Hair Adventures

My kids can talk me into almost anything.  As long as its not dangerous (ok maybe some times its dangerous lol).  My oldest is the pro, of course being 18 she has had many years of practice.  Her favorite thing to talk me into is dealing with her hair.  When she was in 6th grade she convinced me to dye her hair.  We are not talking like black, or a different shade of brown, or any normal hair color.  She wanted blues, and reds, and purples.  My thinking was "ok shes going into middle school and wants to stand out" and also I wanted the same thing, and my mom always said ok and then never did it lol.  So we bleached (her hair is dark brown) about 2 inches on the bottom and the another inch streak around her face (her hair was also long and straight), I guess it could be considered her bang area.  And her first color was a blood red.  It changed on a weekly basis.  It was kind of cool, and she finally tired of it.  Then came the highlights.  And then complete color change, but managing to stay with in normal hair color ranges.  Until she wanted to bleach the whole thing.  I must add, with each change, I made her understand that no matter what happened it was not my fault LOL.  I also must say, she is a really good sport LOL.  I also cut her hair.  We have a good time doing these things together, and we laugh and laugh each time.  D is starting to join in the fun too!

There have been two times that I have found my self almost lying on the floor peeing in my pants laughing, once about 3 years ago, she decided to cut her own bangs cause I told her I didnt have time and she apparently couldnt wait the whole 2 hours I asked her to wait.  It maybe wrong to laugh so hard at your childrens mistakes, but man this was a gut buster (I repeat I am sooo glad she is able to laugh at herself too)

The other time is this morning.  K is very impressionable, and impulsive.  K wants long flowing slightly curling waves in her hair, K is going to get them no matter how many trials its going to take.  Last night she googled "wavy hair" and came up with pin curls using bobby pins.  I kept telling her that it was going to be to curly, it wasnt going to be how she wanted it, but all I heard was "please mom, please help me, please please please".  So with a slight snicker I agreed.  So she showed me how she wanted it done.....twist the hair tightly thing curl the twisted hair and pin it to her head with a bobby pin.  Ok an hour later we were done.  I went to bed, and this morning she asked me to help her take it out.  I was still snickering.  As we were taking the bobby pins out the tightly curled bumps did not move.  She was still in excited mode, expecting wavy like curls, we got them all out and she went to start unraveling.  And I heard "moooooommmmmmm" and she walked in and I couldnt help myself.....I havent laughed that hard in weeks!!!  My mostly straight haired baby was an orphan annie look a like freckles and all LOL.  She stood there and told me "its not even long and flowy"  and I howled.  Yes she let me take a picture but I think she would kill me if I posted it hmmmmmm ....