Today, despite my protests and warnings, my mother-in-law decided to chemically straighten my bi-racial daughter’s very curly hair. Hours later, not only is her scalp is raw and red, her hair is stringy completely fried and coming out in huge noticeable clumps. Fml
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Today, I decided to bleach my hair but then my mom got mad and put my hair in a bun after helping bleach it. Mind you, it is currently blonde orange and black and I don't think it worked, and my hair is fried. FML
Today, I decided I wanted to bleach my hair, so I asked my mother for help. Apparently, something went wrong, because clumps of my hair started falling out. Now I'm half blonde and half bald, and my mom is just laughing at me. FML
Today, my mom came over to visit and permed my hair. Ten minutes after she started, I told her it was burning. She told me to suck it up because it doesn't hurt that badly. I now have scabs all over my scalp, hairline, and nape. FML
Today, we were running late because my hair got tangled in the curtains. My mother-in-law got so angry, she hacked at it, leaving me with a bald patch, then went and sat in the car as though we were still going anywhere with her. FML
Today, my girlfriend asked me to straighten her hair while she did her makeup, even though I’ve never straightened hair before. I burned a length of it off, because I had no idea what I was doing. It’s super obvious from the back, but she’s gone out already. I’m a dead man when she gets home. FML
Today, after spending a week detangling my hair (It took a week because my hands have nerve issues) because it felt like my scalp was glued to my scalp from not being taken care of, I cut it all off. My hair got tangled in the device twice and eventually revealed a burn on my scalp. FML
Today, I made the decision to lighten my hair from dark brown to blonde. I thought the stylist knew what she was doing, but I ended up with my hair fried off and orange. FML
Today, I’m beyond pissed off and downright repulsed that my daughter is still in her stupid rebellious phase. it's bad enough that she does shit herself but now she’s involving our grandchildren. She showed up to our annual gathering and my 10 year-old granddaughter had bright purple dyed hair. FML
Today, I got my hair dyed at a fancy salon. While the stylist was pulling out the foils in my hair I sat up and started screaming in pain because the hot foils were burning my scalp. All she said was "oh, you're fine". I went back home to find an oozing burn wound on my scalp. FML
Today, while my mother-in-law visited, I asked if she wouldn't mind watching my son for 10 minutes as I had run out of baby shampoo. I came back home to see she had shaved his head completely bald. That was his very first haircut. FML
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Vanderdale 14
If your mother in law cannot respect your decisions, she should not be allowed anywhere near your child again, period.
kricket5 19
Protests and warnings?! There’s no way that woman would’ve gotten anywhere near my daughter’s hair unless she was 18 and could make her own decisions. **** your daughter’s life. Her father & grandmother are both clearly incompetent.
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Comments (36)
chosha_fml 27
Be stronger. Your daughter needs you to be.
AmbrosiaFan 19
More details... Was she staying over there and she did it? How old is daughter? I'd be rolling her ass, that's for sure. What has spouse done regarding the bitch MIL? Hopefully you both are reading her the riot act and making sure she is never alone without one of you present until you can trust her enough (which will be never IMO)... She needs to apologize to your entire family and pay for anything to help heal her scalp and repair her hair.
Mungolikecandy 19
As she is the grandmother and not the parent then you should not have warned and protested but said no.
onceuponatime456 16
Charge the b*tch with assault and make sure she never sees your daughter again! Your daughter will be better off without that in her life!
Phillycheeze 20
You should have stood your ground. I've had so many rescue calls with people having chemical burns because of hair straightening at home by rookies. Somethings are better left to the pros. I hope your daughter is ok.
404wan 19
what are you talking about warning and protesting? you are the parent and are responsible for the health and safety of your child. learn to be a parent and draw a damn line.
acmariner99 25
Is it sad that I think it’s nice to know that there are other parents out there dealing with irrational, harmful grandparents that can’t respect your boundaries?
tounces7 28
Why did she get to make that decision, and not you? Whose kid is it?
Eric Henning 7
Never trust hair advice from someone wearing a hairhat
ViviMage 40
Did your mother-in-law do it herself or take your child to a salon to get it done? You could sue for damages/medical treatment of your daughters scalp. That sounds less like an oops and more like a chemical burn! How old is your daughter? And what is wrong in Bi-racial? Is your mother not accepting of this and it trying to make your baby more her race? Let your beautiful daughter be herself! Heck I have crazy curly hair and it caused me some grief around puberty but I learned how to live with it instead of fighting it!