Nail technician, 18, who spent £500 on 'princess' extensions reveals she was left looking like a 'troll' who had been 'dragged through a bush' after being dunked in a hot tub by friends
- Oxfordshire nail technician Lissa Paterson, 18, was initially 'delighted' with locks
- But after a night of partying, she managed to destroy the expensive hairdo
- Lissa admits she failed to follow the guidelines for looking after extensions
- After sleeping on her wet locks, she woke up with 'worst case of bedhead ever'
- Oxfordshire nail technician Lissa Paterson, 18, was initially 'delighted' with locks
- But after a night of partying, she managed to destroy the expensive hairdo
- Lissa admits she failed to follow the guidelines for looking after extensions
- After sleeping on her wet locks, she woke up with 'worst case of bedhead ever' A nail technician was mortified after splurging £500 on 'princess hair' only to end up looking like she'd been 'dragged through a hedge backwards' after her friends dunked her in a hot tub.
Lissa Paterson, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, was delighted with her 'lush' hair extensions but two months later, while at a party with friends, she tied her hair up, jumped into a hot tub, and ended up with soaked hair thanks to her unruly friends.
The 18-year-old was 'mortified' when she woke up the next morning to a 'monstrosity' of a hair-do. She says she looked like she'd been 'tied to the bottom of a car and driven along the M40'.
Lissa Paterson was delighted with her 'princess hair' extensions (pictured) after spending £500 on hair extensions. But her joy turned to horror after she ignored hair care advice and ruined her new 'do
The nail technicians' friends described her hair as 'the worst case of bed head they'd ever seen' when Lissa woke up with matted, knotted hair after sleeping with wet hair extensions
The teen describes her hair after the hot tub incident as a 'monstrosity', saying her knotted extensions looked like she had 'been tied to the bottom of a car and driven down the M40'
Lissa said her friends were 'speechless' after witnessing the 'worst case of bed head' they'd ever seen, and she spent around 50 gruelling hours trying to comb out the knots in her matted hair.
The teen admits the the advice for looking after hair extensions involves avoiding chlorinated water, wearing your hair in a bun or sleeping with wet hair after having extensions fitted. Unfortunately, she managed to do all three in one night.The 18-year-old said: 'I wanted big long thick princess hair and ended up with troll's hair to be honest. I think it [the hair] was a lot worse than being dragged through a hedge backwards.
'I woke up and I literally thought I had a bee hive stuck in my head, it was horrendous. My hair was a monstrosity, it was just awful.
The hair extensions looked like the 'long princess hair' Lissa wanted when they were freshly applied (pictured). But her hair dream was about to become a nightmare
While she adored her hair extensions when new (pictured), after failing to follow advice for hair extensions, Lissa 'ended up with troll's hair' when she fell asleep with wet hair after going in a hot tub
'My friends were just a bit speechless, they were just like 'what has happened to your hair? I think you've woken up with the worst case of bed head we've ever seen'.
'It's like I'd been tied to the bottom of a car and [driven down] the M40 or something, I don't even know.
'We [friends] had a bit of a laugh about it. Everyone was just making jokes about it and asking what had happened, if I'd lost my hairbrush and if I'd had a good night's sleep.'
Lissa said she'd had 'amazing long hair' her whole life. But after getting a bob haircut, she decided to fork out £500 for the ill-fated hair extensions (pictured before incident)
The 18-year-old had got hair extensions (pictured fresh here) for the first time, so when her friends dunked her head into the chlorinated water, she wasn't worried about what would happen
Lissa said that all her life she'd had 'amazing long hair' but after getting a short graduated bob, ended up hating it and eventually bought hair extensions and had them professionally fitted.
She said: 'I was just with my friends one night in a hot tub drinking and one of them thought it was funny to dunk me under.
'I was like "oh my God, my hair extensions, what are you doing?" and then I kind of laughed it off because I didn't expect anything to happen, it was the first time I ever had them fitted.
It was love at first sight when Lissa first got the expensive new hairdo. Before ruining her hair, she took many photos of her blonde, flowing locks
'All the chlorine from the water got in my hair and it was just shoved up. I was so drunk I ended up passing out and forgot about it and when I woke up it was just one big lump of hair at the back of my head.
'I was just mortified. It was so matted, my hair barely went past my shoulders, before it was down to my bum - it's just my luck that it happened to me.
'They got absolutely ruined and destroyed after two months, it was definitely not worth the money.'
The 18-year-old said that she initially thought her hair was just tangled and needed a brush, but after dashing home to wash it, realised the extent of what had happened.
After sleeping with wet extensions and waking up with these knots and mats, the teen said she didn't realise the full extent of the damage. It was only after washing it that she realised how bad the condition was
Lissa said: 'I saw how bad it was. I think I had a heart attack, it was horrendous.
'It looked like my head had grown four inches on the back of it from this big lump of matt that was still inside it.
'Every day for the first week at least I was brushing it out for at least multiple hours a day. I was kind of losing hope and every few days when I'd wash it I'd try and give it a brush through.
'My main tactic initially was just getting a comb and ripping the knots out because half of them you couldn't comb them out, it was quite something.
Lissa tried brushing her hair extensions for hours every day in a bid to restore them to their former glory (pictured). But her attempts were in vain
'It was painful to brush it because it was attached to loads of different beads throughout my head which were being pulled. I was having to hold it to my scalp at the top, comb it from the bottom, my head was just in agony.'
Lissa said that for three months she tried to conceal the 'massive matted bits' that remained in her head by wearing ponytails, hats and hoodies until she visited the hairdressers.
They spent five hours trying to comb it through with coconut oil and although most of it did come out, some of her natural hair had to be cut along with the extensions.
Lissa said: 'My hairdresser's mouth dropped when I went around. She was so shocked, after we got it all out she banned me from ever getting hair extensions again.
The nail technician (pictured here before ruining her extensions) only managed to remove the hair extensions and matts with the help of her hairdresser, who had to cut out some of her natural hair along with the extensions
'It was the best day when I got it cut out. It felt so good to be able to run my fingers through my hair and not feel this big lump of matted, horrible hair.
'I was sad to see it all go. It was a really painful time at my hairdressers, it felt like it took ages and it was hurting from all the combing.
'It was quite devastating to get it cut out. We really tried not to, my poor hairdresser sat there for hours and hours and there was this one last bit that wouldn't budge, we kept trying and after so long she said 'I think we're going to have to cut it out'.
'She showed me it and it was horrendous - this horrible bit of hair that was like a massive three or four inch dreadlock.'
Lissa describes having her matted hair extensions physically cut out of her hair as an 'ordeal' - and says people should be made more aware of why they should care for their hair extensions, which looked like 'princess hair' when new (pictured)
She said she can now laugh about the 'ordeal' but posted online to raise awareness of what can be the outcome if the aftercare for hair extensions isn't followed.
Lissa said: 'I keep seeing all these girls posting that they're getting hair extensions done and I just think they all need to be warned.
'I kind of broke all the rules of hair extensions at once, but you still wouldn't expect it to be that bad - don't get them in chlorine, don't put your hair in a high bun and don't sleep with it wet. And don't do all three together.
Lissa spent around five hours in the hairdressers getting the matted extensions removed and returning to her own natural locks (pictured). She now wants to share her story so others can avoid finding themselves in the same situation
'I know they say don't get them in chlorine if you can avoid it because it can dry it out, not to put it in a bun, and don't sleep in it wet, but I've never heard for this reason. They don't really explain in the aftercare that something this bad can happen.
'You just think that your hair's going to get a bit drier, or it might go a bit frizzy, you don't expect it to absolutely destroy your own hair.
'A lot of teenage girls especially will think "oh it doesn't matter, I won't bother with that".
'They don't really tend to follow rules, we're a bit rebellious I guess, so I just posted because it is a lot of teenage girls getting them and a lot of them can probably barely afford it, or their parents have bought it, and the last thing I would want is for the same thing to happen.'
No comments: