Hair-Raising!: Real Life Hair Horror Stories

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Shannon: I went to a barbershop to get my fro shaped. Note the word shaped. The dude who was cutting my hair had hooked up my homegirl so I trusted him. My natural hair had been growing for about 6 years and it needed some shape and this is what I told him. As he “shaped” me I wasn’t paying much attention because I trusted him to do what I asked. Right before he turns me around to the mirror he says, “I hope you don’t think this is too masculine.” I am mortified at this point. He turns me around and I had a damn fade!! Holding back the tears since I’m the only chick in the barbershop, I pay and leave and shed major tears in my car. All that hair that I had grown was gone in 30 minutes. I never went back and I spoke bad about that dude for years. It was terrible.

Jan: I went to a Fantasic Sams to save money on a cut, I didn’t know the different terms in hair language. The stylist asked me did I want to zero my sides out. I replied yes, thinking that meant shave down a little. Wrong…A stylist in front of the one that was doing my hair, had her mouth wide open. I was like, What? What is wrong? I looked in the mirror, my left side was completely BALD…Zero out meant bald, I looked a hot mess. I had to wear a wig for about a month til my hair grew back in….I was pissed, now I use pictures out a magazine when I ask for a cut.

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