Snip, Snip, Snip, for a great cause

A few months ago I was reading a blog and somehow I ended up on the blog of a really lovely family. Their youngest daughter is under going chemo at the moment. Lily saw me reading the blog one day and she asked me about the girls as all 3 of them are just gorgeous. I explained about Hailey and it made her resolve even stronger to donate her hair. You can meet Hailey and her beautiful sisters here . Stop by and say Hi and send some love their way.

Her hair has been driving her nuts because of swimming but she refused to cut it. Yesterday I measured it when she came in from school and she finally had enough to donate to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths Program. I asked her if she wanted to go next Thursday right after school got out and her response was, can I go now? I asked her if she was sure since she wasn't going to have much hair left and sometimes kids can get a bit funny. She told me she was making a choice, kids with cancer don't make the choice to get cancer and she would deal with it. (not much I could say to that. She is one logical and caring soul) I rang Jill who said, can you come right now? We did.


I didn't take a before photo. Yeah, I know DUH. But Jill was fitting us in and she was so happy to do it that she just got started and I didn't think. This photo shows how long it was.

One, two, three, SNIP.

evening out her hair and adding a few layers, oo, la la.

Blow dry time

Jill and shorty...but it isn't so short.

I love it.

Lily loves the way her hair looks. When I was measuring her hair I wasn't measuring it in a ponytail I was measuring it from her chin down. With the minimum required for a donation I had her hair level with her chin. She was fine with it but a bit nervous. When we got to Jill, she immediately pulled it back into a ponytail and then measured it. Lily cut over 9 inches of hair and still has a lot left. She spent the rest of the evening flicking her head about and generally being a fashion model. I have to say that I think she looks gorgeous with her shorter do. ( I was really hating that long stringy hair )

Oh and as we were sitting there waiting for her, a tornado warning was issued. Yesterday was June 1st the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season. We've already had two named storms this year and now we are getting tornado warnings. WTF. we don't get those here. Oh happy times.

Curly Sue and her sidekick Twirly

Just as the girls were about to go to bed on Saturday night, nice an early, so that they wouldn't be cranky pants on Sunday, they asked me to curl their hair. Since Rosie knew she was wearing a dress on Sunday and was none to happy about it i figured the least I could do was make her hair twirly for her.

Lily will sleep in old fashioned foam rollers if she wants curly hair and when she wakes up she looks like Donna Summer. The girl has CURLS. Rosie isn't in to the whole sleeping in curlers and I can't blame her so we do lots and lots of plaits and she wakes up looking like a flash back to Kate Bush in the 80's.

By the time I was through with both of them it was no longer early and they both dashed off to the land of nod looking like this:

Rosie.

Child is going to be frizzy 

Lily, AKA Ena Sharples. ( you have to be English to get that reference) 

Yesterday when we woke up the Easter madness ensued and the hair was forgotten until it was time to get dressed, in a rush. As I took Lily's rollers out her hair just got bigger and bigger. Child had some many enormous curls and she wasn't happy. I did remind her that it was her idea. I wet her hair down a little and it looked great but she still wasn't happy. We ended up washing it but I failed to get a photo before hand. It amazes me that her long straight as an arrow her can get so curly and stay that way all day until it is washed. Rosie on the other hand loved ehr curls, AKA frizz and was very happy to prance about all day that way.