I let my 5-year-old daughter bleach her hair — trolls came for me

Like mom, like daughter.

A mom has come beneath assault from on-line trolls after a video of her taking her younger daughter to the salon along with her to dye her hair went viral.

Demi Lucy Might Engemann, the self-proclaimed “CEO of cool mother,” shared a TikTok of her and her 5-year-old daughter Maude skipping college to have a “woman day” on the hair salon.

“My daughter requested if she might bleach her hair so she might put pink in it,” the influencer from Utah explains at the start of the clip, which gathered 7.7 million views on TikTok.

Within the video, Maude is seen excitedly smiling all through the method and having fun with her salon time.

“She was so excited and felt so huge,” the caption reads as Maude is seen serving to the stylist combine her dye and chatting with everybody on the salon.

In a single lovely clip, Maude provides her mother a thumbs up as two hairdressers put foils on her little head to match her mother’s within the subsequent shot.

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Demi Lucy May Engemann and her daughter Maude

Demi Lucy Might Engemann rapidly went viral taking her daughter Maude to the salon.
Maude with foils on her hair

"My daughter requested if she might bleach her hair so she might put pink in it," the video explains.
Maude smiling

Little Maude was overjoyed to expertise a day on the salon along with her mother.
Maude in the salon chair

The five-year-old left the salon with a brand new blonde hairdo however many questioned what occurred to the pink dye.

The younger woman excitedly claps her palms and swings her toes as she provides the mirror a giant smile unable to include her pleasure as she begins to see the ultimate product.

“Oh my!” Maude says as she will get her freshly bleached hair styled.

“Right here’s your signal to say ‘sure’ extra pure pleasure!” the mom captioned the video.

After going viral on TikTok, a follow-up video exhibiting the hair transition earned 1 million views in lower than 24 hours with a variety of feedback.

Some have commented how “valuable” and “enjoyable” the video is whereas others have accused Engemann of ruining her daughter’s hair for wanting a blond little one.

Maude's new blonde hair
The video rapidly went viral amassing 7.7 million views in lower than 24 hours with hundreds of blended evaluations.
demilucymay_/Tiktok

“My mother did this and it simply began years of dying and damaging my hair,” irk mentioned.

“Completely not. There are protected dyes to make it pink, bleaching it was a tough no,” Colgada.como.una.pagana commented.

However others have been very excited to see the little woman having a lot enjoyable along with her mother loving her new hairdo.

“This was my dream as a toddler,” jensen replied.

“She was so stuffed with pleasure and it’s a valuable reminiscence you’ll each have. Completely lovely,” paola mentioned.

“I don’t care what anybody says, hair grows anyway. These reminiscences created are priceless!” Fega_el wrote.

Many commenters have questioned what occurred to the unique thought of dyeing the little woman’s hair pink however Engemann mentioned the pink will come later.

However whether or not it’s blond or pink, docs advise in opposition to dyeing hair for youngsters beneath 16.

“I actually don’t suppose it’s protected to dye or bleach a toddler’s hair till after puberty, and ideally not till their late teenagers — no less than 16,” Dr. Sejal Shah, a New York dermatological surgeon, advised Good Housekeeping.

Youngsters’s hair is thinner than grownup hair and nonetheless vulnerable to vary as they age and the chemical compounds in hair dye could trigger harm. It is suggested to talk to a pediatrician earlier than dyeing kids’s hair or utilizing non-permanent coloring.

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