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i think white boys lok crap wiht shaved heads

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FluffyMummy123 · 01/08/2008 11:05

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Countingthegreyhairs · 01/08/2008 11:47

not shaved but cut short (when I was young three centuries ago)

went on a school trip aged 11 to channel islands - who we thought was owner of hotel walked in to our room one night in plaid dressing gown, leather slippers, short haircut

being well drilled we got up off our bunk beds and said "good evening sir"

turned out it was our headmistress, Sister Augustine ... didn't recognise her without her habit on ...

god how we sniggered afterwards

poor woman

(although she was a bit of a cow come to think of )

Countingthegreyhairs · 01/08/2008 11:48

oops - rushing - it

Twinkie1 · 01/08/2008 11:51

It makes small boys look chavvy - my DS looks like a surf dude with his ong hair at the moent but we are trying to decide whether to give him a short back and side before our hols so he isn't a sweaty oik!

I suppose I could get him to wear a bandana??? (a la Beckham!)

The worse look is children with nearly white blonde hair with shaved heads - that just looks weird!

Ledodgy · 01/08/2008 11:51

I hate it too which is why my ds is a mass of curls!

nailpolish · 01/08/2008 11:53

well you learn something every day dont you

we have a convent near us but the nuns all have long hair

Countingthegreyhairs · 01/08/2008 12:20

oh all the nuns of my acquantaince nowadays are in mufti

two of the best live in high rise run-down estate in one of worst areas of Nottm - highest murder rate in UK apparently - one is social worker - one is teacher - one wears combats and the other ethnic type skirts & beads from Monsoon

Countingthegreyhairs · 01/08/2008 12:37

er, meant to add, they have normal hairstyles obviously

(sorry, end of digression)

pucca · 01/08/2008 12:42

I think boys with long overgrown hair look crap, it looks scruffy and awful.

OrmIrian · 01/08/2008 13:17

My DS doesn't look awful pucca. He has shoulder length hair the colour of butter, and really really soft. I wish it was mine

Do you think the same about girls?

pucca · 01/08/2008 13:23

No of course i don't think the same about girls, its just personally opinion, i think boys should look like boys, i just cringe when i see a boy with long hair, i just don't personally think it looks right.

Wuxiapian · 01/08/2008 13:24

My brother (mixed race - 1/2 black, 1/2 white) has a grade 0 all over.

My son (mixed race - 1/2 asian indian, 1/4 black, 1/4 white has a grade 2 all over.

Don't know whether it's head shape or colouring, but they both look gorgeous!

I much prefer a close cut for men and boys - neat and tidy and practical. Can't stand seeing little boys with long hair and fringes in their eyes.

DoubleBluff · 01/08/2008 13:27

I like boys hair either really short ( not shaved) or long and flowing.
Can't bear this trend for tram lines and shaving words in the back of the head.
Ds1 keeps asking for a ' nike' tick in the back of his head, but I am refusing point blank.
I've told him people i arrest have hair like that so you aren't!

OrmIrian · 01/08/2008 13:29

He does look like a boy pucca. Just a boy with long hair.

pucca · 01/08/2008 13:29

Lol @ DB, good god do tram lines still exist??? how scary.

I really don't like this mullet type cut that seems to be all the rage atm for little boys.

pucca · 01/08/2008 13:30

OI... So if you are talking long flowing hair, can you only tell he is a boy by his clothes then?

OrmIrian · 01/08/2008 13:32

By his clothes, yes. By his face - he's 11 so not a chubby little face anymore. His actions I suppose. His voice is deeper than a girls.

Not that it matters much anyway. But I find it odd that something so ephemeral as hairstyle sets someone's gender.

Tortington · 01/08/2008 13:32

my ds looks like posh spice his hair is long and limp and long bobesq. he is certain that the key to getting girls isbecuase he has long hair. as he didn't get girls when he had short hair - he was 13 ffs when he had short hair. never the less he refuses to go to barbers. to have layers or styling of any kind. I have even begged him to have a block of colour in it. nope nope nope. he looks like a skinny mop.

MrsFluffleHasAWuffle · 01/08/2008 13:33

I hate how it looks on DS but he has a strange shaped head, the hair goes off in all directions at right angles to his head and it never "drops" iyswim so it could be styled like a normal little boy style.

irritates the hell out of me!

OrmIrian · 01/08/2008 13:35

Aha custardo. My lad has no problems getting girlfriends. We fight them off with a broom sometimes! He isn't that bothered either. Arriogant little b*gger.

ThatBigGermanPrison · 01/08/2008 13:39

We call them bullet heads round here. And yes, it seems to make the appear instantly naughty. I can't help my social conditioning.

Gobbledigook · 01/08/2008 13:56

I think it looks fine on men that are losing their hair (dh )- having it ultra short is infinitely preferable to trying to have it long!

On little boys - no, they look like thugs.

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