How Do I Fix a Botched Hair Cut? Is There Anything That Makes Hair Grow Fast?

Maybe you could find a really great stylist to do something with it until it grows out? I love my stylist, and she's yet to give me anything less than perfection since I've been seeing her. It might have to get a little shorter (but a better cut) until it can grow. I see Stacy at Cloud 9 in Highland Village. Good luck.

I am so sorry I don't have any advice for you! I don't like the way my stylist colored my hair this last time--I look like I have a skunk stripe unless I fix it perfectly. Luckily, I look pretty cute in a ball cap and wear one pretty much everyday! I bet you still look good--maybe just different than you're used to! Good luck in finding something that helps it grow or in making peace with the new 'do!!!

H.,

Been there!!

Go to walmart and get some funky gel or mousse, Mane-n-Tail shampoo (and conditioner?), and some new lipgloss. Gotta remember the lipgloss!

Just keep in mind that when people see you at the store, they will not know that you hate your hair. They probably won't even notice it.

Get some stuff to funk-i-fy your new do and run with it.

REMEMBER THE LIPGLOSS! :)

I am not sure how fast this will work but I know that prenatal pills will help your hair grow as well as protein.
I hope this helps!

Unfortunately, I have no sound advice except to suggest that you pick one salon & one stylist that always works on your hair, no matter how often you go get it cut.

I have had short hair since I was 15 (really short, like "pixie" short) and get it cut every 4 weeks. Due to living in various states over the past few years, I've had to change stylists with every move. But with each stylist change, I'd tell them EXACTLY what I want done and brought pictures every single time so that there really was no room for error. At that, I've stayed far away from those Great Clips / Cost Cutters / "in and out" kinds of places because I too have had botched hair cuts from there. Yes, it's a little more pricey to go to a salon, but there is no doubt you'll probably get people with many more years of experience who constantly go through more continuous education.

In the meantime, buy a few of those hairstyle magazines and see if there are styles in there that you can copy at home --- pin your hair up, curl your hair, ponytail it, that sort of thing. As the old saying goes "it's only hair, it will go out" still holds true. Be patient for now and just treat this as a lesson learned.

Best of luck to you!

I wish I could help make your hair grow back but I can offer a bit of advice regarding the stylist.

This happened to me many years ago. I went into a Great Clips to have a small amount of hair trimmed off. The guy who worked on me was more concerned with how many people were coming in (it was close to closing time). He chopped at least 3 inches off! I was stunned but said nothing.

The next day, I wrote a letter to the manager of the store. They sent me a bunch of free coupons and apologized. I used the coupons but at a different location. It can't hurt to complain. Explain what happened, who the stylist was, and how unhappy you are. If nothing else, it will help you to let some of the anger go.

Hi, H.,

I know how you feel. I had long hair and I had it chopped. It grew back but still you have to look at it every morning. I am a hair dresser not all of us are like that. I think every hair dresser needs to get chopped them selves from time to time. There are people out there who cut your hair the way they want it to look. You can't grow your hair fast than a 1/2 inch a month unles you have something going on in your body that causes you to grow excesive hair. What I can say is if you start to grow your hair out and it has to be trimmed only get it tip and by someone you trust. I have grown peoples hair out after it has happen and I only trimmed the very ends of the hair just enough to get the dead ends off. If you cut more than a 1/2 inch off a month you are treading water your hair wont make progress and only get it cut every three months pernatal vits may help I am not saying they dont but most people will only grow the 1/2 inch. Keep it conditioned that will help with the boof part of it if you have curly hair do two conditioners to one shampoo meaning shampoo your hair every other day and conditon it the other, this will help with the dryness if you have any. I was cursed with the curly, frizzy, boofy hair when it is cut. I made the mistake of wanting something different and I went and got my hair cut. I came out with a chicken butt hairstyle sooooo. dont feel so bad about yours. It will grow just try the advice I gave you. If you need further advice or questions please email me I will try to help you in any way.

God Bless you,

T.

Good nutirition is all I know on how to grow your hair but I do have a product that I use a lot. You can get clipin's but some look so fake and others are really expensive. I have gotten some nice ones from www.hsn.com (a home shopping channel) type in Toni Brattin in the search box OR click beauty and then brand Toni Brattin. These look realistic and are priced well. Good Luck.

Try not to be angry at the stylist. My daughter is an excellent stylist and she says she tries very hard to follow the instructions of the patron to the tee, and most of the time succeeds. However once in a while she fails. Hair grows faster when we aren't focusing on it. The "trim" you got will promote healthy growth, so try not to be too bummed out during the transition.

Two stories in me on this one:

First, I decided that I was done with perming my hair and it seemed to me that my hair had grown out a lot. I went to my hairdresser and told her to cut all the perm out. I don't know if I was wearing my contacts that day or my glasses, but I'm blind as a bat. Drema turns the chair around and does the reveal and I gasped in horror. She looked like I'd stabbed her in the heart and I had to do some quick backpedalling apologizing to her. She had done exactly what I had asked her to do, so she wasn't at fault. I just didn't expect it would be so short! In a couple of weeks, I was used to it and I loved the look. I even had my driver's license picture taken during that time and it was the best ever. I didn't stay with the short cut though. I let it grow out a bit.

Second, I was either between hairdresser or impatient to have my hair done, so I went to someone close by and available. I was getting a perm and a cut. We were busy chatting away. It was an evening appointment and we ran a bit late. Then for the reveal ... When I looked in the mirror I could have died on the spot!

I have very straight and fine hair and I ended up with an old lady perm. I looked like a dark brown brillo pad. She'd even teased out my 'do! I paid her and said my thanks and headed home. My kids and all their friends were on the street playing and pointing and laughing at me. My husband could barely contain his mirth.

You're not supposed to wash your hair for several days, but I thought I'd at least rinse it out and put some conditioner on it. I had to go to work the next day and I wanted to put a paper bag on my head!

The conditioner and rinse didn't do much, so I sucked up my courage and self-esteem and headed into work. As luck would have it, I ended up alone on the elevator with the mayor of all people who took one look at me and had to look away because he was having trouble controlling his laughter. Luckily, I got off on 5 whereas he rode up to 12. I sucked it up and I made it through that first day. It was really very character building for me. I was in my early 30's and finally allowing myself to feel like the attractive woman I was.

When the mayor showed up at a council meeting several months later looking like his barber had cut his hair with a lawn mower. He must have worn the same look on his face of mortification that I had had. I decided that it must have all been some rite of initiation.

During the time in that hair dresser's chair, I had learned that she was related to a co-worker. I'm the talkative sort and I recall that we wandered off into a discussion of her ex-husband who had run off with his secretary. In retrospect, it's probably not a good idea to get into a discussion with your hairdresser, especially a new one you're trying out, about their adulterous ex. Also in retrospect, I recalled later that that salon was where all the mature ladies went on Fridays and Saturdays to have their hair done once a week. It's probably better for a younger person not to go to an old ladies' hair salon.

Take heart! This too shall pass.

It wasn't my hair, but my 12 yr olds (at the time) who donated her long tresses to locks of love, the stylist went insane trying to even out her mistake when cutting the pony for the donation, resulting in a style that didn't even reach my dgtrs shoulders! She was mortified and cried for two days, I researched extensions, vitamins, growth inducing shampoos, the works!

After a few days, she got used to styling her new do and even though she still hates pictures taken of her during the growing out stage, it grew. It's been two years and she is a lot braver now about trying new styles because she learned it does grow back out.

Your in a tricky position with your own daughter with this situation, you have to be careful to model the type of reaction you would want from her if the shoe were on the other foot. It's okay to react with a "wow, this is NOT what I asked for" but step back for a minute and try the straightner idea, go ahead and be proactive with vitamins and shampoos and if you can afford the extensions, go for it. But, let your daughter know that appearances don't make the woman. And like the other posters have noted, find one stylist you trust and become a repeat customer. I'm in the east tx area if you need some good referrals.

Good Luck!

For me, pregnancy and pre-natal vitamins were a hair growing miracle. Maybe just go with the pre-natals since you already have one under one! :)

And using a flat iron might help with the poofiness...

Good luck - we really have all been there!

Vitimin A, B Complex, E & Lecithin plus a good multi vitimin. Go to GNC & they will tell you how much to take. And you'll probly feel better also.

I've been there! The only way to help hair growth is scalp stimulation. The old wives tale about brushing your hair 100 strokes every night is about half right. Actually just massage your scalp really well every day to keep the blood flowing. Prenatal vitamins or a vitamin specifically for hair and nails will help as well.

Going to a stylist who can help you learn to style it until grows out would probably be the best help until you get some length back. Salon at Eaton Court in Allen has great stylists who can really help! http://www.eatoncourt.com/

Good luck!

I've heard mane in tale works. I think it was originally used for horses tales to get them long and beautiful.

2 suggestions

1) use a flat iron to make your hair strait and sleek it will be longer a little.

2) go to a bueaty supply store or a flee market or any where they sale clip on hair and or wigs. You can put your hair in a pony tail or bun and clip on the hair alot of them look super cute I have used them before.

Best of Luck

First of all I am sorry..... I have very long hair and I would hate it if my stylist did that to me.

Secondly.......your stylist. You need a good person who will LISTEN to you. Don't go cheap.....you get what you pay for. I go to Anna at Sean David at the Shops of Legacy. The stylists at LImage (Park/Preston) Plano are all very good.

Lastly, invest in extensions.

Good luck

Does it help to know that it has happened to all of us? NO? I didn't think so. :(

I sympathize but-- the very worst is the BRILLO PERM! Most people don't even notice that your hair is an inch shorter or even if you have a different hair style (unless it's radical), but they sure notice the BRILLO pad.

Amazingly enough, it all grows back out while we are fretting over it.

BTW--I wear my hair short and permed and even with my regular hairstylist I have had the Brillo pad. But the very best, softest perm and cut I have had was recently at the nursing home salon. She takes outside clients and I intend to be a regular.

God bless us all!
D.

Hi H. --

Oh no! I can't even imagine how upset you must be! I didn't get to read all of your responses...take a look at HairDo on HSN. It's by Ken Paves (Jessica Simpson's Hairdresser). Fanstastis and affordable. I have like 4 pieces. It will get you through this "growing out" phase. And HSN has an awesome return/exchange policy.

Good luck!

having been a hairdresser myself in the past the only suggestion I have is to let it grow and work with it the best you can. If it is poofy you could try a smoothing serum. .there is a good one by Paul Mitchell called "Super Skinny" or if you want the generic version they have it at Sally's Beauty supply. I use it on my own hair when it tends to want to poof up ( my hair is short and layered). There is nothing that makes hair grow fast :(

I have never found anything that makes my hair grow any faster, and I have looked. My hair grows incredibly slow- just over 2 inches a year (my fingernails though grow really fast). My best advice is to get extensions.

A girl in my office had her hair fried a while back from a bad dye job. She chopped all of her hair off so that it would be healthy. She got tired of the "in between" stage and got extensions. She is white and blond- well at least some shade of it- and the hair looks very natural.

If I didn't know she did it, there's no way I would think it wasn't her real hair.

If you are really desperate to grow out your hair, Take vitamin E or prenatal vitamins. After my cancer and subsequent chemotherapy, I took prenatals to help my hair grow back faster and it seemed to work for me, also does wonders for your nails. :)