Don’t try this at home…

We’ve all been there.  Whether it’s the bangs your mother gave you when you were 5 or the bangs you gave yourself when you were 25 most women know the terrors of home hair cutting.  Most of us go little snips at a time.  But then no, it’s not even.  Back to the other side.  Nope, not even again.  Eventually your eyebrows are standing alone, naked on your forehead with no wispy coverage.  We all know hair grows back but it always feels like forever until that actually happens.  Well, be happy it was just your bangs.  I have had a few people go shorter due to similar mishaps in larger sections.  They just needed a few more wisps here or a little more texture there and then a chunk of hair is on the bathroom floor.  All I can say to anyone reading this who knows what I mean by your own trial and error is that you are not alone.

I have a friend who has been gracious enough to let me share her story.  Her name is Val and she is a culprit of the chunk of hair on the floor.  Val had a haircut where we took the back up short to a super stack and left the side angles and front extra long.  Think of that famous soccer players wife that everyone needed the haircut of a few years ago but make it better because it was shorter in the back thus more dramatic on the drop to the front, just lower than her chin.  Then we made the long front angles kind of choppy,  texturized.  It was cute and edgy at the same time.  Val looked GOOD.  She left my chair happy.

After a week or two of doing her hair herself Val thought she needed more texture on the sides (this is the moment you pick up the phone and call your stylist asking for just that!).  Simple, right?  Well, everything in your mirror is reversed.  Keep that in mind when you pull out your scissors and try to do a little touch up.  She went for it and yes, there was a chunk of hair on the floor.  Now she needed to make the other side match.  Another chunk on the floor.  But now they’re not even.  Back to the first side.  So on and so forth until the sides are running just about to the cheekbone.  Yikes!  How to fix it?!  Now is when she calls me.  Here is where we are at this point:

Fortunately for Val this is a case where the errors brought on something completely new and wonderful.  We added a few caramel highlights to the top and sides to help show off texture and then went pixie short!  She was bold and it paid off because she looks even more beautiful!

I’ve seen her since with the bangs brushed off her face completely and that looks excellent as well.  I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome for my friend.  And thanks for letting me show how a negative turned into a positive Val 😉

This situation had a good ending but we all know stories that didn’t turn out as well.  Sometimes you have to wait it out.  That’s like torture.  So I leave you with something to keep in mind: a hairstylist has to go to school for hundreds of hours and pass a test before they are allowed to be a professional in the industry.  Even while working on actual people in school there are instructors around every corner making sure things go right.  In the end, we are licensed professionals.  So please, don’t try this at home.