I wanted to be trendy so I tried the viral butterfly cut… it was a disaster, I had to rush to the hairdresser later
LOOKING to become a trendy babe, one woman gave herself the viral butterfly cut – but unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have seen that the so-called butterfly cut has become all the rage recently, with thousands of people rocking this hairdo.
One of those who wanted to see what she looked like with this layered look was Elena Armellini (@elena_armellini), believed to be from the sunny coasts of Italy.
Rather than trusting a professional, the stunning woman decided she would be more than capable with scissors herself.
However, as she soon came to discover, this was not necessarily the case…
Taking her 157k fans along the journey, the young Italian woman took to TikTok to reveal where things had gone wrong.
In the now-viral video, which has been viewed over 860k times in just one day, Elena first started by dividing her hair into two sections.
Happy with the placement, she put the remaining locks into a long ponytail and started working on the front section, some of which had been bleached.
The remaining steps were quite easy – she simply gathered all the front hair together and grabbed scissors to chop almost half of it off.
Once she was satisfied with how the front was looking, the beauty enthusiast did the same with the long ponytail in the back.
”It hurts to see this,” she chuckled whilst saying goodbye to her long locks.
But just moments later things took a sharp turn when Elena realised the ”disaster” that had just taken place.
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Unlike everyone else’s butterfly cuts that had blended in seamlessly, Elena’s hairdo appeared much more choppy and uneven.
Mortified, the stunner said: ”Let’s book the hairdresser.
”I won’t listen to TikTok trends anymore,” she vowed.
After going viral with the hair fail, the woman revealed the new cut the hairdressers had given her – but although she seemed to be in love with it, social media users reckoned it still looked the exact same.
”That should have been so easy to fix,” one follower thought.
Someone else was just as baffled: ”Wait so they didn’t even correct the whole haircut and still probably charge a lot.”
Unfortunately, Elena is not the first one to suffer a major fail – one woman’s attempt at giving herself layers was compared to a lion’s mane.
Yum Castrillo decided to try her hand at the viral butterfly cut, which involves splitting your hair into two ponytails and hacking off the ends.
The at-home technique, popularised by celebrity hairdresser Brad Mondo, is meant to produce a feathery and layered hairdo – but it has worked out better for some than others.
Brad recommends wannabe hair stylists cut off “a good amount” from the ponytails.
Content creator Yum was speechless after her home-do produced a “lion’s mane” rather than beautiful layers.
Her new ‘do has also been compared to a 73-year-old’s haircut, a mushroom, a helmet and Stranger Things’ Steve Harrington.
The 23-year-old hacked off her ponytails – while they were still dry – over her bathroom sink.
In the video she shared on Tik Tok, it is clear she was struggling to see what she was doing.
When the “moment of truth” came to take out the freshly-cut ponytails, Yum’s jaw fell open.
She hilariously looked at the camera while trying to process what she had done.
The final product involved super short layers on top of a bob, with her fringe falling in the middle of her forehead unless flattened down with her hand.
Yum joked in the caption: “This is how I’m starting my 2023.”
Her brazen attempt at cutting her own hair has attracted 8.3 million views and almost 500,000 likes.
One person commented: “Butterfly Haircut girls are a different breed.
“The confidence and seemingly zero hesitation.
“I wish I had that in my life.
“I’m scared of everything.”
Another asked: “Why did you cut it that short?!