Most of us head to the salon or spa to relax, unwind, and of course, get beautiful. But what if your visit did the exact opposite of all those things? For the women below, their routine haircuts and massages turned into the stuff of nightmares -- singed hair, bloody appendages and worse!

Check out a few of their stories below. Do you have a beauty horror story of your own? Share it here!

Can you spell that for me?

Who would have thought that booking a massage would lead to accusations of adultery?! Check out this story about a spa manager who (wrongly) accused a woman's partner of buying gift certificates for other women.

What's next, running shoes for the amputee?

This story is truly chilling. Dollene, a TotalBeauty.com reader, went in for a wave and left with completely melted hair! She had to shave it off when she got home. Click here to see the horribly inappropriate compensation she got from the salon.

Orange you glad you picked this salon?

Ann, another TotalBeauty.com reader, wanted her hair dyed a lovely chocolate brown (much like these ladies). Instead, the salon gave her bright orange locks! But that's not even the worst part -- click here to see what they did when she asked them to fix it.

A little to the left please. Please?

This story is so bizarre; I still can't fathom how it even happened. A woman goes in for a 50-minute massage -- and they only massage the right side of her body! See what the spa had to say for itself here.

Want more bizarre and somewhat terrifying stories? We've got five more goose-bump inducing tales here.

• All of this craziness makes me want to stay home and pamper myself! Luckily, it's easy to do with these recipes.

• Another reason to stay home: the scary secrets waxing salons won't reveal (well, except to us).

• I think I'll be making use of this video on trimming my own bangs after reading these hairstylists' darkest secrets -- eek!

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