I asked him for 2 weeks if he wanted a hair cut. He always replied no. I didn't blame him. His hair really fits his personality. He's so full of life. He's pure joy. His fun, carefree long hair matched him perfectly. But I didn't want it in his eyes. So Barker volunteered to take him.
The appointment was at the Salon I go to, with the girl that cut Audrey's hair into her adorable style. I sent him with pictures of the style I wanted, front and the back.
Hudson crawled into the chair, ate cookies and sat so still he fell asleep. She cut. And cut. And cut. Then she apologized and refused to let Barker pay. For she had butchered my sweet baby's hair.
Barker called to warn me but I still wasn't prepared. My first thought was "He looks more like a girl! How is that?! He looks like Ellen Degeneres."
It's still in his eyes. So all of this was for nothing. She cut off all of the length in the back. It's long in places where she just completely missed strands. It's really layered in a choppy fashion. It doesn't blend. There are like, holes almost in some areas. It's so uneven. And the worst part- she cut so much that it's a different color. She cut off all of his sweet super blond baby locks. It's still blond, but not white blond.
I tried to laugh it off and remember that while the color is gone forever, the cut will grow out. But the growing out phase is terrible. It looks worse now. He looks like those kids that get gum in their hair or try to cut their own hair, forcing their parents to take them to a salon in hopes of salvaging some kind of a style out of it.
He doesn't seem to mind. I asked him if he liked his hair cut and he nodded and said "uh huh." If only I agreed. It makes me sadder every time I look at it because he no longer looks like my Huddie. I like Ellen Degeneres and all, but I miss running my fingers through my sweet boy's wild platinum locks. He's still shockingly beautiful, but looks like he lost a fight with a weed eater.
