Grrrrr.... SO fed up with postpartum baby hair 'fringe' situation!

[loomer]

Anyone had a successful re-style in order to incorporate/disguise the ridiculous secondary fringe that appears after one's finished shedding hair? Mine is currently about one and a half inches long, and it's driving me mad. The rest of my hair is shoulder length, and I look like I have some kind of seventies backcombed fuzz halo around my face.

Am tempted to get the whole lot cut short, so that it's all the same length (sounds rather drastic but I have had my hair that short before)... unless anyone can offer me any other less drastic solutions?

Why don't you get an actual fringe will cover it and then once the new hair gets longer your could grow the fringe again.

Yeah I did think of that Sausage, but I had a fairly thick heavy fringe cut two years ago, and my face kind of got lost behind it and my long thick hair hanging down either side - I looked like I was peeping out from my cave. It has now grown out to around ear length, which doesn't help the whole secondary fringe situation. I think I need a general re-style in any case, my hair has been sadly ignored throughout pregnancy and postpartum, it's been very low down my list of priorities, whilst simultaneously depressing me!

I had a fair stint of hairspraying it and glueing it in place. Drove me slightly mad! It's about 3" long now and sometimes lies down by itself.

I feel your pain - the cockatiel look is not the one I am going for !! however my hairdresser told me would just have to be patient and wait for it to grow so no tips I'm afraid..

I had the best wolf sideburns
Those were the days

I meant wolef of course

Can I share your moan?

My DTs are 18 months now, and my post-baby hair is about 5 inches long. It is nearly, but definately not, long enough to reach a ponytail, so it is perpetually hanging down the sides of my face and neck. I look like a tramp. Or one if those goats with dangly bits on their necks.

I don't have a solution though. I am just waiting. The rest of my hair is nearly waist length, so I'm going to have funny layers for a while and then probably go back to square one if lucky enough to conceive DC3.

Hairspray is the only way

I thought you meant the fringe that is left after they bic you for a cs. That's what I've got need to whip it all off I think!

I had this problem after coming off the pill - didn't even have a nice baby to compensate. My new hair grew through curly so I looked like Michael Bolton for at least 6 months. No solutions but I feel your pain.

I went from long hair to the good old crop - Emma Watson style. I've never looked back. It takes some guts but it's so liberating.

If you're unhappy with the current style, what's there to lose?

My hair is ALWAYS like this, I have a little Tintin fringe that sticks straight up from the middle of my hairline. I often have a blunt fringe to cover it but that's work in itself with wavy hair.

If you carefully blowdry the front of your hair backwards and forwards with a small brush (sort of brush it over your forehead one way, then the other) it should calm it down a bit, then you will have to put Ellnette on an old clean toothbrush and try to tame it. If your hair is dark or coarse textured you might be able to get away with using a bit of pomade or something to pull it over with the rest of your hair, but you will have to wash it at least once a day if you do that.

Alternatives are ballet-style bun with elastic Alice band worn quite close to the hairline (sticks the worst of it down) or French plait the "fringe" section of your hair to one side (like this, you can catch a lot of the fluffy hair in the plait and then smooth any extra bits with some pomade.

Ive got a thick, blunt fringe and my fuzz just sticks straight through it horizontally. I'm tempted to go back to the Bettie Page fringe I had a year ago so I can roll the fuzz (hopefully) into it with mini straighteners...

Have you tried doing side to sidey blow drying on your fringe? That's the only way I can stop mine poking through. I've got a big long face like a horse so the Bettie bang is not an option for me though I have always wanted to try one!

Oh gosh I'm definitely not doing anything that requires daily washing. And whilst I generally avoid blowing my hair dry (because it goes very big and bonnie-Tyler-esque if I do) I fear that may be the only workable solution, I will try out the backwards and forwards technique, if only at the front.

At least I have some sisterly perspective now thanks... It could be worse - it could be curly!

So glad It's not just me ! I have an actual fringe which was thick and heavy until i lost loads of hair and now the secondary fringe is pushing it out and giving other a cow lick that i fear might become permanent :-(

I got a fringe for first time post baby and now love it!!