I’ve f***ed up. What now?

[Robstersgirl]

My son starts reception tomorrow. I’ve ruined his hair.
He never sits still for barbers and hates going there, so I took myself off to Tesco, handed over £25 (which incidentally would cover 3 professional haircuts in my area) and left with a set of clippers. Can’t be that hard right?
Armed with youtube tutorials and a misjudged confidence I cut his hair.
It’s terrible. There is no time to make it right. He starts school in the morning. AIBU to lie and say I took him to a terrible hairdresser who I’m considering suing?

Don’t worry they’ll just think he’s had a bad case of nits.

Ah, don't worry. He doesn't care and none of his friends will either, so you're good

I once gave DS2 a proper convict's haircut; it was proper dreadful. I immediately put him in a hat and refused to look at it for the rest of the day as I felt so guilty! He didn't care a bit....

DH had the bright idea of doing DS hair himself just before he started school. He used beard clippers. DS was nearly bald!! I cried. DH laughed and felt awful. DS didn't give a shit and he has gone to a barbers ever since

ah he'll be fine! I went into year one with an eyebrow missing and I don't remember anyone ever mentioning it.

I would get some gel in it in the morning to make it less obvious and would take him to the barbers after school.
Would Netflix or a game on your phone help him sit still for the short time needed? I'm sure many barbers will be experienced with kids that don't sit still.

It doesn't look that bad at all, OP - I doubt anyone will notice. They all look as if they've been dragged through a hedge after ten minutes in Reception anyway!

When my DS started Reception, he had beautiful long layered surfer hair. It was gorgeous - really well looked after and only ever trimmed by a fabulous hairdresser at a vair naice children's salon. In a stroke of slightly unfortunate timing, I was rushed into hospital three days after he started and noticed a few days later that his fringe was getting a tiny bit long. I asked DH to trim a little bit off it, just to keep it out of his eyes until I was out of hospital and could take him to have it cut properly. Well. He brought him in at visiting time the next day, which of course was a blooming Sunday, with what I can only describe as an asymmetric bob. He'd decided to trim it all over, sat him on his lap facing backwards and just cut right round, but there was about a three-inch difference in the length from one side to the other. I was mortified, and DS had to go to school like that for the rest of the week. They let me have an afternoon off the ward on the Saturday and I had to go and sit in the blooming hairdresser's, and he had to have it cut short to fix it :(

Right I’m a hairdresser.... you cannot fix that yourself the only option is to clipper the top too with the longest number guard you can get away with. Start at the longest then go shorter one by one until it looks even and the wedge line is gone. Then remove the guard and CAREFULLY trim around his ears with the very edge of the blade

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Thank you. I’ve decided not to touch it myself. He starts a bit later tomorrow so we are going to get him to a hairdresser as soon as humanly possible in the morning.

Buzz it all over and look on the bright side; at least you won't have to worry about bastard headlice!

We had a bit of this-my daughter had highlight over the summer which we have colored both purple and blue. Most of the colour had washed out before she went back on Friday but she got pulled up for some green strands in the front. I bought a blonde hair dye, as I thought it would take the green out, and leave the darker brown bits untouched-erm, not so much-it lightened up her roots to a lovely shade of orange, the boldest bits were white, and the f**king green bird we're still green! We rectified it with some henna I had lying around, her hair is darker now than it has been in ages, but the blonde bits will come through and hopefully the green will stay gone!!! Hahahah

Ahh! You poor thing! Hope you get it sorted this morning

Although hairdressers are mostly closed on mondays... fingers crossed

My son is a curly Afro now. I tried to cut that once... didn’t go well

That said.. when I used to clipper it, it looked brilliant

Apart from the time I started with the top and the clippers died half way through. - he looked like a clown! Had to do the remaining bit by hand

Curly hair forgives.. I was lucky and got away with it but i feel your pain

Hope first day of school goes well! Let us know how you got on?