Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Picture This; Hair Terror Edition


The photos from this weekend get captions. Feel free to skip over them and create your own story if you're not in the mood to read.


I went to Orlando to make some extra cash as a hair model this weekend. I agreed to bangs, a straightening treatment, and a small cut. This is my before photo. After is supposed to be me with said changes in a slutty purple dress at the hair convention.


This is how most girls were dressed at the salon/brand castings. I forgot my booty shorts.

This poster of a girl who looked like Justin Bieber was wall over the convention center.


This is Ricki Lake in Hairspray a la '88.

This is what my hair looked like when I got home from prep day.  (twinsies)

Insert me calling my boyfriend in tears and wanting to come home. Please note that at no time did I agree to let them do that to my hair. When they asked to add a few red highlights while I was in the chair I did not assume that would involve bleaching the entire back of my head.

So I went to my brother's place and played with my favorite Nephew. His cuteness is calming.


and went home the next day. I told the hair people to eff off, and made an emergency appointment with a friend for two days later. This means I got to look like Alexandra Cabot for the whole weekend. (I got a lot of work done at home.)


and 3 hours later I look like this. A little darker, a little less shiny, but still alive.

It's "I told you I wasn't exaggerating, Nora" Tuesday
XO Robyn


*Now I have every faith that my hair would have turned out really interesting looking if I had let them finish what they were planning. I just didn't think the deception was necessary.  That, and the fact that I have worked for this brand without issue before, are the main reasons why I am not naming names here. 
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30 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh. Was this a student hair show? Because that's just bad.

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  2. OH MY GOSH. A: you were hugely brave to do a hair show in the first place and B: what on earth did that crazy person do to you??

    IN the final analysis, you ended up post emergency fix, looking as lovely as ever!

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  3. oh my goodness! i can't believe they did that! your poor hair :(

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  4. I just threw up. A similar thing happened to me once. This stylist had just returned from a convention and wanted to use these great, new techniques on me. Half blonde, half red hair. It was awful. It was October, and one of my co-workers asked me if the new do was for Halloween.

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  5. argh, this just proves the frustration of hairdressers! They always do what "they" want unfortunately. However, your post-trauma hair looks natural and beautiful once again! xx

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  6. So sorry that happened to you, what a horrible experience! I was a hair model ONCE in Tampa....decided never to do that again. It was a lot more stressful than I had imagined it to be. In my opinion, hair always looks better in its natural state. Cheers!

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  7. ohhh my gosh, hahaha.. that is awful! however your post made me crack up.

    I'm so sorry about your hair! ): I'm glad you got it fixed, though...

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  8. that just sucks because you went up there to make some extra dough and then had to end up spending it on redoing your hair!!! i'm so sorry!!!! But for what it's worth - it looks GORGEOUS now!

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  9. Wowza, this is why I only ever go to the hair stylist like once a year and do all my dyeing at home (well that and I'm cheap. Really cheap.). I can hardly believe this even happened - but I sort of like the darker shade...and you got to see weird photos of a lady Biebs so maybe it's not all bad?

    xoxo ~ Courtney
    http://sartorialsidelines.blogspot.com

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  10. I'm too crazy about my hair to let someone do a surprise style on me. That said, I didn't think the two-toned look was that bad. The all-black is very cute :)

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  11. And I love the Law & Order reference. Alexandra Cabot is MY GIRL!

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  12. Oh my gosh, that's such a nightmare! D: I'm sorry that happened to you! I would've been furious! At least your hair looks lovely again now, though, and they didn't do anything that couldn't be fixed, like chopping it all off or something!

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  13. Oh no! I can't believe they did that to you! Your hair looks much better now and I like the darker shade, too.

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  14. Yes that is scary.
    I told my husband that my hair is sensitive, meaning not to speak to it in harsh tones or make comments about or it might just up and leave!
    I too have gone dark..well close to black, thinking it was going to be dark brown. :D

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  15. oh my god, i cant believe they did that to your hair! how frikking rude, it looks lovely now though

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  16. that two tone is really your hair???? i kind of like it!!

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  17. Oh dear...what did they do to your poor hair!!!!! But at least you were able to sort it out and it looks good now :D
    http://www.closet-fashionista.com/

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  18. what jerks! how could they do that to a darling girl like you?! just jealous of you adorable-ness, i presume ;)

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  19. oh jeez louise! what a hair scare for real. well you still turned out looking gorgeous in the end :) they'd have to do alot more than that to ruin you.

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  20. Wow, this brings me back to a week of hair calamity I had back in high school. Fun story though and the black looks really nice with your skin.

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  21. Oh man, they skunked you. They skunked you good.
    I'm glad the damage was reversible!

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  22. haha love the story... youre brave to be a hair model!

    <3 steffy
    Steffys Pros and Cons

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  23. you probably saw my dad at the florida hair show! awesome. it's been fun being raised in the biz.

    Peace & love
    oxo, ETTE

    WWW.THRIFTEDKARMA.COM

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  24. I like the darker you.

    On a somewhat related note, my husband told me after my blowout yesterday that it looked like a yak fell asleep on my head. No one did that to me though. I was born that way.

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  25. well your hair looks fantastic now! and now you have a fun story to tell? ha

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  26. Can't believe they did that to you. On the plus side, dark hair looks fantastic on you!

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  27. your dark hair looks sooo coool! i love it!!!!
    you look AWESOME (:

    ps. i'm hosting a giveaway on my blog this month. hope you check it out.

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  28. what's weird is, before i read this post. i was reading the bloomer post. i thought robyn's hair seems longer. is she growing it out, or just straightening it? little did i know what u went through last weekend. looking like ur fab self now, girl.

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  29. hahaha, at least you got a great story out of it! Twitch girls got some humor :) I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!

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  30. You look gorgeous in the last photo- why couldn't they have colored your hair like that? The two-tone blond 'n black is just hideous. I remember girls at the community college I attended all dying their hair like that (skunkafied) and I used to wonder how they could let themselves walk out of the house looking like that in public. And moreover, how everyone around them could go, "I like, love your hair. Will you do mine?? Like, like, like please?" Insert finger down throat. Vom.

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