We’ve always tried to make it easy for teachers and classmates to tell the girls apart. So they never dressed identically at school and always wore M or R clips in their hair. Well not today! Since their hair is now different they reallyreallyreally wanted to wear the same outfit to school. And oh my word you should have seen the squealing and jumping when I said ok. You’d have thought I’d agreed to let them eat candy for breakfast lunch and dinner or something.
Ree says she wants to go even shorter, so we’ll give it a week and if she still feels the same way chop off a little more. And Ro woke up asking if her hair had grown any overnight because she is in a big hurry to have looooooooong hair already.
I have to admit that the first scissor cut yesterday was a “gulp” moment. Ro looked at the snipped hair on the floor and said “Whoa!!!” which was pretty much what I was thinking. It was also kind of amusing that the obliging hairdresser worked her magic with Ro’s nose just inches from her sister’s head. Ro had obviously appointed herself quality-control and nothing was going to get by her. By the way, both girls have really thin hair, and I don’t want to be a downer to Miss Ro, but is it even possible to grow thin hair really long and keep it looking nice? Any tips or advice?
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They look so cute.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to tell Ro this, but my daughters hair really started growing once she cut it into a short bob. It would never go past her shoulders. Once she cut it in the bob and grew that out - it is down to the middle of her back now and thicker. Not sure if it is the case of cutting it or it was just her age and her hair took off growing. (she will be 8 in July)
Debbie
What fun to see them dressed alike!! Love this new option that is open to them!
ReplyDeleteI'll be watching the answers to the fine hair closely. Hannah still has wispy, fine baby-like hair. Not sure it will ever get thicker.
Yes it is possible. I have thin, baby fine hair and it was down to my butt most of my life. My Mom did the same thing as Debbie when I was younger. Cut it short and let it go. After that as long as I kept it trimmed up it was fine.
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I also cut my daughters hair into a bob recently and it made a huge difference in her hair...She's 6.
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My girls have fine hair and one has it down to her bottom, the others shorter bobs. We like to use Paul Mitchell "The Conditioner", a leave in conditioner that helps reduce tangles. We also shampoo less often and use a condition that rinses out. Always wet their hair w/ water before swimming in chlorine, it helps their hair absorb less chemicals. Try "10" also in the summer, a spray for hair that protects and builds. Hope this helps! I love the cute haircut! It does look thicker!
ReplyDeleteWell, as an older person whose hair keeps getting thinner I would say no. I now keep mine to the point where it touches the bottom of my neck because it looks scraggly when it is longer. As much as I loved wearing it up I also liked it down, but no more. It looks much thicker when it is collar length.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that Ree would look great in a shorter bob. She looks just darling now with the shorter hair.
I have super fine hair and the longest it can get before looking stringy is right above shoulder-length. On the plus side, it only takes about 2 minutes to blow dry, and only about 30 seconds with my new pixie cut, which I love!
ReplyDeleteYep - once we trimmed Piper's fine, scraggly hair it started growing fast and got thick and strong. It's still rather fine, but she has lots of it - and more on the way. She has tons of "wisps" around her face. Pi thinks her hair is growing faster to "catch up" to it's old length :-)
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love Ms Ree's haircut!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have no experience with thin hair but I would think frequent trims and good layers would be key to helping it look nice.
ReplyDeleteLily had really thin fly away hair as well so I kept it really short also now she has loads of the stuff and it is just a couple of inches away from being lopped off for Locks of Love. Rosie still doesn't have any so she has the obligatory bob going on.
ReplyDeleteOK so their hair is different but I wish their teachers lots of luck working out who is who. They look fabulous dressed as "twins". I hope they had tonnes of fun with it. ( they always look fabulous I hope you know what I mean)
I love your kids. I really do. /cas
ReplyDeleteOur Paige has quite long, very thin, fine hair. I just recently trimmed it from her bottom up to mid back. It does lay a little nicer but it didn't look bad longer. I think it really depends on the person though. My own hair looks stringy and won't lay nicely past my shoulders. Paige's though looks beautiful and silky - definitely need the conditioner to fight tangles.
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They both look great! L's hair is pretty thin and the knots, oh my! Her hair grows SO SLOW.
ReplyDeleteRo & Ree are both so beautiful and looking so incredibly confident as they are getting older. What sweethearts. xoxo
ReplyDeleteMy oldest had the thinnest hair ever and I thought it would always be that way, but in third grade, she had it chopped it off (sent the long ponytail to the cancer/wig group). It is now almost back down to her waist and it's THICK, just two years later. I would never have believed it! The little one has the same thin stringy hair but I have HOPE!!! We'll chop her hair off once it's long enough for the cancer/wig group, and maybe it'll come in as thick! Maybe!
ReplyDeleteYour girls look adorable!!
Snick
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Martina has the super-fine hair too. The more we trim it, the better it looks long. Unfortunately, if you trim it enough to make it continuously look really good, it takes quite a long time to grow the hair. Her hair grows much slower than mine.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who has very long hair that isn't particularly thick (anymore) since I was about 6, regular trims make a HUGE difference - it grows faster. Just be aware that super long hair is super hard work - my mother and I shed A LOT of tears over my long hair back in the day.
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of people think that trimming or cutting hair makes it grow faster. This is just not true. Keeping it trimmed may help it to look neater as it grows, and cutting it makes it easier to see that it is growing, but cutting the ends of the hair has no bearing on how fast it grows at the root. A lot of six year olds still have very fine hair, which I would expect to get thicker over the next couple of years. I think that Ro's hair looks fantastic as it is now, and I see no reason for it to look bad as it gets longer. If she really wants it to grow fast, she should wear it up in a bun more often, because at the length it is now, it will get trapped between her back and her chair backs when she sits down, and that will cause the ends of the hair to experience more wear and begin to rub away. Keeping it up and not letting it get between her back and her chair back will help the ends to look nicer for longer, and will help it to grow faster. Putting a small amount of coconut, jojoba or olive oil on the ends of her hair may also help to nourish and stop her ends getting dry and crunchy, which some people find they struggle with when their hair is very long.
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