Ideas for fixing DD's wonky ruined hair without cutting it all short

[Ocelotfeet27]

I am looking for good ideas from people with more idea of style than me for rescuing my little girl's hair. DD6 cut half her hair off to around 6 inches long on one side of her head (better supervision clearly required). The rest of her hair is long (most of the way down her back if pulled straight). It is naturally curly. She has spent years trying to grow her hair - it is super slow growing - so we ideally don't want to cut it back to be short all round. So just matching is out. I have tried googling asymmetric cuts but finding it hard to find something on curly hair and a child (curl type I'd say probably 3B). Any ideas most welcome, preferably something easy ish as we are currently staying somewhere with few hairdressers so slightly worried about it going very wrong 😂

What’s the point. It’s just going to look strange until it’s all grown together. Asymmetric cut is very odd.

If you really won’t cut it then you’re going to have to do hairstyles every day. Google asymmetric French braid

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I think you'll just need to get a lots of clips /combs and see what you can do. Hopefully she won't do that again!

Just cut it all to match the length she cut to. Anything else will just look daft.

God why do they do this? I remember when my sisters cut each others hair to about an inch long all over their head. My mother was hysterical 😂
I think it would look better all short and start again. You cant hide that.

She cut it, are you sure she's not trying to tell you she wants it shorter?! But regardless, it depends how far round she has cut? A bit at the front and above the ear you can hide with clips and plaiting it back until it grows. Any more than that and it's a lost cause.

I'd say that unless she wants an asymmetric hair cut, that's going to look fairly edgy on a six year old, then it's going to have to be levelled up to the shortest point.

Did she want to be growing her hair long for years, or did she actually fancy it short? Actions would say the latter maybe, a shorter cut won't be the end of the world and it's kind of the natural consequences to taking the scissors to your own hair. A lesson we all have to learn at some point.

They do this - they learn the consequences

clearly at that point in time at least she didn’t want longer hair

Both my daughters did this. Curly haired dd did it the worst. Gave herself a mullet on one side. I cried. Then adopted a ‘comb over’ style where I changed her parting to the other side and pulled the long hair over the top and secured it in a ‘bunch’ under her ear. Then a big bow to detract!!

If you want to go back to all one length I think you need to french pleat it and then tuck it under/in. And probably shorten the overall length quite a lot at the back to so it can 'catch up'. When it's a bit longer you can have a layered curly cut and it'll look deliberate but till then you'll need to pleat/clip it back like you would when growing out a fringe.
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Or just get her to wear hair bands all the time, like saffy from ab fab.

Honestly, just get it properly cut short and straight. It's a learning experience that if she wanted it long she shouldn't have played with scissors. But very common, no one was hurt and it will grow back.

I agree with other comments; you're better off getting it cut by a professional. Anything you do with clips or combs will be a temporary, but long term, fix, and you're going to worry all the time that whatever style you achieve will come undone and look strange. A six year old is well aware how scissors work; cutting it is a consequence of her actions.

Perhaps it's her secret wish to have shorter hair?

😀 I did this to my fringe when I was a kid. It was just a tuft and I had to live with until it grew. You can't stick it back on again.

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Go to a hairdresser and get it cut into a shorter maybe layered style that disguises it as much as possible and will eventually grow out evenly. An asymmetric style will look ridiculous on a 6YO and you can stick bows in it or plait it all you like but ultimately it’ll have to be cut to ever look normal again so may as well do it now and start on growing it out. Also natural consequences and all that.

DD took a chunk from the front of her hair at that age, it seems to be somewhat of a right of passage 🤣, and had it cut into a straight but slightly awkwardly short graduated fringe and she looked normal again with a couple of weeks once it grown a bit.

Can you get it cut into a mullet?