This year we decided to stretch the holidays a bit and for the last few days before Christmas, we let the kids open one gift every day. December 23 was one such day. Kardynn picked out a gift from Annika.
She was delighted to unwrap a Hello Kitty makeup/toiletry kit. The girls immediately started to play with it but then they moved on to other things. They were using post-its and making "beards" and taking turns pretending to be Santa. We watched several performances of Santa interacting with little girls. (In this case the "little girl" is bigger than Santa.)
Eventually we encouraged the kids to take showers. But after a while, Dwight and I realized that it had been quiet for too long. I went off to investigate and found two little girls locked in the kids' bathroom - never a good sign.
They had taken the three bottles of Hello Kitty nail polish and decided to "highlight" Kardynn's hair. I only took one photo before Dwight suggested that I was giving the wrong message by taking photos. So I have no pictures of the ensuing buzz cuts...which probably would have been tricky anyway since I became somewhat emotional watching their beautiful tresses falling to the floor. But I'm getting ahead of myself, what you can't see here are the additional "highlights" on the sides, not to mention the additional mess of nail polish that was unveiled when we removed the bun. It was definitely impressive. That one blue streak, for example, went the entire length of her hair.
I spent quite a bit of time reading online about how to get nail
polish out of hair and most of the suggestions were for nail polish
remover (which I did NOT want to put on my baby's sensitive scalp).
Dwight tried to get it off with water but that didn't do much on the
thick glob of nail polish. We thought about just leaving it, and
letting her have multi-colored hair, but that didn't seem like a good
idea either. So eventually we decided to go with the second most
popular suggestion on the Internet - cut off the hair. We had warned Annika that if Kardynn's hair ended up having to be cut
off, we would cut off her hair as well. Initially she was enthusiastic
about the idea but when she saw my reaction, as it was happening, she
started to get second thoughts. I'll admit, it didn't really seem like
*that* big of a deal until I saw the hair falling to the floor and then
it seemed like the worst idea we'd ever had.
But, hey, it's just hair. It will grow back. And on the bright side, I don't think we have to worry about these two putting nail polish in their hair ever again. Let me tell you that seeing those two girls with their bald heads makes me incredibly grateful for two healthy - albeit mischievous - little girls.
17 comments:
so now the song should be "all i want for xmas is my two front teeth and ummmm some hair too if you pleeth!"y
Hi I have to shaved my daughter head bald from the same thing.did you have to shaved them bald?? Do they like haveing no hair?????
Yes, completely bald. They were a little shy and embarrassed about it at first but they've gotten used to it and I don't think it bothers them anymore. Both of them have told us various things that they like about having no hair. How about your daughter? Did she mind it? How long ago did you have to do it?
My daughter loves her new haircut.it was 4 weeks ago.do you have photo of your daughter getting there head shaved????
We didn't take any pictures while we were actually cutting it off. My husband thought it was giving the girls the wrong idea, to take pictures. So I just have this one BEFORE picture and pictures from the days after (like the photos posted on this blog post).
How long is there hair now??
It's been about three weeks for us so it's still pretty short. Was it hard on you. I still feel sad sometimes about it but life goes on, right? I'm just glad that they weren't too traumatized.
It was very hard for me.i saw you are a photographer do you do that as a job?? I am a photographer too.what do you likt to tack photo of??
I just decided to stop being a "photographer for hire". I like to take pictures of pretty much anything. *hehe* You?
Anything.can you post more photo of your girls.so I can show my daughter???????
Nail polish is better than lice ...
Are you mad at me
Sorry, I missed these last two comments. Alek, I have a couple of cameras but my go-to is the Nikon D7000.
I suppose you're right, Gwen. I love it now that they have hair again!
How long is there hair now. Will you shave there head agine
Their hair is starting to get cute...it's maybe an inch long. I hope we do not have to shave it again though I think both of them kind of like the short haircuts. It has certainly gotten them lots of attention!
Can you new photo of them ??
Can you put new photo of there hair grow????
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