I am raising a real “girly” girl and that is kind of hard for me because I am a total tomboy. I let my hair air dry with barely a comb through. I wear no makeup. I like really old tees and flip-flops. I love action movies. My older son and I have tons of stuff we can do for mother/son days but finding something to do with my daughter is a bit harder for me.
When asked what she would like to do for some mom/daughter time, I am inwardly groaning at her answers… makeovers, ear piercing, coloring on her hair, manicures, and pedicures. This is alien territory. I think I would rather have some teeth pulled before I will wear a set of acrylic nails or sit through an air brushing session.
But as long as I don’t have to sit in the chair I have opted to take my daughter for a monthly salon day. There won’t be any hair coloring but I can deal with children’s manicures and pedicures. I don’t want to squash her interests just because they are not mine. Although I am very nervous about all the potential for exposure to chemicals. We can request nail polish without nasties since many brands make safer polishes and I can use safer polish remover before we go, so that the nail techs don’t have to use theirs. But when they poured some blue powder in her foot bath today I had NO idea what was in it. I will have to research these things.
All in all though, I think the big smile on her face all day long makes the time well spent. She made new friends, chatting with all the little old ladies getting their blue highlights and foot massages, and the stuff she told people! Geez Louise! She told the lady next to her that she toilet papered people’s barn on April Fool’s Day… WITHOUT bothering to mention that this was on Farmville!!! Everyone there thought she was hysterical.
The biggest surprise of the day was that I have to admit that even this tomboy mom wouldn’t mind having some of that cute toenail polish! I might find myself in that chair next to her after all.
