Can you ever recover from a bad first impression?

Bad first impressions happen, but everyone can recover from them, it is just insanely hard. First impressions allow people to get an understanding of other people. With a bad impression, the person that is judging will think less of the person being judged. A way to change a bad first impression is to prove that person wrong of what they think of you by showing them who you are. Changing their view may be near impossible, but once you do, they will either like you for who you are, or hate you more for the kind of person you are.
Either way, it is all possible, it all just depends if you make it better or worse. Better, then thats a good thing, but worse, just stop trying now before we all end up dead.