Short haircuts suitable for a 10yr old girl!

[Dotty342kids]

My daughter is nearly 10 and is desperate for a really short hair do. It's currently shoulder length, is thick and if left to dry naturally tends to have a wave in it. It's definitely not the kind of hair that can just be left to its own devices!

She's pestered me for months for a short haircut (mine is very short, pixie crop really) so I've given in and booked an appt. My hairdresser was completely stuck for ideas as apparently it's unheard of for girls of her age to want hair that short.
My daughter also has no interest in styling her hair, I have to blow dry it in the mornings at the moment to get it looking half way presentable

Does anyone have any ideas of short cuts that would suit a girl. I just don't want her looking like a boy! My only consolation at the moment is to tell myself that if it's awful, at least it'll grow out in a couple of months.

Oh, and she's had a bob before, which looked lovely, but she hated it!

Please help / advise!

A friend's DD around that age got a sort of pixie cut with asymmetric fringe done earlier this year -- somewhere between this and this. She then grew it out a bit and restyled into what Googling tells me is "a dramatic A line bob, very short and stacked at the back", sort of like this.

I have no idea what those would look like with wavy hair, though -- hers is thick but pretty straight.

Get out of bed on the wrong side today hak?

ooh you guys are fab, thank you!
I like the Audrey one and my DD has quite petite features so that could work well.
I'll show all of these to her later and see what she thinks of them.

If you go down the Jean Seberg route after the initial cut you could do your daughter's hair yourself.

You will need a set of clippers with a no10 attachment and a pair of thinning scissors to texturise the hair. You simply go through the top of the hair and crown with no10 and do the sides / back with a no8. Pick up sections of hair and use the thinning scissors on the last third of it-a couple of snips per section.

No need for it to be costly. Most 10 year olds can handle a bit of hair putty to ruffle up the hair or put a hairband in.

oh Milmingebag I love your idea of cutting costs of short hair cuts that way but I've never cut hair in my life and really don't think it's a wise idea for me to start

FWIW, I have thick wavy hair and I know that most if not all of the other hairstyles on this page (as nice as they may be) would require a lot of blow-drying and/or straightening. As she's a child and can't be bothered with her hair (sensible girl), I would go with something that works with her natural hair type, otherwise it's going to take a lot of time and effort to keep looking sleek. And if she doesn't want to put that effort in, she's going to end up with a lumpy, mushroomy, thick wedge sort of hairstyle. I've had the Aubrey cut and if it's been cut properly, it works really well on our sort of hair.

I do think Jean Seberg could work well too, and is lovely - but again, it needs to be a really good cut, probably with some of the weight taken out of it, so it doesn't look large and bouffant.

this is a lovely style and would work well with your daughter's hair type.

These are pretty too
Rice design blog
and
Halle - I perhaps wouldn't have it quite so tall, but the general ruffledness is nice

This might not suit what your dd is thinking of, but dd (12) had a similar problem in that she has very, very thick hair and wanted something less work and a bit more 'styled' looking but not boyish.

She had hers cut to shoulder length but with lots and lots of layers taking out much of the weight of it, and then an asymmetric fringe. It's worked really well for her, looks great and easy to cope with (she can just wash and leave it and it still looks good).

I had a short crop age 12, and I have to say lots of people did think I was a boy. I didn't mind at all, but also it was the early 80s, and there wasn't this massive pressure for girls to be 'girly' and particularly to have long hair. Although, on the other hand, hair products have come on a lot since then, and a bit of wax / putty etc is a wondrous thing

Go to a different hair dresser! How can a decent hair dresser not have any ideas on what would suit you daughter?! Even if most girls have long hair, surely hairdressers should be trained in all styles and hair types.

I personally think it's really refreshing to see young girls with something other than long hair and think it can look very sweet.

At 10 I think I'd be encouraging my daughter to look after her own hair more. I couldn't be doing with blow drying it for her.

What sort of face does she have? Petite or more bold features?
Who cares about being mistaken for a boy anyway. Loads of boys have longer hair and are mistaken for girls. If she's made the choice to have short hair, I'd absolutely respect that. She can always stick a clip in it.

Dahlia you've definitely picked styles that would work with my daughter's thickness / type of hair - yay! I like both of those a lot and they look as though a blast with the hairdryer and then simple styling with a bit of wax would work ok

Takver that sounds good, perhaps we'll come back to that sort of style when she works out that short hair takes time / management too

bonkers agree about using clips and accessories in it to make it a little more feminine if she wants to. I hadn't thought of that before starting this thread
She has very petite features, though quite striking as she's mixed Asian / white parentage so dark eyebrows, lashes etc

I'd also second trying a different hairdresser - mine was really happy to spend time with dd exploring what would work.

dotty I am also of Asian (Indian) and white parentage. I am very pale but with dark hair/lashes/brows. I look more French or Spanish than either British or Indian.

I also have the mad hair. When I've had mine short I've had to have it very short as more fuller styles just go big and I've never been able to do the whole sleek thing.

I think from what you've described she won't look like a boy.

Hello bonkers . I think there is a risk that her hair will go "big" but think Dahlia's options might work. Would they work on your hair (which sounds very similar to my DD's)?

dotty I love, love, love the rice design blog one and think that would work with my hair. It would need a trim every 5-6 weeks though. The Halle one would not work on me. I bet she had a team of people making it look so shiny and just so!

Gosh, I'd better not show the rice one to my DH, he loves my hair short like that, but I have it bobbed at the moment.

There are a few KS2 girls at DDs school with a sort of asymmetric cut, a bit like this. It seems to work quite well with thicker, slightly wavy hair as it seems to hold it's shape quite well through the day.

Dotty, I'm glad you like then, hope your dd does too. I bet she'll look beautiful, sweet and gamine.

I have had a lifetime of trying to force my hair into lovely straight, swingy styles and it's just so much work. Always better to go with what you've got rather than fight against it!