My middle-school-aged daughter has cut her bangs very short and has resorted to parting her hair low on the side and sweeping it across her forehead to cover where her bangs once were. This is actually the third time she has done this despite my husband's and my advice and offers to take her to a salon to have whatever she wants done to her hair. We don't really care how her hair is, but we are weary of her misery resulting from her attempts to fix previously botched jobs. We've even put away all the scissors in the house for months at a time. Any recommendations for a salon or haircutter who can fix my girl's disasterous bang butchering would be most appreciated.

I would highly recommend Nancy at Peter Thomas who is very understanding as well as a great haircutter. It's pretty expensive so it wouldn't be a regular thing for a teenager but maybe one great very short cut would make her feel happier with her hair.

The main reason I'm responding is that I used to do this to my hair in junior high school. I don't think it had anything to do with hair but with an overall misery about junior high school in combination with a really low self esteem -- and really, who had good self esteem in junior high? Those years were so hard. Anne Lamott says that everyone she knows who is creative/interesting/fun to be around had a hell of a time in eighth grade and I think that's right. Hang in there. I survived the eighth grade and am currently quite happy with my hair. Ann