Because Why Did They Do This To Her Hair?!

rema85: "I don't sit in nobody's chair to look like what I been through." PERIOD.

Xysha Montre: I went to this girl house in 03 to get my braids done. It’s sooooo many parts I’m going to skip for sake of time but this could literally be a mini episode of something. Anyway, she braiding the back of my hair, we’re in a room, with her, her boyfriend, and his homeboy. The mEnZ are smoking reefer. I’m agitated because two roaches keep crawling across the TV and nobody is acknowledging it beside me and the homebody, through eye contact. After about ten minutes, I feel the homebody trying to get my attention - no, not flirting. He’s trying to discreetly tell me it’s a ROACH ON MY KNEE!!! I jump up SCREAMING! Very long story short : I told my boyfriend come get me NOW!!!!!!! SMH. Never again

Patty Williams: That “beautician” took her from young girl with pretty hair to something between Little Orphan Annie to little old lady. Only thing left is to dye the hair orphan red or old lady blue. ‍♀️

Tarius M: My sister decided to go "blonde". Went to the salon that she went to for years. Her original hairdresser had passed away so she went to one of the other ladies. Somehow she missed a step or added one or was on an "herbal" treatment. When I tell you that my sister's hair came out... like you could run your fingers thru it and come away looking like Wolfman Jack. Hairdresser had the nerve to say come back so she could fix it. At the time, my sister didn't use curse words. By the time she finished with ol girl... she had invented some words! She looked like a bronze cotton ball for a while!

Emmanuella: The day a hairdresser does sum like this to me, I’ll end up in jail

RedDragon Smaug: Yep . An older family member (old enough to still think in terms of having “good hair”/“bad hair”. I evidently had the “bad hair”) took me to a salon when I was about 12/13 or so. I knew something was up when hairdresser turned up an hour late, did somebody ELSE’S hair first, rolled her eyes at me, **then** got around to doing mine. She chemically straightens my hair . I finally get outside and scratch behind my ear. Turns out there was a GIANT clump of leftover relaxer stuck behind my ear and it nearly burned my skin… suffice to say the LAST TIME I ever got my hair relaxed… and my hair has flourished because of that decision.

Nik Lav: I've unfortunately got more horror stories than I can share . I've had my hair underprocessed, overprocessed, cut in a Farah Fawcett flip , a bowl cut, a haircut from the 3 stooges ‍♀️, braids so tight my eyebrows were at the top of my head, , a fried fried fried silk press straighter than Pocahontas, and a mullet . I've never even seen a Black person with a mullet so I don't know what that hairstylist was on. I realized soon enough that I shouldn't have to do jail time because someone who dares to call themselves a hairstylist is out here ruining lives. I've been doing my hair for a minute now and, while I'm no professional, I know I do my best to keep my hair healthy and cute.

Super TJ72: Hair down my back (mid back)…I wanted a change…went to my cousin the licensed stylist…asked for a high low cut…high in the back and angle down towards my face in the front…by the time she finished, it looked like she put a bowl on my head and cut around it. She kept trying to fix the angle because it apparently “wasn’t angling right”…she angled it right up to mid ears. My daddy said “a woman’s hair is a woman’s glory and don’t you EVER let her in your head again”…that was 20 years ago and she hasn’t been in my head since.

Unapologetically Royal: She aged 10 years in one sitting

AM Young: Went in for a flat iron at a shop I had been going to with my natural hair for almost 20 years off and on. She burned my hair, it all broke off smelled like an old fire and I had to pay someone else to big chop what what’s left of my shoulder length hair and start over. I just cried. Never went back to her. But the pain was real!

Denisa Dellinger: I went to a modeling school or a finishing school as my mama called it to learn how to walk, how to put on makeup and just how to present myself. They had a stylist there. He didn't tell me what he was going to do. He cut off all my hair. I had just had a perm. I hated it, I was so mad. But now I do cut my hair in a pixie because I want it in a pixie. This girl must have wanted a major cut. She went from looking like a twenty something cutie to a grandma in five minutes. She was a bad stylist. It will grow back, thank goodness! Hair Horror!

Cantetinza17: She looks like the fourth actress in Golden Girls. My mom used to take us to the Base Salon. The normal lady (White Irish Lady) was booked so a new hire (a black lady) did mine and my sisters hair. She cut our hair so lopsided and jagged that the only way to fix it was to give us both mushroom cuts. I cried so hard. My mom bought me a cheese hot dog AND a scoop of Baskin Robins. My sister took it better than me.

Nikki Beck: This reminds me of that scene from Golden Girls when Sofia convinced Dorothy, Rose and Blanche to get their hair done by Edwardo. He gave a spectacular speech to boost each woman's confidence in his ability. When he was done, they all had the same hairstyle as the one pictured in this video

Juachelle Echols: That’s the new trauma cut! I remember going to get my hair done for vacation. My friend had hers done in the style I wanted. I went to the same stylist she had gone to and took my friend with me to show the stylist what I wanted! She shaved the back of my head repeatedly with dull clippers until it was raw! No part of my friend’s head was shaved. The other stylists went and got the salon owner and showed her what had happened and I wasn’t charged. The stylist was fired. The owner was there when I showed her what style I wanted. I walked in with hair past my shoulders and walked out with a bowl cut and scalp damage. I was offered free services for three months but refused to return.

SimplySoulChef: True story…junior prom 1992 was rocking the jery curl…went to get done 2 weeks before so it would have time to get back right before prom. I walked in with hair down to my shoulders I left with hair cut short like this video the beautician told my mother she gave me a “trim” my mother didn’t pay her and cussed her from one side to the next…so here I was with a bad hairdo and ashamed at how bad she got cussed out….lol

E Volved: They made her look like an Asian pastor Shirley Caesar !!!!!!!

Rachel Renee: I am too old to be letting these sheep shirring shenanigans keep happening. I went in for a trim, came out looking like a fan blade victim. I just cut my own hair now. Gotta say, I do not miss the salon, or their charges!

anarchyneverdies: Yep, my first "trim" when I was about 12 was a lady taking 14" off my hair. I never went to another stylist, started doing extensions the next year, then became a cosmetologist just so I never have to deal with another one again

Loved77: I literally screamed when I saw the end result Po Baby! I have always had thick hair and after a stylist put a super relaxer in my hair and permed it so straight, it wouldn’t keep a curl for a month, I started doing my own hair. If I mess up my hair, it’s one thing. It’s a Whole Nother thing for me to PAY for my hair to be messed up!

Ebene-ann Luke: The most expensive and quickest time I got box braids is my horror story. I was going to jr high so I wanted a cute hair style. I convinced my dad to take me to the African Salon because all my friends went and I didnt want to be the loser that has my aunt or sister do my hair. It toke half a day because she kept taking lunch breaks and it looked great except for my edges which she braided after my dad said nah. My forehead looked huge but the reason for me loosing it out(it was 5 days). Something kept poking me and we found out she braided a fishbone in my hair. My dad made me loose the rest out and we had to go to church. My sister ended up giving me a great style for my troubles tho

A N Dickson: Well I went to the ‘home salon’ of this lady. She always had beautiful braids so I asked her if she could do a braided bob style. We were a few hours in and the back already looked FULL and felt HEAVY. I was worried. Then she had an a narcoleptic fit and fell on the floor unconscious for a few minutes literally while she had my braid in her hand. Bruh I was panicking, trying to wake her up. Then she suddenly woke up and and said it was normal acting like nothing happened and insisted on finishing my hair!!! 12 hours later my braided bob resembled a scary huge chunky ass lion’s mane and nothing like a flat cute braided bob I wanted. I was traumatised but because I felt bad that she’d been unconscious I even thanked her and paid her for the frightening braids. I was roasted mercilessly.

Kam Williams: She let these folks at this “breau-ty” shop play in her head.

NicoleB Jones: My friend's mom in high school was a beautician it was my freshman year. My hair wasn't extra long but I would say it was probably to the middle of my back.. So I have an appointment with her and I have another friend there with me. Everything is fine till we get done with the perm. I hear her gasp and then another beautician in the shop comes to her. They're talking about my hair but I don't really know what's going on yet. She then tell me that I CAUSE BREAKAGE TO MY HAIR. Now she has to fix it, I went in there with middle of my back length and left with a bob just above my ears. Then my friend told me what actually happened is while she was trimming my hair she cut off to much. Then had to fix it and that's what they were doing behind my head was trying to see how short they were going to have to cut it. And the worst part was she repeatedly kept telling me during my appointment that it was my fault. That my hair had broke off so bad and that I was lucky that she was fixing it free of charge.......

Mama Goddess Reacts: When I was a teenager, (about 15) I went to my boyfriend's mama's beauty school. She wanted to use me as a model. I had a short hair cut at the time. She did a shampoo and style. Well the style didn't come out like she wanted it and said my hair wasn't straight enough at the root. She ended up washing out the style and gave me a relaxer, THE SAME DAY!!! My scalp was on FIRE!!! I told her my head was burning and she tried to brush it off by saying I'm just "tender headed". After I started crying, that's when she got "aggravated" washed it out. About a week later, I started to get blooded scabs on my scalp. I realized much later, that I had chemical burns. Being in beauty school, they teach you NOT to irritate the scalp before a relaxer. Hell, it's even instructed on the box. But she took it upon herself to do it anyway. Needless to say, she didn't pursue a career as a cosmetologist. Thankfully, my hair didn't fall out, nor do I suffer from alopecia. But 20 years later, my scalp still gets irritated from where she put that relaxer...

Leketia Thomas: I'm not a cosmetologist, but I've been doing hair for years... including my own since I was about 18. I started making alot of money between my regular 9-5 and as well as doing hair. So I figured I'd do like everyone else and start going to get my hair done, too. 2 different visits, 2 different salons. 2 different states. Went to get a trim, the girl snatched all my inches.. like all of them... bsby i came fir a trim... not the haley berry cut. Never went to her again. Next time I go get a sew in. The girl ran out of hair. This was before buying bundles. I bought two packs of hair. She put an entire 3 packs of curly hair in my head.... and then did the worst shape up. I looked like a damn poodle when I left there. Never-a-effing-gin!!

C T: Horror story that still haunts me today...my mom's friend just finished beauty school back in the day...relaxers just came out. I had thick hair but it was fine textured. She put super strength in my hair...eventually all my hair broke off and i had sores in my scalp for.months...Im natural today because of that trauma.

Juachelle Echols: That looks like a 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle was dumped on her head! Her follicles are pissed! She has about 6 diff hairlines and 3 hairstyles.

Charlene: She needs to take her to court… the audacity

Ohio’s Best Peach: Back in the day, my mom had a beautiful long jeri curl. She really put a lot of care into growing her hair out after it had broken off to being an inch long due to her nerves. She had a hairdresser friend who was really an undercover hater. She begged my mom to come to her shop for a touch up only to get her there and cut off her hair in the back. My mom wanted to fight her, she was so pissed. My mom never got to fight her but I got to fight her son inside a clothing store inside rolling acres mall. Lol. And I whooped his behind because of what his momma did to my momma. Lol

Nicole: I promise I am not a violent woman, but I got time today

Tiffany M: My last time going to a hairdresser was November 2019. I was natural but I wanted the Halle Berry Boomerang hair style- you know, the 90s T-Boz, paper boy bowl cut. When I say that lady ignored my soul & gave me the Lisa from Fresh Prince... I had 3 centimeters of hair on my head! Then had the nerve to tell me come back so she can maintain it. I cried in the car never again!!

OppositeofHATE7: I used to go on Saturdays with my grandma to get my hair permed. It was a beauty school and not everyone was able, but I did appreciate when the teachers would come by and correct/guide. Most of the times were fine and I went to some very talented young women that eventually moved on to their own shops after graduating. One time was so bad they made someone else redo my hair. There was so much grease and product in my hair it was heavy and wouldn't even move. I think there was a few other times but I remember that one. I stopped going after my grandma died and most of the good people left. They would always curl me like an old lady cuz that was the main clientele lol I would just go home and fix it

psychcjs: I went to the shop the week before leaving for my sister’s wedding in Punta Cana. The heffa used 40v and bleach on my virgin, never processed, bra strap length hair and within 3 days, I had to do a big chop cause my hair was done. My profile pic is me at the wedding. Real. Thug. Tears!!!!

Anastasia Beaverhausen: Before starting 6th grade my mom MADE me get a Jheri Curl. My sister already had one and it was easiest. That woman cut all my hair off and burned the heck outta my scalp. I had dead skin coming up every time I picked my hair..

Laura Hinds: A classic kinky headed story. I went to the Dominican shop and asked for them to flat iron my hair. This lady slipped a quick perm in, like you don't have to ask for consent to permanently change the chemical balance of someone's hair. I had been natural my whole life, so when I went to wash my hair and it did a weird wave instead of a million coils I shaved it all off ‍♀️

Darnia Taylor: *This* is a travesty!!! My mother was a beautician and she would try new styles on my hair. Most I loved but the ones I didn't, she'd fix. So no, no beauty shop horror stories.

Tahjjj: I went to a shop right before New Years to get my hair wrapped. I remember smelling spritz while she was wrapping my hair around my head. I kept asking if it was spritz. She kept telling me it wasn’t. Combs my hair down (permed at the time; about 3” PAST my bra strap) and “trims” my ends. I remember she had this little boy sweeping up hair and I kept seeing the most beautiful locks of hair being swept away. She showed me my hair. The front was jacked (3 very blunt step ladder cuts on both sides) but I didn’t care. I could fix that at home. I was like, cool. Let me leave and try to fix the stiffness. When I got home…when I say ALL MY HAIR WAS GONE! Ended at my ears all the way around. I couldn’t tell in the shop because this was when those sweaters with the fur collars were out. I was so mad!!! But I still blame myself. She had “GRAMMY (yes the MUSICAL award) award winning stylist” in a mural on her wall. I should’ve known. Also my fault because I always did my own hair but I’d just had a heartbreak and wanted to pamper myself. Poor me.

Jamilah Muhayman: When I was about 16 it was picture day in high school and my mother took me the day before to get my hair done. I was super excited cuz it was my first time going to the beauty salon but what didn't dawn on me at the time is that my mother was taking me to her hair stylist. The tragic results of that event was me ending up with bangs that went from ear to ear. Like think comb all your hair down evenly around your head and then cut bangs from one ear to the other and then bumped the back real hard. Needless to say we didn't buy school pictures that year.

Mary Proctor: Two stories: back in my late twenties, I let a church member who had done amazing things with people in our church’s hair. She permed it and then styled me as a grandmother! I told her I didn’t like it and she started laughing. Two months maybe three ago I had been growing my natural hair for over a year and a half. My long time hairdresser had stopped doing hair and I was looking for someone new. The guy did an amazing silk press. The second time I asked him just to cut it into a pixie cut. He cut it and made me look like Gumby!!! Y’all I was so mad!! Luckily no one was physically harmed in this transaction.

Gregorrius Adolphus: LOL us guys go through it, too! I when I moved to Denver, I didn't know anyone or where to go to cut my hair so I found a barber shop in the PHONE BOOK (late 90's haha)and drove on over. The only available person to cut my hair was this lady, who happened to be a pastor at a local church. She cursed alot, had a dirty mouth for a pastor. Anyways, Ihad a small scar on my forehead from when I fell when I was a kid. She took the liberty to incorporate it into a SWIRL design from the front of my head to the top. All I asked for was a fade. When she showed me I was horrified. "Ma'am, I work in a bank-I can't go to work looking like THIS." I had her just shave me bald. She caught a major attitude. I never went back and never took her up on her offer to go hear her preach, either.

ShaLonda: I had a beautician (who was Caucasian) tell me she could do my hair (because her husband was Indian) and so being OVERLY trusting (I was 18y/o) I let her do my hair and she would normally do a wet set. Well…it was time for a relaxer and I go in and we’re talking about doing my perm and I knew something wasn’t right when she rolled my hair in rods and started saturating my hair with solution…ya’ll she gave me a curly perm and she was confused as to why my hair didn’t curl. I had her rinse out my hair and just do the wet set and NEVER saw her again!!

Emily Farris: My Mother went to a hairdresser and when she came out, I was in shock and asked her what happened. It looked like she had stuck her finger in light socket! She took her cap and put it on her head to cover it up. She didn't want anyone to see it!

sheerri: I was getting my hair washed and permed when I was a teenager. They had already washed out the relaxer and had me under the dryer. Admittedly, I feel asleep under there because it was early and I was tired. The woman wrapped my hair and didn’t say anything to me. When I got home and pulled me hair down, there were clumps of hair stuck together from burned blood all throughout my head. My mom had to spend an hour unsticking and untangling my hair and soothing my raw scalp. I ended up never going back there and I stopped perming my hair.

Thana F: I got the same type of haircut that’s in the video from a former hairstylist. I was speechless when I looked in the mirror. At the time I was quick to punch a chick in the face, so people in the salon jumped in between myself and the stylist. Needless to say I never returned and when from her salon to the barbershop I cut all my hair OFF that day and embraced a natural hair lifestyle which I have never turned away from. I currently have the most beautiful locs which are all the way down my back. In a way I am now thankful for the disaster that started me on my natural hair journey

Monie: I have two horror stories, and after turned into a "what are you doing, or putting in my hair type of client". I know I was probably a pain in the behind, but I needed step by step breakdowns, during the entire process. The first horror story, I was going on vacation and running late, so I decided to go to my friend's hairdresser because I was just getting the front of my hair flat twisted. The stylist sat me down in the chair, pulled out some gel and attempted to proceed to do flat twists on dry and dirty hair. Then she copped an attitude when I informed her my hair needed to be washed and I always get flat twists done on wet hair. She begrudgingly shampooed my hair (roughly) and did not use any conditioner. My hair was rough and tangled from the cheap shampoo. When I asked about conditioner/ cream rinse, she said it would be an extra charge. At this point I started arguing with her and told her to forget it, she wasn't doing anything else to my hair. While waiting for my friend to finish under the dryer, the owner arrived, asked me what happened and proceeded to fire the stylist on the spot. She apologized and then conditioned my hair, flat twisted it and didn't charge me. My second horror story was when I went to get a touch up. This was at my regular salon. After the relaxer touch up, I asked to have my ends trimmed. I was growing my hair out and being diligent about split ends. It was a Dominican salon, and the stylist wasn't so good with English, so I spoke to the owner and had her tell the stylist in Spanish, so there would be no confusion. I should have known something was up when she turned me away from the mirror. She cut my hair into a "long bob" that brushed my shoulders. I just sat there and cried. The owner was just as upset as I was. The funny thing about it was that the cut was sharp, precise and beautiful! I received many compliments, but it was just not what I wanted. I am happily natural now and haven't stepped foot in a salon in 8 years.

NK: Lmao they gave her a nappy, mushroom style all that showmanship for that?!

Fine Art: Got “yarn twist” done by a girl I was referred to. She had LIVING roaches in her freezer and one crawling towards us on the ceiling. I requested she drop my hair and annihilate it after she ignored it for like an hour. She took like 6 hrs on my hair, and I HATED! Took it down the minute I got home.

Jaded: I need a follow-up. What does it look like in 4-6 weeks? What's the maintenance? How much did they pay??? Who did this to them? I'm invested. They need to be exposed.

Melanie Curtin: I remember about 30 years ago I went to a Beauty school for a hair cut. Went there all of the time. This time the woman used electric clippers & buzzed the back of my head to the scalp. It was past butch! The front was fine. Fortunately my hair grows fast. And I NEVER let anyone get crazy with the clippers ever again.

Valerie Kirk: I went to get my hair relaxed when I was 15 and the lady asked me if I wanted my shoulder length hair cut short, I said no. When she is done it was shorter than my ears and she gave me a 40 year old black lady going to church style. I almost cried. How short would it have been if I had said yes? Luckily there was only 2 weeks left in the school year. I wore a hoodie for those 2 weeks.

Jerrica B.: When I first started grad school I would travel 2 hours back home to my stylist to do my hair. She had done it for years prior. This time, I got a relaxer/wrap and the next morning I could barely unwrap my hair. It was mostly stuck to my head with scabs. It was beyond overprocessed. And a couple days later, I noticed my entire nape area had fallen out and was completely bald! I called her and she said she didn’t know what happened and promised to send me “oils and treatments” to put on it. She never sent me anything by the way. I ended up finding an amazing stylist near my school who cut my hair into a bob first (limiting my shock) and then a pixie so everything could catch back up.

Raina Clarke: That’s what I’m saying EJ! I can mess up my own hair for FREE! Not gonna pay someone no money to mess up my own hair

Jill NeverUMind: You see, THIS is why I say “All Hairdressers are scissor-happy”! This is why I never wanted to let a Hairdresser “trim” my hair, because THIS would be the results - even AFTER I told them I’m trying to grow my hair LONG! They would always claim that their BUTCHERING would “make my hair grow”… #NotTodaySatan

Tanya G: I was at my regular hair appointment and a young lady came in frantically saying that she needed her hair done because she was going to a "premiere", this was in California. My beautician looked at her hair and said that it was over processed and if she put anymore chemicals in it it would fall out. She didn't want to hear that so she let another stylist do it, my beautician told her, "if you put any chemicals in her hair it's going to fall out like the back of your hand", sure enough as soon as she put water on it that ladies hair fell all the way out. My hairdresser said, if you put a wig on it it's just going to take longer to grow back. I will never forget that.

K C: In 2018 I got a wig installed for the first and last time. I expressed to the hairstylist how much I valued my edges. I asked her not to put the glue directly on my edges and she did anyway. When it was time for the wig to come off my when I say ALL my edges came off with it. I cried for days. I had nice full edges and while they have grown in a considerable amount, they are still NOT the same as they were. Ain’t wore a lick of weave since!

ama speede: Horror Story: I worked really hard so I ran into a beauty shop in the mall why did I do that all I wanted was a roller set. I fell asleep in her chair and she trimmed the back of my hair so much that I couldn't even put my hair in a ponytail. Tthe style looks so cute after I woke up however as I started to feel my hair going home and then tried to put it in the ponytail I couldn't even do it. Sad part is again when I went back to the mall that beauty shop salon was closed down oh my God how do you think I felt. I shaved the whole back off until it grew back all on its own to a beautiful length Thank God for healthy hair.

Sharonda Dottery: Preparing for senior prom....my mom could only afford salon visits for me on special occasions (she jacked me up any other time...that's a whole "nother" Oprah show). Anywho, I told the stylist I wanted soft curls in an elegant any classy updo. She put my hair in a ponytail, curled the ends, spritzed it to death with Lotta Body and pump it up (thick, long hair here), and stood back and looked at it with the biggest cheese-butt grin on her face like she had did the dang thang. I was PISSED and devastated. Mom came to pick me up. Looked at my head and said "that's what she did? I paid for THAT? Hell I coulda did THAT." She brought it down a notch when she say how upset I was. I made it known to the stylist I didn't like it. But there was no time to rewash and style. That was the last time I sat in her chair. My folks still looking for the pictures. ME: With the face of innocence....I don't know what happened to them Whew, therapy for the day. ‍

WriteAsRayne: Let me tell you how I paid $400 to have my friend’s hair fully cut, bleached, and dyed pink and a few purple streaks in my hair and THIS HAIRDRESSER….. First of all, she didn’t have enough bleach to properly do my friend’s hair so it turned out completely uneven and splotchy. Not a strand on her head was the same color. We were like, you know what, it’ll be fine when she puts the pink on and then it’ll look cool. Nope, cause the HAIRDRESSER (i’m sayin it like that cause I’m trying not to use a few different words) did NOT have enough pink to fully dye my friend’s hair a proper pink. And like, neither my friend or I had ever gone to a hairdresser and had color done, so we really didn’t know what to say! I was so upset, it was my birthday present for her and that hairdresser tore her UP. Luckily my friend is an angel and loved it anyway because it was always her dream to go pink and at least now she has the bleached hair (after the pink faded) to do whatever she wants with. She said she was mostly just scared to do the bleaching part. BUT ALSO, like this HAIRDRESSER didn’t even give us the CUTS we wanted. We asked for layers and I specifically asked for more layers in a certain way and my friend asked for them a different way. TELL ME HOW we had NO layers and we looked like we had the same haircut just hers was shorter and mine was longer???? We went straight to Sally’s afterwards and bought hair dye, a mixing bowl, and hair scissors. I really shouldn’t have paid that woman a dime but she had kids and I’m too damn nice. =.= I’m still not over it.

Kelli H.: That one time I thought I would look good as a blonde but came out with hair more crisp than a scarecrow. It took about 9 months to grow it out enough to chop the dead hair off. Never again!

Betty B: this is why I do my own hair eyebrows pedicure and manicures and my own make up

Linda Simpson: I am so glad my beauty shop days are over. Wear a afro and a cap when I don't want to comb it out. From watching this, I ain't missing anything.

Gwen Faison: I remember I got a perm back in the day and it came out good, or at least I thought. The next day I ran my fingers through my head and I had these dry clumps in the back. My coworker told me it was perm that wasn't washed out. I went back to the hairdresser and she wanted to charge me to rinse out the remaining perm. She redid my hair, I didn't pay and that was my last time there.

LastDays: When I was 25, (in the 90’s) I got my first FULL sew in, (none of my real hair was left out). Girl I was so excited until she finished and spun me around in the chair to see the finish results! I had A HUGE LUMP on each side of my head and a colossal size lump in the top of my head, (where she apparently braided my hair). I was so upset

apocalypsgoddess1: I went I went to the nail salon for the first time ever (I’m 23). And it was actually a private shop in a lady’s house. The house wasn’t in the projects, it was in a nice neighborhood in front of the water, but the inside of the place screamed projects (red flag #1). Dingy, smelly, holes in the walls with hella incense sticks sticking out, dirty. The house was actually 3 apartments so I go to the lady’s apartment and mind you my natural nails are long and beautiful. I’ve never had fake nails or anything foreign on my nails. She’s talking about how nice they are. But then she cuts them down and puts this super thick ass gel stuff on them and paints over it. Had my nails looking so ugly like thick chicklets. Waste of money, bad first experience. Never going back. She was proud of what she did too. I don’t see how. I wonder if she made my nails ugly on purpose

caramel7532: Whew I felt that lady's pain. I have only came across three hairdressers in my life that could actually cut my hair without looking crazy. One time and the last time I went to this beauty salon and showed the lady a picture of how I want my hair cut. My only saving grace is that my hair grows back fast. My Hallie Berry cut look hideous and I told her so.

Debbie Ray: EJ, girl you know we have stories. I was in high school and my mom took me to this beauty shop to get a curl. Now my mom is white and knows absolutely nothing about black hair and at the time neither did I. That lady put that stuff on my head and left it on there. My scalp had burns, like my scalp was bleeding and ended up with scabs all over it. My scalp has never been right since then. I have natural hair now but for years I wouldn't let anyone give me a perm because my scalp was so sensitive I couldn't leave it on for more than 10 minutes and even then it would burn a little.

Kery Mae: My friend & I ruined our clothes trying to 'bleach' our hair in our high school bathroom. It was before the internet was really a thing. My mom was against cutting, coloring, anything but brushing & washing my hair. I think that's why I ended up with every color of the rainbow of hair in my mid 30's. Also a lot of bad hair cuts at sleep overs. Ask for forgiveness not permission was my motto.

Carla Jones: That’s a “whole” problem right there! I promise y’all would’ve seen an entirely different video. There’s no way I would’ve been still in that chair after seeing my hair in the mirror, nor would she have still been on her feet! No Ma’am!

L. Stigger Sherman: One time, my beautician told me she was going to do something “special” for me… to just “trust” her… So, I left her shop with a French roll, a single braid in the back, and finger waves in the front. I was 12 years old. The way I cried… But I can laugh about it now!

W Mack: I have had plenty: People lying about their skillset...overprocessed, hair cut too deeply, uneven trims, etc. I've done big chops, creamy crack , and back to big chop. After I loc'd my hair, peace...great peace. I haven't looked back since.

Lexie: I've had a chunk of my hair burned off with bleach by one lady, and then a separate time at a different place I asked for a lil trim on my waist length hair and the heifer gave me a damn bob to my collar bones After that I learned how to do my own lol traumatized

Jessica's Daily Chitchat: Umm yes horror story over here! I was in my mid- teens and my hair was as long as it was ever going to be. I went in to get my ends trimmed and came out with what might as well have been a temp fade. The lady was a celebrity stylist but what I didn't know was she was famous for being scissor happy.

Andrea Malone: Heyyyyy EJ, HEYYYYY ERRBODY!! No " beauty shop" horror stories but, my kitchen has been burned a time or 2. It's always " just the grease,be still".

Sue C: I’ve been done wrong like that by my long time stylist. Left in tears and went to Floyd’s for my first bald fade!

Future: This is why I’ve had the same hairdresser and the same hairdo for over 15 years. The only thing I change is a level or two in my lowlights/highlights, depending on the season. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken is my motto.

Teena Cherry: I have left more than one shop with my hair half done, to keep from going to jail. I do my own hair now

Rededicated16: One time, I was trying to save a little coin, but wanted my hair done. Found out you could go to a hair school to get hair done for little to nothing. So I went for a relaxer. I should have known something was going to go wrong when she didn’t base around my edges. Anyway, I was young and thought, “maybe she knows something I don’t,” so I let her continue. She applies the relaxer and as normal it starts to tingle. I’m one who tries to tough it out so my hair can get straight. We go on to shampoo and here’s where it took a turn for the worse! Instead of rinsing the relaxer out as much as she can first, she proceeded to immediately SCRUB my hair like it was shampoo!!! The way my head was !!!She finished neutralizing, shampooing, etc. I’m surprised I still had hair. Used the blow dryer and she used a CURLING iron to style my hair. Y’all! I walked out of there looking like “Grandma Shirley!” (No offense to anyone’s grandma named Shirley… y’all know what I mean!) And my hair was stiff as a board. I was too hot! I still paid the girl my little $10 or $15 and left-NEVER to return to a hair school again!

Jessica: Gurl I remember when my neighbor recommended me to her nieces salon for me to get my hair done for prom. I went and got my first sow in and that thing was mad tight. She tells me don't worry it will ease up after a day or two. When I came home from prom I couldn't take it anymore so I took it out immediately. But I had a whole squeak squeak bald spot in the center of my head. It took months for me to feel a little peach fuzz come in.

DeLana Smith: I am traumatized all that beautiful hair was chopped off for the monstrous results.

C: My sister (as a teen) got her hair dyed for the first time, she didn't like the color so she had it dyed again literally the next day by the same hairstylist (she should have known better). Long story short, her hair... GONE. She had to get it cut down to a pixie cut & wore hats everywhere.

Charlotte Mccombs: My horror story is when a white stylist decided to use super relaxer on my hair instead of regular. My scalp and neck was traumatized.

Els F: I’ve had experiences where braids were a lot smaller than I asked for and they kept going. They price was steep of course. Waiting for hours has always been a BS thing and not to mention the last minute cancellations. Just had one this week.

S B: Oh plenty... 1)Short (bald) cut, she didn't use the regular curlers cause she had scalped me .. I had been wearing it short, but this was gone 2) One time I asked for the "Oprah cut"... I had just taken out some braids, so my hair was tailbone length ( she had even taken pictures )... I'm in Texas, the hairdo lasted 30 minutes.. I spent another $100 (on a new curler and product) and another hour trying to get the hairdo back.. needles to say it was just a mess 3) One time wanted highlights ... she did some chunky blonde in my jet black hair... and the hair was dry and damaged 3 different beauticians...

Tomibunny: My mama’s best friend was a beautician and offered to TRIM my hair. She claimed to be specialized in textured hair. Nope. This woman stretched all my hair to the same length and CUT inches off. No layers or anything. The curls on my crown are super tight and my front curls are more relaxed, so my hair was a mess when she was done. The crown and nape were uneven and looked choppy. Never again did I let that woman touch my head.

lilgail02: I had long thick hair as a young girl and my mother was talking about getting it done by a professional because I was so tender headed. The lady at church who was a professional said she would assist. This lady proceeded to cut my hair short and curled it so my mom couldn't tell. Well when I went to put my hair up in a ponytail like usual for school I couldn't. When I tell you my mama was HOT. She called that woman and used what she calls some "choice words". I think the lady must've called the pastor and told on my mom because we were called to the church and when the first lady saw me she said, "OMG baby what happened to your hair?" I told her who did it and from there I never saw that woman again at the church. I remember hearing the first lady say to someone, "You don't do that to people and especially a child." Its been probably almost 30 years since and my hair has been long for some time, but I remember my mom putting braids and other protective styles in my head because she wouldnt trust any one for a while. Not until I was in 7th grade and she met Ms. Cathy. Wooo that woman could braid hair. That's where I learned about Natural hair in 1995. The last time I had a relaxer.

MsOrdained1: My mom took me to her salon because her stylist recommended another lady in the salon to do my highlights. First the stylist showed up late. Second I asked for red highlights in my hair. After she bleached it to a brassy orange color, she convinced me to keep it that color and not dye it red because it looked better. (I’m 19 at the time and didn’t know any better.) Next I asked for a trim. Ole girl took off 1-2 inches off, bumped the ends and tried to slick down my edges with some brown pro styler gel. When she found that the gel wasnt working and was reverting my hair she… she took some clippers and cut off my side burns ON ONE SIDE OF MY HEAD. Since I had a side part and hair was covering the other side of my face, she didn’t even bother to make the other side burn match. That was the first and last time I ever visited a salon to get my hair done.

Karen Daniel: When I was younger, I had a regular beautician whom I trusted implicitly. But I needed my bangs trimmed, and my mom convinced me to let her do it as she used to trim my brothers hair. I very carefully created a ponytail and left out what I needed trim. Nope. Mom convinced herself ghete was more bang that needed trimming, pulled hair out of the ponytail, and had weird bangs way back on one side of my head. Never trust a white woman who uses bowls to trim boys hair. Donna fixed it for me, so I didn't have to live with it. Just grow it out.

Morgan McKibbon: All of my hair horror stories begin with “My mom used to cut my hair and…”

Marcie Elliott-Smith: Most cuts I've ✂️ had were good. It's the styling that is usually Euro-Trash on me. I now leave with my hair wet. Can't even let my car see that trauma mess.

T Jax: Aw man! Memories of SEVERAL horrible hair stories: 1) The stylist who tried to blame me for the 3rd degree burns on my neck (she asked me what had ‘I’ done when I showed up to show her the blisters on my neck from whatever she used to give me the PRETTIEST Jheri curl (hard to feel cute with a neck full of blisters). 2) The stylist who turned me away from the mirror while he gave me an asymmetrical cut that I DIDN’T ask for! The whole right side of my head could’ve been rolled with rice! That’s how short it was. 3) The church friend who braided my hair the day before my Jamaica vacation. Seemed like a good idea…I wanted the style to be fresh. Unfortunately, she ran out of hair! Had to keep it in a top ponytail because she had to remove hair from the middle/top to fill in other areas! I can laugh now, but back then…Ooooo!

Sleipnirseight: Nearly every time I went to get my hair done I'd give the fake "thank you, it's so nice", then go home and cry

What's Up, Life?: When I was in the miltary, during A-school in South Carolina, some chick that claimed to be hair stylist (I say that sarcastically as hell) shaped my hair up to be like Crazy Eyes from Orange is The New Black. All b/c she couldn't understand what I wanted for my hair style. Didn't even try to make it look good. Worse part about it was I didn't know it was terrible way after the fact. I should have known when two cab drivers teased me about on my way back to my barracks.

Millissent Flemmings: It was the early 90s and my hair was falling out by the handfuls from being over processed. So I decided to get the back shaved and get the cute Toni Braxton/Anita Baker look. Ten years later, when I was so tired of the upkeep, I decided to grow my hair out and go natural. I’ve had dread locs for over 20 years and never been happier!!

GTM 1982: She looks like she doesn’t know how she’s supposed to feel lol… bless! Hopefully it grows back quickly!

Monique Walker: I tried to save money and went to a local chain hair place. They bleached my hair. I told them it was burning and I wanted it to be washed out. They told me it wasn't done processing yet. Needless to say.... my hair melted and I suffered a ton of breakage. I went to an expensive salon and found the best stylist ever she gave me a big chop and rescued my strands. I still see her now. I've had all kinds of color in my hair and NEVER had she ever melted or damaged my locs. (This was over 12 years ago and I'm still scared to go anywhere else. )

ᴊᴜɴᴇ ̧.•*: The stylist was getting ready to clock out for the day and Ms. Lady demanded to be seen, even though her appointment was earlier that afternoon. This is clearly hair that was styled with animosity.

Bought With A Price: I wanted flat twists up into a bun. A spot on the top of my head was in so much pain as it got towards the end that I told her to stop. She wasn't listening, and it was difficult because my cousin was with me and I was there by her recommendation. Y'ALL!!!!! That pain hit me in a way that I started snatching flat twists down! They thought I was exaggerating until they saw the BALD SPOT THE SIZE OF A QUARTER ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD!!! I learned to speak up at the beauty shop after that. ‍♀️‍

Changing the Narrative with Cricket Williams-Bea: 'I ain't sittin' in anybody's chair for them to make me look like no mess....make me look like everything I've been through.' I went to a barber shop to get a cute cut after I did a big chop at home. The barber jacked up my hairline by taking it too far back... almost 2". I ended up wearing head wraps for a few months until it grew back. The sad part was that he was bragging the whole time...telling me how much all his female clients loved how he cut their hair into this style and that I was going to really love it too. I looked like Megamind when he was done and I did not bite my tongue in telling him how I felt. It was horrible but I didn't worry too much because it's just hair and I knew it would grow back...if not, I would just shave it all off and get tattoos on my head. However, at that moment it was a major disappointment and inconvenience because I had an event to attend. Thank God it all worked out and I discovered a love for head wraps in the process. ❤️

Brenale Johnson: Oh my goodness the horrors my hair has dealt with my hair kept getting shorter and shorter because little did I know the hair dresser kept using different box relaxers each time I went to her. Then my mom forced me into wearing a jheri curl in middle school....oh my poor hair.

K V*: I saw this and I was so hoping it was a wig! Hot mess!!!