What's the most evil thing you've ever done to your hair?

**spidermom** · July 31st, 2008, 07:54 AM

In my teens, I used to wash my hair regularly with dishwashing liquid because we couldn't afford shampoo or conditioner. My hair looks fine in pictures from that era, but it was a lot shorter, varying from pixie cut to about shoulder length. During those same years, I'd find a split end and grab the 2 sides and open the split to see how far up the hair shaft I could get it before it broke (insert heebie-jeebies).

Also bad for my hair: perms. Highlights.

**thankyousir74** · July 31st, 2008, 07:57 AM

I used to use a clothes iron to iron my bangs (before I got straightener). I also used to swim in chlorine water every day with out much protection other than a swim cap (latex). Also, I occasionally dabbed a bit of peroxide throughout my hair to lighten it a bit. Gosh I used to be so lame -.-

**Curlsgirl** · July 31st, 2008, 07:58 AM

I bleached my hair and then when the roots would grow out I would bleach it all again. :

I did this about 4 months in a row and couldn't understand why my hair was like cotton candy

**thankyousir74** · July 31st, 2008, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by spidermom

During those same years, I'd find a split end and grab the 2 sides and open the split to see how far up the hair shaft I could get it before it broke (insert heebie-jeebies).

I used to do this too -.-

**Kirin** · July 31st, 2008, 08:05 AM

Almost everyone knows my story of someone behind me at a concert lighting a cig and i lost my kneelength hair to a buzz cut............. aaaaaaaah

The other worst thing I did was use "whitewash" a bleach made for tire white walls to get my hair white. I turned white all right........

**Siava** · July 31st, 2008, 08:10 AM

I used to rip my splits up, too.

Hmm, I'd have to say the worst was getting a spiral perm and then 2 weeks later, after deciding I didn't like it, got it chemically straightened. Talk about fried!

**nessthing** · July 31st, 2008, 08:24 AM

Blowdried. A lot. I kind of still do.

**naturechild** · July 31st, 2008, 08:38 AM

I wasn't paying attention while burning a while ago and burnt me some really unattractive bangs.

I S.O.S'ed LHC with it when I first came here.

**Calanthe** · July 31st, 2008, 08:42 AM

I let my horse chew my braid. Frequently. We had the same hairstyle after a while. Scruffy.

I dyed my hair every 7 days because of the roots showing. Well, what do you expect when you go from blonde to black?

I once knitted my hair into a sock I was working on.

My dad had to cut out curling tongs. I twisted much to tightly and it got so tangled, that I couln't get the tongs out.

I once had a perm done in tailbone length hair.

I wanted white hair and used so much that I practically burned my scalp.

That's not nearly all I did to my hair when I was younger, just the things I still have in mind vividly.

**AlleyKitten** · July 31st, 2008, 09:19 AM

There were a couple summers where I spent more days than not in the chlorinated pool...the summer sun would lighten my hair to blonde, and then the chlorine would turn it GREEN! This was just before my mother cut it all off to a pixie

I'm also amazed at how very little conditioner I used to use -- I might as well have been using none at all.

Edit: Oh god, how could I forget the huge knot that had to be cut out of the underside of my hair? I used to let it get so incredibly matted into rats-nests...it was awful!