Week 52 of Tara's Gallery. It doesn't seem two minutes, etc, etc. This week the theme is Hair and I am so looking forward to seeing the bad hairstyles on offer from my fellow bloggers.
In 2008, I was recovering from breast cancer treatment and my hair was growing back slowly. For a pictorial demonstration of the loss and the regrowth, pop to this previous Gallery post. It was good to have it back, don't get me wrong, but I missed my long locks and straightening my pixie crop with mini-straighteners just didn't cut the mustard. What could I do? How could I sate my lust for rampant hairstyling?
It was then that my eyes fell upon 4 year old O. A boy with lucious curly locks, tousled and bouncy. AND RIPE FOR THE STRAIGHTENING!
He was pliant and still as I impressed upon him the need not to move as I brandished the scorching GHDs. He went from this:
to this, in a matter of minutes:
I know he looks sad - but it was a transient sadness. I do have a beaming photo - look!
Yes, it was wrong, but these were desperate times. Now I've got my own wild curly mane (chemo can make your hair come back curly) and my straightening days are long behind me. It takes far to long to even achieve a wavy kink out of the new hair. But O is safe too - I think at the ripe old age of six, he would tell me in no uncertain terms to PUT THE STRAIGHTENERS DOWN, MUMMY!
I cannot you've put the Donny Osmond photo up. I remember crying with laughter when you sent me that photo. Perfect visual tomfoolery for his first girlfriend I think.
ReplyDeletehe looks so cute with his little "bob"! ;) His little curls are adorable though arent they? x
ReplyDeleteHoly moly! It's like having a live Girls World
ReplyDeleteOh sweet, what a gorgeous little fellow!
ReplyDeleteawww There are so many curly boys around today. Son number 2 has lovely curly hair. His girlfriend straightened his on Sunday. I prefer it curly lol
ReplyDeleteI would have love to have been let loose with the GHD's- what fun! Bless his little curly locks! I am new to the Gallery and have been having a look at other's photos!
ReplyDeleteBless him!
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Oh bless him!
ReplyDeleteI am calling social services right now. I hope you haven't got a set of heated rollers either. I would never ever do anything like that * cough
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. Beautiful curls.
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I am battling with my 12 yr old at present who has a fringe down to his nose - a sort of wig effect, he won't have it cut and walks round bumping into things... I'm sure it will damage his eyesight - I have clippers and have in the past chopped it all off but it grows back so quickly I can't keep up the good work and have given up... which is more cruel? a kid with his hair looking like chewed by a wild animal, or one who can't see safely to cross the road?
ReplyDeleteOh I'm with Laura - one to show the first girlfriend there. :)
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