Hair Cutting time..Mums of girls.. Advice

[aussienic]

ok so my little miss is almost 18 months old and I think we are getting desperate for a haircut..

I don't want to trim it myself.. What should I do. (hairdresser) Should I ask for it to be neatened up or give it an actual cut?

Any suggestions? Her hair is very thin and fly away. It is in her eyes. It is long at the back and when stretched out it is almost below her should blades but it is slightly curly so stays up around her neck area.

Also the way it sits most of it falls forward over her face..

I probably am not making myself very clear lol.. I guess I am nervous about the first haircut.. Boys are so easy in this area..

What did you do for your first cut?

[AliBaby]

maybe just a neaten up. Remember to keep a ock of her hair from her first haircut!

[aussienic]

oh definetly keeping a lock of hair.. I have for all the boys..

But when you say neaten up will they do just that? Like trim all the edges or should I just get the front trimmed..

[Nadine216]

I took dd to the salon, just for a straighten-cut. Her hair was WAAAY longer on the one side, so they just leveled it out and trimmed her fringe, while I fed her Tic-Tacs to keep her sitting still

[Rachel]

Hello! My DD first haircut was just a fringe trim to get it out of her eyes...now she just has trims to neaten it up so that it grows healthy. her hair is very curly and although it is down below her shoulder blades it bounces back up to her neck because of the curls...although my sister is a hairdresser so she does it..would probably be far more nervous if i didn't know the hairdresser!

[Leonie P]

Sounds like my DD's hair, she's thin and super curly. DH gave DD her first hair cut much to my disgust and horrorI would recommend againt that
I'd ask the hair dressers opinion, they will prob suggest a cut to help thicken it up a bit.

[danniellabella]

DD had her first haircut the week before her 1st birthday. I just got the hairdresser to trim it to her eyebrow line and then the hairdresser just trimmed the back so it was even. At 14 months her hair is starting to get in her eyes again and is getting thicker. I'd like to be able to put it up but she doesn't sit still (just like a typical 14 month old). I do try to brush her fringe to the side now and have to get some clips soon to keep it there.

[Nadine216]

Yeah at the moment I part dd's fringe in the centre, make two little fountians on the top (like pig-tails) and pin down any escaped fringe. It's a workout, and some days it does not stay in very long, but seeing my "little girl" awwwwwwww it's worth every bead of sweat and all the body contortion!!

[sazzafrazz]

WOW I've given my DD 4 fringe trims already. The first was 11months. At 13months I trimmed a bit off the back too and took the frizzy split bits off the back that she got from sleeping rough It helped it to look thicker too, now it's like a bob but hers is dead straight.

I think if it grows like my DD's, towards the face, you may want to keep it long enough to tie back so make sure they just tidy the ends of the back, and keep the length if that's what you want.

Hope she sits nice and still for her first cut. how cute!

[~clover~]

You reckon boys are easy???
Not IMO!! Lol!

DD1 was bald til she was 3. I went in & just asked for a trim so it was all level. $6.
DD2 scored her first hair cut from DD1!!! Cut off all the curls. Went from shoulder length to ear length, but it was cute
DD1 also gave DD2 & herself their second hair cuts!

I'm gonna have to get Jesse's cut It's dredding at the back every morning & I have to slick it with conditioner & comb it out while in the shower to fix it! He needs a trim, but what do you do with a boy? What do you ask for?? He can't just have a trim. It needs to be boyish, but I would like to grow it too...

[Trillian]

If you get a trim all over it will help it look like she has more hair. My girls had hair like that at the same age (only my eldest DD has dead straight hair, so you can imagine how ratty and stringy it looked) and I would get it all trimmed up, get the fringe defined (if you are wanting her to have a fringe) and then persevere with putting it up and getting it trimmed regularly and they eventually got to the stage where it didn't look so fly-away anymore.

[Nai]

DD1 has lots and lots of thick wavy hair so I started trimming her fringe by myself when she was a baby. At 18mo I took her to the hairdresser for a real fringe cut. She was great and sat in the special chair with the special cape on feeling like a big girl. She got a treat afterwards. The rest of her hair didn't get touched until she was 3 and she had a proper cut - it is so long that when it is wet it touches the small of her back!!!