Elegant Fashion: A new ‘do
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Sometimes a junior fashionista will need a haircut. This will be because the junior fashionista will decide that she doesn’t want to pull her hair back from her face with clips or headbands or anything, so for approximately 12 straight weeks, her family will not know if she has one eyeball or two because they cannot see her face.
This means that, at some point, the junior fashionista’s mother will snap and decide that it’s time for a haircut. The mother will pull out her hair cutting tools. (No, she does not have professional training, but she can manage a couple of basic styles.)
The junior fashionista and her mother will negotiate for a few minutes. The junior fashionista will ask to have her hair cut in zig-zags and the mother will refuse. The junior fashionista will then get huffy and say she doesn’t want a hair cut, but her mother will insist. They will eventually agree to cut the girl’s hair to just above her jawline in the front and then angle it slightly upward toward the back.
The mother will start cutting. Things will be going well and the right side will be utterly perfect. Truly and wonderfully perfect. Absolute perfection.
Then, tragedy strikes.
The mother will be making the first cut on the left side and, for reasons unknown, the junior fashionista will jerk suddenly. The mother’s scissors will go high. Really high. There will be a two inch difference between the left and right sides. The mother will have to even things up.
By the time the hair cut is done, the junior fashionista’s hair will be short. Almost boy short. The girl will be in tears and the mother will feel like vomiting. The junior fashionista will wrap a blanket over her head and not show anyone else her hair cut. The junior fashionista’s older sister will show solidarity and suggest that they wear their winter hats inside “so we can stay warm.”
The junior fashionista’s tears will dry up, but she will insist 1) that she’s not going to school until her hair grows back and 2) that her mother go online to find out how quickly hair grows. Her mother will lie and say that it grows about an inch a month. (Actually, this isn’t far off, as the girl’s hair grows unbelievably fast.) The rest of the evening is miserable, as the junior fashionista sniffles a lot and her mother swears never to touch scissors again.
By the next day, the junior fashionista will start to waver a bit. Perhaps her hair isn’t so bad. Later that day, the junior fashionista’s mother will put some styling products in the girl’s hair and then add lots of body and bounciness with a curling iron. She’ll finish the look off with a sparkly hair clip The junior fashionista will be very pleased. The family will then go downtown for the afternoon to get a jump on the New Year’s Eve festivities. The junior fashionista will have a spring in her step again and will touch her hair frequently to see if the curls and waves are still there. She will receive compliments on her cute hair cut. Her smile will get bigger.
The junior fashionista now loves her hair. Her mother no longer feels like upchucking. Both parents agree that shorter hair is better for the girl, especially now that they can see for sure that the child does indeed have two eyes.
The junior fashionista and her mother will peruse Etsy for hair clips. They’ll find some that the junior fashionista insists she cannot live without. Orders will be placed; money will be spent.
The Etsy clips and whatnot will arrive in the mail. There will be primping:
Then, the junior fashionista will try out a new headband for a while:
Later on, the junior fashionista will try out a stunning hair clip:
Really, who wouldn’t be thrilled by a massive green butterfly on her head?
So, for now, the junior fashionista is rocking the short hair look.
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Guider | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 2:54 am
I stopped cutting K’s hair after the same thing happened to us, I did not make such a good job of sorting it out however.
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Skywalker | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 8:43 am
Ohmygoodness! What did you do to your baby’s hair? The description sounded worse but the pictures are good. Its cute (thank god for giant butterflies and bands)….Nice cutting in the back – it has layers (from the first picture)
Please take junior fashinasta to hair cuttery or convince her that sudden movements and hair cuts dont mix.
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alex | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:22 am
I think you did a great job!
In college, my roommate decided one night that I should cut layers into her hair (mind you, this was after we had been partaking in adult beverages). Let’s just say that lots of alcohol, steel kitchen scissors (you know, the ones with the black handles) and hair cutting do not mix!
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hotfessional | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:30 am
I’m so glad she’s liking it now. She’s so cute she can wear a pixie cut and look adorable!
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Elizabeth | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:49 am
I think it’s very cute.
About eight years ago I took my daughter to Hair Cuttery where her bangs were absolutely butchered. I don’t think she’s forgiven me yet.
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mrs. g. | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 10:32 am
Is that a butterfly or a bird? No matter. She can carry it off.
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erin | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:11 am
Adorable!
Since she has now recovered quite well from the initial trauma, do you think you’ll risk cutting it yourself the next time?
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calicobebop | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:16 am
Love, love LOVE the green butterfly! I’m so glad that she’s recovered from the hair trauma. Now she has a wonderful story to tell her children about their grandmother and a pair of scissors. hee hee!
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Fannie | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:31 am
Ack! I’m having vivid flashbacks to my perpetual 1 inch long bangs because my mother had to “even things out”. Hers is much cuter.
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unreliable narrator | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:40 am
Tell her she looks exactly like Audrey Hepburn after she gets her haircut in Roman Holiday. Tell her a real live movie critic said so. (Oh, and your interview will go up as soon as I can find my brain again! Vacations are hell.)
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Lori Anderson | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Wow, from your description, I was expecting horrors — but it’s so adorable on her! I like it with the headband, too. She’s lucky she can pull a short do like that off. Cutie McCutie!
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Michele P | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Gotta love a hair trauma recovery–very impressive, Jen! And Elegant truly is a junior fashionista.
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schmutzie | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:39 pm
You are being featured on Intrepid Tuesday!
http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/01/intrepid-tuesday-edition-12.html
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paperdiva | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:41 pm
true fashionistas recover from trauma with panache, as did Elegant. Brava!
Step away from the scissors, Jen.
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badness jones | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Not for any money would I cut my children’s hair. You’re a brave woman Jen. And Elegant looks lovely.
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Amy Y | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I always thought cutting boys’ hair would be easy… it’s not and I suck at it. From now it’s Supercuts or nothing!
Elegant is just darling ~ I love her cut!
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alison | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 2:33 pm
It looks great. I wish I was brave enough to go after Medusa’s (Rae’s) hair with scissors, but I’m chicken.
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Jaina | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 7:26 pm
And rocking it well I must say. Cute do!
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blackbird | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Aw!
I think she looks cute as HECK.
(And I am well known for very similar hair stories.)
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Mimi | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Our junior fille tried to cut her own hair, not once, but twice. Not a good thing. Maybe I can mail her down to you a couple of times a year. You do a very good job.
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country mouse | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 3:16 am
Proving that hurling money at *any* problem will instantly bring relief : )
The cut is adorable–SHE is adorable. But my favorite part of the story is her sis trying to make it better : )
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Jay | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 10:38 am
Let my experience be a lesson, please. My father cut my hair until about 10th grade, when the shouts of Mushroom Head from the rest of my own soccer team covered even the cheers of the JV cheerleaders and the crowd. This is my most vivid memory from my pre-twenties. Seriously.
Parents, beware. Walk away from the scissors.
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melissawest | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:42 pm
You are so brave to cut her hair! I’ve even stopped cutting my boys’–I’m sure other people didn’t notice, but I sure did–and I am NOT skilled with scissors. Lord forbid I pick up a razor!
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Jenny | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 4:58 pm
There aren’t many things an Etsy Shopping Spree can’t fix.
I cannot even imagine the horror you felt when you made that first mis-cut.
But the idea of you cutting and cutting to even it up is like something from a movie. Sorry, but I’m giggling.
Kudos to your girl for handling it well.
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Kirstin | Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I think Elegant’s hair looks great! She totally knows how to “work it”, too – it’s all about attitude.