I'll never forget the first time I saw Mocha Girl One (HmG) . She was an emergency c-section, and had to spend several days in NICU. She was born four days past her estimated due date and looked huge in her incubator. I imagined her to be especially delicate and feminine. I couldn't wait to frill her up, and more importantly to do her hair ! The only reason she wasn't sporting a barrette the day we took her home from the hospital, was because the one I brought to match her lacey outfit, slid right out. Mocha Girl One's baby hair was silky straight and fine. As the weeks rolled by, it became wavier until she had a lovely curly fro. I washed it all the time . I brushed it several times a day . I tried snap clips, and moved to velcro barrets when the clips slid out. I bought a different head band for every outfit. Meanwhile her curls continued to wind tighter and tighter. I kept everything in a pretty box, dubbed the hair bin . I was really frustrated at not b...
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This is so funny, coz I recently decided to be doing my kids hair at home so as to avoid heat stretching and the first thing that came to my mind was the "African Threading". I was also suprised at how it really stretched her hair, especially after applying some oil to the wet hair and threading it. I remeber my mom used to do this as alot when we were kids. Alot of people here still use it as a way of managing natural hair. Am in Zambia located in Southern Africa. Youre doing it well though. Using a long string/thread helps with long hair, if it finnishes along the way, just tie a new one to the old one and continue on to the end. Also tie a knot at the end lie you would tie a string around the mouth of a sack to close it up and you are done.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kids hair care site.