DIY: Using youtube to cut long hair!

I am the Mommy to 4 beautiful kids and 2 amazing surrogate daughters. They all astound me time and again. I mention this because I need you to know I would do anything for them. Sometimes what they wish me to do scares the heck out of me! So when my teen insisted I cut her very long and very thick hair myself rather than waiting to go to a salon I panicked a bit. What is an untrained person to do? YouTube of course!

So I looked at over a dozen videos and settled on one. You can get to it by searching:  How to beautifully cut your own hair (M by Mickie)  Surely if I can use youtube to replace the radiator in the van before I can use it to give my darling daughter a hair cut right?

Her wishes were simple in her mind. She wanted it shorter and with layers. My issue though was that it was 1. not my hair. 2. I didn’t want to cut it! You see my dear Memere had gotten very upset when I was little then my parents cut my hair. It turned into a thing. Still to this day I now have long hair and can’t bring myself to cut it, even with her no longer being with us. I could see her in my mind upset over me cutting my oldest daughters hair short. I know, it is silly! Thanks to the video I found though, I thought I could please everyone!

Her Hair Before:

(Little Sisters just had to get in the photo too!)

And this is after the cut. She has short layers in the front that she loves and there is still a lot of length in the back. She loves how light it feels now!

Then of course came the bleaching and the new color. She asked me to dye it blue on one side and purple on the other but after the blue side was done she saw it and didn’t want the other side purple. She loves her hair.

Warning, the blue color travels a bit with time! I swear her hair has even layers in it, one side is not shorter than the other!

And this is the back. 

Over all I think this was very much a success simply because she loves it so much. Even if my nerves where shot doing it! I love spending time with her, she is so funny and we have a lot in common, such as our love of Doctor Who and watching it while working on her hair! We are a brave bunch here, we like doing DIY on our own.