3 Year Old with Baby Fine Hair

No advice, My daughter just turned 3 Feb 2......and she has baby fine hair also. Not sure if there is anything that you can do.

Yup cut it all off now. Seriously, I had the same issue and my baby had terrible hair. I was afraid to cut it because every hair was a Godsend. Finally, while getting my eyebrows threaded with my daughter, the owner pulled me aside and told me to shave my daughter's hair. I told her to do it. At 2, she had the shortest haircut. Very close to a shave. At three, her hair was BEAUTIFUL! Now she is four and everyone tells me what great hair she has.
Yup, worth it. I thank that Pakistani woman every day. If you like, I can send before and after photos.

Hi S.,

not much you can do to make it thicker.

However, a good hair stylist should be able to give her a cut to make it 'appear' fuller, by layering, etc.

My 2nd daughter has thin hair - it has thickened up as she gets older, but still not what i would consider 'thick' hair. We did keep her hair short when she was little, because her hair looked so ratty long.

I used to be a hairdresser so I went to cosmetology school. There is absolutely no reason to shave your little girl's head. It will not grow back any different than it is now. You can trim it to make it appear fuller (go to an experienced hair salon, not just a chain salon) and if it doesn't grow into fuller hair then she can start using shampoos for fine hair. But shaving it or cutting it really short will not change the hair since it is in her follicles (in her scalp) that controls the hair. Hopefully as she gets older her follicles will change (as they normally do) and her hair will be thicker. I am sure she is beautiful any way her hair is!
Good luck!

I think most babies start out with fine hair and then it eventually starts to mature into what they may have as an adult. Both my daughters had fine hair at first. The oldest still has fine hair but it's long and thick. It tangles easily and I don't think there is much that I can do. The younger of the two had very fine whispy hair and now at three it has started coming in at the roots very thick, very course, and kinda kinky (like I took a crimp iron to it).

My husbands family is Puerto Rican and many hispanics will shave a childs head saying it makes their hair thicker. I know from observation of many a shaved young ones that all it does is rush the process for their mature hair to come in. I've seen kids whose hair came in thicker and those that it came in the same. It all depends on what God had in mind for them as they age.

It is a medical fact that you can't change the number of hair follicles that a person is born with..that will always remain the same. But their hair may come in more course in texture later and that makes it appear to be thicker...like my little one. She doesn't have any more hair but the texture changed so it has more body and appears that she has more hair.

I did put Suave thickener on the girls hair to improve the look and texture, but it didn't change the amount of hair they were born with.

I have the finest, thinnest, straightest, flatest hair known to man, but if I put in the right products (like some detangler and "Chi" hair volumizer) I look like I have thicker hair with volume too. It always shocks people when they see me right out of the shower before I fluff and curl.

Now with the girls fine hair I had to use regular little rubber bands in their hair and then just cut them out at night. It didn't damage their hair. They were just the only kind of little pretties that I could get to stay in their fine, silky hair.

Good luck!!!

My daughter has strange hair. It's straight and whipsy in the front and curly in bottom back. The upper back has grown in straight. I did take her for her first haircut a month ago, and the hairdresser said that it was good to trim off the baby hair because it lets the new show, because the weight has been taken off. After she trimmed my daughters hair it became wavy all over. However as it has grown back it is back to the same.

Hope that helps.