Abella has been begging me for at least a year, probably closer to two years, to cut her hair. I posted a photo on Instagram with a question in the caption. “Abella has been begging me to cut her hair short, do you think I should let her do it?” Almost everyone said “YES!” So thanks to all of the good advice from my followers, we did it…and we haven’t regretted it for a second! I think she looks so cute and it really fits her personality! It’s for sure a lot harder to come up with braids but it’s pushed me to step out of my comfort zone! We wanted to show you that even if you have short hair, there are lots of cute braids you can still do!
Three Ladder Braids
This first braid (Above) is three ladder braids. Start out with a part deep to one side. On the side with less hair, start out by doing a waterfall braid along the part. Under that one, do another waterfall braid, but incorporate the waterfall pieces from the one above it as you braid. Under that one, do a french braid. Incorporate the waterfall pieces from the second braid as you go. We braided each one to the ends and used elastics that matched her hair to tie them off. I love this edgy look!
Dutch Pigtail Braids
I was so excited that her hair, even as short as it is now, was still able to be put into the fun and trendy dutch pigtail braids! Instead of braiding to the ends, I ended them in close together pigtails at the nape of her neck. After I finished braiding, I tugged on the outsides of the braid gently to loosen them and make them a little messy and fun! Since she doesn’t have enough hair to tie around the elastics, I made sure to use elastics that matched her hair so they blend in as much as possible. You could also cover them with clips or bows!
Micro Accent Braid
A great braid for short hair is a micro accent braid! My biggest tip for braiding short hair would be to add in small slices of hair rather than big ones. I did a small (micro) braid along a slightly curved deep part for anther cute and edgy look! You could also do another one next to it if you wanted a little more to the look, but I really liked how simple this one was. You can see how the part curves a little better from the back view. I ended the braid close to the head with an elastic that matched her hair.
3/4 French Braid
For our fourth style, we did a 3/4 french braid! Super simple but also super cute! You could do any type braid! It would also look cute using a Dutch braid or a fishtail braid! I loved the side view of this braid! I will for sure be doing this one next time she goes to gymnastics or swimming, whichever comes first!
Two 4-Dutch Lace Braids
Our last braid is two four dutch lace braids into two loops in the back. Start off by parting the hair down the middle. On each side of the part, do a dutch lace braid, adding hair in from only the section closest to the part as you braid. Tie the braids together in the back with a small elastic and before you pull the hair all the way through to make a ponytail, leave it in a cute little loop! If the hair is a little bit longer, you could do a tiny bun. Repeat this directly under the braid you just did so you have two rows and two loops.
We will have to be coming up with lots more short hair braids in the future, so be sure to give us a follow over at our newly redesigned blog Abella’s Braids to see more as we do them!
Thanks for reading. See you again this time next month!
love these ideas! My daughter recently cut about 8 inches off her hair and is loving her shorter hair, but I’ve mostly been at a loss of what to do with it! Thanks!
Just cut off 12 inches of hair ???? Needed this
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this is so cute,but my hair is too short 🙁
Amazing! Now I have inspiration for my sisters short hair!
I love these hairstyles ! definitely going to use them
These are so cute and look awesome
I just recently cut my hair short so these ideas were very helpful!
That looks so pretty!!
These are so cute I’m gonna try them on my hair
These are so cute!
my friend has shorts hair so this will be helpful for her
These hairstyles makes me want to cut my hair short!
Adorable inspiration!
I have to try these out
not afraid to cut my hair shorter anymore 🙂 glad there are these ideas to still keep the love for the braids :))
The accent braid looks really cool
These are all so cute! I wish I saw this when I had short hair. I thought I couldn’t do anything with it but I guess I was wrong!
Have to try these soon!
this is so cute cute
She has real talent????
must try thanks for help
I just cut my hair, and this was very helpful! Much thanks!
Kinda wish I had short hair now haha
Thank God for braids????
These are all so pretty✨
cuteeee
very helpful 🙂
Recently cut my hair! The pigtail one is my favourite ????
This is very convinient
Great ideas ! I’m thinking about cutting my hair like this
this is great now i just need to learn how to braid
This is so awesome now I can braid my short hair!!!! Thanks so much!
So pretty
This is definitely going to help me since love having braids in my hair.
this is so cute i have semi. short hair so i will definitly use these someday
So cute
I love how most of these are so simple but are very cute!????
These are so cute and some are really simple!????
Omaghad those hairstyles are perfect for my sister!!
I am going to try all these hairstyles!!!
So cute!!! Sometimes I feel like I can’t do anything with my short hair… LOVE ????????????
So cute ????
For the longest time I’ve been meaning to get short hair but was hesitant about it since I felt my variety of hairstyles would be limited, so glad I found this thank you thank you thank you!
Cool
Cute.
Cool!
Nice!!!
woohoo! Go short hair!
Love this hairstyle so much !!!!!!????????????????
Love this hairstyle so mucb!????????????????
Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed!!
I love all of these hairstyles
so cute
This was so helpful!
soooo pretty
These are such good ideas I needed them.????????
NEED TO DO ALL OF THESE !!! Thank u UUU
Thankyou guys for giving me ideas for my little cousin I have to babysit and I like to do her hair when we go outN!
Me and my short hair will have finally a good hairstyle ????
Cute
The fourth and fifth ones are so subtle, but so cute! This makes me want short hair????????????
Love these so much!
Love all these styles !!
Very cute braids
Love love loved these!!!!
I’m gonna try themm
YAAAAAAAAAAAS. All look super cute. Thank you for this!!!
Super cute! My sister has short hair and would love all of these!
Love these hair style ideas! They look simple enough for everyday wear and tear
Cute
I love this ????
I love this! I was running out of short hair ideas
i remember when i got a haircut like that, I’ll try and do those hairstyles 🙂
This is so cute and helpful since I have short hair!
The third one is so cute!!
Love the second one
So cute!!!
Soo nice and cute def need to try it
soooooo cute, all of them
Such cute hairstyles!!!
Looks amazing
The second chunky one
So cute????????????
Cute
this is the perfect length of my hair definitely doing these
Its the cutest hairstyle ever!
Cute
that’s so cool! My little sisters got short hair and is really hard to do any thing on her so this definitely helps a lot.
These are so cute! I have to try them. 🙂
The first one is my favorite very cute????
Love it!
❤️
I’m sooooo tempted to cut my hair short
tried this and i loved them all
i want to cut my hair so badly
These are all so cute! Love the last style.
i like it
i need this!
i will be trying these out even tho i have long hair:)
this is amazing !
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That’s so helpful… Thnx ????????
Omg I love short hair
My Short hair has always been a burden on occasions or dates… but these seem so cute and i can do them easily with no effort and it would complete my look
These are such great and adorable ideas!!
This is perfect for me
Love it
I honestly needed this because I feel so limited with short hair! Thank you!!
This is perfect for me!!
It’s great!! I’m cutting my hair soon so this is PERFECT
Love it! I just cut my hair so I needed this so bad????
Thanks i have short hair and this really helps
awesomee <3
I love these styles, they look so pretty!
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oh these look so pretty!
so cute!! just got my hair cut and this is so helpful
This helped soooooo much
OMG SOOOOO CUUUUTE ????????????☺️????⚜????
I needed this! I cut my hair and I’m having trouble styling it.
Finally! I love the braid that goes down the part.
wow. I love those braids
OMG I love this!
I have long hair but I might do one
def gonna try this
Great hairstyles
those are so cute!
Thinking of getting short hair…. Loved this ????
This was so helpful because I have short hair
This was so helpful because I have short hair!
First ones my fav !!!!
These are so helpful!
i like it!
Heart eyes
Beautiful
Definitely trying the second one it looks soo pretty especially when school is so close
Nice
this is wayyyy cute!! ????
Thanks for the short hair help!!
I wish I had seen these when my hair was short! They are so pretty????
It’s awesome because now with the short hair you can make cute braids
Just got my hair cut short, so this will really help!! Thanks for the ideas!
Love it ❤️????
i think u such do more for back to school
So cute
Love those !!!
This hair styles are so pretty! Cant wait to try them on for my hair!! Love them!!!
????love these hairstyles????
I’m going to try these on my little sister
The styles are amazing!
Easy and Cute!!
This helps me because i have short hair also thanks!
so cool!!!!!
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So cute
Love
Tried this on my younger sisters they loved it
cool
Love the braids they are so cool !!
I love this finally amazing braided hairstyles for short hair it’s so hard for me to find ones.????????????????????
i really want to cut my hair short but i was worried that there wouldnt be any hiar styles for my to do but this post helped a lot!!
Thanks sm
I think i’m gonna do these hairstyles
This is soooo cute
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wow!!
I definitely love braids in the summertime!
cute!
If only I had hair I could do this with ????
Cute❤️
This is so cute
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These look so pretty omg xxx
adorable!
wow
Awesome!
they are so trendy and chic
i absolutely adore them
Definitely going to try these ! Xx
Cute
I’ve been struggling to do stuff with my new haircut. Thanks!
In love ????????????
Tries the braids on the baby sister. She loves it!!!! ???? Would love to see more.
they’re all so easy to do! i tried them out
Very cute
These are so cute
This article is absolutely brilliant! Its the summer holidays and where I am, its always really hot so I decided to trim my hair shoulder length. Thank you so much! Much love <3
I just cut my hair to be short and I need this . . .
Will try someday with my sis
Very creative
Cool
I like the braid that goes down her part
Omg these are owsome
This is really great!
Definitely going to be trying these out when I get my haircut! ????
I LOVE these hairstyles!!!!
great!<3
Thank you! I’ve been looking for these kind of hairstyles since forever.
So want to try these!
Cute!!!!!
Thanks so much I recently just went from long so short hair and as clueless about how to style it and now I can
This is exactly what i have been looking for!
yass
Cute!
I love these ideas, so cute!
That’s very stylish
so cute
they are so amazing
These are soo beautiful!!
these are so cute
Thanks so much I have been waiting for something like this since I had short hair
This is so helpful, my little sister just cut her hair and I haven’t known what to do with it anymore lol. Thanks!
just what I needed thanks!!
These hairstyles are so cutee! It makes short hair so much enjoyable 🙂
so cute!
so hot and cute for back to school
They are all so pretty
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Beautiful????????you should do one for long hair cajse these braids are gorgeous????????love you????????
Great
So cute!!!!!! Totally going to tries this ????????
Great
I need to try this!!!
I’m planning on getting a hair cut and was worried I didn’t know how to style it so this is a big help!
Going to try these on my little cousins!
exited to try these!
Can’t wait to try them
Awesome!!!!!
The braided Dutch pigtails are my new go to fav in the summer time thanks
Do you have video tutorial of the 3 ladders braid. I’m dying to try it on my daughter but without pictures or video it’s hard for me to follow
wow!!!!!!!
very cute
Cute
Man, this is helpful! I have shoulder-length hair, and can’t do hardly anything with it. Thanks so much CGH!
Cute
It’s so hard to do hair with short hair! But this helped me! I don’t have short hair but when I get a haircut
i needed this so badly
these are really cute!
wow!
will try this ❤️❤️
love this!
I have short hair, and these are all so cute, thanks!
I would love to do these on my little cousins????
The kid looks beautiful in her new hairstyle
Love the ideas
the hairline one is soo unique????
Thanks for the ideas! Just got my hair cut yesterday, and am looking for cute ways to do it.
cute
Great
If only I could do these on myself
They are so cute!!!!!
Nice
This gives me some great ideas for my hair, thank you
The first one ????
cute !
cute
Cool love it ????
Wow
Gonna do one of these on our acquaintance party!!
Cuuuteee
awesome:)
please make one for those who have short curly hair!
These braids for short hair are amazing can’t wait to try them.
The last one was so unique ????????????????
omg i needed this so badly thanks! xxx
how cool!
wow
Pretty
Wow! This is like getting a question answered, I am so gratified that you guys helped me out on this! thankyou so much cgh! We love you !
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wow
That’s nice
Pretty!
cool
Omg so cute????
I love the first
It’s so cute
Nice
So pretty
Can we have a tutorial on the first one please
Tried some of them it looked great !
these are so pretty!
Adore it
Cute hairstyles
Love these hair styles!!
Super cute
I love the dutch pigtail braids!!
Cute!
i have been looking for so many hairsytles to do since I cut my hair short. This perfect!!!!
This is amazing
I like the first one!
These will look perfect on me
I love it
I love these short hair braid hairstyles
If I ever cut my hair I know what I’ll be doing with it every day! Lol
I love that these are shown on short hair because my little cousin has shorter hair. This was so perfect!
These are great braid styles – I never would of thought of using these for short hair!
I gotta try some of these!!
i love the one on the part
Love the style ????????
Love them
I’ve watched them for 2years I think
Awesome channel Brooklyn and Bailey
I used to do those hairstyles before when I still had shorthair
I have long hair so this isn’t the best fit for me but they are really cute & cool braids! 🙂
Love these ideas!
The hairstyles are very creative
This makes me want to chop my hair off!! Cute!
This is beautiful
I might use one for senior pictures. They’re all very pretty.
These are so cute I’m gonna try them on my niece
definitly gonna share with my cousin!
Nice!
Love it ❤️I’m going to try it
Cute!
Loved the first braid going to try it out on my hair
Wut! I can barely comb my hair :O
My cousin has short hair and I’m always looks for a way to style it now I know what to do with her hair and now I can show my aunt
love it!!
Ohhh yay!! In always looking for hairstyles for my short hair ????
I like all of these!
Love the micro accent braid!
The micro accent and ladder braids are soo cute. Wills have to try them out
great hairstyle!
These are soo cute. Definitely have to try
These are so pretty. I recently had to cut my hair off into a pixie & these will be great as it starts to grow out. Thanks for sharing!
I love it! This makes me want to cut my hair short for college! I start August 11th!
Stunning!
nice
so cute will use
Awesome
I need these ❤️ My hair won’t grow! 🙁
I definitely need to learn how to do these
it’s absoluly beautiful !!
I love the 3/4 French braid!!
These look so pretty!
Did them on my niece and they looked amazing
Defiantly going to try on my little sister!!!
cute!
Oh My I have short hair too so this helped a lot!!!!!
These are so cute can you do some hairstyles for Kinky or coily hair please
Love your website!
Cute
U are really pretty
I’ll have to do these!
I love the last one!
I love the first one
Tried them this morning and they looked awesome!
Really pretty
Thank you!
I really like this girls hair!!!
I love the Dutch pigtail braids!
The last one is my favourite.
OMg! So amazing! Love it!
this is really helpful!!
I like the first one.
so cool
Hey mindy, you should check out hair_by_pellerossi on Instagram. Her dos are amazing and I shush you could recreat some of them
I dont have short hair but im definitely trying this
She has really pretty hair !
Wow ????????????
Adorable! My cousins will love this!
I love all of them!
So cute!????
so cute can’t wait to try them!
I really like the ladder braid and the Dutch braids with the pigtails. She looks great!
I REALLY loved the first one and the third one!! They are so freaking pretty!!
so cool!!
So pretty
So cute!!
Oh my goodness I am going to have to try these hairstyles these are so doll!!!!!!!!
so pretty
Love
I love it
I have short hair so YAY
I just recently cut my hair short and I’ve been need more inspiration for new braids now that it’s short.
I also have short hair. So, I really like braids too. This is the very good ideas.
cute
Super helpful!!
I love the braids on the hair part
Looks really good????????????❤️
So gorgeous
cool!
I love these hairstyles because even though I don’t have short hair #hairninja
It looks beautiful and it also looks easy to do.
cute
This is so cute I might have to try some on my little sister
Cute!
I’m so happy to find a hairstyle for my short hair ????????????????
Awesome
cool for short and long hair
Second one on point ????????
i love all of these hair styles!!!
Great ideas! I will be sure to try this.
These are soooo cool!!!
awesome this is cool becuz I have short hair ❤️
The 2nd one is my favorite
this is so helpful!
I love all of the hairstyles they are Amazing
These are great ideas and awesome ways to do my cousins hair!thanks!
Cute
These are cute especially for younger kids
this is awesome, thanks for the great ideas!!!
gorg!!
Sooo cute
amazing braids finally i can braid my hair
Looks great
love this!!!
If only I had seen these hairstyles when my hair was short! ????
Those are really cute
So Creative
That’s great cause usually it’s pretty hard to find nice hairstyles for short hair!
nice
This is Great!!
I love your video’s so much and your tutorials too. Love you guys!!! <3
The half French braid is super cute!
Really useful and creative!
I love the 3/4 French braid!
This is so creative and amazing!!
I love them all
Really useful hairstyle ideas!
Omg so cuye
Thank you for doing hairstyles for short hair. I just recently cut my hair and I don’t know what to do with my hair but I do now x
I’m thinking about cutting my hair so thank you for the hairstyles ideas!!!! <3
Cute
Thank You so much! Now I can style my hair differently????
wonderful
I love them:) My sister has shor hair new i cam braid her hair :))
Awesome
My hair was that length in September, wish I could have seen them then!
I love braids!!
I love the 2 dutch braids on each side cute looking!
Love the braids <3
These are pretty!
Cool hairstyles
Love these hairstyles!
I don’t have short hair but I have a cousin that has short hair and this article gave me great ideas for short hair hairstyles. I can’t wait to try these on her! Thank you! ❤❤
McKenna
Nice
Yes I was looking for some hairstyles for this summer !
Yayyy! Thanks for coming up with this post!
Yes, finally braids i can do in my hair!
So cute and cool!!
Cut my hair recently and regretted it so so much, finding cute ways to work with what I’ve got til it grows back always makes me happy. thank you for this!
So cute
Amazing
short-hair braid
Awesome
cute hair braid
Cool
cute!
Love this!!
i like it! ^^cute
these hairstyles are so cute! Will have to try them on my little cousin!
Cool ❤️
i like it
Awesome!
those braids are awesome
This works so well on my hair cause my hair is short
very cute
Lovely! 🙂
This was really cool because my sister has short hair and we can never find hairdos for her
The first hair is so pretty!!
Mine favorite is 1st one it’s superb I’ll do it to my cute sis
Goals ✨
wow love them all, but the first is my fav!!
that looks amazing
I love the first one
Cute accents
coolcool
Amazing!… I love it.
Adorable!!
I will have to try these out! Super cute!
Sooo cute
cutee
Lovw these ideas
These are so cool, and cute!
Its so beautiful
Love seeing these hairstyles. ????
want to do this on my hair
I love your channel Brooklyn and Bailey
Thanks for the ideas
Love all of these ideas???????? will have to try them
Nice and cute hairstyle
Love it
❤️❤️❤️
All of these are so cute. Some look really sophisticated but some are laid back and simple.
beautiful 🙂
Great hairstyles for when my mom forces me to cut my hair. 🙂
That’s awesome!
Those look so pretty! I’m definitely going to try these!
great braids for short hair
I have to try this!!!
I think that in going to try this
I love this so so much
I wish I was good at hair 🙁
I love it!
I got my haircut last year, I donated 18inches! So it was long, so these hairstyles help me with my short hair! I couldn’t figure out some cute ideas!
Love them!! Thx
I want to cut my hair now! lol
Cute! Can’t wait to try this on my sister!
these all look great!
beauty!
Adorable
Super cute ????
They are all so cute!
Love it
They’re all so cute!!
So nice
i DONT EVEN HAVE SHORT HAIR BUT IM GONNA TRY IT ANYWAYS
This looks awwweeesomeee. SOO GONNA TRY ITT!!
🙂
been thinking about cutting my hair so this is perfect!!????????
Wow..❤️❤️❤️
Oh I needed this!
Love these! I’m always looking for ways to keep my short hair out of my face.
I was think about cutting my hair short! Perfect!
so cute????❤
Amazing
Awesome !
cute hair style
2nd ones my fav!
Love it! <3
love it!!
I love all of these, especially the pigtails????
wow! i didnt know these were possible!
Beautiful Braids
Thanks for sharing! I just tried one on my sister!
Must try on my little sister hair since her hair is really short! Yay to braids
Gorgeous ????
I just cut off 13″ so thank you so much
This is great for me since I have short hair! Thanks!
I absolutely LOVE the micro braid accent!!
Cute
These are the cutest omg! 🙂
I really like the first hairstyle I want to try it !!
Love these braids????????
So cute I going to these hairstyles to my sister
So pretty! And Abella is so cute!
These are all so beautiful! I will definitely have to try them!
Love it ????
i love these braids!
love that you can do so much with short hair! this helps a lot thank you!
Amazing
The 3rd braid was very interesting I’ll have to try it sometime
I am so doing this!
this is so cool
I think the micro accent braid looks the coolest hahahaha
Amazing!
I love abella’s new hair!!
so nice i do 2 of them on myself
So pretty!!
So cool
These will be so great for school
Cute
I love that this works for all hair textures ????
Wow
I will definitely do these
very cute!
love this!!
Cute!
So pretty!!!
So cute..
I like the hairstyles. They are really pretty and they go well with her face structure
Love this
Cute
cute!!!
I love those hairstyles I wish my mum knew how to do all of them, but no worries because she’s learning from only watching cgh’s videos and I’m so glad that your videos help alot
I love these!
beautiful
Wow that’s so frickin cute
Very cute!!
Wow♡
I wish I was this good at braiding????
Now I see that u can do more than one hairstyle with short hair. Thank You!
This is super cute
cool
In love
will try it
adorable
Ahhhh yes finally ideas on how I can braid my hair now that it’s short.
Cooooollll!!
I love it!!!
love it
Soooo pretty I’m gonna try them
These would really work for me because I have short hair. Thanks!
Great
I like all the braids I will screen shot them so when my hair grows I can do them?!!!!
I love these short hairstyles! I just cut one short and will definitely try these!
These are so cute ????
For sure will try these!
The 4th one is super cute
I really like the second and the last one!
this is soooooo cute
This was really helpful!
Awesome hairstyles!
So cute!
this is so helpful. definitely gonna try them out for bts
So unique must try ????????????
Love this one
I have short hair and it does not grow fast enough for long hair hairstyles so this is very cute and helpful
I need to try some for back to school !
I love braided hair.
cant wait to try
So cute now I know what to do with my hair
Super cool
The micro accent braid is so cool
They are all super cool
oh my goodness I really want to try the first one!!!
They’re so cute
cool!
Oh my gosh! These are all so amazing! Could you make a video about them? Thanks!
I recently cut my hair and I love it!
I would love to see videos on these! I’ve been debating on whether to cut my hair short or not. But, these hairstyles assured me that I can still do cute braids with short hair. Thanks for sharing!
Too cute. Love this also good for sports.
Love the first one!
Love it
Love this so much!