Woman dyes her 2 year old daughters hair

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I just read this and wonder what on earth she is thinking at the age of 2, or am i just old fashioned???

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A mum has ignited a parenting debate on Instagram after dying her two-year-old daughter’s hair pink.

Charity Grace LeBlanc, a vlogger from the US, explained in a YouTube video tutorial of the transformation that her daughter Felicity (City for short) had been asking for pink hair for ages.

“I’m dying my two year old daughter’s hair PINK!,” the summary of the video reads. “She has been begging me for a long time so we finally just went ahead and did it! I used Manic Panic Hot Pink which is a direct dye and is safe for kids. It washed out in about three to four days.”

“I’m not lightening the hair because I don’t want to damage her hair, cause she’s still really little,” the mum said during the video clip.

“The dye I’m using is a semi-permanent dye, which will wash out,” she continued.

he mum also took to her Instagram to share a clip of the video and ask other parents if they’d consider dying their own children’s hair “City’s pink hair is now up on my YouTube channel! Link in bio! What do you guys think!? Would you let your daughter do this!?” she captioned the video.

And the post quickly sparked a debate about whether it was OK to dye a toddlers hair.

Some parents were totally against the idea.

“This is so irresponsible of you. Of course she’s going to want it. She’s a kid! She doesn’t know what she wants! And you, the parent should know better! She’s going to be bald by the age of 20,” one parent wrote.

“How can u do that to such a cute child I feel so bad for her,” added another.

“Adorable! but no I wouldn’t do it to my daughter,” another parent commented.

2 is a bit young but I don't think it's necessarily a harmful thing to want to be more like mummy or daddy, they spend ages observing you, we're always encouraging them to splash poster paint about - painted hair and painted nails to me is just another form of creative expression. I didn't like the look of nail polish etc on kids before i had DC and used to be judgy about the perfect fair isle cardie wearing kids I would have but my DD loves this kind of thing, in the way she loves unicorns and fairies, it's a creative instinct. I see that now.

My DD's high heel obsession very clearly started at about 2.5 and has never let up.

Strangely enough I was just looking at the spray on colours in Superdrug yesterday. 4 year old dd is obsessed with pink coloured hair.

SparklyBlue don't do it if your 4 year old has blonde hair, unless your school is very understanding! (If their hair is brown, go for it)

It's temporary and painless, I really hope there is this much fuss about ear piercing a baby who has no say in it but to cry at the pain!

There's a pic of this girl on page 2. She's wearing gold hoops in her ears too...

I dyed my 4yo daughter's hair pink and purple with Directions, she asked for it because I dye my hair and she loves My Little Pony. It looked nice and washed out after about a week. It's not a big deal.

I did the same but with food colouring (a friend suggested it and she'd done it with her kids). It took a lot more than a couple of washes and I wish I'd bought proper dye. Strikes me as very sensible actually.

There's nothing wrong with it. I've dyed my DDs hair pink before. Only temporary colour. It's non toxic and is pretty much made from vegetable dye and conditioner so if anything makes hair softer. I've done my hair a variety of colours also and it's less damaging to your hair to colour your hair bright fashion colours than it is to use any natural coloured box dye that uses developer.

IF for whatever reason a parent was bleaching their toddlers hair to lighten it before putting the colour in then that I would disagree with as it is chemicals.

Actually to add to this I think the bigger problem is plastering it all over the net. Like I said I've put pink streaks or tips on my daughter but I wouldn't make a whole video blog about it and plaster her on the net.

I think it's fine! It's lovely to make a little one's dreams come true, and pretty pink hair is not hurting anyone. Think people need to focus on what is important in life!

It washes out so I don't think it's a big deal at all really.
On a similar level to face painting and nail varnish to me. It's not permanent or damaging

What jessebuni said. As long as it is a one-off and the stuff is safe.
But plastering it all overthe internet - not good practice. I am firmly of the opinion that children are entitled to complete privacy. Nobody ever knows what could lead to bullying or even embarrassment for a child and they deserve not to be made identifiable conversation points at the whim of adults. Okay to share stuff when they grow up and give permission but until then best to keep sharing their pictures and moments very limited.

I would be anti this if it was a damaging dye with the fumes, as others have said. But it's not. No-one thinks twice about face paints etc and surely it's just the equivalent, on hair?

My 3 year old would love pink hair. She's been saying for about a year that she wants colourful hair when she's grown up, and yes, she could speak in full sentences at two, some kids can, some can't.

Sadly her hair is very dark so manic panic/stargazer type dyes wouldn't show up. I may get some coloured hair to plait into hers for the summer holidays, she'd be over the moon.

I don't use any social media so it's definitely not about that.

It's a bit of fun, wouldn't bother me, I thinks there's probably more important things to be bothered by.

As long as it doesn't damage her hair, I don't see the problem at all. And what 2yo wouldn't want pink hair??