Was your first haircut traumatic?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Not the one mom or the barber gave you...the one you gave yourself that made you look like you had mange or something.....

My little guy did a real butcher job on himself after his bath. Must've been distraught over the nasty tasting "ice cream" he had earlier.

[kanrok]

1. Yes

But don't ask me about it. It's too painful to talk about.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. ok

:beer:

[bo44]

2. Did something stupid to a haircut that freaked me out.

When I was 13 my mom took to the barber to tighten up the pompadour greasy kidstuff and all. She then dropped me off at a friends house. Little did she know I went there to have a cigarette. Since I had no matches I bent over the gas stove to light my Kool and singed the hell out of my pompadour. Major freak out while my friend nearl pisses hisself in laughter. Wasn't too bad Mom never found out.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. LOL!

I can't believe your mom didn't notice!

Betcha weren't feeling too Kool after that...

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Once, when I was maybe 5, my sister was playing with surgical scissors

near my head... Playing with the idea of cutting my hair. She wound up snipping off the top of my ear... My ears are different to this day. One is flat on top, while the other is rounded.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. OW!

Don't ever let her forget! :evilgrin:

[No2W2004]

7. My daughter (5) actually did a good job on her bangs,

but she still isn't allowed near the scissors.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. My son needs work on his fine motor skills

so ordinarily I'd be thrilled with his interest in scissors. I didn't want to discourage him from their proper use, so I kept totally cool about the incident, and explained that even my hairstylist has someone else cut his hair. And I told him that he could cut himself trying to do it himself.

Having seen himself in the mirror, I doubt this will ever be a recurring problem...

[HEyHEY]

9. nah, I didn' t understand the gravity of the situation

[PittPoliSci]

10. i don't remember...

i'm assuming it was though, everything was traumatic for me when i was a child.

[alphafemale]

11. No. But my first encounter with an Epi-Lady certainly was. YEE_OOUUCHH

There was not a repeat performance.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. HORRIBLE!

This is a barber experience, but it scarred me. It happened when I was four. I remember clearly, I was in the bath and my mom asked me "do you want your haircut to be long or short" I thought she meant "length of time" so I said "Short! Short! Why would I want it long?" So I remember thinking in the chair, "it's a good thing I said short, this is taking forever...long would have been worse." So they turn me around and wham. BOY haircut. I cried.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I had a similar experience in jr high......

My mom took me to the "beauty parlor" after I told her I wanted my hair long (like almost every other girl in my school in the early 70s). She assured me that I was just going for a "trim", and I saw her motion to the "stylist" to cut it all off.

I really was devastated. What a nasty conniving thing to do. It destroyed my trust in her; and I didn't set foot in a salon of any kind for the next 8 years.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. No more thatn the cuts my mom used to give me.

The kids would tease me and ask if my mom put a bowl on my head.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I could tell folks it's the latest style...

The mange cut. Hottest thing since the mullet.