First Haircut

DB needed a haircut.  We loved his shaggy look, but the back was beginning to really really look like a mullet.  Honestly we were in denial, but after looking at some baby pictures of AB, it seems denial of the mullet is something we do - in reality AB's mullet was worse than DB's.  Whatever, it was time to cut DB's hair.

A lot of the local parents here shave off their young child's hair (like 3 month - 3 year olds, sometimes including girls) during the summer.  I was told this was for two reasons, 1) It is cooler.  2) It will make their hair grow thicker, like it will change the make-up of a child's hair.  I can understand the first reason, but when people told me I should shave my 2 year old daughter's hair to make it grow in thicker, I skipped their advice. 

Anyways, since I have a bumpy history with local hairstylists, and they seem to be clipper happy with children, I thought I might as well try to cut DB's hair myself.  I figured if it came out bad, which was a very real possibility, I only had myself to blame, not a stylist who refused to listen to me and did what they thought was best.  Since I was scared of cutting too much, I felt the spectrum of bad would be less with me, than with them.



I stripped DB down, sat in him his high chair, wet his hair, and started planning my snips.  By the way, that look he is giving me in this picture is not a look of confidence.  Gosh, if he only knew my history of hair cutting was strictly with cutting our dog's hair, and wow did our dog look terrible afterwards, DB would probably look absolutely terrified and should be trying to get away from me. 

I started with the bangs since that seemed safe.  Later KB told me I should never cut boy's bangs straight across.  As a girl who spent the first 14 years of her life with bangs, I knew those things would grow in fast if I messed them up, so I was not particularly concerned.



Next I worked on the sides since the hair hanging over his ears was particularly annoying me. I literally have no technique.  However with that said, I have had short hair enough times to know I should lift a vertical section of hair between my fingers and snip, but since that technique turned out terrible on our dog, I was not certain it would look good on DB.  

Ever the good sport, AB faithfully stood by her little brother in his 10 minutes of need

I eventually moved around to the back.  Essentially I trimmed his bangs, trimmed the hair around his ears, and cut off the length in the back.  It looked pretty good until it dried.  KB said was too flat on the top and too wide around the sides and back.  He said it looked like the hair of a man who is bald on top but keeps the sides and back too long (something he sould know since bald is the direction his hair is going, love you Kev).  Whatever, I brought out my scissors again and really went to town this time.  I did not hold back. 

Here was the final product (this was the next day).  Other than around the ears, which I still have no idea how to do, it looks okay - there are no visible lines or chunks of hair missing.  Now two weeks later it looks better.  Time has worked in our favor and has smoothed out my amateur snips.  He was a good sport.