How can I learn to do different hair styles for my 9 yr. old daughter?

I am a single dad and my daughter got all girly on me this year. Her hair is shoulder length and kinda fine. I have tried putting barrettes in her hair but they slide out. And the hair things that look like a horse shoe with the little points on them hurt her head. Sorry, I don't know what they are called. She is still a tomboy but on other days likes to be a girly girl. Is there a book out there or a web site or something where I can learn some EASY and Fast ways to do her hair in the morning before school ? Neither of us is a morning person so we kinda stumble around in the am so we REALLY need EASY ways to do her hair. Thanks !How can I learn to do different hair styles for my 9 yr. old daughter?
I could not find a webpage with pics but I have similar problems with my youngest daughters hair. I hope that I can explain a few styles well enough. we do a lot of ponytails and pigtails - these tend to be pretty easy. Instead of barrettes, I get the small terry ponytail holders. I will pull up a little on each side and use the small pony tail holder to keep it back and flip it. If you want to email me, I can send oyu a few pics of what I am talking aobut because I know I am not explaining well. You can also split the hair in the middle and rather than pull it up in pigtails ,braid each side low and put the ponytail holder at the bottom- this is a less ';kiddie'; way to do pigtail braids. I have a few easy styles that I dont mind sending pics and picture instructions for- click on my avatar and click contact- I can send my email address from there if it will help.How can I learn to do different hair styles for my 9 yr. old daughter?
Wow- I am impressed that you are so willing to find new ways to help your daughter do her hair for school! Kudos to you!!!! ;o)



As for our mornings, when we do pigtails or pony tails we do a zig zag part down the middle and put pony's on each side. Or you could do it just on the top and have pony's on each side on the top only and leave the back down.



If you put one ponytail in the back flip the tail part up and wrap the band around that so it looks like a loop.



Try some fun headbands too~ those are pretty popular.



good luck!!
Ifyou go to a bookstore there are these series called American Girl. I used to read them and stuff when I was younger. They have ';advice'; books and books just to read. One of the advice books is about hair and it shows you how to do over fifty different hairstyles. My daughter has it.
in hair salons they have alot of magazines that have different styles of hair dos, also you could buy a teen magazine and check out the styles there as well,hair clips are good,hair bands,etc.

good luck
they make little butterfly clips that work like barrettes but hold better, also try rubber bands for pony tails. i dont know of any web sites to help ya but i am sure when you take her for her next hair cut they can give you some tips, or ask co-worker/family members/or friends for some advise. good luck :o)
lol....half up pony tail..easiest thing to do..just make it non messy!!
Your hairdresser will normally help out in a big way. but Easy hair do's. Being a mother of a 10 yr old, I suggest the hair bands that are ';fuzzy'; pony tail holders they stay in fine hair and do not slide out as easily. Also, the little multi colored ';rubber bands'; That are smooth to the touch usually come in packs of about 200 and 3 sizes (when you take them out you cut them, with a knife or scissors). Put mousse in her hair when it is wet before it dries also helps hold in hair do dads

As for the hair styles...Pony tail with all hair, Pony tail on top with only using the hair from the forehead to the ears and pulling it up on top.

Parting the hair in the middle, use a small section of hair from the front to almost the ear do a simple braid on both sides. You can leave the braids down or pull them to the back of the head and put a pony holder in them to hold them together.
Girls Will Be Girls

When I found out that we were expecting our second baby girl, I was ecstatic and a bit

concerned. I never had a sister so I was very excited that my 2 year old would have one

to grow up with. My concern stemmed from the fact that I had a hard enough time

getting my hair fixed and my toddlers hair fixed on any given morning, let alone

another girl's hair. I figured that the only way it would all work is if I hired a personal

hair stylist just to fix everyone's hair! Well, when I stopped dreaming I knew that my

views would have to change and I needed to figure out a few tricks.



When I was a little girl with very long hair, I rarely went to school without it being in

braids, French braids, or ponytails of some sort. I remember my mom letting me go

with barrettes one day and I thought that I had won the lottery because my hair was

down, although I still had to sleep the night before with curlers poking into my head all

night long. I knew that this approach probably would not work for me with my two girls,

my mom only had one to worry about. I instantly knew that I needed to lower my

';standards';.



I started out with my two year old wearing a bow and/or piggy tails in her hair from the

time her hair was long enough to tug and pull it into rubber bands. After the baby,

though, getting everyone's hair combed was an accomplishment. Once the craziness of

the new baby wore off I went back to fixing hair and have found some pretty good

hairstyles for active girls. We have been long and short, up and down, and even stiped

with purple. I feel like I have seen it all, and now with a third girl here I need to be on

top of my game.



To start with, short hair is obviously the easiest, but it is not for everyone. Girls with

medium to thick hair that is straight to wavy do best with short hair (above the ear).

Curly hair can sometimes end up looking a little out of control when it is cut too short

and fine hair has a tendency to lay too closely to the head, lacking body.

A fun cut that both of my older daughters have had is a type of modified bob. Most of

the hair is one length and parted on the side. The bulk of the hair is cut at the ear or

just above. The back is stacked which helps aid in adding body. If the ends tend to flip

out dry them slightly with a small round brush or ease them under while the hair is still

wet and spritz with spray gel.



For those girls who do not want to cut their locks, there are a lot of

cute styles for long hair. Let's start with the cut. This is kind of all

over the page; straight, layered, bangs, no bangs, really long,

medium, etc. For very thin hair layering the hair can help to give

the appearance of a thicker mane. Girls with thick straight hair look

great with a blunt cut. It will show the thickness of the hair and look

really healthy. Thick curly hair needs to be layered so the tresses

do not end up overpowering the cut and the girl.



The perms that are available now are excellent choices as well. A

little bit of a wave perm can add a lot to fine straight hair. Beware,

though, perms on young children may not always take as well as

older girls. The change in hair and perming usually happens right

around the onset of menstruation, so that is something to keep in mind before

dropping a huge amount for a perm that may just ';fall'; out of the strands. As well as

adding curls, one may choose to add a little accent color. There are a lot of very gentle

temporary hair colors on the market for very little money. Try adding something fun

like purple or red streaks. My daughters just washed out the last of the purple in their

hair. One had a purple chunk in the front of her dark hair which just gave a purple

hue, the other had purple streaks throughout her light hair which was quite a dramatic

look. The color lasted for only about 2 weeks before completely washing clean.



In addition to cuts, perms and colors there is any number of ways to fix long hair.

Check out TV shows and magazines and try to recreate the looks. Also, check out the

web for instructions on some of the more difficult looking do's.

I will talk a lot more about some simple but effective styles in my next article. Until

then, take some time to play with your hair and find out what works the best for you.

Feeling good about yourself and being confident in your own body is the most impor-

tant thing that a girl can accomplish. So be yourself, be confident, be happy!



Gretchen LeAnne 漏hairfinder.com



More Hairstyles for Kids More Articles









Dressy Hair Styles - Part #2

Hairline Braids (Dutch, Elizabethan %26amp; Braided Face Frame)



Author: Karen Marie Shelton



Introduction

Dressy Hair Styles - Part #1 covered The Classic Formal Updo, the French Twist. As I mentioned in Part #1, if you can do a basic French Twist you can dress it, dress it down, add jewelry, flowers, feathers or just about anything you can think of. The French Twist can work for any hair length that is medium to long.



Even exceptionally long hair can be put into a full Twist or a half up/half down Twist. For more details on the Twist, refer to Dressy Hair Styles - Part #1.



In my humble opinion, the next best ';dress up'; hairstyle for medium to long hair is a hairline braid. My long hair works perfectly in one of the various hairline braids and can be easily dressed up or down depending on the event.





The various hairline braids can be composed of many variations including a Dutch braid, a modified Ribbon Braid or Braided Face Frame or 2-Strand hairline braids.



The only thing that a hairline braid requires is medium to very long hair.





A hairline braid requires hair that is all one length and dry. With hairline braids only braid the hairline hair.



I usually wear my hair down without any special style. When I have a special event, wedding or party, I will often wear the various braided styles that are presented in this article.



Like the French Twist if you want to wear your hair completely up, the various Hairline braids can always be tucked under and pinned up. The braids can also be jazzed up with special touches like hair jewelry, flowers or hair adornments of any type.

Maybe even Girls Hair Styles



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Figure 1.--HBC has no nformation as to the provinance of this photograph. Based on the women's dresses, we would date it to about 1910. The girl's short hair shows that you can not assum that all children with short hair are boys.

HBC does not plan on going into great detail on girls' hair cuts. Er have always been hopefull that some one would lauch a sister site on girls historical clothing and styles. Assessing gender in old photographs, however, is such a difficult problem that we have concluded that some basic information about girls' nair styles, especially 19th century girls' styles would be useful. Just as you can not assume that children with long hair are girls, it is also true that you can not assume that children with short hair are girls. What we want to do here is to assess stylistic and chronolgical trends associated with girls' hair styles. We want to assess styles like bangs, curls, parts, and other hair styles.





Gender Connotations

The children's hair styles are an important issue in assessing many old photographs whih are often unidentified. The gendr of the children is often obvioyus, but a boys in the 19th and early 20th century not uncommonly wore dresses, assessing the hair style become important in assessing gender. One factor is the hair part. Many boys wore bangs or other styles without disernable parts. When parts are discernable, left parts seem the most common. We notice that many girls seem to have center or right parts. This is our initial assessment and it needs to be confirmed. Here there are differences over time and among counties. Here we need to develop more information on these trends. We note numerous photographs of boys with long hair during the lte 19th and early 20th cebtury. Thus hair can be very confusing when assessing gender. One useful guideline is that in school potraits we believe that virtually all of the children with long hair are girls. What we often are confused about is all the girls with short hair. This became even more common after World War I in the 1920s when girls bgan bobbing their hair after World War I (1914-18)





Styles

Girl's hair styles are commonly more elaborate and more complicated than boys styles. This is a helpful clue when attempting to establish the gender of unidentified photographs. This was, however, not always the case. We see many boys with elaborate ringlet curls and many girls with short hair. we know that nobbed hair became popular for girls in the 1920s, but even in the 19th century we see girls with short hair. We are not sure if this tells us anything about the children involved suchg as they were less fashion concious. One especially important style for girls hair is hairbows, but here again they were also worn by boys.c





Short Hair

One HBC reader reports that in the early 20th century before World War I, short hair for a girl was not considered stylish. We have, however, seen girls with shorter cuts appearing in fashion magazines. We note, for example, a book about French fashions (Children's Fashion 1860-1912) which showed short hair for girls at the end of the 1880s and the beginning of the 1890s. A German reder reports, ';This trend is supported by photos I have seen in books. And I have also seen a painting with girls and short hair from about 1900.'; This was not, however, the ominant trend which was for young women to have long hair. Here we notice that more girls than young women had short hair. HBC notes very large numbers of girls which had short hair, especially in school portrits. We are not entirely sure why. A reader provides some possible reasons for girls having short hair: practical, convenient, and to discourage vanity.'; Another reader agrees that it had to with lice. She also points out that it may have to do with tangled hair or some other event that made long hair impractical. HBC is not convinced that these were the only reasons, but we do believe that they are part of the reason. We do not yet have sufficent information to assess country trends. One significant factor may have been social class. We believe that working class girls were more likely to have short hair. This may be because their mothers had less time to devote to careing for their hair. Factors suuh as huygene and practicality may have been especially important to working class families.





Long Hair

Long hair was highly prized and considered to be very important to any young woman in the 19th and early 20th century. We note large numbers of portraits of girls who did have long hair, often with a right or center part. Clearly many girls, however, had short hair. I am not sure if that was a style seen appropriat for girls before they got older, or if there was some other reason for all the girls with short hair. A British reader tells us, ';The only reason that comes to mind is hygiene - perhaps the girls with short hair had their heads shaved at some time because of head lice / nits? Still an occasional problem at schools nowadays, when I was at junior school in the late 1950's we had regular inspections by the school nurse looking for nits in our hair.';





Curls

One style that girls have worn, although the popularity has varied over time has been ringlet curls. The popularity of ringlets has varied significantly over time and among countries. We believe that during the time that ringlets became most popular for boys, about 1880-1905, that they were less popular for girls. One major difference between boys' and girls' ringlets is that quite old girls even young women might wear them. Also girls, especially in the early 1900s might wear them with very large hair bows.





Bangs







Hair bows

It was for girls that it was most important to keep up with the latest style for hair bows. The memoirs of many well known women touch upon the hair bows they wore as children. The famous 1920s film star Gloria Swanson, for example, commented on the hair bows she wore. Her mother and grand mother appear to have believed that young Gloria had large ears. Althogh noted at birth, the impact of her large ears was not felt until she was old enough to have her hair styled. Swanson wrote, ';While all the other girls my age were wearing teeny tiny hair ribbons, my mother made giant silk bows and poufs for me to hide my ears.'; It appears to have been less important to follow the latest styles of hair bows when doing a boy's hair. Even so, hair bows for boys have varied in size, color, knot, and position. Some of these changes have varied over time. Others have shown no clear time line change. Following these trends is complicated as they varied sometimes significantly in different countries. The custom of tieing bows in boys' hair, for example, seems to have been most common in France.





Chronology

Long hair was a standard for beauty and styling for young women during the 19th century. Even so, we note many girls with short hair which at this time we do not fully understand. A major change occurred after World War I when bobbed hair for girls became stylish in the 1920s.





Schools

Some schools had regulations about both girls and boys hair styles. For some reason the schools seem to have given more attention to boys' hair, but this may be because we know less about girls' hair styles. The hair styles as well as the regulations have varied over time. There are also differences among countries. This is an interesting topic that we have not yet developed in detail.
Make a special day of it . Take your little girl out for a date........lunch and then to a beauty shop. Ask them to show you and her how to do different styles and to give you products that will help with her fine hair....Then go out to the store and buy the supplies you will need for her hair. The stylist will be very helpful and will show you quick and easy ways to do many different styles...and she will probably do it for under ten bucks.
Got any female friends? Maybe they could show you come easy ways. You can also look at some hair magazines at the store. Also when you go to get her hair cut ask the beautician to show u some
Wow.. I wish there were more men out there like you.

Kudos for taking an interest in your daughters life.



Ponytails and pigtails are the only things I know that do not take long (since you both aren't morning people)



Good luck!
i would take her to a salon and ask the hairdressers ther to help find quick and cute ways to style her hair. they can even teach her how to do some. im a hairdresser and little girls are always asking for cute simple ideas. good luck!!
Do a pony tale then wrap the pony tail upand twirl it around the hair and its a bun and I think you need to go to a hairstylest too to get idiea from them!

Good luck!