Hair Example Essay

  It's a well known fact that kids shouldn't play with scissors, and if they do usually something bad is going to happen. Talking from experience, when little girls get a hold of a pair of scissors it usually means a short, unsightly hair cut. I've had the pleasure, along with a good chuckle, of witnessing a few of these beauticians in training right after the completion of their first masterpiece.
  The first little hairdresser to be was my daughters friend, Jocelyn. She was three years old, with the cutest Shirley Temple curls that fell slightly past her shoulders. One morning while dropping my daughter at her pre school, Jocelyn came running up the sidewalk as usual, excited to see her friends. In place of the bouncy little curls that usually adorned her head, there was a hodge podge of misshapen curls with patches of near baldness. At her forehead where there was once a variety of ringlets, was a tuft of hair cut at a 60 degree angle. I know she saw the surprised expression on my face because her eyes went directly to the ground, and a small pout came to her lips. All I could push out was a slightly stern, "Jocelyn, did you cut your hair?" There was a brief moment of silence before she squeaked, "Yes," without ever lifting her eyes. I knew then that she had already heard a "mom speech" that morning, so I left it at that.
  The next little Edward Scissorhands I had the pleasure of dealing with was my own daughter. It was two weeks before Christmas and she was soon to turn four. Her hair was long and straight, well past her shoulders because I had never cut it. I had been wrapping Christmas gifts at the dining room table as she played with some toys on the floor near by. I remember having to tend to lunch cooking in the kitchen, when I returned she was not playing where I had left her. It was too late when I found her in the bathroom. She was perched on her stool she used to brush her teeth with, the scissors still in her little hand and a huge clump of hair in the sink. She turned and looked at me with a big, proud smile, like she had just done something wonderful. I couldn't be mad at her at that point, I just told her again about the dangers of playing with scissors and tried my best to fix her new bangs.
  My third example of little girls trying to play beautician includes my sister-in-law. This one was quite a shocker to me, for sure, because she was eight years old at the time. Usually if girls are going to attempt to cut their own hair, it's when they are little and trying to imitate what they've seen their mother do. I think that Rose just wanted a hair cut that day and didn't want to wait for someone else to do it. She has always had short hair, but she definitely made it shorter that day. I didn't see the immediate results of her with scissors in hand but the aftermath that she was left with when her mother tried to fix it was atrocious. Her bangs were straight but only about a quarter of an inch long, and they started way past her temples. There was no way to make the back straight because she had chopped clumps of hair out in various spots all around her head. Her hair took a long time to grow out to a point where it was worth while to see a real beautician to have it fixed.
  Little girls cutting their own hair is a normal occurrence, some might even call it a rite of passage, the first little step that a young girl makes to show their independence. Even today, if I saw a toddler with a bad haircut, it would bring back all of these memories of the girls I knew as children and their bouts with cutting their own hair. I would just chuckle and give her mom a look that I know she would understand, and probably wink at the little girl, knowing that she was just doing what comes natural to all girls, making themselves look pretty.