Girlfriend's box of questions

Ahhhh, a question near and dear to my heart....lol


Tell us about your biggest hair cut or color disaster


Wow.....this is one of those topics I could probably write a book with. Thirty five years in the biz gives me plenty of material, believe me! How do you think we learn new techniques and styles?  ON EACH OTHER!!!  I've been tabby cat orange/brown (spots, of course), blueberry, Lucy Ricardo red. So short I couldn't even get a roller or curling iron around it, permed tight enough to actually look like a Brillo pad, stick straight flat to my head, straightened. BUT in all these years I've never seen my REAL haircolor. I have no earthly idea what's under there, and I don't intend to find out!

Alright then....let's hear your story!

I've colored my hair red for about 10 years, had short spiky hair and very short hair since out of high school, mom believed once you graduated it was time to cut your hair and my hair was never past my shoulders. Now it's just below chin length and I have colored in dark brown.

Worst hair disaster?? From my mom cutting and putting Toni perms in my hair! Yuck!

Toni perms. Now there's a term I haven't heard in many, many years. Thank God!

I am a bit boring Susan. I haven't really had any disasters except for my wedding when my perm didn't turn out. The hairdresser had gone away to do some work but flew back in on my wedding morning to fix my hair. I was very lucky. My hair is very short at the moment because op is in 3 sleeps. I have had some blonde streaks put in it.

Like I said...boring.

Jules

How lucky you are to have such a great hairdresser! I love doing client's special occasion hair. Lots of times I don't charge the daughter's for their wedding hair. Everyone else?  THAT'S a different story...lol

First grade. Still  a very VIVID memory. Picture day. Up dressed pretty and Mom decided to "finger wave" my hair. This involved some kind of gel, I can see the bottle of gooey stuff; can't remember what it was called in 1956!

Anyway she wet it down, then finger waved it telling me that when I got to school it would be dry and I could comb it out for my picture. I took one look in the mirror and started sobbing saying that I wasn't going to school. I had a little fit until the school bus left thinking that I was safe.

Wrong! Mom asked the neighbor to drive me to school as the only car in the family was with my dad at work. Don't remember what happened when I got to school. However, the picture for that year shows me in a little velvet pony tail hat with just a fringe of frizzy bangs showing in the front.

Remember those hats at all? I loved mine. It was dark red, had a circle of rhinestones around the headband part and a ponytail in the back. I'll have to see if I can dig that picture out . It is a gem and I mean that in the worst way!

Don't remember the hats, but I do remember having to learn, teach and actually DO finger waves on a client. AGHHHHH  Frustration abounded

My mom was a pro at holding me captive for finger waving and French braiding! She could braid my hair so tight that it would last for days. I actually liked when I took the braids out. My eyes returned to their normal location AND I had curls! (kind of!)

My hair is naturally very wavy, and I keep it fairly short, and it's been "naturally" gray for many years.  A LONG time ago, I decided to stop coloring it, and got a perm.

The perm was a disaster, made my hair all brittle, and it kept breaking off.  So it was all little clumps all over my head.

It wasn't quite like a gray brillo pad, because it had a little curl.  Looked a lot like p***c hair.  Don't mean to offend anyone, but it was what it was.  It took months to grow out, and I was afraid to do anything with it to make it look better, for fear I would end up bald.

Not a color or cut situation, but does that qualify????

Candy

As a grade schooler my hair was so blonde it was almost white; straight as a stick. Each year right before Easter I was sent to the local beauty school for a perm. If it it didn't curl, it was left in longer to "set." I would come out with a blonde Afro long before they were popular! Frizzy, frizzy, man can I relate!

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