BikeBookBread Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 (edited) This maxim is being played out in my home this very minute. I decided to do a costume dry run this afternoon. Let's just say my girls have COMPLETELY unrealistic expectations about what their hair is going to look like tomorrow night as they dress as Belle and Tinkerbell. :crying: 5 year olds just don't understand that can't have a Tinkerbell bun when you have a chin-length bob, and 3 year olds don't understand that Belle's ballgown hairdo was DRAWN and defies gravity. AAAAAACKKK!!!!! Edited October 30, 2009 by BikeBookBread poor use of the word "truism" -- ok, only on the WTM boards would this be an issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn in OH Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Maybe so...but I'm still jealous that you get to try! I'll likely be swordfighting with my pirate and defending myself against Ironman :tongue_smilie:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 My girls have nevber wanted to be anything adorable, unless you count bunnies or horses. There have never been fairies or flowers or princesses in my mother Halloweens! I am sure it's a pita, but how darling! I remember being little and pretending the bath towel wrapped around my head was long hair. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 If it makes you feel better, I spent the first 30 years of my life with the delusion of having thin, straight, blond hair. Amazing how many completely unworkable haircuts I ended up with... Darn that Disney! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 They won't care by tomorrow. They'll be too excited! Have fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayle in Guatemala Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 My 15 yo dd doesn't get that all those girls have MOBS of people following them at all times to make sure their hair always looks like that. She thinks that hers should too. :glare: Darn that Disney.:glare::glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saille Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 dd6 is dressing up as Nymphadora Tonks from Harry Potter, and she demanded that her hair be "bubble-gum pink". We tried kool-aid dyeing tonight, and she said it made her scalp itch, so we washed it out. Time for Plan B. *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyJo Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 dd6 is dressing up as Nymphadora Tonks from Harry Potter, and she demanded that her hair be "bubble-gum pink". We tried kool-aid dyeing tonight, and she said it made her scalp itch, so we washed it out. Time for Plan B. *sigh* Could you try some of the spray in hair colors that Walmart carries? I saw some the other night in basically every color possible, pink included, and they are quite inexpensive. I have got to learn how to do army face paint tonight. I bought a little kit that walmart has but it does not quite explain how to put it on easily. Thank goodness my middle son is being a Transformer that has a mask and the toddler is a cow. I may try to paint his face a little too. That is about the most you can do with boy costumes...face paint and props.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 dd6 is dressing up as Nymphadora Tonks from Harry Potter, and she demanded that her hair be "bubble-gum pink". We tried kool-aid dyeing tonight, and she said it made her scalp itch, so we washed it out. Time for Plan B. *sigh* lol My teen is covered head to toe in black, with a Dr's bag, and mask with a beak nose. Black Plague doctor. Isn't *that* romantic* and sweet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, I went to an inner-city elementary school in Louisville. There were black girls in my class who had the neatest twisted pony tails (braids? They weren't really braided, just twisted.) They had pretty bows and ribbons. I wanted their hair SO BAD. I'd ask my mother to do that to my hair but since I had long (so long I sat on it), thick, fine, blond hair, it just wasn't going to work. I cried buckets of tears over that horrid injustice. To this day, when I see little girls with those kinds of braids (or whatever they're called) I can still feel the 6 year old angst of having white girl hair! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 We recently went to Disney World, and so many little girls were in costumes and had their hair sprayed with glitter! You might try pulling it away from their faces with combs, or putting it up as best you can, and giving them a coat of fairy jewel dust. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saille Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 lol My teen is covered head to toe in black, with a Dr's bag, and mask with a beak nose. Black Plague doctor. Isn't *that* romantic* and sweet? ROTFL! Ds8 is dressed like a skeleton in colonial clothing. He's one of the ghosts of the Roanoke Colony. He had me carve "Croatan" into his jack o'lantern. I told dh that only here would anyone get it, but when I mentioned it to my FIL tonight, he said, "Was that the place with Virginia Dare?" Go, grandpa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterbabs Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 roflmao!!! I totally hear you!! You should have heard my (very, very blond) daughter when she decided to go as Snow White and we couldn't find a wig. She ended up finding an Indian girl costume that she immediately dubbed "Tiger Lily!":lol: I refuse to color her hair brown (it would NEVER wash out!) but thankfully it's long enough for pigtail braids. Still, she can't understand why she can't have Rapunzel's hair (from the Barbie version....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacie Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Could I borrow your girls for a little while and style their hair? :) I could use a little-girl-fix every now and then. ::sigh:: ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Thanks everyone for talking me down...you're RIGHT! I'm BLESSED to have little girls! They are so excited now. They even asked to go to bed early so they would be rested tomorrow. You know that strange hair thing advertised on TV all the time called the "Bump It"? Well LLL said she needed one of those so she could look like Belle. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 You know that strange hair thing advertised on TV all the time called the "Bump It"? Well LLL said she needed one of those so she could look like Belle. :lol: You know, I saw a lady today with the biggest hair since the 70's and I wondered if she was using one of those things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Disney has given me unrealistic expectations about a lot of things, but I love Disney anyway. We're having a similar problem with my dishwater-blond who is dressing as Jasmine. I told her she couldn't dye her hair black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 When my dishwater blond was Jasmine at Disneyworld, they put gel in her hair and sleeked it back. (TONS of gel). It then looked darker. Then they put a fake ponytail on top of her tiny little stub of a ponytail that they managed to make. It was gorgeous.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari C in SC Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Could you try some of the spray in hair colors that Walmart carries? I saw some the other night in basically every color possible, pink included, and they are quite inexpensive. We made my little guy's hair green one year. It took a couple months to wash out! :eek: He loved it though! He thought he was very cool! :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaZ Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, I went to an inner-city elementary school in Louisville. There were black girls in my class who had the neatest twisted pony tails (braids? They weren't really braided, just twisted.) They had pretty bows and ribbons. I wanted their hair SO BAD. I'd ask my mother to do that to my hair but since I had long (so long I sat on it), thick, fine, blond hair, it just wasn't going to work. I cried buckets of tears over that horrid injustice. To this day, when I see little girls with those kinds of braids (or whatever they're called) I can still feel the 6 year old angst of having white girl hair! LOL I can relate! My godmother is black and she would do her daughter's and my hair during the summer. I always wanted 3 ponytails in that twisted style with all the ribbons and pretty bows and beads and she would tell me that I just could not pull that look off with my white girl hair. Or course, her daughter wanted two long braids like mine which she couldn't do either because her hair was to short. She cried for hours begging for one long french braid and I begged for corn rows. We spent most of our elementary school years coveting each others hair and hair styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy loves Bud Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Well, good luck with that. My daughter with the super straight, super fine hair expects to have Shirley Temple hair. I had trouble getting it to flip up 50's style for a recent play she was in. I think we might have a little disappointment, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiCO Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Well, good luck with that. My daughter with the super straight, super fine hair expects to have Shirley Temple hair. I had trouble getting it to flip up 50's style for a recent play she was in. I think we might have a little disappointment, too. Wy oldest daughter always wanted Shirley Temple hair, my youngest daughter has it and won't do anything with it. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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