Archive for October 30th, 2006
Bad Hair Day
What have we done? Oh, sure, we had the best of intentions but don’t the architects of all great disasters? And it’s my fault, really. J wanted to wait, to grow their hair out but, no, I insisted in cutting Evie, Scarlett and Jemima’s fringes for them.
I just couldn’t bear to see it bothering them anymore. The longest strands had reached their eyes but they didn’t know to push it away so all day they’d be blinking and squinting as hair tickled their eyelids and brows.
So, optimist that I am, I argued that we should just cut them a fringe. I mean, how hard could it be? Comb it down, snip, snip, snip, and it’s done.
Comb it down, snip, snip, snip and your little girls turn from cute, little, wild-haired urchins to sloping-fringed spods, more like. How hard can it be? Not hard at all… if you’re trying to fit in in a backwoods, red-neck trailer park.
It didn’t occur to either of us that cuttin their hair in the bath would mean that, it being wavy, it would spring back shorter, nor that doing it as quick as possible to avoid the risk of cutting something other than hair might not lead to the straightest cut. And it’s only now I look at them, I realise that a fringe should perhaps blend into the hair to the side of it and not just be cut directly across the forehead.
Poor girls. There’ll be pages now in the family album that I’m sure will get turned past very quickly when future friends and boyfriends show an interest. Either that or they’ll have been so scarred by what we’ve done to them that they end up moving to Tennassee so they can show their pictures without dying from the shame.
Anyway, I’ll let you judge for yourself…
Here’s Jethro.. um ,I mean Jemima…
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… Scarlett (eating her morning grits)…
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… and Evie (with the wonkiest,widest, shortest fringe of all – she was unlucky enough to be the first to have her’s cut).
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And here’s Lettie and Jem in their dungarees, waiting for the ho-down to start up.
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