Last week, Little Bean came home with her first official school photo, and I have to admit, I did give a little giggle when I saw it, and then I slapped myself repeatedly about the head with an imaginary wet fish! Look at my poor Little Bean; she is smiling so beautifully and is such a little sweetheart; how on earth could I have done that with her hair?! All that is missing is a couple of wires to flick it up and an Austrian jumpsuit from the mountains of Tirol!!
Seriously, I need lessons in how to dress her hair because I am rubbish at it. Unfortunately, Little Bean has inherited my hair, which isn’t straight, and it isn’t curly; it’s just scruffy with a double crown. If I don’t tie her hair up every day, she looks like she has been dragged through a hedge backwards, but try as I might, I am useless with hair ideas, and I can’t for the life of me fathom out how to do a French plait????
With my own hair, I either have to scrape it back into a ponytail/bun or straighten it, which then ruins it. I asked if she wanted her hair shorter, but just like I did when I was little, she wanted to be girly and have long hair like all the other little girls in her class.
Honestly, I swear Beanie Boy takes one look at Little Bean in the morning and breathes a sigh of relief that he wasn’t a girl; he gets to go to the barber’s shop with Daddy for a father/son cut and lives happily in the knowledge that I will never be let loose on his barnet!
Come on, parents of little girls, share your wisdom: how can I save Little Bean from a lifetime of hair misery with me for her hairdresser?
I can teach you some hair styles if you like?
Have you been practising on N? x