Wanna make a rockabilly head scarf for your baby? Here’s how you do it
I was in the middle of making a headband for my daughter when I started playing with the excess fabric and ended up making her a head scarf — I liked the result, but wanted to make a pattern so I could produce something a little more polished. Here’s what I came up with.
Use small hooks in your medicine cabinet for hair ties
This idea, that comes from my super organized mother, just made me have a baskets! moment.
A stylist’s advice on the best haircuts for post-partum hair loss
After my baby was born, I lost about half my hair. Apparently this isn’t uncommon, even though nothing I read forewarned me about it. Now its growing back, though, and my face is framed by a halo/ruff/mane of little half curls. They’re too short to be pulled back, too numerous to be clipped back, and it’s too hot to wear my hair down.
Got an old t-shirt? Use it to make a headband for yourself!
I saw this pin on Pinterest recently in which someone used a baby’s old shirt to make a headband for the baby. “A-ha!” I thought, “How clever.” Except I have a son, not a daughter, and dude isn’t into wearing ANYTHING on his head — not even the scraps of his cool old clothing. Then it occurred to me that I don’t need to have a kid to do this — I can chop up some of MY old stuff and give it a whirl! So I did.
8 tips for straight-haired mamas with curly haired kids
I have rampantly curly hair. And my daughter’s hair is increasingly a frickin’ clone of my own, in terms of structure, colour, texture, frizziness and pigheaded stubbornness. I thought that, for the benefit of any mama out there bringing up a little Taylor Swift, a little Adrian Grenier, or, god forbid, perhaps even a little Kenny G, I’d share some wisdom based on 31 years of personal experience.
Use chalk pastels to temporarily add color to your hair
If you’ve ever wanted rainbow colored hair but didn’t want to submit yourself to hours of bleaching and dye, get ready to squeal: you can use chalk pastels to put rainbow streaks in your tresses. YES. This is real!
My 5-year-old cut off my hair and learned about what beauty really is
My daughter, Olivia, came home from her preschool and announced she needed to have long hair to be “pretty” and it wouldn’t hurt if I could put her in a dress for school. Initially I didn’t think much of that comment, but it bothered me. So I shaved my head to show her that prettiness wasn’t about long hair.
Caring for biracial hair: how I keep my daughter’s hair soft and curly
Serenity is my beautiful biracial baby girl, and one of the very first things people notice about her are her wonderful curls. Let me tell you — she doesn’t jump up from bed every morning with her hair in perfect little ringlets. It takes a little time, effort, and some awesome products to create curls like this