My teenage daughter is getting on my nerves about dyeing her hair!

For all you people saying its just hair, go chop a few inches off the bottom. Right now. I dare you. After all, its just hair. No? Then its not just hair.

I say this EVERYTIME I go to the salon. "Do whatever you feel like. It's just hair, and if I dont like it, it'll grow out".

And until then there are hats. It IS just hair. I also don't succumb to "dares", so I'm not going to chop off hair because YOU said to. I would if the mood struck ME.

It's just hair.
 
I highlight my hair every summer & darken back in the fall with semi-perm color. And it doesn't look like crap.

I would check with a beauty college in your area see if they use Redken shades, Go for a consult. Price might not be that much. It will be done with supervison. One semi color that make my hair feel like junk for the dye back is Loreal feria.

Kae
 
DD has mid-sandy brown hair...she's gone pitch black, bright pink, blue, strawberry blonde. She's done the dark baggy clothes, the boy clothes, the rivited and torn clothes, the combat boots. Now 19, she's back to natural color, and jeans/sweaters/tshirts/hoodies LLBean looking college freshman.

She is a great kid and I have zero issues, never broke curfew, made good grades, I can count on one hand, actually 2 fingers, any fights we've had...

And I disagree with people saying to let her fall on her face...she's making a stupid mistake. It could turn out that she looks fantastic with dark hair and will live with it for a long time. I actually liked dd's hair black. The bright pink, well that took some getting used to :laughing:
 
For all you people saying its just hair, go chop a few inches off the bottom. Right now. I dare you. After all, its just hair. No? Then its not just hair.

NO. It is mine and my decision to make, and short of a director asking me to cahgne the color for a role on stage (which happens to be why I went auburn) no one else gets to tell me what to do with it--and I don't try to etll other people (even my kids) what to do with tehirs either (other than wash it:rotfl2: I DO have a 12 year old boy:lmao:). It is MY hair and I have it how I like it. I give you it takes longer to change back than putting on a different shirt or changing a nail polish color--but it DOES change relatively fast--so if someone wants to try something new, I think that is fine. I tried short hair in highschool; t looked good enough that I kept it short for two years, but I prefer it long. I dyed it black for a couple of years too. I liked it, but I prefer the "natural" (in quotes because I have been naturally grey since about 23) dark brown. I dyed it Auburn about 5 years ago too. Again, that was fine but I preferred the brown.


I agree, it's mostly harmless. But it's also pointless.

Smart people learn from their mistakes.

REALLY smart people learn from other peoples mistakes.
Well, since many thousands of people dye their hair both darker and lighter every day and end up looking nice I do not know whose "mistakes" you think this person is going to learn from:confused3
See, you are saying pick your battles and it doesnt matter and Im saying it doesnt have to be a battle and it is a teachable moment. So not even on the same page. Oh well.

I agree--it is not even a battle, gosh I don't think it is even really a teachable moment (other than maybe teaching her how to actually use dye)--just an experience. The only way to really know how a particular color or cut will look on you is to try it.
 

For all you people saying its just hair, go chop a few inches off the bottom. Right now. I dare you. After all, its just hair. No? Then its not just hair.

Done this more than once- it's hair and it grows back! I've had lots of colors, some from boxes some from salons.. some looked better than others, it's hair it grows!

I say let the girl (who is 17 not 12!) have control over this.... it's her hair!
 
She's 17... I started coloring my hair at that point. I paid for it out of my own pocket.

You already let her highlight her hair. Is it really that much of a difference?

So it may be dark. She's going to experiment with her hair color at some point. Why not let her do it now?
 
Also, hair grows slowly, the kid screws up her hair and she's in for months of feeling bad about herself and her decision, and her hair will NEVER look as good as it did before the bad dye went on it.

Months? Give it a week and she can put on new color!
 
Only on the DIS could a thread about a 17 year old wanting to dye her hair end up being 6+ pages.
Is someone dying their hair really this big of a deal :confused3
 
Only on the DIS could a thread about a 17 year old wanting to dye her hair end up being 6+ pages.
Is someone dying their hair really this big of a deal :confused3

Shouldn't be. But on the DIS board, anything is cause for a long discussion and/or argument.
 
Shouldn't be. But on the DIS board, anything is cause for a long discussion and/or argument.

:laughing: I forgot about this thread, and how funny its here because my dd told me yesterday she wants to dye the ends of her hair a dark color, she has blonde hair now. I told her I don't think it would look good but if she really wanted to do it, I'd take her. She said she is still thinking about it. Its only hair.
 
:laughing: I forgot about this thread, and how funny its here because my dd told me yesterday she wants to dye the ends of her hair a dark color, she has blonde hair now. I told her I don't think it would look good but if she really wanted to do it, I'd take her. She said she is still thinking about it. Its only hair.

plus it would be easy just to cut the ends off.
 
Let her do it, take lots of pics. Then when she's our age, she can look at the pics and wonder what the HECK she was THINKING!!!

It's hair. It grows out. :confused3 I think it's a harmless way to express themselves, and certainly better than tatoos, body piercings, etc....
 
:laughing: I forgot about this thread, and how funny its here because my dd told me yesterday she wants to dye the ends of her hair a dark color, she has blonde hair now. I told her I don't think it would look good but if she really wanted to do it, I'd take her. She said she is still thinking about it. Its only hair.

My friend has lightish red hair and she dyed the ends black when we were in college. I loved it. She's 44 now and I wish she'd do it again. It seriously really looked good (but I didn't think it looked so great on Drew Berrymore).
 





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