Toddlers first haircut

Today my two year old got her first ever salon haircut. She was totally hyped up when I talked to her in the morning about it; "Nana is taking you to the hairdressers to have a little trim, and you get to sit on a special chair, with a special gown and a biiiig mirror!" to which she replied "Oh wow!" But this changed when she came home from preschool later the same day, I guess maybe she thought it over in her overactive imagination, 'cause when she came home what she had before found exciting became quite the opposite. "I don't want to have my hair cut!" she told me, and I was completely suprised. She then kicked off and had a massive screaming fit over not wanting to go to the hairdressers. This resulted in a "time out" in mine and my husbands bedroom, which when my mother came in she was not pleased about. She told me that it was cruel to shut her in there and that I was being emotionally abusive towards her, and I absolutely flpped my lid! How dare she! What does she know? She wasn't there, and didn't see what happened. I calmed down though, but not before telling her to frick off. We got past that, and set off for the hairdressers. Toddler was less than excited, saying to Nana "I want to go to your house, I don't want to go to the hairdressers!" But when we got there she changed her tune again. I pointed out the big mirrors and special chairs I had mentioned before and she smiled, as her dreams of the wonderland of the hairdressers came true. Once she was on the chair she explained she didn't want her hair cut because she didn't want to "Lose her curleys" but we explained to her it'll still be curly when it's had a trim, infact it'd probably be more curly, and she seemed rather pleased to hear that! We got the haircut done with no tears or tantrums, and she was very grown up and stayed nice and still for the nice lady. I stood by her and held her hand, and got her to sing "Mr Knickerboker" when she had to look at different places so the hairdresser could do the different sections. All in all it was a very good day, where as I had expected it to be very difficult. We then went and got a treat for Toddler and Mummy (she had strawberry ice cream, and I had a latte and a chocolate cookie, yum!) and she was exstatic, and needless to say very worn out and ready for bed after dinner, heh.