It is even more critical for a child to look beautiful than for an adult because the environment is used to judging by clothes and is very cruel towards those who do not like it. At the same time, a baby aged five years is hardly ready to independently monitor his appearance, which means that this task falls entirely on the shoulders of the parents. Hairstyle is one of the fundamental touches in a holistic and attractive image, so let’s talk about it.
Requirements
A boy’s haircut is an element of his everyday appearance, which is not so easy to change on the go. Given its relative constancy, it is essential not to make a mistake with the shape and length of the hair and prevent this from happening; it is worth highlighting the basic requirements for a child’s boyish hairstyle. All of them are obvious, but let us recall them so as not to miss anything.
Kindergarten Compliance
A child could look like anything at home, but children’s public institutions often prescribe specific requirements in their charter. Each garden can regulate the appearance of its wards at its discretion, and parents who neglect the rules risk getting involved in unnecessary showdowns with the administration. Even if you are a progressive person and think that these restrictions on choice are inappropriate or unreasonable, you should not immediately attack the charter’s authors – perhaps they are just trying to protect your child from bullying.
Convenience, comfort, and safety
It is unacceptable that the hairstyle creates problems for the child. At first, they may seem non-obvious – for example, a baby may like a long bang, but over time, it will damage vision and partially block the view. The same applies to safety – long hair during active games typical for a child can cause injury.
A child may take his hair for granted and not complain about it in any way, but parents are obliged to monitor the baby’s reaction. If the inconvenience is observed, the hair must be shortened immediately.
Accuracy and durability
For the child to be teased less by peers and the teachers not to have any complaints, the hairstyle should be neat – have a particular shape, which is considered beautiful in society. At the same time, we must not forget that the baby is distinguished by considerable mobility and will not constantly keep in mind the need to preserve the hairstyle – which means that the latter must withstand various tests. The ideal option is the styling, which in the evening looks the same as in the morning. Although boys’ hair is usually relatively short, a real tomboy can even change their appearance unrecognizably.
Compliance with the type of appearance of the child and his tastes
The chosen haircut can be insanely popular and look chic on the stars of the first magnitude, but it does not suit your child at all. Stylists see patterns between the same face shape and a specific range of available hairstyles: someone needs to open their forehead, while others need to close it, volume at the crown is essential somewhere, and in other cases, on the sides of the head, and so on. A well-chosen haircut can hide some of the flaws in appearance, but in the same way, an unsuccessful choice will only emphasize the disadvantages even more.
However, you can’t blindly follow the rules or your preferences – you need to give the child a minimal opportunity to choose his appearance; otherwise, you definitely won’t expect him to appreciate the haircut and treat it carefully.
Interesting options
The age of 5 is not yet the one to experiment with children’s hairstyles because fashionable solutions for the smallest are usually close to the classic ones. Standing out from the crowd with the help of such a haircut will not work, but at this stage, such a goal is not set – you need to provide the child with a beautiful and not very defiant look. Let’s see how to solve this problem.
Beanie
An everlasting option that is appropriate always and everywhere, for anyone, even regardless of gender. This haircut cannot be called short, but it cannot be attributed to long ones either because nothing gets into the face and nothing falls on the shoulders. The classic cap involves a haircut, as it were, along a specific rounded contour around the head; however, today, various stylish options help diversify the standard.
You can, for example, pick up whiskey with a typewriter very shortly, making a sharp transition, or, on the contrary, make a smooth and even multi-layered transition from the crown to the bottom layer. Professionals also offer styling in different ways – both smoothed and combed to one side or simply sticking out to the sides, which again allows you to reveal the child’s character. A common feature for all varieties of this hairstyle is the obligatory presence of bangs. The classics should be straight, but the stylistic experiments described above can be directly related.
Bob
This hairstyle is one of the most romantic; it has been praised many times in Hollywood films, turning children into angels. It is more often advised for slightly older children due to the significant length of the hair, but if the child is calm and the facial features require some adjustment, then the bean may turn out to be a panacea.
A characteristic feature is a rather long bang, almost reaching the eyebrows, smoothly turning on the sides into a kind of imitation of a short bob. At the same time, the crown and the back of the head are usually made elongated, without a specific sharp transition – often, the hairstyle turns out to be multi-level. As a result, quite a lot of hair remains, but they do not interfere with the regular activity of the child. Bob is chosen by those parents who want to add a romantic touch to the image of their child.
At the same time, experts do not recommend this haircut option for babies with thin hair and a small amount of hair since it is the impressive volume that is one of the distinguishing features of the bean.
Semi-boxing
With all its advantages, boxing seems to many parents to be too short a haircut that leaves the child’s face completely open, which means it does not help mask any shortcomings or may not suit the type of appearance of the baby. In response to criticism, the stylists came up with a half-box – a combination of the best characteristics of classic boxing with corrections at the request of customers.
Like boxing, half-boxing involves only short hair at the temples and back and longer hair at the crown. At the same time, the top here may already have an average length, due to which it is often pulled up to the forehead, forming a bang out of it. Due to the significant volume of hair, at least from above, a specific variety of styling options is allowed – depending on the mood, the hair can be combed to one side or back, divided into a parting, and bangs again. Stylish lines in recent years, shaved at the temples or the back of the head with a typewriter, in combination with a semi-box, will look very worthy.
The significant advantage of the semi-box is its ability to close the forehead, while in general, the hairstyle is relatively short. The forehead is often an unsuccessful detail in a holistic image of a child since it can stand out with excessive height or become a platform for the appearance of acne. At the same time, bangs can cover up flaws and turn them into virtues. Another nice bonus is the ability to change your look daily, thanks to the styling methods described above. The only disadvantage of such a haircut may be that it is not very obedient and can quickly lose its original shape during active games.
Torn strands
It is not entirely correct to call them a hairstyle since it is a unique haircut technique applied to create various hairstyles. Today, such a technique, for which a hairdresser could be mercilessly criticized a few decades ago, is prevalent, and children are one of its prominent supporters. The bottom line is that the strands, even those located side by side, are unequal in length. There is allegedly no pattern here – the hair does not lengthen or shorten in any of the directions, at least not explicitly.
One gets the impression that the ends of the hair are torn off in one movement, which is why the contour has become uneven.
Thanks to the efforts of modern designers, such a hairstyle no longer seems messy – this is precisely the chaos in which systematicity is visible. A smooth contour often looks too bland and leaves the impression of excessive obsession with the rules, while a slight ragged effect gives the impression of ease naturalness, sometimes leaving a little touch of mischief.
