AIBU To want to take DS2 to one of the following...

[TheLadyEvenstar]

Tony and Guy, Nicky Clarke, Charles Worthington or Molten Brown. For his first hairut?

YABU, sorry..
Unless you've got more money than sense, just take him to the barbers.
I've found with DD's hair that the lady hairdressers at the local barbers/salons have cut her hair better than the male hairdressers, but that could just be coincidence.

The only time I've taken her to a "proper" salon was when I went to the place where a friend of mine is a senior stylist and I was getting MY hair cut, she then gave DD's a trim for free.. Still didn't look staggeringly different to anywhere else I've had her hair cut though.

We get DS's hair cut at Trotters in Chiswick and they are really good (and also not too expensive). They have other branches in London.
I go to Charles Worthington and can recommend my stylist, Sophie, if you decide that's where you want to go.
Hope that helps.

Just curious as I've never spent more than a fiver (inc tip) in my life, what do these up-market places charge ?

When I was young, the gents barbers across the street was perfectly capable of dealing with any age. I used to get the barber to put some of my hair in a matchbox as I didn't want it cut (must have been about 4 or 5).

Thank $Deity I live well outside the realm of city folk here in (North) Wales, where there may be a few expensive coiffeurs but I would know none of them :)

If you regularly frequent these places then I don't see an issue. It's just a haircut. No big deal.

As you are posting about it I'll take a wild guess that you aren't a regular with Nicky and Charlie et al.

Are there no children's hairdressers near you? There are a couple here and all my friends use them, say they are good at keeping the children still, feeling safe etc.

Around £6 for a cut I think.

All I know is I have never been so nervous about anything as I am having DS2's hair cut/trimmed. He does have gorgeous curls that are my pride

A regular lol I have my haircut at whichever hairdressers is open at the time I want it done.

I will look into childrens hairdressers because that would be ideal.

I think you need to get some perspective!

"TheLadyEvenstar Sun 27-Mar-11 12:19:51
All I know is I have never been so nervous about anything as I am having DS2's hair cut/trimmed."

Really????
It's hair! It grows back. Surely your ds should be your pride, not his bloody hair?

DS had curls like your DS and I used to just trim the front myself to keep it out of his eyes.

It also comes down to how your child copes in a salon. My DS1 wriggled and grizzled and would not sit still for his first haircut, so it was a wasted fiver (but only a fiver). Even Nicky Clarke himself would have to be superhuman to cut hair on such a moving target and if your babe is having an off day you might end up feeing a bit grr that you'd spent over the odds and the result was still lopsided or half finished due to tantrum.

I have clippers and do it myself at home now (not that short) - just because I can make a hash of it for free at home and I can pick the moment to do it.

NGS, of course he is my pride but so is his hair I am allowed to love every part of him

Borderlass, I was tempted to do that but have just found a childrens hairdressers not too far away.

I love my dd's lovely blonde hair but seriously a haircut is a haircut.

smeth thats what I do with DS1.

Ok I abu, but I have not had lovely hair to play with before and I spend agesss minutes washing, conditioning, brushing and drying his hair.

Maybe I should have another baby and hope for a girl lol.

Can you not take him to your own hairdresser, both of my ds go to the barber, but dd comes with me after trying all the local, smaller places. You do get what you pay for to a certain extent, but she is not done by a junior, my stylist does her as well. Not terribly child friendly though!

Bribe him with choc buttons and snip it yourself in the garden.

My DS has lovely hair that I'm trying to keep 'surfer-y', we've been to the hairdressers a couple of times but I generally maintain the shape.

TBH I wouldn't cut it myself.
I don't have a regular hairdresser tbh no time for that

Childrens hairdresser sounds ideal. Someone who knows how to keep children entertained and cut straight at the same time, which is a different skill to those in wnaky hairdressers.

Just had to cut DS's hair for the first time. It does have a silly amount of sentiment that goes with it.

"Ok I abu, but I have not had lovely hair to play with before grin and I spend agesss minutes washing, conditioning, brushing and drying his hair."

... did you not have one of those dolls with "growable" hair when you were six?

Sounds like you've missed out on an early developmental stage

I did have those dolls but preferred scalping them .

How is DS1 going to feel if you cut his hair yourself but then take DS2 not only to a professional but to a bloody expensive one?

YANBU.

If you want to spend the extra money, then why not? Baffles me that any would see it as an unreasonable thing to do.

But I will say- just because a salon has a 'name' and an expensive price list, it does not make it the best

Trillian, I'm not sure I know of any youngs boy that, frankly, would give a flying fuck about haircuts

TBH his hair doesn't look curly enough that they aen't going to drop iyswim ? his hair is very like my nieces was, which is now poker straight. Hairdresser won't make a blind bit of difference.

DD had very, very tight ringlets when she was younger, it's still very curly but a lot has dropped has her hair has grown, with the weight.When she gets it cut it will spring back to tight ringlets

Not unreasonable just pointlessly shallow and "name" chasing, what a lovely character trait