That's such a drag when that happens. :-(
(You have my sympathy.)
Probably my worst haircut was a "Dorothy Hamill" style cut that I had "another lifetime ago" (but they were all the rage at the time and the stylists were cutting everybody's hair that way).

I was just mentioning (on another thread) that I needed to get my hair cut, because I looked in the mirror and realized that I resembled an Old English Sheepdog.

Growing up I had really long hair and when I was 13 my parents agreed to let me get it cut...and get a perm.  It looked fine until the woman asked me if I wanted it blow dried.  Why this woman asked me I have no idea -- Not knowing that blowdrying it would make it that way permantly, I said yes.  So, that woman should have known.

I ended up with a huge afro.  It was horrible. 

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"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact." - Jack Handey

My worst haircut was in the early 90s.  I had just graduated college and was poor, so I went for the $10 cut at Astor Place.  And left there in tears.  MY gf liked it, but that was little consolation. 

One of the few pearls of wisdom I’ve learned over the years:  there are only a few things really worth spending top dollar on - good haircuts are one of them. 

jenniferfrompittsburgh - heat makes your hair grow faster, so wear a hat to bed  ;)

So here goes, since my early teens, I have had really short hair, and for about a year or so, I was the proud bearer of a shaved head (not clean head, but hair with bout 4 mm), so there has been little room for disaster. BUT, as a teen, I decided I was a hippie, and what better way to exercise my hippie existence then to let my best friend cut my hair?!. So yeah.. she did.... I don't think I need to go into further detail. Let's just say that today I pay a decent amount of money to let the professionals do it, lol.

*oh and i made sure that there are little to no photos of that phase...

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" - Virginia Woolf

It isn't so much the cut as the color, but I dyed my hair strawberry platinum-blonde once in college, and it oxidized to orange with dark brown roots, Mixed with my black eyebrows it looked really bad.

I also had an Afro in the 6th grade.  I looked like a brunette Little Orphan Annie.

haircut stories..

 First mine.. When i was like 4 i found a pair of scissors and cut off all my hair and my sister's. some of it was taking down to the scalp other parts were longer. so my mom took us to the salon to get it fixed and i ended up having most of my hair cut off. my dad came home and thought my mom was watching someones sons and my mom yealled at him bc it was his fault that we got to the scissors. i have curly hair so when it grew back it looked like an afro for a bit haha =]

Another time was my sister's hair. she had been asking my mom to get it cut and my mom can cut hair but at the time she was really drowsy from her meds but my sister really wanted her hair cut. my mom warned her but she said do it anyway.... my mom ended up giving her a mullet

=]

ever since i was a little kid i wanted to have "boy hair" (and my parents never suspected I was a lesbian, HA!)

well, the first time was okay, because my mom's friend and our neighbor just took to my head with the clipper and i had about two inches. I looked like a guy, till it grew out, so i was happy.

second time, i got it cut professionally, and I had yet to discover the side part, so I parted in the middle (*gags*) it was horrible. then I dyed it black, which made it even worse. when the roots grew out, my mother and I had the brilliant idea that if we re-dyed my hair red, it would all end up red.

no.

i ended up with black hair and red roots. the red faded, the black did not. my hair grew out, so i had black tips until i finally had to get my hair stripped. fun times.

i want to just shave it all off, but with respect to my father, i won't. (he says i look horrible with short hair, so....)

back in high school I stole some of my sisters clothes and then, kinda spilt something nasty (ie: impossible to remove by mortal means) on them, so she did what every older sister would do in such a situation, she snuck into my room while I was sleeping and cut off huge clumps of my hair, luckily I woke up before she got too creative but the damage was pretty much done - I looked like a barbie doll on crack.    

~ Imagination is the eye of the soul ~

I used to live in India when I was a kid, and I was around 7ish when my cousin took me to the salon and it wasn't me who needed a cut it was her.. but she ended up getting my hair chopped off :[ I got a boy hair cut.. it's not great when I used to wear dresses back in those days heh..remember hair always grows ;]

I need you like a heart needs a beat,

I loved you with the fire, red now it's turning blue

Note : If there is one thing we all have in common as women with unconventional sexual preferences it is the fact that we have all lived through situations where we have been discriminated against. So I wonder, why then would we promulgate discrimination amongst our own ranks promoting this fierce hatred of one of histories most brilliant haircuts: The Mullet.Everywhere I turn on this site someone is hating the beauty that is The Mullet and I for one, am ready to take a stand. I have a mullet and I am damn proud of it. Just kidding, bout the hate stuff, not the mullet, I do in fact sport one , although now it's turned into a much punkier rat tail. But just so you don't think the worst of me, some of you might know in the last 5 or so yrs. it's become fashionable again(the mullet), specially in Europe and Latinamerica.

Anyway my worst haircut, although by what I've read many of you might think any of my haircuts are a nightmare, was back in the late nineties (Cold Case style flashback)... And it was far to bizarre for my description skills, so I've drawn a little portrait(the part with red dots was actually shave down to about 3 or 4 mm).

http://iwoulddosupermanifhewouldletme.blogspot.com project/art blog (english)
http://comadotcom.blogspot.com

I got the worst haircut when I was modeling for this company "Sexy Hair". I agreed to do it only if they weren't going cut it to short, because as a model you can't change your look too much, otherwise you have to redo your entire portfolio.

I remember sitting in a chair and listening to the sound of scissors going through my hair. Then the guy who was working on me decided to cut my bangs, literally up to my forehead, I said: "You know, this might be a little too short...". He got really mad! He looked at me and said: "Listen, honey! You're a model here and I am the master. I will decide what's short and whats not!".

I was too young and unexperienced to tell him to fuck off and came home that night, looking like a chubby 4 year old baby with short bleached blond hair. It was just awful.

Worst haircut that I have SEEN is, the lunch ladies' on Survivor China. That was nasty.

Worst I have had is when my friend had gum and thought it would be fun to put it in my hair. I had to chop a few inches off because of it.