Okay, I lied about waiting to see what everyone had to say about the idea. Plum it is.
She loves it. She posed in front of the mirror for about 20 minutes and had me call Julie at work so she could shout "ur-oh air!" ("purple hair") into the phone. She just went to bed, still fluffing it and giggling.
It wasn't as outlandish as she wanted, or as we feared. But it was fun. She sat in the bathtub patiently as her clearly closeted father applied the very very purple mousse stuff to her head. We sang songs and pretended that the stuff dripping from my gloved fingers was blood and generally had fun for half an hour, and then rinse rinse rinse, and a star was born.
Most of the purple came off her face and the back of her neck, I'm happy to report. The bottle says it should wash out in eight to ten shampoos, which in Schuyler's case means in like six months.
Maybe you think it was indulgent to do this for her, but she loved it and she's unlikely to have a job interview in the next few weeks. If she asks for a tattoo next, I'm putting my foot down, though. Not until she's seven, and that's final.
The plum hair? Rocks!
ReplyDeleteADORABLE. Actually, it goes really well with her skin tone.
ReplyDeleteRob, you are the best dad ever. She looks thrilled! :)
ReplyDeleteActually, my cousin's daughter showed up at my house yesterday with a HUGE tattoo on her arm. It looked pretty darn real, and apparantly it's supposed to wash off in "8 to 10 shampoos" too. Now that would REALLY freak out the uptight townies.
ReplyDeleteAwesome.
ReplyDeleteI love that you dyed her hair for her, too. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI love that you dyed her hair for her, too. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteDude.
ReplyDeleteSo. Cool.
So PRETTY!
mmmwah!
(kisses from Tennessee)
That is by far the most awesome thing a dad has done for a daughter, ever.
ReplyDeleteI did my (5yo) daughter's hair BRIGHT red for a party at which she wanted to dress like Ariel. She was just as squealy and excited as Schuyler looks in that picture! Ours also said 'washes out in 8-10 shampoos' and we wash her hair nearly every night. But we did the die job in February and the red tint lingered until at least April. I think fine kid hair holds the die better? maybe? Anyway, Schuyler looks great!
ReplyDeleteDiva! It's written all over her.
ReplyDeleteSimply gorgeous.
I think it's lovely. She really can pull off any color hair she wants. Awesome. And, I might add, a fun hands-on learning experience.
ReplyDeleteThat is a little girl who deserves some indulgence, with all you and she have to go through.
ReplyDeleteIt looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love the purple hair. I love the blog! I love it! It's very aesthetically pleasing, the photos look awesome. I like the short entries, and there's no reason why you couldn't put long ones on the blog too. Yay!
ReplyDeletePurple Hair! You and Julie are the Coolest. Parents. Ever.
ReplyDeleteSchuyler's friends will be so jealous. Heck, I'm jealous: I always wanted purple hair but my hair is so dark it doesn't show (and bleach is too damaging. Maybe I'll try again in a few years when more grey takes over.
I'm curious, in case my daughter ever asks for purple hair: What product did you use?
Fabulous! It looks so cute on her!
ReplyDeletei think it's very cute. and you did a good job coloring it: no random uncolored parts!
ReplyDeleteThe deal we worked with our kids was: You can do anything with your hair you want and you can pierce anything you want, but no tattoos.
ReplyDeleteBoth kids have had mohawks at one time or another (it was a soccer thing with the older one). The youngest would use brightly colored gel on his 'hawk each day - usually dying it to match his clothes. We didn't take enough pictures... I guess this is the best one:
Lee's Mohawk
It was worth putting my glasses on, and wading thru the tapestry texture, to read the text. I love the hair! She looks really happy with it, too!Next time, put a thin layer of vaseline on her neck, and forehead, it saves you scrubbing her to remove the dyestuff from where it wasn't meant to stay!
ReplyDeleteWe always let the kids dye their hair. Whatever. It's only hair. It washes out. Now if the kid wanted to get an A&M buzz and started wearing knee high brown boots, that might freak Mommy right out!
ReplyDeleteTell Schuyler she looks loverly. The color is mad cool!
Whee, I match the Chubbin!
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I dyed my son's hair (on request) from blond to black last October. Why not, indeed!
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/181/1350/640/corybeforeandafterdye100205.jpg
Rob, she looks just beautiful. But you knew that. I'm pretty conservative about fashion and hair style/color and it's done me no favors outside the job market. So I'm glad to see you're not sending Schuyler down that overly-repressed road.
ReplyDeleteBill, your son Lee's mohawk is awesome. Love it!
Sorry to make this anonymous, but I don't want to make a Blogger profile just to comment. Hope that's okay.
--Sara K.
when rymer was four he won a similar request (although his hair looked more fuscia than purple) as a matter of fact his pre-school photograph was taken the day after we did it. I bet Schuyler remembers how cool her father was to let her have her punk rock girl hair at 6 :)
ReplyDeleteRob, if they still even make the stuff, Sea Breeze Astringent will take any dye off her skin. It always worked for me.
ReplyDeleteCute hair color, great expression!
Well, there's no color that wouldn't look good with that perfect little face. (And I was okay with my girls getting tattoos, belly rings, even tongue piercing. What I made them promise was never to pierce any part of their faces.)
ReplyDeleteSchuyler is lovely in red!
ReplyDelete(That's the shade I always think of as "menopause red," because about 60% of women I know in their mid-fifties dye their hair that color. It looks so much more appropriate on a dewy-eyed little girl.)
The only issue I had with dying hair when my kids were young was I was worried about toxins in the dyes. But my younger son started doing color with Kool-Aid packs--the unsugared powder in the little envelopes. They made a paste of it, I think with just water, painted it on, let it set for a while, and rinsed it. If I remember right, it lasted for a week or so. And it smelled great, although the bathroom could get to be a mess when they were doing it.
I love the relationship you have with your daughter! You are such a great Dad!....but you knew that already didn't you?!
ReplyDeleteLove it. You guys are super cool. And by the way, so happy for you about the new job.
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