Spiked hair on toddler..would you?

[LISA]

K we brought Paige to the mall to get her Santa pictures done and there was a kid there who was no older than 1 1/2 yrs old getting his Santa pic done and he had a spiked mohawk :wtf: actually it was a row of 3-4 spikes and the tips were tinted Aqua! now I admit it looked kind of cute but I don't think I would actually do that if it were my kid? would you? just curious :)

[pam]

Spiked, maybe. Mohawk & tinted, not my thing.

[Becca]

ditto that!

[Eva]

I would not. I could tolerate the spiked but would never do it to my kids but i am pretty conservative when it comes to dressing/hair. I have seen little boys less than 2 with mohawk and thought :wtf: as well.

[kika]

Kareem had a mohawk before he lost his hair. Granted, his was not spiked or tinted, and he is 12, not 2. My parents still thought I was nuts.

I would not give a 2 year old a tinted, spiked mohawk because they are much too young to ask for it. At 12, Kareem is an individual, and I am all for allowing him to express his individuality. If he can tolerate the stares, so be it. But at 2, that would be a reflection of my taste, and not the child's...and why subject him to the stares and giggles based on my whim?

[Karri]

I would never, ever dye/tint my kids hair.
Mohawk? Maybe.
Spike? Yep. My boys have had "styled" hair for years now. I like to think that they're hip :heee:

[TtownAnne]

No, on all counts. I'm still struggling with the aspect that our 9 year old neighbor has a mohawk.

[Mandi]

I would never, ever dye/tint my kids hair.
Mohawk? Maybe.
Spike? Yep. My boys have had "styled" hair for years now. I like to think that they're hip :heee:

Ditto! Brayden's latest hairstyle looks adorable spiked. So yeah, I spike it from time to time. I even mess around with Arden's and make him a mohawk. But no way in hell would I dye/tint my kids hair at this age. That's WAY too young for hair color. :nono:

[LISA]

Spiked hair on a toddler doesn't even phase me, I do think it's cute but the spiked/mohawk combo was a bit much..tinting the tips was over the top imo..

[AmyP]

Mohawk, no. Not at that age. If he was a teenager and he wanted one, maybe. Spikes I'd do if he wanted them. Tinted hair? Only for a Halloween costume!!!

[Alyson]

Tinted hair? No! Spiked is fine with me as well as a mohawk, a very short mohawk! My friends little boy has a mohawk and the sides are about 1/4 inch and the actual 'mohawk' part is about 1/2 inch. It looks really cute on him and you don't look at it and think 'OMG, what did his mom do to him?!'. It's cute and actually quite popular around here.

[Clare]

No, it's not my thing.

One of the boys in Sam's swimming class has an ugly mohawk :dead: He's 4, so maybe he asks for it but I get the feeling that the dad has it cut that way. His head is totally shaved except for a strip of hair down the centre. I hate it.

I also hate to see little boys with pierced ears and rats tails :dead:

[magoo]

When J is big enough to do his own hair, I'll probably pretty much let him decide what to do with it.

I wouldn't do anything like that now because I always like the "just do it tomorrow" option when it comes to bath time at the end of the day. :lol: We tried gel in J's hair when my nieces declared it "wacky hair day" but it didn't really work. :dunno:

[KristenW]

I'm ok with a spiked haircut, but not a mohawk and definitely not color at that age. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my own color, let alone that of my 11 month old!!! When he's old enough to want a mohawk, I'll consider it.

[Connie1222]

No. I barely have time to do my own hair! :lol:

[Bev]

I have no problem with this:

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:y5t0sCqKXnvK2M:www.thetimberline.com/Lifestyles/toddler%20spiked%20hair.jpg (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thetimberline.com/Lifestyles/toddler%2520spiked%2520hair.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thetimberline.com/sitepages/pid70.php&h=800&w=600&sz=266&tbnid=y5t0sCqKXnvK2M:&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspiked%2Bhair%26um%3D1&start=3&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=3)

This in an aqua mohwak on a two year old, I think is slightly weird.
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:J3LMGA7w4bEFKM:www.aidanmoran.com/images/spiked_hair.jpg (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aidanmoran.com/images/spiked_hair.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aidanmoran.com/archive/2006_09_03_archive.html&h=432&w=324&sz=90&tbnid=J3LMGA7w4bEFKM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspiked%2Bhair%26um%3D1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1)

Mason and Graham have curly hair, so there is no real hip hairstyle for them to have. Grahams is curly all around, the same length and Mason's is usually shorter on the sides and back and a bit longer on the top. Curly hair doesn't spike very well as we found out on wacky hair day.

[Mary DK]

Spiked hair I'm okay with it as long as is not overly done. A tainted spikey mohwak on a toddler no way!! :screwy:

I spiked Eliot's hair for a little bit when he was little but now neither of them let me put anything on their hair at all. Last year Eliot had "crazy hair day" at school and he wanted me to put some hairspray on his hair but he squirmed all the way to school until he saw everybody else in his class had messy/crazy hair :lol:

[LISA]

The kids hair was the same lenth as the first pic Bev posted but it was very short/buzzed on the sides..the spikes were soft not harsh like the second pic or this would have been a whole other thread :lol: I'm sure the aqua colour was washable..I hope... quite a few people did double takes when the mom walked by with the kid..

[Melissa]

K we brought Paige to the mall to get her Santa pictures done and there was a kid there who was no older than 1 1/2 yrs old getting his Santa pic done and he had a spiked mohawk :wtf: actually it was a row of 3-4 spikes and the tips were tinted Aqua! now I admit it looked kind of cute but I don't think I would actually do that if it were my kid? would you? just curious :)

Were you in my area? There is a boy in Katie's class that had that type of hair cut most of last year. I thought it was a bit weird, but to each their own.

[sunnyflower]

I think the little boys look cute with the little spikey look that Bev posted. Very cool especially if they have an older brother who has one and they want to match. As far as the mohawk and color-no way! Color on Halloween maybe, but not going out in public.

Although I have done the mohawk on Brenna in the tub-bath time hair playing is so much fun!

[Melissa]

I wanted to clarify the mohawk on the kid in Katie's preschool class (yes preschool), it was a shave the sides leave hair in the middle mohawk. :woa:

[Jillian]

Caid got a hair cut at 15 months or so that was just horrid and one section of it stood up on end no matter what we did, so for about 3 monthes we spiked it with gel every day so it was all spikey instead of just that one section, untill it grew out.

That said, if my 18 month old asked for a spiked mohawk (I can't imagine my 18 month old being able to request something like that though) I'd let them have it. I let Janelle dye her hair pink for her 3rd birthday and blood red for her 5th. It's just hair, they can do whatever they want to their hair.

[Michele]

Jilliam - what kind of dye did you use for Janelle's hair?

Anyway, I wouldn't do the whole spike/mohawk/tint all at the same time.

I have spiked Jackson's hair in the past, so I don't think that is a big deal.

If he really wanted a mohawk, I might let him do it in the summer - I buzz his hair anyway for the summer, and I'd be inclined to buzz it into a mohawk for a little bit if he really wanted it (although I'm sure my husband would freak!). I also cannot picture Jackson at 4 really caring that much about what his hair looks like.

The tinting...no way...I wouldn't want all those chemicals on him, and at this point I still "control" the image he shows to the world, and I don't really think it is appropriate for a toddler to have blue hair. If he was older...like a teenager...then I'd be more likely to let him do it...if he bought his own dye.

[Jillian]

Jilliam - what kind of dye did you use for Janelle's hair?


Whatever hot topic has right now where they used to have manic panic when I was a high schooler. They only last 10 shampoos, and they stain the hair instead of actually dying it, and it uses food grade dyes.

[MrsPeacefrog]

I spike my kids hair all the time, I also mohawk them, granted they aren't shaved on the sides, but they are all cut in the style for mohawks, and I have been doing Jacob's since his hair got thick enough to do it which was at about 20 months old.

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7cc00b3127cceb23396352bce00000025108AbN2Llq0aNH


They love it and ask for it all the time :dunno:

I personally hate seeing kids with dyed tips etc, I am not a fan of that, but have no problems styling it at all.


My ex neighbours son has her 4 year old with the mowhake with the shaved sides and flames carved into the sides, and the edges of the mowhake bleached blonde, I think it looks awful, but I would think that of a 20 yr old with that style not only a 4yr old!

[Girlo]

I'm with Jillian......it's just hair. :)

Personally, if it were a holiday/special day (birthday, etc.) and/or my child asked for it, I would totally do it! I don't think I'd shave his head into a mohawk at this stage, since it would have to grow out to look any other way....I'll let him do that to himself when he's older. :giggle: I'd gel it and spike it though (and have done in the past)......and I'd even do the color, as stated in the first sentence. I wouldn't go get the Loreal hair dye for my 4yo, because of all the chemicals, but something like Manic Panic (ah....the memories) is just fine....it just washes right out. I know some parents who've dyed their kids' hair with Kool-aid, and that's worked as a temporary bit of fun, say....green for St. Paddy's day. :)
Hair experimentation is the one area (besides clothing) where Alex can go wild and experiment all he wants. It's just hair....and it'll grow back if needed. Besides, when I graduated hs, I had half my hair (on the R side) cut super short...and the rest of it shoulder length....like the true 80's waver I was. :lol:

For now, though, we all like his hair surfer chic and chestnut brown, so there's no plans to do anything else. Plus, most colors wouldn't show up on his dark hair (based on personal experience) unless we bleached it....and those kinds of chemicals will NOT find their way onto my baby's scalp anytime soon! :errr:

[MamaGoofy]

Not on a 1 1/2 year old. They need normal haircuts. When they are old enough to ask for it fine...but not on a toddler!

[LISA]

OMG I thought of this thread today and almost forgot to post.. Cass went back to dorm today so I took her grocery shopping and while we were there she pointed out this kid who was no more than 4 ( still sitting in the cart seat) and HE had streaks in his hair, at first I though naaah it must be his nat colour but as I got closer it was sooooo obviously not natural and this was a boy, a boy with streaks :woa: that looked like my streak job :lol: wow...

[Jillian]

You mean like highlights? My only reason why I wouldn't let my 4 year old get highlights is cause of the chemicals.