'My friend is furious I cut her daughter's hair, but it looked so bad I had to act'

A rift has emerged in the friendship between two mothers following a heated dispute over a haircut.

The disagreement unfolded when one of the women decided to give her friend's daughter a 'trim' during a playdate, much to the dismay of the little girl's mother.

The friend claimed that the child's hair appeared "scruffy" with the long ends resembling a "bird's nest."

The woman wrote on Kidspot: "It was pretty obvious it hadn't been brushed in at least a week, and the ends were all scraggly and dry."

The woman sympathised with her friend, considering her challenging week, and assumed she may not have had the time to tend to her daughter Bella's hair.

She claimed to have offered to make the three-year-old's hair "look pretty," to which the little girl eagerly agreed.

After attempting to detangle the locks for about 20 minutes without success, the friend opted to trim the ends.

Reflecting on the situation, she admitted: "OK, yes, it was as I was collecting the scissors from the bathroom that it flashed across my mind to send a text message to my friend and ask if it would be OK for me to give Bella a small trim."

However, she didn't send the text, believing she was doing her friend a favor and expecting a positive reaction to the tidy-up.

Contrary to her expectations, Bella's mother was furious, particularly because her daughter had never had a haircut before, and she had missed the milestone.

Despite the fallout, the friend defended her decision, finding it challenging to comprehend the intensity of the anger over a haircut.

She apologised for the misunderstanding but acknowledged that she should have checked first, and although she believed her friend overreacted, she still remained uncertain about the future of their friendship.

She wrote: "Long story short, (so to speak...) I ended up apologising profusely for the error of my ways and although I believe she grossly overreacted, I realise I probably should have checked first because as it stands, I've now lost a friend (for the time being) and even if, or when she does finally let it go, and in a couple of months when her daughter's hair grows back, or she realises how much better the short version is, I'm not sure I really want to be close friends with someone who is so easily unhinged over something so superficial."