I mentioned in a post about Asa’s hair the other day that Russell seems to have a slight wave to his hair, as if it’ll get curlier later on maybe … today I noticed that he had a ringlet.
He was playing in his room and it was very hot in there. I looked closer to the nape of his neck and his hair had formed into several loose lovely botticelli curls, the underlayment hair in the back only. On top it was straight.
So I decided to experiment on him. I trimmed the back of his hair a bit later, just to even it up and make it a bit shorter in the back than it had been, it had grown much longer in the back than the sides. So I evened it up some, and then wet it down and gave him a light conditioner-only wash. Then I combed all the tangles out, he had a lot …which is a clue to waviness itself, IMO. So then I put a bit of hair gel in and mussed it up, scrunchy way, to help develop waves. His hair was happy to obey that session when still wet. It wasn’t straight as a stick all over at all. I hadn’t really tried that ever with his hair, usually just combing it out after a shampoo and letting it dry or blowdrying it. So here it was, a conditioning wash and natural dry with some gel. His ringlet underlayment developed on it’s own. The sides got a wave to the edge and stayed back, not falling into his face as straight hair as it has always done after a blow dry or a shampooing sort of treatment and then a week of no shampooing.
What I am knowing is that it has been hot and humid lately. That will bring out the wave in someone’s hair if it’s there. I was actually thinking about it the other day that he actually doesn’t have such straight hair as I might have considered it was earlier in his life, and looking back I can see that slight hint to waviness. He has what can become a botticelli thing, I think. Straighter on top, heavier overlayment and much curlier underneath.
So if he is like me, with the conditioner treatment way he can wet his hair down everyday to refresh the curliness … and that will aide him with having longer hair, keeping it back instead of hanging blah in the way. It’ll be characteristic of a cuter him too. It’s all long enough to pull back into a handsome male ponytail, the front being shorter still, but holding in there alright if pulled back and smooshed into place before securing. It’s a style that I like for him, as his face is interesting, has angular fine features of a sort that a short haircut looks weird on him, but longer hair fine, and pulled back looks “artistic male like” artsy, snobby, intellectual … as much as a 9-year-old little boy can look like that. He’s growing up though, his face has changed dramatically the last few years. My own hair as a child was mildly wavey and got really unavoidably curly in my early teens. For my children I am here knowing what to do with curly hair, when I was a child no one had a clue, neither did I until I was a lot older. I tried to blow it out all the time, and shampooed it to death, chemically straightened it and somehow still retained my own head of hair. So I’m here to help my wavey children. Experience taught me well, no need for them to have horrid experiences!