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A U.K. mom was convinced her baby would have a head full of thick hair just like his parents—but she couldn't have been more wrong.
Gina-Louise Jakovlevs from Northwest England (@gljjjjj96) posted a gallery on TikTok of her newborn baby with the text overlay: "Aw, he has hair, he will have a head full of it, thick hair like mummy and daddy!"
But the next photo revealed a plot twist no one saw coming, least of all Gina-Louise and her partner Bradley.
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Their baby Arvo rocks a striking look: bald on top with hair on the sides. The text overlay reads: "Bruh."
"The only way we ever describe this is a nest head," Gina-Louise told Newsweek. "If you imagine a bird's nest with the hollow in the middle, that's what it looked like."
The 28-year-old said that she and Bradley, also 28, both have very thick hair, so they naturally assumed their son would inherit the same.
"Brad's is quite coarse [and] mine is just really thick and, at the time, it was quite long," Gina-Louise said. "Brad gets his cut weekly."
When Arvo was born, Gina-Louise said that his hair was soft and fluffy, like pulled-apart cotton wool. She thought it would get thicker, but things didn't go as expected in those early weeks.
"I didn't expect all his hair to fall out, but that did happen four weeks after he was born," Gina-Louise said.
Arvo's now-viral grandpa cut has amassed over 814,000 views and more than 42,000 likes.
Many users found his hairstyle hilarious, including his mom. "I'm his mom, I'm allowed to say they're horrific," she wrote in the caption.
"Out here looking like Dr Phil," one user wrote.
"My 5-week-old has this right now! He looks like his great-grandpa," another posted.
Another parent shared how their son was born with "cute fluff" that lasted around a year. "Now he's three and has a head full of beautiful blonde curls," they wrote.
Gina-Louise said other comments said Arvo looked like a little old man in a baby's body.
Thankfully, the hair saga has a happy ending. Arvo'slocks have since bounced back in full force.
"His hair now is really full and thick," Gina-Louise said. "He [also] has to have it cut every seven to 10 days because otherwise he starts looking at like a little girl and we start calling him Angelica."
Correction 7/14/25, 05:19 a.m. ET: This article has been corrected to clarify Arvo's name.
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