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At around the age of 6 or 7, most of us probably had a go at cutting our own hair, much to the distress of Mammies the length and breadth of the country. Maybe you went for a stylish, quarter of an inch long, lopsided fringe; maybe you chopped the whole lot off and were lucky not to remove your earlobes as well. Either way, I bet your Mammy roared crying when she saw what you’d been up to.
Now that we’re that much more grown up [ehem!], that bit older and wiser [ehem!], I have a ceist beag for you.
What’s the maddest thing you’ve ever done in your quest to look your best? And – most importantly – how did it turn out!
G’wan, tell all!
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ooh, I remember as a child watching my mother waxing her legs with Louis Marcel strips. I thought it looked like great fun, so in the middle of the night, i snuck into her room, slapped one on my leg. Bejasus talk about pain when i started to try and take it off…
I had to wake my mammy and get her to whip it off. I screeched the house down! When i wne t back t o bed, had a stinging arse as well as a painful shin!
Well….I did chop off my fringe when I was about 6, a 2mm fringe is not a good look. I also ‘restyled’ my brother’s hair while I was at it!
Hee hee….I also covered him in fake fan when he was about a year old (I was three)
Cleo can just see your mam murdering you for that!
Tippy, I was in enought pain with the leg wax thing, but to slap the legs off me for being so devious as weel… not that was Evil!
I ‘styled’ my hair when I was about ten. I tried to give myself layers because my sisters all had them, and ended up giving me curtains at the front with LONG hair at the back…thats when my hair first got chopped up!its never been that long since!
Tee hee hee Cleo!!!
I cut off my best friend’s waist length blonde (think Rapunzel) & gave her a 2mm fringe when we were 6 – her Mum’s screams could be heard for miles!
When I was 11, I thought I’d “tidy” up my eyebrows, but instead of tweezers, I used SCISSORS… not a good look
I note the picture of Courtney Love above, my idol in my teens, from age 15 – 17ish (old enough to know better!) I was known to go out in black nighties a la Ms Love…
Red I remember those days, you always looked fine to me!!!
Let me just say the words home bikini wax and leave it at that… (and I didn’t have the excuse of being a child or anything at the time!)
xgirl – lol. The word home and bikini wax togother is enough to make me shudder.
I fancied myself as a hairdresser when I was young ( around 6 years of age) After a while I got bored of cutting my dolls hair so one day decided I was skilled enough to cut my own hair. I just chopped away at it, I wasn’t even sitting in front of a mirror.
I was pretty proud of myself until I decided to showcase my new look to my mother, she was horrified.
She bundled me into the car and sped down to our local hairdresser to see if she could save what hair was left( one side of my hair was short and the other long).
She broke the devasting news to my mum that all she could do was to cut it up into a step.
So my gorgeous blonde locks were gone, for a whole year I looked like a boy.
Thankfully it had grown back by my communion a year l8ter, but I decided after that hairdressing wasn’t for me.
I put Sun In in my hair when I was 16 and old enough to know better. My hair is dark brown, almost black and all it did was turn my hair a lovely orangey auburn. And the worst thing was no hair dresser would dye over it so I had to live with two toned hair until it grew out. Not fun
I took an electric razor to my upper lip when I was about 6 because I was a total tomboy and wanted to be just like my Daddy. I was so pleased with the result that I decided to shave my chest and stomach too… have a lovely snail trail to this day. At least I’m keeping the nice people in Jolen in business!
Lynnie – did ya really have chest hair at the age of 6???you don’t have to answer…
Ha ha becks it was just that invisible downy baby hair… honest… I was just obsessed with the idea of shaving!
I remember my dad using his electric shaver but I never bothered. I did shave the side of my hair when I was 15 with a razor and my father nearly blew his top where as mom did not mind ‘that much’.
When I dyed my hair white blond when I was 16 (I used actual bleach) my mother was raging while dad thought it was fine.
When I was six, I got The Pudding Bowl Haircut. To be fair, it was the 1970s. I had trim just before the school photos at the beginning of the year. I wriggled my eyebrows and forehead throughout the haircut, cos that’s fun, and my eyebrows do wriggle really well. The fringe came out wonky and about an inch long. Mother still has the photo. I continued to be a class clown for many years… and have always been wary of hairdressers since. A warning to budding comedians.
I used to squeeze lemon juice in my hair and stand in the sun for ages (when there was sun) .. I only have Jackie to blame for that ..
my brother had to use peroxide (straight) to bathe his toe in for ingrown toenail .. guess who thought she’d try being a peroxide blonde .. I have the photo’s to prove how it went horribly wrong! like Annie’s, it went a funny colour, that was the year I did my leaving ..
pretty tame in the light of everyone else’s escapades!
I’ve been lucky enough, I think the worst would just be the major make up faux pas’s we all make in our early teens eg: actually wearing the free lipstick I got in Sugar and sky blue eyeshadow with matching sparkly blue nails?? Eek.
Also, for info, I am a huge advocate of home bikini waxing, so cheap and easy. Nads all the way. Granted, I wouldn’t be capable of giving myself a brazilian because frankly I am not that flexible but if you’re after a neater look nads is the way to go.
I bleached my hair orange when i was 13, well just my fringe!!shaved my fringe off when i was 10!!