Saturday, May 28, 2011

Hair Design

What is it with girls and hair?  Cutting it I mean.  I don't remember any of my boys cutting their own hair.  But the girls.....  How many times I've found a pair of little scissors and some hair lying in a garbage can.  Or on the floor.  Or wherever it felt right to leave it and run.  I'm pretty sure all the girls cut their own hair at least twice each.  Well, not true.  Alyssa cut hers once, and her brother did it for her once.  You know, cause "she asked me to".  Brotherly love I guess.


Chloe has done it three times now I think.  This last time was about a week ago.  Natalie came to tell me I ought to go see what Chloe had done.  I hear that a lot.  So I was a little apprehensive, but I thought I would find her with a new layer of magic marker body art (is that what makes them so "magical"?).  Or maybe slathered with some of my favorite lotion.  But no. 


















I walked in the other room to see a pair of little kids' scissors and the biggest pile of hair I've ever seen. From any daughter.  All I could think was that there was NO WAY this was going to blend in and be unnoticeable.  No way.  I was scared.  Really scared.


I had it cut a little while ago in to a really cute A-line cut with the cute stacked layers in back. 












 Simple and adorable and not easily tangled, which Chloe and I both liked.  There were no bangs.  The sort of style doesn't really require, or look good with bangs.  But bangs we have. For months and months to come.  She seems to have started on one side and cut up and over to the other.  Some people want a little off the top, and she apparently wanted a little of the front. And sides.   










Yesterday I took her in to see what could be done to blend the damage in.  










Not bad.  I didn't expect miracles.  Some places were cut right down to the hairline.  We'll survive.  She's promised to never ever cut her hair again.  We can only hope, right?