Childhood hair experience

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Hi everyone! I wanted to talk about this topic because I don't remember if I saw people talking about it here... or maybe I'm not sure about it. I wanted to talk about childhood hair- and if this thread already exist, I would appreciate to have a link to the topic. My question is directed to my African American women. How many of you ladies learned your hair practices from your mother, grandmother or anyone else? I had a person telling that a lot of African Americans are taught to cared of their hair compared to Africans living in Africa and Africans living in Europe-and I feel like that is not what I read either on this forum or on another one-. Your story would be very appreciated

 

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My Routine as a child (I stayed between MBL and WL my entire childhood/teenage years):

My mother would...(Every 2-3 weeks)

Shampoo with Black Soap
Condition with Suave Naturals
Detangle with Johnson and Johnson No More Tangles
Apply ample amount of Lusters Pink Oil Moisturizer
Blow dried
And used a Pine Tar "grease" my Grandmother use to make and braid.

She did this until I was 13. I then started going to the stylist. Shortly after I begged for a relaxer and continued to go to the stylist until I started taking care of it in college.

But to be completely honest I wouldn't follow that type of regimen now. However, my mother always stressed the importance of taking care of my hair, so I always made sure I did.

 

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From what I remember by mom would wash my hair twice a week in 8 sections because it was so thick. She would ALWAYS keep it braided up somehow.
I started gunning when I was 10 and when I was 13 I decided to cut off 6 inches and try and hide it from my mom. I think I was WL then, I cut it to MBL and subsequently it got shorter and shorter as I cut and dyed and relaxed the hell out of it even though my mom and the lady who did my relaxers told me I didn't need relaxers. I was obsessed with keeping it straight and developed a lot of bad hair practices... She ended up relaxing me when I was like 8 or 9 because I was so tender headed but this is me in a press around that time. LOOK AT ALL THAT HAIR. I don't know why I decided it would be a good idea to take care of myself. Nearly 15 years later and I am finally headed back that way. Hopefully I will get back to this.

 

[DoDo]

Um...my mom meant well but...



So my mom used whatever was laying around to wash my hair
Vo5 to condition it and royal crown grease to style it.

Styling included rough combing and brushing and a blow to the side of the head if I made a peep.

I don't think this is because she had no idea about good hair care though, I think it was that we had no money and she she had no time because she was trying to find a way to make money. I really think it was that simple. Thankfully whenever my hair was left natural I usually had full shoulder length to collarbone hair. If they relaxed my hair...

I became bald headed. Point blank period. The hair would be relaxed, then never retouched never conditioned never moisturized...

Have any of you heard of razac perfect for perm, that is what was used to moisturize my permed hair, that or straight grease.

It was A.HOT.MESS

Don't let me tell you about my lazy behind when I had braids in, that is a topic for another thread "How did you jack up your hair when you were in college?"...

 

[Froreal3]

Washed in the sink with whatever shampoo and conditioner, parted and single braided or twisted with Vaseline or whatever grease. She wasn't rough, but I did get those comb pops sometimes.

At 8 I started getting yarn twists and Senagalese twists with kanekalon hair done by mom's friend. Saved her time from doing our hair. This was in around 1990, so before others had em...most ppl were getting Poetic Justice braids. I loved them and wore them for years. I learned how to do extensions on my own around 11 and continued with them till highschool and college. My hair would be matted and dry underneath.

I learned to braid and cornrow around eight, but taught myself. Mom didn't know how to cornrow. Hair stayed between neck and shoulder length till LHCF.

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[Froreal3]

Um...my mom meant well but...

So my mom used whatever was laying around to wash my hair
Vo5 to condition it and royal crown grease to style it.

Styling included rough combing and brushing and a blow to the side of the head if I made a peep.

I don't think this is because she had no idea about good hair care though, I think it was that we had no money and she she had no time because she was trying to find a way to make money. I really think it was that simple. Thankfully whenever my hair was left natural I usually had full shoulder length to collarbone hair. If they relaxed my hair...

I became bald headed. Point blank period. The hair would be relaxed, then never retouched never conditioned never moisturized...

Have any of you heard of razac perfect for perm, that is what was used to moisturize my permed hair, that or straight grease.

It was A.HOT.MESS

Don't let me tell you about my lazy behind when I had braids in, that is a topic for another thread "How did you jack up your hair when you were in college?"...

I started using Razac spray in the white bottle to "moisturize" as well.

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About a year ago I asked a older family member about the hair care practices her mom used on her hair and it consisted of the following :

1) Wash hair with whatever soap product was available.

2) After soap was washed out, put whatever lotion was available so she could comb through hair and put in plaits.


I think poverty, lack of knowledge, lack of time and myths all contributed to hair care practices that led to SL and shorter hair in the AA community.

 

[lesedi]

My hair was washed very very very rarely with flex shampoo; no conditioner and greased weekly (scalp and hair to condition it lol) to high heavens with ultra sheen. I wore Cornrows 99% of the time...

BUT......my hair grew long though lol! My regimen now works but sometimes I wonder if I am wasting money since ultra sheen did wonders lol

 

[Channy31]

I have a white mother who had no clue.

Up until I was about 9 my hair was about 2a maybe 1c in terms of curls so that was fine.
When I go to about 9 my hair was always in an afro puff pony tail.
I just washed it every time I went swimming (once a week) I'd wash it put a bit of conditioner in it, attempt to comb it then put it back in a puff.
I washed with anything really.

The puff wasn't a nice puff it was an unhealthy puff of dry hair that I couldn't do anything with. My hair is 3b/c with little waves but my puff was just just a frizz ball.
I hated it, girls used to throw things in my hair to see if it would stick etc.

At 13, I got a weave for the first time I was so happy. Although people said it was horse hair and were pretty mean still.

Then I relaxed my hair and started my hair journey.

My hair was a big contributor shyness and sadness about my appearance.
Luckily, i'm now very confident .
Although I do often get a it paranoid and unconfident about my hair.