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Very sad DD, new haircut please help!

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flashheartscanoe · 17/01/2016 13:15

My lovely DD had all her hair cut off yesterday. She's been thinking about it for ages so it wasn't a mad impulse.
She took a cute picture of an Anne Hathaway pixie cut with her. She also had some colour as she wanted to be blonder. She's very upset with how it looks and thinks is it is very middle aged and not pixie! I think she looks gorgeous but agree that the cut and colour isn't brilliant. It's so short though that we don't know how to change it...Are there any hairdressers out there who could advise? Can the cut be rescued without taking loads more off?? Please please help, I was so proud of her for being brave and going for a change and she's so upset.

Very sad DD, new haircut please help!
Very sad DD, new haircut please help!
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Lweji · 17/01/2016 16:42

So, this was yesterday and you had the whole of today to find a hairdresser but you're taking the day off tomorrow to fix her hair without even knowing if you can get an appointment anywhere where they might actually do a decent job?
That makes sense.
I'd really style her hair differently for tomorrow, get all her friends on board and find a proper place to do it without rushing into another botched job and with a missing school day on top.

wonderpants · 17/01/2016 16:43

Oh I've been there on more than one occasion! Washing it, lots of styling product, funky hair clips in the front and make up helps!
I reckon a peroxide blonde and a bit of thinning out would look awesome!

ineedamoreadultieradult · 17/01/2016 16:47

She needs more taking off for a proper pixie cut. And maybe go for white blond or a silvery grey.

BabyTheCaveLion · 17/01/2016 16:48

iamearthymother

Pleeeeeeease tell me who your hairdresser is in South Wales???!!!!!

Cocolepew · 17/01/2016 16:49

My dd has a pixie and her hair is very thick, it needs a lot of thinning.
I cut my own hair, and always have it short, and this pic is with the sides in a sort of undercut.
Hope she gets sorted Flowers

Very sad DD, new haircut please help!
Whatdoidohelp · 17/01/2016 16:50

What city are you going to OP, maybe if another mn person lives there they can recommend a slob.

Whatdoidohelp · 17/01/2016 16:51

Salon not slob

BackInTheRealWorld · 17/01/2016 16:52

Lweji, what hairdressers do you know that are open on a Sunday?

timemaychangeme · 17/01/2016 16:54

Totally agree with half/day off. One day in her school career isn't going to make any difference and even as a 50+ old, I've still been pretty upset with the vile haircut I was given last spring. Thank heavens your DD has lovely thick hair. In the right hands, she should be able to get something cool and edgier she is much happier with. Good luck for tomorrow

Monica101 · 17/01/2016 16:54

That's just how I imagine the OP's dd should get her cut like Cocolepew. Very nice and young.

The same thing happened to Dsis aged 9, she wanted a cool pixie cut and got a Clare Balding, it was quite traumatic! My mum wouldn't let her have any more off but I think that was a mistake.

Would a Toni and Guy place be any good? They are good at young, edgy cuts.

timemaychangeme · 17/01/2016 16:55

Btw I wasn't saying your dd's haircut is vile. It's certainly not a young girl's style though.

Effendi · 17/01/2016 16:55

This happened to me also. Went in for a pixie cut, came out looking like a female Rod Stewart. I had shoulder length hair and it was all gone. Was gutted.

TheDevilMadeMeDoIt · 17/01/2016 16:57

T&G may not be what you're looking for. A friend of mine, who is a very good hairdresser, reports that they have a 'style of the month' that they are encouraged to push onto anyone who comes into the salon. And I suspect that may be the same in other chains. I'd go for a good independent salon.

PunkrockerGirl · 17/01/2016 16:58

My hairdresser doesn't open on Mondays, never mind Sundays Hmm

waterjungle · 17/01/2016 16:59

Your poor DD! I though of Clare Balding too. She has my complete sympathy.

Like many others on here I also had a traumatic "hair don't" when I was younger. I spent ages getting the courage to cut off my long hair and the hairdresser who did it made a complete bodge of it.

If possible be kind and don't send her to school tomorrow. My mum did... and I spent the next year with the nickname "Charles the First" "the laughing Cavalier"and Mufasa (teens can be incredibly creative when required!).

Took me bloody ages to grow out and when my husband saw some photos from that period a while ago he spent the night pissing himself laughing.

Take her to your local cool salon as suggested, throw the ££££'s at it if possible and hope she leaves looking and feeling great. She will thank you!

Oh and post a pic of the repair job - I'm sure she'll end up looking fantastic xxxxx

Callthemodwife · 17/01/2016 16:59

Just to reassure your DD, OP, I had my hair cut into a 'pixie' by the local (provincial) hairdresser when I was in my teens and it was also awful! The boys called me 'Mark Lawrenson' for several weeks (actually just googled him again and his hair is fucking awful! Cheeky buggers!) and I didn't have such a lovely mum as you - just had to ride it out! But I look back (nearly 20 years ago now) and it does seem quite funny! Awful as it seemed at the time it was very character building and I didn't lose friends or boyfriends over it!!

BipBippadotta · 17/01/2016 16:59

Christ, I had this haircut by accident when I was about 13. I wanted to look like Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind of Wonderful. Instead I looked like I was 50. My heart goes out to your DD.

Advice from my own bitter experience: getting rid of that side parting & brushing the hair forward will help enormously. As will putting a bit of wax or serum in it to rough it up a bit. Get some light/golden blonde hair dye from Boots (one of the non messy foam ones) and it will even out stripey highlights. I would not throw loads more money at this - I've tried that tactic before & ended up with a more expensive mess on top of the original mess.

Good luck!

Fabsolutely · 17/01/2016 17:02

Poor thing, it's a terrible cut (and colour). Short hair is so nuanced, it's all in the detail. I think a proper pixie cut is lovely on a young face, and I would go for something like the Jean Seberg cut (from Mrs D above) or Michelle Williams here.

Very sad DD, new haircut please help!
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flashheartscanoe · 17/01/2016 17:03

Thanks again everyone. I'm overwhelmed at the kindness especially those who have searched and posted pics. It's really cheered her up.
Unlucky83- my hair grew back curly after chemo and when it was very short I loved it! Curly gives it body and I used to put a little clip in the side it was my fave hair ever (didn't stay curly for long)

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ShhhBeQuiet · 17/01/2016 17:05

Some hairdressers let you book online so perhaps you could book her an appointment for tomorrow rather than risk not finding a salon with appointments.

SkodaLabia · 17/01/2016 17:05

The top has been cut too short for that Hathaway look, and the fringe doesn't connect with the rest of it.

I agree with everyone, go to an expensive salon, not a local shampoo and set place. You need a block colour (brace yourself that as it washes out the stripes will re-emerge) and to cut it again. Be prepared that you may have to go pixie proper to make those short sides work.

It will definitely improve once it's styled properly, she needs it to be coming forward without a parting.

If no salons are open tomorrow get a box of dye from the supermarket (with some warm tones in so the blonde doesn't go green) and style it like the nice pics that have been linked to here.

Cocolepew · 17/01/2016 17:06

You need to find a hairdresser who isnt scared to cut hair properly short.

ADishBestEatenCold · 17/01/2016 17:09

Just wanted to say that (I agree with everyone else) and do hope that you are going to complain to the original stylist? I think, at the very least, your DD's money should be refunded.

That cut looks like the hairdressing equivalent of painting-by-numbers.

Will you come back, flashheartscanoe, and tell us how she gets on tomorrow?

Motherinlawsdung · 17/01/2016 17:09

What a lovely mum you are flashheart! Flowers

Lweji · 17/01/2016 17:14

It's possible to find hairdressers open on Sunday

Examples:
www.musehair.com/opening-hours
www.cellys.co.uk/

Search sites:
www.openonsunday.co.uk
www.yelp.co.uk/search?find_desc=Hair+Salons+Open+On+Sunday&find_loc=London

If only the OP had gone looking for any instead of doing whatever it was that was more important today than school tomorrow.
Between finding a place and booking an appointment, quite a lot of time will have been wasted.

Try and style her hair differently today and see how she feels.