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Fringe Fail? Five Ways To Handle Horrible Hair

3 May, 2018 - 09:18pm by - Head Pixie | 23 Comments

By BR Kellie

Every ten or so years I get a hankering for a fringe. It starts with taking my hair, standing in front of a mirror and placing it on my forehead just to get a 'feel' for how it'll look. I'll have it dusting my eyebrows, sitting above, I'll attempt a faux side-sweep. Then, next thing you know I'm in the chair at the salon and my locks are being lopped off. For one day I'll think my fringe is the bees knees. Then I'll wash it. And realise I have made a big mistake. Again.

So what's a girl to do when she has herself a fringe fail? Check out our top five hair hacks to get you through the growing pains!

1. Headbands are about to become your best friend. Take your headband and slip it on so that it brings your fringe backwards with it and no one will know you've butchered your do. Recently I read that the old flexi comb headband is coming back into fashion - so not only will you be squirreling away your style, you'll be in style. Win/win!

2. Twist it. Braid it. Get busy with your fingers and create an intricate look that will pull your fringe away from your face while making it look like you're making an effort with your hair. 

3. Sidesweep it. Once your fringe has grown out of its awkward stage you can then do the supercute side sweep style and pin it back with an old-school 90s butterfly clip (I'm mostly joking about this. Mostly) or a geek-chic metal hairclip and you're good to go!

4. Pretend it's meant to look like that. This is for the ballsy among us. It means pretending that you fully intended for your fringe to be that short. Or that you wanted a curly, fluffy fringe. Step out with attitude and people will be too busy admiring how fashion forward you're being to realise you're hiding a great big faff up.

5.  Finally... Swear to yourself. Swear on whatever you care about most in the world. Swear black and blue that you won't do it again. Tattoo it on yourself as a reminder if you have to. Then the next time you're standing in front of that mirror with your hair placed on your forehead, remind yourself how you couldn't style it to look good the last time. Remind yourself how it prickled at your eyes because you kept forgetting to pop in to see your stylist for a trim. Remember the pain of growing it out. Then put your hair away, and delete your hairdresser's number until the feeling has passed.

So my beauties... are you in the fringe fail family? Have you been there, done that? What are your tips and tricks dealing to the hair horror that is a fringe gone wrong? Sharing is caring!

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26th November, 2018

Love me a fringe I'll always have one, now and then I'll change the style from a full on over the eyes down to a wispy side swept one. Can't go wrong covers my forehead and that hides some of my ever growing amount of wrinkles. Just own it if it's wrong or to short just embrace it.

20th May, 2018

I have a side swept fringe which seems to have a mind of it's own and having cowlicks can make it quite difficult to sit right, but from time to time I will get out the scissors and do a wee quick trim which I have learnt how to do via utube clips.With my regular 6 week update I do get my hairdresser to tidy up my fringe but often find she takes more off then I like hence why I prefer to cut it myself.

5th May, 2018

Can so relate to it. I go through the hankering every now and then, and have given in a few times, But not this time. Have finally grown my fringe and use pins or side sweep. Not happening again!!

5th May, 2018

I always love my fringe until I get too busy to keep styling it and I end up wearing a headband or baseball cap for three weeks in a row. Then I realise I need to rethink my style!

5th May, 2018

Tried full bangs which looked nice but gave me pimples on the forehead! On a side note, if your bangs arent long enough for a sidesweep you can change the parting of your hair. I find this helps a lot in getting sideswept bangs.

5th May, 2018

I really don't like fringes, so I'd never get one.

5th May, 2018

I had a fringe as a kid. I guess it was easier for my parents to manage my hair. Problem is, I have a cowlick, so no more fringes for me once I left school.

4th May, 2018

i cut it as a kid too short with the light off guessing for some weird reason I got called donkey fringe for ages

4th May, 2018

Every now and again when I feel like getting a new look I go get myself a fringe, I have a huge problem when I it starts to grow. I just get some bobby pins and clip them back.

4th May, 2018

I have a fringe, and I cut it regularly, I hold the scissors nearly vertical and take away little bits at a time, if you want to know if you would suit a fringe, section hair from the back of your head and bring it forward like a 'pretend' fringe. I do think when it gets too long I cannot style it, but you get to know the 'goldilocks' zone though

4th May, 2018

Last year I cut my own fringe because I couldn't tolerate my head being touched and other stuff due to a car accident. Wet hair and sewing scissors were not good. The more I tried to straighten it the shorter it got, especially one side. And of course, when it dried it pinged up even further. Picture straight hair and short crooked fringe. One side was so short that when I did eventually go to a hair stylist she struggled to fix it. I did Donald Trump comb-overs, caps and hats and crap lots of super strength hairspray for months on end. Never again!

4th May, 2018

I've had a fringe twice and I always end up growing it out because I have to put a bit of effort in to keeping it flat. So I just remind myself of how much time I waste and those thoughts disappear very quickly.

4th May, 2018

Side sweptnis as far as I will go. I have been scarred for life after a girl called me ugly the day I got my haircut and had a fringe as a 7 year old.. so have never been tempted again.

4th May, 2018

I had it a few times, doesn't work with glasses. So I've been fringe free for years.

4th May, 2018

If you cut your fringe below your eyebrows then if it goes wrong it's still long enough to fix, always use hairdressing scissors (I'm a hairdresser) then hold the fringe between first two fingers and cut straight across don't ever go past the second knuckle...another way is to wet it and comb it down (in sections) and cut straight across using a comb to flatten it (really it is hard, you need training for this)

roseroomnz
4th May, 2018

hmmmm yes, I did try the two finger, wet hair technique, with my sewing scissors and that is why I am not a hairdresser!

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