Truly awful haircut...what to do?

[SoloMumJustMuddlingThrough]

I took my 18 month old for a haircut today. It was in her eyes and bothering her and needed to be done. I only asked for the fringe trimmed, just to take it out of her eyes.

The hair dresser was lovely, he was so gentle with her and patient but my daughter would not stop moving. She was terrified. She was shouting "scary, not a big one!" at the top of her voice and flapping her arms around. I don't blame the hair dresser at all but the result is truly terrible. I mean, this is probably the most uneven fringe cut I've ever seen. There's a chunk missing on the side, long pieces hanging over her eyes and its completely wonky.

I don't know what to do. I can't leave it how it is, but I don't want to traumatise my daughter any more. (She appears to have some hypersensitivities, which I am keeping a close eye on).

Would I be unreasonable to take her back into the hairdresser's tomorrow to see if they can fix it? I should add, I am absolutely devastated. She had perfect curls before and now because of the big missing chunks it's going to have to be a micro fringe.

Here's DD's the first time I cut it. Pretty wonky and definitely too short. But it's just a fringe. On a child too young for anyone to care. It was funny mildly embarrassing for me as an amateur hairdresser. It wasn't dramatic.

Also, don’t let anyone make you feel silly for wanting her hair cut. My DD’s hair was down below her eyes at 13 months. It grows fast and was determined to grow straight down her face. She was equally determined to pull out any clips or bobbles. Five minutes of trashy tv to trim her fringe every four weeks kept her comfortable and able to see.

The "ordeal"? It's a hairdressers. She'll get used to it.

That is hilariously awful. Don’t trim that. It’ll be even worse. Just clip it up.

Tell me you didn’t pay for that, too.

£15 is outrageous.

I cut all my own 4 kids hair until late primary. It's not hard.

maybe try a mobile hair dresser next time, she might be more comfortable having it done at home. Some kids really struggle getting a hair cut, our mobile hairdresser has one client a little boy she sees and she has to cut his hair while he’s in the bath as that’s the only way he can handle it . Oh and she charges me £6 per child! £15 is insane

Some cties have salons that do children only hair cuts. Maybe try to see if there is one? Or local recommendations to see others experiences.

One of my dcs took 3 different salons before feeling comfortable. We now have to travel 4x the distance to get there but it's worth it.

Ok it’s pretty bad but you can even it yourself, then use clips if you need to and in 2/3 weeks it will be much better

Oh after your fix it’s a lot better. Well done. Just do it yourself for now.

It was bad in the first photo but you have done a good job.

I used a YouTube video to cut my fringe and it came out really well.

I used to go to a salon for children when mine were young and it was all set up for children as I had one dc with hypersensitivity who could have had a meltdown but managed.

You did a good recovery project. The original hairdressers trim was truely shockingly bad. I would still phone to complain, just because.

Does she 'need' a fringe OP - they are a pain in the bum to maintain. Her hair looks quite straight - can't she just grow it out and then you won't have this issue again.

You seem to have neatened it up enough now, But I would suggest trying to tie that part up in future and not having a fringe if she hates the hairdresser so much. Fringes are a pain in a toddler, require regular trimming. And then often need growing out at least some of it later on.

I am glad you said it looks quite straight as I was confused by the perfect curls comment in the OP as it looks straight to me!!

That looks much better now! It will grow surprisingly fast, I promise you.

My kids had some absolute corkers of fringes when they were little, cut by me. They didn't care and neither did I.

Trim the long bits and I would cut along the shape it has been cut into a diagonal fringe and clip it to the side. It should then grow out but but ok loose but pushed to the side too

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I won't let my daughter have a fringe (until she is old enough to choose). I went through the hell of growing one out - never again. I said to my hairdresser if I ever ask you to cut it back in, you must say no haha

I didn't want to give her a fringe at all but it reached a point where it needed to be out of her face. She has a cowlick that sends her hair forward and off to the side. Also very fine hair but lots of it so it just kept falling into her eyes. It didn't matter how I much I tried to part it, it was going in the direction It wanted. It looks fine now, not great, but acceptable (until the wind blows or she looks down 😅). It's a diagonal fringe but if I brush it to the side it looks like it's been layered.

I was so upset about it at the time. It was an over the top reaction (probably hormonal) and the whole thing is something I will look back on at laugh about.

She has really lovely curls at the back and sides and straight on the top.