Going to the salon can be a vulnerable experience, especially if you are trying out a new hairdresser for the first time. Whether your best friend convinced you to visit her salon, or you went to the $10 chain salon for a trim, there's always the risk of getting a horrible cut. It's even scarier if you haven't cut your hair in a long time or have a really important event coming up.
Here are some of Reddit's most stressful haircut horror stories that may make you think twice before making the appointment for your next new 'do. Of course, these are just for fun as we can't independently authenticate them.
My mom gave me my kindergarten haircut
"I was 5-years-old, ready to start kindergarten in a new school at a new state. My mom who had a professional cosmetologist license back in the day decided that it was time for a haircut. I had pretty thick hair halfway down my back with some curls to it. She claimed it was going to be just a trim, which means an inch tops in my book. Well, she says that I jerked my head and she cut wrong. I ended up with a mushroom cut. Luckily it was popular in the early '90s." - Redditor furby_furb
The barber bled all over me
"I had a barber with a nosebleed bled all over my hair while cutting it." - Redditor willyreddit
The babysitter cut my hair
"I had long, beautiful brown curls, all the way down my back. The babysitter decided 'It's time you had a haircut.' And lead me into the bathroom, where she used kitchen shears to cut off most of my hair, and mangle what was left.
"When my mother got home, I was crying in the corner, and the moment she saw my hair, she started screaming at the babysitter about how she had no right to do that to me. At one point in the berating, my mother actually grabbed scissors, and tried to cut the babysitters hair in a similar fashion to what mine ended up with. The babysitter fled, but not before losing a huge handful of bangs and bleached hair – my mother standing in the doorway, menacing the babysitter with the handful of hair, and screaming obscenities into the night. She sat and rocked me to sleep, I couldn't stop crying. I'll never forget my first haircut, I was 7 years old." - Redditor TheOneYouAbandoned
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