since the age of 15. I am now 23 and I have been getting relaxers all 8 yrs. My hair was in very good condition ...

stuck  Not rated yet
I don't know if this would count as much of a horror story but I'm just stuck in this hair journey of mine. I have been growing out my last perm for almost ...

The hair stylist from HELL!!!  Not rated yet
I had been going to a hair stylist for right at 2 years. I thought I had found a trustworthy stylist, especially when she said she was for healthy hair....

Press & Curl  Not rated yet
I went natural about 8 years ago. I almost never straighten my hair and I the only time I use heat is for deep conditioning. Of those 8 years, I've had ...

London Tresses Falling Down...  Not rated yet
I was lucky enough to get to spend 18 days in London five years ago. Should I mention that I learned a very important lesson the very first morning I ...

she calls herself a "professional"?!?!  Not rated yet
I had long, thick, naturally bouncy hair, and I have been going to this hairdresser who straightens my hair with "BTK" (Brazilian keratin treatment)...

Color  Not rated yet
I promised myself, I will never color my hair again! I said that about 6 yrs. ago and here I am "colored hair girl" again. I colored my hair red for ...

Hairspray fuelled the problem!  Not rated yet
I was lighting some candles to set a nice mood for an evening meal with friends. I bent over a table full of them to light ones further back on the table ...

AFTERMATH of first time professional braids!!  Not rated yet
I had never had my hair in professional braids before. I wanted to grow my hair out for the summer & not have to perm my hair so often, so I gave it a ...

Mad hairdresser horror!  Not rated yet
So after having braids for a while I decided to relax my hair because I like handling my own hair. I usually went to a salon downtown specially for black ...

Bleach Soaked Color "Correction"  Not rated yet
To all of you natural blonds out there, cherish your natural color! I made a huge mistake playing with permanent box black hair dye, which washed me out ...

A Hairy BBQ  Not rated yet
About a year ago, my stepdaughter came to live with us permanently. Upon her arrival, we noticed that she had braids with extensions which looked like ...

Trying to be cute!  Not rated yet
Okay, so my husband says to me, 'you dress old'. He wasn't being mean... you see, I'm 31, recently lost 70 lbs, let my hair grow down my back, and I just ...

TOO SHORT!  Not rated yet
Okay, well my cousin, Brooke, works at a Great Clips. She offered to take me there and get my hair clipped and straightened. I said sure, why not. I need ...

Where's the blonde Not on my head  Not rated yet
I have a salon I have been going to for years and about month ago I went in to get a frosting. The stylist asked if I would like to try the frosting cap ...

Can you please put it back!!!  Not rated yet
When I was 4 years old I went into the bathroom with a pair of scissors and my cat. My mom didn't notice what was going on because she was on the phone ...

Do it yourself  Not rated yet
I started cutting my hair myself and it always turned out great. Well, there was this one time when I made a mistake but that was my first time cutting ...

Literally FRIED!!!  Not rated yet
I had been growing my hair natural for two years now. And I wanted to prove to other ladies that you can still have straight, healthy natural hair. BTW ...

From Long to Short  Not rated yet
It all began with me getting my first relaxer. Yes, I was a relaxer virgin. My Natural hair before my first relaxer was about mid-back length. The first ...

Dear Horror  Not rated yet
I have personally messed up my hair on a few occasion, but hair grows back.

My horror story is about hair dressers who are unprofessional, such as never ...

Lovely Long, and Natural to Struggling, Short and Relaxed  Not rated yet
I had long hair from when I was in primary school until sixth grade. My mother had never known how to do hair so she had taken me to a hairdresser as soon ...

From funky beehive to red and rotten...  Not rated yet
As a young child, I had long hair that my mother painstakingly would wash, set, and if needed press at least once a week. I looked great, but the process ...

Where Did my Aphro Go?  Not rated yet
I decided to go natural! Yea exciting, my course of action was to wear braids until I got the length I desired. Once the length was achieved I had a fly ...

I thought you had a license????  Not rated yet
Where do I begin? I relocated from the south to the mid-Atlantic a few years ago. I knew that I was going experience some stress because of different ...

Highlights??? No, the darkest days of my life.  Not rated yet
After moving to a new city from Washington, DC I had the need to find a new stylist. My hair was past my shoulder blades, and being in the military at ...

Relaxer Nightmare  Not rated yet
Hi, I'm 16 years old and when I was younger I had EXTREMELY curly hair that I didn't appreciate as much as I would now. They were really pretty and long ...

Mom does not always know best  Not rated yet
My horror story starts when I was a very young girl. My mom who has extremly strong thick short hair decided that I needed to get my first perm at the ...

I Burnt my hair with a hot comb  Not rated yet
I was upset at my hairstylist who was not providing me with good customer service so I decided to do my hair myself and I was overdue for a relaxer so ...

Don't experiment the day before school  Not rated yet
It was the day before my first day of high school and I still had not gotten my hair done and it looked a mess. I hadn't gotten a relaxer for the whole ...

All Colors of the Rainbow!!!  Not rated yet
My hair is naturally a "dusty brown" hue. Well when I turned 30 last year I decided I was grown enough to have the sexy, shiny black hair that we all ...

Hair Gone Bald  Not rated yet
My horror story involves me trying to save money by relaxing my own hair. For several months, I relaxed my own hair and continued to leave it on even though ...

"Super" Size Me!  Not rated yet
When I was in college, I went home for one of my breaks and decided to put in my own relaxer. I had done this before while at school so I felt confident ...

MY GLORY ALSO SEEMED INVISIBLE  Not rated yet
"I'm going to the Africans!" is what I was telling my sister as we shouted through the telephone.

It was a nice, cool day and I got up early to make ...

Not Enough Product,Too Much Time  Not rated yet
My horror story for me was my cousin, which is not a licensed beautician was applying a relaxer on my hair. Because I have always had alot of hair I never ...

Choppy Roots  Not rated yet
I spent a week getting braids put into my hair. Naturally the person left the middle for last. By the time I took out the braids the middle of my hair ...

All Torn Up  Not rated yet
Being from a mixed background, my white mother started relaxing my hair at the age of 8. Because I had no one to teach me about how to care for my hair ...

Mend it   Not rated yet
During my first pregnancy, I keep my hair braided (micros). I would get them touched up every month and a half, until my six month of pregnancy. I had ...

Burnt to a Crisp  Not rated yet
I called myself trying to go natural a few years ago back when I was still in college. I wanted to wear my hair straight that week, so I decided to go ...

COSMETOLOGY SCHOOL NIGHTMARE  Not rated yet
I love to wear my hair in braids (micros, cornrows, etc.)because my hair is very thick and it takes 30 to an hour to blow dry or flat iron it. One day ...

Horror Mum.  Not rated yet
I had very short and dry hair. It was a nightmare. I browsed the web continuously for any remedy to at least find something that will make my hair grow....

Thank you God for the Side Ponytail  Not rated yet
In high school, I wore my hair natural, and would press it every two weeks for a different look. Now, when I say press, I was using a hot oven with a ...

Burnt Patch  Not rated yet
Well it was my anniversary with my boyfriend of 10 months at the time. I was getting all dolled up, and I was in a rush that I just forgot to put in heat ...

working for the devil  Not rated yet
So I work in a salon for 5 years specializing as a chemical technician (color, relaxers, perms) and my boss who is like the boss in the movie the devil ...

Horrendous Highlights!  Not rated yet
My sister-in-law was once my stylist. Notice that I said, "once," as in previously and certainly not any more. Although she can style the heck out of hair,...

What did I see....It was a bald spot staring back at me!!!!!!!  Not rated yet
About a year ago I told my hair stylist to cut my hair in long layers but don't take off too much. She should have known what to do as she had cut it like ...

HAIR ON FIRE [LITERALLY}  Not rated yet
When I was a little girl, I went over my grandmother's friend's house for Halloween. I was excited because I knew she had plenty of Halloween goodies ...

I had a whole in my head  Not rated yet
The weekend before my Great Aunt's funeral I went to a hairdresser recommended by mom due to my lack of knowledge of how to transition from permed hair ...

The Tiger Skunk   Not rated yet
Big mistake going to a hairdressing school to go blonde... my bad.
I had tried it myself (with predictable pumpkin results) but figured if I had to let ...

Balding Eagle?!?!  Not rated yet
This happened about a few years ago. When I was in middle school, I had alot of trouble with my hair. So I cut it all off and got it tapered in the back,...

ilostitall  Not rated yet
One day i decided to be very spontaneous with myself. My hair was already bleach from the last time i attended my prom so i decided i would spontaneously ...

"Cluless and Colorful"  Not rated yet
About two years ago I decided to try coloring my hair at home (1st mistake)! I had a friend who was in beauty school who assured me it wasn't hard and ...

I made a boo boo  Not rated yet
Hey, I'll just call myself G. Yeah I've been to cosmetology school and completed, the whole 9. I went to do my buddy's hair and it came out from the ...

Shine Now...Cry Later  Not rated yet
Well my story stems form the need to always have shiny hair. Well a while back I went and had my hair braided professionally. I had got cornrows with extensions ...

Heat Happy  Not rated yet
Hey everyone my name is Jenn. I'm 16 years old and I want to tell my horror story. Well it all started when i was in 7th grade. my mother wanted to relax ...

"Oprah's Protege"!!  Not rated yet
I am currently 30 years old; and into my tenth month of transitioning. This is the first time in almost twenty years that I will be chemical free!! As ...

The human girl who went from beauty to a alien  Not rated yet
One afternoon I decided to perm my hair. I sectioned off my hair into four parts. As I began perming my hair it began burning as I put it in. My head was ...

How I lost my wonderful Afro  Not rated yet
Hi,

Here's the story of my biggest hair disaster. It happened in 2004, when I went to study in Berlin for 6 months.

At that time, I was natural ...

Rumpelstiltskin turned Goldie Locks into Straw  Not rated yet
I always had long naturally curly hair and kept very good care of it. For a change of looks, now and then, I'd let my stylist blow dry my hair out straight....

My Least Favorite Haircut  Not rated yet
When I was little and it was shortly before school started in September. My sister asked my mom if it was ok to give my hair a little cut..

Somehow ...

Curly Afro  Not rated yet
When I was in the six grade (I was twelve) I had hair to my mid back, but smart me decided to get a SHORT HAIRCUT!!! Mind you my hair is severely curly....

"WHAT???" This is permed hair.  Not rated yet
I went to a stylist to get my hair styled so in order to avoid the large fee of getting a perm I permed it before going. After the stylist washed and began ...

Hair Horror - Tangled Hair  Not rated yet
I had just put a perm on my hair a week ago. I was home and was just going to unwrap my hair. As I was combing my hair my hair down, the comb got caught ...