Mi hija lleva el flequillo corto y el pelo rizado.

In Spanish, llevar is often used for things someone wears or has styled in a certain way.

So lleva el flequillo corto means something like:

• she wears her bangs short
• she has her fringe cut short

With hair, llevar often suggests the style or appearance someone is currently wearing.

By contrast, tener simply means to have. So tiene el pelo rizado means she has curly hair, while lleva el pelo rizado can sound a bit more like she wears her hair curly.

Both ideas are possible, but llevar is very natural when talking about hairstyle.

Yes, you can, and it would be understood.

The difference is mainly one of nuance:

• tener = describes a feature someone has
• llevar = describes how someone wears or styles it

So:

• Tiene el pelo rizado = She has curly hair
• Lleva el pelo rizado = She wears her hair curly

In real life, both may be used, but llevar is especially common when talking about haircuts, styles, clothes, beards, glasses, etc.

In Spain, flequillo means fringe.

For an American English speaker, that is bangs.

So:

• el flequillo = the fringe / bangs

This is specifically the hair at the front that falls over the forehead.

Spanish often uses the definite article (el, la, los, las) instead of a possessive like my, your, his, her when the owner is already clear from context.

Here, Mi hija already tells us whose hair we are talking about, so Spanish naturally says:

• el pelo
• not necessarily su pelo

This is very common with:

• body parts
• clothing
• personal features

So Spanish often prefers:

• Me duele la cabeza = My head hurts
• Se lavó las manos = He/She washed his/her hands
• Mi hija lleva el pelo rizado = My daughter has/wears curly hair

Because they agree with the nouns they describe:

• flequillo is masculine singular → corto
• pelo is masculine singular → rizado

So:

• el flequillo corto
• el pelo rizado

They do not agree with hija, even though hija is feminine, because the adjectives are describing the hair, not the daughter directly.

Because corto is describing flequillo, not hija.

Compare:

• Mi hija es alta → alta describes hija
• Mi hija lleva el flequillo corto → corto describes flequillo

A useful way to see it is:

• [Mi hija] [lleva] [el flequillo corto]

The adjective belongs to the noun inside that phrase, not to mi hija.

Because in Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• el flequillo corto
• el pelo rizado

This is the normal pattern in Spanish.

English often puts adjectives before the noun:

• short bangs
• curly hair

But Spanish usually does:

• bangs short
• hair curly

Of course, that sounds wrong in English, but it is normal in Spanish word order.

They are very similar, and both can mean hair.

But there is a slight difference in tone:

• pelo = the everyday, most common word
• cabello = a bit more formal or descriptive

In normal conversation, especially in Spain, pelo is extremely common and natural.

So this sentence sounds very normal with el pelo rizado.

Yes.

The sentence means:

• Mi hija lleva el flequillo corto y el pelo rizado

That is one verb, lleva, followed by two coordinated descriptions:

• el flequillo corto
• y el pelo rizado

You do not need to repeat the verb.

It would also be grammatical to repeat it:

• Mi hija lleva el flequillo corto y lleva el pelo rizado

But that sounds more repetitive and less natural here.

It is both useful as an adjective and historically related to the verb rizar (to curl).

So:

• rizar = to curl
• rizado = curled / curly

In this sentence, rizado works simply as an adjective meaning curly.

Other common hair adjectives work the same way:

• liso = straight
• ondulado = wavy
• corto = short
• largo = long

Grammatically, that is the literal structure, but it is not natural English.

A better natural translation would be something like:

• My daughter has short bangs and curly hair
• My daughter wears her fringe short and her hair curly

So when you see llevar in this kind of sentence, do not always translate it as carry. Very often it means something closer to:

• wear
• have
• keep in a certain style

It is widely understood, but regional vocabulary can vary.

For Spain, flequillo is the standard word and exactly what learners should know.

An English speaker learning Spanish from Spain should definitely learn:

• flequillo = fringe / bangs

A very common pattern is:

• llevar + noun + adjective

This means to wear/have something in a certain state or style.

Examples:

• Lleva el pelo largo = She wears her hair long
• Lleva barba corta = He wears a short beard
• Lleva las uñas pintadas = She has her nails painted
• Lleva gafas negras = He wears black glasses

So in your sentence:

• lleva el flequillo corto
• lleva el pelo rizado

the adjective tells you what the hair is like.