[BeckyS]

Ocracoke, that's why we love braids too. They take forever to put in and take out, but with them lasting so long, it's worth it. We do a lot of variations of the big twists...it's our standby style. Much quicker to do, but must be redone often. I just love the pictures of the little ones. I will have to try to dig out a few when dd was younger.

[oceanica]

KLL08, that is supercute! I love the jean overalls too with embroidery.. A has 8 or 9 different ones in different colors.
Becky, are those big twists just 2 strands of hair wrapped around each other? Or is it done with 3 strands?

[BeckyS]

The twists are just two strands twisted together.

[ocracoke]

I love twists! They are easy to put in. East to take out. But they don't last as long as braids. And they leave beautiful ringlets in my daughter's hair when first taken out -- and that lasts for about 1 hour until my rough and tumble girl begins to look a little like a wild woman.

I started doing the mini box braids on my daughter's hair on Sunday. She fell asleep before I was done with the first braid. She looked like a bobble head while I tried to finish the first row before putting her to bed. So she has a large puff and 4 tiny tiny box braids right now. Hoping to do more braids tonight -- been in court all week so far so have not had the energy to do braiding at night.

Samantha

Samantha

[oceanica]

I have another question:
I put her hair into connecting ponytails as shown earlier and when the girl at my office does it she really makes them tight. This time I left them in for 3 days. Will that be harmful to the hair, and will it bother her?
I know if that was in my hair for more than a few minutes I would be removing it - seems like it would be worse than those old curlers my mom had!! But she didn't seem to mind, and slept fine at night and so on.
And the way that it was pulled so tight, I thought it would be bad for the hair and inhibit the growth, but when I took the ponytails out the hair was very soft and non-tangly.

[BeckyS]

I am far from a hair expert, but did want to say to just make sure that the hair is not so tight that the skin puckers (you would notice - it pulls it in to little bumps and can cause infection or hair loss). I pull dd's pretty tight, but always double check on that. My dd sleeps with her hair done. I've never had her sleep in barrettes or with beads that her head would have to lay on though. I know I've heard some moms take their dd's hair out every night and put in sleep braids....personally, I can't imagine.

[oceanica]

how did the box braids come out?