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Post by mdoc on Jul 11, 2014 0:42:31 GMT
My middle child (now 18) has been doing crazy things with her hair for years. My youngest (now 14) wanted, and got, highlights when she was 12. It's hair; it grows back. i'd rather my kids color their hair than do something more permanent.
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Post by Merge on Jul 11, 2014 0:51:40 GMT
I'm not opposed to it but I won't finance salon color or salon "fixes" if they mess it up. Older dd (13) has successfully used home color to dye her sandy-blonde hair auburn and then later back to a lighter blonde (I do help her with the home color). I took some heat from her friends' parents for that, actually. But I'm also of the opinion that it's just hair. Nothing she's done so far is nearly as bad or damaging as the super-curly perm lightened to orange with Sun-In that I was sporting at her age.
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Jul 11, 2014 1:26:27 GMT
I'd rather kids experiment with hair color at 12 than tattoos and piercings at 15.
ETA: I currently have dark brown/purple ombre hair so clearly I don't get my panties in a knot over hair color.
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Jili
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Post by Jili on Jul 11, 2014 1:36:37 GMT
I'm not bothered by it. My older teen dd currently has the underside of her hair colored with raspberry kool-aid. My younger dd wants to do it, too. It's just hair and it's not permanent.
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Post by sues on Jul 11, 2014 1:42:16 GMT
My dd started getting colored streaks when she was in 7th grade. My SIL ragged on her about 'ruining her beautiful hair' - which made me want to smack her around. I think it's out of line to rag on someone else's kid about their appearance. My brother used to get on my son about facial hair - and that mystified me too. Why do you care if my son has a goatee? If I'd have said anything- ANYTHING- to one of their kids about their appearance, it would have been WWIII. Anyway- DD's hair was down to her waist- so the colored streaks were a time consuming process. She's had blue and red (separately). After the last stuff faded away (when she's ready for it to go, she stops using the sulfate free shampoo, and it fades faster) she got regular highlights and lowlights. And cut off a foot of hair. She looked like a whole new kid! I don't mind color, neither does her dad. DD's an ashey blonde and she can do more to her hair with less trouble. Of course- she's never asked for anything extreme. If she did want something 'out there'- think Cyndi Lauper back in the day, we'd have to be coerced. I'm just not a fan of anything that seems like a total spectacle. Her roommate at camp had smurf blue hair, buzzed on one side, shaggy on the other. DD thought it was the coolest thing ever. DH just looked at her and said "No." and walked away. LOL I don't think she'd have done it herself, though.
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Post by salem on Jul 11, 2014 1:46:54 GMT
My oldest is only 12 and she has beautiful wavy/curly hair. She has mentioned a couple of times that so and so colored their hair and she'd like to try it, but usually she talks herself out of it. I don't really have a problem with her trying it, but I'm not sure she'd actually follow through just yet. My younger dd (7) would dye her hair in a heartbeat. We were at a local restaurant the other night and the hostess has big purple streaks in her hair and my dd just LOVED it.
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Post by scraptag on Jul 11, 2014 2:41:40 GMT
This is a battle I am happy to let my kid win. I say no to so many things, that this is an easy thing to say yes to.
Now - cartilage piercing and gages - that's a no.
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