Worth every penny...

Remember this?

Lorien got a major hair cut right before school got out.  She loved it for about a week.  Then...she told me (through tears) that one of her friends showed her a text another "friend" had sent saying "Lorien's new hair cut = ugly".

You can imagine my reaction.  I started trying to figure out how to leave a horses head in that "friend's" bed the next morning.

I never managed to pull that plan off.

The problem is, Lorien has crazy, thick hair.  The short cut made all that thick hair stick out like she had stuck her finger in an electrical socket.  She can keep it clean--but keeping it tamed is another matter.

Instead of lashing out at the "friend", Lorien and I made a plan to see my hair dresser.  Maybe a professional would find a way to make her feel better about her hair again?  My hair dresser said there wasn't a lot she could do right away.  After agreeing that "friend" totally deserved to wake up to a severed horses head, she suggested letting Lorien's hair grow for the summer and trying a fix right before school started.

So, I took Lorien to my hair dresser today.  That sweet woman spent thirty minutes trimming Lorien's hair...then she spent 90 minutes blow drying and flat ironing Lorien's hair.  The transformation was amazing.

This is the best "before" picture I have...

So pretty!  Her hair looks nice too.

She has been confident smiles all day.  School starts tomorrow...I hope that "friend" falls in the mud on the way to school.  Do I need to grow up?