AIBU to think colouring a childs hair is a bit ugh?

[shelfy74]

An old school friend has posted pictures on fb of her colouring her blonde daughters hair bright red with proper permanent dye. Child is 7. Everyone is commenting, saying "it looks fab". I dye my own hair, it's harmless as far as I know, but is it ok to do a 7 year olds?? I really don't know now. But then I'm very tired and it's none of my business so I guess this is a bit pointless really.

It's not about whether it damages the hair to me, but rather along the same lines as allowing a 10 year old to wear make up. Which is just yuck.

Surely hair dye is passed through to the body to some extent or why do we stop dying when we're pregnant?
I used Shaders/henna sachets when about 11-12 for discos and progressed to Sun In and dye at secondary school. It always looked shit and eventually went green. OK for teenagers, not for a seven year old.

It took my hairdresser exclaiming at the natural colour of my roots (I do have nice coloured hair, no idea why I dyed it) to convince me to stop, aged about 18.

Thanks, I have given her a brief outline of that GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer

She does have long hair at the moment and we put a colour on it last week, only £1.99 in Home Bargains and had to get 2 due to the length!

I don't think it's a safety issue. It's about children being children.

I too have been through the hell that is removal of black hair dye. It is a very hard and expensive path to be avoided at all costs.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with a bit of spray in colour, or even wash in/ out for older kids but permanent dye on children is, well, permanent and therefore a shit idea.

my dd2 2.11 has surfer style bonde locks from playing on the beach. it looks really good but i would never dye it to get that look.
dd1 15 has been dying her hair for 5 years but she is old enough to know about the pains of root regrowth. I have however only just relented with a black dye.

i dyed my hair for years all colours and dye is fine it is bleaching which makes your hair look like straw

so by letting my dd have purple hair, i'm stopping her from being a child??

good grief (rolls eyes)

i shall leave the thread now and you can all be judgypants, while i go and play in the garden with my child and her disgracefully dyed hair

would you let her wear make up cheer?

The only time I've known of someone dying a child's hair was a friends who's daughter had head lice that just would not bugger off. Apparently some hair dyes kill them all, and it worked for her - though she used a colour almost exactly that of her DD's hair so nobody could tell.

I'd be worried about sensitive skin on a younger child personally, and would be surprised if a school would allow it. Red is a bugger to get out of hair, I wouldn't have thought it'd be gone by the end of the holidays.

YANBU! I don't even blow dry my childrens' hair.

YANBU, I thinks it's just not right.

An ex work collegue had been giving h DD blonde streaks since she was 5, as it helped her dance career . Her DD is now 9 and has fake tans and falsh eye lashes as well. And don't get me started on the costumes and poses.

Yanbu

kids with dyed hair look tacky IMO.

And yes I would judge the parent.

Permanent die is not harmless it damages the hair, can break it off and cause serious split ends.

It is irresponsible for a mother to do this to a child.

Cheer-Yes, IMO, that's irresponsible and unnecessary. A 10yr old is just a child with many years ahead of her to be concerned about her appearance. Likewise, there is no reason whatsoever to pierce the ears of a young child. Yuck!

For some reason my DS's friend's mum gave the boy a coloured Mohawk to start his new secondary school with last year.

He was immediately put into an in-school exclusion unit - so awful for him I would think. DS did not tell me what happened, if his mum put his hair into a more acceptable style or if he had to wait for it to grow out. Dire IMO.

Yuck...i will also judge.

17 yes...7 no..

Why would you want to change them?

Girls (and boys) have their whole lives to wear make up and dye their hair.

I just don't see the point.

My nearly seven year old has thin, pink high-lights that match mine, for the summer, and they wash out (as her hair ISNT bleached) in two-three washes.

Its a water based dye that has no effect on her scalp at all.

Its just a bit of fun. It doesnt stop her being a child. In fact she loves that its 'princessy'.

When DS1 was small (i can't remember exact age) i let DP take him for a haircut and he came back so shorn i nearly cried.

Don't know what number they call it but he was virtually bald.

He looked ill.

It never happened again until he was in his teens.

Now he has a lovely head of hair.

Not too long/not too short.

I seriously doubt a princess would ever have pink high-lights but

Sorry, but dressing your young daughter up as a mini version of mummy is even more distateful!

God forbid by daughter have a little imagination eh, catgirl ?

Ha ha - Spotty we couldnt look more different - but thanks for your concern!

Sorry. I just find it distasteful to dye a childs hair, put make up on them or try to make them into a mini me.

Lots of Princesses have pink hair...

Don't they?

She does not wear makeup.

She is not a mini me.

It is a water based dye - about as dangerous as colouring in your hair with felt tip.

Its just fun - isnt that what being a child is about?

I'm not particularly concerned, I just don't like it. I have two daughters and I will continue to dress them as little girls whilst they are, well, little girls.

I don't think they should be wearing 'funky' watered down versions of women's fashion. And that includes hair colouring and ear piercing. They are not little women, they are children.