Anna's summer hair

Megan and Anna both jumped in the car on a spontaneous whim to get their hair cut last week. Megan's hair is suffocating her daily (it's SO thick). She showed the lady where she wanted it and soon, her locks were littering the floor.

She likes it and the dog's still recognize her, so all is well.

Anna's stylist made a couple mistakes and tried to fix them by going too short. She asked Anna if she liked it and she smiled that frozen smile and lied like we all know how to lie when we don't want to hurt someone's feelings.

The moment she got in the car, the tears began to roll. We pulled up to the house and before I knew what was happening, she had gone to her friends house to ask what she thought. Instead of love and reassurance, her friend gasped and said "ew". Good Gravy, can this kid slow down and give me a chance to get out in front of this??

I comforted and I reassured her that we can do her hair in lots of ways. And don't forget...hair grows and it will be right about where she had wanted it by the time school starts (IF school starts). We tried this fun and spunky do:

Swing and a miss. Not helping!

Then we blow dried it out:

Her spirits started to lift.

But, she really wasn't loving it. As we talked about it, I laid out the truth...the only thing to do is to let it grow or cut it shorter and into a different style. I used Mari as an example...Mari has a fun short, punky hair do! And she loves it.

Then Anna decided that that was the answer. She wanted hair like Mari's! That's her on the far left...

She made up her mind!

So on Saturday we went over to Sheilah's and she made it happen.

And Anna loves it.

And now Everly wants that hair too...except she has big plans to be Elsa for Halloween, so she's decided to wait until November. Anna is not interested in Everly copying her hair, but I am not addressing it because I know that the likelihood of something that matters today keeping our attention for 4 months is almost ZERO.