Does your DD keep her bobbles/clips in? Any tips?!

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DD is 21 months old.

I keep trying to put her hair in a bobble as the front bit around her forehead and ears is alot shorter than the back so she has a sort of baby mullet!

I want to try and keep the back long until the font grows a bit then I can get it all cut to one length in a bob.

But she just pulls the bobbles out the second I have put them in!

I'm tempted to get her hair cut short but I did that months ago and that resulted in the mullet look, so I really need to wait it out!!

No idea how to make my DD (26 months) keep clips or hairbands in, so will await any tips with interest!

Never tried!

DD (now 12) never kept them in, but tbh I didn't try more than a few times as I find anything in my hair uncomfortable myself; I always feel sorry for tiny girls whose hair is mercilessly bobbled - and their skin is more sensitive than ours, so they obviously feel more discomfort.

I don't think I'm typical, though; I like the 'bed hair' look on little ones - don't see the point of trying to tame it.

And hairbands give me a dreadful headache.

Not really going to help but just to say it can be done :)

My DD has just turned 2 and Ive never had that problem of her pulling them out. However saying that her hair was plenty long enough for pigtails at only 7mths and clips since about 5mths so she must of got used to them from very quickly.

Ive always made a point of saying how beautiful/pretty she looks wearing them and even if I just brush her hair she jumps saying.. I look Bootiful!

Three words:

chin length bob

My tip?

Just don't bother

Let her pick some in a shop (Peppa Pig ones worked for us). Put your own hair up if you can. Make sure she's friends with someone who does wear them. Admire said girls hair.

It takes time but it can be done

Me likey chin length bob!

Dd is 6 and was practically bald for the first 2 years. Since then we have screaming/tears every morning at brushing time. Her friends seem to have neat and creative bobble styles. I am grateful if she gets to school NOT looking like Stig of the Dump! I am shamed by this!

My dd is 9 months, and needs a hair clip because her hair is too long and she can't sit still long enough for a hair cut. I've had some success with the little clips for baby hair (I got them from goldelox, but there are other ones online). They're covered in a corrugated material, so they seem to stay where they are, and my dd has yet to try to pull them out (and she never keeps a hairband or hat on, the clips were my last resort!)

But if you're 21 months old you're allowed a mullet plus you look cute.

Could you get the back cut so it's shorter i.e. bottom of the ears length? DD1 has always had her hair bobbed (once it was long enough to do so i.e. aged 2 ish). At first she had a fringe cut in because she wasn't keen on having clips and things in it. Once she started saying that she'd like clips (and we grew tired of endlessly trimming her fringe) we grew her fringe out. However, we are mean enough to have told her that if she removed clips and things so that her hair hung in her eyes/across her face that she would have to have a fringe again.

She's nearly six now, loves hairclips but also hates the tangles that result when her hair grows longer than her hairline at the back of her neck. She asks to have it cut so it comes to the bottom of her ears and is the same length all the way around and thinks she looks 'cool' when the hairdresser does so. I've suggested growing it long or having a shorter cut but she is not interested; she likes looking like a school girl from the 1950s.

Staple-gun?

Why does a baby need a hairstyle?
Why does she need long hair?

Cant you just trim all of it a little?

my 23 month dd has a terrible double crown in the centre of her forehead so has a permanent catherine-wheel type do. she has to wear clips as i can't cut a fringe in (obviously) and he hair is growing out still. she is swayed by two things - firstly that it gets in her eyes otherwise which she hates so if you pointed out that it would be more comfortable then she might be ok. the other is that I used to show her how 'pretty' she looked in the mirror after - and whilst we have long since stopped the mirror she now things that hair clips are synonymous with being pretty... (and clever too of course

stick it out

dd has fine wispy wavy hair, bald till about 15m.
I was determined she would not have a fringe cut as I spent years trying to grow mine out

after perhaps a year of Slide Hell she is now (just 3) an absolute angel and will wear slides, plaits, bunches, ponytail, alice band etc and sit still to have it done
here she is in her favoured-for-swimming shrek ears double bun style.

Vanity and peer pressure, also the lovely carers at nursery who are a dab hand with the old tailcomb.

I second the stick it out approach!

DD has just turned 2 & has v fine wispy hair of all different lengths. She needs to have the front clipped out of her eyes as it's getting quite long. It has taken months of persitant clipping but now she actually asks for 'hair kips'. Saying that, she still won't let me comb/brush it & hates having it in bunches so mostly I don't bother! Be prepared to lose hundreds of hair clips though, they come out in general activity I find!

There is a knack to it - I've yet to master it but the girls at DD's nursery have got it. The trick, I think, is to get the bobble or clip in without her knowing. They do it by twiddling her hair in their fingers while reading her a story or giving her a cuddle and then, faster than you can say Paul Daniels, the bobble's in - tah-dah!

How about also trying the not so pingy, softer bobbles (the ones without the metal bits) and also smaller clips so you don't have to press so hard to click them on....and, of course, tell her she looks beautiful once they're in (assuming she has noticed what you've done).

I think little girls look gorgeous with long hair - stick to your guns & ignore the scissor-police .

Are hair bobbles, etc not a choking hazard for children under 3?

i tried wearing her clips myself to make her want to wear them.

this worked, to an extent.

We put hairspray on the slides immediately before putting them in and they then stay put.

Well it's that or redo the hair every sixteen seconds

Also let your daughter hold a mirror while you do it or do it front of a big mirror so she can see what you are doing, let her touch it then and then she'll want to poke less later.

I think it's entirely down to the child... DD (now 4.6) never took her slides out really. DS (18mo) begs and begs to have them in every morning, because he wants to be be like his older sister, but they only last until the end of nappy change, if that!

the girls at DD's nursery manage, no idea how, but after about 3 weeks of them putting them in, DD will finally tolerate me putting a Peppa Pig one in, on an odd occasion. SHe also has a Catherine wheel do (love that expression!!) so cant begin to think about cutting yet!