23 Spa Experiences Gone Horribly Wrong

5.

When I was about 9, my mother took me in for a haircut. My hair was (and is) very very kinky curly. At that age, it was unmanageable. My mom worked nights and couldn’t spend hours in the morning doing my hair. My mom whispered to the stylist to cut it all off. The result was hair that was essentially a buzzcut. If you have curly hair, you know that it took YEARS to grow back. Literally years. It wasn’t pretty. I didn’t have normal length hair until I was 16. I spent the formative years of my youth answering numerous questions about my gender, nationality/heritage and sexuality.

6.

Once when getting my hair colored (just covering up the grays and giving it a different shade of brown), and she did something bad to it. I don’t know if she left it on too long or what, but when it was finished it felt like straw. I have naturally curly hair and usually have them blow it out straight after a color so I can see it better and cause it’s fun to have someone blow it out. Well that kinda hid the damage. The next day I was able to see how crappy it was. My hair just felt fried. I called back to the salon to complain and they got me in to do a deep conditioning for free and gave me some stuff to use at home. It helped somewhat, but after that I didn’t color my hair for like two years to give it time to get back to being healthy.

7.

I was having some hair on my neck lasered and somehow my hair or maybe some lint from my shirt burst into flames. It went out immediately but I had a burn on my neck for a while going right across my throat which made it looked like a scar from somebody slitting my throat or something.

8.

My best friend was getting her hair done at a new salon and the stylist was brushing her hair and she ripped out her eyebrow piercing while doing it. Then, she proceeded to tell her that SHE shoul have told her about her piercing beforehand.

9.

I’ve always had acne-prone skin and at one point I was on daily topical lotion/gel to combat it. It made my skin ubersensitive, but my eyebrows were getting stupid and I disliked plucking, so I went in for a wax. Stupidest idea EVER. Even with the cooling gel the beautician put on, the wax still burned the skin around my eyebrows, and I had thick red rings of raw skin for at least a week.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.