Haircuts when you were school age

[silver56uk]

Ladies did your mother ever make you get a short bob haircut in school years OR worse have you cut short like a boys haircut ? Maybe your mum or dad cut your hair was it drastic? Or did dad ever get his barber to trim your hair after him in the barbershop? Anyone got a interesting story to tell.

[daffy654]

My hair was very long when I was about 7 years old(around my mid back length),there was an outbreak of headlice at school and although I never caught them I was made to have my hair cut into a pageboy style to make it easier to check for nits.I cried for days over that one!!!

[Bbbananas]

Between the ages of 4 and 10 I had The Fringe. I had nightmares about it for for years. It was halfway up my forehead & never straight. Made me look like one of the Munsters.

Worse - sometimes Mother scraped every single hair back into a ponytail with such ferocity it made me look Japanese - I think this was the 60's version of today's chelsea facelift. It was painful. When the laggy band was taken out at night my head throbbed for a good hour afterwards.

[joggerjayne]

I had "the pony tail"

or "the tousled mess"

[4getmenot]

Mum chopped all my hair off when I was about 10. boy haircut I grew it straight out again

[solitude]

I had long curly thick hair that reached way down my back. The day before I was sent to a boarding school, just before my 10th birthday, I was given a short back and sides as my mum thought it would be easier for me to take care of. I hated it and have always associated having my hair short with bad times in my life. I will have hair below my shoulders till the day I die.

[cazzz1975]

I had long hair but a diagonal fringe (the bit that was cut)

[sara3]

I can sympathise with solitude. my mum used to brush my curly hair straight every morning before school, and it hurt!

[fun_mum]

omg i had lovely long hair all the way down my back then some new kid started my school and kept giving us all lice. So i had 2 have it cut really short looked like a boy i was only 7 and cried for days then when i got over it i made best friends with the new kid 2 catch lice to prove i could still catch it

[silver56uk]

wow some amazing stories here so far. The ones about fringes and head lice are common i think its a power thing with parents cutting a girl short. Solitude your story particulary is interesting you must have been nervous going to boarding school as it was so being given a short back and sides Must have been terrible. Was it cut in a salon or a barbershop at the time ? what year was this done can you recall. I dont think children get bad drastic haircuts like they dished out years ago. I hope to hear more interesting stories thankyou.

[annie0000]

Do you have some kind of hair cut fetish silver? - I am sure you post this same question every few months.

[silver56uk]

I had drastic haircuts from barbers myself after school and i hated them im sure many of the barbers some years back took great delight in shearing a boys neck and sides as close to the skin as possible . And if that wasnt bad enough brylcream or some kind of hair oil was applied at the end and you literally looked and felt Totally different to the boy who walked in the shop. Being shy as many boys were then i hated /dreaded / and lothed the process . You sometimes have to post every so often to catch different people reading your question. Its not a fetish thing annie its learning how others felt and what experiences they had or went through. Your probably a woman who was lucky and didnt get scalped short . Im perfectly normal i assure you . Thankyou to thouse who had wrote so far. i hope annie hasnt put the dampener on others.

[annie0000]

Hi silver, I am not trying to put a damper on your responses honest, it's just a very specific question that you ask and I am pretty sure that you have asked it before, just wondering if there is some particular reason.

[annie0000]

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I don't want to seem like a stalker or anything, but did you have some traumatic event that has this praying on your mind?

[annie0000]

So have you rebelled and do you have long hair now? I did have some short haircuts as a child, but I cant say that it has affected my phsyche.

[silver56uk]

Answer bank has a more mature audience i feel answers its questions . sometimes you can post a hair question and get very little replys back so it you try months later you catch new people who maybe JUST might have a story like some of the people here already.Obviously you werent affected but the cuts you had some people never get over what they experienced i did but i still think back of those days how different it is to now. Theres no harm in asking questions people DONT have to answer they do because they WANT to and understand what it was like. Sadly your the one who is now beginning to sound strange.Why not tell your haircut story like everyone else rather than implying things.

[annie0000]

That seems like a fair enough answer, and we all have our personal interests, I have no problem with sounding strange - or looking it for that matter ;o)

[Naomicorlett]

Not a childhood story but........ years ago in the 60's my dad was posted to cyprus and my mum went to have her hair done in a local salon........well....we could hear her coming back down the road sobbing.. the cut, the backcombing,the hard as helmet laquer, the straight under the shower!!! which just made the laquer worse. Oh I'm sorry mum( if you are hovering around in the ether) but it still makes me laugh . Karma for my wonky Joan-of-Arc fringe.

[horselady]

A week before I was to be a bridesmaid for my brother's wedding, (I was 10) I decided to cut my fringe. I just picked up the scissors and chopped, I was left with a sort of tuft about an inch long! I can still see my mum's face now and the poor hairdresser who was expected to put it right, she sort of stuffed it under the flowery head-dress.

[silver56uk]

Nice to see ordinary normal answers again thankyou to the last few so far.

[simonweb]

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