Look, not everyone has the time or money (mainly money) to pay a professional to bleach their hair. Why even bother when there are so many kits and how-to videos on TikTok out there? One method in particular involves basically just wearing gloves and putting a plastic bag over your head. Turns out there’s a certain bag you should never use, as one person found out the hard way.
A user named tubtok made a video appropriately titled “WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT USE THE HOME DEPOT BAG WHEN BLEACHING YOUR HAIR.” Why the histrionics? Because the letters from the bag also burned into this person’s hair. Take a look:
You can clearly see reddish orange lettering basically baked into this person’s head. An added bonus is everyone around this person howling in laughter at their predicament – including the victim.
This combination of hilarity and dire warning has gone crazy viral, with almost 3.5 million views as of this writing.
Some of these comments are gold. “Will the real Slim Shady come to the Windows section,” one person said. “It’s accidentally cute [though],” said another. Other commenters also talked about how they used bags from Target, Publix, and Walmart and got the same unfortunate results.
Well, maybe not unfortunate because a lot of people like it, too. “No he’s gonna start a trend because thats kinda [fire],” someone said.
Like herpes, the bleach bag will undoubtedly continue to pop up from now until eternity.
Here’s someone who used a Walmart bag back in 2019.
Here’s another classic:
Why are do people bleach their hair in the first place? Fashion magazine (who else) did a sort of deep dive into the issue a few years ago and dropped a hot hypothesis on all of us.
“[We’re] a culture that thrives on change and treats reinvention like currency. And as a result, we equate bleached hair to a massive life or career move, with its ‘look at me now’ ties to punk, grunge, and (now) pop, to someone’s willingness to rebel, to evolve, or to completely abandon the person we’d familiarized ourselves with.”
All right, that makes sense. You can be someone completely different! I see the appeal in that. Oh, there’s another thing, too – it’s pretty cheap!
“It’s one of the most accessible forms of fresh starts: with only a bottle of peroxide, you can signify the death of a person and the birth of another; you can announce that you’re somebody different now.”
So is this the beginning of something, or the end of civilization as we know it? Only time will tell, but hold your loved ones close tonight for the end could be nigh.