Kendrick Family Life and Adventures

In an earlier blog post I spoke about the type of hair that my daughter and I have and the maintenance and care of our hair. Well Cheyanne wanted to wear her School Bows that my friend Kristell made for her. (They are so cute!) So she decided she wanted two piggie tails so she can wear her bows. So how we did her hair: Last night we washed her hair. When washing our hair you have to be careful of what shampoos and conditioners you use because some of them will actually dry the hair out more. We rarely even use a shampoo and use a cheaper conditioner instead as a rinse. Our shampoo of choice for hair rinsing is Herbal Essence...any of them basically work well and we love the scents. After washing her hair I use a wide toothed comb and/or my Denman D4 brush (or a brush similar) with the combing conditioner to comb out tangles. We love the Tresemme Smooth and Silky as our leave-in/combing conditioner. As you can tell we use  A LOT of conditioner. Moisture is very important with...

Ok, most of you already know that I am multi-racial. Puerto Rican, Caucasian, and African American. So needless to say I have mixed hair. My daughter has also inherited the mixed hair as well. Our hair is curly, wavy, and straight all in one...lol but mainly curly. It is hard to manage and I get frustrated easily with both of our hair. Growing up unfortunately in the 80's..it was hard to learn how to take care of mixed hair. Observe... Yikes (and not just to the clothes)!..lol....I do not want this for my daughter and with the knowledge out there now really no excuse. When I have the patience and dedication our hair looks great and I have learn several tricks of moisturizing and maintaining our curls but sometimes come to a lose for hair styles. I get tired of ponytails and just curls all over sometimes. Luckily my hair straightens fairly well with my straightener but my daughter's not so much but heat is not good for our type of hair anyway. With the kids starting schoo...