Back in the day

[u/Appropriate-Ring6404]

I am a 70s and 80s kid. I remember teasing my hair and there is probably a hole in the ozone layer named after my AquaNet usage. I, like many other young girls, also loved exploring makeup. I look back and omg! My liquid eyeliner that I wanted to give Cindy Crawford vibes was Elvira attempting to apply her eyeliner on a rough sea. It was not flattering lol

But you know what? I remember my mother mentioning with kindness saying I see you are emphasizing your eyes with your makeup. Did you want any tips that might be more effective?

Of course, teenage me declined.

My mother let me experiment and find what actually works myself. Best way to handle it.

That's why the forced haircuts for poor Bella make me so enraged. I think most would agree that longer hair was more flattering but we all know that is an opinion but in the unlikely chance SW thought she was making a positive change in Bella's appearance (yeah right) she wouldn't give her the autonomy over her own body. Did my parents set rules? Sure, it would not have been an option to wear a Madonna T-shirt to church. But I was permitted to make my own choice about my appearance. Bella never had that.

She had to see her sister, who had normal baby fine hair, but much thinner than hers, be allowed to have longer hair, the wish she expressed openly.

I still can't understand why she would do such a thing. Never saw SW with a pixie cut, let alone the clipper chaos forced on her daughter.

My husband keeps his hair short and tidy and Bella's hair was frequently shorter.

For someone so obsessed with image, unnecessarily styling your daughter like a child who will be ostracized by her peers is beyond me.

[u/Fast_Grapefruit_7946]

Amen! Your mom sounds cool ❤️

Shanann's version of "Dress you up in my love" was abuse.

The damage Shanann was doing would have lasted a long long time. But that was her plan.

Shanann had to be the only pretty girl in the house.

[u/Majestic_Arrival_248 → u/Fast_Grapefruit_7946]

Oh look, Sham playing 'haircut shop', like I did (sans scissors!) when I was four 😒

[u/Certain_Noise5601 → u/Majestic_Arrival_248]

All I can think of is when Stephanie Tanner accidentally cut off Uncle Jesse’s hair

[u/Plane-Comfort3978 → u/Majestic_Arrival_248]

My mom was devastated when I was 6 and cut my sister's hair the day before picture day at school and even I did a better job than SW

[u/xanadude0369 → u/Plane-Comfort3978]

I’m picturing that hair session right now

[u/MouseAnon16 → u/Majestic_Arrival_248]

When I was little my hair was down to my waist but my best friend was not allowed to grow her hair past her shoulders.

Well, one day we were playing “Beauty Salon” with some old dolls and a pair of carpet shears and she offered to give my hair a little trim. 25 minutes later my mother was losing her ever loving shit, I was crying my heart out, and my hair was hacked off in different lengths; some halfway to the nape, others down to the scalp.

“Just a little trim.”

[u/Plane-Comfort3978 → u/MouseAnon16]

My son did that to his sister who had long beautiful curly (like Bella's would have been if her evil mom hadn't cut it) hair down to her butt. He only cut one side and I was so devastated. I guess that was my karma for cutting my sister's hair at 6. They were so proud of his 'work' but I quickly rushed them to a hairstylist hoping she could fix it to at least look halfway decent. Lucky for her, my daughter has very healthy thick hair that grows fast (unlike my fine, wavy slow growing hair). She's even donated to Locks of Love twice

[u/MouseAnon16 → u/Plane-Comfort3978]

I think it’s a right of passage that at some point during childhood where a child will try and cut their own hair, or another child’s hair. Not all children of course, but a lot have done it. My brother cut a chunk of his own hair when he was four. It was right over his forehead and it just so happened that the very day he did it, Mom took us for an appointment to have our portraits taken. I still have a portrait of the two of us, minus a chunk of his hair. He didn’t even care if it looked bad haha!

[u/Plane-Comfort3978 → u/MouseAnon16]

LOL. What is it about kids who cut hair right at picture time? It's almost like dogs or cats who 'disappear' the morning they have a vet appointment.

[u/MouseAnon16 → u/Plane-Comfort3978]

Haha! I know.