When Should I Cut My Baby Girls Hair?

Yes, a trim will definitely help. I waited till my daughter was 3 for her first haircut and that was a mistake. At that point, she had so many split ends.

I used to do hair in another life so I started trimming our daughter's hair at a pretty young age. Shaping it up, really, more than cutting. We did go w/ bangs for the very reasons you mention and also because our daughter would not allow headbands, barrettes or ponytail holders whatsoever. But by 5, we were ready to grow the bangs out and at that point, she'd allow a barrette to keep them out of her face. Now she has all one length hair.

shorter hair is easier to manage. take her to the salon for a cute pixie cut, or an old school 70's page boy cut.

Good luck to you and yours,
F. B.

Why not just pull it back in a cute clip? Or does she pull those out?

My 3 year old daughter has really long hair and always has (she was born with shoulder length hair). I made the mistake when she was 2 months old of cutting her bangs - I didn't want to deal with bangs either, but I listened to my mother - and remember that awkward growing in stage. I used to trim it when my boys got hair cuts because she wanted one too. Now, she wants really long hair and loves it, and I have to force her to cut it a few inches when it gets past her butt because it gets in the way of wiping.

At that grow out stage, you just have to try and make use of barrettes, baby head bands, or hair ties - think pebbles flintstone.

my daughter is 7 and her daddy wants her to have hair down her back.. but I am the one that has to comb out the tangles every morning. every time I let it grow.. it gets to the middle of her back and then it is a tangly mess.. and we have tears every day.. so then I trim 2 or 3 inches off and it is back to shoulder length and the hair is easy to manage again.

I would trim it up.. little girls with long hair means a lot of work for mom.

My daughter is 3.5 and has not had her hair cut at all. She loves her ringlets and wants really long hair like Rapunzel. We'll cut it when she is ready or it tangles too much. She would not let me put ANYTHING in her hair, grandma could for a few minutes, until she left the bathroom mirror, showed me, and then she would rip them out. It is only since she started going to preschool in the last month that she is ok with bows and pretties in her hair. But, I did cut bangs because she couldn't see, and to me, eyesight is much better and more important than fashion. But, even then she has only had her bangs cut 3 times, so you can see, her hair took a long long time to come in. So to answer your question, yes, you can cut it, but you will probably need bangs or hair things to make it stay out of her eyes.

For our daughter we started pig-tails just before she turned 2. We did not cut bangs at all, I didn't want to have to deal with the maintenence so often. We got her a real haircut at age 3, just to clean it up, and she has not had another one since. I keep her hair out of her face with pig tails, braids, or "Princess Leia buns" pretty much every day.

It really depends on if your daughter will let you put clips, barrettes, etc, in her hair. Mine wouldn't at all, so we opted for bangs (which are very fashionable and trendy at the moment). I trim them myself when they start to get too long. One day, when she'll tolerate hair accessories, I'll let the bangs grow out.