Because the extent of my hair expertise as a mom with boys is, take clippers, add attachment, turn on clippers, run through hair.
That being said, my friend asked me to try to give her a pixie cut. I googled how to do a pixie cut, speed-read through the directions, and I was set!
Here is her before picture so you can see how lovely her hair is :)
It's a little blurry, but you can see her beautiful locks falling gently onto her shoulders and flowing calmly, framing her face like a well made picture frame. SEE! Writer!
Now before I show you the after picture, let me defend myself by saying, she knew better! I have done her hair before. This is the fourth time and the first three weren't that wonderful!
Let's see, the first time I dyed her hair and well, it wasn't very nice looking when I got done. We'll leave it at that.
The next time, I bleached her hair. I am not sure how to bleach hair so I followed the directions (for the most part) and wrapped it like it said (or close to it) and waited the allotted amount of time (give or take a 1/2 hour). She ended up with some bleached spots, some orange spots, and a few red spots here and there sprinkled throughout her hair. She went to a salon to get it fixed correctly.
The last time I did her hair, I was giving her a perm. If ever you need a perm, I am NOT the person you should ask. NEVER ask a person with A.D.D. to come perm your hair when you have an interesting TV show on. I followed the directions (kind of) and then started timing. 30 minutes, three hours... they both have a 3 in them, right? Then I had her wash her hair out. I laugh maniacally when I say that, because, LITERALLY, she washed her hair out. As in, it fell out in clumps. To this day she still has a bald spot from my A.D.D. perm timer.
And STILL, she asked me to give her a pixie cut. So with all my hair cutting knowledge, that goes something like this: Hold scissors in one hand, hold hair in other hand, start cutting until it looks like the picture... I started cutting the cutest pixie cut ever!
Although her hair didn't turn out like what I was picturing in my head. Instead, this is her after photo...