Celebs reveal their hair horror stories
Thought you had damaged hair? Well these celebrity hair disasters will make you feel a whole lot better! A number of Hollywood’s biggest TV stars have shared their hair horror stories from having their hair constantly coloured and heat styled on set and all we can say is WOW.
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To us mere mortals, the life of an actor usually appears all sorts of glamourous. But in reality, all those hair styling sessions on set and drastic colour changes for different roles take a huge toll on the locks of our TV favourites.
Ashley Benson, who played Hanna Marin on Pretty Little Liars for seven seasons, recently revealed the price her hair paid for the role. "I bleached my hair so much during season three and it fell right off and you couldn't even tell!” she told ELLE. “I got a call from Warner Bros. like, 'You need to do something with your hair,'" and I’m like well, duh, I’m bald! Bleaching my hair was my biggest regret."
Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart has had a similar experience, telling PopSugar that those Betty Cooper ponytails are more taxing than they appear. “We just started adding extensions to my ponytail, because my hair has gotten so damaged and fried, quite frankly, from being heat styled every day,” she says. “I definitely have invested in a lot of hair masks and treatments in order to save my hair. I feel like at the end of the show, I'll have to shave my head."
After using wigs for previous seasons of Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke decided to finally go all in and bleached her hair ‘Mother of Dragons blonde’. But once the deed was done, Emilia was forced to chop off all her hair into a chin-length bob.
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Glad to see that Celebrities have hair disasters as well just like us normal folk.
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Emilia Clarke is beautiful ! My Khaleesi <3
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A little bit of spike in the hair of having bleach that could really make the dashy look as I am concerned ...
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I had a friend who had gotten balayage done and it looked so horrible, it was like one straight line across her hair, they ended up just dying her hair back to the original colour
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I use Clairol, but its no more than 2 shades lighter
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I am happy with my natural hair. I will not consider bleaching my hair.
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I'd never bleach my hair - the smell would be too horrible
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I tried one of those lightening sprays on my dark blonde hair.............uh oh. Orange is not my favourite colour, then or now :(
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Yep, been there , done that! Avon blonde beach spray, umm orange they should say!!
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Wow bleaching your hair sounds so horrible!
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I tried to light a gas oven and boom, badly singed and stinky hair. Job interview the next day, rang and begged for a hairdresser to fix my hair, she gasped when she saw me. But it all could have been much worse....
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I have had way too many hair horror stories to count! The price you pay for wanting to change your hair colour every 5 seconds, argh! The most cringe worthy was when I had my (naturally blonde) hair dyed black with teal blue streaks, and then cut my own fringe wayyyy too short. Teenagers!
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So many horror stories!!! Eep!!!
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Ugh Avon Bleach spray to be used with a hair dryer, yukky orange results
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Bleach...it kills our hair but we love it. Thank god for olaplex
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I have heard of Olaplex, is it like a weekly conditioning treatment for coloured hair?
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It isn’t a treatment in the sense but it feels like one. There are 5 different kinds now. The first 1 &2 are used by your hairdresser in and after your hair is bleached. 3 is a take home version you can use weekly and 4 and 5 are shampoo and conditioner. It repairs the bonds in your hair from bleach, colour and heat damage. They say it’s not a treatment but your hair feels amazing after it and it saves my strands.
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Thankyou Karlie, it sounds great, I must get some
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It’s been about 18 years since a hairdresser ‘lightened’ my hair. It was the colour of wet hay, horrible. Paid a fortune at another salon to return back to my natural dark brown.
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I've never had a bleached hair disaster. I leave all my colour changes to my trusted hairdresser. Mind you, a couple of times she's become a bit scissor happy and cut too much off for my liking.
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I don't regret doing balayage on my dark hair, but I do regret the fact that the bleach made my ends dry & a bit frizzy, despite using good hair care products. I'll never do it again.
My other hair disasters were me trying to cut my fringe (back when I had one)...should've known that that would end in disaster as I can't cut straight lol....and not looking after my hair when I dyed it for the first time in my teens. After 2 different dye jobs my hair felt like straw & I lopped half of it off.
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I am yet to make biggest hair disaster ! It is bound to happen
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For me personally I don't see a big deal to just chop my hair into a pixie cut and start again. I am guessing there will be a team of hair stylists ready to put in extension or to fix a wig if long hair is required for a particular role.
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