The Mullet Conundrum
There are lots of things about myself that I am very proud that Lucy inherited. She is a true mix of her father and me, and most of the time, she got very lucky. She has my eyes, but her dad’s eyelashes, which is good, because mine are invisible. She has my skin. She has her father’s mischievous nature.
But where she may have been shorted a bit (damn DNA) is in the hair department. See, I have weird hair. I used to love it, but now it’s just a pain in my behind. It’s dirty blond in the winter, lighter in the summer and I have a TON of it. It takes 45 minutes to blow dry it straight out of the shower. It’s wavy enough that I can’t just wear it without styling, but not wavy enough that it looks cute. It just looks like I have two huge lumps on my head. And despite the fact that I have so much of it, it’s very fine and flat. So, basically, it’s sucky.
Lu has my hair. It’s blond, wavy (sometimes curly) and fine. Very fine. And to top it all off, she also inherited my yuck-o habit of twirling her hair when she gets sleepy, which, as a baby, led her to pull half of it out. If we try to put it up in pigtails or a ponytail or something to get it out of her face, she yanks whatever barrette/clip/hairtye right out, taking a bunch of stray hairs with it, thinning it out even more.
Until now, I have refused to cut it. Not for any real reason, but mostly because I don’t want her to get some horrid haircut and be forced to live with it. I have gone back and forth on giving her bangs, and I’m starting to think it’s the way to go, just so it will be out of her face instead of up in clips that she’ll just yank out anyway. But will the mullet-ish style she already has going on look even worse with bangs?! TOO MUCH PRESSURE!
So you decide. Should I cut Lu’s hair? Or should I leave it as it is? Lu’s counting on you!
UPDATE: OK, I can’t find a picture that adequetly shows the mullet, but these are close…
The biggest problem is when we put her hair up, she yanks it out. I think if we cut it so it didn’t have to be up everyday, then maybe she wouldn’t pull on it so much. Or, at the very least, we would stop spending so much money on hair clips and such that we lose every day when she pulls them out at school.
And also, in a random freak accident, I finally figured out how to center things on this wordpress layout. Instead of the common CSS code like “center_align” or “align_center”, it’s just “center”. I spent a year trying to figure that out, and learned it by a typo! OK, done with the dork talk.
I don’t think I can vote without seeing a picture of it down. It doesn’t look at all like a mullet when it’s up.
This like american idol for Lucy’s hair cut
I now feel equipped to vote. I think if you give it time it will grow long and prosper. That or she’ll be scarred for life.
I’m dealing with this right now. You’re post sounded exactly like Haven and I’s situation and dilemma. I researched kid salons in Denver today and think I will take Haven to a place called Lollilocks next week. http://www.lollilocks.com I figure going to a place geared towards kids will keep her distracted and be less traumatizing which has been the whole reason I have waited so long to take her anywhere. Haven freaking out mid hair cut and I not knowing how to deal with it would in turn be traumatizing for me. So I think this is the way to go. At least for the first cut I hear they’re kind of expensive for a kid cut.
So Raquelle refuses to leave anything in her hair, and awhile ago I just got so sick of it being in her eyes that I disobeyed my hubby and got her hair cut giving her *gasp* bangs. She can actually see, and is much happier for it. Just make sure if you do this that they don’t cut her side hair because they brushed it forward like bangs! So yeah, my vote is cut it. And hair gets thicker when they get older, she’s still little, I say give it time!
It kind of looks like she already has fine bangs. I think she looks pretty cute actually, hair up or down. Does she pull on it when you just leave it down?
Oooh, she’s adorable. It is hard to tell unless I can see a picture of it down. She looks so cute. I looks like she already has some bangs? I do agree though…the hair tends to thicken up quite a bit as they get older. My youngest has baby fine hair but you could probably put it in a braid and rock climb with it now because it’s so thick.
When my daughter was young, I kept her hair short. Pixie-cut short, with bangs. When she got old enough to care for it herself, I let her choose the length and style. If your adorable little cutie pulls out clips and bands, I recommend the short cut until she is old enough to handle longer hair.