Bi-racial Hair Styles - Advice for mamas of Bi-racial Babies By MandyG [8 more lists]

Black hair babies? As the offspring of a white mama and a a black daddy, I have that mysterious hair in-between. After suffering under the naivete of my mother's best endeavors, I have a legacy of do's and don'ts for you would-be-torturers.

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DO NOT wash your baby's hair everyday! While caucasian scalps suffer from oily secretions that require frequent and even daily washings, all curly hair requires extra moisture and benefits from a few days reprieve between shampoos.

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DO NOT brush your baby's hair dry. I know, you've been told never to brush wet hair, but that advise is not for the demographic of our current topic. A wide toothed comb will slip easily through super conditioned locks and decrease pain.

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DO NOT use mousse to tame your baby's tresses. Most mousses are drying. Instead, find a leave-in conditioner appropriate for the texture of the hair-course or fine. In addition, you can use a fixative type product that is somewhere between a gel and a silicone base.

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DO NOT pull the hair up in elastics every day. Curly hair is more brittle than straight due to it's shape and elastics often cause breakage. Curly hair has a flattened shaft and straight hair has a tube structure that is stronger and retains moisture and stretch.

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DO NOT use a blow dryer on your baby's hair...well, not without a diffuser. The hair will lay best if allowed to air dry with the proper product on it.

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DO wet, condition and comb bi-racial hair each day. It's the fastest and least painful way to get through those tangles.

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DO get ends trimmed every 6-8 weeks, it will minimize breakage and further aid in getting through the rats' nests.

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DO explore different products. Although all Bi-racial hair has the same basic rules, every mop IS different. Some hair will work best with standard Black hair products. Other curls require lighter weight products, so look around the different hair sections to see what your options are. I'm not getting paid to endorse it, but one leave-in I love is a product called Mixed Chicks. Goodluck!

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