Silly hair question

[alison]

Dd needs a haircut, but I want to know if the curls
will go away. I really like them!
I know... Stupid! Do some babies have curly hair and lose the curls when they get a trim? Or will it stay curly until it some day decides to stop...?

[spotty_dog]

Cutting the hair that's grown doesn't affect the hair that's growing in. But sometimes the hair that grows in after the first year is straighter than the hair that grows in earlier. Eddy was on track to be pretty curly before his first cut, but with his boy-short 'do you can't even catch a hint of wave. I'm pretty sure Natalie is going to be a curly girl till puberty at least.

Speaking of curly girls do you have Curly Girl the book?

[Chrisada]

I think you won't know until you do the cut and the new hair grows in. My neighbor's four year girl still has beautiful big curls after several haircuts.

[migirl]

DS#1 had curly hair before his first haircut around the time he turned 1. Now? It is straight, straight, straight. I think MIL still holds a grudge (she loved his curls ... which I think explains why DH didn't get his first haircut until he was 3yo because he had a head full of curls that she couldn't bear to cut!).

[alison]

Thanks for treating me like I'm not crazy!

Alison, no, I've never heard of the book!

Here's my thought process:
1) we cut dd's hair and the curls just boing back (best-case scenario--hehe)

2) we cut dd's hair and the curls don't bounce back

3) we don't cut dd's hair until we're absolutely sure that she's naturally curly

)))

[MrsK]

I've had the same thought regarding BabyK. He has the sweetest little curls at the nape of his neck and I cannot bear to cut them (though I have trimmed him a little around his ears). One of our neighbors is a barber and I actually had nightmares after he offered to cut the baby's hair. I'm hoping that BabyK will have curly hair like DrK and I do. My brother had the most adorable blonde ringlets when he was a baby. My mom even permed her hair so they could both be curly and my dad used to call him "fuzzball" -- he looked like a dandilion. Anyway, when he was about 3 he decided he was sick of being called fuzzball and he cut his own hair right to the scalp. (This was about a week after he knocked out his front tooth so he really looked goofy. Mom was hysterical because our grandparents were about to visit from out of town too.) His fuzzy curls never grew back.

[spotty_dog]

Alison, no, I've never heard of the book!

My advice: don't cut till you read the book! There's a whole chapter on curly kids. And you need a curl-friendly stylist to make sure they know how to take the boing factor into account.