3 Easy Hair Styles For Girls

Hairstyles can be a fun, easy way for girls to express themselves. It can also be effective ways to keep their hair out of their face! However coming up with hair styles isn’t always easy!

I’ve always turned to Pinterest for hairstyles for myself when I need an idea for a wedding or event. Once my girls started asking for “cool hairstyles” I looked on Pinterest for them and often found that the hairstyles required much longer and thicker hair than my little girls had.

So, I did what any mom would and I’ve come up with 3 easy hair styles that are great for school, sports or every day wear!

1. Hair Tie Faux French Braid

If you can’t do a french braid (and most moms can’t, so don’t worry) try this style. From the front and even from the back, this holds the hair back in the same way as a french braid. BUT there’s no braiding required! Talk about a very easy hair style!

Grab a few hair ties. Start with pulling just the top up, like as if you were doing “half up half down”. Then add a little more hair and another hair tie. Keep going until all of the hair is pulled back.

2. Criss Cross Braids

Ok… this is our new favorite and SO much easier than it looks. I promise… You’ll need 8 little hair ties to make this easy and wet or damp hair makes it even easier.

How To Do A Criss Cross Braid- Step by step

Start with making two pig tails with just the hair at the top of their head.
Braid those two little pigtails
Keep the two braids OUT and put all of the rest of their hair into two big pigtails
Take the two little pig tails, make an X and tie them into the big pigtails

3. Fun Style for Short Hair

This is just like the Faux French Braid above but for short hair. I used big hair ties for the photo so you can easily see how to do it but for shorter hair, you might want smaller hair ties for this style.

This is a great way to pull shorter hair away from their face for sports (this is our soccer hair style!) or add bows and make a “fancy” style for a short bob hair cut.

Last….super traditional and our most worn hairstyle: simply clip a bow on the side and run out the door!

All of the bows shown the these new hairstyles are from Wunderkin my new favorite spot to order bows. I wish I discovered when they were babies because I also love the headbands.

This is not my go-to for bows for my girls and also for gifts. I just ordered a bunch of their summer styles to take with us on vacation. Even my 8 year old thinks Wunderkin bows are “so cool”.

3 Easy Hairstyles for Little Girls

Below are 3 easy hairstyles for little girls! I tried to get creative and think of easy, yet “cool” hairstyles for little girls or girls with thinner, shorter hair. Here are a few favorites we’ve come up with lately

1. 2 Braids into Pig Tails

My girls love braids, so this was a fun twist to add them into pig tails!

2. Three Little Side Braids

These are so cute and super easy and quick to do! They work well for all hair types!

3. 2 Piggies to 1

This is an easy one and great if they want a pony tail and their hair doesn’t stay in it well.

Pin these styles for later!

Why You’ll Love These 3 Easy Hair Styles for Girls

They aren’t complicated
Don’t take a lot of time
They are super cute on all types of hair

More For Girls Hair

Don’t forget to check out this DIY Firecracker Hair Ties post! They are another great way to do an easy hairstyle for girls that is also very patriotic!

Are you like me and have a lot of bows? In that case, check out this DIY Hair Bow Organizer!