<p>spideygirl, you have way too much time on your hands! Thanks for the laugh in an otherwise miserable day.
OP: could you wear a wig in the short term?</p>
<p>It’s time to call on your best friends to lie to you:
“It’s not bad…on you it looks good.”
“You look great no matter what cut you have.”
“Just tousle it up…see, it looks fine!”
“It’s way better than MY last cut!”</p>
<p>Just make sure you pick the right friends, so you don’t get:
“It’ll grow out.”
“I never thought Debbie was a very good stylist.”
“With hair like yours, it’s probably as good as you can expect.”
“Is that a gray hair?”</p>
<p>More from the wrong kind of friends…</p>
<p>“Moe’s haircut was kind of cute”
“You don’t look like Herman Munster, because the top of his head was flat”
“Your face is not a square. It’s more like a rectangle”.</p>
<p>“Just TRY the bolts…they might work for you.”</p>
<p>it does sound like you need some length but I am quite envious of your long neck-
I had my hair cut very short once cause I thought I would look like Audrey Hepburn-
unfortunately, I need a bit of lenght to even look like a * have* a neck.
;)</p>
<p>I don’t think it is too late- not to glue your hair back on- but I would ask to talk to the stylist and the manager , tell them you are very unhappy- at the least I think they will refund your money. BUt I also would hope that they will clarify how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
( even if you don’t return to the shop)</p>
<p>The only time I have had anyone unhappy ( that I knew of), was when a friend of my sisters wanted her hair cut when I was still in beauty school.
She was about 16, and had hair down to her waist. She was insistent that she wanted a " Dorothy Hamill" cut.
I was wary, but not wary enough.
I did it in my home, and was very careful.
I was one of the better stylists at the school and was confident of my cutting abilities but in managing people, I am not so good.
Even though I cut it to her shoulders first, and got the all clear to go ahead and continue with the shorter cut, when I finished , she was in tears and I couldn’t console her, even though I had gone very slowly and she stressed that she had thought about it for a long time.
( I also did a very good job, they are a fun cut)
I expect the shock of it was too much for her.</p>
<p>If you really wanted to spend the money- more people than you think use hair extensions, but I think I would go to another shop and have them style it first.</p>
<p>More from the wrong kind of friends…</p>
<p>They say absolutely nothing. I guess the shock & awe of the Moe Cut is just too much for them.</p>
<p>A baseball cap is your friend. Take it from someone who knows.</p>
<p>Condolences. Hair is important.</p>
<p>That said, it is only hair. It will grow back.</p>
<p>Is it possible to go to another hairdresser to get a Fith Hill bob
[Faith</a> Hill with Very Elegant Short Hairstyle in 1999 - Retro Hairstyles](<a href=“http://www.retrohairstyles.com/1990s/faithhill.html]Faith”>http://www.retrohairstyles.com/1990s/faithhill.html)</p>
<p>Otherwise, I would ask the manager to buy you a wig to wear until you could fix your hair.</p>
<p>What can I say? I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Thanks all for making a horrible situation better. Spideygirl: I’m going to have to print and frame your poem - just to remind myself of how a little humor can make a bad thing better.</p>
<p>I just got back from getting my hair recut by a stylist recommended to me by the mom of one of my students. (Yes, the Moe cut was so bad even acquaintances felt the need to offer advice on how to get it fixed.) Anyway, the stylist I just saw did a pretty good job of softening the edges. It’s still not the greatest style and has a little of that bi-level look to it, but considering what she had to work with, it will get me through until the back of my hair grows out a little bit. I picked up my daughter after school (she didn’t know I was going to get my hair recut today since I just got the recommendation and the stylist graciously squeezed me in) and the first word out of her mouth when she saw me was, “Better.”</p>
<p>Glad to know I’m not the only one who’s paid for a bad, and I mean BAD, haircut. Just wish I had the chutzpah to stand up to these hacks instead of slapping a smile on my face, paying the bill, then crying in car all the way home. I hope this new stylist will work out. I have to wait until my hair grows out some to see what she can really do with it. In the meantime, I’ll have to use lots of makeup and jewelry to try to draw attention away from the hair.</p>
<p>Um, colmomto2, while your hair is growing back, watch the Leave It To Beaver episode in which Beaver decides to cut his own hair?</p>
<p>colmomto2…really glad you had someone else fix it and that you feel better.</p>
<p>When I was in my twenties I wanted a cut to just below chin level, and a perm to have soft waves. I remember it was the 31st of December and would go to a New Year’s party that night. Well, when the dryer helmet thing was removed and my hair combed out, I was aghast to discover I had an AFRO! A light blond frizzy AFRO fgs! My hair is fine and the too strong perm just frizzed my hair into a mess. I remember the stylist said I looked like I had angel hair (!), but in reality surely she must have realized what a disaster she had caused.
I never did go to the party that night, stayed home and cried.</p>
<p>I have never set foot in a salon since, I’m way too scared,… I trim my own hair.</p>
<p>Here’s the good news: the stylist who fixed the hair as best he/she could is the one you should return to the next time! I tend to find a hairdresser and stay with them for years. My current hairdresser I have gone to for 16 years. I changed because my previous hairdresser was dying of AIDS and this was his “present” to me.</p>
<p>BTW with good hairdressers bringing a picture is nice but rarely does the customer have the same hair as the model, nor the product and the time to keep a hairstyle in perfect shape. Sure, bring pictures but bring your lifestyle with you. (And make sure that the stylist knows you mean business.) There was this hairdo that I really wanted, from a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie…I started to ask my hairdresser and he said NO, won’t work on you.</p>
<p>“I’ll have to use lots of makeup and jewelry to try to draw attention away from the hair.” Go easy on the makeup, because anything that draws attention to the face will draw attention to the hair. A cute top with a plunging neckline and a designer necklace will do the trick 
</p>
<p>I totally agree with Ellebud - an experienced stylist will take a picture as a guideline, but will not replicate the do if it is not suitable for your face/hair. When I decided to part with my 3 ft long hair, I went to my friend’s stylist (the friend and I have similar facial features and hair) and asked her to “be creative but not too much”. The result was quite nice!</p>
<p>colmom, I’m glad you laughed at the comments from the peanut gallery because I was laughing pretty hard myself, even though I felt bad laughing at your misfortune. Mostly because I could relate, I hasten to add.</p>
<p>Big earrings are great and you have just the right haircut to show them off!</p>
<p>oldfort: Believe it or not, Faith Hill’s style was very close to the pic I showed the Stylist from Hell. How she came up with Moe Howard I’ll never know.</p>
<p>Ok, here it is from a person who got a bad cut and didn’t pay for it. I have THICK wavy hair that tends to frizz that I usually wear past my shoulders or longer. I asked for something very low maintence and not too short. She started in the back and wacked it to the base of my skull. When I heard the gasp from my friend, I know I was in trouble! It ended up being a really short pageboy that required massive blow drying and then (there were no straighteners) curling and then smoothing with several different products. When I went to the desk, the manager asked how I liked the cut and in a restrained way (ha) I said, “I HATE IT” and I am not going to pay. She didn’t listen to a single thing I told her and it is not a style that I want/can maintain. ta-da, that’s how to do it.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth.</p>
<p>Lisa</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so happy you got a re-co that you can live with. I agree with mousegray: Big earrings are the way to go. And it doesn’t have to be a lot of make-up, but make sure you make up the eyes – use mascara, even if you usually don’t. And lipstick.</p>
<p>I had a horrible haircut (well, really have had quite a few) once, I paid but then wished I had not. I went back the next day receipt in hand and asked for a different stylist to shape up the disaster as best as possible. I have pretty short hair so get lots of cuts. Even the same stylist doesn’t get it exactly the same (or right) each time.</p>
<p>I would go back and ask them to layer the top part that was left all one length. It would blend better with the back part. That way it would look like a style…instead of Moe style.</p>
<p>OOPS…didn’t read all the way thru to the last post. Glad you got it fixed.</p>
<p>I once had a guy (filling in for my regular person who was on maternity leave) dye my hair Lucille Ball red when normally I had just a few highlights in my brown hair. I refused to leave the salon. I insisted that he redo it. He couldn’t completely tone it down, but it was better. I would not have paid for your cut if it is nothing like the picture. I would have brought over the manager and showed the picture. Without a picture, it’s harder to have a case but you did have one and if it is completely different, why should you pay? I once took my son for a back to school haircut and I noticed a bald spot at the end (he was six and not balding.) When I pointed it out, I was told this was a patch of hair that was a different color than the rest of his head. As if six years might have passed without me noticing a patch of hair the color of white skin on his dark brunette head. Or as if the fact that there was no hair there might not be a big tip-off that a mistake was made. I actually did pay but it wasn’t as bad as what you are describing since it was a relatively short buzz that would grow out fast.</p>