![]() Our favorite edge tool is the Best of Beauty-winning Baby Tress Edge Styler, and Lopez loves the Edge Brush from Pattern Beauty. "Smooth your baby hairs down with the brush side and create a shape with the rat tail," says Fesa who typically finishes off the shape with her fingers. The tools you use to do so can vary, but Fesa says she prefers using her hands and baby hair brush with a metal rat-tail end. ![]() Once you've gotten your edge control on hand, there's the matter of actually shaping your edges. ![]() Fesa also mentions the Style Factor Edge Booster as a product she generally likes to work with when she's doing baby hairs. If you've got very tight, coiled, or kinky hair, the Instant Control Edge & Braid Gel Max Hold is a good product to start with, the same goes for Murray's Edgewax. Petroleum-based products or a beeswax with a hold are best in this case," he says. New York City-based hairstylist David Lopez also cautions those styling heat-pressed edges that "water-based gels can sometimes cause your texture to revert, making it curly again. "A no-no when styling your own baby hairs is, do not use an oil-based edge control if you want them to last the hairstyle." The reason? Oily edge control products have a soft hold you can easily sweat through by the end of the day. "Edge styling can add a more elegant or dramatic twist to any style depending on how much baby hair you leave out," she says, emphasizing her love for dramatic swoops and loops on any hair look - whether it be a high pony or braided straight backs.īut before you start to twirl your own edges in place, Fesa has a few tips. Just ask Los Angeles-based hairstylist Fesa Nu. With so many creative ways to lay them down, finessing your edges (and the products it takes to do so) have come a long way. Now we wash and condition every other week with the Shea Moisture Kids line, and in between washes I touch up her hair with African shea butter mixed with organic coconut oil.Whether they're swooped to the side or sculpted into curlicues, baby hairs are a cute detail that can be the cherry on top of a style. It was drying her scalp out, which caused dry patches. I used to wash Sophia’s hair once a week, but quickly realized this was too much. And now, if another new parent is looking for advice for their Black baby's hair, I can share what actually helped. It makes me proud to feel like I'm sharing something with her and that I'm teaching her to love her hair. And when it's finished, she'll look in mirror and say, “I look pretty.” She'll hold her rubber bands for me as I stretch out her curls. As I let her pour the water over her own head, I'll ask her questions about what she likes or what book she wants to read. Every other Sunday she gets excited when I tell her it's time for her wash day. Ten months later and after a few trials and errors, I finally have a better understanding of how to care for my now two-year-old's hair. I just felt so comforted to know I wasn’t alone and that they had real advice beyond “this happens.” ![]() There I found several videos from Black mothers who were experiencing the same issues I was. So one late night I went down a hole on YouTube-which, as a new mom, is basically my solution to everything now. I want to instill in her that no matter what her texture is, her hair is beautiful all the same.Īnd yet, for all the articles and message boards I found on children's hair, I couldn't find any resources specifically on Black babies' hair. ![]() Recently I’ve been reading the book Hair Love, which celebrates a little girl’s natural texture and all the ways her hair is special, to Sophia before bedtime. I want her to wear her hair proudly and know she’s more than her hair. ![]()
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