I'm one of those people who generally go blond in the summer and brown toward August-September. I don't know why ... I guess I get bored easily. My hairdresser is on vacation at the moment and I had three inch roots that needed to be covered. I didn't trust the new lady to do the bleaching because I get really thick chunks (skunking) and she didn't seem to want to do that. So, I had her color it the same caramel brown that I usually get this time of year.

I told her that I wanted long layers. My hair is naturally spiral curly. It's hell to tame the beast. This woman turned me away from the mirror and started chopping on my hair and before I knew what was happening ... I HAD FREAKIN' BANGS! I can't do bangs! My hair will curl up around my forehead like little worms in the humidity around here with BANGS.

I know it's just hair and it will eventually grow back to the thirteen inches that it was ... but I can't even walk past a mirror without freaking out. BANGS. BANGS, Y'ALL!!

Look ... witness my horror.

BEFORE



Now granted, she straightened the mess out with a hair dryer and a big round brush to show me "it wasn't that bad", but IT IS THAT BAD!!! I don't know how to do this to my hair! I don't even LIKE it like this because it takes two hours to get it straight!



Needless to say I didn't pay for it and the woman had the audacity to give me four free headbands to pull it back with ... but how do you pull fried worms off your forehead!? Just wait until this mess curls up when I wash it. It's thick as hell.

Does anyone with curly hair know how to manage this? Is there a product that will keep the BANGS (ARGH) straight? Do I need to flat iron it and burn scars into my forehead every day? If I barrel roll it it's gonna poof out like I don't know what.

Kill me now.

And just for comparison ... this is how the long layers were SUPPOSED to freakin' look:

I would KILL to have the spiral curls you have!! Mine, it has just enough "curl" to be a frizzy, nappy mess. That said, I, too, have received the infamous "bangs will be good" cut. I looked like a F#(@NG POODLE!!! I never found a way to deal with it gracefully. Like you said, just used the damn flat iron every day and as soon as it was long enough stuck it in headbands for the next year or so. NO ONE cuts my hair anymore! (Last time was 2 years ago -- my hair is just now long enough to pull back in a ponytail so it doesn't hang in my face while I am shooting IPSC -- FINALLY!!)

I feel your pain --  BTW, curly or straight you have gorgeous hair!!

Thats nothing, my clippers died halfway through cutting my hair, and I took them back just like that

FWIW Chelle you look stunning all three ways but I definitely feel your pain.  My daughter's hair is naturally curly like yours and I one time gave her bangs [for something different] and we had a poodle doo on her forehead until she grew them out.

You could try to play with a roller brush and hair dryer on low and see if you can pull your curls out.  I can't imagine what its like to straighten such short kinky curls though.  I use a big round curling iron to straighten my hair but I do not have any where near as much curl as you do [I wish!]

Good for you for standing up for yourself though.  The color looks great.

Patty

Thank you everyone.

After sleeping on it I feel a little better. (and a little embarrassed that I freaked out)

I did use the advice to cut some up into the bangs and that gives them a little something different so they don't just lay there looking crazy insane. I also went out and bought a small round brush and some pomade at the salon (which was about to close to I barely got in there). (not the same salon where the insane cutter was)

I'm not supposed to wash it for two full days so that the color has a chance to really get in there, but God I've been tempted.

And LOL at the Sharpie comment! I want you to know ... I accidentally did that to my husband and he didn't use a Sharpie ... but he did put a bandage over his head and said that he had stitches! It was so horrible that I had to laugh at him.

Anyway... thanks for letting me vent and for the support. I think I'll buy some pre-natal vitamins and start taking them to make my hair grow. LOL.

my wife lets me cut and color her hair....  yes i do enjoy it, we have fun.
But anyway one time her hair was red and we were going to change it back to blonde. All when well until her hair turned a greyish green!!!!!!!!  we both called out of work the next day , so she could get it fixed (she dont like to drive)  .  For some reason she still has me color it , but that hasnt happed again

Quoted: Got one for ya. My wife was cutting my hair, does a fine job too!   Anyway, she slipped while using the electric clippers and took a PLUG out of my hair over my ear!!   You could see white skin too.   I used a black sharpie to color it in for about 2-3 weeks and no one was the wiser....or they did not say anything.

My husband is so gray over his ears and around his temples (says it is my fault!?!?!! ) that it wouldn't matter . . .

Quoted: Thank you everyone. After sleeping on it I feel a little better. (and a little embarrassed that I freaked out)

OMG honey, don't be embarrassed.  I don't have a lot of patience for fussing with my hair, but I NEED hair, cut right, to look even half way decent.  I was not born lookin' like Barbie.  I have to work at it.  And with a bad haircut, I look like the freakin' wicked witch o' the west.

Baring fangs and nails "I'll GET you my pretty....and yer little DOG too!"

I am the WORST about haircuts.  I have no sense of humor whatsoever about getting a bad one.

Hey, we all have our neurosis (twitch)...some (twitch) more than (twitch) others.

Kitties