5-Year-Old Goes Viral in Her First Beauty Tutorial — by Chopping Off Her Hair
Don’t try this at home. (Photo: Getty Images)
In elementary school, we were told not to play with scissors — and our eight-year-old selves probably rolled our eyes at the classroom rules. But five-year-old Aubrey Arnold, an aspiring beauty vlogger whose grandmother had gifted her a basket of old makeup, decided to eschew the ubiquitous smoky eye tutorials and go straight to viral video by chopping off her bangs with a pair of classroom scissors — with what looks like some brown lipstick smeared on her lips, natch. The video of the incident was published on January 15 and has been viewed over 10 million times since.
Snip, snip, snip. (Photo: Facebook)
“She asked me to set my tablet up because she likes to video herself,” her grandmother, Debbie Arnold, told ABC News. “She watches lots of makeup tutorials online. She’ll do dances, she’s videotaped herself being a school teacher, all kinds of imaginative things.” In the background of the video, you see Arnold concentrating intensely on each blunt snip — as beauty editors, this part makes us cringe with horror — while her grandmother and mother chatting in the next room, oblivious to Arnold’s impending YouTube fame. “We didn’t even think that scissors were there,” her grandmother admitted. “We set her up in the kitchen and we were in the next room chatting, just figuring she was having a good time — and she was.”
Arnold only speaks once — very confidently, in fact — in the middle of the video: “And, if you get the hairs on there, wait. ‘Cause that’s how she looks like.” When her grandmother discovered the new haircut, she posted the video on Facebook and tagged her own hairdresser, Emmalee Wolf. “Is this how you started, EmmaLee Wolf?” she asked. Wolf later advised the grandmother to just let the bangs grow.
“She’s mildly embarrassed but it’s OK,” Arnold’s mother told ABC News. “She’ll be crying one day when we show it to her first boyfriend though.” But with the self-assured confidence she exhibits in that video, we’re sure that Arnold’s got thicker skin than that.
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