Toddler Girl Hair - Tips and Tricks

[vtdiamond]

Getting DD's hair done every morning is a battle.  She has curly hair that is in her face if I don't tie it back.

I used to use the clear plastic elastics which she hated and have moved on to the covered hair elastics.  Usually I'll put her hair in pig tails and will put a clip or bow in front to hold back the short pieces that don't fit into the pig tails.

The majority of the time she comes home from daycare having pulled everything out of her hair.

What hair styles to you all do?  Any hairstyles, bows/elastics/etc that work better stay in throughout the day?

[gerberdaisy]

Well, I found out this morning that I am not good a French braiding a toddler who is trying to run away from me. Our problem is that she is SO picky about which hair clip she uses, that usually she has a side part with one side clipped back. Most of the time it falls out/taken out at daycare and she just puts it behind her ears.

I try pony tails, but they never seem to last long.

[smock]

We bought some little ribbon-wrapped alligator clips that worked for a while--until she ate one and we had to take her to the ER for an x-ray. Now I've pretty much given up, and just let her hair fly in her face.

[spk926]

Mar 27, 2017 8:05:09 GMT -5 vtdiamond said:

Getting DD's hair done every morning is a battle.  She has curly hair that is in her face if I don't tie it back.

I used to use the clear plastic elastics which she hated and have moved on to the covered hair elastics.  Usually I'll put her hair in pig tails and will put a clip or bow in front to hold back the short pieces that don't fit into the pig tails.

The majority of the time she comes home from daycare having pulled everything out of her hair.

What hair styles to you all do?  Any hairstyles, bows/elastics/etc that work better stay in throughout the day?

I often do this with DD's pony. It stays in really well and she can't get it out (at 4 she doesn't pull it out anymore but IF she did, this would solve that). It's really easy. Make a pony tail but put the rubber band a little above the scalp, tighten it, then take the tail of the pony and loop it through, and pull tight! I do it much higher on her head where a pony would go, or half her hair. I don't do it this low.  

[chickadee77]

I do a low ponytail on bad days. On REALLY bad days, I leave it down (ugh) but bring in a barrette and ponytail holder - her teachers like messing with her hair and apparently she doesn't fight them.

I also do braids - side braid, braided ponytail, one big braid.

I get fewer fights if I let her pick her style, and where she sits while I do it. Also, doing hair is a specific item on her reward chart - that's how bad it can get.

[midwest07]

This is why I had to cut bangs into my DD's hair and she looks like a wild mess most of the time. She will not keep barrettes or elastics in her hair more than about 10 minutes. Only on the weekends if we go somewhere and I want it to look nice will I put in a barrette and then I am constantly putting it back in as she pulls it out. It is sad because it looks so cute when it's pulled out of her face!

[missbella]

My DD is only 10months but she was born with a full head of hair and it's curly and crazy and in her face so I keep it pulled up. At a minimum, I pull the very front section to the side with a tiny plastic elastic band and then I incorporate that into the rest of her hairstyle if I am going to do more.  Basically a French ponytail. Like this but I don't use quite so many elastic s usually. (not my kid)

[expectantsteelerfan]

For some reason my dd leaves buns in better than just ponytails, and they tend to stay in better in general. My dd loves to just have it down, or a side clip, or a headband, but it's in face and gets super knotty if we do. She begged me to let her cut her hair short, so we did at the beginning of last summer (chin length bob, it was super cute), and that helped a lot.
Also, we do a loose low braid overnight to keep it from getting so tangled while she sleeps, and having it be easy to brush in the morning helps her be more patient to let me do a braid or pony or whatever in the morning.
We use the goody colored plastic elastics, I've found that they aren't quite as stretch as the clear ones and stay in better. I have to buy the pack that has 3 sizes and the middle size is the only size that works for her amount of hair, but I can't find single packs of that size so I end up throwing out all the others.

[simpsongal]

[LALALALALA - enjoying having a baby girl sans hair]

[countthestars]

I do a series of ponytails like missbella and also embrace the messy hair because it's so short and wispy nothing stays in.

[patches31709]

Mar 27, 2017 9:47:05 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

[LALALALALA - enjoying having a baby girl sans hair]

:Y:  Me too! DD will be 2 in June, and still doesn't have enough hair to do anything with. Which is good, because I tried clipping the little bit she does have back with an alligator clip a few weeks ago, and she wasn't having it. 

[JayhawkGirl]

Some days she lets me at least pull the very front into a top pony to keep it out of her eyes. She does okay on bad days with the mini claw clips from target. I can pull back the sides that way. Poor girl has my crazy cowlicks.

[vtdiamond]

Mar 27, 2017 9:06:44 GMT -5 missbella said:

My DD is only 10months but she was born with a full head of hair and it's curly and crazy and in her face so I keep it pulled up. At a minimum, I pull the very front section to the side with a tiny plastic elastic band and then I incorporate that into the rest of her hairstyle if I am going to do more.  Basically a French ponytail. Like this but I don't use quite so many elastic s usually. (not my kid)

I'm thinking I might have to do something like this which will hopefully be more difficult for her to pull out. 

[chickadee77]

Mar 27, 2017 9:56:28 GMT -5 patches31709 said:

Mar 27, 2017 9:47:05 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

[LALALALALA - enjoying having a baby girl sans hair]

 Me too! DD will be 2 in June, and still doesn't have enough hair to do anything with. Which is good, because I tried clipping the little bit she does have back with an alligator clip a few weeks ago, and she wasn't having it. 

Ha - we had to start doing a whale spout with L around 4 months because it just was so in-her-face. She's been really good - it's only since recently (maybe the past couple of months) that she's been freaking out about having it done - I think she's just pissed because she'd rather be playing.

[lala]

The little tiny rubbery elastics the best, I would keep using those. My girls both have deep side parts b/c of their cowlick/hair pattern. So I pull the larger side back to the side and pontail that. Then I either left that or pulled it all into another pony tail or 2 pig tails - feeding that first pony tail into it.

And no matter what you do, they will be a mess by the end of the day.

[nessness]

I agree that the tiny elastics are best. DD has a doll with pigtails and I have occasional success convincing her to wear her hair like her baby.

[FoxInFiji]

We put DD's hair in pig tails or a pony tail everyday. It's too thin and wispy otherwise. The flat clear ruberbands were difficult to get out for us but I found some small colored rubberbands that are round so they roll out of her hair more easily.

[polarbearfans]

If I do her hair or my husband does it she pulls it out immediately and then wants it up. If one of her daycare teachers does her hair she leaves it alone. I let daycare do her hair now and send her looking like a shaggy mess

[mskitkat]

I can't wait until I can pull DD's hair back. No hair ties or clips in the infant room, which makes sense, so I have to do bangs to have a chance of it staying out of her eyes.

[DarcyLongfellow]

I generally embrace the crazy hair until around age 3.

My standard hair "style" with both my girls is to just pull it back to one side. I'd do it with just a barrette, but both of them have such slippery hair that no barrette stays in (even the expensive ones that are supposed to be for toddler hair). So I part it on one side, then on the side with more hair I pull back some of the hair into a rubber band (the tiny rubber ones when they're toddlers). I then cover the rubber band with a bow.

Also, to convince DD1 to let me do her hair, I named every conceivable style after a princess. A bun was Cinderella hair. Hair half up and half down was Belle hair. A braid was Rapunzel hair (this was pre-Frozen). So I'd ask her, "What princess do you want to be today!?"

[MamaMaui24]

The tiny elastic rubberbands are the only things that will stay. And even that, I have to make 5 rotations. If I wrap 4 times, they come down with nap. Lol!

I usually do the front shirt pieces over to the side, then pig tails.

I'm trying to French braid, but her hair is still too fine and I'm not that great!

[ribollita]

Mar 27, 2017 22:20:17 GMT -5 DarcyLongfellow said:

Also, to convince DD1 to let me do her hair, I named every conceivable style after a princess. A bun was Cinderella hair. Hair half up and half down was Belle hair. A braid was Rapunzel hair (this was pre-Frozen). So I'd ask her, "What princess do you want to be today!?"

This. "Elsa braid, Anna braids, or Tinkerbell bun?"

[MadamePresident]

This is Nods regular style. It's curly and kind of messy and often in her face. But it doesn't bother her. Occasionally I can get her to have a braid or a bun for ballet class, but the rest of the time I don't push it.

[jssymom14]

Watch YouTube videos of the quick 2 strand twist. I use it for my dds bangs a lot.