Snippety Snip

I was a bald baby, born with absolutely no hair on my big ass noggin. I didn’t have what one could categorize as “hair” until I was nearly 2 years old and even then, it was thin and whispy. I did not grow a proper head of hair until I was in preschool. And what did I get after that? A rice bowl haircut! Pfft!

When The Little Empress was born, the first thing I asked was “Does she have hair?” I was assured that indeed, my little girl was born with a full head of hair! It went through some wacky stages in her first year of life, going from thick and robust to this weird male-pattern baldness thing around 3 months to nearly completely bald by the time she was six months old! At about that time it began to grow normally and by around late summer last year, I was excited to be able to finally put it into (tiny) pigtails!

But as her hair grew longer, it also grew into her eyes. I kept on getting poked by my parents to get her a haircut already. I was hesitant about cutting her hair because I loved the idea of my little girl having long hair. I would pull her hair into a side ponytail (circa 1980s) as seen here.

Side ponytail

Granted, this 80s ponytail is adorable as hell but really, I couldn’t keep it up forever. I finally decided that enough was enough and it was time to get her the haircut.

So finally, at just a week shy of her 2nd birthday, we took The Little Empress to the local children’s hair salon to get her a cute little haircut. She didn’t like the drape but she loved the Lightning McQueen salon car she got to sit in so that distracted her enough to get her hair cut.

Getting her haircut

Here’s the final result:

New 'do

The salon gave her a really cute cut! Her bangs are a nice, even length and while they did keep the overall length, she’s got some nice layers to keep the hair from getting into her face. In fact, it is pretty close to what I normally get when I get a hair cut!

I’m so proud of what a little trooper The Little Empress turned out to be. I was sure she’d tantrum so this was a nice surprise. Since this was her first haircut, the salon gave us a commemorative certificate with a cute little instant photo of her as well as a lock of her hair tucked away in a little bag. *sniff* She’s really looking more and more grown up these days. Her baby days really are long gone!