12yr olds hair - crisis!

[OrmIrian]

After posting on chat yesterday and having some sympathetic responses, things have moved on. DS#1 is not happy at all with his hair and refused to leave the house without a hat jammed on his head. He's going swimming so I guess it will have to come off at some stage.

Please have a look on my profile and tell me what to do with it. It was long and straight. It is now still straight but a little layered and much shorter. He wants it to look more tousled and textured. But it's too fine. I've tried waxing. And was recommended to use Fructis gel stuff (which I will try to get this afternoon). Bit I suspect it will involve another trip to hairdressers next weekend, But what should we ask him to do with it. DS does not want short hair - so this was a compromise.

Any ideas please?

Top photo btw on the trampoline.

Leave in conditioning spray will add texture to it. Did the hairdresser dry it for him? Maybe it will be more tousled if he leaves it to dry himself.

Just go to a trendy hairdresser (young male) and tell him what you've said here.

No. He didn't dry it entirely. I am hoping that going out in the rain will help

We did MrsA! Young dude with red bits and long dread type things all over the place.

I buy some stuff called phytodefrisant leave in relaxing balm from the hairdresser which is really nice to leave in and adds texture.

Try pulling bits to the front of his ears and slightly backcombing the top to get it to stick up a bit. I hope you know what I mean

Ah. My partner has fine straight hair and he uses Dax (?) something and groom (red tin)

red one here

Get him to go to bed with damp hair, mine look like scar crows after they do that.

SCARECROWS, obviously.

My god, what a gorgeous family, including their mum

My 2 ds have longish hair, which I cut for them, but ds1(11) is blessed with really thick, wavy surfer type hair, while ds2(9) has baby fine locks. Even though they have roughly the same haircut, it looks totally different on each of them.

DS2s looks like along bob, it is impossible to get it wavy, but longish layers help to give it a bit of movement. He sometimes wears it with one of those skinny elastic hairbands, like one of his favourite footballers. You could try a texturising spray and scrunch dry it, but he'll have to do that every morning to get the 'look' - might be a bit high maintenence for a 12 yr old.

Maybe you could sit down with him and look at hairstyles - the mini boden catalogue can be useful for this -that would suit his hair type.

Good luck with it

Aw his hair is lovely. Is he after a surfer look? If so, you can buy some spray stuff that adds texture so that it looks like you've just come out of the sea. Not sure what its called but I remember seeing it advertised a lot last summer. HTH

Thank you.

macherie - thanks for the compliment but I think you may need your eyes tested. Their mum is the funny looking bugger in the last photo

Will try a texturising spray or have a look for anything that says 'surf' on the label.

Alternatively I suppose I could just get him to stand in the garden in a strong wind while I throw sea water at him.