My beautiful 12 year old daughter, Anneliese, has long luxurious locks of wavy hair. I wish my hair was as thick and gorgeous as hers. But she's needed a haircut desperately for a while. However, she had in mind a very specific type of haircut called a butterfly cut, and she didn't trust me to do it. There's a hairdresser in our community that is relatively affordable, and my daughter had her heart set on this person cutting her hair.
She specifically wanted it cut during summer vacation so she could come back to school with a whole new look.
I begged her to please at least let me cut off her split ends, and she can do the butterfly cut later, but she didn't want to.
When we reached out to the hairdresser in our community to give her a haircut, she wasn't able to do it yet, but my daughter wanted it already and decided that as long as I watched this tutorial on how to give a butterfly cut, she'd trust me to do it.
I told her I'd do it longer at first, so that way if I make any mistakes we can fix it, but if she wants it shorter, we can do it again.
So, following the instructions, she first washed her hair and left it wet.
Then, with the hair forward, you just cut straight across the "unicorn horn" ponytail. I cut a good 7 inches off that one.
Then the higher ponytail, you pull forward and down, and cut the same amount off that one.
Look at that gorgeous haircut on that gorgeous girl.
To say my daughter was thrilled would be an understatement.
We are really happy with how it turned out.
It's just a shame we didn't do it all these months earlier.
Do you give haircuts at home? What type of haircuts do you usually do? Do you know how to do any specific special styles? Does this seem like something you'd feel comfortable doing yourself?
Haircuts at home are convenient, as well as a great way to save money. I had cut my son’s hair short when he was growing up, usually one length with an attachment on the clippers and my daughter I would just cut hers straight across with a pair of my sewing shears. I was not making very much money, so salons and barbershops were not in my budget.
ReplyDeleteMy kids are grown and have children of their own. My son cuts his own hair short with clippers, but daughter goes to a salon.
My previous husband died of cancer several years ago, and he was almost completely bald, so it was just clipper the back and sides.
My current husband has a full head of hair and a beard. Every 5-6 weeks I cut his hair to keep it short, but he doesn’t want it shaved. I think I do an awesome job giving him a short well groomed haircut. I get compliments on his haircuts. Every other time, I take a seat afterwards and he trims my long hair. My hair is thick, so he does the full sectioning, and trims my hair in increments, establishing the guide length and following with successive layer. He does a great job every time, plus in the summer heat, I like my hair out of my face and off my neck, so I have him give me different braids. I know he does a great job with them, as I get compliments on my braids and they ask how I do them. I tell them I take a seat and tell him to braid my hair. I often get the comment that they want to borrow my husband to do their hair. I tell them that I only want him to braid my hair, although I am ok with him braiding his daughter’s and our granddaughter’s hair, but not for other ladies. I am ok with him giving haircuts to my sister and another friend of mine, who doesn’t trust the hairdressers that would always cut her long hair too short. But I am there, they are not strangers trying to flirt with my husband.