A teenager was left devastated after her hair started to fall out in clumps as she attempted to relax her locks while filming the process for a livestream beauty tutorial.
Vlogger Lori Faith, 18, from New York, opened up the horrifying experience in a new YouTube video in which she revealed that she had been left completely bald after attempting to chemically relax her own hair at home, while admitting that she was ‘stupid’ for taking such a risk with such a risky procedure.
‘I did something stupid and impulsive because I thought I knew what I was doing but I actually didn’t,’ she stated in the video.
Time for change: Vlogger Lori Faith, 18, from New York had pink hair when she first bleached it


Aggressive approach: The bleaching experience went wrong, so she covered it up with blue dye. Then a few days later, she attempted to relax her newly bleached, and dyed, locks


Shock: The relaxer reacted terribly with her already damaged locks, and Lori’s hair started coming out when she combed through it

Oops: Lori showed followers how all of her hair was falling out from the chemical
Lori showed followers how she often dyes her hair a rainbow of colors depending on what she is feeling or her mood.
In the last three years, her hair has been dyed a rainbow of hues, including yellow, pink and blue.
So it was no surprise when the YouTuber confessed her hair was already damaged from the different chemicals she has used on her locks over the years.
But Lori’s hair took a turn for the worst after she attempted to bleach it last week in order to get rid it of the pink dye that was in it at the time, a process that she also filmed for viewers.
When that attempt to change up her hair color didn’t work, Lori decided to add blue dye into her hair to fix the color, before attempting to chemically relax her locks at home in order to make them look straighter.
She decided to livestream the attempt on her Instagram so other followers would get to see how the process is completed – however it was then that disaster struck.
After admitting that she hadn’t had her hair relaxed since ‘she was a kid’, Lori went on to confess that she was ‘f***ing scared’ about the prospect of doing it herself at home, while noting that the chemicals used in the process ‘sting’.
Lori then started to mix together two formulas that are thought to be both a bleach and a relaxer, thought to be the ORS Olive Oil No-Lye Normal Hair Relaxer, an at-home formula that is intended for use on coarse and resistant hair textures.

New hairstyle: ‘I’m f**king bald. Not on purpose, not my choice,’ Lori exclaimed in a YouTube video detailing the entire experience


Proof: During the video, Lori showed both sides of her head to demonstrate the extent of her hair loss to her subscribers

Upset: She confessed to feeling worried about leaving her house with no hair, but commenters helped Lori gain confidence for the new style

Cover up: Before unveiling her new bald style on camera, Lori concealed her head under a hat
The product also states that it contains ‘the nourishing benefits of olive oil’ and does not contain sodium hydroxide (lye), which can be incredibly harmful to the hair.
However, Lori’s decision to apparently combine the product with bleach is likely what caused her hair to begin falling out so quickly; bleach and relaxer both contain chemicals that weaken the hair shaft when used.
So if they are used together on already-damaged hair, it will only further weaken the locks – and in Lori’s case – cause hair to break away at the root.
Lori experienced just that disaster after she slathered her head with the relaxer over the blue dye.
While her hair quickly turned a pale blonde color while smothered in the chemical formula, any hope that she had of ending up with perfect platinum locks were shattered seconds after she started to comb the relaxer through her strands, prompting clumps to break away in the comb.
‘I’m f**king bald. Not on purpose, not my choice,’ Lori exclaimed in the video. ‘There is nothing wrong with being bald. But for me, I never thought I would go this far. I can’t even dye my hair. ‘
During the livestream, Lori rushed out of her room to inform other people within her home that her hair was falling out from the relaxer. She then filmed herself washing the chemicals out of her hair, but it was too late.
The YouTuber ended the livestream clip on Instagram by tearfully explaining to her mother what had happened, before demonstrating the extent of her hair loss.


Throwback: The vlogger has changed her hair often in the last three years

First mistake: Things took a disastrous turn when she first attempted to bleach it to rid it of its pink color. Then Lori made matters worse by dying the damaged hair blue before relaxing it


Shaking it up: Lori confessed in her YouTube video that she knew she shouldn’t have used relaxer on hair that was already damaged and bleached
She then further explained to her YouTube viewers exactly what had happened to leave her with no hair on her head.
‘I’m f***ing bald,’ she stated. ‘You heard it. I said it. I’m bald. Not on purpose, not by choice. There’s nothing wrong with being bald, but for me, I would have never thought I would have gone this far.’
She continued: ‘My hair was already damaged under the blue because it was fried from the bleach.’
Lori even confessed that plenty of people had ‘warned her’ not to use relaxer on bleached hair, admitting that she had been told to ‘wait a few weeks’ and chosen not to heed the advice.
‘My impatient a** was like, “No, let’s do it now!”‘ she said.
She decided to look at the positives of the experience by realizing going bald would give her hair the fresh start it needed.
‘I feel like this was a “good accident”. A “good mistake” because now my hair can grow naturally,’ she said.
Lori confessed, though, to feeling ‘scared’ to go out in public because she no longer has hair, noting that it has become ‘one of her biggest insecurities’.
‘I do have feminine features, and I have a good shaped head,’ she concluded. ‘I have a nice face, nice skin…
‘Lots of people have been making me feel better on Instagram, like lots of people. And it’s crazy because, I feel like without those compliments, I wouldn’t be as confident.’
‘Don’t put relaxer in bleached hair,’ Lori advised all viewers at the end of her video.