Anonymous wrote:Curly haired mom with 2 curl-haired girls here.

Curly hair rules:

1. Never ever brush dry hair
2. Use either a detangler or a leave-in conditioner and with a wide-tooth comb and your fingers, comb through the hair reforming the corls with your fingers.
3. Scrunch curls afterwards.
4. Always use conditioner after shampooing.

These are the basics-- I agree! The issue at this point is probably avoiding frizz, right?

As your DD gets older, she can consider cuts that encourage different shapes and will find products she likes. I actually think there are a lot of curl-taming/ shaping products out there in all price ranges and marketed to many different audiences.

I am a white girl with dark brown, long curly hair. i decided in 2012 that I would stop frying my hair with the straightening iron and have never looked back. It really looks good and I've been getting lots of compliments.

Agree with:
oiudad
naturallycurly.com
for some other hair info, also try:
hairthursday.com
whoorl.com

As for products, a good deep conditioner is a must, as is not brushing hair, and a using a curling cream or spray. There are tons of products.
If you shower at night, rewetting hair in the morning is helpful to bring back the curl (not rewashing, just sticking your head in the sink and starting over with the curl, instead of bed-head).

Lastly, I find short styles to be tricky--it can look bad and poodly that way. There are many types of curly hair, but mine looks best long.

I would say mine kinda looks like this (if I squint a little and am having a good day!)

Oops. Now make that 10 (i guess this is 11)

I've posted 9 times on this thread. I wonder how many other multiple posters there are and if there are really that many people discussing this.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume you don't have curly hair?

If you are willing to spend the money, I highly recommend the DevaCurl line.

No - I have very, very straight hair. I have no idea what to do with it. Do I comb it? Brush it?

I feel like she's going to look back on her pictures from when she was younger and be embarassed.

I had a feeling. :o) I have very curly, dry hair and my mom has straight hair. Poor thing never had a clue what to do with it (I got the hair from my dad, who always wore his really short and was no help.) I struggled for YEARS as an adult to find a stylist and products that work. I will reiterate my preference for DevaCurl - it is amazing. Although it is pircier than drug store products, you can usually find great deals online and don't need very much. It is also worth looking into a DevaCurl trained stylist or taking her to Fiddleheads in Dupont - curly hair needs to be cut very differently than straight hair.

Other than using good products (which is 95% of the battle), some things that work for me are shampooing only every 3-4 days, but using conditioner every day. Squeeze hair dry rather than twisting or rubbing it. Use a satin pillow case to avoid frizz. Style hair/add product when wet and then let it air dry. Good luck!

Thanks to those who provided help - I'm going to search for those products that you all mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:See OP, if you just learned how to google or ask a store clerk this question, we could've avoided all of this Friday boredom drama
....but then, I assume that's why you posted this in the first place.

No, I posted another thread for the Friday boredom drama. I posted THIS one because I generally am interested to know how to fix my daughters hair.

What exactly do you need to "fix" about her hair? Do you want to straighten it? loosen her curls? remove frizz?

Why is anyone even dabating whether different people's hair is different? Only 1 person questioned it and people are searching the web to find articles. It was only 1 person who questioned it. For gods sake, everyone knows that different people have different hair, even people of the same race (even same family).

That's not the point of this topic.

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Anonymous wrote:See OP, if you just learned how to google or ask a store clerk this question, we could've avoided all of this Friday boredom drama
....but then, I assume that's why you posted this in the first place.

No, I posted another thread for the Friday boredom drama. I posted THIS one because I generally am interested to know how to fix my daughters hair.

How's the other thread doing? This one seems to be pretty good. And don't act like we're dumb. You're trying to stir it up. No problem, I'll play along.

I always trust wikipedia as a scientific source. Or someones blog. Awesome source material.

I found this, which says that there are some structural differences (eg, lipid content) between aa hair and caucasian hair:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it...that when I google curly hair, or anything for curly hair...it is all AA specific?

I can not seem to find anything to help my white (not bi-racial) poor DD with extremely curly hair. I can not be the only one out there with a white child with curly hair.

Am I?

Why is this a problem?

Take her to your stylist for God's sake.

She's 4 years old...it seems a little young for a stylist. But, maybe in Ward 3....that's the norm?

If the hair is difficult and YOU can't handle it, then send her to a stylist. 4 is too young? My son goes to a barber; he's 3. My daughter has been getting her hair cut since she was 2.

How is this elitist? We do it all the time in the burbs.

What's Ward 3?

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Anonymous wrote:if the product works for curls, why do you care if it's AA-geared? It won't turn your daughter brown or black...

Seriously? You don't realize that AA hair is different then white hair? What planet do you live on?

Human hair is human hair.

Not even remotely true.

Let's give Mrs Know-It-All a quick chemistry lesson because clearly she missed them while she was spending HS years being popular brushing her straight blond hair.

Here is a quick piece to make you understand the physical structure of proteins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecular_structure

Here is an image to help you understand the structure of the hair based on texture and color http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aosWiFjrBWg/TrF64PlUKyI/AAAAAAAAAF8/7n_wW53G6XA/s1600/hairshaft.jpg

And here is the easiest one in case you're too lazy to start from the top http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair

Wow PP, You seem very angry.

don't get me wrong. i'm not angry and i don't need a drink.

i just despise people who come here with one liners thinking they hold the absolute truth when they're clearly wrong.