DD refuses to get her hair cut!!!

[elliemac]

DD is 15 months old. Her fringe is really long and keeps getting in her eyes. Have tried to put a hair grip in - managed it once and now she's having none of it. Tried a couple of hairdressers and she won't let them near her. Have even tried doing it myself when she's asleep but she somehow senses the scissors - Anyone got any ideas?

have you tried using hair slides to clip it back or an alice band?

do it in the bath, nice and wet- easier to cut then.
get someone to hold her head and just snip across the front as quick as you can.

leave her alone?

get some small plait bands and tie it to the side/up in a fountain,keep putting in clips.
i know how annoying it is my dd 21mths has now grown her fringe out and it tucks behind her ears lovely.
she even pushes it back herself now.
If you really need to cut it you need to get her used to it being brushed so try every day and tell her how pretty she looks with it brushed.

Thanks for the advice. Will probably just have to let it grow out but she won't let me clip it back and it just looks so untidy.

i know even if the clip last 20 secs keep trying she will get used to it in the end my dd will wear hers for 1min now so i feel im getting there

Will give it a go! Everyone has started laughing because when i go to put it in she puts her hands on her head - she probably now thinks its a game though

I used to work in a hairdressers and would sit the child on the parents lap, the mother would distract the child with a book, or a treat and I would cut the hair...
children don't like to have the gowns on though....
take her when you have yours done....

used to have to cut DS2's hair when he was asleep.
did one side, then rolled him over and did the other.
wasn't always straight, but stopped him tripping over his fringe!

My daughter used to be like this. We opted for the ahh well lets just leave it then, she is not going to any balls just yet anyway. She was very tomboyish. Would not let us put anything in her hair.

Then she went to a new nursery when we moved and suddenly she turned into this little girl that was all about getting her hair cut and hair clippies/bands etc.

I am sure your daughter will change. Once she notices other little girls' funky hairclippies she will ask you herself if she can get some for her hair. In the meantime I would just leave her to it. Unless it is harming her eyes in which case I would get grandad to hold her down and get daddy to cut the hair, so she in no way would blame me .

fingerwoman's method sounds good, pretty much what I've done with DD's fringe all along (I canot be doing with RELYING on hair accessories to keep a small child's hair manageable, although they're okay for decoration etc). Grab fringe between two fingers of non-dominant hand, cut off excess with scissors held in dominant hand. Works best on hair with a bit of texture, works on DD's wavy hair but would be a disaster on mine (dead straight).

I have the opposite problem, 3yo DD INSISTED on having her hair cut when I had mine done this morning. I normally just tell her she doesn't have an appointment, but this time they had a spare flippin' hairdresser! Hadn't budgetted for that!