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3b curly hair must haves for kids
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items My daughter has 3b curls and I do not, so I spent about two years buying the wrong things and making wash day miserable for both of us. This is the short routine we landed on, in the order I actually use it, and it takes us under thirty minutes now i...
We only wash her hair twice a week now, and this is what I use on those days because it does not strip the curl pattern the way her old bubblegum shampoo did. The 2-in-1 saves me a whole step while she is standing there getting cold. It barely lather...
SheaMoisture Kids 2-in-1 Shampoo and Conditioner
This is the step I skipped for a year and it was the whole problem. I put it on soaking wet hair, leave it while she plays in the tub for ten minutes, then rinse, and her curls go from frizzy triangle to actual defined ringlets. It is heavy enough th...
SheaMoisture Manuka Honey Hydration Masque
This is what buys me the four minutes of peace it takes to get through her hair without a fight. I soak the knots with it in the shower before I touch them with anything, and she stopped flinching when she sees the brush coming. It is basically a wat...
SheaMoisture Kids Extra-Moisturizing Detangler
Three different curly moms told me to get this before I finally listened, and it is the one product I would repurchase if I could only keep one. A little bit on soaking wet hair is what makes her curls clump together into ringlets instead of separati...
Kinky-Curly Knot Today Leave-In Conditioner
This goes on right after the leave in while her hair is still dripping, and it is what actually shapes the curls instead of just moisturizing them. A quarter sized amount covers her whole head, so the jar lasts us months and costs under six dollars. ...
Cantu Care for Kids Curling Cream
I was scared of gel for years because I pictured crunchy 90s hair, but scrunching this over the curl cream is what makes her curls survive a whole school day. Once it dries you squeeze the crunch out with your hands and it goes soft. It costs about f...
Garnier Fructis Curl Scrunch Hair Gel
I use two drops on her scalp on the nights between washes, mostly because the tight parts around her hairline were getting flaky. The dropper makes it easy to get to her scalp without coating the whole length. The mint tingles, which she loves and my...
Mielle Rosemary Mint Strengthening Hair Oil
The bristles flex apart when they hit a knot instead of ripping through it, and that single difference is why she stopped screaming during wash day. I only use it on soaking wet hair loaded with conditioner, never dry. It is about three times the pri...
Felicia Leatherwood Detangler Brush
I use this before the brush ever touches her, working from the ends up in small sections, and it takes out the big knots with far less pulling. Two combs in a pack means one lives in the bathroom and one in my bag for after swimming. The teeth are sm...
Wide Tooth Detangling Comb Set
Rubbing her hair with a regular bath towel was undoing everything I had just done, and switching to this cut her frizz more than any product on this list did. I scrunch upward with it for about twenty seconds and that is it. The XL size is genuinely ...
Kitsch XL Microfiber Hair Towel Wrap
Day two hair is where curls go to die, and a light mist of water with a squeeze of leave in brings hers back without a full wash. The continuous spray puts out a real fine mist instead of the fat squirts a dollar store bottle gives you, so nothing ge...
Continuous Mist Spray Bottle for Hair
On school mornings we cannot wait two hours for her hair to air dry, and this stretches over my existing dryer so I did not have to buy a new one. On low heat it dries her curls without blasting them into a frizzy cloud. It takes about fifteen minute...
Universal Hair Diffuser Attachment
One night in this is the difference between me redoing her whole head in the morning and just misting it. The satin stops her cotton pillowcase from shredding the curls while she sleeps. Two in a pack matters because she yanks it off in her sleep abo...
YANIBEST Satin Bonnet for Kids
The little rubber bands from the school supply aisle were snapping her curls off at the ponytail line, and I did not connect the two until I saw the short broken pieces. These slide out without taking hair with them. They do not hold a high ponytail ...
Silk Scrunchies for No-Crease Ponytails
Splitting her hair into four clipped sections is the boring step that cut our wash day from an hour to under thirty minutes, because I stopped going back over the same patch twice. The silicone band means they do not leave a dent the way my old metal...
No-Crease Hair Sectioning Clips