Baby Hairs On Anyone But Babies . . . Why?!

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This trend needs to end right now!

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*Sighs*

Why are we here with this topic? Well because, I am sick and tired of seeing young women well past the baby stage with baby hairs casually laid across their forehead and edges in almost every hairstyle dreamt up by current and trending stylists who want to keep this God-forsaken look alive when it should be dead, eulogized, buried, and left ALONE!

I said to my best friend and cousin in a text message the other day: “I really, really hate those stinking fake baby hairs these young women have in their hairstyles. I cringe every time I see it. *Sighs*” My cousin, ever the optimistic, responded, “It’s a fad. This too, shall pass.” It’s a fad that doesn’t need to be a fad that makes absolutely no sense.

Back in the day when this style was IN, circa the 70s, 80s, and 90s, little girls and young women actually had baby hair or slick hair with which to lay their edges and forehead. These young women are creating curly Qs and baby hairs where they just aren’t supposed to be and doing so in such a way that requires calculation and geometrical tactics, and I just have to shake my head. Exhibit A: feast your eyes on this YouTube short of someone teaching her audience how to apply baby hair to a hairstyle:

Baby Hair Tutorial. YES, THIS IS A THING, Y’ALL!!!

I should have prefaced this by saying if this is your thing . . . do you, boo. Please, do you. There are a ton of other things I could be soapboxing about, but this here is the hill I chose today, so here is where I stand. I love people expressing themselves in every way they choose, but what I do not like are folks grabbing hold of something they think is new and running that thing into the ground without being keenly aware of why that thing existed in the first place.

The crush’s daughter loves this baby hair trend. I told the crush how I felt about it and she is in agreement. Her response was, “You know these kids gotta do what they see others do. Makes no sense to me, but that’s how it is now.” And yes, that is HOW it is now. There is no originality, no uniqueness, no want to build and create something that may not have happened before or to at least put such a spin on that thing that folks believe it has never occurred before.

I am going to segue briefly to the fact that I encountered a clerk at The UPS Store a few days ago while mailing a package who could not read cursive. I spelled my name, my mother’s name, the addresses, etc. And she still did not type the info correctly into the system. I finally had to pull out my driver’s license, hand it to her, and say, “Please just look at my license and get my information. I’ll repeat the recipient’s info momentarily.” I was so frustrated with this child that I had to take several deep breaths when exiting the store. This is what happens when cursive and penmanship are removed from schools.

The younger generation has a foreign language before them when one writes in cursive. It’s perplexing to me, and I will never understand it!

Back to the baby hair issue. My godsister had a style with baby hairs when I went home to Savannah, GA to visit this past April, and it took everything in me not to word-vomit all over our brunch every time I looked at her. She’s in her 30s. WHY, boo?! WHY? LOL. She asked me a few times, “You okay,” and mildly, each time, I’d say, “Yeah, I am good.” Because my food was too good to allow the likes of someone else’s hair to ruin it and the mood was far too great for me to actually dampen it with something over which I have no control. I wasn’t going to rain on everyone’s parade. I know when to reel it in and act accordingly. But boy was it hard!

It is becoming evident that my generation is old and bold and the younger generations behind us are young and shunned. We can survive with little to nothing, display ingenuity when it most requires it, have lived through getting home before the streetlights came on, know what VHS and cassette tapes are, and can probably quote 75% of the movie The Color Purple (1985) without hesitating or flinching.

If you are a habitual baby hair applier, I wish you peace. I hope you find the hairstyle that fits perfectly with your face and head, and that you do not continue to beat a dead horse that should have never been resurrected. And if you intend to carry this trend deep into 2025, at least, use gels and spritzes that won’t push your hairline back five years from now. Think of your forehead, children . . . think of your edges. What have they ever done to you to deserve this?

*No baby hair was harmed, maimed, or brutally criticized outside of this post. Don’t come for me, please.*

HAPPY NEW YEAR, beautiful people! If you can’t laugh, you can’t live. Peace and blessings. And may the new year be most kind to all of you.

38 thoughts on “Baby Hairs On Anyone But Babies . . . Why?!”

  • Lol… we from a different generation, Tre.
    Doing so in a way that requires calculation and geometrical tactics 😆😆 I was laughing so hard reading this.
    I don’t understand the fake lashes, and 6lbs of extentions.
    But whatever makes her happy. I just go along with it.
    And the lads ain’t backwards either. They put in the work with that glued on finish.

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    • I am over here like, “DO YOU, BOOS! But don’t expect me to do it!” Correct! We are DEF cut from a different cloth!

      Lol! Seriously! I am also lightweight amazed by how much care and consideration goes into creating something as interesting to most as really, hair art, because that’s what it is becoming. And when it’s all said and done, I really cannot be mad at that. 😆😂🤣

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  • Poor Tre! I’ll have to see if I can find my “You kids stay off my lawn!” sign for you. 😁 (They come free with AARP membership.)

    I haven’t been around cool kids for a long time, but I remember stupid (IMHO) trends from back in high school (early 1970s). Blue jeans that had to be washed with rocks to make them look “cool” (or rescued from a dumpster). Perms for that French poodle look. 🙄

    And then “helmet hair” (enough hairspray to render every hair immobile) and “linebacker shoulders” (godawful big shoulder pads) in the 1980s…

    It’s always something!

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  • HILARIOUS!!!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Listen, someone had to say it!!! Please leave the natural baby hair to the babies. Those and the fake bushes some call lashes just get me. But, to each their own. Neither are for me.🤷🏽‍♀️😅

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    • Exactly! Honey, everyone has their thing. Those things are not for me. Lol. 😆😂🤣

      I’m just so perplexed by it all. But, you know. Something else will appear that makes absolutely no sense and others will jump on it, and I’ll just be shaking my head about that, too. Lol.

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  • Girl, no. That and the eyelashes. I thought the eyelashes was going to be a fad, yet here we still are: long-ass eyelashes and baby hairs on ya forehead to boot.

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  • “…and doing so in such a way that requires calculation and geometrical tactics,”

    I am dead! 🤣🤣🤣

    As a Boomer who’s lived through countless trends, the baby hair thing has always made me shake my head. Okay, okay… I also had issues with door-knocker earrings in the 80s! 😜😄

    I didn’t “style” my daughter’s baby hair when she was a baby, so seeing salons/stylists, YouTube vids, and Junebug ’round the way singing the praises of accentuating baby hair to grown women leaves me cold… and leads me to feel it’s just another instance of society infantilizing women. But! That’s another soapbox for another day! 😏

    I agree people should do what works/feels right for them. However, just because we can do something doesn’t always mean we should! 😇😏

    Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉

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    • Exactly! Just because we can, doesn’t always mean we should. LOL. You got me dying about the “door-knocker earrings.” LOL. My mom had quite a few bamboo name-plated earrings, and I had my share of too-big-for-my-face hoops. LOL! LOL!

      Trends are something else, aren’t they?!

      A very Happy New Year to you as well. Thank you!

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    • I have ZERO clue of what’s going on with folks and fashion. I am so out of it most days with trends and the like, and I am OKAY with that. LOL!

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    • Eh, that doesn’t bother me nearly as much. I am tatted up and have several piercings, so I can tolerate that a bit more. But I can see how it can be less appealing to others. We all have our something. LOL!

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  • I feel like so many fashion/beauty/ design trends just beg the question of “why?!?!” And yet there’s someone out there who is really into the look and you just have to shrug and give up on trying to understand other people’s tastes.

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    • As the young ones say, “If you like it, I love it.” But they don’t really love it. 🤣😆😂

      I just have to shake my head and keep it moving.

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