A mom was recently shamed online after posting a controversial TikTok showing herself and her daughter going to the salon to bleach and dye their hair.
Demi Lucy May Engermann (@demilucymay__) posted a video last week showing the trip she took with her five-year-old daughter to the hair salon, explaining that they were bleaching her daughter's hair to add pink to it.
"My daughter asked if she could bleach her hair so she could put pink in it," a caption reads on the video, which shows her daughter, Maude, getting her hair done.
Maude went through the whole process, which included getting her hair bleached in sections, waiting while the bleach set, and getting it washed out. She seemed to be having a pretty good time.
The two had made a day out of it, with Demi getting bleach and dye in her hair at the same time. She made sure to show that both she and her daughter were getting similar treatments.
"Bret brought us Starbucks and walked right passed the room bc he didn't recognize Maude," Demi writes in the caption, showing how much of a transformation Maude went through at the salon.
One user said, "I’m all about coloring my daughters hair…. There is no way in hell I would ever BLEACH I though."
"Not trying to be rude or question the parents decision but genuine question isn’t the chemicals from the bleach bad for their sensitive scalp?" another commenter asked.
According to medical professionals, bleach can be harmful to kids' scalps, as they tend to be more sensitive than adults. But if you're going to get your child's hair bleached, it's best to get it done professionally (which is what Demi had done).
In her video, she explains how Maude wanted to bleach her hair because she wanted to have pink in it, so Demi and Bret talked about it and agreed to get it done by a professional stylist.
She also explains that she didn't make her daughter blonde because she wanted her to look "better:" "I would never put that on my daughter and make her feel like she has to change anything about herself."
"Ultimately, I posted this video because it was such a fun and special bonding moment with my daughter, and it's sad that the internet has to turn that into a negative."
"You did nothing wrong. She’s gonna love the pink!!" one comment said.
Another wrote, "literally why do ppl care about a child that isn’t theirs??"
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