I feel for you! I was given some sort of mullet the time before last that I went for a trim. Last time she cut off a couple inches when I said a half. It's now been almost a yr since I've had a trim. I'm scared!!




I feel for you! I was given some sort of mullet the time before last that I went for a trim. Last time she cut off a couple inches when I said a half. It's now been almost a yr since I've had a trim. I'm scared!!





I have been f*cked up many many times, especially with color. And I'm vey very specific with the stylists, I bring pictures, explain it over and over again, and I never ask for anything that's unrealistic for my hair. And yet I have been butchered.
I know what a trim is and I always pick up the ends of a client's hair and show them how much legnth I'm taking off. Not all stylists suck.
My hairdresser always does this with me, and I'd be worried if a stylist didn't show me visually how much length they were taking off. I used to get so worried when I would use a new hairdresser, and explain how nerve wrecking the whole experience was, and then they'd put extra attention into doing exactly what I asked for and making me feel comfortable. And just for the record, I go to a cheaper salon, I mean I'm only getting a trim normally, and my stylist is great.
I'd recommend that everyone ask their stylist to show you how much they plan on taking off before they start any cutting.
To get your hair growing quickly take tons of supplements. There have been some great suggestions in this thread already. Gelatin, silica, fish oil, what about those Walmart hair pills everyone on here used to rave about?
^Audrey if you ever come to TX you can give me a trim!
My hair was just F-ed up too. I have to like it even though I hate it. I am getting ready to get extensions.![]()
I've totally had this happen to me. It seems pretty shallow to say it's the worst feeling in the world, but...it's the worst fucking feeling in the world.I think lots of us will relate. I'm not going to tell you it will grow, cause I hated it when people told me that. Haha..
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Update: The extensions didn't work, they don't look right, the problem is that my hair is SO THICK, and the hair in the extensions is fine, so it looks awful. I'm done with the crying, but everytime I style my hair I get so angry, and I stay like that for hours, which sucks when you have to be at work. I guess eventually I'm gonna get used to it or accept that there's nothing I can do about it and get over it.... blah! Thanks for the support!
I know someone who had all her hair chopped off when she specifically asked them not to cut very much. She said, "I'm not paying for this" and walked out.





^^WTF? See, I understand how subtleties might get lost in translation...but when they do something to you that is on the complete other side of the universe from what you said you wanted...?
Once, after I used to dye my hair red a lot and a good deal of my natural blonde had grown back in, I went to a very reputable salon and told the lady I just wanted my natural color back, I wanted it all like my roots. Years later I know that it's not as easy as that...but she made my hair black with a deep red sheen. My entire head, even the blonde roots I wanted to keep. How do you get black from "blonde" especially when you can see my roots for sure to black?! She said it would fade to blonde. To this day I've never even heard of such a thing. Guess what? It never faded to blonde.





Clip in extensions, right? Did you try sewing 2 wefts together to make it look thicker? I DIYed my clip in's and doubling the wefts in each section helped a ton. Also, How many sections do you have? I needed at least four- a 5" section at my nape, 7" that ran from ear to ear, and two 6" sections I wore on my sides above the ear.
go get some hair pills from walmart or gnc along with biotin pills.
and get some professional hair extensions in. Expensive, but if it's going to make you not carry around the rage and the pain for quite awhile more-- it'll be worth it.


Sigh....I also just got a crappy haircut. I brought in a picture, showed her with my finger EXACTLY where I wanted it to land, and was very specific and pointed out the parts of the haircut that were the most important to me. (i.e. the way it angled down in the front and framed the face, and the choppy edges all around.) What do I get? A BLUNT bob, pretty much the same length all the way around, right up to my chin. It was supposed to be just above my shoulders.
What the hell does a girl have to do to get a good haircut?? How the fuck am I supposed to feel like my sexy self at work tomorrow night? Oh well, at least it grows.




I was so scared when I moved up to NYC b/c I had to get a new hairstylist. I ended up going to this little hole in the wall place and got a quirky Asian gay guy who would just do EXACTLY what I asked instead of putting his own spin on my hair.
Literally snipped 3/4" off my hair then cut my layers perfectly. After my cut was done, my boyfriend couldn't even tell a difference except for my shorter bangs and sharper face layers. Best compliment ever!





Be vague and see what happens lol, it worked for me! I had had my hair butchered at so many salons, but I knew I needed my hair cut so I had to go to one. I went to a place near my old job because it was close and I just walked in, sat down, I knew exactly what I wanted but I didn't even bother to go through the speel with the stylist because I knew it wouldn't matter, I'd end up fucked up. I gave her the quickest, vaguest description of what I wanted---and she did exactly what I had in mind. Perfectly. I will never go anywhere else as long as I live here.![]()
I think biotin can help a lot, but be careful of taking too much because it can cause depression.
Seaweed is an awesome hair growth food.
I love those "mermaid hair" pics that Latina Rose posted. WOW. Makes me anxious to grow my own hair out even more!
I would have seriously taken some scissors to her fuckin hair, law enforcement would have been called.![]()





That's completely fucked. I hope you didn't pay!!!
I would also try to get the salon to pay for extensions - and good ones.
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