Really quick poll needed - would you let your 12 year old have full head blonde highlights?

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Umm, what it said in the title

No.

Absolutely not. Plenty time to ruin their hair later on.

No, because she's going to look skanky with three inches of regrowth and you'll end up paying for more so she doesn't.

If anything, let her have half a head with foils and not too blonde (i.e. a few shades lighter than her normal hair colour) so the regrowth is manageable

Why are British people in such a hurry for their children to look, dress and act like 25 year olds? This genuinely bewilders me.

In answer to your question, i think 12 is way too young for highlights.

Nope, I agree with the "not until she earns money to pay for it herself' dinosaurs.

Nothing to do with the money, but a big no from me. 12? highlights? Nasty nasty nasty

I was 12 when I started experimenting with my hair colour. Ach. Have we become more puritanical. Shame.

It's a cosmetic treatment & the risks will prob only creep out over time. Who'd've thought that a dark dye would be linked to bladder cancer.
Oh & who in their right mind would let their son near a girl who had the Surrey Stripe.

No way.
My sis is a hairdresser in Vidal Sasson.
She explained that "baby hair" grows until your around 15/16.
& if you play around with that you will have years of crap hair-seriously!

My 12 year wants her hair dark ( mousey brown & adores the Emo look).

Plenty of time.

Weirdly, I think at 14- do what you want!!!

Not full head. I'd allow a few semi-permanent steaks of any colour, or clip in hair extensions...hey, that is an idea for her. She could add enough blond extensions to look blond without wreaking her actual hair.but not a full head.
It will ruin her hair, and the roots will look horrible and cheap.

This isn't the best video, but I can't check out a lot of others on youtube as not my computer and they don't have unlimited internet.

If you youtube blond/blonde hair extensions tutorial, I am sure you can find a good one. I saw a much better one last year. 2 more.

Nope.

I got mine done at 14 because my grandpa bought me a scratch-off lotto ticket and I won fifty bucks. :o

I wouldn't do it before that age. Like others have said, for some reason a pink/blue/purple streak is "different" somehow...just for fun, like sparkly nail polish or something. I'd probably let a 9 or 10 year old do that. But highlights are so, I don't know, done to "pretty a person up" or whatever. I think I'd put the kibosh on that til 14 or 15.

Shove over on the dino bench, will ya? :)

No. 15/16 when she can accord them.

I'd say no, only because highlights really ruin hair. Everyone comments on my hair - how soft and shiny it is. I'm always asked what products I use, but I only use cheapass shampoo and conditioner. The only reason my hair is in such good condition is that I have never dyed it. Tell your DD to look at all those ads for hair products on tv - the ones with women swishing their hair talking about shine and condition. She has the hair those women long for. Don't let her ruin it.

Not quite yet.

DD was 13 when she had hers done, but she doesn't have a full head, that would be too expensive.

She has dark blonde hair and every 6-9 months she has chunks of blond added by a professional hairdresser, this is done underneath the top level so it lightens her hair but she doesn't get noticeable re-growth.

It would be hypocritical to say no as this is the age when I first had my hair permed (as a child in the 80's) and it has been many colour since, although now it is almost back to my natural colour, shame it is all permanent dye to cover the grey.

No.
If you allow it, she will become dependent on it.
You will be paying for it.
It's just plain wrong.

No

No, and I have a DD-12. She's got plenty of time for that.

No way - my DD's are 15 and 13 neither have asked for this but it's a definite no no - only when they pay for themselves. I do feel they should remain children for a little while longer. Only just started doing myself to cover the grey

No.

No way. DD1 is 13 and asked tentatively a few months ago, but in that 'I know you're going to say no anyway' sort of voice. She has beautiful natural blonde hair which bleaches naturally in summer so at the moment in winter it looks a bit like roots growing out, unfortunately. But that's not a reason to let her ruin her hair.

No, no, no! I saw a girl of around 13 recently who had a layered and highlighted blonde cut. It was a gorgeous cut & colour but not on such a young girl. She was a very pretty girl but it just looked creepy, the way that young girls with too much make up on look too adult and slightly creepy. I don't think I'm old fashioned at all but I did wonder: "what is that girl's mother THINKING?".

No. Because that is way too young to be putting nasty chemicals on your hair.

Also they don't need to gild the lily at 12 - looks like they're trying awfully hard when they wear makeup etc. I don't think it's appropriate in children [hoicks bosom ...]

I think I had a perm at 12 or 13 so I suppose this is just the modern equivalent.

I regretted the perm. It was the 80s though.

12 is too young, it just looks brassy and cheap. (Says me who had a shaggy perm at 14 )

It was the 70's for me...