Live & Learn

Today's lesson is "Live and Learn", followed second by "Don't let your husband make decisions about your preteens hair".

My 9 year old daughter has been bugging us to let her get her hair highlighted. I kept saying no way, but dh finally caved and said yes. In an effort to not spend 8 million dollars (these days 75 seems like 8 million to me LOL) on a 9 year olds hair, I opted to try to do it myself. Now, you KNOW where this is going.....

Put it this way, when we were done, we could not go out in public. The kit I bought at the beauty supply store was apparently a bleach kit (recommended to me by the saleswoman no less!) and my daughter's light brown hair was now platinum with brown spots where I'd missed LOL. We quickly put it into a ponytail, covered it with a ball cap and headed to the salon at the local mall. Two hours later, she looks fine. Whew! I had to cough up $110 plus a tip (Gulp!) for the fix. They had to do a full foil highlight, her whole entire head. But it looks cute and she is happy.

I guess another moral is sometimes it pays to pay. I tried to save money and ended up spending twice as much as I would have if I'd gone to the salon in the first place. She could have had a partial foil done for around $50, but the BIG FIX cost me BIG TIME. As I said, Live & Learn :)