Hey, have you ever rolled up to a salon, shown your stylist a photo of a hairstyle you want that you saw in a movie, and been told that it isn’t actually possible? Same.
Well, turns out they weren’t lying to you! The hairstylist community is fed up with Hollywood convincing people that it’s possible to turn jet black hair platinum blonde in an hour or two.
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Here are some of the best Hollywood hair myths debunked!
Here are some of the most frustrating, and most of all, inaccurate movie hair moments, according to an online community forum of hairdressers.
It’s gonna blow your hair back. Pun intended!
1. The time Jennifer Lawrence’s character in “Red Sparrow” managed to get her hair platinum blonde using one box of drugstore bleach.
“When any character has dark hair and they box bleach it blonde in a shitty bathroom and it is the perfect blonde. That. Is. Literally. Impossible,” wrote melissaftilley .
2. In “The Princess Diaries”, when Paolo tried to brush out Mia’s curls.
“When that hairdresser goes to BRUSH Mia’s hair, I gasped. YOU DON’T BRUSH CURLS, YOU IDIOT!,” fillionfan4002 wrote.
3. When Miley Cyrus took her wig off at the end of “Hannah Montana” and her real hair seemed perfectly styled underneath.
Everybody with a brainstem knows that you’re supposed to wear wig cap underneath a wig. PLUS, what about the glue holding down the edges?
“When female characters wear wigs…then they take off said wig and they are NOT wearing a wig cap, and their natural hair falls down loosely and perfectly,” misskatie wrote.
4. The time Arthur put green hair dye on top of his dark brown hair in “The Joker” and it actually turned green.
“A running joke in the hairdresser community is Joker. There’s so many things wrong with it! A. Color doesn’t usually run like that. B. Putting green color over brown hair would result in brown hair. (You would have to bleach it first.) C. If for some reason there was a magical runny green color that could lift brown hair and then turn it green, his skin would have been stained green for weeks with the way he applied it,” wrote jamies76 .
5. In “Gone Girl” when Amy cut her hair into a perfect bob in a public washroom, and then somehow box-dyed it brown without accidentally turning it green.
“Any gas station bathroom dye job. Are they sitting in there for 35 minutes? Then conditioning it?,” kngreyh wrote .
Furthermore, that’s a pretty small sink… How did she rinse the dye out?
6. In “Matilda” when she used peroxide to bleach her father’s hair blonde and he didn’t notice until it was too late.
Bleach that is intended for hair still kinda burns the scalp. So, I can only imagine what pure peroxide would feel like. There’s no way he wouldn’t notice immediately that something wasn’t right.
7. In “Arrow” when Curtis seemingly goes back and forth between his afro and cornrows with no time in between.
“Oh man, this has always driven me NUTS. On Arrow, Curtis (a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic) wears his hair in a sizable natural afro. Then the team will get a call to investigate a crime or track down a bad guy, they will appear on the scene in their superhero costumes, and Mr. Fantastic’s hair will suddenly be…in full cornrows.
Do they not understand HOW LONG IT TAKES TO DO CORNROWS? Did they change into their superhero costumes and then just sit around for several freaking HOURS while he got his hair did? Was there not a SINGLE BLACK PERSON in the writing room?,” irishcowgirl wrote.
8. The way Ramona had a completely different, bright hair color in every scene of “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”.
“When a character’s hair is an extraordinary color like blue or cherry red, and it never fades and they never get weird roots over time,” rebeccam4e04c2006 wrote.
9. The time Leslie got a “perm” in “Parks and Recreation” without ever actually putting any solution in her hair. So, basically, she just put rollers in.
“OMG, the episode of Parks and Recreation when Leslie gets the ‘perm’ and then jumps in the water. First, they were rolling it WRONG! And when Leslie jumps in the pool, she talks about ruining her ‘perm.’ But the lady hadn’t even finished rolling the perm, LET ALONE put on any of the solutions that would have caused it to ‘be ruined’ by the pool water in the first place!,” marijaallanam wrote.
10. Blair Waldorf in “Gossip Girl” waking up every morning with not a single hair out of place.
I wish Hollywood would stop trying to sell this myth – that women wake up looking like this. It’s getting old.
11. When Saraya bleached her hair platinum blonde by herself, overnight in “Fighting With My Family”.
“The scene in the movie Fighting with My Family where the main character dyes her hair from pitch black to platinum blonde overnight on her own seems unrealistic. Friends of mine have done that and it took them multiple trips to the hair salon to finally get to blonde,” sevanak wrote.
12. The time when Cher and Dionne wash Tai’s hair after dying it red in “Clueless”.
Anyone who has ever dyed their hair red knows that one doesn’t simply wash it out .
There would be red dye all over that towel. And the walls because she flung her wet hair out of the tub.
13. When Ariel walks out of the ocean in “The Little Mermaid” and her hair is somehow perfect, dry, and majestically blowing in the wind.
“No one goes underwater with long hair and emerges with still-smooth-just-wet hair. Especially in pools. Looking at you, Little Mermaid!,” colleend9 wrote.
In Hollywood, things are never as they seem, people!
What is your favorite unrealistic Hollywood hair moment?
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