haircut nightmare

where to begin...so last thursday rebecca and i took our kids to the mall at 8:00 in the morning for the grand opening of the whole new section of the mall. they were giving out scratchers that were valued at $25 and 4 of them were for $1,000. we thought they had a limited supply...not so much. we waited in line for nothing because they had hundreds of them. so what did we win? we both won a haircut at jcpenny's salon. totally annoying! i didn't even know that jcpenny had a salon. well i was planning on taking kyri to get a trim sometime soon and because this was free, i decided to make her an appointment.

now to today. first let me say that this was kyri's first haircut in an actual salon. i have cut her hair numerous times at home and because it wasn't so easy the last time, i wanted to take her somewhere to get it done. when i put kyri in the hair, she clung on to me and started crying. she wanted nothing to do with it. the lady tried having her stand on the floor and see if she would let her trim her hair that way. notice the word "TRIM". all i asked for was an even 1 inch trim. standing up wasn't working, so we moved her back to the chair. the whole time she is trying to cut kyri's hair, i am trying to keep kyri focused so that she can finish quickly, which is not easy with a 2 year old.

after a few minutes of cutting, i notice that in the front, on the right, it's cut REALLY short. what the?!?!? i almost starting crying. i told her that it was looking really uneven and she just started complaining about how my daughter won't hold still and is basically telling me that it is all kyri's fault. how do you cut off that big of a chunk in just the front? so at this point i'm starting to freak out because this lady is ruining my daughters hair. she is frustrated with kyri, complaining about how she is straining to cut her hair and isn't trying to tell me what i can do to help. she even said at one point, "how old is she?" i said, "she's almost three." and she said, "oh, so that is why she is being so challenging." i was ready to leave. she went to get her manager because she was ready to give up. her manager, christine, came over and realized what a crappy job she had done. i told her that i didn't want the front shorter than the back, at this point i just wanted it to all be one length.

after the first lady left, i gave kyri a sucker and did everything i could to help her fix kyri's hair. christine was a lifesaver! she felt horrible about the situation and could tell that i was really sad that my daughter's long hair was gone. she has 20 years of hair-cutting experience and also has a 3 year old so she was very patient and super quick. there was another lady cutting hair next to us, and she was so glad that the manager came over to save the day! her and her client kept telling me how cute kyri was and how adorable her final haircut came out...that helped me feel a little bit better.

when christine was all finished, i started to feel a sense of peace. it was done now. kyri was calmed down and was just happy to be done. the final haircut looks very cute and even though it is much, much shorter than i wanted it, the manager at the salon was really able to give kyri an adorable haircut. christine gave me a $15 jcpenny gift card for my troubles, such a sweet lady. kyri has such thick hair and i know that it will grow back quickly. she is beautiful with long hair or short. lesson learned...don't take your 2 year old to jcpenney. next time, we will be going to a more kid-friendly salon. it may have been a free haircut, but it was so not worth it!

kyri's beautiful hair before...i miss it already.
the new, adorable hair-do...thank you, christine!