Hair-Raising!: Real Life Hair Horror Stories

March 13th, 2012 - By MN Editor

Jessica: Tried out a new stylist someone I knew personally but had never used professionally. She was having furniture delivered to her home and her SO did not show up to let them in–she ended up leaving me sitting in the shop with conditioner on my hair for 2 hours waiting on her to come back. I got tired of the phone ringing off the hook and eventually started answering it and taking messages. It ended up taking me like 5 or 6 hours for my appointment. Needless to say that was her first and last time doing my hair!

Jessica: At the shop and the client before me had apparently gotten into a fight at the club the night before with the client scheduled behind me. They saw each other and immediately tried to continue their altercation. The stylist had to ask them both to leave her shop. My first and last visit to that salon as well. Luckily, 3rd time was the charm and my next stylist worked out and I stuck with her for the next 10 years.

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  • Serenity

    All of these stories remind me of why I havent been to a “professional” stylist for YEARS–especially the dreaded ‘hater trim’ (love that). I got so sick of the bull that I went natural — but after a year of growing out my locs, I went to a barber (thinking it would be better than the string of hatin’ females I had been dealing with) and he proceeded to chop off half of my locs in the back when I had only asked his grimy azz to trim my NECK! Hatin’ azz… I didnt know I had that many cuss words in my vocabulary–I let him HAVE IT! (Then cried for hours after I got home : (

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=600855853 Miriam Camacho

    About 3 yrs ago I went to a “Dominican” salon in brooklyn for a relaxer. The stylist separated my hair into four big braids and only put the protective gel around my forehead. He then came out w/ this industrial bucket of relaxer and just globbed it onto my scalp. Before he was even half way done applying the relaxer my head was BURNING. He was all “Oh no mammy its supposed to burn,that’s how you know its working”. note this is only the 3 o 4th time I’ve gotten a relaxer so I didnt really know. Well after he finished putting on the relaxer he put me under a hair dryer fo 45 MINUTES!  After 20 min I was basicly crying so he takes me and rinses my head. His next words were “Oh no” and I really knew I was in trouble. My head was bleeding and my hair had melted to my scalp. I ended up having to put burn and baby rash cream on my head for weeks. After that I started going to the true Dominican salons.

    • cabugs

      Darling, I am so sorry. That sounds horrific. Hope your scalp heals well and quickly! I am sure there are some sites on the web that can direct you in what steps to take to soothe and heal your scalp and hair. Good luck!

  • GeniaDaydream

    When I was younger and in my teenage  years my hair was nice healthy and long my mother would braid it herself in extensions because she said that would keep people out of my hair and they wouldn’t know how long my actual hair was well I let my cousin talk me into wearing my hair out when I slept over her house I woke up in the morning and my hair was cut since it was uneven my mom had to cut it even I was heartbroken since it was a couple of girls over that night I don’t know who actually did it but I always believed my cousin did it because she was jealous you know what they say karma is a b years later  I went with my cousin to the salon and she sat in the chair and the stylist chopped all her hair off like Bernie in waiting to exhale turns out my cousin was sleeping with her boyfriend she was devastated after 13 years now she knows what i went through

  • Kinky & Loving It

    I started going to a stylist about 2 years ago who convinced me to go natural. My hair was shoulder length. I cldnt stand to see my hair nappy. So I wore a sew in for a year & wld cut the perm out every 3mths when I went back for my sew in. This past January I started wearing my own hair but getting it staighted every week. Don’t get me wrong she is a damn good stylist but when I cldnt get an appt for six weeks I tld my daughter one day I’m gonna wash it & I want you to do 2 strand twist. Rocked it for 2days got loads of complements. Since then I got in to another stylist dyed it red & canceled my next 4 standing appts with my stylist. I’m in love with my kinky hair. I will never put that hair crack aka relaxer in my head again.

  • Yo!

    I have been natural for most of my life, only sporting a relaxer for around 4& 1/5 – 5 years. I went to a stylist for a trim…A TRIM…for my waist length hair (when straightened..it is naturally curly). When I turned around to look in the mirror, the “stylist” had taken off nearly a foot of my hair. Since then, I have decided to cut my own hair. I have found that there aren’t enough stylists that know how to handle natural hair. Your best bet is to learn how to properly care for your own hair. I do believe I had that super hater trim. :-(  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000107213296 Freda Alize Jankins Ledbetter

    Oh yes . . the dreaded “hater trim” (yes, you SHOULD trademark that term). I had grown out my natural hair for two years and had about 8-9 inches of natural hair. I went to a salon for a trim and this b*tch not only talked about me the entire time (“Ooo, what you been doin witcho hair?”" but CUT IT ALL OFF! I left with about 3 inches of hair. Another time (at a different shop) I walked in for my 3:30 appointment on time. All I wanted was a trim and line (I was wearing my hair short and would texturize it myself when I got home). At 6:30 this woman hadn’t even TOUCHED my hair and called somebody else into the chair. I got up and walked out, Another made me late for a concert even though I told her, three weeks in advance, that I needed to be out of the salon sooner on that date. Last time at ALL those salons and I’m  SO grateful for my Sisterlocks (had them for 2 years now): I sit for about 3-4 hours, once every 6-7 weeks and VOILA!

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