Dyed Hair - you know those fancy colors - for an 11 y.o.
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Anonymous
| I bought semipermanent dye from amazon. DD has dark brown hair, wanted it to be purple. It is great, we did not bleach beforehand, it was very purple in the beginning but is slowly fading. |
Anonymous
| We've done it for DS - 11 - several times this year - blue, green, just bleached. We did the forelock. Use Manic Panic. Super safe and pretty easy to do at home. Happy to let his safely assert his personality and practice defending his choices to schoolmates. |
Anonymous
| I assume the moms who do this with young kids, didn't live enough in their childhood. |
Anonymous
I assume they have kids who are asking to experiment with their hair color. |
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Manic Panic
It's a vegetable based stain that sits on top of the hair shaft, rather than penetrating the hair shaft. It does not damage hair, as long as you don't bleach the hair first. It washes out in about 4-6 weeks. Perfect for summer. If you want to make sure it takes, rinse her hair in lemon juice and then put Manic Panic on it. You can buy it at Sally Beauty. It's about $10 |
Anonymous
I let my 11 year old son do this in the summer. He is going to be bald as a pool ball by the time he is 30, if my father's hairline is any clue. He can do whatever he wants with his hair now. He isn't going to have any later. |
Anonymous
| No way |
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We do it in the summer with Manic Panic. Our school has a strict uniform policy so as soon as school is done, this is one of our traditions to celebrate. Not the whole head. Just streaks or the bottom few inches.
It's just hair. |
Anonymous
In 30 years, you're going to being one of those MILs whose DIL/SIL hates her and whose child won't talk to her |
Anonymous
| My mom let me dye my hair purple or red in high school (I'm mortified of the pictures now, but I was a dumb teenager!)...her line of thinking was it's just hair, the school and my after school job didn't care, and it's better than me running around drinking underage and trying to sneak out of the house. Since I was a good kid, it was kind of a reward. I thinks it looks goofy but there are worse battles to pick. |
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My friends let their kids do that, and the kids LOVE it.
I think it's easier and less expensive to do it on light hair, though - my one friend said it cost $80 to make her dark-haired kid's hair dark blue. |
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OP here! Thank you guys. This is awesome. I am going to google how to dye with Kool-Aid. I may be back if I can't figure it out.
Also, I am just taking her to the Hair Cuttery tomorrow for a trim. Does anyone know if they can do something that won't last forever? I looked on their website, and it is useless. Also, DD is dirty blonde, and it gets light in the summer. Does anyone have any thoughts on if I need to bleach before Manic Panic or Kool-Aid? If she does this, it'll probably still be in for 5th grade promotion next month. I don't care, but DH might. Thanks! |
Anonymous
I agree with this. I would probably let my DD dye her hair any colour. |
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I think it's fun. When my little sister was about 12, she dyed her hair vivid blue, as it was our school color and she was the only girl on the boy's soccer team (our school was tiny - and that's a conversation for another day).
She just had a kid a few days ago, and we still think the blue haired photo was one of the best. It's fun, it's hair, and she has normal brown hair now that she's in her 30s 
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Anonymous
I wouldn't bleach because it's relatively light already and that will probably dry out her hair. I wouldn't use Kool Aid. I did when I was a teen and it didn't wash out. I'd stick with Manic Panic. You're a cool mom
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