Consider this your warning to leave the scissors in the kitchen: 25 Haircut fails to prevent you from being in charge of your makeover

Inés Soubrie • Writer and Editor

Jun 23, 2026 9:30 PM EDT

Sue the hairdresser. Sue someone. Sue me.

Some haircuts start with a pair of scissors and a dream. And sometimes, the dream becomes a nightmare when the hair hits the floor.

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Listen, whoever says they've never cut their own hair impulsively at night, I don't believe them. We all have a vision. We've all watched that one TikTok tutorial that looked so promising, so doable, so "how hard can layering be." And then somehow, instead of walking out with a wolf cut, you end up looking like an actual wolf.
I speak from experience. It was a Tuesday, I remember because I had school the next morning, and I was scrolling through hair tutorials at 11 p.m. like it was a productive use of my time. The girl in the video had this soft, face-framing fringe that fell perfectly across her forehead, the kind of bangs that look like they were styled by wind and good genetics. I thought, that's it, that's the version of me I've been missing. So I grabbed the kitchen scissors, not even hair scissors, the kitchen ones, the ones we use for chicken, and I went for it.
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The first cut felt fine. Too long, but fine. So I cut again. And again. Each snip was supposed to fix the last one, but instead it just opened up a whole new problem, like I was negotiating with my own forehead and losing every round. By the time I stopped, I didn't have bangs. I had evidence. Two uneven triangles of hair sitting where my fringe used to be, like my forehead had been in a minor accident.
I went to school the next day in a cap. Not stylishly. Defensively. And I kept wearing it, every single day, for two weeks straight, rain or shine, indoor gym class included, because growing out bangs is apparently slower than geological time. Teachers started asking if I was sick. Friends asked if I'd joined a cult that required headwear. I just nodded and let them believe whatever was easiest.
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The wildest part is that it didn't even teach me a lesson. I've thought about cutting my hair again at least four times since, always at night, always after watching exactly one tutorial. We never learn. We just buy better scissors.
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