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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
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.
raven_of_azarath 35
I wouldn’t say the father isn’t competent. It’s possible the daughter was staying the night with the MIL, and that’s when she did it. And the daughter could be young enough to not know to protest.
bass_ftp 12
Why is the father incompetent? Why not the mother posting this fml that from the looks of it clearly knew what was going to happen and still let it happen. If the father also knew then they just share the responsibility.
Mooglefox 24
Hey, we haven’t heard anything on the father’s thoughts on the whole thing. He may not have wanted his mother to touch his daughter’s hair and knew nothing about it.
julfunky 29
How do you know the mother is the one posting this? From my view the “avatar” used is that of a male.
Felix Maierhofer 5
How are either mum or dad to blame, when MIL was very clearly told not to do this ? You should be able to expect that MIL listens to the parents, and not goes behind their backs like that. Now they know not to trust her, but it seems before this they seemed to think it would be enough to inform her what not not to do. And come one, for any normal person this should be enough. Going against the parents wishes like that is unacceptable, and if my mum did that she would lose any alone time with the kid for the foreseeable future, and only regains that trust if she shows she really understand what she did wrong and promises to never do it again under threat to not see the kids again if she ***** up another time like that.
jbrabander 16
heck, I'd look into child abuse charges.
riley873 21
shave your mother-in-law bald!
AmbrosiaFan 19
This. If MIL has shampoo that only she uses, put some nair or hair removal stuff into the bottle...
PenguinPal3017 19
If someone hurt my daughter like this they'd be eating their meals through a straw.
RichardPencil 32
Bald is beautiful!
Vanderdale 14
If your mother in law cannot respect your decisions, she should not be allowed anywhere near your child again, period.
whiskey'swino 15
I think that is a FML for the daughter more than anyone!
Shawnie Gallant 24
No more grandma.
Charlie Given 28
Umm I hope you called CPS on that **** that's wrong on so many levels your kid will probably be bald forever the acid used to do that kills the hair follicles sorry for your daughter OP
FluffythePink 23
If she didn't check she had the right strength and refused to do the skin and strand safety tests then that's assult with a corrosive substance, love...