What's the best way of styling my dd's very fine hair?

[mosaica]

My dd has just turned 2 and has very fine hair. It is impossible to keep it neat as grips, bobbles, etc, do not seem to hold it for longer than a few minutes. It doesn't help that my dd keeps tugging at her pigtails, but even when she doesn't, her hair just slips off all the time.

What can I do?? It drives me mad to see her hair all over her face all the time.

My mum would say, get it cut and keep cutting it until it thickens up. She could have it in a little bobbed style until it grows in a bit more couldn't she?

My own hair was like this as a child, as is the hair of two of my daughters. I have recently had her hair cut in a sort of helmet cut, if you see what I mean - little fringe and side parting, length about 1" below her ears, and it looks much better and less raggedy. With my eldest I just let it grow long and it actually made it look thinner.

Dd is now 6 and is the same. Fine hair, and grows slowly. We keep it neatly trimmed, she has lovely hairbands and scarves (not the plasticky ones) and a style that uses the wave to make it look thicker. She had a neat Bob below her ears & a fringe, around her 3rd birthday and it looked lovely. Now it's a longer version and we do loose bunches for school with a plait as she naturally has a [pita] side parting.

Get a fringe cut in, then you can pull the rest back into a ponytail, and the front will not be wispy and untidy looking, if she/you want it long. If not, a bob with a fringe should neaten all of it up, as other posters have said. My DD's used to drive me mad as within 2 minutes wisps were starting to escape around the hairline, before the fringe was cut in, now she looks neat, hurrah!!