Kids & Hair Dye

On Sandra Rose's site, I was looking at a recent family photo of Will and Jada Smith with their children and could not help but notice their young daughter, Willow with extension braids in her hair. Now, the braids did not cause me to bat my eyelashes a few extra times, but fact that she had a few light colored strands, which appeared to be dyed pale yellow, or blonde braids had me thinking.

Have times changed so much? Are many of parents letting young children where dye in or colored highlights in their hair? I have seen little boys, mostly white with colored Mohawks, in the past, but not in recent years. However, I am talking about little girls with colored hair for cosmetic purposes. When is young, too young, to wear hair color…even if it is innocently sparingly added into a head of braided hair?

Here is a Flickr photo, entitled, “My Red Headed Step Children” where the caption reads “Too Much Fun With Hair Dye! The Dye Washed Out In Two “Weeks

Photo of Willow Smith.
That page keeps redirecting, but here is the link to cut and paste: http://www.sandrarose.com/images1/kkaag-smithfam.jpg

I say under 16 is too young. If your child wanted highlights or to get a full head of blonde, red, or black dyed hair would you allow it? What about a "fun" purple, blue, burgundy or orange color? What do you think?

Follow the jump to watch a video of children as young as 6 years old getting hair highlights at a hair salon. Does that father have a clue in that video? They sat down and had a family discussion on whether or not the kid could have highlights, and decided to go with the haircolor.