baby hair

noun

plural baby hairs

: short fine hair that grows along a person's hairline

Many women of color with natural hair and coarser coils use a styling gel pomade to slick down their unruly baby hairs since that hair is usually a softer texture and shorter than the rest.—

Maya Allen

Her long brunette locks had been pulled back in a sleek high ponytail, with a few baby hairs coming loose near her temples.—

Ava Bennet

… using toothbrushes or oversize boar bristle brushes for styling baby hair.—

Tembe Denton-Hurst

Examples of baby hair in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This stick can be used to slick back your buns and ponytails while taming your baby hairs at the same time. —

Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024 Pearly Baby Hairs Any natural hairstyle is made infinitely more elegant with dramatic baby hairs. —

Annie Blay, Allure, 9 July 2024 My go-to lazy girl hairstyles rotate between a top knot and high ponytail but my baby hairs and hairline cowlick love to make like Miley Cyrus and Can’t Be Tamed. —

Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 17 July 2024 Though the color is applied to baby hairs up to the scalp, the Scandi hairline is surprisingly low maintenance. —

Angela Law, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for baby hair

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