Sep 27th, 2008 by toryssa
People. Today I made a bad, bad call.
Yesterday at work I found this picture:
Such cool hair. I thought maybe my hair should look like that. All wild and sassy, and so fucking wonderful. I went around asking opinions. I emailed the picture to my mother and my best friend. The general consensus was that my hair isn’t that curly, but the style is really cute, and it would look close enough.
Go for it, everyone said.
And so I did. I printed the picture and off I traipsed to the salon.
Only. FUCKING HELL. It didn’t go to plan at all. I look a lot less gorgeous and a whole lot more like the Queen fucking Mother.
I had so much hair just a few hours ago. Age appropriate hair. Maybe slightly boring hair, but it was fine. Just fucking fine. Stupid picture, but the hair. So. Much. Of. It.
Now? No. Not so much. Now, I have old lady SET hair. The lady actually used a fucking curling iron and hair spray, and she gave me this horrible helmet:
It’s possible that I’ll like it more after I play with it… I tried straightening it. Which. Better, I guess. Certainly more age appropriate.
Yet. It’s nothing like the picture I took with me. I wasn’t just looking for a change, I wasn’t getting my hair cut for the sheer sake of it. I was getting it cut because I wanted that style.
What is there to do about bad haircuts? I mean really. It’s not like I can put it in a ponytail for the next six months.
Duncan, with a child’s ability to be completely candid, told me I was now funny enough looking to play pirates. Because, you know, real pirates aren’t pretty. So yay. There is a bright side after all.
12 Responses to “Don’t be fooled. Length does matter.”
Ok I love the inspiration picture, its fun, and funky, and stylish. The stylist obviously couldn’t get the concept. I love the straight version of it. It’s fun, funky, and stylish as well. Once you work with it, you will find an acceptable style, I promise. The straight version reminds me of the haircut here, and I think its fun, and cute.
http://www.latest-hairstyles.com/short/
I’m sorry you got a bad haircut, I certainly know what that’s like. I hope you find an acceptable style you like while you go through the transition of growing it back out. But play around with it, and have fun and try to make the best of the situation.
Holy shit. You know what? The hairdresser didn’t even come close… her cut is not even in the same ballpark as the style you wanted.
(I really like that style you wanted)
But wait.. all is well.. I like it. It looks very pixie-ish (and not tinkerbell or peter pan pixie).
Kinda like that chic Dido.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l293/jotseknotser/Album2/Dido-OddsAndEnds.jpg
Is your hair thin or thick? Mine is thick and frizzy - so I use a pea sized drop of frizz ease before blow drying. Maybe flip the back bits outward and use a teeny amount of gel on the ends when it’s dry and you’re styling it. It’s a huge change, but really cute.
I’m just such a bitch - the kind that would walk back into the salon with the picture - go straight to the manager and get my $$ back. And what else? Tell them if you don’t get a refund or some more work equal to what you paid, you’ll be sharing a nasty review with the better business bureau.
Show them before and after shots.. you HAD the hair to make that style happen.
xo
oh.. oh.. oh my.. wow. You should email that to her company’s headquaters.. wow not even close! At least it looks workable when you straighten it but OMG. Someone needs to snap her scissors in half and cast her out to go do helmet hair at the old folks home.
Arrr!
I am so sorry me matey! It looks a lot cuter when it is straightened. You are brave! I cannot cut my hair.
Did you hide your dissapointment from the hair dresser, or let her have it?
I’ve been there, and it’s an awful feeling. I like the straight version, and you’re still gorgeous!
Was this your usual hair stylist?
This is what you need to do: go to a salon or beauty supply store and buy Superstar blowdrying lotion from Tigi’s Bed Head line. Wash and condition your hair and apply a quarter-size amount of product to your hair, comb it through. Take a medium barrel round brush and blow dry it in sections (starting in the back).Once it is completely dry, put some gloss or shine spray on your hair, part it on the side and take a medium barrel curling iron to your hair and curl the top layers of hair in spirals. Once finished, use your fingers to gently seperate the curls.
You didn’t ask for my advice, but trust me, it will make your cut easier to live with and it will more closely resemble what you wanted.
The good news is hair grows back.
Yeah. Did you shoot her after she sabotaged your head? It does look better straightened and the good thing with hair is that it does grow. What to do until then….extensions maybe. I like the picture that bella had of the pixie cut. You could totally rock that. You still look HAWT!
Did it KILL you to have to pay her? Did you tip her?
Even though you got a bad cut, you’re lucky that you’re so pretty. If you put that cut on me…OMFG..BWAHAHAHA
I think it’s CRIMINAL when hairdressers don’t pay attention and get your desired ‘do totally WRONG. Seirously, I would kick some ass. PS: You’re still adorable, so fortunately it’s not a crisis.
Djeez, is that haircutter blind or something?!
I had a really weird playmobile/lego haircut once. The (only!) good part about it was that I got very inventive with my hair. That was nice… destruction really does breed creation!
How did your stylist get from the cool picture you brought to the one in the first cut picture. I don’t see bangs in you cool picture. I especially don’t see curled under thick bangs in your cool picture. I do like it much better when you straightened it.