Sometimes it is so darn tempting to grab one of those boxes of at-home hair color, isn't it? We have probably all thought that we would look so much better as a redhead or found the urge to be blonde like a Barbie doll when we are in the beauty aisle at Target. And for some of us … cough, cough … we have even played stylist in our own bathrooms. Sometimes it turns out OK, and other times it's a total disaster.
One woman on TikTok recently posted a video that now has 63 million views of what happened when she tried to play at-home hairdresser, and it's awful. Steph, who posts as @thestephseries, decided not only to color her hair in her bathroom but also appeared to use bleach. That stuff can be toxic, especially if you don't know what you're doing. Poor Steph is quite literally pulling out handfuls of hair. It's like a car wreck. We just can't look away.
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During our first peek at Steph, it is kind of tough to figure out her emotion.
There are tons of hair color transformation videos on TikTok, and at first, it appears Steph's might be one of those. She's kind of doing that crying-laughing thing.
But then, if you read the text, you can tell this will probably not end well. "Watch me lose all of my hair in one day," she cries.
It's coming out in handfuls, and we mean handfuls, at a time.
'I was so happy that my hair was getting so long,' she says.
Immediately we crept back to her past videos, and she's not lying. She had long dark hair. And so ironically, she had posted a TikTok the day before her mega-viral video of her hair falling out with text that reads, "You're NOT a professional you CAN'T do that on your own."
One comment reads, "This did NOT age well." Sadly, we have to admit we agree.
She posted another TikTok the day after the incident that compared her hair before and after her deep dive into cosmetology, and we can't even come up with a word to describe how stark the difference is.
Luckily, people are coming out of the woodwork to help.
In another follow-up, Steph says that so many people have offered to fix her hair, and a fancy LA salon even wants to help her out. She told her followers how grateful she is that they would help fix her "mistake."
Steph made the video to warn others not to try this at home.
"This was completely my fault. It was my mistake," she says. "I should've done more research or just went to a professional in the first place."
Even though the pros recommend not doing what she did, some stylists want to rescue her.
Alfredo Lewis and fellow stylist Alex Pardo are based in Los Angeles, work for Bellami Hair and desperately want to help Steph. They stitched her video and offered a fantastic treat.
Lewis, a master hair colorist, and Pardo, a master extensions specialist, offered to fix everything.
"We want to fly you out to Beverly Hills ASAP," Pardo implores. "On us, "Lewis interjects. "We want to help get your hair back on track and get you to that long summer blonde hair goals," Pardo says.
And they actually followed through. In an update posted on Lewis' TikTok account, he confirms that Steph will be arriving in LA sometime next week.
Steph isn't the first one to make her hair fall out after a home dye job.
"I've done this before! Chemical hair cut. Go for a pixie cut, your roots still look healthy," one comment on the viral video reads.
"I've had this happen. Tip to anyone this happens to DO NOT PULL IT OUT. dry your hair with a blow dryer. And do 24 hour leave in conditioners," another TikToker recommended.
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People have posted hair disasters galore on TikTok.
You could literally spend hours watching women — and men — destroy their hair in no time. Luckily for Steph, she has a team to help. We are going to bet she doesn't try this at home again.
We promise we are done with the box color ourselves. Maybe someday we'll tell you the story about the time we turned our hair orange in the 1990s. It's a doozy.
