I'm finding curlygirls hair is getting harder to manage. It's quite long now, easily past her shoulders when pulled straight, but it is still a 3b/3c curl. I'm also finding that her hair is getting thicker- so more little short curls are growing in and keep falling out of braids and styles.
Her hair is only lasting 2-3 days/ style and I thought I was doing something wrong until I ran into another curlymama with hair curlier than mine who said that for 3b/3c curls you do need to re-do styles every 2-3 days, that this is normal. Only when hair gets past the 4curl mark does it tend to stay longer in braids and other sets. This made me feel so much better... but now I'm back to the managing challenge. Because her hair is longer it's taking me much longer to get it styled, 30-60 minutes for a full head of braids and 20minutes for an "easy style". I can only imagine this will continue to get tougher as her hair grows longer.. but because it isn't curly enough I need to re-do the style in 1-2 days. So it's a lot of time spent in the "Salon chez nous".
So I think I need to come up with a better style regime... how do other curlymama's manage?
Right now I'm thinking:
Sunday: Set a 2-3 day style (Veil braids, cornrows)
Monday: done
Tuesday: evaluate, may need to be re-done
Wednesday: 1-2 day style (ponies, or twists)
Thursday: evaluate, may do an easy style
Friday: Easy style
Saturday: depends on the day.
I'm hoping that once her hair grows in thicker I should be able to maintain a style a bit longer and it will make my styling life much easier...
Here are some photos of recent styles.
The first was one that I saw done on a little ones hair (was a 4b curl). Her hair was much thicker so it looked really full in this style. I did like this style a lot, a fun way to do a mohawk (or "frohawk). Evie thought it was fun and was flipping her beads all day. The style lasted for 3 days, but by the end of day 3 the hair was falling out on the sides and little pieces were falling out of the braids. You can see that my parting and sectioning needs to get better (lol), but I'm finding it tough to make the sectioning even when I have so many little hairs to try and pull into the braids. I guess practice practice practice.
Curlygirl will probably look back at this style and laugh at me.
Her hair is only lasting 2-3 days/ style and I thought I was doing something wrong until I ran into another curlymama with hair curlier than mine who said that for 3b/3c curls you do need to re-do styles every 2-3 days, that this is normal. Only when hair gets past the 4curl mark does it tend to stay longer in braids and other sets. This made me feel so much better... but now I'm back to the managing challenge. Because her hair is longer it's taking me much longer to get it styled, 30-60 minutes for a full head of braids and 20minutes for an "easy style". I can only imagine this will continue to get tougher as her hair grows longer.. but because it isn't curly enough I need to re-do the style in 1-2 days. So it's a lot of time spent in the "Salon chez nous".
So I think I need to come up with a better style regime... how do other curlymama's manage?
Right now I'm thinking:
Sunday: Set a 2-3 day style (Veil braids, cornrows)
Monday: done
Tuesday: evaluate, may need to be re-done
Wednesday: 1-2 day style (ponies, or twists)
Thursday: evaluate, may do an easy style
Friday: Easy style
Saturday: depends on the day.
I'm hoping that once her hair grows in thicker I should be able to maintain a style a bit longer and it will make my styling life much easier...
Here are some photos of recent styles.
The first was one that I saw done on a little ones hair (was a 4b curl). Her hair was much thicker so it looked really full in this style. I did like this style a lot, a fun way to do a mohawk (or "frohawk). Evie thought it was fun and was flipping her beads all day. The style lasted for 3 days, but by the end of day 3 the hair was falling out on the sides and little pieces were falling out of the braids. You can see that my parting and sectioning needs to get better (lol), but I'm finding it tough to make the sectioning even when I have so many little hairs to try and pull into the braids. I guess practice practice practice.
Curlygirl will probably look back at this style and laugh at me.
This second style was one I did for Thanksgiving dinner. I created a side part, did cornrows that swept up sideways into ponies with beads on the end of the braids. Cute style, one that we do a lot but only lasts for 2 days.
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