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AIBU?

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Original poster

Do you style your kids hair?

42 replies

knittynoodle · 15/05/2012 10:17

I don't. AIBU?

He's only 18mo but I see loads of other kids his age with gel, mohicans, pointy bits at the front, spikes and what not. Am I doing him a disservice letting him go natural? I brush it and that's it, its even cut by me - not great but def not badly.

Is he going to look back at his baby pics and WTF MUM!!! Why did you let me look like that? (which is what I often say to my mum!)

OP posts:

DeWe · 15/05/2012 11:24

Posted too soon:
He thinks it's a good day if I forget to comb his hair.

CravingSleep · 15/05/2012 11:40

My 3 year old gets hair in a bobble or clips for pre-school, usually out by the end of the session.

Never "got" onion tops - looks really naff in my opinion. (Along with head bands on a baby with no hair...)

spongefingers · 15/05/2012 11:41

DS1 (3.5) has lovely curls so I just scrunch dry his head after a bath - my DM cuts his hair and that's the only time it's brushed - goes all puffy and bouffant if you brush it.

DS2 (15 months) has fine hair with a slight curl in it. My DM snipped his hair to take away the really fine wispy bits that were going into his eyes and that was the only time he's had it combed. The only styling I do is to sweep it across a bit as his fringe tickles his forehead.

My cousin asked me once whether I had ever straightened DS1's hair with hair straighteners (not that I own any) as her friend did it all the time to her son, so some people do seem to go to some effort.

Ithinkitsjustme · 15/05/2012 11:41

No, and it's obviously paid off as my boys never style their hair now (aged 14 and 19!) Saves a fortune in products. As for styling babies hair I think it looks awful. As long as its clean and not obviously knotted (bed hair) then it looks lovely!

KellyElly · 15/05/2012 11:53

spongefingers straightening a kids hair!? Wtf. Their hair will be a mess by the time they get to their teenage years. It's soooo bad for your hair, especially fine baby hair

zukiecat · 15/05/2012 11:54

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BunnyLebowski · 15/05/2012 12:00

A friend of mine posted a picture of her DD (3) who'd been taken to the hairdressers before a party.

The result was a JonBenet-esque head of GHD curls. I'm sure I saw lip gloss too. I was rather . She's 3 ffs.

halcyondays · 15/05/2012 12:34

They have their hair in ponytails, bunches or plaits for school or if they want them, although I wouldn't call that styling. I'm not very good at doing hair, I can't braid hair and I don't do much with my own hair as I wouldn't know how.

When they were 18 months old they had hardly any hair so you couldn't have done much styling even if you'd wanted too.

MummySunshine · 15/05/2012 13:05

I find anything more than clean and practical (i.e not covering their eyes) quite tacky.

MsKittyFane · 15/05/2012 13:23

Like this OP?
No. It looks awful!!
this on older boys is also not a good look.

aninkynonkadinkydonk · 15/05/2012 13:44

My DD (16 months) as an 'onion top' or pineapple as we like to call it as she has very thick hair that can't decide which way it should sit and flops over her eyes. it's a better solution than her squinting all the time and we like to think she looks cute. Pigtails however make her look like the devils child

cantspel · 15/05/2012 13:45

A bit of gel looks ok but i cant stand boys with the front short and a rat tail like thing growing down the back, or tram lines or shaved paterns. And the my biggest hate of all is little kids with mohawks or other statement hair styles all done by a mum who is trying to be cutting edge and a rebel but just ends up making her child look daft.

www.worldofstock.com/stock-photos/young-boy-with-mohawk-haircut-looks-in/PCH13631

WHY?

pictish · 15/05/2012 14:04

Here is our eldest aged five

It was the summer holidays and he so badly wanted his hair like this because his big boy friend (my friend's ds) had it, and he thought it looked cool. I did it for him and let it grow in for going back to school.

I know people's opinions on this sort of thing but I care not a jot - he was gorge!

If I did it now he's 10, he'd look a proper thug I suppose - but he's not, he's lovely.

MissFaversham · 15/05/2012 14:08

I try to poke my nose in offer "constructive advice" now and again but get told to go do something else with my constructiveness (DS is 14)

Get0rfMoiLand · 15/05/2012 14:15

I never have liked babies with styled hair. I remember when dd was about 2 my friend out her hair in high bunches (like two onion tops).

She had very long hair and I always put it in a plait or ponytail. That was about the limit of my styling expertise anyway. Anything more styled looks a bit ick imo.

Kaekae · 15/05/2012 14:25

My son is 4.10 and has short back and sides, I have to wet it down in the mornings and just recently had to start putting a tiny bit of wax through it because he has a double crown and thick wavy hair. If I don't do this his hair ends up in all different directions, won't stay down and looks like he has a serious case of bed hair. Once dry there is no evidence of wax it just helps to keep it under control! Drives me mad but I refuse to have it cropped.

A neighbour of mine styles her 9 month olds hair into a sort of mohican style and dresses him like he is part of a boy band.

FoofyShmooffer · 15/05/2012 14:30

Nope.

DS had big curls till we cut it short for school when was 4.

He's now 10 and looks like the sixth member of one bloody direction. Looks like he's wearing a giant helmet. I have to straighten the front for him or he'd singe his face off.

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