[ranade3]

I had to respond when you mentioned the pimples. When I picked up my daughter in Africa last summer she had just had her hair corn rowed. It was so tight that her skin was actually puckered up between the rows of braids and as we were getting ready to get on the plane (I only had her for an afternoon before our flight left that evening) I noticed tons of tiny pus filled blisters all around the edge of her scalp. I ran my finger lightly over one of them and it burst! I was very concerned but within days they had all dried up and disappeared.

Then I went to a hairdresser in a nearby city and she also did the corn rows so tight that Deborah's skin puckered up and within hours the blisters appeared again. I don't think it had anything to do with any products she was using, the hair was just pulled too tight. Deborah never made a fuss about it because she was used to it, but the last time I took her to the hairdreser in Nov. she hadn't been there for awhile because of ringworm (I think she had it in Africa but because she had so many things we were dealing with it was misdiagnosed at first) and I had been doing her hair in looser styles. Well, she screamed bloody murder the whole time her hair was being done and she screamed herself to sleep. The hairdresser said I "ruined" her because she wasn't used to having her hair done anymore.

In Dec. when I started cornrowing Deborah's hair myself, no blisters, no screaming. I don't pull it as tight and it does get fuzzy faster but my daughter likes getting her hair done! She especially likes looking in the mirror afterwards and seeing how pretty she looks :-)

Deborah also gets the ring around the collar, more so in summer because she sweats so much (like me!). I use a combination of Shout, oxyclean, and if the collar is white I use the clorox bleach pen directly on the stain. I've never had kids before except the occasional visit of my grown step children when they were younger and I certainly am learning about stains!!!!

My daughter also gets little blisters or bumps other places on her body. I was told that it was because her skin was so dry or ashy. I coat her with lotion after every bath and sometimes in between. Any suggestions about the bumps? Sometimes she gets a cluster of the little blisters at the crease of her wrist and little hand but they do always dry up on their own.


One more thing, just put more pony tails or pig tails in her hair. My daughter looks adorable with 3 afro puffs on her head. One on top and then two on the sides. There are a ton of pictures in Kids Talk Hair and that's where I started. Don't be afraid to put more pig tails than two though. I tried two at first too and I had to use lots of barrettes to keep it all in.

Nanita