In college, I wanted highlights but couldn't afford them. So I got the brilliant idea to give them to myself. Never mind that I had never tried to do so before. I was confident that it couldn't be that hard. Ha! An hour into my project, I looked like Cheetara from the Thundercats, all stripes and blotches. It was not a good look, to say the least, and I wound up spending $50 (to my student budget, a princely sum) to have a stylist fix the mess. Since then, I've been scared straight. It's only salon stuff for me.
Now, the Boston Globe reports on similar DIY disasters. People are pinching pennies by trimming their own bangs, coloring their hair, and mending their own clothes. I'm all for it, but unfortunately, a few people in the story have had to have their mistakes professionally fixed. Has something like this happened to you before?















I decided to cut my own hair the other night (4 days in bed with the flu made be a bit cabin feverish). I got a bit over excited and my 'trim' turned into a bob :/ I didn't even have a comb. I'm not too annoyed though; it looks a bit too much like the triangle (curly hair and no layers) cut I had in junior school, but it's nice to have something different. Plus I still can't decide on a haircut so I won't go to the hairdresser for another couple of months.
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