Help... really thin mane

[cpendle]

My four year old has a really, really thin mane. I tried to pull it and that just resulted in him looking bald!

Do you think I should trim it with scissors? I need to get the pulled look and something I can plait, but without reducing the already very sparse hairs?

Anyone got any top tips they could give me please?

PS. He's a picture of health otherwise, shiny coat etc. So it's not a health issue.

 

[AmyMay]

Thumper's mane has got quite thin over the winter (rug hoods!).

Gotta say, I cut it with scissors last weekend, as pulling it was going to result in no mane at all.

It looks ok actually....

 

[Magicmillbrook]

I would nip the ends off with my fingers or use a thinning comb or knife. If you use scissors point them upwards so you dont get a straight across cut effect.

 

[Theresa_F]

Carefully shorten it with a tail rake - I have done this on the end of the mane where it is thin and it looked not that different to the the thick pulled middle. Do a little at a time checking to see how it looks.

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

I did my boys straggly mane with scissors last week (tail is really glossy and thick, mane rubbish by comparison) and it looks 100000000x better for it....

 

[laura_1983]

my boss does all the riding school ponies manes with scissors, they dont look too bad but its best to try and not do a straight cut right across the bottom! scissors up the way like magicmillbrook said!

 

[cavalo branco]

As others have said lots of little snips upwards with scissors, not along. I also use small electric trimmers but no one else seems to!!