Google oddities

[resonant]

Google continues to demonstrate (but not explain) the mysteries of the human mind.

Type "short haircuts for girls" and you get, as you might expect, short haircuts for girls (though they're defining 'girls' as 'young women,' which makes it less helpful in my search for a cute look for my 7-year-old). But type "short hairstyles for girls," and most of the hits are porn sites.

Who goes looking for porn with the word 'hairstyle'? I ask you.

Also, I don't suppose any of y'all actually have photos or drawings of cute short hairstyles for girls?

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

suppose you search for 'children' instead of 'girls'?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[tries it]

"Short haircuts for children" is -- what's the word for it? A search that gets one and only one Google response?

"Short hairstyles for children" gets about five, none of which is very helpful.

Evidently little girls just don't wear their hair short, and our stylist isn't very good without a photo to work from.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

or 'kids'?

You understand I'm approaching this as a linguistics problem rather than a cosmetic one. :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yes, the linguistic puzzle kept me interested for a long time last night.

"Short hairstyles for kids" gets seven random links -- one that's a hit-collector site, one that's an article about extensions, some that I don't see why they hit at all. "Short haircuts for kids" gets nothing.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

But what's with all these compound words? Did searching for 'short hair kids' get you nowhere?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ten gazillion irrelevant hits, is what. (Actually about 54 million, but still.) Barbers and dress-code discussions and something about Colorpoint Shorthairs, which I assume are cats.

That's also why I'm searching for phrases (using quotes) instead of just for words.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

try

children's hairstyles

it got me this:
http://www.hairfinder.com/kids_hairstyles.htm

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

But, see, that's a page of links -- it's like using Google to find another Google -- and then a lot of the links turn out to be just hit collectors or more pages of links.

Damn it, I'm used to the internet coughing up its riches on demand!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Discussions, in an image search? [baffle]

http://www.short-hair-style.com/kid-hair-salons.html (http://www.short-hair-style.com/kid-hair-salons.html) isn't precisely helpful itself -- the parent site, I mean -- but this here is a link list to kid-specific salons, at least some of which appear to have pictures of style suggestions.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

What's her hair type and texture?

My daughter has these ringlets that just grow...up. And out. I've given up on any haircut that makes a dent in it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She has fine, silky, perfectly straight hair. It's odd for me because mine's wavy-curly, so all my hair-care instincts fail badly with hers.

When I look through hairstyle magazines, I find lots of models with hair like hers, but they tend to be wearing styles that just don't work for kids -- nose-length bangs, for instance, or things that require lots of styling.

I love little kids with those ringlets, but they pretty much only look neat if the hair is either shoulder-length or like an inch long -- nothing in between.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

The Distant Future of Fandom's hair is also very fine & silky, like my mother's but not at all like mine. She currently has a pageboy cut like this one (http://www.otal.umd.edu/~vg/amst205.S97/vj28/pictures/pageboy.gif), which I think is adorable on her. Her hair does have a slight natural wave (as in the picture) -- it's not *perfectly* straight.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Actually that's what she's got now (only stacked up the back; it's very 1920s-looking and suits her, since she looks like the World's Youngest Flapper anyway), but she wants something shorter and cooler for the summer.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Then my young fashionista can offer no advice, because this is as short as she considers acceptable.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have that hair!

I'm using one of my old icons for this, when my hair was shorter. Basically, it's just all razored layers. Advantages: many cute and flippy ways to wear it, easily smoothed down or pinned back out of the face, and it doesn't look wretched as it grows out (so it's easy to let a haircut slide for an extra month or so if there's no time to squeeze it in).

mecurtin's pageboy suggestion is one I had as a kid, and it was OK. Not my favorite but it works pretty well.

I also had one of those close-cropped shag type hairdos, when I was 9. It was closer-cropped than this:
http://www.hairfinder.com/hairstylesdesign/style22.htm

but fairly similar. I loved it so much that I got it again in college. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cute! Wish I could find a photo of that, only shorter all over.

Am having some luck on hair-styles.org, though of course they're all adult models.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have curls myself, so no help here.

I mostly end up wrangling her hair into pigtails or the world's shortest-lived ponytail. She's already constantly checking in the mirror to see if her hair is any longer, so keeping it really short is out. (I blame Disney Princesses. For everything.)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I blame Disney Princesses. For everything.

made me snort. But I blame the Bratz even more.

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Wow.................that's just too bizzare!!!

[(Anonymous)]

The same thing happened to me when I was looking for hair syles for myself, searching hair styles for women, or something like that. I was mostly like, WTF, too.

[janet-carter.livejournal.com]

Hee! How strange.

This is vague and not really helpful with the looking for pictures online, but there any kids magazines that include pictures of kids with different haircuts?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

When I started looking, I was amazed at how hard it was to find pictures of little girls who didn't have long hair.

Then if you eliminate the chin-length blunt cut with bangs (which is what she has now and considers too hot), then there's nothing left!

[janet-carter.livejournal.com]

Since I uploaded it in the meantime for my own purposes, here's the shortest haircut I ever had (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/janet_carter/79249f2d.jpg) (younger than your kidlet, I think).

Nothing too exciting (and it may have gotten me mistaken for a boy now and then), but cool and low-maintenance.

[vampiresetsuna.livejournal.com]

That last comment would be me- no clue how I logged myself out! ::grin::

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Click on all the links here (www.hairfinder.com/ fr/coiffures_courtes.htm). There should be styles you like for a kid.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Or rather, here:
http://www.hairfinder.com/fr/coiffures_courtes.htm

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

http://www.just-hairstyles.com/straight/s138.htm

http://www.just-hairstyles.com/straight/s139.htm

http://www.just-hairstyles.com/straight/s141.htm (I love this one except for the odd bang thing -- what is with the weird bangs?)

http://www.just-hairstyles.com/straight/s147.htm (again, bangs a little long..)

Alright, enough procrastinating. Hope some of these look promising. I found these using www.goodsearch.com

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, you worked hard, didn't you? Thanks.

Those are all a little long, though. I'm looking at more like the one on the right here: http://www.hair-styles.org/fvs25.html -- except that her hair isn't that thick, and that, yeah, weird bangs.

Or even the one on the left here: http://www.hair-styles.org/fvs18.html.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hadn't realized you were looking for shorter. It wasn't that much work. It was a challenge:)

Hope you find a picture that approximates what you are looking for. I always struggled to find what I wanted in magazines. I've pretty much always had short hair and I could never have the style I wanted because my hair is thick and wavy. I wanted the styles that would look good on your daughter. LOL. The grass is always greener...

[shezan.livejournal.com]

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

See, this is my problem -- that's a beautiful cut, but only with adult styling. With 7-year-old styling, those lovely sideswept bangs would fall forward and I'd be looking at her through a curtain of hair.

But when she's seventeen that will look marvelous on her!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The kidlet wandered down while I was looking at that and said, "Is that a picture of me?" The resemblance is amazing, though she's older and her hair is a bit lighter.

[alliekatgal.livejournal.com]

That's so funny that there's a resemblance. She's six, but very petite. We were trying to grow her hair out, but once it hits her shoulders she begins to look like a feral child.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

Here's a few cute pics: http://www.style-hair-magazine.com/girls-hair-styles.html

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Those are cute! But I'm amazed at what passes for "short" on that page. I was thinking more like -- well, your icon, actually. (Though I suppose that's probably an updo and not an actual cut?)

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, this is Roman Holiday Auds, where she cuts all her hair off. Better pics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Audrey_Hepburn_%26_Gregory_Peck_1.jpg
http://public.fotki.com/ltah/video/romanholiday/page2.html

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

and another good one: http://public.fotki.com/ltah/video/romanholiday/vidcap47.html

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

Have you tried doing a search on stock image sites? Like Veer (http://www.veer.com/) or Getty (http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/homeCreative.aspx). A quick skim of Veer gets you stuff like this (http://www.veer.com/products/detail.aspx?image=FAN2000831) and this (http://www.veer.com/products/detail.aspx?image=AYP0200909) and this (http://www.veer.com/products/detail.aspx?image=FAN2006097).

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Cute! I'll give it a try.

[kupukello.livejournal.com]

I had exactly the same problem with daughter #2 who has silky fine hair and a dozen of cowlicks making her look as if she was dragged through a hedge, backwards, three times. Daughter #1 has inherited my hair (except the colour) so it has been so very easy to make her hair behave just because I have a few decades experience how to handle mine. With daughter #2 I need four hands to make a simple parting, and even that won't last but 30 seconds if I don't glue her hair to her head with something. Keeping it long has turned out to be the neatest solution; ponytails/braids keep it at least flat unlike with short styles.

Anyways, while getting desperate with Ms. Haystack (5), I surfed for pictures and apparently I kept the links. The best site was this German site (http://www.friseur.com/trends/kinder/index.htm) but most of the styles are for bobs or for long hair. At least there are many, and the majority of them can actually be worn by little girls (no excessive styling required etc).

If you want to keep your daughter's hair short, maybe you should google for boys' haircuts? Not all of them are "just for boys", this (http://www.friseur.com/trends/images/lind/frisuren/images/kinder/lind.FA-V10-k4-2.GIF) for instance would work for both, IMO.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cute!

[neery.livejournal.com]

Who goes looking for porn with the word 'hairstyle'? I ask you.

I suppose those people are not thinking about the hair on your head. *g*

[halimede.livejournal.com]

If you're still looking, here's a gallery of very short hairstyles for women:
http://www.greatestlook.com/veryshorthairstyles.html

Listed on this page, which has slightly-less-short galleries as well:

http://www.hairfinder.com/short_hairstyles.htm

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I once image-googled blah and got naked Brad Pitt. It was an interesting moment, especially as this happened in front of the university's computer technician.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

(Hah!)