Title: Reply Requested

SeaFed:

I am saddened to see that you took Franny to a salon to have her hair professionally dyed. She told me that the procedure hurt her and that you had this done at the request of your cousin. I am sorry that bridezillas seem to run in your family but remember you can say no to people, especially as it relates to using painful chemicals on a four-year-old. I am sorry that having Franny appear as a cute accessory is something you value over Franny’s comfort.

Now, she told me she doesn’t like the color and would rather that it were still blue. Tell me the truth: if I dye her hair back, will you take her back to a salon to have chemicals used on her again?

With great disgust,

SJ

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Before

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Teal

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After

This is just so STUPID. I need a lie-down. I am gratified to see it looks better on film than in-person. In person it looks kind of grey.

13 thoughts on “Title: Reply Requested

  1. I realize I don’t know you, I don’t know your daughter, I don’t have ANY RIGHT to comment.. but.. holy shit, I’d be mighty pissed if I were in your shoes. MIGHTY PISSED. If you need an extra hand to redye the blue, I’m all over it. Seth is a fuckknuckle.

    (This is my first ever unsolicited, complete-stranger outburst. I apologize.)

  2. wow, that’s harsh.

    er, the unsolicited, painful redye-ing of the hair at the hands of professionals.

    i really liked the mermaid hair. not that franny’s not cute now, of course. but still.

  3. I know…and for a wedding. So she can look a certain way in the photos. I thought his cousin was cooler than that.

  4. Way to upstage me.

    My ex-wife-in-law (read it again to figure it out), the primary custodial parent of my Actual Red-Headed Stepchild, neglected to tell me that Fall pictures fell in the week we had the little miss. Good thing I am observant and saw the notice posted on the door to her room when I went to pick her up from pre-k. The day before said pictures.

    So I call Satan, and say, “hello, I notice school pictures are, you know, TOMORROW, so which of these perfectly appropriate dresses would you like her to wear?”

    Her response? “Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me. I have a dress, tights, shoes, and the hair barrette she needs to wear. Also, do you have a hot-hot?” A what?

    When the kid calls a curling iron a “hot-hot,” it frightens me. More frightening is the idea that I had to use a curling iron on a FIVE-YEAR-OLD. Whose hair is already curly but apparently not to, like military precision. Ahem. Unlike everyone else in the 80s, I did not have big hair, because I was a big nerd, and every time my sister would try to get me to acquiesce, she’d burn me. 6AM and I’m shaking like a damn leaf, ringleting this long red hair while the owner of said hair is bobbing and weaving, chattering and playing with her leap-pad. All because I don’t want the King to get a ration of crap if pictures aren’t perfect. I will name it Stage Parent Syndrome by Proxy. I am so requesting a boy when I get pregnant.

    And then you put it all into perspective with this story. Well-played, my dear.

  5. The ex-husband is a creep. Too bad the people at the salon weren’t smart enough to refuse to perform the service. Back in the old retail days, I even refused when parents asked me to yell at their kids for stealing. Just because the dad asks for his kid to be bleached and dyed doesn’t mean they have to do it.

  6. if you re-dye it, mightn’t it get damaged? my sister tried natural dye, didn’t like it, put chemical dye on top, and then tried a different dye, and it all broke off at the roots. if franny’s hair is gray-ish, it must be already fried to bits. poor girl. what a stupid thing to do, and what a stupid, stupid reason.

  7. That makes me cross. Blue is pretty!
    Grr.
    Ex-husbands. Sheesh. Hey, mine has mostly decomposed, so I have room in the garden for another. If ya need. I’m just sayin’.

  8. Aw Jesus Christ. What is with these people? I’m really sorry that happened and I KNOW how fucking crazy it is to have idiots in charge of your children when they can’t even depend on you being there to intervene on their behalf.

    Again: ugh.

    queen of the harpies

  9. It’s not too late to leave Washington state and flip the bird to the trail of dust you leave behind you.

    What a total cretin. Chemical scalp burns from stripping procedures are seriously sucky. I can’t imagine doing that to a four year old. what the holy fuck.

    Dye it back blue before the wedding as a “go fuck yourself” nod to everyone. ;) It’s Franny’s hair afterall, right?

  10. What a creep! The blue was so sweet on her. She looked like a mermaid princess. And what about the salon that actually agreed to put chemicals in the hair of such a young girl? That’s so unethical. Even a poodle groomer would refuse to de-blue a dog with harsh chemicals!

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