hairmageddon

plural hairmageddons

1. informalAn instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control.

   This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.

   2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard

   2 more examples

   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.”

   2016, Lexi George, Demon Hunting With a Dixie Deb, unnumbered page

   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.

   2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times

   Synonyms: bad hair day