But remember, you'll need lots of practice, patience and a good sence of humor.Ĭhildren's hair is different to work with from grownups' - in fact, it's still really going through different stages until age 15. A good recent book called "How to Cut Children's Hair" is a good investment and has clear, easy directions and drawings. You can also consider improving your home cutting technique by learning some tricks of the trade. There are also places, like The Hair Cuttery chain, which don't have a children's specialist per se, but whose regular cutters do a nice job on children very cheaply ($3 for cut only). Most large beauty salons have someone who specializes in children, so ask when you call. That's fine if your stylist enjoys doing children. Many parents take their children to their own barbers or hairdressers. There's nothing quite as posh in Washington yet, although Saks Fifth Avenue will be opening up a special "Little Snippery" ("no parents allowed") that will also feature before and after photos of cuts.
#THE SNIPPERY HAIR STUDIO PLUS#
There, if you've got the time (an hour or so, plus the trip to New York) and the money ($12.50 for a regular wash-cut-dry) to treat your child to a little luxury, your junior fashion plate can even have a hot oil treatment or a party set. In fact, in New York, Kenneth, hair stylist for the glittery set, has opened two posh children's salons - one at Macy's and one at a swanky Madison Avenue children's boutique called Pumpkins and Monkeys. It's no use trying to corral your child into a stylist's chair and give instructions to lop off a few inches: Children, are too sensitive about their looks these days to stand for it.
"You have to try and prepare the child for the experience so they know what to expect." "But children don't like to be forced to have their hair cut," says Farmer.
#THE SNIPPERY HAIR STUDIO PROFESSIONAL#
Though many hairdressers have cut hair of infants as young as seven months (who are held in their mother's laps during the cut), there is usually no need to take your child to a professional until around age 2 1/2 or 3. Saks Fifth Avenue also reports that the basic "choir boy" classic style seems to be the all-around favourite. "There really aren't any new hairdos," he says, "there are just new names for them." What he does is a basic English haircut for his young clients (up to 22 per day) and says that most mothers still prefer the hair of their child to be on the longish side. He's working on the third generation of some families, and he says that haircuts haven't really changed much over the years. And it is often the case that once you start a new haircut on a little girl, all of her friends come in and ask for the same thing."įrank Farmer has been specializing in children's haircutting for about 50 years and has been out at the Chevy Chase Woodies for 26 of them. The most important thing is what their peers say about their new cut. "Most children are very sure of what they want. "Mothers usually cut their child's hair until it gets too awful and then bring it to us for cleaning or mending," says Nancy Carrescia, manager of the Saka Fifth Avenue beauty salon. hidden in the locks, or mothers who stand nervously by, begging not to cut too much of her precious one's curls. Though most children think it's lots of fun to sit in the big high chairs with a lollipop plopped in their mouths, every barber has horror stories to tell of children's haircuts - of masses of chewing gum, Tootsie Rolls etc.
It's always been a basic rite of passage for a daddy to take junior to his very own barbershop for his haircuts. Or it might be getting a little embarrassing to be seen on the playground with a cut looking suspiciously like the shape of your salad bowl or a hack job done with your $8.95 home clipper set. It's possible that he or she is sick of looking like Dorothy Hamill, Buster Brown, Heidi or the forever-young, still-popular "John-John" Kennedy look. It's also time to take a look at what sort of hair configuration you've been subjecting your child to. It's time for the annual back-to-school haircut. Instead of the beautifully coiffed child that finished school last June, she sees a hairy little beast, a veritable "Cousin It" (if you remember the hair-covered creature on. There comes a time, somewhere toward the end of August, when a mother looks at her child and gasps in horror.
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