Is 4 too little for hair extensions?

[Galatea]

This morning when I woke up I looked in on my little girl who was usually up by that time. I was thinking maybe she was tired because we'd spent the last week taking care of things with my husband's grandmother's funeral and had been putting in some really LONG days.

Well, turns out she wasn't sleeping but instead had set up a "salon" in her room. All of her dolls' hair was in the floor. Somehow, somewhere, sometime, someONE (daddy) had left a pair of scissors down. And this is the before and after.

I could cry.

[wyndhy]

oh no!. my little girl did the same thing....come to think of it, so did i at about her age. i think it's a rite of passage. don't worry hun, it'll grow back and in the meantime....she'd look real cute with dorothy hamill. :D

[Aqua]

Yup... mine did the same thing around that age. Like wyndhy said... it'll grow back.

[Galatea]

I think the main thing that breaks my heart is that everyone EEEEEEEEEVERYONE has always made comments about her long red curls. I know it will grow back and I tell myself at least she didn't cut off a finger or a leg or something that WON'T but its just like her hair was one of those defining Kaylee characteristics.

I guess I'm the only kid in the world who didn't cut my hair off. I waited until I was a teenager and did it followed by dying it fire engine red....

[Galatea]

my 4'11" 100 pound mother in law just called and I think she is going to kill me.....

[jseal]

Galatea,

My son gave himself a buzz cut when he was around five years old. Do I see a pattern here?

[Galatea]

Had to take the pictures off. But the long and short (no pun intended) of it is that her hair was all the way down to her butt, and the color of spun copper and super wavy when brushed or ringlets when its wet.....gorgeous. Prettiest hair I've ever seen in my life on anybody.

Now she has the beginnings of a she-mullet on one side. There is a blunt chop on her right side just above her earlobe and the only way to fix it is to cut it ALL off into a very short wavy bob.

Going tomorrow at 1pm to get it fixed. Will come home with a fist full of copper ringlets and cry into them probably.

[Lilith]

Galatea you could keep a small braid for yourself and donate the rest to Locks of Love or a similar organization. It truly is/was beautiful hair and I'm sure some other little girl without hair would truly treasure it.

[Galatea]

I thought seriously about it. I will ask the lady tomorrow about if she can save enough and if she can't I'll get her to braid it up and donate. Then I will just cry into her little cropped head instead....

[Enigma]

Mine did the same thing. I was upset but quickly realized that it is just hair and that at her age she would have LOTS of time to grow it back out.

Funny thing is that it is now longer and thicker then it ever was.

Keep your chin up. It will all work out.

[dicksbro]

I think all seven of our kids did that at one time or another. I think I even tried to play barber as a kid. :eek:

It'll work out. ;)

[LixyChick]

Oh Sweety! Doesn't help to repeat it...but I do think it's a rite of passage! Years from now you'll all look back at this and _________ (fill in the blank in a few years)...

Would it help to know that most little girls have "salons" and with each one a different sense of "doing a do". My older sis (2 years my senior) set up a salon under the kitchen table when I was 3 y/o. Mom had, what seemed to a 3 y/o, a mega gallon bucket of Vasoline. Please don't ask why Mom had such a large jar of the stuff...I never asked and I still don't want to know...ewwwwww! Anyway...sis decided I needed some dippity-do in my long locks (my blonde hair was nearly to my waist) and proceeded to empty the remaining amount of pure petroleum jelly on my head. The worst part is...I sat there and took it! *shrugs* When she was done doing my do...she chopped her hair off and we crawled out from under the table to go do a fashion show for the family. Turned out to be an ass beating show...lol! It took my mother over a week to wash all the grease out of my head! Sis got a bob and has never had long hair since (her own decision). We laugh about it now!

[GingerV]

Oh no! I can see how it's breaking your heart, Gat...even if you know it's going to be the "do you remember" story you embarrass her with years from now.

Think of it as practice for her teenage years when she dies it green or shaves the sides of her head ;). My dad decided not to get worked up about anything that grew out, wore off or healed over. I think I'll have to start practicing that attitude from day one to be ready for what my offspring might throw at me.

[Galatea]

Well, we went yesterday to get it all chopped off. It is a very short angled bob now with lots of layers in the back. A lot like a dorothy hamill justs more modern. And you know, its actually adorable. And it fits her. And it looks soooo much healthier and shinier and fuller.

I think my biggest fear is like Lixy said though and she'll never want it long again.

And it wasn't long enough for LoL because the woman who was cutting it was afraid that she might cut shorter than it needed to be in order to save the extra inch it would take to make the minimum length accepted. But I did save the longest lock for the memory chest. I sat next to her and quietly cried alligator tears when she took the first snip. After that I was okay.

I still have mixed emotions. I love her new do. Its fun and spunky and very fitting. But it was her long red curls that everyone ooh'd and ahh'd over. She's happy anyway. With these 95 degree days and 100% humidity its much cooler and I won't have to fight with washing and combings anymore. But sometimes I forget for a moment and don't recognize her .

[maddy]

I don't recall ever having my own salon, though I must have, as I have some pictures of some pretty choppy bangs. I always had short hair growing up as it was "easier to manage". When I was in college I grew it out and found after graduation that I spent too much time with it thrown back in a scrunchee because I didn't like it down and in my face. One day, I just picked a salon out of the book and went in and told an unknown woman to do whatever she thought would look best but that I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it. She grabbed large chunks of hair and just chopped about 9 inches off at a time. Then she washed it, shaped it up, colored it and when I walked into the office the next day most people didn't know who I was until I spoke. that was in 1998. I've just now started to grow it back out (at times it was as short as 1-2 inches on my whole head) and it touches my lips in the front and tucks fully behind my ears... I'm not sure I like it and just might go and have it all cut off again. The beautiful thing about hair is it can really change your look, and it grows back. I'm never afraid to try a different cut/style because in a few months time it will be gone if I don't like it.