To think that eight years old is too young to have hair highlighted?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Or am I being an old fuddy duddy?

too young.dd is 7 and i cant imagine letting her do something like that!

Too young IMHO. I remember a friend of mine had her hair peroxide bleached from the age of 12 - we were all incredibly envious, but with hindsight it must have looked pretty grim. Plus, just think of the cost! Highlighting is a slippery slope, once you've started you can't stop and I should know .

One of DD's friends from nursery had her hair died when she was 5, a nasty reddish colour. DD thought it was great and it was hard to tell her that it looked really trashy.

Her parents also dress her in crop tops and rara skirts. She looks dreadful, and theres something about how controlling her father is that I find sinister.

Luckily she and DD go to different schools now, so we dont have to have much to do with this family.

I remember girls when I was this age getting perms and not much older when the got highlights, in fact probably at the same age.

I remember at the time being jeaslous that I couldn't get a perm apart from the fact my mum said no way my hair is already curly lol.

Looking back now it is appalling that people are doing this to children so young.

too young. i have a much younger cousin whose mother bleached her hair from the age of 9 when she started to go dark. absolutely appalling thing to do, accompanied by lots of nonsense about weight and a lot of emphasis on clothes and appearance. cousin is now 25, anorexic and very depressed nuff said.

way too young

and so bad for your hair, by the time she is 16 it will be over processed and straw like

nothing wrong with encouraging young children to want to look neat, clean and tidy, but not with resorting to artifice

far far too young.

Sounds like a girl in dd's year who got hair extensions put in last year (so she would have been 8 or 9), and not those fun clip-in things from Claire's accessories, but proper long blonde extensions. And no, she had no medical condition, just a mum who thinks it great to fake tan / fake hair her kid, and dress her in teenagers clubbing clothes and heels.

Thank God dd is not impressed....yet

Quite depressed that it can be even considered-an erosion of childhood.

I cant even beleive the mother had to even ask.

Sorry believe.

YANBU.

For boys or girls.

None have mine have asked yet, thankfully, but they'll not have it done until they're well into their teens even if they do ask.

Way too young.

Far too young IMO. My DD is 10 and DS is 14. I have my hair highlighted, worry about the cost, then see kids my DS's age having same and they don't even work to pay for it. Not to mention the fact that they don't need it at that age plus more chance to develop allergies rant rant rant....... that's before I move on to the fake tan for dancing competitions ....

Too young,

Far too young IMO

I shudder when I see little boys with those stripes, but then I don't understand temporary tatoos, nail varnish either. I don't even like to see small boys with hair gel. I must be v. old

8 if far to young for highlights.

ridiculous, more money than sense.

Far too young.

I wonder if DS (6) is "on trend" then? He has 2 little white patches at the back of his head. His own "Mallen Streak" thing going on. All natural I hasten to add!

a school mate of ds's had her hair highlighted last yr when she'd have been 9 or 10

Too young.

I did see some temporary hair extensions in wacky colours aimed at this age group once. They looked cool but we didn't get them.

i have put food colouring in gd hair at weekends and holidays, they love it and it washes out with just one wash, we spent one saturday with red yellow and blue hair.

when i was teaching in year 2 we had a little girl whos maum owned a local beauty salon. she had the lot done, highlights, waxed eyebrows and at one point fake burberry patterned nails. the biggest shock though was when the children were getting changed for pe and she had on a thong and crop top some people want there children to grow up far to fast and its very very sad