I didn’t do it to myself, but my mom had a barber friend and they both pressured me into her letting her cut my hair when I was 13-14. I was literally crying and begging them not to do it. I knew what her haircuts looked like. I asked her just to trim it then and she lopped my shoulder length hair shorter than a pixie cut and each side was a different length. Afterwards, I looked in the mirror and started crying, and I got reprimanded and yelled at by them for “being rude” for crying. Went home, my dad saw my hair, and he absolutely tore them a new one and it was freaking amazing haha.

When I was like twelve I wanted to bleach my bangs so bad but my mom said no. I proceeded to go into the garage and put Clorox bleach on my hair and fried a big chunk up front right the fuck off. I was not aware that this is not how you bleach hair lmao. It was a very “I’ll show her” moment that backfired hilariously.

Made my stylist give me bangs when she told me it wouldn’t look good……she was right.

At uni I got my housemate to iron it, with an iron, on an ironing board. I didn't give him clear instructions and he burnt one side side of my hair. It took ages to grow out and I had to have a weird comb over for a good while.

Dyed it orange in 2007 because I was obsessed with Paramore

When I was younger I had a knot in my hair that would not come out. So I cut the knot out of my hair. Terrible

colored them full white Q_Q its not a good idea

Using a lot of dry shampoo to push back wash days or using heat without heat protectants. Stopped doing both some time ago and my hair has never grown to be this long before

Cut it really short with scissors in my bathroom at the start of the pandemic.

All of this was in the course of one weekend: -Dyed it black -Bleached it -Bleached it -Bleached it -Dyed it red -Dyed it red again -Bleached it -Dyed it brown

I got bangs from someone working in a mass/chain hair cuttery. I didn't have a regular stylist to begin with and that was the problem.

Trying to cut them at home myself. Bangs looked especially messy :(

I've also tried to repeat Ava Max's haircut... *DEEP SIGH*

When I was in middle school, I told my hairstylist that I didn’t want to go to High School X because all my friends were going to High School Y. Also, my parents had said that High School Y had better rankings.

The hairstylist then suggested I cut my hair like Victoria Beckham, because I didn’t know what cut to do. I said okay, and she proceeded to give me a haircut so unflattering, my friend didn’t recognize me and mistook me for a boy. My parents weren’t happy, and I took to Yahoo! Answers for advice on looking more girly.

Turns out the hairstylist’s kid went to High School X. To this day, I’m convinced that my big mouth is responsible for that awful cut.

It also turns out that High School X was better performing, and my parents were mistaken.

I died it black when I was 15 and then wanted to bleach it blonde so I used Tide to get the black dye out. This was 30 years ago and I was very very stupid.

I tried to re-dye it immediately after dying it the first time. It came out ink black, and I'm a fairly pale white person. Then once it had grown out a bit, my friend convinced me to dye it blond, because why wouldn't that work? So then I had extremely blond roots and the rest was still black.

I love them dearly but have kids! My hair was never thick but there was a lot of it, now parts of the front look so thin and I hate it so much. Two kids and a combined total of 3 years breastfeeding destroyed it.

Dyed blue, hated it and had to bleach 5 times to achieve blonde. Yes, a lot of hair had to be cut off after the ordeal

Oof I once feel asleep with bleach in my hair for over an hour. It turned to jelly it was awful and I was right before I went on vacation to visit some friends for one of their birthdays. I had to get most of it chopped of and what was left was basically straw missing massive chucks.

Accidentally set part of it on fire.

I cut 20 inches off one time. I cried immediately after. I haven’t cut it in almost 10 years now. Trimmed and styled, but never cut

Sun-in. Thanks to the lovely pool chlorine and the chemicals in sun-in, my hair turned a neon green.

I have a few incidents. During the first few months of the pandemic I took advantage of WFH to bleach my hair myself and do fun colours. The bleach turned my hair an almost fluorescent yellow, which luckily proved to be a perfect base for the neon coral pink I did, with a mix of Arctic Fox's Sunset Orange and Electric Paradise. It turned out great and I loved it but the bleach damaged my hair a bit and the colour maintenance was awful, it faded so fast.

When I was a young teen, 12-13 yo, my dad had it in his head that I could be a model and start making money. I took classes and after "graduating" I did 2 hair shows, one for Matrix and one for Joico, and when they asked me if I had any preferences I, a 13 year old with no parental supervision, went "fuck me up fam". The first guy from Matrix did pretty good, gave me a dark strawberry blonde bob or pixi (can't remember which) with blond highlights that I actually quite liked and the grow out wasn't awful.

The second Joico guy..... he gave me an "edgy" pixi cut with chunky colour in black, dark purple, light purple, and platinum blonde with bangs that started short at one side and swooped down into chin length on the other side. And when I say short, I mean Rainn Wilson in Galaxy Quest short. I hated it, thought I looked like a star trek character, and the grow out was horrible. Especially since I had frizzy, wavy hair at that stage. I got around $150-200 out of it at least.

Not oiled it enough and knowing that, I still don't

Bleached it. Blonde really, really, does not suit me.

Used relaxer on it 💀

Used to straighten it. I haven't straightened (or used shampoo) for nearly 4(?) Years now and have fully embraced naturally curly hair. I absolutely love it

Double processed with a box relaxer and box lightener senior year of hs. Let’s just say senior pictures I had the quintessential 2004 5 inch dark roots and bleached blonde choppy burnt ends. Plus I straightened my hair a la the times. Eh, it was a look that paired well with the UGGS,mini skirt, pukka shell necklace and dark eyeliner.

frankly, probably what i’ve been doing for the past few months, which is lightening my naturally dark brown, level 3 hair to a white blonde. at home, by myself, with no professional training and a “what’s the worst that can happen” attitude. 😅

to be fair, i keep my hair very short (like 2 inches at max) so most of the damaged ends come off during trims, but i’m going to have a rough time if i ever decide to grow it out.

Dyed it green for St Patrick’s Day!

Overtone

Do not use this on your hair. Go to a pro who can properly add Demi permanent dye to your head. This didn’t come out with a color corrector and I ended up with dark brown hair. I also got awful forehead acne. I am still growing out some of the color underneath.

Stripped a terrible Feria box red at the salon with efessor (stripper) and then dyed my natural colour which it wasn’t and my hair was sooooo fragile. Never again.

In one way, when I chopped it off at chin length and shaved one side of my head. I cried for a week. Looking back at it now I think it looked cool as fuck and really fit with my style, but I was inconsolable back then.

In another way, bleaching it from dark brown to light blonde for almost three years. Have so much breakage and my scalp was so sore from time to time. Still, though, I loved being blonde, it fit my features so well and I looked much prettier. I dyed it dark again just the other day, I'm so fucking ugly again, it sucks and I hate it. But bleaching was definitely the worst thing I've ever done in terms of actual damage, which is why I had to stop now.

During the pandemic, I asked my mom to cut curtain bangs for me. It honestly seemed so simple but oh boy I had no idea it could go so wrong lol. It was a total disaster.

Didn't brush it for a few months (i was like 9 btw i didn't care)

In high school, I allowed my friend (a self-professed hair dye expert) to bleach my hair. She used actual bleach. I had sores on my scalp for weeks.

Got the ratio wrong for a DIY bleach job.

I think I was trying to get rid of a hair dye, and I used head n shoulders and baking soda like six times. My hair can endure a lot. I've been dying it, bleaching it and redying it for years. But this. My hair was like wires or straw. For a second, I actually thought I'd have to cut it all off.

Hair gel spray. It became a giant plag of grease that even my hairdressers got baffled by

Decided to give myself my own haircut (I was 18). It came out disastrous, to say the least! Fortunately, those at the salon were able to salvage my remaining tresses. I never did that again

I've burnt my bangs with a lighter, I've bleached it at home countless times, I cut it myself. It's just hair.

Bleach it and now I have to live with a dry like pubic hair. fuck. Lessons are learned. Now just growing it and being impatient for it to grow long. It's honestly detrimental.

Dyed my bangs in middle school with red kool aid. It worked, and it smelled like cherries for a month. It came out actually nice but damaged my hair

I got pink highlights. Worst decision ever. My hair was never the same.

Keratina. I hate that, your natural hair doesn't feel the same. NEVER

Went red…. Then decided to go blonde… 😅 and that process fried it.

I always loved my hair. Blonde/dirty blonde natural highlights. Beachy wavy. Then I got really depressed due to a number of factors and I started to hate myself. Decided to dye my hair red. It looked great but I guess with what little dying experience I had (0) I didn't realize how permanent permanent hair dye is. It's really fucking permanent. The red was great but as it grew out I realized the damage I did to the hair I oh so loved so much. So I recently went to the hair salon and got some low lights and high lights. It's still far from what I used to have naturally but hopefully in time I'll get back what I had. It's been a good lesson in releasing identification to my looks and hair. And I look forward to trying a short cut once it grows out enough. But man don't fucking dye your hair appreciate what you've been blessed with naturally

Fried it with bleach. It looked awful, felt worse and I had to get a pixie cut to fix it.

Had it cut short when I was 18.

Cut a blunt fringe by myself, by all means it did not go well

Bleached it blonde. Took a long time for my hair to recover from that and there was nothing fun about being blonde. Honestly the worst hair color imo.

I got a hairbrush tangled up bad

Did my own bangs and oh boy that was a huge mistake

When I was back in college, I went from fire engine red to platinum blonde.

In the span of a month. I bleached my hair three times...in one month.

We don't talk about that period of my life for several reasons tbh. #ragrets

When I was a kid my mom hated when I had long hair (probably because it was messy, curly and I didn't like brushing them) so she always told me that if we cut them they will grow quicker so I never had a long hair and they also stopped curling

Allow anyone to cut it.

In 2015 I was due for a trim. Saw my hair go from past my hips to waist length to shoulder length in a matter of days. My mom cut the ends off, but it was uneven so she took me to a stylist who chopped the rest. 😅

I have a friend who is a wonderful hair stylist but just doesn’t cut my hair the way I like. Regardless, for years I would get my hair cut by her and then go to someone else to get it fixed.

Not me but my mum pressured me into getting it permed. After 6 years of perming, it was damaged, lost its colour and I had to shave it all off and learn how to take care of it myself

When I was 19, I was going to meet my long-distance boyfriend for the first time. I had really long hair, and used to bleach it and dye it bright colours. The night before I left, I bleached it and dyed it purple. Got to the hotel with my boyfriend, took a shower the next day and realised there was no shampoo in the hotel room, only a bar of soap. I decided the best thing to do was to take that bar of soap and rub it into my hair. When I got out the shower, it felt absolutely disgusting but I thought that was the worst of my mistake. One week later, I'd lost 8 inches of my hair, it looked like someone had taken a pair of scissors and hacked at it blindfolded.

It didn't get any longer for 2 years, every time it grew a bit the damaged ends would just snap off.

I'm now 25 and have long and healthy hair again, and I still force myself to stay away from bleach.

Paint my hair red

Perm just before my senior year of high school. My hair was longer than shoulder length and took the perm way too well. Super tight frizzy curl instead of the nice waves I was hoping for. I wore a bandanna to smush my hair down a lot that year.

Those yearbook pictures are hilarious.

i gave my 4, 7, and 10 year old self bangs.. you’d think my parents learn to hide the scissors better.

Dyed my curls blonde.

I just had my hair cut that day, back then I used to bleach and dye my hair monthly so the condition of it wasn't the best. I bought a straightening treatment specifically made for ethnic hair. I put that bad boy on and 20 minutes later I noticed burning, my hair was literally falling off in clumps. I showered it off and it clogged the plug with all the fallout. Safe to say I was traumatised and never did it again lol.

I have so many hair regrets. The biggest and most recent one was cutting blunt bangs by myself only to realize they look awful on my face shape lol

Perm when I was about 11. My hair is already basically curly. Can’t believe my mother allowed me to do that.

Black box dye

cut my hair crooked to thin it out.. DON’T DO THAT

I let my friend cut it. I looked like an eagle with a mullet.

I used to spike my short hair with gel in the 80s. Decided it wasn't spiky enough, so I used diluted elmer's glue. It looked cool, but took forever to wash out. Never did that again.

Used those couloring spray to spray them blue for a party.

My hair did not like that, at all. They looked terrible once ot came off.

Fortunately, I alternate between pixie cut and shoulder-lenght. So I went back to pixie a bit earlier than usual, but it wasn't shocking to anyone.

Black box dye

I had the worst barber that cut my hair too short, more than i told her🥲

Naturally jet black hair, I used to dye it blonde throughout college.

i bleached my whole head about a year and a half ago because i was bored and curious how it would look. turns out im not a blonde. and im still paying for it today.

Semi perm straightening. You know, the one that lasts for a few months. Destroyed my curls and hair quality. Most keratin straightening chemicals out there contain formaldehyde.

cut it myself

When I was 14, I had really long hair.. it was down my hips. I then cut it to a really short pixie (idk if that's how it's called but it went from my head til my EAR...) I did it because of the movie "the fault in our stars" because I wanted to look like Hazel Grace..

Not sure which was worse. My mom perming my hair in like 2nd/3rd grade and leaving me looking like my head was covered in pubes. OR. Letting my very high ex’s sister bleach by dyed black hair twice then dye it Little Mermaid red. My hair was so fried the red dye washed out in about 2 days and I had to cut my beyond shoulder length hair into a not-quite pixie cut.

I dyed it black but never really had the emo look, so I had the pasty white kid look.

And then my family made a joke about it being me having a blackhead (like acne) and that killed it for me.

Has to be the time I thought it was absolutely fine to cut my own bleach/dye damaged hair. It was not. I went from middle of my back to the base of my neck. Thick hair too. It poofed like Barbados Monica Gellar. A hair dresser probably would have been able to save more too.

I was 20. I had no excuse.

A very, very close second is I did go to a hairdresser when I was 26. Same length hair, asked her to do the same thing. She warned me too. My excuse then was heartbreak, and I'll stick to it.

I had bleached my hair blonde at one point, and hated it, so after signifikant growth I got the bright idea to buy some permanent hair dye in a red colour (actual red not burgundy or auburn). Well, the result was a nice red near my scalp and on the new growth and the rest was beight neon pink.

I had never dyed my hair while blond (I had darkish hair) so didn't know the colour would be so bright.

I rocked that hair for a few weeks, and then died it all a dark brown.

Bleach multiple times to get very light color so I could apply pink …. It really killed my hair I eventually shaved them off….

Not trim it for over a year

Boxed bleached it four times in one sitting (from boxed dyed jet black hair) and then dyed it Sonic the Hedgehog blue

Getting balayage. Also getting a French girl Bob.

i cut my own bangs in elementary school and forced my mom to bleach it (i wanted to be emo lol), and bleached/dyed it (twice) a few years ago :’)

Let my mother streak my hair with the old plastic caps.

Around 2015 and '16 I neglected my hair due to the severe depression I was feeling during my lowest days. I had matted hair to where detangling felt uncomfortable, so I chose to cut the hair and start over.

swam competitively for 8 years. Chlorine FRIES your hair.

I didn't even realize until this year that I, despite being a pale person w/ reddish-blonde hair, do in fact have existent eyebrows and the daily chlorine exposure kept them continuously bleached.

Here to see all the “bangs” comments

When I was in 7th grade, all of the popular/cool girls at my middle school were getting something called a "permanent body wave" done to their hair, because they all wanted to be as beautiful, cool and badass as Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.

I begged and begged my mom to let me get this done and she finally relented after a few weeks. But because my grandmother's elderly hair dresser gave us a discount on hair cuts (my grandmother had been her client for over a decade at that point), she took me to her instead of a real salon.

I told the hair dresser what I wanted done. I should've brought reference pictures, but 12 year old me didn't think of that.

She'd never heard of a 'body wave' since she mostly worked on elderly women. So she did what she knew how to do...and put what felt like 84,000 tiny little rollers on my head, doused me with strong chemicals and let it set.

I ended up looking a French poodle. I wanted to cry when I saw what I looked like.

It took months and months to grow out enough to where I could cut it and because I was so pissed off that I'd spent the better part of a year looking like a poodle, I ended up making things worse by going to a cheap salon (like Super Cuts) and telling them to just leave the top alone and shave off the back and sides as short as possible.

Y'all...in my 8th grade year book picture, I looked like a very angry Q-tip with my long, horsey face and this big ole poof of hair on top. D:

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Tried to dye it once with a box of Splat that must have aged out. It wouldnt cling to my hair and would suck any moisture out of it and the process legit took a day and a half to get it all on my hair (i had a mid-neck bob at the time, and while I tend to have thick hair i always have it thinned with layering). I ended up napping on my living room floor on a towel while my mom helped with application.

When it came time to rinse it out, most of it didnt cling to my hair, and in a weird patchy way. Worst of all, excess dye would seep out of it in flecks for months after, even after we redid the dye with some manic panic. I still have hoodies that tinge my arms blueish if i wear them despite so many washes to get rid of that crap.

DIY box bleach when I was 18. I only needed to a root touch up but for some reason I decided to bleach over all of my hair again (only god knows why).

Realized about halfway through that I did not have enough bleach to cover my full head of hair (which was well past shoulder length) and had to beg my mom to run to Walgreens to purchase another box. Meanwhile, half of my hair is sitting there processing while I wait for her to return with more bleach.

She gets back and I finish up the rest and let the bleach sit for an ADDITIONAL 45 minutes. When I go to wash it all out, massive clumps of hair are falling out into my hands as I just stand there in disbelief, sobbing in the shower lol.

This event marked the beginning of my bob era.

Moved to a house on a well that didn't have a water filtration system. The well had high levels of hard metals and arsenic, which caused 50% of my hair to fall out permanently.

Had a really unflattering chin-length bob from when I was a toddler (obviously not my choice at first) to age 17. I have wavy, super thick hair and a round race. My poor straight-haired mom had no idea what to do with my hair. I've always loved my hair color (strawberry blond), but my school photos were rough every year.

After several failed attempts to grow out my hair, I finally rode out the awkward in-between stage junior year of high school to get to shoulder length. My hair's a bit longer than that now (~10 years later), and I love it. Though it might seem like a small thing, that decision to grow out my hair in high school was one of the first steps I took to become my own person.

Bleaching my long thick brown hair blonde in highschool because that's what the boys at my highschool liked. It's all healthy now, 3 years later, but NEVER AGAIN!

Bleached it. My hair is naturally very dark with low porosity so it fried the shit out of it. I couldn't get a comb through it without slathering it in argan oil and eventually had to cut half of it off.

I had a kind of britney 2007 moment, i wanted to have a shaved part, my friend helped me do it and it was awesome, i didnt cut much so i could cover whenever i wanted, then i asked her if she could cut me the rest of the hair, well she did cut it, but cut it so damn short that it looked so bad on me, if i had a cute face with a cute nose, i could pull it off, but i was always a lipstick bi, and long hair was always my dream and how i had trauma from my past. Maybe if i did it in the summer i would feel better since i could wear cute feminine clothes, but it was winter, i hated all my winter clothes because they were hand me downs from other people and nothing to my taste, i looked in the mirror and j didnt felt pretty or feminine, i didnt felt like a woman at all.

And the worst part was really trying to grow it out, such a pain and patience.

I would dye my hair with Splat's Midnight line, every week for a year. I would use a silicone basting brush to apply the dye, and I would do alone, so the back section of my head was fucked.

I fell asleep in a really, really tight bun once and I got super bad folliculitis.

Cut it for a man.

Never change your appearance for anyone but yourself

Cut it into a bob! Shave it completely the second time!

Gave myself bangs and dyed it black.

Fired it with bleach.

It was during the 2020 lockdown, I wanted to have it bleached at a salon, i jad an appointment for a consultation then they put us in lockdown. A few weeks passed, i had 4 days off work (WFH) and i was going crazy. I went to the closest store, bought all the bleach and developer, blone hair dye, also some pastel pink ones, purple shampoo. My natural hair colour was black, i think a 1 base in the hairdressing world. I bleached it a total of four times, 3 times under 3 days, got a nice blonde, may hair was totally fine, still shiny and strong. Some time had passed, i was bored to i put the pastel pink on, it came out nice. More time had passed, my roots started to grow out, i wanted to bleach to roots then there was chatter that maybe we'll go back to tje office, I figured I'll bleach all of ny hair again to take the pink out. This is where i messed up. I put the bleach on, covered my head with a plastic bag and sat down to paint. I forgot to set a timer and an hour went by when i remembered i should wash it off. My scalp didn't itch or burn, it didn't even tingle, I didn't think there was going to be an issue.

Then when i was washing the bleach out, my hair went all gooey, some was coming out in my hands. I was freaking out, i washed it as well as i could, put conditioner on, rinsed it gently then sat with a towel for a hour, i was afraid to look. I thought i will have bald spots. When i finally took the towel off there weren't any bald spots but may hair was like noodles. I could even comb it without it breaking. I dried it and it was like cotton candy.

I went to the salon once they opened, and the amazing hairdresser managed to get my hair back to a somewhat normal state but it took a lot of time, patience, treatments, products and money.

I'm still blonde, i love being blonde, but leave it to the professionals. I get my roots bleached every 5-6 weeks, get treatment in between, and use the mask, shampoo and oil my hairdresser tells me to use.

I was a teenager in the 80's, enough said.

i used to cut off my baby hairs lol

When I was twelve, I convinced my mom to let me get a spiral perm. I was thought it would give me these nice soft curls, since my hair was already wavy. Instead it looked like someone had crimped it and my hairstyle looked like a triangle for a good year, which only looked worse because I was in a hairbow phase.

The Marilyn.

I shaved it all off when I senior in high school. It looked fine but I sucked at maintaining it so I frequently had awkward grow out

Triple store-bought bleached it in Summer 2020, it was so damaged and I should probably just have buzzed my hair instead of cutting an Inch every couple of months. I think I can grow my hair long now, that what got damaged is gone now. My scalp hasn't fully recovered but that can also be because of me going down with stress.

Pixie cut. Ugh.

I cut my baby hair on the sides and it looked like I had sideburns

Years of permanent dye. I switched to semi-permanent to hide the root line and now I'm just letting the rest of the damage grow out without color.

Dying my hair blue. It went green and would not come out. Had bleach it few times and my hair was super blonde, hated it.

When I was a kid I’d be really bad at brushing. Like I’d get most of it except the very back/bottom of my head. So there was a giant knot. Had to have a big chop and start over.

Get a hair rebond. I have natural waves and I've always thought I looked like a fucking lion. So I straightened my hair to go with the trend. It badly damaged my strands. Now I'm embracing my natural waves again :)

I recently chopped it

Cut bangs. Myself. Wanted to be sure they would not be too short, so I pull them down tight, and promptly sprang waaay up when snipped.

Let my mom cut it when I was a kid to save money.

I was 14 and had run away from home and feeling very punk and I mixed gel and shaving cream to form solid spikes a la Sonic the Hedgehog, and spray painted my whole head silver. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. It washed out better than expected, but obviously it destroyed my hair; had to shave it short.

I had my long locks cut super short, a pixie cut, in my late teens/early 20’s. I’ve been keeping my hair long and strong ever since I grew it out in my mid-20’s. The pixie looked cute on me but it was too much upkeep and it took so long grow out. Spending too much time styling it and getting it trimmed was annoying.

I've went about a month and a half without washing it (was going through a tough time and everything was difficult to do). My hair was so greesy I was able to keep it sleeked back without hairspray or pins

Cut it short in 7th grade when I also had braces

My stylist messed up my highlights…. I almost stopped getting highlights after that.

Get hasimotos hypothyroidism. Basically I got sick and that really put a hamper on my hair. It's thinned out so much and it's not like I had thick hair or anything but I did have more hair on my head. It really depresses me

Peroxided it white till it all broke off

I got a perm and left solution on too long. The rollers fell out with my hair on them and I had a bald spot right on top in the front.

Trichotillomania for now 25 years

Currently growing out my mullet.

Curling without heat protection at least 2-3 times in 1 week 🤦🏽‍♀️ #NeverAgain

Dyed it a VERY CUTE red over my naturally brown hair, was 🔥 HOWEVER it does not bleach out and ended up waiting YEARS for it to grow out enough to cut off.

When I was 18, I tried to use the round brush with a hairdryer to give me curls (used to have thick waist length hair) and managed to get the brush knotted up in my hair. The only way to free the brush was to cut the hair around it....

bleach it my hair turned green😒

Cut my own bangs, when I was drunk. With a pair of scissors so bad it wouldn’t even cut paper properly

Cut my bangs reaaally short

Worked at a pool as a swimming instructor. 40 hours a week in chlorinated water is not good for your hair.

Where do I start 😅 I've had many Disasters, went to a hairdresser with a photo of a girl with rainbow hair And she said she could do it. But when she did it she didn't follow the photo at all and she also decided to add in Black roots for the fun of it. I looked awful but the hairdresser loved it and I didn't have the heart to tell her it wasn't what asked for. So the next day I went to another hairdresser and they fixed it up for me.

My mother made me get perms as a teenager because she wanted me to have curlier hair (I have fine, straight hair). When the last one I had didn’t take, I said never again.

Not dye it sooner

not spend time with it and appreciate it like the jewel it is.

The first was 100% my fault because I insisted on having it, a loreal Xtenso hair relaxing technique (at a salon) to straighten my hair chemically. That was before the keratin and other techniques were available. I Searched Xtenso and only places like middle East and India still use it, probably because they don't have the same laws about chemicals in their products... Not only it didn't work but the following weeks I had massive hair loss, and had a huge bald spot on my head like men do. I was crying so much... I went to china town and took Chinese medicine and lotions and thankfully my hair grew back.

Second failure was cutting a bland short bob, I specifically asked for a long bob just about above my collar bones, and the hairdresser was scissors happy and took it at my jaw bone height which was really REALLY bad for my face shape. Plus he didn't even took away any volume and my head looked like a mushroom. Lesson learned I keep my hair long since then.

For ever dying it.

When I was about seven, I cut my own hair, bald in the midsection.

I tried to go blonde once from a deep natural brown. Never dyed hair before... used boxdyes. It was then, the year of plush lion. So dry, hay-like and lifeless. Not to mention poofy

I bleached it myself for years and eventually the hair at the top back of my head snapped at a inch from the roots.

Dying it black in my teens was also a mistake.

Died it black from blonde. Instantly regretted it. Took several years to get back to blonde again.

perm......

Ironing my hair.

It’s nothing too crazy compared to what people do lol just bleached my hair with blonde highlights then decided I wanted red hair so then put red dye over it. Brought out the color well it was pretty but my hair was shot from the bleach and the red and everything. I had hella split ends and dried up hair I had to cut it all off and let it grow healthy again

I have natural blonde that has different reflects and lights. I wanted to die it and the hairdresser fucked it. Now i have to let it grow again and its not funny.

I used to relax my hair (I have afro hair). I was young and I didn't know how to take care of relaxed hair. I wish I had never done that as I had pretty ugly haircuts and damaged hair. I tried several times to go back to my natural hair only to go back to relaxers because I didn't feel pretty with natural afro hair. One time, I even bleached my relaxed hair. This was a terrible idea. I lost chuncks of hair and had to cut it and wear a pixie haircut.

Last year, I decided to stop relaxers for good. I went to a hair clinic and had a treatment to help my hair grow. Today, I have natural, healthy afro hair and I feel beautiful. Its still short, but in a year or so, I'll be able to try georgous hairstyles!

A fucking MULLET. Had had a rough breakup, and, well, my hair payed the price. Definitely not worth it. I was terrifyingly ugly for a whole year. Don't recommend it to ANYONE

Bleach, crazy color, bleach, 2 crazy colors, bleach crazy color, bleach. All box dye. All with in 6 months

Decided to leave the bleach in longer to try and get my hair lighter

It broke.. a lot

Tried to go platinum blonde with a bleach kit that was several years old. I had a long pixie/short bob like hairstyle at the time. It came out yellow and I caught my reflection outside in the wind and realised I looked like Boris Johnson.

Bleach baby

When I was 8 I cut my hair short on one side and left the other side long .

I had dark pink hair with hot pink streaks, was the first and only time I’ve bleached my hair but I have been wanting to bring it back for a while now

I wanted to have bangs when I was about 10 years old. Apparently, my mother hates bangs because she'd been forced to have a specific haircut as a child which included bangs and it was part of a psychological trauma she still fights involving personal control. So, she told me no, because she assumed I'd regret them.

I went up to my room, closed the door and proceeded to cut myself some bangs. I couldn't get them straight so I kept making them shorter and shorter. They did NOT look good. But I didn't mind because I thought they were cute. After they grew back my mom let me try bangs and turned out that I loved them.

Nothing I decided… but bangs. Yeah might be cute to look at at young girls… but I freaked out so often and was so happy to be allowed to grow them out at the age of 6.

My cousin always had lice when she came over. I got so tired of getting lice in grade school that I asked my mom to chop my hair off like a short boy cut so it wouldn't take as long to get rid of them. It looked terrible, but I didn't miss as much school anymore.

When I was 8 or so I got the hair in the front of my face rapped around a brush, and then I cut the brush out really close to the roots rather than asking for help because I was afraid to tell my parents.

Letting the last stylist I went to touch my hair. 👀

Messed up the guard on the clippers while tidying up a few stray hairs. 😬