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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/engadine_maccas1997 on 2025-12-14 11:26:38+00:00.
So for context, my son is almost 9 months old and objectively a very cute and photogenic baby. And he was born with a very full head of hair. His hair had been one of his most prominent features, and everybody compliments him on it. But as the months have gone on, his hair has gotten really long. It was time to clean it up a bit.
So today my wife asks me to take care of this when she is going out with her friends for a much needed break. I take my son to the mall, get some Christmas shopping done, and visit two different barbers while there, asking if they can help cut a baby’s hair.
Both of them gave me the same answer: no babies. I get it. It’s a liability issue. Babies don’t really sit still, and that’s not a good combo with scissors.
So I say screw it and decide to do it myself. I start with the bangs, which are past his eyes at this point. I trim the sides, so you can see his ears for the first time in months. I taper up the back. All with a scissors while doing my best to hold his head still (and this was a challenge… for me safety was far more a priority than perfection).
So I finish his cut, bathe him to get the excess hair off, then take him for a walk to meet up with my wife when she’s done with her boozy brunch. I was hoping to surprise her. My wife and her friends were quite a bit tipsy after having champagne for several hours, so they were unfiltered in their response at first sight.
She hated it. Absolutely hated it. She said his haircut looks like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. The bangs were choppy, it really did look awful at second glance. Her friends also joined in on roasting the baby’s haircut, and my wife had to excuse herself to go to the bathroom to maintain her composure.
She texted family and friends group chats with the photos. All of them roasted it. My own mom, who is the most polite person imaginable, said something along the lines of “it’s ok, it will grow back and everyone has had a bad haircut as a kid!”
The whole thing was humiliating. And my wife was super pissed because it’s right before the holidays and baby’s first Christmas. The photos will look ridiculous now. So naturally, I didn’t dare admit I was the one who actually cut his hair. I blamed the barber who told me he wouldn’t do it. My wife half jokingly threatened to write a review, and I tried to control the damage by going on about how difficult it is to cut babies’ hair and how much he moved during it.
But lesson learned. I’m not cutting my kids’ hair ever again.
TL;dr: TIFU by cutting my infant son’s hair when a barbershop refused to, it ended up looking really bad (like Lloyd from Dumb & Dumber), my wife is really pissed about it and so I blamed a barber.