Oh, my. Reminds of when I was about 14 or so. I was in my room and my mom shrieked suddenly. She had gone in to put some laundry in gfgbro's room (he was 16 or so) and she thought there was a rat on his dresser.
It was his hair. He cut a bunch off in front and on one side. He looked like a lopsided bush. She would HAPPILY have paid for a haircut, in fact was ALWAYS begging him to go get a decent one. Nope, had to DIY it. He has really curly hair and it gets bigger and bushier, not longer. About the ONLY thing that made him get it cut was when I would start calling him feminine forms of his name. There was a girl down the street when we were little with that name and she was awful and snobby and to him it was a HUGE insult.
Wiz and thank you have that same curly hair. father in law also has it, so do a lot of husband's male relatives. WHY the girls all get stick straight hair I just don't understand. You could not get my hair straighter if you ironed it.
As for the pics, well, I think they are cute. My mom has very few pics of us with our hair looking great, at least from when we were little. Mine is super cowlicky and was ALWAYS standing up funny. But those are the pics that bring back the most memories.
When the guys are of age to shave, ELECTRIC RAZORS ladies. Yes, they can shave off eyebrows, etc... with them, but they are a lot harder to hurt yourself with! Plus they really don't like long hair unless they have trimmers. Jessie drives me NUTS because she is always dry shaving her legs and armpits and then she gets rashes and they get infected and it is just icky. At one point I refused to let her use a razor and kept husband's locked up because she was just going NUTS with it and had infected rashes that ended up looking like she had been dragged along a gravel road for 1/4 mile or so. She gets upset because I will NOT give her sympathy and make her buy her own antibiotic creams and when she needed an rx medication for the rash I made her use her own money to buy it. Seems parents are SUPPOSED to buy all medications.
Not this mom when it is self inflicted and we had just gotten it cleared up! I got a "Meanest Mommy" award for that. She was 13 and actually created a paper award for the "Meanest Mommy" for me, lol!!! She was so confused when I laughed hysterically and couldn't stop when she gave it to me. I guess it was supposed to hurt my feelings. Instead I took it as reassurance I was doing my job well, lol.