I feel like age 1-2 or 2.5 is the "Awkward Hair Age" for girls, unfortunately. DD is approaching 1 and she is sporting a mullet now. I hate it but I think I need to wait it out until it grows out.
DD2's hair looked like that and I took her in for a haircut. She just got the back trimmed, up to the bottom of her ears but it looks so much better and not so uneven. We didn't trim the front because I want to be able to put it in pigtails this summer. We always have some type of clip in it to hold it out of her eyes.
Post by badtzmaru22 on Apr 24, 2014 20:03:16 GMT -5
Ok, none of those pics look bad!! Lol.
We just pulled the front if DD's hair into a whale spout, or clip, and that made it seem better. Then I had my stylist friend trim the back up a little.
crazy hair over here too. A headband helps tame it a bit, it's just not long enough or thick enough yet to do a whale spout or pigtails or anything like that. When it is humid it curls a bunch and looks better. I'm not cutting it, waiting for it to get long enough to be able to style.
Post by water*drop on Apr 24, 2014 21:29:41 GMT -5
DD's hair is way past her shoulders in the back, and the front is basically the length of normal bangs right now, so she definitely has a baby mullet. I'd have to cut it super short to make it look not mulletish, but then it'd be too short for pigtails. She likes her pigtails too much to do that, so we're just going with it and hoping for the best.
My friend trimmed her daughters hair and was so upset a few weeks/months later. Do some pig tails! Or clips to the side! We're in the same boat- I know lots of people posted pictures but I'll add some This style was new today!
DD has the mullet going as well and she's not even 6 months yet. To make it worse, she has a spot in the back with really short hair where she had her bald spot from sleeping. I've decided not to cut it for now and wait and see how it grows.
I am never letting you guys see what DD1's hair looked like when I finally took her in for her first cut. lol. I am really anal about my own hair but apparently footloose and fancy free about my kids.
With my girls, I let the bangs grow out, it took nearly 3.5 years before those hairs could be pulled back in a pony tail. As for the back of the head hair, I keep it short, like a bob short. It will continue to grow in thicker and look better as it grows.
Post by UnderProtest on Apr 25, 2014 5:02:58 GMT -5
I will be the dissenter and tell you to take her to a good kids hair place and have them even it up. My friend did this with her daughter's baby mullet and it looked so much better. I took my daughter too and it helped a bunch. I need to so something with her hair again. It looks like she had postpartum hair loss and regrowth.
With my girls, I let the bangs grow out, it took nearly 3.5 years before those hairs could be pulled back in a pony tail. As for the back of the head hair, I keep it short, like a bob short. It will continue to grow in thicker and look better as it grows.
This is what i do. At 2.75 my daughter still has really thin hair, so keeping it short makes it look thicker. If I'd left it to grow, it'd be a totally rats nest by now. I love bobs on little girls.
DD3 has this. . .shorter in the front, but somewhat in her face and getting longer with some waves/curls at the end in the back. What sucks is she hates anything in her hair and pulls it all out.
It's looking pretty bad and uneven and she needs a trim, but I am so reluctant to get it cut because when DD2 got her first cut, she had curls too and now she has pin straight hair, Sniff. I have DD2's curls somewhere in an envelope they gave me, but everytime I look at her pictures from before the cut, I get whistful, lol. I'm hanging on with the last one as long as I can before she really needs it cut!
Well, L is very blessed in the hair department (aka, very hairy). We took her for her first trim a few months ago, just to minimize mulletness. I've been considering a second trim. I envision Shirley Templeness. Here's the "after" of her first cut.