How to Grow Out Your Fringe Without Looking Like a Mess

Strategic styling, strategic cutting, and strategic accessories will camouflage the awkward lengths while you wait.

1. Get mini trims every 4-6 weeks. Ask for shape maintenance, not length cuts. Your stylist will clean up the edges and create a more intentional silhouette as it grows. This prevents the scraggly, uneven look that makes growing fringes obvious.
2. Master the side part redirect. Create a deep side part and sweep the fringe across your forehead instead of straight down. Use a round brush while blow-drying to train the hair in this new direction. The length disappears into your side hair naturally.
3. Deploy strategic accessories. Headbands, silk scarves, and bobby pins become your tools for tucking away awkward lengths. Position headbands just behind the fringe line to push hair back, or use decorative pins to sweep sections to the side.
4. Use texture to your advantage. Add waves or slight texture with a curling iron or sea salt spray. Textured hair disguises uneven lengths better than pin-straight hair, and creates more styling options as the fringe grows past your eyebrows.
5. Style it into your hair when possible. Once the fringe reaches your cheekbones, start incorporating it into your overall hairstyle. Curl it away from your face or include it in loose braids or half-up styles.