hairmageddon

English

Etymology

Blend of hair +‎ Armageddon

Noun

hairmageddon (plural hairmageddons)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• bad hair day