Curl and Burn

Sonya writes...

My most embarrassing hair experience was the first time I ever used a curling iron. Someone should have told me that a Golden Hot irons get HOT! I'll never forget it. I had very thick hair, doing my own hair for school for the first time. I plugged in my new curling iron and commenced to curling. Grabbing a huge chunk of hair for a bang, I stuck the iron right on the roots. The hair melted away just like heat to ice. I couldn't believe it. I cried for days. Now, I have about a good 2-3 inches of hair burned clear to the root. My hair was way too thick not to notice and there was no way to style it that would hide the damage. Back then we weren't allowed to wear hats in school so that was out of the question. I had to go almost 2-3 months with this chopped burned hair… or rather no hair. To make matters worse, I tried to turn down the heat and do the rest of my hair and still ended up burning the ends. So, over the course of the next few weeks those burned ends were breaking off too. No matter how I styled it, my hair wouldn't hold a curl afterwards. My mother just screamed when she saw me. She didn't know what to do with it. All we could do was wash and deep condition and wait for it to grow back. I didn't even want to come out the house or go anywhere. I looked like something from Blackula. It took me what seemed like years to recover from that mishap. I've since learned how to properly use a curling iron (some 30 years later), but I still look at them a little funny.