What is the CRAZIEST thing you have done out of frustration with your hair?
 

I recently was talking with a friend who has curly hair and we had this discussion.

When I was 11 years old I hated my hair. My mom was always making me brush it out (can you say fuzzball?) and I hated my smaller diameter curls and wanted the larger looser curls that I felt we're pretty. So, I got it into my head that if I could get a perm with larger rollers, my hair would curl differently. Needless to say, my mom and hair stylist looked at each other and tried their best to convince me not to do it, but stubborn as I was I could not be convinced. I got the perm and no kidding....Rosanne Rosannadana

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was my nickname that year!!

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I almost tried that too back in the day. The stylist did look at me like I'd asked her to stab me in the liver. I - almost word for word - asked for the same thing you wanted: a looser curl pattern. But I also wanted a "frizz free" look. I thought a perm might do that. She wouldn't do it. Told me it'd ruin my hair.

But I did something just as foolish (an alternative form of the traditional curly perm), and I've talked about it here in the forums: allowed a woman to give me a Jheri curl, but I didn't know that's what she was doing. My hair had been down to my shoulders before the treatment and my curls were up to my ears afterward. Also, it looked like an oil slick. And the activator smell? - oy gevalt - was horrible ... Ah the irony of using an activator spray to activate naturally curly hair that has been artificially curled.

What a disaster :geek:

I cut it myself. Now, I know that many curlies cut their own hair successfully. I should have known better! I looked like a cross between a hedgehog and a porcupine. The ends split. It was horrible. I kept cutting more hoping to fix it. In the end I went to a stylist.

Some people are not cut out (sorry - horrible pun) to cut their own hair!

Pretty much everything I did over the years was crazy, ridiculous, damaging, and a terrible waste of time, money, and tears.
Ironing it with a clothes iron.
Rolling it up in soup cans.
All manner of perms and straighteners.
Flat irons and crimpers.
Salon hair cuts.

Life is sure better now that I just let it do it's thing. And finding cheap products that keep it healthy and help it look great (most of the time) is a bonus.

I got dreadlocks :P They didn't suit me (although they look great on some people), they damaged my hair, and I missed out on the beauty of curly hair :( They were fun but my curl that I have naturally is way prettier and looks way better on me :D So happy it's healthy again and getting long!! (won't do that again...)

Used clippers to shave my head down to about a half inch of hair about 15 years ago. I was so frustrated because every time I straightened my hair it would frizz in humidity (like curly hair does) so I just said the heck with it. I shaved it and no more frizz. Wore it like this for about a year and then grew it back out.

Got a relaxer. I couldn't get my pick through my hair so I said screw it. At the time I had been natural for a couple years. At the time I also didn't know I was supposed to detangle with conditioner. Curlies where were you when I needed you?? Lol!

The two worst things I ever did out of frustration were 1. hacked it ALL off to a very short bob. Which in reality was just a way to force me to straighten it every single day because when its that short and I try to skip a day it goes all q-tip fluffy on me. and 2. I tried to get highlights to hide my gray hair growing in. I've had gray hair since I was a teenager, now i'm 27 and i'm probably 70% gray. I was so SICK of dying it all the time to hide it, so I thought highlights might help hide it easier than dying the roots every month. The lady did these big chunky pieces and I have dark brown hair, and I ended up with ORANGE skunk streaks. It was awful lol

When I didn't know anything about taking care of curly hair I use to flat iron it almost daily on the highest heat setting. I didn't know anything about how to wake up with second day hair either so I would wake up and flat iron my already flat ironed( but slightly wavy from sleeping on it ) hair. I didn't even really use a heat protectant and I was using sulfates to wash it. When you are clueless and you don't stop and think about the consequences its terrible. Other people thought my hair looked good, it was long and shiny because of the products I was using but it wasn't healthy and it didn't grow any longer than a few inches below my bra for a long time. I finally smartened up learned how to care for my hair and love my curls and my hair is healthy waist length and looks a lot better.

Worst thing I ever did
I got quite bored with my hair over winter holidays. So i found this spray-on, flat-iron highlighting stuff at the drugstore and rushed home to try it.
BIG MISTAKE!!
I flat-ironed the sections i misted with that highlighting stuff and i heard a big sizzling noise, but no color appeared (my hair is a quite dark brown) I tried again and again, up to 8 times D: The hair just mostly snapped off and now I am stuck with one-inch short pieces on my top layer. Never trying at-home color again

BTW the product is Mark Anthony Easy-Lites just a heads up so you guys stay away from it...friendly advice!!

There used to be some kind of thinning thing for men's short hair that I found around the house when I was young. It looked like a cross between those old "Daisy" razors and a regular men's hair shaver. I ran it through the back of my all one length hair and it basically shredded the cuticle and left it thinner in some spots and untouched in others.

I don't know what to compare it to: perhaps a badly cut lawn?

Cutting it short...I have never been able to grow my hair past shoulder lenght since. :angry1:

I've hacked off my hair fairly short (which looks HORRIBLE) several times because the heaviness and the tangles were driving me absolutely insane.

When I was 13/14 I had relaxed hair but I had micro braids for that summer. I love braids but I have no patience for taking them out so out the scissors came. It wasnt really that bad but my hair was shorter. My mom was hysterical. I learned the lesson of its just hair it grows back before I did my real big chop 10 years later.

Shaved my head to around 1/4 inch around 10 years ago. Kept it that way for a year, then took a long time to grow it out. But that year felt so freeing, not having to worry about my hair at all.