A mum has claimed a hairdresser got drunk while dying her hair and fitting a weave, which left her with a needle stuck in her scalp and the “worst hairstyle of 2020”.
Emily Hunt – a 24-year-old fellow hairdresser from Bolton – said she “wanted to die” when she realised just how terrible her hair looked after asking a former work colleague if she would touch up her roots, add some highlights and attach a £225 sew-in weave just prior to salons closing due to the second national lockdown amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The hairdresser and friend – whom Emily said she’d recently reconnected with – agreed and asked for £70 to cover her time and expertise.
She also quoted £25 to apply the hair dye Emily provided and a further £45 to braid and sew in the hair piece, but Emily admitted the hairdresser then spent four-and-a-half hours at her home carrying out the work, while necking gin and bizarrely washing her own hair too.
Emily said the woman responsible for her disastrous do was someone she used to work at a salon with, and as a friendly gesture, offered the hairdresser a drink while doing her hair, but said she didn’t expect her to drink as much as she did.
The mum-of-one claimed she was also forced to do “half the work” herself – mixing the colours for her own hair, rinsing it out and even sewing some of the hair pieces together – and she said the hairdresser even demanded the money before she left.
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Recalling the situation, Emily said: “We were on lockdown from Thursday, so that’s why I needed to get my hair done by someone quick.
“As I’m a hairdresser, I’ve got a trade card so I provided the medium blonde colour and hair piece. She made me fix the colour, all she did was paint me some roots on and then told me to wash it off while she was having a cig at the door. She put eight highlights throughout the top and I even took the eight foils out of my hair myself too.
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“I thought it was a bit weird, I remember thinking ‘why am I even paying someone when I’m doing half of the job myself?’.”
After Emily rinsed the dye off her hair, the woman told her to partially-dry her own hair before she attached the hair piece.
Emily continued: “She told me she had to do my plaits while my hair was wet, which I found weird. She said to only dry it 20% [so] I stood in the kitchen and I blasted it myself while she went for another cig.”
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The hairdresser then plaited three rows of hair to attach the sew-in weave to.
“When she’d done the first row of weave she went for a shower and washed her hair with my shampoo and conditioner then she came back to it.” Emily said.
“She did three plaits, but the bottom one was very, very low and then she didn’t leave a big enough gap to go up to the other one. They were just all very loose and I could feel the top of the hair extensions touching my ears and the back of my neck. [Usually] when that happens, that’s when you need to get it re-done, not when you’ve just had it done [and] when she was sewing the hair onto the plait she’s not secured it, she’s not even finished off the sewing and she’s left the thread hanging down with a needle.
“When she left she said ‘transfer me that money now’, I was put in a position where I couldn’t really not send it.”
After sharing pictures of the horror hairstyle on social media, the post went viral racking up nearly 12,000 likes, shares and comments, with one person aptly saying “if 2020 was a weave”.
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In a desperate attempt to get the situation rectified, Emily admitted to frantically messaging a nearby hair salon and pleading for an appointment to sort it out.
She said: “I didn’t sleep properly, I kept waking up all night and I messaged a stylist at 2am saying ‘please can you fit me in tomorrow morning because you’re never going to believe it. You’re going to see this weave and you’re going to laugh your head off, honestly it’s so bad’.
“When they asked what was up with it, I replied ‘What’s right with it? When I sit on the chair you’ll see’.
“Everybody’s eyes were popping out of their heads and their jaws were dropping, all the stylists were saying it’s the worst weave they’ve ever seen’. It took no longer than an hour to fix. She did it really nicely and then cut and styled it for me, I loved it.
“When the hairdresser got to the second row, that’s when she found the needle when it pricked her finger. She couldn’t believe it was there and said ‘what the hell? Where did that come from?’
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“[The original hairdresser] caught my scalp with the needle tip and it hurt. It’s got a scab on it now so it must have bled. I remember thinking, ‘oh my god that could have stabbed me in the head all night.'”
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This unfortunately wasn’t the end of the ordeal though.
After sending messages to the original hairdresser for a refund and getting no reply, Emily wrote a Facebook post sharing her hair horror.
The woman got in touch and offered to fix her hair, but Emily declined and has since contacted the hairdresser’s boss and reported her to Trading Standards.
“I shared the post because she was ignoring my messages.” Emily said.
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“She sent me a voice note saying ‘I’m sure I’ve done a really bad job, I’ll come back on Wednesday to sort it out [but] I said I would be out and then asked her for a refund and she started kicking off. She then started saying she should have charged me £110, which is the standard price for all of those hair treatments, and offered to refund me £30.
“I contacted her boss who said a message would be passed on, but mentioned it happened outside of work and was nothing to do with them.
“I won’t be letting her do my hair again and I’ve contacted Trading Standards.
“I just want my money back, I also don’t want anyone else getting the same treatment.”
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Met Office predicts UK is set for ‘hotter than average’ summer
Emily Sergeant
The Met Office is predicting that the UK is set for a ‘hotter than average’ summer this year.
Fresh off-the-back of the news that 2025 is already the hottest spring on record, with a recorded 630 hours of sunshine from 1 March until 27 May, beating out the previous sunniest spring in 2020 by just four hours, the Met Office is now predicting that the UK is on the verge of a summer that’s ‘hotter than usual’.
According to its three-month outlook, the Met Office has predicted that it’s 2.3 times more-likely than ‘normal’ that it will be hot in the UK between 1 June and 31 August.
The average temperatures during those months are set to range from 10-17°C.
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After it was revealed that this has also been the UK’s driest spring in more than a century, meteorologists are warning Brits that there could heatwave conditions could be reached at various times throughout the summer.
The release of the long-range forecast – which gives an indication of possible temperatures, rainfall, and wind speed over a period as a whole – comes after temperatures soared to 8°C (46F) above the average for this time of year this Saturday just gone (31 May).
It is important to note, however, that the Met Office thinks these predicted temperatures are similar to those in recent years, and it does not guarantee ‘prolonged’ hot weather.
The Met Office is predicting that the UK is set for ‘hotter than average’ summer this year / Credit: Mylo Kaye (via Unsplash)
The Met Office said in a statement: “While the current three-month outlook shows an increased chance of a hot summer, the temperature signals for this summer are similar to those for recent years and consistent with our warming climate.
“The increased chance of hotter than average temperatures is not a guarantee of prolonged hot weather or heatwaves, but it does mean that heatwave conditions could be reached at times.
“However, it’s important to bear in mind that an increased chance of hot conditions could also reflect a mix of hot and cool days, warm nights, or less extreme levels of warmth rather than continual heatwave conditions specifically.”
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Doctor Who fans left scratching their heads over new star following ‘surprise’ regeneration
Danny Jones
Thousands of Doctor Who fans have been left scratching their heads following the most recent season finale and yet another regeneration that absolutely NO ONE was expecting.
Seriously, if you predicted this, then you’re just lying.
Following the series 15 conclusion – or rather the ‘second’ under the Disney+ umbrella – which saw Ncuti Gatwa vacate the moniker after just two series, showrunner Russell T Davies made his first real big splash since returning to the franchise.
If you’re looking for just one singular meme that sums up the general audience’s reaction to the episode, look no further:
Doctor Who remains one of the most iconic British TV shows of all time, but it’s fair to say it hasn’t been without its ups and downs over the years, and this latest turn has proved just as divisive.
After being first brought back from a 16-year hiatus following the sci-fi series’ original run from 1963 to 1989, the latest iteration is now two decades and six new Doctors in.
Or is that seven?…
Sex Education star Gatwa may be the 15th Doctor all told (with David Tennant’s own mini return marking number 14), but it looks like the latest might be former reboot star Rose Tyler herself, a.k.a. Billie Piper.
Remaining tight-lipped on social media, Billie has said little more than fans will have to “wait and see”, as well as her cryptic “a rose is a rose” post; as for the BBC themselves, they have only offered a press release, teasing that “just how and why she [Billie Piper] is back remains to be seen…”
In case you haven’t seen it yet, let’s all watch it together in real time, shall we?
What a surprise!
While there are plenty of clues and theories now being picked apart by so-called ‘Whovians’, we have little more evidence than the scene itself and the final line in the end credits of the episode, which read: “Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. And introducing Billie Piper”.
Plenty of fans are obviously over the moon to see the 42-year-old back on board, regardless of the circumstances, but it hasn’t stopped them from tying themselves up in knots of confusion, especially given the very obvious canon questions posed following the reveal.
For anyone not even remotely clued up on her connection to the show, Billie Piper previously played Rose Tyler – the first companion of the modern era, who has returned for a number of cameos in the past – but (no spoilers), having her return as not just a different character but THE Doctor seems rather complex.
Nevertheless, the speculation that has ensued online since the reveal has been enjoyable on both sides of the argument.
WHATTTTT
Billie Piper is the 16th Doctor
Billie Piper has played the famous Rose Tyler, the bad wolf and NOW the Doctor
I'm actually here for this. I'm sorry to anyone who's not.. but this is MAD.. and I'm here for it. genuinely am here. #DoctorWhopic.twitter.com/aFlGpoNP0g
Since the recent rebrand to make the show more palatable to American and global viewers, there has been a noticeable increase in the community’s presence online.
One overseas fan wrote X: “It’s been 20 years and Rose Tyler is still my favourite companion, she was my first after all. In whatever incarceration Billie Piper shows up as, it just reminds me of being a teen again, being introduced to this wild British TV show on the SciFi channel.
As far as our opinion, we’re only casual Doctor Who fans, but we can’t lie, we’re pretty excited to see whatever they have in store.
What do you make of the whole thing? Is Billie Piper really going to become the new Doctor and, if so, are you on board, or are you in the camp of it’s a bit of opportunistic lip service for fans?