How To Cut Your Girlfriend's Hair

These like shooting fish in a barrel tips brand it so simple to cutting your daughter's long straight hair in the comfort of your ain home with no tears and no mistakes! Keep reading to discover out how to practise information technology. ✂

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There is no reason to pay big coin to take your daughter to a hair salon when you can easily cut her long hair right at home! I'k going to show you just how easy it is to cut your girls hair at home, using my own girl to demonstrate.

Isn't information technology amazing how fast your kids hair grows? Must be all the happy meals 😉

My girl has been bugging me to trim her pilus for awhile now and I want to share some easy tips to cutting or trimming girls long pilus considering maybe someone else could use this tip! I was a footling startled by how long her hair had grown! She wanted several inches cut off so it would be easier to maintain for summer, and not so hot.

How to cut girls long hair

Total disclosure: I'thousand just a regular mom, I am by no ways an accomplished barber or fifty-fifty a hairdresser at all! In fact, dorsum in college I trimmed Mr. DIY'due south hair and left a bald spot on one side...he had to become and have it stock-still! Since that big mistake, I haven't been allowed to cutting his hair once again 😏

Notwithstanding, I'k not agape to cutting my kids hair. I've oftentimes found that the task I do is nearly as adept as the cut they go at the walk-in salons...if not better! I was finding I had to fix their hair later they went to a salon, so I decided to save myself the money and do it myself at dwelling house.

I take a good, sharp pair of pilus cut scissors too as clippers for my boy'south haircuts. I bought a pilus trimming set and it came with all the attachments for the clippers as well as the scissors. They're relatively inexpensive for something that you'll use so often!

Cut my girl's long hair is the easiest, so much easier than cutting the boys hair! There's no trimming around the ears (my least favorite thing) or the cervix. It'southward a simple matter of making sure the ends are even.

In that location'southward a trick to it, and I'll share it with you so you can easily cut your daughter's pilus too...all from the comfort of your own home...and relieve yourself some money!

Supplies to cut little girls hair at domicile

spray bottle of water
broad tooth comb
conditioner
large hair clips
hair scissors
stool (something backless for them to sit on to enhance them up a piddling...saves your back...you can run across a fiddling further down that my duaghter is sitting on iii stools stacked on top of each other!)
towel (optional)

Step One

Your daughter'south long hair needs to be very wet before you cut it. I have my daughter wet her pilus under the tap, and I keep a spray canteen of water handy to re-wet information technology equally needed. Use a wide tooth comb and slowly rummage all the tangles out, existence gentle. If the hair is really tangled, rub a petty conditioner between your palms and piece of work information technology through the hair; it will make the job easier. Expect just how long this piffling peanut's pilus was!

wet hair and comb out

Footstep Two

Brand sure the pilus is parted where your daughter normally parts it. If I'k going to make a mistake on her hair, this is where it happens because after it's washed, the office is often slightly different. But that'southward no biggie, you tin can become back when it's dry and brand adjustments!

Tip: I ever have my girl expect in a mirror and role her hair herself

Step Three

Depending on the thickness of your daughter's pilus, you will need a couple large clips, the all-time are the ones with claws similar this, although you may need smaller ones if your girl's hair is very fine.

Divide the hair into sections

You're going to think of the hair in terms of three horizontal sections, the bottom section is what we're going to cut first, and so nosotros desire to section off the hair using the comb to divide the first section straight around her caput and so you have a nice, straight line. Twist and clip the balance on the top of her head.

hair cutting antics

The antics never end around here! 😜

Spray that bottom section of hair with water again if you need, to ensure it'southward nice and wet. It's very important to make sure your daughter is keeping her head straight, not tilted. Yous'll want to cheque this periodically during the haircut! Have her find a spot on the wall straight ahead and stare at it.

Step Iv

Make up one's mind how much hair y'all're going to cut and brand the first cut in the eye, after first cartoon the comb directly downwards the hair. Then echo this step all the fashion around each side, snipping it evenly. When the hair is moisture, it lays flat and at that place are no flyaways so not only is it easier to cut merely yous are more apt to cutting it evenly.

Step 5

Once you lot've cut this first section of your daughter's hair, stand in front of her and compare the sides, making sure both sides are the aforementioned length. Brand adjustments as needed.

Call up, information technology's always best to cut pocket-size amounts at a fourth dimension; you can always trim more hair merely you lot cannot add it dorsum once it's cut! ✂

Step 6

Now it'due south time to let downwardly some other section of hair. Carve up the remaining hair in half, let downward the next piece and twist and prune up the residuum. Moisture equally needed.

Starting at the middle back again, draw the comb through the pilus dainty and tightly and snip your daughter's hair right at the length of the first section. The clipped get-go department works every bit the perfect guide. Work your way around the caput in this manner until the second section is washed, going back over and making sure it'due south all even by combing through it and trimming whatsoever longer pieces.

cut hair in divided sections

Here is my daughter's hair after the second section of hair had been cut. You can see that it is wet. You lot can run across the direct line right across (easy to do when it's moisture and when you use your comb equally a guide).

Pace 7

Allow down the last section of hair...we're virtually done ! Moisture the hair again...Oh, and you can see that we discarded the towel...my comb'southward tines kept getting caught in the terrycloth. Information technology was much easier without information technology! So proceed with this final layer only similar you did with the first two. Comb through each strand earlier cutting to loosen any knots and make sure information technology's laying every bit straight as possible. We the hair as needed before cutting and cutting equally earlier.

let down last section of hair

Cutting my daughter'due south unabridged head of hair only took well-nigh 10-15 minutes. That volition vary according to the thickness of the pilus you're dealing with, and obviously this is for hair that'due south all i length. If y'all're wanting to layer the hair, you lot'll need to discover another tutorial!

Hither's a recap of how to cut girls long hair at home

steps to cutting girl's long hair

My daughter loves her bouncy new haircut!! And then swingy! I love the coin I saved, the time I saved and the fact that we didn't have to bulldoze anywhere!

girl's haircut after

Did this look too easy? I promise you lot that it really is that piece of cake to cut your daughter'south long pilus at home! If I can do information technology I know that you tin besides!

If y'all have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them in the comments or send me an email.

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