Haven't we all cut our sister's hair when we were young. I gave my sister `a bowl cut' when I was Lucille's age. She had a broken arm at the time & must have been getting far too much attention.
I cut Kate's hair in the corner of our lounge room, behind a sofa. Lucille was far more professional. A chair, a towel laid out on the bathroom floor, lights on. I was having a lazy moment when I overheard` would you like to have a look in the mirror ', followed by Arabella's cry & Lucille's laugh.
Arabella is under her blanket in bed, sobbing `I look like a boy', and as she is sobbing away there is no curl to twirl. She has always had a comfort curl that she twirls when she is tired, and we have to leave it out of her plaits or pig tails.
This sounds terrible, but I couldn't get very angry with Lucille. It is a great cut, it looks adorable & A (the new kinder girl in our family ) has been getting a lot of extra attention lately, probably too much for Lucille's liking. Besides, don't we all wish our sister was uglier or less cute. Haven't we all chopped off our Barbie dolls hair to make her look like a tom boy.
Here is a before & after photo. Arabella on her first day of kinder - last month. Followed by her new look - showing how much hair she actually asked Lucille to cut off.
