Hue may wish to consider the full spectrum of options before making waves with your length, Selkie.
Blue-ish skin, rainbow hair, dashes everywhere...
Hue may wish to consider the full spectrum of options before making waves with your length, Selkie.
Todd check with the doctor (can’t remember how to spell his name sorry) before letter her use any kind of hair dye. There is no telling how her skin will react to it. Once that’s out of the way go for it!
Back when I was home-dyeing my hair, the directions always said to do an allergy skin patch test on some inconspicuous spot like your inner elbow first, before every application, because allergies can develop over time.
I don’t know if that’s in the directions still, but Selkie should definitely do one anyway because her metabolism is so different. Doctor Pohl can’t possibly know enough about what’s in all the different brands of hair dye.
probably one of the hippy vegan “made from flowers” types would be okay if she can drink tea.
Loving Andi’s new do btw!
Contrary to popular belief that kind of dye is more likely to cause allergy reactions. Less likely to cause chemical burns but year if you are sensitive skin you will rash just as bad with that kind of thing.
Something about Andi telling Amanda what her hair look should be rubs me the wrong way. I guess it WAS framed like ‘a deal’ and not Andi just using parental authority to make Amanda’s hair different, and it’s not like she’s cutting it… but there’s still a part of me that yells AMANDA’S HAIR IS AMANDA’S BUSINESS ANDI SHE IS NOT YOUR DOLL
It was more of her suggesting it. I hope Amanda tells Andi that she’s uncomfortable with it down if it does bother her. I think Andi will respect that. Well hopefully.
I agree. I think it was more of a way for her to encourage Amanda to try new things, rather than forcing her to change her style.
Look coming from someone who’s mom forced me to have pixy cut cause she felt girls should have short hair. This is not forced. I see it as hey big turning point for our family how about a little change.
Actually, I’d do the same thing if my daughter always pulled her hair up in elastics—especially in the same style. Even with gentle bungies, doing your hair up in elastics the same way each time (especially 2 elastics instead of one) can can a lot of breakage. Also, keep in mind Amanda is 8-9. Most girls that old do not wear pigtails—or when they do it’s just a once in a while thing. At a public school, that makes her stand out to her peers in a negative way. Keep in mind I’m all for individuality (I’m about to dye the tip of my 7 year old’s hair in hot pink), but you have to take good care of yourself and if you already have trouble fitting in (due to personality) it sometimes helps making external changes. Speaking from my own experience—I had a tough time with peers as a child. It made things worse that my parents refused to let me have any commercial toys or dress in clothes that were popular (even though I genuinely loved some of the styles). This was into my teens. 🙁
Andi did it fine, in fact, I give her props the way she handled it. Deals with kids are a great thing, as long as you uphold your end of the bargain, and I hope we find out that Amanda picked out Andi’s hair. Andi kept up her part so it feels very much not manipulative or saying no “because I said so”.
And when I was younger, I wanted a mohawk. Mom never let me have one.
Amanda needs to get comfortable being nudged out of her comfort zone. The pigtails were a security blanket. This is going to be good for her.
Amanda does look adorable with her hair down. But I wonder if Andi let Amanda pick out the cut. Cuz that would be cooler.
it didn’t look as if it had been cut to me, it seems the same as when she just had it down the morning that Andi slept through the alarm. I think Andi is the one who got a haircut, she is just trying to talk Amanda into wearing her hair differently not making her chop off a big chunk and doing weird things to it. My mom convinced me to get a perm once and the first thing the stylist did (without telling me first) was to add layers by chopping off half my hair. I kinda threw a fit and then was also mad that the perm was an awful frizzy mess and not the pretty ringlets I was promised.
I love this! My daughter is seven and requested a short hair cut for summer (Pixie) and then pink hair for her birthday. I love how fearless she is in her self expression.
As a father, one thing that REALLY griped me was when some other adult gave my kid permission to do something without checking with me.
Andi shoulda checked with Todd before encouraging Selkie to dye her hair.
Not a father but this was absolutely my reaction too. Bad Andi, bad.
I didn’t think her response was likely to be interpreted as sufficient permission, just approval of the idea.
She’s not giving her permission (she can’t), just expressing her opinion of approval.
Sleepyrobin and mikael ? thank you fpr seeing it that way too. I was worried i was the only one.
Saying “Go for it” is much closer to permission than approval. “I think you’d look cute” or “You would look good with rainbow hair” or “that sounds like a fun idea”, those are approval. “Go for it” is definitely an expression of permission when coming from an adult towards a child.
Yes, but it’s how Andi always interacts with kids. She doesn’t talk adult-to-child. Unless they’re misbehaving, she treats them like equals. “Awesome. Go for it.” That’s exactly what she would have said to a girlfriend wanting to try something exciting with her hair.
It wouldn’t be appropriate for her act like a mom to Selkie. I can see her becoming another Slightly Subversive Aunt, though! Selkie already has one – I bet Marta would have said “Go for it!” too.
Last panel Amanda makes me feel sorry for her.
Why? She’s the one being grumpy while the other folk chill, she’s in the position she placed herself in. If anything I hope this makes her realize she’s only hurting herself by acting like this.
The ever-adorable Selkie building a relationship with the one person Amanda feels is “hers”. Amanda is not going to react well to this.
Or she might realize how Selkie feels now that she has to share her dad. One can only hope.
Empathy has not, hitherto, been Amanda’s strong point.
Rainbow hair sounds expensive to maintain. Talkin’ at least six sets of hair dye… Three only if you really know what you’re doing.
There are those temporary hair chalks which wash right out. I think that’s what Andi must be using, seeing as she switches colours around so much. It would be a fun, no-commitment way for Selkie to play around with bright hair colours. Andi could help.
I like what I’m seeing.
Amanda has ears!
Not a bad idea. Candy colored hair would detract from her Sarnothi looks and let her kinda hide in plain sight.
“Blue-ish skin, rainbow hair, dashes everywhere…”
My Little Sarnothi – Friendship is Fishies
I just read about Under Hair Rainbow Highlights.
You highlight the hair under your hair, then when you want to be fun, you bring it to the front and show it off with braids/ties/etc. And if you want to be professional, you leave it in the back.
I could see Amanda doing it.
Alternatively you can get clipons and do the same.
So I gotta be honest… when you first introduced the “Amanda is the biological child” thing, and especially after what Andi originally said about adoption, I was kind of expecting a Cinderella type story where Todd would be more focused on the Bio-daughter then the adopted one. I’m really glad that didn’t happen