You must read my hair story and salon story…..you will totally relate.

http://themanyshadesoflove.blogspot.com/2009/10/salon.html

http://themanyshadesoflove.blogspot.com/2009/05/hairsimple-right.html

PS
The hair washing is VERY infrequent. Check with the barber on how often.

By the way your son is just toooo cute!!!

Amy
Interracial Fams =)

Once you get down a simple routine, you can move on to doing stuff like cornrows at night, which makes it super-big in the morning and will give you the big hippie look you’re going for when you pick it out.

Oh, and depending on T’s hair, you should only have to detangle it about once or twice a week if you oil it up in the mornings.

For T some simple suggestions:

1. Heavily condition it during his nighttime bath.

2. Detangle it when it’s wet with a detangling comb (which you can find at Sally’s) during his nighttime bath.

3. Use something like almond, jojoba, or coconut oil in the morning and just fingercomb it out.

4. Get it trimmed by a black stylist (a woman might be better than a barber), and let her know that you’re going for length.

5. Don’t be afraid to ask your black girlfriends for suggestions. I know it might be intimidating to you, but they’re really your best resource and trust me, they won’t be insulted, just happy to help.

On another note, I somewhat understand how you feel, since I have to remind my white husband that I will TURN OVER IN MY GRAVE if something happens to me and he doesn’t figure out how to do our daughter’s hair after my demise. I’ve given him the same instructions, and told him to just ask someone rather than go around letting her look “crazy.” But he has a lot of fear surrounding our daughter’s hair, too.