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“3 Days Before My Wedding”: 50 Hilariously Tragic Hair Accidents

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It’s safe to assume that most of us have undergone at least one hair-related disaster. It might have been giving yourself a haircut at home—whether back when you were five or just a couple of years ago, during the DIY-filled period of the pandemic—or a visit to the salon gone terribly wrong, but no matter the case, one thing that likely provided hope was the fact that hair grows back.

Well, people in the pictures on today’s list probably held on tightly to the same idea. If you scroll down a little, you will find some of the most unfortunate haircuts and hairstyles the internet has ever seen. So, if you want to make yourself feel better about your unfortunate hair decisions, or simply look at what other people managed to do with theirs, go down the list and enjoy.

#1 I Let My 8th Grade Graduates Cut My Hair Each Year. This Year They Gave Me The Full Van Buren

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#2 Plastic Bag Used To Retain Heat While Bleaching Hair. Pure Genius

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#3 Business Up Top, Party On The Sides

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For many people, cutting a chunk of their own hair out is a typical childhood experience; a milestone, if you will. If you haven’t done it yourself, there are plenty of videos online showing the aftermath of kids hitting such ‘milestones.’ (I myself still remember the shock in my mother’s eyes after she saw what I had done.)

But quite a few individuals say goodbye to their hair later in life, as they try to give themselves haircuts as adults, often not that successfully, unfortunately.

#4 Anyone Seen That Viral TikTok Video Of The Woman Who Lost The Majority Of Her Hair In A Day After Bleaching At Home? Yeah, It Happened To Me

I was someone who bleached her hair several times over the years (at home) and never had problems, but everything changed today. My hair was finally getting long, so decided to bleach it, fast forward to the shower and rinsing it out, and my hair broke off in globs. I was mortified. I've never felt less feminine than I do now.

Please, don't let this happen to you. I'm not implying that everyone is like me or will make the same mistakes as me but when in doubt, or if you just don't have complete confidence, please let this be your sign to spend the money and see a professional. If I can help even one person by sharing that's all that matters to me.

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#5 Losing A Bet Can Suck

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Many of people’s less fortunate hair-related decisions were likely made during quarantine. Back then, they didn’t have much of a choice, as, due to the lockdown, they couldn’t go get their hair done as they normally would have. So, they tried everything from trimming their ends to dying their hair to even getting buzz cuts during the time they spent at home.

But to be fair, that was arguably the best time to try all of that out, since if the haircut didn’t end up looking good, no one outside of the household would likely see it. Not right away, at least.

#6 My Barber Did Me Dirty

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#7 My First Attempt At "Shaving" My Head. Been At Work For Two Days Like This And Didn’t Even Realize Until A Coworked Asked If I'm Ok

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#8 3 Going On 50 And Divorced

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A YouGov poll from 2020 found that during the outbreak of COVID-19, close to three in ten Americans had their hair cut at home, either by themselves or a member of their household. The poll also found that men were more likely to get their hair cut than their female counterparts during that time. More than half of surveyed women said they hadn’t had their hair cut at home at that point and they weren’t planning on doing so.

#9 Hair Dye Fail

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#10 Attempted To Dye My Hair Silver, Not Realising You Had To Really Get It White Before Doing So! Aah Well, Light Bluey Greeny Yellow Hair Will Have To Do For Now

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#11 The New "Angled Bob" According To This Ladie's Hair Dresser

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Nowadays, according to another YouGov poll, roughly 18% of people in the US always have their hair cut at home; 13% of them do it sometimes, and 12% rarely do it. Close to four-in-ten of respondents said they’ve never cut their hair under their own roof.

#12 The Hairdresser Had "No Idea" How This Happened

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#13 Barbers Should Have Some Type Of Hippocratic Oath They Have To Follow

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#14 What I Asked For vs. What I Got

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Around the time of the pandemic, in addition to cutting their own hair, many people tried coloring their hair, too, whether to fix their roots or to try out a new color completely. According to Statista, between the years of 2017 and 2021, the number of women dying their hair at home increased in countries all over the world. In Spain, for instance, it went from 29% to 31% over the course of four years, in Germany it grew from 20% to 23%, and in the US—from 22% to 23%.

It’s safe to assume that once people learned how to dye their hair at home, some decided to continue doing so even after the pandemic ended.

#15 Let The Wife Cut My Hair. I Knew Something Was Wrong When She Started Laughing Hysterically

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#16 This Dude's Haircut

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#17 Tried Cutting My Daughter's Bangs And Failed

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In the years following 2020, some people didn’t limit themselves to just trimming their ends or touching up on their roots but instead changed their hair completely. While to some it might have seemed like nothing more than a style change, for others, it was a way to regain control during the turbulent time.

According to Dr. Vivian Diller, a psychologist, and author of Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, when everything else in the world feels out of control, one way for people to retain some control is by controlling what they can. “Organizing our closets or cutting our hair can serve that purpose,” Dr. Diller said in an interview with Refinery29.

The expert continued by pointing out that it’s not uncommon for women to change their looks to mark certain significant changes in their lives, such as marriages, moves, or losses. “It’s possible that cutting hair or changing styles during COVID is a way for women to use their appearance to make a statement marking this world event,” she added.

#18 Who Else Tried To Bleach Their Own Hair But Was Faced With Instant Regret?

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#19 Came Home From Work This Evening To See That My Wife Gave My Kid A Karen Cut

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#20 My Mother Took Up A Hair Cutting Course 9 Years Ago. She Confidently Lured My Brother In For A Haircut And This Is The Result

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It’s unclear whether the haircuts and hairstyles on this list were a result of the pandemic, but they sure were lessons. Lessons that it might be better not to cut your own hair or try to save up to dye it at a sketchy salon. Though, some of them were arguably not even lessons, but plain old bad luck. But whatever the case, there’s always that glimmer of hope one can hold on to—hair grows back.

#21 My Friend Dyed His Hair, We Found Out That He Is Allergic

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#22 Gave My Brother A Bowllet

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#23 Started Shaving My Hair Before My Razor Died, Right Before Having Dinner With My Girlfriend's Family

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#24 My Mom Made A Mistake While Cutting My Hair

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#25 So, I Tried To Cut My Hair

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#26 That One Time Almost 2 Years Ago When I Royally Messed Up My Kids Haircut And Didn't Realize It Until The Next Day When We Were Out Grocery Shopping

I started laughing so hard and he kept asking me what was wrong. Obviously I had to take pictures to show him and he was so mad at me not just for the choppy cut but for laughing so hard I was crying.