We live in a mews house and were up in the bedroom on the top floor with the windows open when we heard the car pull up outside and the children's voices.  We looked out of the window excitedly, only to see my boyfriend's little daughter sporting a seriously TERRIBLE new haircut!

 

Her fringe is now about one inch or even less - last week it was down to the bridge of her nose as it was growing out.

 

Now, my boyfriend doesn't have the best relationship with the children's mother (his ex), to say the least.  He lost it completely and went raging downstairs to see the damage up close.  It was really awful; the fringe is soooo short, very thick and sloping up to about half an inch long in the middle.  Then there is a bit of horrible feathering over the ears, but the rest of her hair is still long at the back so it looks exactly like a mullet.  The sides were also really uneven, with a lot more taken off of one side than the other.  We could hardly believe our eyes!

 

My boyfriend asked her who on earth had cut it and she said 'Papa' (grandad).  This made sense as my boyfriend's dad is always moaning about the little girl's long fringe (we clip it back but when she runs around strands fall out and into her eyes, although she never seems to mind herself).  My boyfriend hit the roof again and immediately called up his dad.

 

Then, he came back in the room with the full story...his daughter had actually woken up early, gone into the bathroom, climbed on the toilet seat and opened the cabinet to get the nail scissors from the top shelf and started cutting her hair herself!  Papa had found her and had to try to even out the mess.  It can't have been easy as she had snipped off pieces about five inches long!  He showed us a photo on his phone of what she'd cut herself and I have to admit that the mullet was a BIG improvement! 

 

On Sunday night we had to take the children, and the mullet, back to their mother's.  Luckily she saw the funny side!  Let's just hope it grows out quickly over the summer (she starts school in September).

 

Did anyone else ever cut their hair when they were little?  I never did; I guess I was just too vain even at four years old(!)

The little one doesn't seem too bothered a) that everyone was shouting at her (she denied it point blank pretty much and stuck to her story that Papa did it...even when he produced the mobile phone pics of her wielding the nail scissors and surrounded by random chunks of hair sitting in his bathtub in his pyjamas...you gotta laugh, hey?) or b) that her hair looks awful!   

 

The hair is not growing.  Every time I see it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

You'll be surprised though how many kids do that.

 

That thing would swell up, frizz, and upen up to this half of an open umbrella type of thing. Every time I think about it I still feel like crying LOL.

Until this day, she still apologizes when I mention it to her.

 

My mom is a great mom. In fact she is the best in the world (at least in my eyes). But that was cruel, oh so cruel! LOL

All summer long she wore a sun hat to cover it,and it actually took a whole year before it grew back right.

I also had my nephew cut MY HAIR when he was spending the night.Early in the morning I awoke to him standing above me with the scissors! I didnt think he'd got me,but a week later I noticed really SHORT pieces at the back of my head that wouldnt lay flat,I looked like DEnnis the menace!

Now I ALWAYS ALWAYS keep scissors hidden.

 

I guess it doesn't matter how many years go by, kids will be kids and they will give themselves (or each other) "haircuts" LOL