Help me decide on a hairstyle for dd

[luvmyfam444]

I'm thinking of going for a bob...I see a lot of girls with the cut. They all wear it with no bangs pulled to the side with a large bow. (dd has bangs - she gave them to herself - lol)

My girls have always had long her - I'm looking at this for the youngest dd right now. Her hair has a slight wave to it & is sweeping her shoulders (past her chin)

I'm searching online now to find pics to take with me to the salon today - but its hard to find them.

I know I don't want the back stacked or anything like that.

BUT I'm second guessing myself 'cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE dd wearing pigtales.

 

[wvjules]

I'm thinking of going for a bob...I see a lot of girls with the cut. They all wear it with no bangs pulled to the side with a large bow. (dd has bangs - she gave them to herself - lol)

My girls have always had long her - I'm looking at this for the youngest dd right now. Her hair has a slight wave to it & is sweeping her shoulders (past her chin)

I'm searching online now to find pics to take with me to the salon today - but its hard to find them.

I know I don't want the back stacked or anything like that.

BUT I'm second guessing myself 'cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE dd wearing pigtales.

How old is she?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Age matters. My youngest is in 8th and has the "hair in your face" cut. She has to straighten it every morning. Also since it is "style" she has to have it cut every 6 weeks minimum to maintain the look. Actually she would look better if it was trimmed every 4 weeks as her hair grows pretty fast.

So how much care do you want with it? That is just something to think about.

 

[luvmyfam444]

4 - but thinking about 7yo too

 

[luvmyfam444]

Age matters. My youngest is in 8th and has the "hair in your face" cut. She has to straighten it every morning. Also since it is "style" she has to have it cut every 6 weeks minimum to maintain the look. Actually she would look better if it was trimmed every 4 weeks as her hair grows pretty fast.

So how much care do you want with it? That is just something to think about.

well as it is her hair has to be fixed every day - usually in pigtails - and since i can't part straight it can take me 20mins to do her hair alone - LOL

 

[The Mystery Machine]

At 4yo I would go with a short style simple cut above the shoulder and then just get the bangs trimmed or grow them out if you wish.

I would probably grow out the bangs unless your dd wants them.

Your dd lets you sit through 20minutes of hair fixing? My dd's hardly ever even let me fix their hair.

I did get my youngest the stacked look when she was about that age however it can look kind of boyish on a small kid. I did it because my dd wanted a very short style and this was the compromise.

Now she is middle school she has to have one of the "cool" hair styles.

 

[trip]

I'm thinking of going for a bob...I see a lot of girls with the cut. They all wear it with no bangs pulled to the side with a large bow. (dd has bangs - she gave them to herself - lol)

My girls have always had long her - I'm looking at this for the youngest dd right now. Her hair has a slight wave to it & is sweeping her shoulders (past her chin)

I'm searching online now to find pics to take with me to the salon today - but its hard to find them.

I know I don't want the back stacked or anything like that.

BUT I'm second guessing myself 'cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE dd wearing pigtales.

Do you live in the South? When we lived in Alabama, it seemed that every little girl had a big bow in her hair and wore smocked dresses.

 

[NotUrsula]

Cool? Every single girl in DS' 8th grade class has exactly the same hair that I had at that age in the early 1970's: long and straight, no bangs.
The difference is that for just about every occasion except having a formal photo taken, they wear it in a combed-back ponytail with a wide headband in front: the ubiquitous soccer-girl do.

I keep DD3's hair in a more-or-less pageboy, chin length with bangs. Her hair naturally has a loose loopy curl, but she still doesn't have much hair, so we're keeping it relatively short while the thickness catches up with the length. If we didn't do this the poor child would have a natural mullet

I think that these bobs are really cute for preschoolers, but don't count on that bow. Those big bows are kind of heavy, and when worn over the temple that way, can intrude on your peripheral vision -- lots of kids won't tolerate wearing them. I can't even get DD to tolerate regular small barrettes for more than about 10 minutes; she'd never sit still for a big bow in her hair.

 

[Buckalew11]

I think little girls look pretty with their hair cut in an above the shoulder bob.

Do little girls still wear the big bows? My Dd, now 16, wore a big bow every day a little girl. They didn't block her vision though, lol, they weren't positioned where they were blocking her vision!

If your DD has bangs and is keeping them, she won't need to even pull that hair up unless she wants to. I'm not much of a fan of that look when they have bangs.

Keep it simple, for sure. Pigtails and cute but 20 minutes to do them is a lot of time. DD could still for whaever I wanted to do to her hair and since I'm a hairdresser, I had a lot of fun playing around with braids and stuff.

Sometime little girls are overpowered by that really long hair (like mid-back to butt length). I'd much rather see a nice, neat, simple style on a little girl than long stringy hair that if it is not kept trimmed and neat.

 

[wvjules]

I think little girls look pretty with their hair cut in an above the shoulder bob.

Do little girls still wear the big bows? My Dd, now 16, wore a big bow every day a little girl. They didn't block her vision though, lol, they weren't positioned where they were blocking her vision!

If your DD has bangs and is keeping them, she won't need to even pull that hair up unless she wants to. I'm not much of a fan of that look when they have bangs.

Keep it simple, for sure. Pigtails and cute but 20 minutes to do them is a lot of time. DD could still for whaever I wanted to do to her hair and since I'm a hairdresser, I had a lot of fun playing around with braids and stuff.

Sometime little girls are overpowered by that really long hair (like mid-back to butt length). I'd much rather see a nice, neat, simple style on a little girl than long stringy hair that if it is not kept trimmed and neat.

Same for adults! lol

OP, I can't believe your dd sits for 20 minutes while you do her hair. I was mostly a 'brush it and go' mom.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Cool? Every single girl in DS' 8th grade class has exactly the same hair that I had at that age in the early 1970's: long and straight, no bangs.
The difference is that for just about every occasion except having a formal photo taken, they wear it in a combed-back ponytail with a wide headband in front: the ubiquitous soccer-girl do.
I keep DD3's hair in a more-or-less pageboy, chin length with bangs. Her hair naturally has a loose loopy curl, but she still doesn't have much hair, so we're keeping it relatively short while the thickness catches up with the length. If we didn't do this the poor child would have a natural mullet

I think that these bobs are really cute for preschoolers, but don't count on that bow. Those big bows are kind of heavy, and when worn over the temple that way, can intrude on your peripheral vision -- lots of kids won't tolerate wearing them. I can't even get DD to tolerate regular small barrettes for more than about 10 minutes; she'd never sit still for a big bow in her hair.

Either a ponytail or the messiest bun, 1/2 way pulled through the hair tie thingy.

DD leaves the house with pin straight hair and when I pick her up after school, I want to scream. Is almost like the "uglier you can make your hair...the "cooler" you are" UGH!!!!

 

[momof1princess]

OP, i think a bob would be really cute on a 4 year old. but, based upon a prior experience, i have to ask, does she go to preschool? the reason i ask is, DD12 always had long hair, until february of 2009 (she was 11 at the time and in 5th grade)-my grandmother took her to have her hair cut, and she came home with an adorable, short hairdo-not quite a bob, but very close. the kids at school were SOOOO cruel. they called her dora the explorer constantly. she was in tears, and at first, i told her to ignore them and they'd get bored and move on, but we finally had to get the school counselor involved to stop the taunting. almost 1 1/2 years later, she'll still get called dora occasionally, and she has vowed to NEVER cut her hair off again.

 

[NotUrsula]

Oh, I don't know -- the avg. 4 yo I know would be thrilled to be told that she looks just like her favorite TV star.

Of course, I agree that a 11 yo getting the same comparison -- not so much.

 

[luvmyfam444]

OP, i think a bob would be really cute on a 4 year old. but, based upon a prior experience, i have to ask, does she go to preschool? the reason i ask is, DD12 always had long hair, until february of 2009 (she was 11 at the time and in 5th grade)-my grandmother took her to have her hair cut, and she came home with an adorable, short hairdo-not quite a bob, but very close. the kids at school were SOOOO cruel. they called her dora the explorer constantly. she was in tears, and at first, i told her to ignore them and they'd get bored and move on, but we finally had to get the school counselor involved to stop the taunting. almost 1 1/2 years later, she'll still get called dora occasionally, and she has vowed to NEVER cut her hair off again.

AWWW that's awful!

No, no school here & her hair isn't dark either - so most wouldn't think of it that way.


NOw, you've got me thinking - I need to pull up a pic of Dora...I've never once thought of the kids I see with the cut as Dora....I wonder if their cut is not a bob then...

I definitely want to go in ussing the correct terminology - ya know?

 

[luvmyfam444]

Do you live in the South? When we lived in Alabama, it seemed that every little girl had a big bow in her hair and wore smocked dresses.

YEP! It's a requirement here...LOL

THough I've never seen a bow so big or in a kids eyes that blocked their vision.

Ribbon is "allowed" too - as long as its tied in a bow.

 

[luvmyfam444]

Same for adults! lol

OP, I can't believe your dd sits for 20 minutes while you do her hair. I was mostly a 'brush it and go' mom.

We don't go somewhere everyday - & I do go for a ponytail sometimes (her hair is wonky in the front from where she cut it herself)

 

[luvmyfam444]

So what is the "cool hair" cut for teens?

All the girls seem to wear it in a ponytail so you couldnt tell what it was cut like anyway -I'm guessing all one length

 

[luvmyfam444]

I finally found some pics online. They are super straight hair though...

anyway the hair is cut to curl just below the chin - parted on the side. I have pics with bangs & without....

I think we're gonna go for it! Wish us luck!

I'll just be chanting it'll grow back - it'll grow back -LOL

 

[NotUrsula]

Oh, I didn't mean that the bow blocked their vision, just that they could constantly see the edge of it out of the corner of their eye when it was placed on the temple, and it could bug them to have something bobbing out there in the corner of their peripheral vision. DD is like this anytime she wears a hat; she's always fiddling with it trying to adjust it so that she won't be seeing the brim at all.

As for young teens and the current look, like I said, the soccer-girl do: straight hair in the ponytail with a wide headband holding back the flyaways. I just looked at a photo on DS' school website that shows a bunch of the middle school girls eating lunch in the cafeteria. Twenty girls are visible in the photo, and I count 18 wearing the ponytail/headband combination. The other two still have the long straight hair; one is wearing it completely down, and the other is only wearing the headband with no ponytail.

I think that the older girls go more for the sloppy-bun/headband look rather than the ponytail/headband look, but IME right now they are like clones on schooldays no matter how old they are.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

So what is the "cool hair" cut for teens?

All the girls seem to wear it in a ponytail so you couldnt tell what it was cut like anyway -I'm guessing all one length

It depends. My dd's hair is cut like "The Runway's" ala Kristen Stewart version with a bit of "anime", although she does not color it. My dd's hair is not black and she straightens her hair.

I can't stand it but she loves it.