Curly hair?

[alayne926]

So my hair is bone straight, but S's hair is going to be pretty curly. While I love it, I forsee issues down the road. Any STMs or people with curly hair have recommendations for me? I don't want it to be a rat's nest, so I need to get a headstart on thinking about this. 

If I could get Tapatalk to work, I would show you what we're working with already...

[periwinkledaydreams]

Wide tooth comb while still wet. Hand comb when dry. A solid conditioner (curls dry out easier than straight generally) and I love coconut oil after washing and conditioning. Use sparingly, alittle goes a long way. Do you get a lot of tangles too? No more tangles spray is a classic product for hair that knots up easy, my mom used it on my and my SIL still uses it on my neice.

[alayne926]

Aug 4, 2016 18:42:34 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

Wide tooth comb while still wet. Hand comb when dry. A solid conditioner (curls dry out easier than straight generally) and I love coconut oil after washing and conditioning. Use sparingly, alittle goes a long way. Do you get a lot of tangles too? No more tangles spray is a classic product for hair that knots up easy, my mom used it on my and my SIL still uses it on my neice.

Not yet, but her hair is fine like mine is and I can see where it's going to be a problem.

[baytosa2013]

Aug 4, 2016 18:42:34 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

Wide tooth comb while still wet. Hand comb when dry. A solid conditioner (curls dry out easier than straight generally) and I love coconut oil after washing and conditioning. Use sparingly, alittle goes a long way. Do you get a lot of tangles too? No more tangles spray is a classic product for hair that knots up easy, my mom used it on my and my SIL still uses it on my neice.

This is what we are doing as well with the comb and the tangle spray.  I'm not used to curls since my hair is straight but DH and his sister both have super curly hair so this should be fun.

[alayne926]

@hazeldublin I feel the same way about stuff weighing her hair down, but I think I am going to try just a fingertip of coconut oil after her next bath.

[dmoney]

Don't brush it when ti is dry. Only brush it when it is wet and use a wide tooth comb. My hair used to be super curly and when it was dry if i had a lot of knots I would use a detangler spray to get them out. When she gets older and you guys start swimming buy a leave in conditioner for when you get out of the pool. The chlorine seemed to make the knots even worse, but if i would spray my hair when i got out of the water it was still manageable when i went to shower that night.