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little girls hair cuts?

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nappyaddict · 08/05/2007 03:22

why is it some people take their kids to get their hair cut and get their fringe cut right at the top of their forehead? its just cruel! think of the embarassment when they look back on the photos when they are older. or maybe that's why? good blackmailing tool!

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Budababe · 08/05/2007 07:08

I think sometimes it's to rectify something the child has done themselves or that a sibling has done to them!!

I remember feeling really sorry for a new little girl in DS's class in Reception till her Mum explained that she had cut her own fringe. The Mum was devasted!

BandofMothers · 08/05/2007 07:21

Think that probably is the explanation. I used to Nanny a little girl who has an awful haircut, and thought til the mum told me her and her sister had doene it and hacked off beautiful long thick hair. They had little pixie cuts done and looked really cute

Nbg · 08/05/2007 07:23

I have seen parents actually make the hairdressers do this though.
The usual excuse is because their hair grows so quickly, which I can understand because my dd's fringe always needs cutting.

Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:27

My Mother used to do this to me. She had a real 'thing' about my having my hair 'in your eyes'. So I used to have the 'Crazy Woman' fringe.

When I was old enough to go to the hairdressers on my own my mother had two responses. If I'd had a trim she would say 'Well, they didn't cut much off, waste of time and money'

And if I'd had a new style she used to say 'That is *nice' in a totaly unconvinced voice.

Very supportive my mum, NOT!

princessmel · 08/05/2007 08:13

I'm leaving my dds hair to grow. I've not cut a fringe at all yet.Or any of it. If its not clipped or tied back then its in her eyes but she's fine at having it up. Picks the bobbles etc. Soon it will be long enough not to hang in her eyes but go to the side.

I do think little girls with bobs and fringes look sweet though as long the fringe in sensible and not using half the hair on the head!

fryalot · 08/05/2007 08:15

confession time!

I cut ds's hair the other day, and just as I was tackling his fringe, he moved

so in order for it not to look like this:

I cut it all really high

bozza · 08/05/2007 08:17

I wonder if another problem with fringes is that they are cut in too soon IYSWIM. My DD will be 3 next week and although I have never had a fringe cut it looks like she has one because the hair on her hair line has only started growing recently. If she had already had a fringe, she would end up with a huge one, right up her head.

bananabump · 08/05/2007 08:50

My mum used to do the opposite when she cut my hair when I was little. All my photos show me with a fringe starting at the top of my head down to my eyebrows. Odd.

Lucycat · 08/05/2007 12:58

I'd love my dd to have her hair cut like the girl in the Petit Filou advert, she used to when she was little and it really suited her - now she's nearly 7 she wants longer hair though

dd2 is all blonde curls though and her longer hair suits her, a bit surfer chick

RubyRioja · 08/05/2007 13:03

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nappyaddict · 08/05/2007 13:22

well the little girl i know has no siblings and the mum actually told me her aunt had done it who was a hairdresser. she works at a good salon (ben freeman goes there) so i can only imagine the mum asked for it to be that short!

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nappyaddict · 08/05/2007 13:25

and if they want budget why not just clip it back!

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Lucycat · 08/05/2007 13:26

our hairdresser used to charge £1 to trim my dd's fringe - before she grew it out.

Boco · 08/05/2007 13:29

Dd2 has one of these freaky fringes you speak of, given to her by dd1

They were playing hairdressers, she didnt' have a fringe at all, and now she has a bizarre 1950s rockabilly one, and dd1 moved down so many places in her reward chart that her little character had to move into a totally different room to the chart.

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 08/05/2007 13:45

DD2 has hair like the Petit Filou advert girl. I think fringes on whispy little girl hair should be banned. Fringes only look good on heavy, thick hair, and seldom when it's wavy or curly. I can remember my American friends in the v.early 80's with some outrageous perms and side feathering with straight fringes. It was just weird. DD1 has curly hair and has always had it long and fringe-less. I can blow dry it kind of straight, and she's pestering me fro a side fringe, but I don't like them much. A bit too 'she-mullet'-ish

bozza · 08/05/2007 14:00

DD's hair is wavy and all I have ever done is have the wispy bits trimmed a couple of times. Her default hair style is a side parting (because crown right at one side) with a clip to keep it off her face. She is getting into wearing a headband now though and we (well I, because I seem to be the only person who can do anything with her hair) sometimes do bunches or a pony tail.

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