Anonymous wrote:No. You can buy her some semi permanent color like Overtone so she can do it herself and see if she likes it. Then have her experience growing it out for a learning opportunity.

I would not take a 12 year old to have expensive salon lowlights or dye. An 18 year old? Yes.

But ALL of these dyes are simply terrible for her hair and will leave it damaged.

I feel so bad for these girls who’ve been allowed to destroy their hair like this. Someone should have told them.

I would use this as a low stakes learning opportunity since your DD will have to make decisions and learn to live with the consequences.

If you think she’s too young now you can tell her to wait until she’s 16 or whatever. That will give her time to explore what’s involved in changing her hair color (she could talk to your stylist if you have one) and to earn the money to pay for it if you go that route. Who knows, by the time she’s old enough she may have changed her mind or not but it puts her in the driver seat and you have stepped back to let her work through the decision making process. Next time it might be a tattoo or some other higher stakes thing…

No. You can buy her some semi permanent color like Overtone so she can do it herself and see if she likes it. Then have her experience growing it out for a learning opportunity.

I would not take a 12 year old to have expensive salon lowlights or dye. An 18 year old? Yes.

It will take years or a buzz cut to undo.
Tell her that. Let her get water based colors. Festive for winter.