Pinking Scissors
My healthy 4-year-old daughter has very thin, short hair. Will it ever thicken up?
My daughter's hair is a nice medium ash brown, shiny, and soooo thin. It won't grow long either. She doesn't have any medical problems - just got shortchanged one the hair genes. We buy lots of pink clothes to avoid confusion but still she's occasionally mistaken for a boy. My hair (I'm the mom) is long and thick, her father's is fine textured and receding. Does anyone else's child have hair like this? I've had two different women make comments about her hair - wondering why we would cut it in a such a short shag, and maybe she got some scissors and did it to herself?! It's so thin I can barely keep a barette in it. I'm afraid this may start affecting her self esteem, especially when she starts school. Will it ever thicken up?
And no, I don't make this an issue with her or say anything to give her a complex about it.
Wow so many answers, first let me say, You sound like a very concerned mother, I myself have 3 and can tell you, that the hair your daughter has now will probably not be anything like the hair she is blessed with as an adult!! Oh yeah, I am also a graduate from a well respected Academy of Hair!! sounds so swank!! nah, anyway take a moment and think back over her 4 years how much her hair has changed since she came into the world. I am 40yrs old, I have thin hair, thin 2ways, the strands are thin, and I am not blessed with an abundance of hair! I have always wanted Long, Long Hair, you know down to my knees, anyway, I am one of the many "children" whose parents believed that if they cut my hair short, and kept it cut short it would grow back thick!! Ole Wives tale, but it does have a common sense quality, first, if you trim, and I mean trim, the edges of your hair, the ends will be blunt, whole, so many of us think if we don't cut our hair it will just grow so long, but most of us have ends that split or fray so while our hair is growing it is breaking off at the ends, but if you trim it every 4-6 weeks, about 1/8 of an inch you will really notice the growth and will look incredibly healthy. Back to the Ole Wives tale, I have always loved haircuts like the shag, or really layered looks, but for someone like me, some layered cuts tend to enhance my thinness--is that a word? if I keep a blunt, one length cut, my hair tends to appear thicker, and well it is thicker when it is one length, as far as the two women making comments, well unfortunately there is always someone, somewhere having to say something!! My 4year old, her hair is also thin, and unfortunately she has grabbed the scissors, her Aunt my sister is also a Hairstylist, and my 4 year old wants to be just like her, I just wish she would find another head other than her own to practice on, she really does not have much left!!
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