40+ Girls Shared Why They Stopped Visiting Beauty Salons Once and for All

While most women know how to do their own makeup, some want a more professional look when it comes to special events. This is when they put their faith in the makeup artists of their beauty salon.

This woman wanted to look especially beautiful, but instead, she was left feeling like an overpainted model. We can understand why she would not want to go back to a beauty salon after this.

There are many women who do not know how to apply makeup. For these women, it is important to be able to trust the makeup artist that they pay to deliver a good result. This woman may have gotten more than she bargained for.

Not only was the makeup pretty heavy, but it also made her have a bit of a sleepy look. We are sure this isn’t what she had expected!

Having long thick eyelashes can make you feel like a princess, and many women swear by these beauty accessories. Achieving these long lashes can require using a variety of fake eyelashes and adhesives. Unfortunately, some people are allergic to these.

When you are promised hypoallergenic products, and that is not what is delivered by the professionals, we can most certainly understand why the woman wouldn’t want to go back. No beauty treatment is worth this level of pain and discomfort!

After several attempts, this young woman gave up on eyelash extensions. They wouldn’t stay, and eventually ended up taking some of the poor girl’s natural eyelashes. Considering how thin and sparse her natural eyelashes were, to begin with, she can’t afford to lose anymore!

She was so torn up by this that she had to go in for special procedures to fix it. After all of that, not wanting to return to the salon seems like a logical reaction!

For the past few years, soft pastel colors have become popular choices for hair color. In order to achieve these ultra-light hues, it is often necessary to bleach hair until it is very light. Once it reaches this pale shade, hair colorists will typically apply the color.

This woman thought she would be getting this dreamy collection of soft colors. Instead, she got harsh shades against an almost-gray color. While the left photo looks like something out of a dream, the right is more of a hair color nightmare.

While we’re all for cutting costs in many areas of our lives, we draw the line when it comes to getting our hair done. This woman thought she was getting a deal when her friend offered to sew in a hair extension for her.

Unfortunately, the same friend decided to get intoxicated before breaking out her sewing kit. The result? One of the worst weaves ever seen. To make matters worse, the “friend” left one of the needles still in her hair!

It is often said that variety is the spice of life. No one knows this more than hairstylists, their salons are often filled with customers wanting some change in their lives.

This beautician thought they would give their customer the best of three worlds, with three different layers. While layers can be flattering, they are typically done in a gradual way. These blunt layers look like three different haircuts, stacked on each other! We have a feeling she won’t be coming back to this salon!

Trying a new beauty treatment or going to a new salon can be a risky thing to do before an event. This woman decided to take a risk when she asked for a haircut three days before her wedding day.

Sadly, she was left with a hairstyle similar to the hair worn by hockey players in the 1970s. Though another salon offered to fix her mullet mistake, she still ended up having to wear a wig on her big day.

Though true redheads are not that common, red is still one of the most popular and desired hair colors. This woman had been to this salon in the past and assumed they would do a great job this time. Sadly, the complete opposite happened.

She brought in a photo of a woman with glossy red hair, with tiny bits of blond delicately woven through. What she got looked more like a glowing puddle of radioactive waste. Luckily, the salon offered to fix this highlighter-colored diaster.

Tweezers are one of the most common grooming tools used for shaping eyebrows. Many people prefer to use tweezers to shape their eyebrows because they are far more precise than other methods like waxing or threading.

`While that may be true, we don’t think this person will be letting a tweezer next to her face for a long time. This Reddit user shared this particularly graphic tweezing tale, and we’re in pain just reading it!

Balayage is a popular hair coloring technique for customers who want a subtly lightened look. The technique involves applying a lightener to thin pieces of hair, giving a natural and lived-in look.

One of the most important parts of this technique is avoiding any harsh lines. This hair colorist forgot to blend the lightener as she applied it, resulting in this patchy and uneven mess. On top of everything, the highlights look pretty brassy.

You always want what you don’t have. That means if you have straight hair, there was probably a time when you longed for curly or wavy hair. There are many ways for you to get that look, and this woman thought she found hers …

After doing this straightening treatment at the beauty salon, she realized it was doing more damage than she liked. The harsh chemicals in the straightening solution caused her hair to fall out.

Every year there are new trends that spring to life or make a comeback. As thick eyebrows have come into fashion, so has a procedure called brow lamination. Brow lamination uses a chemical solution to change the way your brow hair grows, resulting in shiny combed-up eyebrows.

Unfortunately, not every technician is an expert at this procedure. This woman definitely caught a few eyes with this new look. Even with reassurances from the salon, it’s easy to see why this woman might vow to never set foot in one again.

After bleaching your hair blond, you may notice something – your hair can take on an undesired yellow tint. Like many bottle-blonds, this woman went to the beauty salon for a fresh color touch-up.

Unfortunately, they not only messed with the color, but she lost a chunk of hair too! We’re sure that after this bad bleaching incident, she won’t be returning to the salon.

When you head to the salon for a special day, you expect the people who work there to handle a simple styling job. This young woman wanted a fun little ‘do for her homecoming dance, but the hairstylist really messed it up.

Unfortunately, it looks like this stylist needs to go back to beauty school. Thankfully, mom was there to fix it! All we can say is that the hairstylist really messed up and probably should take a few more classes before she is allowed to do this again.

It is pretty popular for ladies and gentlemen to get an undercut hairdo and then have the stylist etch a design in it. Most of the time, you will go in with a pattern in mind or at least a photo to show the stylist.

This young woman came prepared with an image of the pattern she wanted. Sadly, the picture on the right shows what she ended up with. We definitely would not be happy at all.

This woman decided to treat herself to a relaxing day at the spa. After sitting in the salon chair for over four hours, she knew something was wrong. After all, she had only asked for a trim.

When she got home, she realized just how bad her haircut was. The salon had given her this oddly blunt shoulder-length bob but had forgotten to cut several pieces. Those wispy pieces stuck out and made the whole haircut look unprofessional. The worst part was they refused to apologize or offer a refund!

The ombre hairstyle is one that goes and comes and has a wide variety of options. The placement of the highlights must be done very carefully, otherwise, you will end up in a horrible situation like this woman. She spent money and ended up with this.

The bad thing is that even after they realized it was not what she wanted, they kept her money. How do you do that to a customer and let her walk around telling people she got her hair done at your shop?

There are many people who, at the end of a long week, look forward to going to the salon for a pedicure. This is how they relax, and the process is usually pretty nice. That is unless you go to the salon this young woman went to.

You definitely don’t want to feel like your skin is peeling from your flesh when you stick your feet in the water bath. We would have the same feeling if we were her.

When you are a beauty blogger, you try multiple salons for all kinds of things, including facials. If you have a bad experience like this woman, you might want to reconsider your job.

We would be worried if we had this facial experience. Having to go for months after a simple facial to a dermatologist to try to clear your face up seems to defeat the purpose of a facial in the first place. We hope the other facialists she has to try for her blog do a better job!

There are a lot of special procedures that can be done to help give you a new look, including injectables. This can include things like hyaluronic acid used to plump up skin and lips.

While these injectables should be done by a licensed and trained medical professional, some salons offer to do them too. Not only did she not get what she wanted, but she needs to wait for the filler to dissolve or go to a doctor to correct her lips.

Undercuts are a great way for people with shorter hair to express their creativity. While there are some truly talented barbers who can cut intricate designs, there are many who should probably not be allowed near a scalp.

This hairstylist falls into the second category. When presented with a photo of a diamond, they decided to etch a completely different design and shape. To be honest, we don’t know how he turned this angular diamond into a semi-circle?

It’s said that even the greatest artists need to start somewhere. That said, we’re not sure that this person should really pursue hair coloring. This Reddit poster decided to let her hair stylist-in-training friend practice on her.

While we’re all for helping support our friend’s dreams, we’re not sure we would have let them use us as a hair color guinea pig. Judging by the number of hair colors used, we’re actually not sure what the intended look was, to begin with?

Many nail salons have many manicurists that speak other languages. Some salons tend to hire people of the same background, which can result in the staff talking amongst themselves in their own language.

When this happens, and it is about the customers, the nail techs need to be careful. After all, you don’t know who speaks what language, and you may just offend a customer. This could lead to them never coming back like this woman.

It is always scary to try something new, especially when it has to do with your beauty routine. This woman was pretty brave for choosing to get her eyebrows waxed in a new location. Unfortunately, the new experience ended in an eyebrow disaster.

After all, walking out of the shop with just one eyebrow was not what she planned, we’re sure! She should have just stuck with what she knew, and then she wouldn’t have had this problem.

When you’re a kid, and you can convince your parents to let you do something extreme, it is a good day. We are sure it took a while for this girl to convince her mom to let her get highlights for her birthday.

When the process was done, we are sure she was pretty sad that she had. After all, how do you put the wrong color in? This probably scarred her for life when it comes to beauty salons.

Having bushy eyebrows isn’t always a good look for some faces, so many people go to the beauty salon to wax and shape those eyebrows. This process is done by placing hot wax on the skin and pulling the hair out.

Anytime you use hot wax, bad things can happen. This poor person was burned after having some hot wax dropped on her eye! Then they lost not only the eyebrow but were left with a swollen eye area.

This woman thought she would go to a fancy salon to do her hair before her wedding. Even though she brought a picture for inspiration, it ended up feeling like it was the biggest mistake of her life.

This poor girl was looking for a new style for her wedding. When she looked in the mirror and saw this, she knew she would have to go home and fix it before the big event.  The stylist that did this clearly is not ready to create their own styles.

Like all businesses, salons often look for ways to save a few dollars. Unfortunately, all of that saving usually comes at the expense of the customer. This salon promised this woman professional extensions made with human hair.

Because the woman couldn’t see what they were doing, the salon used synthetic hair and large adhesive beads to secure the fake locks. The woman only realized how bad it was when she got home. She ended up having a friend rip out the extensions with pliers!

Bangs are one of those choices that are really only good for certain faces. They also have to be executed just right, even if you have the right face. If they go wrong, it could be a reason to lose a little confidence in your stylist for sure.

This person wanted to try bangs but ended up with an uneven line and gaps throughout the cut. This is quite a problem we would imagine!

When someone is in beauty school, they often wind up working on clients who come in for free or other students. This can be very nerve-racking, and new stylists could make a few mistakes. That is what happened here, and we are sure it hurt quite a bit.

Of course, having bleach in your eye is going to leave a mark as well. Maybe not just physically, but mentally too. This could cause someone to give up on salons altogether.

There may be situations where the opposite is true – where a bad haircut could drive you to only want to visit salons. That could be the case if your mom is the person giving you the trim.

This kid’s mom just was going to do a trim but ended up leaving the poor child with this mad mess. The mom salon in this home should be closed as they are clearly not capable of giving a simple trim. What an epic fail on that mom’s part!

It’s not only women who leave the salon feeling traumatized. Some men also experience some pretty tragic haircut mishaps. This man went to the salon with the picture on the left.

Unfortunately, his barber got a little too creative and gave him the haircut on the right. While the man in the photo looks pretty cool and trendy, the man in the photo looks a bit like an overgrown toddler! Thankfully, his hair will probably grow back soon!

When you find a salon you like, it is hard to leave them even when you start noticing things going south. This poor woman just wanted to bleach her hair and ended up, because of poor workmanship, with a mullet.

After getting everything set up her attendants walked off. Soon she began to notice hair falling out and when all was said and done this is what she found herself looking in the mirror at.

There are tons of horror stories about people trying to have their own beauty shop at home. This person tried to save money by getting a haircut at home. So when the DIY hairstylist forgot to attach the clipper guard attachment, the cut quickly went from a trim to a shave.

The result was a very close shave with a strange island of hair at the top of his head. We have a feeling he’s going to be double-checking or even triple-checking next time!

There are some cuts that make you look older. Many shorter hairdos tend to give you a more mature look. Sometimes, stylists will suggest this type of hairstyle without being asked about it.

This hairstylist did what they wanted, and this poor woman ended up looking like a “Karen”. The worst part was that she was shown tons of pictures. So when the woman looked at her cut, she was pretty unhappy with the beauty salon and the fact she spent so much money on this hairdo!

There was a time when perms were all the rage. Many women went to the beauty salon to get this done. While not as popular as they once were, some people still enjoy the curl and volume that comes from perming their hair.

This young woman went in wanting something different, and boy, did she get what she asked for! She opted for a cut and perm, but we don’t think she wanted it this tight!

Some people go into a salon and ask for something different, leaving the final decision up to the stylist. Naturally, this could be a mistake because you might wind up with a cut that makes it hard to distinguish your gender.

This person wanted a simple trim. Unfortunately, their stylist got a bit too scissor-happy. They snipped a bit too much, and their client ended up with this very androgynous haircut. While we think it looks pretty good, we’re sure they can’t wait for it to grow back!

It is hard not to say anything when you are in someone else’s hands, and they seem to be making a big mistake, especially if they are “trained” professionals. Not speaking up, however, can sometimes lead to some pretty painful consequences, as this woman learned.

We are not sure if this is normal, but it doesn’t seem right. This woman’s poor nails were practically worn down to her skin, leaving her with these painful-looking nails.  We think she should take a long break from the salon, for sure.

There is a need for all the tools used in a salon to be thoroughly disinfected. If they are not, it could lead to a lot of issues that no one wants to deal with. This woman experienced that for herself when she ended up with a massive infection.

If we noticed this after a manicure, we would definitely think twice about going to the salon. After all, you get your nails done to look good, and this does not look good at all.

There are many different things you can do to your nails to keep them looking good. But most women go for is having fake nails put on. Whether this is an acrylic set or a gel one, things can go horribly wrong if not done right.

Removing the nails is when most things go wrong, as this poor woman found out. We would be so mad if we looked down and saw a pool of blood under our nails too.

If you are looking to have healthy nails, you may not want to go to the salon. Though gel nail polish looks nice and lasts a long time, it may be bad for your nails. This young woman found that out the hard way.

This is especially true if you are looking to get gel nail polish to finish off your manicure. Not only is the coating bad, but it can affect healthy nails leaving them chipped and looking nasty.

Gel nail polish can cause your nails to thin and begin peeling. This woman found this out after heading to her dermatologist. She was shocked that her manicurist did not say anything to her ever.

After seeing her nails peeling and falling off, we would wonder what was going on too! It didn’t take long for her doctor to tell her what was causing this, and so she stopped going for manicures and pedicures altogether. Seems like a smart plan, especially for someone who has a weak nail bed.

A lot of people worry about the risk of fungus when they visit the salon for pedicures and manicures. That is why many people also choose to forgo going to salons and just take care of their nails themselves.

This woman, after getting some fungus on her nails, chose to go this route. She probably was pretty thrilled about getting rid of that fungus and not worrying about getting any more.

After a pedicure, everything feels so much better. Well, that is unless you end up like this person. When the process was all done, they fought for weeks with a toenail that just didn’t want to grow properly.

We know how that feels, and we are sure the memory of that pain is enough to warrant never returning to a salon again for this type of procedure. We don’t blame them for taking a pause on those pedicures.

Going to the salon regularly can be pretty expensive. This is often enough to drive people away from the facility. When you add that on top of a bad experience, it definitely ends in someone vowing never to return.

This woman had that happen as she found herself dealing with fungus after her last visit to the salon. Spending money and coming away with a fungus doesn’t sound fun to us either.