Monday 26 March 2012

AB's hair


AB lives next door. She's 12 and I swear the child will be a professional designer when she grows up, if not before. Both parents are very artistic, and she's super stylish. Her bedroom is an amazing design of fairy lights and she can make anything out of fabrics.

This is her latest idea - dyeing her hair red. But just the very ends of it, a very bright red. It looks amazing and eye catching as she walks along in her well cut jacket and jeans, which probably came from a charity shop because she isn't flush with money. Nothing flashy, but everybody notices her. Wonder what she will be like when she's 18.




43 comments:

  1. Good for her! I'm glad her mom allows her to express herself. :)

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  2. My mum would not have been exactly happy if I had dyed my hair at the age of 12... :-) We (my sister, our two best friends who were also sisters, and I) started with that when we were about 15-16, and those were the 1980s - it was practically a teenager's duty to have a different hair colour every week!

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  3. I admire her creative spirit but children have such glorious hair (and AB's is exceptional)that I wish they'd leave their hair alone. But I'm just an old poop and kids don't listen to me, and that's probably for the best.

    CC

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  4. What lovely hair! And what a brilliant idea just to do the ends.

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  5. Hello Jenny:
    My Hungarian hairdresser is always trying to entice his clients to add a little red to their hair. Some go for it but we have never been brave enough....AB would most probably have a ball!!!

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  6. Good for her! My 19 year old just showed me a temporary way to dye her hair--with chalk no less!

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  7. Like Jill, I'm glad she's allowed to express herself like this. There are so many ways that children choose to express themselves harmfully that something like this is great - and she looks so attractive.

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  8. I got used to this about thirty years ago when the lovely redheaded daughter of a friend defied her red headed mother and literally chainged her hair color daily with the contents of a Kool-Aid package. Why be red when you could be orange, green, yellow, blue, or whatever you wound up with.

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  9. Ah, a person who marches to a different drummer is my kind of girl. When I was young I used to put iodine in my hair to get red streaks. It didn't go over well with my teachers or parents, but I liked it.

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  10. I like it! Unique! Like her. :)

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  11. Oh Jenny what a lovely post. I love watching children develop their own style. It is usually the ones who can't go out and buy whatever they want that become the most creative. I applaud her parents for allowing her to express her individuality. Bonnie

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  12. I love individuality! Her hair looks great.

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  13. Love to hear ABis being encouraged to be herself . . . yes indeed, I would love to see her at 18 . . .

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  14. Some people know their path from a very early age. This sweet child sure knows what she likes.. and wears it well.

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  15. She will be a force to be reckoned with.

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  16. I knew a girl who was a natural blonde and she colored the tips of her hair black. It was very striking.

    That's cool the neighbor girl's parents let her do that. I can't imagine mine would have at that age.

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  17. I actually love it!!! she has some spunk!

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  18. My darling daughter has just turned 21 last week, and has been making noises about dyeing her hair something exciting. I shall send her this picture and see if it inspires her. Her hair is very long too, and it seems a pity to me to dye the whole lot, say, blue, especially when just the ends make such an interesting statement.

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  19. She'll be a very stylish and elegant 18 year old I should think.

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  20. omigosh 12!! she is definitely very creative and stylish - and way ahead of her time

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    1. Hah! My eldest son dyed his blonde hair pink when he was 12. His conservative catholic school was not impressed.

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  22. Very creative....I like her jacket too!I've noticed that this generation of young girls is super aware of appearance.
    Ruby

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  23. ahan..such creativity at 12... i wonder what would she be at my age :)

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  24. What a creative use of hair color. I'll bet you enjoy having AB as a next door neighbor. I agree with you, looks like she's on an amazing path.

    Darla

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  25. Just goes to show that some are born with "It". In my daughter's early years at school, the fad was for girls and boys alike to colour their hair with Kool-Aid, and it proved almost impossible to wash out. (sorry if this is a double comment, but I accidentally hit a key in the middle of leaving it the first time round, and it went up in smoke somewhere).

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  26. Now you are really traveling into serious territory, Jenny! :)) There is nothing like hair to stir the emotions, especially when a bad hair cut can leave you discombobulated for months. Penelope (the fictional character my daughter draws) has such fluid hair it even obscures the face. Hair takes center stage for many and your neighbor has certainly keyed into this. I love her idea of reddening just the tips … no worries about roots growing out. She is, indeed, a very clever little girl!

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  27. Jenny,
    I have never thought about such a hair dyeing!! She is a born designer. I can see her gift blooming beautifully in her style.
    keiko

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  28. She sound wonderful.
    They have a new hair dye that is a power in a compact you just pull your dry hair across it and "waa la" color. It just washes out so next day you can have a new color.... how fun is that.

    cheers, parsnip

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  29. It's wonderful. Very original. I wonder what amazing things she'll be doing in a few year's time?

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  30. That's very neat idea and this will catch on very soon!

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  31. She know how to get attention. Not too much, but made us look. Right? :)

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  32. Genius. A quick trim when she's bored with it and she'll be ready to start again :-)

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  33. Goodness me, I have to wonder if her school will approve of her fun. :)

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  34. To be creative and to have own style may be quite natural as a part of her family run. I'm afraid here school children are not allowed to dye their hair nor have their hair permed.

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  35. A little hair colouring is fun! But then, my kids are younger. I wonder if I'll feel the same way when they are 12? LOL!

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  36. It is eye-catching! I see dyeing hair as a part of creativeness of one’s self expression, different from my generation’s way of hiding hair streaked with gray. Personally I prefer natural hair as young people’s hair is so lustre.

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  37. It looks gorgeous--very creative and fun. I have a friend who had very short salt-and-pepper hair--it looked great as it was but then she added a turquoise streak at the front. It was marvelous.

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  38. I've got violet streaks in mine, mostly in the fringe with another large streak on either side of my face.

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  39. i rather like the red in the hair...

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  40. I'm voting with the 'in favour' lobby. AB could do a lot worse than colour the tips of her hair. Of course I suspect that most of us (however we feel academically) might find that attractive but if, for example, she shaved her head and tattood it would we feel the same? Life's rarely straightforward.

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  41. I have a 12yo too. She hasn't dyed her hair red...just yet. I hope that she won't see your post!

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