hairmageddon
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of hair + Armageddon
Noun
[edit]hairmageddon (plural hairmageddons)
- (informal) An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control.
- 2016, Lexi George, Demon Hunting With a Dixie Deb, unnumbered page:
- Sassy tugged on a curl. It straightened and bounced back to its former loopy state. “This is a disaster. This is worse than a disaster. This is hairmageddon.”
- 2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard:
- This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.
- 2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times:
- Even though we mostly now see people onscreen, by June we may hit an unseemly Hairmageddon. As for the DIY coiffure, Google “lockdown haircuts” to see how they’re going.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hairmageddon.