Haircuts

[naomikritzer]

Molly was born with a ton of hair, and had long hair -- long enough for an adorable ringletty set of ponytails -- by the time she was 2 1/2. When she was a little over three, she had her baby curls cut off and her hair cut into a pageboy style. Just before she turned five, she got a pixie cut. Then at some point that year she decided to grow it out; it's now very long, well past her shoulders, and she says she's NEVER going to have it short again. She likes it long, even though it is nearly always messy. (Seriously. I brush it, and 15 minutes later it's messy again.)

Kiera, like me, was a mostly bald baby who grew sparse amounts of cornsilk-blonde hair as a toddler. She didn't have enough to cut until she was three, when it finally started growing. It grew almost as long as Molly's, and mysteriously stayed reasonably neat most of the time, tumbling in silky ringlets past her shoulders.

But, she decided she wanted to have it cut, so today I took her in and the stylist cut into a chin-length bob. She gathered the hair into a ponytail before cutting off the length. I picked it up to keep, but as soon as Kiera saw it she appropriated it to keep herself (and it's her hair, after all). It's beautiful, and makes her look older (always a good thing when you're four-almost-five). I held the ponytail while the stylist trimmed and shaped her hair, playing with the curls.

(I was wistful when Molly cut her hair, too, but now I look at those pixie-cut photos and think, "she was so CUTE...and it never got messy!")

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[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Meg always had a lot of hair, and we let her grow it to shoulder length but no farther, as she would never let me put it in ponytails or barrettes. It amuses me that Molly had a pixie cut at five -- Meg just asked for the same thing, now that she's turned five, and she looks so cute and mod now. I have no doubt that at some point she'll decide she wants to go long and I'm dreading that because she hates having her hair combed out even now.

Rob, like Kiera, is a bald baby -- he has red fuzz right now. ;)

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

I still have, in an envelope somewhere, the silky little blonde hairs I cut off the first time I trimmed DD's hair when she was about 18 months. She was born with a bunch of hair, was mostly bald by four months, and then had a bunch of very straight, very blonde hair sort of flying around all over the place by the time she was a year old. I managed to persuade her to let me keep trimming her bangs (so that, you know, she could actually see) until she was maybe about three and a half, at which point she announced that she didn't want bangs anymore and would henceforth deign to have elastics and/or barrettes in her hair to keep it off her face.

Now it's most of the way down her back, and still very very fine and very very straight, and at least once a week we have this conversation about how if she wants to have loooooong hair, then she can't howl like badger being stuck with lawn-darts when I to brush the tangles out, because long hair gets tangled. (When I can get her to stand still long enough, I'll French-braid it: if I take my time and do it really tightly, it'll last a couple of days.)

About six months ago she decided she wanted a haircut, and I made her an appointment and everything, but she chickened out ;)

[squigsoup.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain on the immediately messy thing.

In my grandmother's cedar chest

[dmyersta.livejournal.com]

I found a set of braids that belonged to my mom and her twin from when their hair was cut short at 6 years old. So cute!