For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 22, 2025

Too late now!

Too late, Elly. He already cut off some of your hair. He gotta finish.

WHAT mind???

Give her the Sinéad O’Connor look..

The artistry is interrupted.

We know where April gets it. :P

She’s a woman. She can do that.

Too late for that after he’s done those first hurried snips.

I cut my hair when I was 18, I got tired of putting in perms and damaging my hair with curls. It was the best decision I ever made and even in my 30s, I still pull it off and look like I’m in my 20s. But I did for me, not because of some teenage brat.

That potato crop is growing nicely.

Sorry, but you can tell he’s already done some cutting which means he can’t put it back on. She’s going to have some bangs, fullness there and wisps there. She needs to have him finish what he’s started. Then if she still doesn’t like it, she’ll need to grow it all back. I know how that goes as a friend of mine did a lousy job on my last hair cut & I’m still trying to grow it back out so I can have it recut by a professional.

Now we know that Ellie doesn’t reserve her insanity for John, alone.

When I was in school, one day my friends & I were discussing what we were going to do “when we grew up”. My friend J said that she wanted to be a stylist. Another friend said, “Great! You can give [Wren] a haircut.” J said, “I am NOT going to be the one to cut her hair!” Fast forward a few years. I was 20 & decided to cut my hair shorter than I’d worn it in years. I walked into the salon & was seated. Suddenly, behind me I hear a gasp. Yup, J was my stylist! We still joke about that day.

Hair grows back. I don’t get the problem.

That description sounded a lot like a Karen cut. Good thing she changed her mind.

Sounding like your daughter when she cut her hair!

Too late. Make up your mind, Elly.

If I want a ‘new look’ I cut my own hair. Relabel the horrid results as new, adventurist or stretch it to curated. For good or ill it is perpetual knit hat season. Perpetual hat hair to blur the last attempt of ‘styling’ my own hair.

Too late as he’s already started. You now have the ‘April tries to cut her own hair with safety scissors look’. Best to let the transformation continue or he’ll need to try and fix it like you had to do with April which turned out marginal at best. The salvation comes in that it will grow back..

That poor guy!

Too late, Elly.

So not surprised by this.

We’re so sorry, Mrs. Patterson

We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain

We’re so sorry, Mrs. Patterson

But there’s no long hair left

And I believe I’m gonna rain

We’re so sorry, but we haven’t done a decent style all day

We’re so sorry, Mrs. Patterson

But if anything should happen

We’ll be sure to give your hair a rinse

We’re so sorry, Mrs. Patterson

But we haven’t done a bloody decent style all day

We’re so sorry, Mrs. Patterson

But the kettle’s on the boil

And we’re so easily called away

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Admiral Halsey notified me

He had to have a trim or he couldn’t go to sea

I had another look and I had a cup of tea and butter pie

Butter pie?

The butter wouldn’t melt so I put it in the pie

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Live a little, be a gypsy, get around

(Get around)

Get your hair up off the ground, live a little, get around

Live a little, be a gypsy, get around

(Get around)

Get your hair up off the ground, live a little, get around

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Scissors across the back and sides, back and sides

Scissors across the bangs

Before I got to age 45, I tried shorter hair, then let hair grow back as I was not ready, then when I got to age 45, thought enough shorter hair, I also colored my hair to slow down the gray, this was when I worked pt in office, when that job ended, I ended coloring and gray expanded, much older on SS, keep my hair short and on SS.

Love the Canadian’s bilingualism…. “Nouveau Visage…” Love it.

I pray she doesn’t end up with the Whoopie Goldberg cut.

BEWARE of any hairdresser who speaks with a phony French accent!!

Dawn’s terrible haircut—Round 2.Will Elly be afraid to go to work?

I could be wrong because the fourth and fifth panels are seen from different angles, and the fourth is very zoomed in. But it looks like in the fourth panel, Elly’s hair is much shorter, and in the fifth it’s more or less back to normal.

I was a hairstylist for 15 yrs. The worst customer was the one who wants something different but not. Cut 1/4" off and call it a day.

After chemo, my hair grew back curly after being straight all my life. I went to get a trim & my hairdresser of 18 years butchered it & cut it very short. It did not grow back curly!

Most of us are reluctant to make big changes in life

That guy’s face is seriously cracking me up!

Looks like Michael in the fourth panel.

Good grief, you could see this coming from a mile away. Next ! ;-)

Calm down. It will grow back.

I am surprised Elly would let a Québécois anywhere near her hair.

It’s hair, it ALL grows back – some people are such big babies – except for their own personal vanity NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE.

Or this:

Elizabeth: Hmm, the scissors are missing.

Bathroom. Elly is talking a teddy bear

Elly: Look at me, teddy….

Elly removes bangs

Elly: …I made my head bigger!

Her hair is dripping wet. Every cut I’ve gotten, the stylist doesn’t wash it first. They might mist it a little, but not so much that it’s dripping and looks completely soaked like Ellie’s in the first panel.

Give her an 80s hairstyle.