A schoolboy teased by his own mum for looking like 'Boris Johnson's offspring' was left red-faced after hacking off his own fringe. George-Henry Denton, who hoped to one day grow his long locks into a man bun, took matters into his own hands after getting annoyed with the comparison to the messy-haired prime minister.
The seven-year-old decided to take a pair of craft scissors to his straight blonde hair, before proudly showing off his new do to his taunting mother. But mum Karly, 33, was left in stitches when she saw what her son had done.
George-Henry hadn't realised just how much of his fringe he and his six-year-old brother Frankie-James had hacked off, and burst into tears when he realised what he had done, Karly said. The fashion-savvy schoolboy still wants to grow his hair so Karly is now trying to salvage the dodgy cut by waxing the left-over fringe down while it grows back.
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Karly, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said: "I've said he looked like Boris for months. While it was going through the growing stage it didn't really lay properly, it just stuck out. I kept telling him he looked like the offspring of Boris Johnson. He kept telling me off.
"I showed him Boris and he said he doesn't look like that but I told him he really does. When he's just got out of bed and his hair sticks out so much, it's so funny. It kept falling down in his face and it was annoying him. I'd said in the morning that now it's at a nice length and it had gone through the awkward stage to where it actually looks nice, we could go and get it trimmed and tidied up."
But, while Karly was in the bath, George-Henry and his brother grabbed a pair of scissors from a craft set to have a go themselves. "I could hear them playing hide and seek and thought they were fine," Karly said.
"He walked into the bathroom and was playing with his hair at the front," she explained. "He said 'mum the front bit has gone' and moved his hand and I just said 'oh my God, what have you done?'. I couldn't stop laughing. I thought wow. He was gutted. He said he'd taken the front bit off I told him he'd cut loads off but he wasn't panicking.
"I asked if he'd seen it and he hadn't so I showed it to him in the mirror and he started crying. He was in genuine shock that it didn't look good. He'd held the hair and asked his six-year-old brother to cut it for him and he did. They don't normally do anything stupid."
George-Henry had been growing his hair for eight months after pestering his mum to let him do it for two long years. "In the end I said ok, let's go for it," she said. "He wanted it long enough to tie back and have a man bun, he was probably about two inches off being able to do that. He was going to have it cut back short but he changed his mind and said he still wants it long."
Karly shared a photo of George-Henry's new do on Facebook where it racked up more than 5,000 comments and likes. "A lot of people were mostly saying this has made their day or dying laughing. A lot of others posted pictures of their own kids cutting their hair. I think they all do it at some point," she said.
One commenter said: "Oh bless him, he certainly knows his own mind. What a character. I hope you’re writing all his little adventures down. It’d be great to remind him in the future when his mini me is pulling a few stunts too x."
Another wrote: "Well.. at least he did it to his own hair! When my daughter was younger.. we had a neighbours lad round to play..I popped to the loo..came back down and said where's he gone my daughter said he went back home.. Five mins later door knocks with said lad and his dad...and the boy missing a big chunk of hair... at the front yep my daughter had cut it! little S*D! I was so embarrassed and apologetic JEEZ I ONLY WENT FOR A WEE! luckily being a hairdresser i was able to sort it!! free of charge!"
