Aw Shucks, It's The Bullocks: curly hair

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Just Like Mommy

I love Avery's curls, in fact I'd always dreamed about having daughters with curly hair and as you know, I definitely got my wish! For Avery's Halloween costume we wanted to make her hair temporarily straight, so I french braided her hair the night before, then took it out and combed it, which helped and made it a lot less curly for our straightening process.

Here's the hair we started with:

A little more progress, luckily Avery is great at holding still for me to do her hair.

A little sass from behind :)

And the finished product, a happy little girl that looks just like momma and perfect for Halloween, but we still love her curly hair!

Avery's New Do

Joel and I had been talking about getting Avery's lovely locks trimmed and hadn't picked a date to go. So, yesterday as a spur-of-the-moment trip we decided we'd go get the "fro" tamed.

I had been referred to Doolittles, Crewcuts and Pigtails and Snip-its but didn't know where to go. With Avery's hair being above average I was nervous that we'd find someone who knew how to cut curly hair. Each time I called a salon they would tell me all of their stylists could cut curly hair, and maybe they could, but that's not what I wanted to hear. I wanted names, names I tell ya!!

So I made up my mind and decided we'd try out Snip-Its in Huntersville (they're a chain too.) As we walked into the Wonka/Seussish salon I think we were all pretty enamoured. We got there just in time to see LaMonica (and Snips too.)

Meet Snips, the Salon "mascot" if you will. Avery said, "He's not real," in an effort to convince herself that he wasn't going to chase her around the room.

Avery did a great job sitting still while she got her locks clipped. She watched a few movies, LaMonica kept her engaged, and she even got a yummy watermelon sucker.

Typically at Snip-Its the girls get an "extra" for free, often a braid and a couple of clips in their hair. So when the stylist asked if it was okay for Avery to have a couple of braids I was up for it. Little did I know that she was going to do all of Avery's hair. How sweet was that??? Avery loved her princess look that was topped off with three plastic butterfly clips.

It was totally worth the cost of going to a fun place. Avery loved it, we had a great experience and they even gave us Avery's hair clippings and a certificate for her first salon haircut. Each kid also gets a card they put in this fun machine and out pops a kids toy! How cool is that!! I think I may start getting my hair cut at Snip-its too!

We got a lot of great tips on how to care for her hair. Now if I could only learn how to braid Avery's hair we'd be set!

Snip, Snip

Avery's curly, twirly, locks have gotten a taste of some ultra-grow somehow because it seems like her hair, especially the sides are expanding with full force. When it got really wet she had long ringlets on the sides of her head. Not so cute if you ask momma. So for the first time ever (excluding a few baby locks for her baby book, and with help,) I cut her hair.

So after much apprehension about whether to trim or get her hair professionally cut one of my friends who has a daughter with ultra curly hair offered to help me trim it. I took her up on the offer and bought a pair of cutting sheers.

Now don't get me wrong, I still was nervous to the morning I went over to their house to make the first cut. But I figured worst case scenario it would grow back.

Once we got to the "Chop Factory" aka Natasha's house, we put Avery in the highchair figuring the combination of TV cartoons and the restraint of the highchair would hopefully keep her still. I'm thinking this combo could actually work in several different situations just to give you moms a few ideas.

Here's the before hair-shaping picture:

We also bribed little missy with a sucker just in case. But she ended up doing a great job sitting still for us considering this was her first ever cut.

And here's the after, nicely rounded head picture. Now keep in mind we didn't chop all that much off, the extra water we used to spray it down also made her 'fro smaller. But all in all there was a good amount taken off to make it generally cleaner and a little easier to manage.

End result, happy momma, pretty girl!

Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Puffs

Oh the wonderful things that my daughter's hair has afforded me. Lots of laughs when she wakes up from her nap looking like Einstein, grumbles (from me) when I'm trying to comb through the tangles, and countless Frankensteinian experiments with needless to say "interesting" products.

I've loved what I call Cocoa puffs forever, not the cereal, the hair! Since before I was married I thought they were adorable. It was just today, as I was searching for examples that I realized they're more commonly called Afro Puffs, either way, they're cute. This is what they look like full on:

We have a couple of very curly-haired girls in our mom's group and I figured once Avery got much older her hair would be able to create this fun coif. I guess I just thought her hair was too short.

Once again Avery's hair surprised me as I experimented yet again trying to put it in puffs I realized it was long enough to make some smaller pufflets. Here are some pictures of my work. I'm sure it'll become straighter and more perfected with time, so cut me some slack :)

I leave you with this song from the movie "Big."

Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock
Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock

I met a girlfriend
Named Triscuit
She said:
A Triscuits a biscuit

Ice cream
Soda pop
Vanilla on the top
Ooh shal-i-da

Walking down the street
Ten times a week
I meant it, I said it
I stole my Momma's credit

I'm cool
I'm hot
Sock you in the stomach...
Three more times (Repeat x3)...