Today, I decided to lighten my hair. I applied the dye and waited 20 minutes. When I went to wash the dye out, the water wouldn't turn on. After my head started to burn, I called the landlord in a panic. Turns out there was a water main break and the entire city block doesn't have water. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I came home from a crazy costume party and took a hot shower. When I opened my eyes and saw the water running from my head was bloody, I freaked out and called my friend for help. She had to remind me that for the party, I'd coloured my hair red with washable hair dye. FML
Today, I was taking a shower for the first time in my new apartment. The shower head broke off the wall and slammed onto my head, while spraying water everywhere. I tried to stop the water, but only stopped the cold and got burnt by the hot. FML
Today, the water cut out while I was showering, covered in soap and shampoo. I had to rinse with freezing cold drinking water from the fridge. As soon as I'd dried off, the water supply got restored. FML
Today, I woke up to a fog. Literally. A pipe burst in my apartment and scalding water was everywhere. To make matters worse, when I called maintenance he told me he'd come by later, hung up on me, and turned his phone off. He did eventually show up, but it was 5 hours later, well after I'd paid a plumber $200. FML
Today, as I was shampooing my hair in the shower, the power went out. Since my house has well water, no power means no water. FML
Today, I went downstairs to complain to my landlady that there was no water when I was trying to wash my hair. To which she replied, "No, of course there is water, it's just all going into my swimming pool." FML
Today, I woke up to a flooded apartment. Apparently, the upstairs neighbor's bathtub had overflowed and water was pouring through my ceiling. My landlord said he couldn't do anything until the water stopped, so I spent the morning frantically trying to mop up the water while feeling completely helpless. FML
Today, I tried dyeing my hair at home to save some money. I carefully followed the instructions but when I rinsed it off, my hair turned a shocking shade of shiity neon green. Not wanting to leave the house looking like a radioactive toad, I wore a hat and hoped nobody would notice. FML
Today, my apartment building shut off our water for a short period of time because the pipes were being worked on. It was also the morning my dog had diarrhea on my cream carpet. Not only did I have to clean it up without water, I couldn't wash my hands afterward. FML
Today, I was washing my hair in the shower when the water went ice cold. It's 20 degrees outside and we have soft water which takes a longer time to wash away soap. FML
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Puolukka 4
Holy crap...I probably woulda poured bottled water over my head or gatorade or whatever I had in the house...lol...I hope your hair is not too damaged and the color doesn't look bad...and if it does I hope it can be fixed at a salon...wow this seriously blows...it would only be half as bad if you had been coloring it darker...but bleach...damn...
drybamboo 0
Wow, that's horrible. I hope your hair doesn't start falling out.
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Comments (83)
ChristineDP 0
Wow this is sad. I hope your head doesn't hurt. And the peeps that put YDI, they are seriously mental.
FishHead 6
most of the YDI are probably people trying to get badges. You can click FML and YDI on same post to get them faster
effarve 2
hope you didnt leave a floater cause its self swirly time!
zimandme123 0
use milk!!!
bagleface 6
How did you not notice you had no water
insanelyXnikki 18
Or you could just pull something out of the fridge and use that haha
Steffi 26
Get some water from a shop.
Paradox_1234 6
I totally understand. I have extremely dark brown hair, but I like to die it bright colors in the front. So I have to use peroxide. Problem is, it turns out I'm allergic. It's really not that bad a reaction, but it starts to REALLY burn if I keep it on for to long. If my water were shut off for whatever reason, I'd pour the closest liquid on my head, coffee, soda, mop water, whatever.
worldclassrager 41
Hair dye burning? I never had that happen
BagelTheOtaku 25
it's called bleach... not dye... dye does not lighten nor burn your hair.