Dare to care for Curly Hair????

Rachel and I are reading a new book. The Curly Girl Handbook by Lorraine Massey

Curly hair is in "the genes" as they say. I have always given the credit for our curls to our Greek/Portugese heritage. Grandma, Mom, her sisters, we all have the curls, some more curly than others but they are there. Dad's hair is curly too but of course he always keeps it short and trim, so its not much of an issue for him. (haha that rhymed!!!)
Now for Mom, I remember hearing stories of how horrid it was for her as a child, her hair was SOOOOO curly and the styles are SOOOOO straight.
Now when I was little it was not so bad, my hair was kept short, it had some wave to it, but not ringlets you know..not the Shirley Temple stuff.  As a teenager, the wave and the frizz started to increase but I still pretty much liked my hair. When I was 16 I got a spiral perm, and I loved it!! Now the older I get, the curlier my hair is getting. No need for  a perm now. Sometimes I really get annoyed with my curly hair. Sometimes I think to myself, "It is such a pain to have curly hair. Those folks with straight hair have NO idea what I go thru. "


So now I have a 20 yr old daughter with wavy, frizzy hair. She straightens her hair almost every day for the last 3-4 years. Well do I blame her? No .


In comes The Curly Girl Handbook!!! Testimonies of how many others with curls have suffered!!!
LOL ;-P 

So many people with curly hair struggle with it. the book has many testimonies of girls who DREADED going to school, going to church, basically their life was RUINED in their eyes, emotionall scarred because of curly hair. for example: one lady went to a practice job interview and was told that for a REAL interview, she should straighten her hair!!!

 Testimonies of those who have used Lorraines ideas and now they love their curls!!!!!  Suggestions of how to wash, condition, style and cut your curls, to encourage its loveliness and lessen the FRIZZ!!! So ....we are all reading it and trying some of the ideas in it. Pretty exciting stuff.
So Thank you Thank you Lorraine Massey. Love your book so far.

There are some good quotes :" Youve been blessed with hair that has a mind and life of its own." pg 92

"When it comes to curls, the beauty school curriculum is dated and archaic. The hair academy should have a whole wing dedicated to curl facts and the cutting and care of natural curls. " page 94