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What should I do with my baby's fluffy hair?

34 replies

bowbluebell · 03/06/2010 18:43

Hi ladies

I'm not often to be found on the S&B section but I was not sure where to post this pressing question...

DD is 16 months old and after fifteen months of baldness she now has a smattering of thin, very fluffy, very blonde and quite long hair. I mean, it's not that she needs it brushing and when I put an alice band on her she still looks like an Easter egg, but it's getting there.

Trouble is, the length combined with whispiness looks really uncool and she has an important flower girl date at the end of the month.

What do mother's of whispy blondes do? I have thought about taking her for a trim or wetting it down, but am worried she'll end up looking like a cross dressing page boy.

Grin and bear it??

OP posts:
MamaG · 03/06/2010 18:47

could you get a really small wig?

CuppaTeaJanice · 03/06/2010 18:47

One of those pagan style crown things made from ivy and flowers?

wig?

Sam100 · 03/06/2010 18:48

Get some v cute little clips or small bobbles and do 2 little pony tails on either side (if there is enough hair for that). If not maybe just a little one on top like Bam-Bam?

ruddynorah · 03/06/2010 18:49

personally i wouldn't have it long if it's so fluffy. keep it short and neat. will it take a side parting and small clip to one side? rather a clip than a head band.

Mumsnut · 03/06/2010 18:51

We need pics to work with!

MarineIguana · 03/06/2010 18:52

I would cut it stylishly short - as presumably she will be in a beautifully feminine dress? That would look nicer IMO - clips and ponytails and whatnot would just draw attention to her hair being so fine and thin.

catinthehat2 · 03/06/2010 18:56

You are over thinking.

A 16 month blondy fluffhead flowergirl is the greatest.

What's best - a dandelion or a dandelion clock?

crumpette · 03/06/2010 19:48

Well c'mon she's only 16 months I think fluffy hair is adorable on little toddlers! So cute.

If you really really have an issue with it, then get rid of some of the length. A sort of short bob ie ear length would make it look much thicker/neater.

MrsMargate · 03/06/2010 19:54

style and beauty

good god

this is no place for children

[cat's bum face]

catinthehat2 · 03/06/2010 19:58

Excuse me!

Stop imitating my perfectly formed if slightly encrusted rear end.

muggglewump · 03/06/2010 20:00

Can you straighten it?
If it's just for the day it won't do any harm.
DD's hair was awful for ages, and just as it grew into a decent style, she cut it off and looked like a monk for months!

crumpette · 03/06/2010 20:01

fluffy is cute.. fluffy fluffy fluffy

nomorebooze · 03/06/2010 20:02

omg shes a little girl, whats wrong with leaving it as it is???????????/ straighten it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xx

jennifersofia · 03/06/2010 20:07

Fluffy! All the best babes are wearing it this season (mother of 2 yr old fluff head)

catinthehat2 · 03/06/2010 20:11

fluffy fluffy fluffy

cute cute cute

muggglewump · 03/06/2010 20:11

Why not straighten it?

If it's cute and fluffy, then great, DD's hair just looked untidy and a mess which was fine for every day, I'm not that vain, but for the odd occasion when I wanted her to look decent, I put the straighteners on it.
She's 8 now and has gorgeous, thick blond hair that I would kill for. Still looks a bloody mess without straighteners though, or being put up, so I do one or the other if we have an occasion to go to.

tethersend · 03/06/2010 20:17

The horror...the horror

Your DD is 16 months old. I don't think anyone will be making bitchy comments about how fluffy her hair is. Jesus.

ruddynorah · 03/06/2010 21:00

don't straighten it!!!

dairymoo · 03/06/2010 21:25

My DTs had fluffy blonde (and quite thin) hair for a long time and I found that cutting it into a chin length bob helped to thicken it out a bit, or at least it looked thicker.

Do NOT straighten it though, am shocked by that suggestion. She's 16mo old!!

RockSteady · 03/06/2010 22:16

backcomb it and haispray it to the max

soupmaker · 03/06/2010 22:18

I adore my DD's head of mental fluff which goes all curly wurly when its hot and humid. She is 2.5 and was a wee suede head until 18 months, when the hair started to grow at all different lengths. I have given it a wee trim and it has thickened up a bit. I love the dragged through a hedge backwards look.

racemeraceme · 03/06/2010 22:19

snuggle it

Meglet · 03/06/2010 22:21

leave it as it is FGS.

winnybella · 03/06/2010 22:23

Leave it!

Seriously, toddlers are cute whatever their hair is like, the adult beauty criteria don't apply to them!

DD is 16 mo and also very recently started growing hair, which is blond, v.fine, straight and longer in the back, with sides quite bald still.

Whatever, she's still v.cute and when she actually has more hair I might cut it a bit to even it out.

But really, I wouldn't stress about it.

Clary · 03/06/2010 22:23

You need one of those headbands with fake hair that were linked to in the babyheadbands thread.

yeah wot tethersend linked to.

(not really tho).

Cannot believe anyone suggests straightening a bay's hair!