The Hair Photos
February 13, 2010
This is the left side of my head. It is layered, but at least they are longer.
And this is the horror of the right side of my head. Yes, this is all the hair on the right side of my head if you drew a diagonal line from in front of my ear to the crown of my head. And because she used the razor scissors thingy it looks like side of my hair was singed.
I realized after I washed my hair this morning that she also made my bangs much thicker… on the right side. Even though my hair grows quickly, it is going to take forever to grow out.
So please no one say anymore that it isn’t that bad. It is that bad. And no I am not going to try and have it evened out because then I WOULD BE BALD!
On a brighter note, look at the handsome lunch date I had this afternoon:
He doesn’t care what my hair looks like. And I don’t care that he spent the afternoon sporting an orange soda mustache. Sadly, he fell ill shortly after this and is currently curled up on the couch next to me with a fever.
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I mean, I don’t want to say, wow, what a bad haircut, because that seems mean and like telling someone they look tired or sick…
But wow, it’s a good thing you have a lot of hair and that it’s at least a pretty color. How’s that for aiming for the positives. That looks like something a 4 year old left with scissors might have ended up with. Does your stylist drink? use mind-altering drugs? not have a license? I mean, you can almost sort of pull it off, but yikes, that right side sure has a lot going on.
I’m sorry, didn’t manage to keep the positive going there. Glad you posted the front shots though, because I’ll admit that the back one, while pointy didn’t really hint at all the um, variation, of the front.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:52 pmOk, you’ve got a situation. But you’re still skinny. And blonde! (BTW, I have found prenatal vitamins to be very helpful in hair-growing situations.) So sorry your sweet son is not feeling well.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:59 pmI’m sure other people have suggested this, but you may want to try speaking with the manager of the salon.
*Anyone* can see that your hair is uneven. Generally, the managers want customers to be happy. I’m sure she would have someone who is a better stylist try to remedy it a bit.
You’re right - there’s no way to even it out completely. But I’ll bet there’s a way to cut it a bit, so that the unevenness looks less obvious.
At the very least, you should speak to the manager so she knows what the stylist did. Hopefully they can prevent this from happening to someone else!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:07 amI agree it is bad… maybe it’s time for the suburban bob. You’re hair is very pretty even though it is uneven. Think positive…shorter hair is easier and you still look beautiful even with uneven hair!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:12 amI can see how that cut would seem pretty sudden and drastic. Been there before! I’ve had too many bad haircuts… and no, I NEVER go back to get it fixed because I want it grown out ASAP without any setbacks. I’m resolved to be a Duggar or crop it myself 1 inch from my head every 6 weeks for the rest of my life. Sadly, I’m not sure which one would look better on me… for now I’ll keep my hair, I guess.
Godspeed with the hair growth!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:26 am(((((Chris)))))) That is an awful haircut. May your hair grow like Iowa corn and Georgia kudzu.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:31 amMy sympathies there is nothing worse than a haircut that makes you feel unattractive. (Although for the record, you still look very pretty.)
February 14th, 2010 at 12:33 amWow. Yeah. I’d be getting some money back. Dang.
Sorry your boy is sick - but at least his hair looks awesome…
February 14th, 2010 at 12:34 amYeah. It is pretty bad but hopefully your date makes you forget about it for a while!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:39 amOh. my. word. There are no words to express the sympathy I feel for you right now.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:41 amUmm… wow… yeah, she butchered your hair. It kind of looks like she was distracted while cutting - which is never good for hairdressers (or surgeons).
February 14th, 2010 at 12:47 amWow…these photos do show what a poor job that gal did on your hair. But I must say that you did have a handsome lunch date!
February 14th, 2010 at 1:03 amUmmm…so sorry about the awful hair. Now, if it isn’t too much trouble, can you post some more ass pictures?
February 14th, 2010 at 1:08 amAw..I didn’t even read the last paragraph, so deep was my disappointment in the lack of ass photos, but on a serious note, I’m so sorry about your son.
(which is not to say I wasn’t serious about the disappointment)
February 14th, 2010 at 1:10 amYou are so right about that cut, any one of your kids could have done better! Call the better business bureau, get revenge.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:11 amOK. Yesterday I didn’t think your hair looked bad. Today - totally see what you were talking about. Holy crap. That hairdresser sucks!
February 14th, 2010 at 1:26 amYou are very very pretty. That is a crappy haircut. You are still very very pretty (with a crappy haircut).
Builds character?
(from a fellow doormat payer and tipper of haircuts that made me cry)
February 14th, 2010 at 1:36 amI know it’s no comfort, but I do have a friend with a cut like this by choice. Longer on one side than the other. I guess it’s stylish?
Yeah, I don’t get it either.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:39 amWow, that sucks. You definitely should at least complain to the owner/manager of the salon and hopefully get some money back. I can understand not wanting them to come anywhere near you with scissors. Ponytail time!
February 14th, 2010 at 1:42 amUm, yeah. She hacked your hair! Was she blind??
February 14th, 2010 at 2:12 amOh Mercy. I am CRACKING up. Is that terribly wrong? Maybe it’s the two glasses of wine I’ve had - but in my world of delusion - someone who looks as good in jeans as you do, kind of deserves to have a crappy haircut. Where can I send your stylist a fat tip??
OK then. I’ll sign off as … um…
Linda in Ohio
February 14th, 2010 at 2:23 amIt almost looks like she tired to give you some sort of A-line cut on that side combined with crazy layering?!
This is exactly why I’m terrified of getting my haircut. I have thin, fine, naturally curly hair and have had one person in my 27 years of existence who could cut it properly: my former roommate with NO training at all. Now I live in another state and have had one haircut since moving, which was back in October for my brother’s wedding. My hair grows very, very fast as well, but it’s never fast enough when a bad haircut is involved.
On the plus side, you have magic jeans. You can just wear them nonstop until it grows out and shake your butt to divert people’s attention.
February 14th, 2010 at 2:29 amYou should not have to pay for that haircut. Definitely talk with the manager. Your hair is so pretty . . . color and texture, that is . . . but you got ripped off! I, too, hope it grows out really fast so you can get a trim . . . by ANOTHER stylist who knows what he/she is doing, that’s for sure!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:41 amYou gotta go back and get your money back. This happened to this doormat years ago — I paid and tipped and got
February 14th, 2010 at 2:42 ampi–ed at myself later. The next day I went back and demanded a refund of the cost of the hair cut AND my tip. She argued and told me that she was using the latest cutting edge techniques on my hair and I was too redneck to appreciate them. I said fine, I’ll be a redneck, but I still want my money back. I got it and felt wonderful for not allowing her to get away with screwing up my hair and me paying and tipping her to do it. And, to make matters worse, my hair was short to begin with so there was little that could be done to “fix” it. In the meantime, go buy more of those jeans and back into all rooms as you enter them — believe me NO ONE will notice if you have hair, much less what it looks like. Finally, hope your son is feeling better. It sucks to have a great date end with sickness.
Hey! Guess what! I have exactly the same haircut, right down the the razor thing! And unfortunately, I hate it too. But apparently it is meant to be like that - you know, the whole uneven, unbalanced thing with the thicker bangs on one side. It is supposed to be trendy. But I’m 35 and no longer interested in “trendy”. I just want a good haircut!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:52 amThe bad cut really is a bummer. I have to know, which salon/hair dresser did you go to?
February 14th, 2010 at 3:20 amYes, it is a terrible haircut. I see only 2 possible remedies-1)getting it fixed by a different stylist, which, admittedly will make it shorter, but it will have a better chance of looking even as it grows out or -2)wear it as is, strike poses and flip your head around often to show the cut off, perhaps occasionally using stylish hair clips or flowers, and declare to any who asks that this new do is very avante-garde, this is the absolutely latest in styles and you are surprised they weren’t aware of that! Then stroll off leisurely, head held high. You are a beautiful woman, use what God gave you and you can pull this off. Soon you will be having people ask you who your stylist is. Don’t however, give her name out, as I am reasonably sure this girl, having done what she did to you, would surely botch it up if she tried to do it on purpose.
February 14th, 2010 at 3:37 amThick bangs…..my co-worker went in to have bangs done (she had gone without bangs for several years). She knew she was in trouble when the stylist didn’t even wash her hair, just spritzed it and went to town. The only thing she asked for was thick bangs. She got baby hair wispy bangs and was pissed. Since I know the owner of the salon I insisted she call and demand she be compensated at least (she also paid full with tip). It couldn’t be fixed but at least she got her money back…….I vote you fight for your money back at the very least.
February 14th, 2010 at 3:45 amI NEVER let anyone come near my hair with the razor. That just never comes out right. When I sit down I am very clear…NO RAZOR!! I am so sorry this happened to you. If your hair was parted in the middle does look anymore even? I agree with whoever said to talk to the manager but you are probably like me and you probably won’t. Did you at least cancel your appointment? Please tell us you CANCELED the next appointment or this nightmare will never end!! Hoping for you your hair grows very fast!
February 14th, 2010 at 5:21 amoh Sweetheart, that IS a really bad haircut. I’m not being mean but how can I truly empathize with your pain if I don’t acknowledge your very good reason for feeling it? All I can say is Thank God your hair grows really fast and maybe you should rethink going to someone else. Really, surely they can even this mess up without taking very much off at all. Even if you have to threaten her and hold onto one of her nipples while she is cutting teeny tiny little pieces off to even it up. How in the world did you get hooked up with this hideous hairdresser? She should be shot.
And I am so sorry for your having to live with this. We all know what bad hair days are like. This won’t make you feel any better but at least you still have beautiful hair even if it is the worst cut ever. I once got a perm on my past my shoulders hair and she fried it so bad that I had to get a pixie cut. I do not look good in a pixie cut. It was a very bad thing.
February 14th, 2010 at 6:43 amI have been known to go back to a salon the next day and demand a refund from the salon owner/manager. And I got it, too. Go ye therefore and make them make restitution!
February 14th, 2010 at 7:19 amWow, you got a date with that handsome Abercrombie & Fitch model?
Too bad he’s ill now (and I feel your fear, having 6 more children who can catch whatever bug this is)! Hope he’s better soon.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:23 amI was all “what’s wrong with it?” till I got to the right side pic. Oh my. I am so sorry, I would have cried too.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:26 amDefinitely talk with management.
You could totally rock a bob, you’ve got the bone structure for it.
I hope your son feels better soon.
Yeowch… that is a bad haircut
What is the difference between a good haircut and a bad one? Two weeks. Please Lord Jesus let Chris have even hair in two weeks.
On the upside though, you have a gorgeous bedroom. I love your quilt set!
February 14th, 2010 at 8:32 amYou’re gorgeous enough to make it look deliberate! Just rock that … that … WHAT IS THAT? WHAT DID SHE DO TO YOU? I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW SHE … GAH … until it grows back.
Or go short! You would look stunning with a short bob as well.
Whatever you do, it’s ten times worse to you than it is to us onlookers. You’re a beauty. Everyone will be too distracted by your face to notice the … WHAT IS THAT? WHY? … Happy Valentine’s Day, girl. And happy growing.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:32 amOk, now I fully understand what you mean. The cut is completely uneven and I agree that the razor scissors have damaged that side of your hair.
I would make an appointment to discuss it with the manager of the salon and explore (free) options to rectify the situation.
But please don’t let this get you down; you still look utterly gorgeous.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:50 amEnjoy the cuddling.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:59 amFrom one fellow doormat to another, I sympathise. It IS a bad haircut, and it must be even worse for you because you are not looking at it in a picture online but wearing it on your own head. At least you have a handsome little lunch date to make up for it; I do not!
I had a horrible layering experience a few years ago that can be best summed up as “no blending at all.” I’ve also stopped going to one salon altogether; my latest experience with them involved the girl who cut my hair spending the entire time making thinly-veiled passive-aggressive comments about how annoyingly long my hair was (as you said in your last post, it’s Duggaresque)
Feeling no need to justify my stylistic choices to the woman I was paying to maintain that style (I cut it under extreme duress back in high school, but I am finally of an age where I can choose to grow it as long as I like without familial pressure to do otherwise, and so on and so forth) I could only sit in disbelief as she just kept muttering on about it, as though I ought to apologise to her for asking her to work with my hair! By the time she was done with me I had worked up enough embarrassed anger to at least leave a smaller tip than I normally do . . . yeah, that’ll teach her.
I am in no position to admonish you to go back and demand a better product than you were given, obviously, but I do like to see people who are braver than me . . . if you can do it, I think it would be great if you did.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:05 amI am quite impressed that you patronized the blind hair stylist.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:12 amWould a bit of curling iron help?
February 14th, 2010 at 10:13 amI hate being one of those people who says, “oh yeah, well how bout this?!”, but I’m going to do it. I just received that haircut, and it was done by my dearest friend. Now what do I say? And if I go try to have it fixed, she’ll know! I told my husband it looked like I was growing out a mullet, too! But he said, noooo, not a mullet. I was right!
February 14th, 2010 at 10:37 amWow…that is so strange that the sides are so different.
Btw, if it were me, I wouldn’t bother going back and arguing or spending any more time on the bad haircut. To me, it’s not worth the effort expending any more energy over it. I don’t think that makes you a doormat at all. I would just pray to the hair gods for quick growth and move on. You are still gorgeous, so it’s ok.
Hope your son feels better soon.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:38 amSeeing your handsome boy made me think that I don’t think this blog (and we readers) were gifted with a write up on his birthday….. I think you hinted that one would be coming?? I love reading your birthday love notes to your kids. Happy Valentine’s Day, Chris!
February 14th, 2010 at 11:17 amOuch! That is one horrible haircut. I wouldn’t try to fix it if I were you. You’ll end up shorter and imo, that’s not “you”. My new stylist gave me a great cut a week ago and tiger tangerine stripes for a weave. Grrrrrr.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:19 amLooks like a haircut I got last spring. I ended up with ONE INCH layers on the top of my head. Who in the hell puts one inch layers in hair that is shoulder length? They stood straight up! The good news though? It grows out (lots of half up hair days in the meantime).
And once it starts growing out and you return to genius with the scissors you’ve been seeing since college who still cuts your mom’s hair 1500 miles away from where you now live, he’ll fix it and you’ll have a good laugh. (How’s that for a run-on?)
Do speak with the manager though, I’ve recently started speaking up for myself about customer service experiences (both good and bad), and it is the most rejuvenating feeling.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:23 amHmmm. What if you changed your part to the other side???
February 14th, 2010 at 11:36 amBad, bad, bad.
But you, still gorgeous.
I agree with everyone else, go back to the salon manager and at least have it fixed so it doesn’t look horrible to you every day in the mirror. There are ways to do this. Otherwise, you’ll want to cry every time you see it in a mirror.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:39 amMy sympathies. All I can say is: ponytail and biotin. I wore my hair in some sort of twist for a whole year trying to grow out a much regretted haircut, and I took GNC’s Ultra Nourish Hair and extra biotin. The good thing that came from my experience was that I spent zero time doing my hair, and got really good at applying my makeup!
February 14th, 2010 at 11:41 amit is SUCH a bonus when you post house pictures. so more of those, please.
you will still be confused for one of your children. (”is your mother home, dear?”) anything below the chin is workable, chris. trust me on this.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:51 amWas she blind????? OMG…she should have her license revoked!
Don’t worry, though…you’re cute enough to survive it!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:18 pmI am so, so sorry. It looks like Miles cut your hair.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:40 pmYeah…yesterday’s shot doesn’t really look that bad - at least not on my computer…it just shows you have a “rockin’ ass” (in the words of Matt Damon’s character when he was on Will & Grace).
Even the shot of the left side doesn’t look all that bad. But HOOOOBOY! The right side…there are no words.
At the very least, I think you need to cancel your next appointment. If you’re not feeling courageous enough to tell them WHY, you can simply say you realized you have a scheduling conflict that day and you’ll get back to them to set another appointment…and then don’t get back to them.
I was in hair stylist limbo for quite some time a while back after mine quit to be a stay at home mom, and I know how difficult it can be to find a stylst who listens and gives honest feedback on how your requests will work with your hair type. I’m so sorry - I hope you find your stylist love-connection soon.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:47 pmOK, I didn’t comment on your first hair post because I didn’t think it was that bad. However, now that I’ve seen the front I’m wondering why you keep going to that hairdresser???? Cancel your next appointment and move on to someplace new, PLEASE!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:55 pmYikes. Have you tried a hat? I join the rest in saying that you need to talk to the manager. As a small business owner, she needs to know.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:56 pmOk I get your point now. It didn’t look that bad from the back.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:58 pmI really think you should take advantage of the fact that you are in America, a country that understands customer service, and go talk to the manager and get a refund! Seriously!
I also think, if you like, you could rock a shorter look. You have great hair. And it would grow out.
First off, you did have quite the handsome date!
Please don’t go back there to get a hair cut next time. It’s just not worth the stress! Ask around to the other mom’s to see where they go, you’re hair shouldn’t have been such a big deal to cut.
You’re still beautiful and in a couple of weeks, a ponytail will hide most the damage.
Bad hair just sucks, been there way to many times and totally understand.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:59 pmOh my. I feel for you. The back is lovely even with the point, the left side looks nice, and the right side… well… I feel for you. Definitely make an appointment with the manager to explore options to have it fixed. For free. And get your money back. I too would have a hard time confronting the situation but it’s important. I have had my fair share of really bad haircuts so I know how disappointing and frustrating it can be. I have wimped out and said nothing only to be mad at myself later. That’s worse than having bad hair. Sticking up for oneself can make a bad situation better and build confidence. On the bright side your bedroom is lovely, you have magic jeans and an adorable lunch date!
February 14th, 2010 at 1:09 pmI had dreadlocks for a little over 8 years in my late teens/20s and instead of shaving my head to get rid of them I brushed them out - painstaking and ended up very uneven with random different thicknesses. I wore a ponytail for about 6 months and used those little pale metal slidey things to grip back the hair that didn’t reach the ponytail, just while it grew back long enough to have it cut even. Possible you could do the same? A French braid would probably also work in holding back different lengths of hair.
Like some other commenters, I know some people who have haircuts like this because it’s fashionable, and you can absolutely pull it off (it’s all about the bone structure) but if you don’t like it, don’t live with it - go get it evened out to middle of the neck length or tie it all up and grip back the escapee parts..
February 14th, 2010 at 1:21 pmOk, now we can see the real damage. Unfortunately you can’t do anything except wait for it to grow out. BUT, this person can’t keep cutting hair! You at least need your money back. Something to make you feel a little better. Luckily, you are attractive and can pull off a bad haircut though.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:37 pmFormer lurker .. I can’t remember if you said you made another appointment with this woman but if you did, quick .. pick up the phone and cancel!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:09 pmok, the hair cut is definitely not right! good thing you are pretty as are your beautifully arranged pillows behind you!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:11 pmYour options seem clear—
1) Call, or go back, and get your $$ back. Even if it’s not a lot of $$, you will be sending a definite “message” to this haircutter. And the salon. I would not ask for a fix-it haircut from this place. Cut your losses, and find another.
2) Have some other stylist even it out. Even if it goes way short (or even just a bit shorter), get that razor edge outta there. It makes your hair look unhealthy. Who care’s if that’s a trendy look right now? For YOU, it looks like you’re malnourished, or sickly or something.
3) Be thankful you’re skinny. And that your hair grows fast. As us women get older (I speak from experience, at 47) the hair not only doesn’t grow as fast, but it starts to thin out. Take this awesomely horrendous haircut experience as a lesson learned. Never again stay silent if you notice that a haircut is taking a turn for the worse as it’s happening. hard to do for us compliant types, but really, better to just jump up out of the damn chair and scream “gotta go!” whip off that plastic cape, and head for the door! You also avoid having to pay for said crappiness and can just find someone to fix it as it is.
I’ve had long hair like yours. I’ve got moderate length hair now. If I EVER went through the beginning stages of a bad haircut, I’d just think to myself “hmmmm, what’s the WORST thing that could happen by my leaving now?” And I gotta say, having a half-way bad haircut, as opposed to what you’re looking at now— easier to “fix”. Cheaper too!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:21 pmI’m sorry you’re having to deal with this, it truly is horrible hair cut. I’m dealing with the same thing, and my hair cut is shorter than your shortest layer. Hopefully it will grow out quickly.
February 14th, 2010 at 2:29 pmI hope he gets better, I hate when I’m attacked by a fever too. How old is he? He’s pretty young.
February 14th, 2010 at 2:49 pmI hate hate HATE the razor-scissor things. I always say “Cut it straight across…with scissors!” and I had a hairdresser argue with me once, nearly flat-out refuse to use regular scissors. Like she didn’t know how to cut any other way. Maybe for super thick hair they work? Or short, choppy bobs? But long, fine hair it just makes it look like we have horrible split ends.
I’m so so sorry! For what it’s worth, the left side is beautiful:) And you JUST tweeted that your hair grows fast, right?
February 14th, 2010 at 3:30 pmYou know what really stinks is that you were very deliberate and careful to TELL HER WHAT YOU WANTED. And she did what she wanted to do regardless. So, yea, even though I am the poster child for wimpiness at times, you do need to talk to the manager of the salon and the stylist as well, because your clearly expressed wishes were disrespected and disregarded. I know it’s just hair, and it’s much more important that your sweet boy gets better, but give it a shot if you can. And tell every person under the sun to stay away from that salon/stylist!
February 14th, 2010 at 3:30 pmThat sucks bigtime. Take comfort in the fact that we have all been there, and MANY of us have tipped for the crime! You are not alone, Chris! Good luck to ya!
February 14th, 2010 at 4:00 pmOh, babe. Oh. That blows goat, it truly does. Blows *and* hangs the goat. I would cry so much.
Wear a hair clip on that one side until it grows out thicker and longer. A pretty little clip really will help — well, on both sides actually, if you prefer being balanced that way (not being facetious, just some women prefer one clip to two).
February 14th, 2010 at 4:56 pmI have lived in the States for seven and a half years, I got a nice haircut ONCE and the hairdresser from Sweden… My friend (an American himself, who has been getting haircuts here for over fifty years) had once said that hairdressers in this country are direct descendants of Attila the Hun :).
I just got a horrible haircut this week myself, unfortunately my hair is too short to be put in a ponytail
February 14th, 2010 at 4:58 pmHUGS!
OMG I did not see it for what it was in the last post. But the picture does not lie. Go back and demand your money.
Hope sick son is feeling better.
February 14th, 2010 at 5:19 pmwow - i am so sorry. but you really are gorgeous and i would go back and talk to the manager and then have them cut the other side to match the shorter side, then grow the whole thing out and never go back there again!
February 14th, 2010 at 5:38 pmOk, yes now that I see the front….well it is not great. Thank God your so attractive. Can you even imagine how bad a bad haircut would be if you were not so pretty? I agree with the person who said you should just back into rooms with your great tush….plus I still think the back of your hair looks nice!
February 14th, 2010 at 5:53 pmOh Chris…..
February 14th, 2010 at 6:46 pmLast week my 26 year old came home with something similar, she’d let her best friend cut her hair, the girl went to beauty school for a semester a while back. After a rousing chorus of beauty school drop out I encouraged her to go to the best stylist we could find on short notice and get the repair job that would enable her to appear once more in public.The results were a huge improvement! Demand your money back or sue what ever your entitled!!!
mak
And you made *another* appointment with this hairdresser??
February 14th, 2010 at 6:49 pmWow, that really is a bad haircut. Sorry, but I can empathize. You, though, still look good. I, on the other hand, look awful…with a haircut that truly looks like a mullet. My hair guy was distracted due to health inspection and I should have known I was going to come out bad, when the entire time he was cutting my hair he was looking everywhere else but my head. I disagree, with others that say you should go back and have them fix it. Are you kidding? I would not let anyone in that same shop touch your hair. I guarantee it will only be worse. I think your only option is to wait it out and let it grow or you will end up with a very short haircut. As for your money, I would go back and ask for a refund. I did exactly the same thing you did years ago, paid and tipped. And to this day, some thirty years later, I still regret that I did not get my money back. I just let it go and waited for it to grow. Just as I am doing now. Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow, oh let it grow.
February 14th, 2010 at 7:10 pmI’m so sorry about your hair, it looks like it would have to be cut back to jaw length to fix the right side, which you’re obviously against. Maybe consistently using a barrett on the right side until it’s grown out more and can be corrected would look better?
You are a beautiful woman, and the haircut doesn’t subtract from that, in how we obviously all see you. I know it’s hard to see it yourself though.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:32 pmKim
Ok…it’s bad. Your still look fabulous though. It will grow out, it’ll feel like forever, but it will…
February 14th, 2010 at 8:45 pmSorry your kiddo is under the weather!
Ohhhhh, I am so sorry! Seriously, who are these people cutting your hair?
February 14th, 2010 at 8:52 pmBelieve it or not this is a intentional cut. I sadly know because I too had it inflicted upon me a couple weeks ago. I was not happy. In my head “layered” does not equal cut one side only six inches shorter on the front! Since it happened I have noticed a similar cut on some of our local newscasters. I still think it is very strange and hope for it to grow out soon. But at least I know it wasn’t just one crazy hair stylist.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:35 pmWhat on EARTH was she thinking? Clearly she has no ability to layer hair properly. I think a complaint to the salon manager/owner is in order
On the up side, I do like the colour.
Hope your handsome lunch date feels better soon and by some magic everyone else doesn’t catch his bug.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:56 pmWhy don’t you just let someone good even this up for you and move on?
February 14th, 2010 at 10:18 pmI’m so sorry Chris, it was definitely the wine speaking in my last comment. Although it might be very difficult for me to do, I think I’d go back to the salon, or maybe send the photo that you have on your blog along with a note that if you wanted the “hair caught in a fan” look, you’d stick your head in a blower.
I’m sorry that happened to you. That hair cut is really unacceptable from a licensed cosmetologist (she was licensed, right??) Were you wearing those same jeans when you went in for the haircut? Maybe she was jealous?
All of that being said, you’re really so adorable, you’d look good with a buzz cut.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:53 pmOnline reviews, find write one with the salon name and person that cut it. Save another soul from that. Yikes!
February 14th, 2010 at 11:01 pmWow! You did get a bad haircut! But, to be honest with you…I think you can pull it off. From the pic it looks like short hair flatters you.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:39 pmThis post, as well as so many of the comments, are making me very wary of having my hair cut professionally. I’ve been cutting my own hair (and doing quite well, I might add) for 22 years. I had one too many bad haircuts and started cutting it myself. Now, all these years later, I’m tired of doing it and I’m ALMOST to the point of going in to let someone else cut my hair… and then I read this.
Sigh.
Guess I’d better keep my hair cutting scissors sharpened for a while longer…
February 15th, 2010 at 12:11 amOkay, now I see the front and see what you mean. Sorry!!
February 15th, 2010 at 8:30 amLike other posters said, just trying to make you feel better here - it’s a good color, still got some great length, and you’re still thin and beautiful.
Hope your son is feeling better - mine is probably not going to school today for same reason!
So sorry about the cut - your date, though, he has GREAT hair!
February 15th, 2010 at 9:32 amYou are right, that is pretty horrible. I think there should be a Hair Thursday, Special Victims post. I have no recommendations because I have short hair, but maybe that cute lunch date of yours could give you some locks for love?
Also? Love the pottery in your room.
February 15th, 2010 at 9:54 amWow, the front view is totally different from the back. My question is, what the hell was she aiming for?? I would be totally peeved and like many of the others suggested, would go speak to the salon manager, ASAP. She needs to be stopped from butchering others hair. Do you think its shorter on the right side because of the slight part in your hair that way? I wonder if she parted your hair down the middle while she was doing her THING! Even so, bad, bad, bad. :/
February 15th, 2010 at 10:35 amChris,
Just so you know, if you DON’T go talk to the salon owner and get it fixed for free, PLUS your money back I will incessantly tease and call you a doormat.
That is beyond “oops”! I find it hard to believe your hair was her first bad haircut…she needs to know this is NOT ok. The fact that she let you walk out of there with her name on that haircut speaks volumes. 
So sorry…
February 15th, 2010 at 10:39 amHum - I like it - but I understand you DO NOT … and you are really the one that counts here huh?
Sorry the boy is sick - get well soon Sonny!
Hey your bed is made in the pictures! What an idea!
February 15th, 2010 at 10:56 amYou can totally pull it off. Can you pull the sides up?
February 15th, 2010 at 11:18 amI feel for you because now it becomes obsessively analyzed–well, I do that so I assume everyone else does! I would ask for my $$ back, go to someone reputable, and cancel the upcoming appointment with Susie scissorhands. I sometimes feel like I’m too bossy with my hairdresser but I know my hair best. Some have tried to talk my thick, wavy, brown hair into a blunt cut. WHAT?!?! Can you say triangle on the head? Geez.
Good luck!
February 15th, 2010 at 11:44 amChris,
No way around it, the haircut is terrible.
Promise us you won’t go back to that hair person (I can’t use the term stylist here). She does not deserve the opportunity to work with you and your great hair.
She should be in the naughty chair for not listening to your words.
Fortunately you are not your hair. You are great in spite of her evilness.
February 15th, 2010 at 11:50 amI think this is what the “Kate Gosselin” would look like if it were to grow out. Not very attractive. No wonder she went for extensions. Personally I dislike hair past the shoulders. It think it has no style. So I would go with a shorter cut.
February 15th, 2010 at 12:18 pmYou’ve got to let the hair dresser know how unhappy you are!
I can’t believe you paid for this cut!
Please don’t go back to her……..she didn’t listen to what You wanted and that is her number one job!
I’m sorry it is making you miserable…..I get how bad hair can make you feel “not your best” all day long!
February 15th, 2010 at 12:48 pmit WILL grow back. That’s what I keep saying about my badly cut bangs, they will grow back!
February 15th, 2010 at 1:42 pmWell, I have no idea how I stumbled upon this lovely blog - but I’m here and I’m pretty sure my stress hormones have opened the front door and walked out! I laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed…not at your HAIR but the entire way you have embraced this unfortunate, yet temporary situation!
If it was me - I would ask a person whose hair you love the most in the world who does her hair - then GO THERE and ask that person to fix your…ummm….little issue.
You are as cute as button…your hair is BEAUTIFUL…it’s just uneven. And besides, if you had gotten a FABULOUS haircut, well…you wouldn’t have made us all laugh.
February 15th, 2010 at 3:38 pmWhoa!!! That is way shorter than the armpit length you specified. I’m sorry you got a sucky haircut. If it helps, you still look cute, even with a haircut you hate.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:12 pmWow. Almost makes you wonder if she’s friends with the crazy lady down the street. I tend to be paranoid and go for conspiracy theories, so I would think they were in cahoots to torment you.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:37 pmGO. GET. YOUR. MONEY. BACK! Complain to the manager. That person needs to be forced to turn in their scissors. I would DIE. I FEEL YOUR PAIN. And ask the manager for free trims from another stylist until it has grown out evenly enough to go to someone else. STAND UP AND FIGHT! OR HAVE YOUR HUSBAND GO TALK TO THEM. Or your feistiest child.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:53 pmShe butchered you!!! I’m so sorry! You should email her those photos so she can see what a catastrophe she made of your hair. Then laugh at her when she tells you to come in so she can fix it. At least it’s long enough to put in a pony tail…my heart goes out to you.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:05 pmSo sorry, Chris! I am with those who say:
1. Go and get your money back.
2. Go to a new GOOD stylist for some correction. Yep, it’ll be shorter, but will help your hair in its attempt to look better now and grow out more evenly until it can return to its former glory!
Oh, and DON’T go with a bob (as someone suggested).
Your kids are just too damn cute.
February 15th, 2010 at 6:22 pmOkay, forget all about the hair and let’s concentrate on that gorgeous piece of pottery in the foreground (instead of your ass, like last time). Where? What? Who?
February 15th, 2010 at 6:47 pmThat is a terrible haircut…but, you are still a beautiful lady! (I’m not a nut, I promise) I hope it grows back quick and you find a really great hairdresser!
February 15th, 2010 at 8:03 pmI was gonna say the same thing about prenatal vitamins.
What did that woman use? A weed whacker? I’d have been in tears
February 15th, 2010 at 10:16 pmDid you STOP her in mid haircut or something?
I HATE finding a new stylist - I ask everyone the “Who cuts your hair?” question I like their hair.
The stylist I go to now is a result of THREE different referrals. And even so, I don’t pay for the blow dry because while I love the cut and color, I HATE the styling she does. I look like Reba McIntire in the 80s when she blow dries my hair.
February 15th, 2010 at 10:54 pmDuuuuuude… Wow. Sorry. At least its great fodder for the blog? Don’t go back, please, not ever. If you don’t feel comfortable asking for your money back that’s one thing, but don’t go back, not even to the salon because clearly their hiring practices are no bueno. Find yourself a fastidious Asian man to cut your hair. I’m not kidding, I’ve never had a bad haircut from an Asian dude, my last guy literally used to cut individual hairs to make it look perfect and it did every time. Absolutely perfect. Then he moved… what an asshole.
Your son’s hair looks amazing though.
February 15th, 2010 at 11:09 pmWell I must say I feel better prepared for my haircut tomorrow! PLEASE tell me you cancelled your next appointment. I have similar hair which is almost always in a ponytail whether I’ve got a good cut or a bad one.
February 15th, 2010 at 11:14 pmA charming lunch date cures all ills. Layers are the work of the devil himself…especially that razor thingy they keep whipping out. I am still recovering from being razored and thinking of a wig.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:09 amWell, if anyone can pull it off, you can. I’m too lazy to look back over the comments, but I second trying to part it a different way…if, that is, you’re not going to go to someone SIGHTED to have it fixed. I didn’t know Stevie Wonder was cutting hair for a living now! (Am I going to hell for that? I love Stevie Wonder…) At the very least you really SHOULD show the manager your hair; that just ain’t right. (And for the love of all things chocolate, cancel that second appointment with Stevie!)
Hope that sweet boy is feeling better…
February 16th, 2010 at 12:45 amYour haircut is not as bad as the 16 year old ice skater from the US pairs. Her hairdresser clearly went a little texture crazy or the poor kid went at herself with some scissors. She is missing chunks.
February 16th, 2010 at 9:46 amI seriously have that haircut and my daughter went and got it yesterday! I think we need printable cards with this picture on it and one of those red circles with the slash mark through it, so we can take them to the salon with us.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:32 amIt took a not nerves and it my first time I but I went back to my hairdreser and told her I didn’t like it and I would like it fixed. She fixed it and didn’t charge and appolgized. I think I was shaking I hate to hurt people feelings, but I felt so much better and happier after I had it fixed. I know you want it long but maybe go to a friend or a cheap hair place to at least fix it up a little bit. It will help you feel better.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:40 amOkay, you have a point. I live in your neck of the woods so if you need the name of a good salon let me know. I go to one out by the ball field that’s really good.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:40 pmYou are right, that is a bad hair cut. My question would be couldn’t the hair stylist (if you can call her that) see the sides did not match?!?!? Hello!! And then you even gave her a tip, you are nicer than I am. Bad haircut = no tip. Find another stylist, but show the manager first.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:56 pmTell me you stopped her when she had only done the right side of your head!
She cannot possibly have thought that this asymmetrical mess was ok! (It’s a good thing you are so cute, no matter what is on your head.)
Make the salon give your money back and get thee to a better hairdresser, stat!
February 16th, 2010 at 2:17 pmYou know, if they were going to cut THAT much off, the least they could have done was warn you, so it could have been donated to Locks of Love or something.
I have very straight hair too, and I’ve had more bad cuts that good ones. Last year someone gave me the equivalent of a mullet with bangs, and I just had the last layer of that fiasco trimmed out of my hair today. From now it’s one length all the way, “just a trim please” only for me.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:42 pmWhat everyone else said: call the manager. I once showed up at a new salon for a haircut and ended up with a poufy 1970s Mom Haircut. I’d even called ahead asking for someone who knows curly hair. I burst into tears and the stylist shamefacedly told me he wasn’t so experienced with curly girls and handed me off to another stylist, who repaired the damage (I’ve been HER client for 2 years now).
The manager saw what was going on, comped the haircut AND my next haircut and told me they wouldn’t let me leave until I was satisfied.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:59 pmwow. she really did mess that up. the earlier photo in the previous post of just your back made it look just fine, but you can really see the mess in these two. don’t go back, silly!! bummer–sorry for you. i think you would look really cute cutting it all up to the shortest layer, like an inch under your chin, but that’s just my two cents. you probably feel like that will make you look more like a teen mom, you look so young.
February 16th, 2010 at 7:20 pmmade your curry chicken and sweet potatoes again last night and it is sooo very good.
You need a new hairstylist. But you are still hot and skinny and pretty. It’s okay. I had such a horrible cut once that my husband eagerly paid for me to get it re-cut (at a different salon) immediately.
February 17th, 2010 at 1:46 amYou make me think of “Little Women”
Beth: Are you crying for father?
Jo: (shakes head) MY HAIR!!!
February 17th, 2010 at 3:34 pmSilly me, all I noticed was the nice neat bedroom behind you!
I’ve had many haircuts that I came home so THANKFUL that hair grows!
I enjoy “visiting” you.
February 17th, 2010 at 3:43 pmOh. Em. Gee. *R*E*F*U*N*D*
I hate having a bad haircut. Absolutely hate it. I really think Miles could have done a better job that your “hairdresser.”
February 19th, 2010 at 7:16 pm