Kids' Hair Styles

Kid’s hair styles should be easy to maintain and functional. When children are younger, you can dictate their style within reason. However, older children may want a say in their hair styles.

Before deciding on a kid’s hair style, you should take several things into consideration. Answer the following questions:

• Is your child’s hair curly? Straight? Thick? Fine?
• Does it tangle easily?
• Is it damaged from the sun, chlorine, sea water, or hair care products?
• How often do wash your child’s hair?
• How much time to do have you have in the morning for hair styles?
• Do you need/have accessories like barrettes, ponytail holders, scrunchies, headbands, or ribbons?
• Does your child need help maintaining her hair style?
• Does your child play a sport?
• Does your child’s school have rules about hair styles? They may if your child wears a uniform.
• Does this hair style require extra hair cuts?

If your child is older, she might want some say in her hair style. However, you should ask your child the following questions before heading into the salon:

• Do you want to blow dry your hair every morning?
• Do you use hair care products? If so, what kind? Mousse, gel, or hair spray? How much?
• Do you want to color your hair?
• Do you want your hair straightened?
• Do you use a curling iron or curlers?
• How much time is there in the morning for grooming and styling of hair?

Girls' hair styles are often more complex than boys'. You can start playing with your daughter’s hair styles at a young age, adding bows or other hair accessories to babies as young as six months.

If you’re daughter is adventurous, athletic, and a bit of a tomboy, a short pixie cut in the style of actress Natalie Portman may suit her personality. This type of hair style is very easy to maintain, requiring only a bit of gel and minimal blow drying to style.

Bobs are often a wonderful style for girls. Bobs are easy to maintain and look good on just about every hair type. The bob is also very versatile, since you can straighten or curl your daughter’s hair to suit the occasion. Barrettes, hand bands, pony tails, clips, and ribbons can also be used to vary the look.

Shag hair styles look good on just about everyone, except little girls with extremely curly or frizzy hair. Since the layers are choppy, tapered, and uneven, they can easily be adjusted to suit your daughter’s face shape. This style looks good even as it’s growing out, but you’ll want to schedule a haircut every six to eight weeks for best results.

Many girls and their families prefer long hair. Long hair often requires more maintenance than short hair, but you have more options for experimenting with braids, ponytails, and other elaborate styles. Long hair cuts can be layered or straight. Fine or curly hair benefits from some layering, but children’s hair should never require morning maintenance of blow-drying and product to look good. You should also be wary of using too many styling products on a child under five years of age, since these harsh chemicals can be very damaging for young locks.

Boys’ hair styles are much simpler than girls'. However, boys have more options for hair styles now. Do you want your son’s hair parted, brushed back, long in the back or simply trimmed to keep it out of his eyes?

The most popular for younger boys is the buzz cut. You can get a buzz cut at home or in a hair salon. Families like the buzz cut because it’s easy to maintain, fast, and many families save money clipping their son’s hair at home. Generally, the length of this haircut varies from 3/4 inch long to 1/8 inch in length.

The bowl cut is a retro hair style that continues to be quite popular today. The name of this cut comes from the do-it-yourself technique of placing a bowl on the head and then cutting the hair off that shows from under the bowl. The result is hair that is several inches in length on top with close cropped hair below the bowl line.

A flattop is a boys hair style that features the top of the hair cut into a flat surface. This is accomplished by cutting the hair at the front central area of the head shorter than the hair that is around the top and side of the head. Gel or mousse will be needed to keep the hair in place, however.

The term Caesar cut is used to describe a boy’s hair style that resembles the one worn by Julius Caesar. The hair is layered 1 to 2 inches all over, then brushed forward to a short bang or fringe in the front. Clipper blades and attachments are often used to create this look.

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