“I just want a little bit off.”
That’s what Cameron Diaz said when she sat down for a haircut with her friend late one night a few months ago. But what she got was a little bit more than a little bit off.
Cameron appeared on The Tonight Show this week and chatted to Jay Leno about the dramatic chop that made her “burst into tears”. Take a look.
And here are some more celebrity haircuts.
Gwyneth Paltrow
What about you… What’s the worst haircut you’ve ever had? Have you ever experienced hairdresser miscommunication? Did you cry?
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The worst haircut I ever had looked like a combination of a mullet and a Carol Brady haircut – shoulder-length with a really thick layer above the shoulder. I asked for a trim and some layers and I should have realised when the hairdresser said ‘wow, your hair is really thick. I’ve never seen such thick hair’ that I should just leave and go somewhere else. It was a cheap place so I guess you get what you pay for. When I got home I trimmed the back so it didn’t look so mullett-ish. It’s funny how emotional a haircut can make you. I asked my sister to trim my (very long) hair and give me a fringe a few years ago. Seeing myself in the mirror for the first time I sort of laughed and cried hysterically at the same time. But I actually really liked the fringe and got used to it quickly, and lots of people complimented me on it. I have been cutting my own hair for about the last 6 years, ever since I shaved my hair off to raise money for the leukeamia fundation. Now that it’s quite long again, I am itching to have a really short cut. I think its fun to play around with your hair – it’ll always grow back.
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Ive been trying to grow my hair for years… it’s due for a trim to get rid of those pesky split ends… except now after reading this im too scared… perhaps split ends will come into fashion?!
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When I was about 8 for whatever reason my Mum got the hairdressers to give me a sort of Pixie cut.
I have very thick hair and it just looked atrocious. I looked like a boy and was so upset by it I didn’t want to go to school.
I spent the next few years growing it out which in turn resulted in even more disastrous styles before it finally became long enough to tie up and since then I’ve always had long hair.
I’m 25 now and I don’t think I will ever have short hair again in my life since that horrible period in my lifetime.
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when i was 12 wanting to look like Princess Diana – i have thick curls and so you can just imagine what it looked like…very bad!
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Oh yes i’ve had actually had many when I young my mother for some reason was happy to let the hairdresser give me a spike with a mullet, it was disgusting and i hate looking at the photos. Also worst experience at about 16 I had long hair passed my shoulders it’s all about hair at that age. I said to the hairdresser just a little trim but put in a couple if layers pointing to around my chin. And yep she starting cutting at my chin!!!!! I watched her cut into my hair and I started crying. She was yelling at me ‘you said to your chin’ no no no layers, how how could it go so wrong!!! My mum was so mad with her so I had this bob and I hated it!!!!!!!
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My worst haircut was when I was twelve. I asked for a shoulder length bob, I got an undercut and a shockingly short top layer. I looked like a boy. I cried for weeks. Mum felt so sorry for me she let me get my ears pierced. I was mistaken for a boy by almost everyone. Teachers, shop owners, flight attendants, the works. And don’t get me started on my grandparents friends! So cruel.
At that age I didn’t have the personalty to pull a cut like that off, either. It made me an outcast at a pivotal time, ruined me socially, and caused years of crippling shyness. But eventually it grew out, and I changed schools, and now I’m fine. You know, except for the fact I refuse to get my hair cut more than twice a year…
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My worst haircut went something like this-
First the “hairdresser” sprayed my hair with water so it was dripping wet, then she snipped it all one length all the way around. Done. I found it pretty hilarious but later got a friend to fix it with some thinning scissors and layers!
On another note, when I was 13 my neighbour asked me to trim her hair. I remember the panic I felt as I cut it lopsided and had to keep taking more off. She was very cross with me but luckily she went away on holidays for a few weeks and was over it by the time she got back.
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In the hair dept I’m one of the lucky ones. My hair is blonde -although it has been red, green, purple, brown etc- thick, lots of body and I can hack at it and no one ever knows. I have been known to get out the dress making scissors and cut it 10cms shorter and get it pretty straight. My hairdresser is always amazed at my brazen haircutting adventures. If I do get it too wrong there are always hair slides and ties till it grows again. I’ve always felt that hair is for playing with and it does grow back after all. I can never really understand why people are so precious about their hair???
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I had loooong hair down to my waist with a bit of layering and I loved it. My regular hairdresser was out of town and recommended another stylist, so I went to see her. She asked me to flip my hair upside down so she could cut the layers (which I had never done before, but I thought it must be the new thing), so I couldn’t actually see what she was doing because my head was in my lap. When I put my head up, 3/4 of my hair was above my shoulders. I burst into tears when I saw it, it looked like a mullet. I just asked for a trim, and I even showed photos!! She said she thought it would look cool and edgy and so she just did it. She did acknowledge it looked nothing like what I asked for.
A few months later I had to cut it to shoulder length. I’ve never been to that salon since, and that was 5 years ago. I now have a hairdresser who spends a while talking to me beforehand and shows me visually how much she’s chopping off, and checks with me every few minutes if I’m happy with how much she’s cutting off and says “Honey just tell me if its too much, I want you to be happy!” I LOVE her and don’t feel anxious going there at all.
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I had a perm the day before my wedding. Enough said.
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I can only imagine
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Back in my early uni days, hen I wanted a bit of change I put a temporary brown dye through my hair…that took to my hair and turned permanent. Fortunately I found a hairdresser who want great with colour and helped me grow it out with some carefully placed highlights. Apparently her skills were limited to colouring though, because she cut my shoulder-blade length hair back up to my shoulders and gave me layers that sat above my ears…which is even worse than it sounds when you have wavy hair. These days I’m VERY happy to pay for a more experienced, well-rounded hairdresser.
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I had a haircut and foils done the week before my wedding. They went a bit crazy with the peroxide and it was wary too blonde. I am naturally red, so I used the AVEDA red hair shampoo. All the blonde bits turned pink!!!
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I used to work for a hairdresser and they asked me if I wanted some awesome hairstylists from O/S to cut my hair and I jumped at it. Anyway, they told me it would be ‘just a trim’ (I had hair well past my shoulders) and next minute I had a short bob that ended just above my jawline.
I cried, but I had to be in a hairshow, so I sucked it up and smiled… then I got home and my boyfriend’s jaw just about hit the floor before he said “You look AMAZING!”
And I’ve loved it ever since
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I had vile short helmet style haircuts for years as a kid. Worse, I often had a crooked fringe. My mother loved them and couldn’t understand why my sister (who suffered similarly) hated them. She wouldn’t let us grow it either until we were teenagers. The worst bit, they were done by my aunt who was a qualified hairdresser.
I once let a friend trim the ends of my hair at 16. She pretty well f*^€Ed it up. It was uneven, with gaps at the bac. That was the last time anyone I know ever took to my hair.
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I was 16. Long straight blonde hair half way down my back. Went to the hairdresser to get some layers in it, as it was getting heavy.
Hairdresser put my hair in a pony tail on top of my head and then cut it off.
Shortest layer was at my ears and then it went down into a V shape to half way down my back.
I cried for hours when I got home.
I still have nightmares.
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Last August, I think the hairdresser thought we were playing opposites when I said “I don’t want it short and I don’t want a bob”. Who cuts really curly hair into a short bob? I was so stunned all I could do was pay, thank the lady and walk out. I cried when I got home and decided that if I could just stay indoors for a few months everything would be fine. Of course a week later MM asked for a photo to go up somewhere discreet like, you know, the internet.
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You sound like me. I’ve cried a couple of times after a bad haircut.
One hairdresser said she could thin my thick hair out (id had it done before at another salon) i basically ended up with my hair in two chunks; a long one underneath and a shoulder length one. To say i sobbed violently when i got home would be an understatement.
Why do we never say anything?! And then pay for it !!
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I got a perm at a new hairdresser when I was 19 wanting to look nice before an overseas holiday with a friend. I came out of the new very expensive hairdressers with what looked like lambswool stuck to my head. It was such tight curls that all shape had gone out of my haircut. I cried so much and used combs in the sides of my hair for months to give it some shape. It was horrible.
Another occasion when I was on maternity leave and not very flush with funds I went to my mother-in-law’s el-cheapo hairdresser with her and we both got the same haircut!! She was in her 60′s and me in my 20′s and I was so upset but couldn’t show it. It was a shocking haircut too
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Yes, I’ve asked for a shorter, just beneath my chin ‘do, and the hairdresser cut it almost to my ears. I was devastated.
Gah! I have looked everywhere for this pic I saw online last week and can’t find it. It was of a princess with long, blonde hair and one frame says “I’ll have a little bit off!” and the next frame is her with super short hair and a shocked look on her face and the caption says “Oh my fucking God..”
But here is another funny which is relevant.
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Oh god. this brings back bad memories. Booked in for a treatment and BLOW WAVE (read: not a cut) in this salon I hadn’t been to before and I got a guy who couldnt speak much english. Settled in to a cup of tea and a good mag when I got there after he had washed my hair and done the treatment. Heard the faint sound of snipping and knew he was fiddling with my hair but didnt pay much attention as I had put all my trust in his -what I thought – was capable hands. A few minutes later, noticed clumps of my locks falling to the floor. He had cut my long hair off – up to way above my shoulders – and not just that, it was a horrible dodgy job, like zig-zaggy and awful. Bawled like a baby!!!!!! Took 2 YEARS to grow back. lol.
Meanwhile, Cammie looks like she’s had a bit too much done on her face in this vid – starting to look a little clown like – eep!
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Oh where do I start?!?????
At 13, I decided to cut my own fringe. Blah. Yuk. I cut it into a v shape. Arggh.
When I was 21, went to phuket and had boy short hair (hair looks good short).. but then I had extensions waxed into my hair. I looked like billy ray cyrus! sooooooo frikken funny.
Both times I cried. Plus the time I had my hair dresser cut my hair shorter on one side than the other because it was ‘in’. It NEVER looked good! I like not always having perfect long hair though. It adds character. Short hair is fun.
I reckon Cameron looks great with a spunky bob. That is all.
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I got my haircut last November, planning to get just a trim before my uni graduation ball 2 weeks later. So, my hair was going to sit just above my shoulders, but I’d still be able to tie it back.
The hairdresser started at the back, and cut it heaps shorter than I wanted or had ever gone before. The front layer only came to my ears and I couldn’t put it up.
I managed to hold it together and went to show my mum at her work, and cried for the next hour.
I haven’t gotten my haircut since (Ok, it’s only been 6 months, but still…)
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In year 8 my “friend” decided to cut my fringe, and cut it right back to the hairline. She wasn’t a very nice friend at the time although years later she did apologise for it so she knew she had been going to do it.
And once, at 3am, I found out what “magic silver rose”, a bright pink fabric dye, does to blonde hair. It aint pretty.
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I’ve never cut my hair other than to trim it…I have been getting it layered of late and the last time I got it done, the hairdresser took a inch or so more off the left front than the right front…FWP.
I’ve never done much to my hair full stop. I have dead straight hair that will not hold a curl. In summer, I develop natural streaks, so don’t bother colouring. In high school, I did a home blonde streak, through the cap. When I combed it out, all of the blonder bits literally fell out, like fairy floss. I had rather thin(ner) hair for awhile!
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I was 13. I ended up with a haircut that made me look like a boy. I’m pretty sure she used clippers at one point but it was still ‘long’ on top … I’ve tried to block the memory out. I’m still scarred by it and petrified every time I go to a new hairdresser. The only upside – it was so short that it basically gave my hair the boost it needed to grow back thicker and darker. But I still want to cry when I think about it.
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I asked a hairdresser a couple of weeks ago to try and make my growing-out-old-colour hair look less obvious and I let her talk me into putting some foils through it… hating the obvious streaks! My fault for not planning ahead and therefore not being able to get into my regular hairdresser
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OMG – I was 19 and I will NEVER forget the time my sister-in-law at the time, was also a hairdress, cut my hair in a SHORT style. Not a short bob, not shoulder length. It was SHORT boy style and as I have never had such short hair, my hair WOULD NOT SIT FLAT AND STUCK OUT all over my head – totally uncontrollable. I had to use a million bobby pins to hold it down flat. My boyfriend was taking out to a fancy restaurant for dinner that night too. I cried and cried and cried. I WILL NEVER EVER CUT MY HAIR THAT SHORT AGAIN!!!!
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My friend, hairdresser, wanted to try the “new” geometric cut on me.(showing my age, it was years ago) OMG it looked hideous! No matter what weight I am I have always had a round face. Luckily I was nursing at the time and coud stick a cap over it most days!!
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I had a self-inflicted hair disaster… an attempt to make my hair red with home-dye henna turned it hot pink…. then to counteract it I died it an almost-black dark brown… and it looked purple for weeks… Since then it’s been steadily getting lighter and lighter and now I’m blonde… but it took 3 years to get back to light hair from that fateful day.
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