Today, I have really big insecurities, and the ONLY thing I like about myself is my hair. I got it permed yesterday, and just now I used shampoo on it, and my hair is falling out. All 12” of it. 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 was finally confident enough to buzz half my hair off into the style I've wanted since I was young. Turns out that I have a particularly large and angry-looking skin problem across my scalp that may well have been there for years. It'll take months to grow back. FML
Today, my dandruff issue is so awful that even my eyebrows have dandruff. FML
Today, it's been three weeks since I started using a hair-growth shampoo in the hopes of combating my balding. All it's done so far is make the hair I do have monstrously bushy, both upstairs and down. 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, I noticed several grey streaks in my hair while putting it in its usual combover. I'm only 18 years-old, and my hair was once one of my greatest sources of pride. FML
Today, I have alopecia areata and I constantly have reappearing bald spots all over my head. I cannot properly grow a beard, and one of my eyes has no eyelashes. However, my nose hair seems to grow at the rate of an old man on biotin. FML
Today, I had to accept the fact that I'm going bald, after I noticed the hair on my chest is longer than the hair on my head. FML
Today, I’ve been growing dreads for two years after I lost my hair to chemo. After visiting my boyfriend’s family, we all contracted lice from the kids. Even though I did the shampoo and treatment, my locks are too coiled to effectively comb out all the nits. I have to shave my head again. FML
Today, I'm 20 and I'm going bald. FML
Today, I let my friend bleach my hair, which resulted in it falling out in clumps. I spent $150 at the beauty salon fixing it and cutting most of it off. I sent the pictures of my new hair to my friends, and I got the same reply from each and every one of them: "That better be a wig." FML
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Top comments
Susan Yee 9
Didn’t your stylist told you weren’t supposed to wash within 48 hrs?
heartbreaker 12
The best way to deal with a tramatic hair situation is to embrace it. I have needed to go from long and curly to almost a pixie cut due to stylists mistakes. You can learn new style techniques while your hair recovers. Ask stylists for suggestions or search YouTube. About the perm though...I have no experience with that! Good Luck OP!
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Comments (11)
RichardPencil 32
Aw, don't worry. You probably have a beautiful skull!
Susan Yee 9
Didn’t your stylist told you weren’t supposed to wash within 48 hrs?
bloopaloop 27
Yeah! Haven’t you ever seen “Legally Blonde”?! Everyone knows that
raven_of_azarath 35
Doesn’t that just ruin the perm, not make your hair fall out?
theyellowgoose 3
if done correct, you no longer have to wait. also, it would only ruin the perm.
kathgz 7
That shouldn't make their hair fall out, just loosens the curl...
silverscrescent 12
Being bald isn't too bad, you know!
heartbreaker 12
The best way to deal with a tramatic hair situation is to embrace it. I have needed to go from long and curly to almost a pixie cut due to stylists mistakes. You can learn new style techniques while your hair recovers. Ask stylists for suggestions or search YouTube. About the perm though...I have no experience with that! Good Luck OP!
AmbrosiaFan 19
You aren't supposed to use shampoo for a few days after.
cll24 5
How did your stylist not tell you to not wash (or even get your hair wet) for AT LEAST 48 hours?
emcarmel 6
Washing it earlier has nothing to do with it falling out
wysegirl 24
So I've never gotten a perm and I even know you are not supposed to wash your hair that soon. Sorry OP.
Yolanda Patrice Evans 17
Whether she washed it or not it shouldn’t have fallen out.... Your stylist set you up lol
kathgz 7
I'm a hairdresser, that should not happen! Go back to that salon and show them! That is not okay! Even if you happened to wash it too soon, that should only make it less curly, not fall out, that sounds like chemical damage! Please go back to them! And if they won't help you, go some where else!
emcarmel 6
Have you had any previous colour work done on your hair? Any bleach? Perms can’t be done on any hair that’s previously been bleached (even if it’s from 2 years ago or had colour put over it)