You could make the bangs invisible. Not sure if they have their own material zone but if so, then you simply remove the textures on the bangs and set transparency to 1 in the material room. Set Diffuse and Specular color to black and the value to 0.

Can you select the left and right tail seperately? You could try to dial them shorter using the y scale or maybe there is somewhere a scale dial to do that?

I don't have the hair so I can only guess but this is what I do if I would want to shorten the tails.

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