Sausage curls on Shirley Temple-yes, on me-no! It's no wonder I turned out like this.Did your mother inflict a particular hair style or type of clothing on you long past the time when she should have given it up?
Are you scarred like me?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
No Wonder
My mother liked to fix my hair like this. I was probably 10 or 11 when she stopped.
Sausage curls on Shirley Temple-yes, on me-no! It's no wonder I turned out like this.
Did your mother inflict a particular hair style or type of clothing on you long past the time when she should have given it up?
Are you scarred like me?
Sausage curls on Shirley Temple-yes, on me-no! It's no wonder I turned out like this.Did your mother inflict a particular hair style or type of clothing on you long past the time when she should have given it up?
Are you scarred like me?
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A style no, but a haircut from hell. She'd tape my bangs in order to trim below the strip of Scotch tape to get an straight cut. Then she'd rip the tape off of my newly snipped bangs. I hated it. It was.. umm.. tacky. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy mother loved those curls like the ones that Nellie Olsen wore in Little House on the Prairie. I preferred to call them *doo doo* curls and hated them:) She didn't try it too often b/c I put up such a fuss.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I both sported the crooked bangs cut, high on one side, like maybe she had to hold us down with one hand while she did it.
ReplyDeleteMostly I was left to run wild and always looked like I just woke up. At least you were groomed.
My big sister gave me a hairdo for my first grade school photo and I look like a Star Trek alien woman Kirk would have hit on. But I thought I looked great!
Lora, I am laughing at "doo-doo" curls! lol!
My Mom was to busy cleaning house after 8 kids. I pretty much took care of myself. Hey I noticed the Graceful Envelope contest on your sidebar, did you enter?
ReplyDeleteToni, I didn't enter the contest, but I always like to look at all the winners.
ReplyDeleteLora, Nellie's hair was awful. You were right to protest!
Hilary and Indie, my best girlfriend's mother always cut her bangs. They never looked good either. I cut my own once...I looked like someone from Star Trek also. hehe
My mother would haul her three girls to the beautician once a year to get the dreaded 'pixie cut' for the summer. Once summer, I actually got mistaken for my brother. The next year I fought long and hard not to get my hair cut. My mother fought right back. I did not get my hair cut.
ReplyDeleteParted down the middle. Yikes, forever yikes! I distinctly remember when I insisted on a side part. Why on earth she did that, I do not know. Even as a young girl I knew that it didn't look good.
ReplyDeletenice set , wonderful blog. my mather was so busy to see what i am doing.
ReplyDeleteBoy did this picture, and question bring back memories. My Mother was a beautician and she would curl my hair trying to get those rolled curls like Shirley's. My hair wouldn't do it not matter what. I had perms until I was big enough to refuse, which was pretty young. I to this day hate the smell of a perm. Mom would get so frustrated. It took me years to realize I had good hair and get over hair issues. Not straight enough for straight styles and not curly enough for curly styles. Ha.. I don't care any more. I just do what it wants to do and I am happy about it. :)
ReplyDeleteMy Mom did the same as Hilary's !
ReplyDeleteI believe it is my second grade school picture that looks as if I
had a bowl placed on my head while she cut it!
That explains why you wear that big blue satin bow in your hair all the time. You see my 1st grade picture - need I say more?
ReplyDeleteIn all the old photos I have crooked bangs....and then I inflicted the same on my poor girls. I think it's a family tradition.
ReplyDeleteI had the "pixie" cut until I was about nine years old. I hated it! I wanted long hair and a ponytail. I would actually tie a pretend ponytail (a brown sock) to my head just to see what it felt like.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember much about my mother but I do recall she had our neighbor, Mrs. Ludwig, a hairdresser, cut my naturally curly blonde locks. (I wore mine in the 1960's Page Boy hair cut, by the way.) :o) ♥ ∞
ReplyDeleteMy Mom use to give me a Toni perm! I looked like Little Orphan Annie for years.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is when she stopped doing it when I was around 9, my hair stayed wavy for the rest of my life. I use to iron it in the 70's when the long straight hair was "in" ..lol!
Now that I am going gray under my haircolor my hair is becoming straight.
Willow, picturing you sporting a sock ponytail made my day. Too funny!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I always envied my cousins hair long and blonde. They had long banana curls. Mine was thin, brown and wavy. Not straight, not culry! There was not much to do with it!
ReplyDeleteMy hair is now blonde on the darker side. I love my straightner and hair products!
I agree that blue is beautiful! I wear a lot of black and brown. Maybe, a little color wouldn't hurt!
denise
My dad cut my hair when I was young......he'd put the length gauge on the clippers and buzz off the hair. His specialty was a "crew cut." No curls tho....thank the good Lord.
ReplyDeleteMy dad cut my hair when I was young......he'd put the length gauge on the clippers and buzz off the hair. His specialty was a "crew cut." No curls tho....thank the good Lord.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to add the rest of my terrible mom-haircut confession:
ReplyDeleteMy two little boys had beautiful, beautiful hair when they were small. I couldn't bear to cut it at first, so I just cut the bangs and over the ears.
Now, they look at the pics and ask me, "Why did you give us mullets?" I didn't even know what a mullet was!
Needless to say they now buzz their hair off themselves all the time.
I had the crooked "mom cut" bangs most of the time and if I wanted my hair curled for a special occaision my mom would curl it with toilet paper squares!...I don't know how she did it but I remember it working!
ReplyDeleteWhen I grew up and realized the agony of sleeping on curlers just to get that 60's flip I had it all cut off!
My kids now tell me how much they hated the "side" pony tail I would give them...they didn't complain then tho..
Wow! This brought back some (very nearly repressed) memories. From the pony- and pigtails that were pulled so tight my eyes watered (especially hated the pigtails because Mom had a brush with a spike at the end... perfect for getting a straight part, opening mail and defending against small beasts)... to the last haircut she ever gave me. I was five and wouldn't develop a sense of (admittedly limited) style for nearly two decades, but even I knew that just wasn't right!
ReplyDeleteI have at least half a dozen more bad hair stories, most of which involve my parents, but they can't take the blame for the bun I'm sporting tonight.
Braids!! I had braids!!
ReplyDeleteDo I win?
My dear....I once had a mullet. Yes, a girl with a terribly AWFUL mullet. I was in second grade. The oldest of five children, four of them boys, she apparently thought it fantastic for me to look like one of them. I was mortified for a whole year until my long hair grew back. Then came the coke bottle glasses.... *sigh* =] It's no wonder I'm fashionable as an adult!
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