An Ode to the Terrible Coupon Haircut!

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a coupon for just about anything!  If I can save 10 cents darnit I'm gonna save those 10 cents!  Couponing has gotten me several free/close to free items.  Never do I buy anything online before searching out promo codes and saving myself 20% my entire purchase etc.  Just recently I stumbled across a coupon that my husband had forgotten about when cleaning out our coupon drawer a bit.  It was for a free pair of shoes that he had won.  I was waiting for the catch but we both rejoiced when they total came to $0.00 and free shipping!

Looks at these completely free babies!  Steel toe and waterproof  $170

all for free!

I must admit though last week my couponing got me into a pickle!  See I have been purposely growing my hair out again after chopping it short for the summer.  My hair was a great length but I needed a few layers and my side bands resurrected as it had all grown out into one.  Sounds simple huh?  Well I had saved a $9.99 haircut coupon so figured I would give Great Clips a try.



Ummmm great would not be the best phrase to explain my visit!  It was more like Great Clips: It's Gonna Be a Disaster!  I went in with wet hair having decided after showering that today would be a great day for the little trim.  I sat down in the chair and explained to the hairdresser the simple haircut I wanted, just a little something but keeping the length.  Right away I noticed the woman had chopped off a lot of hair.  I even commented saying, "wow that's a lot you just cut".  She assured me it would look fine and it was just for the layers but would not be as noticeable.  I took her word for it, as surely she would know what she was doing.  I learned during conversing with this woman that the hairdressers go Great Clips to Great Clips so are not just at one location but travel to wherever they are stationed that day.  She had been doing hair for over 20 years.  She was a very nice woman and we chatted away.  When she was done I wasn't impressed with it but thought heck it has to dry and it'll look different....it always does. 

I went home and let it dry all on its own.  I did some chores around the house and watched a few episodes of House Hunters and some Oprah Network and in no time my hair was dry.  I thought nothing of it until I went to use the bathroom.  I walked past the mirror and did my business without even noticing.  It was when I started to wash my hands that I looked up and to my horror I saw this..................................

No offense Tina Turner, but I'm just not rolling on the river like you these days!  My hair when it dries always gets curly and super wavy.  Panic began to come over me.  So I then pondered my next move and that would be to wet it back down and blow dry.  When my hair is blown dry it is always straight, surely that would look better.  After blow drying it and using almost a full can of hairspray and styling it I still was not too happy with it, but knew it was better than my Tina Turner look.  Any new haircut can cause a girl to be unhappy with it because of the change so I thought maybe I was overreacting, that it wasn't as bad as I thought.  I took a picture of it and thought ok it'll grow back but it can't be that bad.....

It was almost bluntly cut to the back of my ears then it dropped long in the back.  There were several pieces though that were longer than others and it was just not cut right.  My front bangs kept wanting to come together in the front like one huge bang and would not stay in the side part.  Almost mullet like with a party in the back going on.  The party in the back swooped upward like a curl.  So here is my result after an hour of playing with it and trying to get a decent picture with it (this picture does not do justice to how terrible it was!).  Can you tell by my smirk I had gone from fully panicked to laughing about it?!?!  We all need to find humor in life! 

My mom and I had plans to go out shopping so I waited for her to arrive.  I got in the car and the first words out of her mouth were......

"Hello Carol Brady!"  I knew then that this had to be fixed!  Sure enough after thinking of Carol I saw the similarity:

Yup party in the back going on!  Side by side verification.  I went back to Great Clips and requested they fix this mess. 

(My mom snuck a picture of the hairdresser offender apologizing and trying to fix it!)

The lady tried again for several minutes apologizing the whole time.  Finally she gave up and said she could not do more to fix it.  I ended up getting my money back and going to J.C. Penney's and paying a pretty penny to try to fix this disaster of a haircut.  At first the hair dresser there said she has seen many disasters that this can't be too bad.  That was until I got into the chair and her jaw dropped as she said she has no idea how this woman butchered my hair but it was bad.  Twenty minutes later and the length had to go for her to even be able to make it look decent.  I left feeling a bit less 70's.  I ended up with a short haircut for Fall....not what I had intended upon when I had left in the morning to get a simple trim and some side bangs.

My husband Brian did comment that if I was going for a Brady look I should have gone more for a Marcia look as he thought she was "dreamy back in the day" haha!

                          I told him look on the bright side....at least I didn't get the Alice haircut!