Fringe help

Joaquin'sgirl wrote: Hey thanks for replying, well I don't wash it everyday say 2-3 days and its all fine ie the rest of my hair so in the morning I just brush it, except my fringe sticks up massively and takes ages to bring back down. Maybe I need to straughten it. The hairdresser gave me some snazzy cream but it just makes it greasy.

Hi,

Well there are several things you can do.  Even though you don't wash your hair every day, you can just wash your fringe.  I used to do that.  I would clip all of my hair off to one side out of the way and then bend or the sink and get my fringe really wet with cool or lukewarm water and then apply a really tiny bit of diluted shampoo to just the fringe area.  Enough to just get the grease or dirt.  And yes the fringe catches a lot of that.

Then I would rinse well and finish with a cool water rinse to settle down the cuticles.  Then I would blow dry JUST the fringe.  That would take probably 10-15 minutes at most and then I would have fresh fringe.

Now my fringe is heavily texturized and layered so I was shampoo the fringe and just towel blot and finger fluff and don't even have to shampoo just the fringe.

Other options if you don't want to do a daily fringe wash:

1.  Use hair accessories to hold down your fringe.  Right now headbands are very popular and every kind is popular from the tiny headbands to the wide bandeaus. So experiment with skinny or wide bandeaus and wear them right at the front of your hairline to hold the fringe hair that sticks up.

2.  Use tiny clips or bobby pins (also very popular) to hold down your out of control fringe hair.  Push the fringe to one side and clip to your head to hold down.

3.  Use tiny clips and form a crown twist.  Take the fringe hair and separate it into 1/2 inch sections and then twist once and then fold back onto the scalp and clip.  This is a very cute style.

4.  Relax JUST your fringe area.  Buy a home relaxer kit and relax just the area around your fringe.  This will help the hair lay flatter.  This may or may not be the best option although it is one to consider.

5.  If #4 is too radical (and it may be) use a temporary relaxer when you do you main shampoo every week.  Try products that are either a liquid, balm or cream that temporarily relax your hair.  I personally love Robert Hallowell's The Flat Factor (Robert Hallowell Prawduct - the flat factor - 5 oz (150 ml) but I also have had good results with Ken Paves' (he is Jessica Simpson's hairdresser) product which is Paves Professional - FLAWless Straight and Narrow Repairing Relaxing Balm For Dry Damaged Hair - 7.0 oz.

Other products that work great at temporarily relaxing hair include the world famous Phytodefrisant Balm, KMS Flat Out, Rene Furterer Control Emulsion Anti-Frizz Formula...to name just a few.

The key to using these temporary "relaxers" is to blow dry the hair straight using a blow dryer and a paddle style brush.

Other Options Include:

1.  Letting your fringe grow completely out.
2.  Sleeping with your fringe "taped down" using regular tape.
3.  Sleeping with your fringe held down with a bandeau style headband (the disadvantage is that your hair may get very flat).
4.  Asking your hairdresser to texturize or layer your fringe so that it doesn't stick up as much.

Finally,

Look at this as a cool hair advantage and try a lot of the options to have fun with your hair and learn how to deal with it more efficiently.

Please let us know how you do on your fringe journey.

Best wishes,
Karen

Hi JG,

Yes...if you can do it easily...washing your fringe every day is a great choice.  And clips are very very cool.  You can do them even if you also shampoo every day.  :-)

Let us know how you do.

Best wishes,

Karen