It’s a bitter-sweet moment when your 12 year old decides she’s old enough to wash her own hair. You almost feel irrelevant. Well, that’s how I felt when The Kid decided she’s “big enough”. Being the over-protective single momma, I stood beside her, taking pics and guiding her along the way. Thought I’d share her (my) proud moment.
She shampooed with Tresemme Naturals. It has a lower sulphate content than most. If you can suggest a sulphate free shampoo, please comment below.
Then she mixed her own deep-conditioner – Tresemme Naturals Conditioner (I personally love this stuff), a teaspoon of raw honey and a drizzle of castor oil
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| Combing through the deep conditioner. She asked for my help with this part 🙂 |
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| I absolutely love that her natural hair is growing healthy. Note the relaxed bits? |
After she completed all of the hard work, momma blew out her hair and then flat ironed it.
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| The end result |
I sectioned off one side and flat-twisted it halfway to create this style.
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| She was rather quite proud of herself, as was I. |
She cannot wait to “rock her fro” in December. That’s the due date of her BC (big chop – cut off all the relaxed her).
Thanks for viewing. How do you maintain your child’s hair? Do you have any suggestions or methods we could try?
Stay Gold,
Mandy
, I’m Amanda.
Mine are quite younger (2, 6 & 8), so I only shampoo every 4 – 6 weeks, otherwise I use a conditioner to wash their hair (obviously sometimes they play in dirt then I have to shampoo). I condition and/or deep condition every time I wash their hair.
I limit the use of heat, I use ukuqhina (African threading) to stretch their hair.
I use the LCO method tp moisturize – my L (liquid) is water mixed it glycerin; My C (cream) is Tresemme Conditioner (I also LOVE the stuff) diluted in water – sometimes I don't dilute (our hair gets DRY!); My O (oil) is coconut oil, with castor oil for the ends (sometimes olive, castor, grapeseed – whatever my budget, and kitchen, allows)