How do you style your dds hair

[Mummy2Bookie]

Looking for ideas for when my own dd has some more hair.

I wash it really often, and use a lot of conditioner, so that it is all bouncy and shiny. Other than that it is blunt cut every few months with just a little layering around the face. She often wears a hairband/slides/ponytail.

Mine has lovely ringlets which look really shaggy unless they're freshly washed and left to air dry. She pulls out any clips, won't wear a headband, pulls out bobbies but will occassionally tolerate plaits.

We wash and condition it most mornings. Her look on waking is a huge blonde bed head.

Some days we embrace the curls and let them run wild like today as it was fancy dress day at school and the wild hair went well.

I cannot wait until she's a little older and will pretty things in her hair without a fuss.

Happilyever after
Sounds like your dd has gorgeous hair.

DD is mixed race & has full on dark blonde curls/ringlets. She was bald until she was 1 & then she grew a mowhawk before it finally filled out. Initially I just clipped the top bit back out of her eyes. As it got longer we will pull back into a bunch during the day, or for the shower what we call the pineapple (bunch on top of head). She also loves to wear headbands.

We wash max once a week & in the mornings I spay her hair with water/conditioner/teatree oils (for nits) blend, to defrizz & regroup the curls & used a wee bit of hair stuff DP's Mum gave us.

On the weekend her Grandmother will usually plait it into 3 or 4 plaits - it's different every week and she calls it 'my pretty hair'. That lasts 2-3 days.

(I can't begin to think how we would deal with nits.)

m2b thank you it is very sweet but I fear she will despair of it as she grows older.

She was completely bald until 15 months so it was worth the wait.

Happilyeverafter
I think that all girls with curly hair hate it at some point but eventually learn to like it.

I don´t know the proper name but when mine was young she used to like a "half" pony tail as it was off her face but still down.

She also liked a bun.
Now she likes a french plait or a fishtail plait.

I don't. My DDs' hair have lives of their own.

DD has fine hair but lots of it, it's to the middle of her back now, it was really curly, but has straightened a lot, but does not hang straight, ifyswim

i was it every second or third day, spray with leave in conditioner and comb through, more often than not, i divide her hair into 4 - 6 plaits and let it dry overnight in the plaits.. either leave them in or take them out for big crimpy hair, if it's school she has it in a ponytail, if it's the weeknd,it's down.

she doens't have a fringe, it's all one lenght, sometimes clip a couple of pieces back

if i leave it unplaited, it is a nightmare to brush and can't be styled without lots of water/conditioner spray

dd1 has a triple crown..honestly it always looks as though she has a slightly misplaced wig perched on her head

My DD has long dead sraight hair, no fringe (me too)and we love to do each others. She didn't have any hair until about age 2 as it was such a white blonde plus had such bad ezcema that creams burnt it off .

For school she has it up in two bunches then plaited too which look sooo cute with blue ribbons and that keeps nits away which touch wood we haven't had yet.

At weekends she loves it when after the plaits are taken out she has "curly" hair and will wear a pretty alice band. if i have time i will french plait it or do several plaits or a french ponytail.

So glad to have a girl as we love to play hairdressers, plus i love to have my hair played with as so theraputic [shh]

I only wash it weekly after her swimming lesson but have to condition it well or brushing it the next day is a nightmare!

Can eczema cream really burn off hair? I have never heard that before.

My two are blondies, both have long straight hair with no layers. DD1 has a centre parting and her hair is halfway down her back - it is thick and honey-coloured (WHY WASN'T MINE EVER LIKE THAT AS A CHILD??). DD2 has a side parting, covering a scar on her forehead; her hair is finer and blonder.

For school it is just lashed back into a ponytail - plaits take way too long on a busy school morning! They also have one of those Crazy Braid machines and a heated crimper which come out for parties etc.

DS weirdly has dark brown curly hair.

DD has a double crown and a cowslick. I fear she will hate her hair as a teenager. Leaving it down looks best but she'd love really lovely girly hair with plaits and clips.

I wish I could do French plaits. Might have to have a go when I next have a spare hour in the mornings (ha).

French plaits are easy. Just do it with damp hair.

DD1's hair is just growing back after chemo, so hers is currently about 1 1/2 inches long, and usually forms itself into a rather funky, shaggy mohican! There's very little I can do with it yet - her skin it far too sensitive atm to tolerate any clips, etc, and brushing can only be done with a baby brush. Before it all fell out, it was lighter and wavy and usually in a bob with a fringe - I think it's growing back a bit curlier than before, but hard to tell yet.

DD2's hair is completely mad! It's very curly and the top bit just tends to curl round and round on top of her head. Up until a couple of months ago she had a sort of curly mullet and nothing I could do with it at all! Now it's finally long enough. It will go into pig tails or a pony tail and then hang down in ringlets. Or I brush it through with a wet hairbrush and put clips in each side and it dries into ringlets. That is, unless my mum gets hold of it - she insists on brushing it dry despite me telling her not to, and DD ends up looking like she's wearing candy floss on her head!

Fine and blonde - had it cut in a forward angled bob with shaved bit at back - boy hair at the back girl hair at the front (she wanted boy all over!) as fed up of 2hours a week nit combing when long and tangley.

Wash twice a week - lots of light conditioner and then blow dry straight forward as gives it bounce for 3/4 days.

was sad to cut off her long her but it really suits her - she is very petite with cute face and big blue eyes but BIG attitude.

I think it was because her hair was so fine and her eczema so bad that it was a combination of the two. She was only a few weeks and she slept on her back so rubbed the hair off. It was prob a wrong choice of word but seemed to almost "burn" off her hair. It was a very strong steroid cream as her eczema was so infected the back of her head swelled up to twice the size and split open causing hair breakage etc too - poor poppet!

ooops sorry my post was for mummytobookie

Oh wow. Sounds horrible. My dd gets eczema. Thankfully she doesn't need steroid cream.

MummytoBookie - please don't be afraid of steroid creams because of my comments as they saved our DD. Skin specialist said she would have gotten scepticemia if she hadn't used them. Our GP was an idiot who thought E45 was the be all and end all but that exacerbated it as she was allergic to one of the ingredients.

Her hair is regulary cut and is thick and beautiful and my mil always reminds me when she was small when i would cry and ask "will she ever get hair" lol. She also has a double crown which made dividing her hair in the regulation plaits a nightmare for the first term of school but i did manage to train it by leaving them in at night and putting them in whilst hair was a little wet.

OP - i'm so thankful that your DD doesn't get eczema bad, it's so painful and horrid for them. i feel bad cos she inherited it from me

My DD sometimes wear 4 or 6 ponytails, or plaits. I like it best with a few slides in though.

She is 8 months old and has a thick wavy mop down past her shoulders. She WILL hate it when she's older!

DD1 has wavy hair and usually wore it loosely down at about shoulder length after the baby stage, when she had a sweet bob. She had a fringe but grew it out, then went through a teenage straightening phase, now has a long side fringe, with subtle layers through the rest -- overall, the length is below shoulder length.
DD2 has always had long, thick hair. Mad, tight curls when she was a baby, followed by a period when it became more wavy and grew so long she could almost sit on it; at this time it changed colour from jet black to multi-auburn-red-blondish at the front. Recently she has converted to the curly girl method and her hair is now <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.hairdohairstyles.com/images/Long_Curly_Hairstyle8.jpg&imgrefurl=www.hairdohairstyles.com/HairStylePictures/displayimage.php%3Falbum%3D11%26pos%3D11&usg=__ezd4lT54BljZ4olodUWS6oaFN4U=&h=430&w=400&sz=56&hl=en&start=47&zoom=1&tbnid=DfDK-hX49xgk6M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlong%2Bcurly%2Bhair%2Bstyles%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1008%26bih%3D541%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C687&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=205&vpy=201&dur=1367&hovh=233&hovw=217&tx=96&ty=165&ei=vQfFTNK8DIT-nAfyiuSpBQ&oei=qgfFTOvzFZOgnQfu1cTTCQ&esq=3&page=3&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:47&biw=1008&bih=541" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">very like this only more blond highlightey. She combs it through in the shower with a wide toothed comb but otherwise doesn't touch it. Sometimes plaits it, sometimes wears a loose bun, sometimes wears it loose.
DD3 has always had curly red hair and a very tender scalp, and I never felt more relieved than the day I discovered the curly girl thing and stopped trying to brush it. It's jaw length around her face, graduating to a long V shape at the back and slightly layered. She used to always tie it up for school but has recently taken to wearing it loose.
DD4 has very slightly wavy hair and wears a short, narrow fringe, long and blunt cut elsewhere. She likes a ponytail for school, a plait or pigtails once in a blue moon.

Plaiting can only take place with wet hair hair chez moi, except for DD4. We have never had nits