{"id":341,"date":"2010-03-14T20:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:02:32","slug":"the-red-headed-messiah-of-african-american-haircare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/the-red-headed-messiah-of-african-american-haircare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red-Headed Messiah of African American Haircare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have I told you about my new favorite site<\/a>? My new best friend? The red-headed Messiah of African-American haircare? Perhaps Messiah is a bit much, but let me say this: she is the BOMB. Really. Joyful Mom has two African American children, one with kinky, curly hair and one with looser curls. She posts information on haircare tools, products and how to execute different styles. Furthermore, she only uses natural products. Love. Really.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been kind of obsessed with the site the last few weeks. It\u2019s always up on the computer in the kitchen and every spare minute, I\u2019m reading about a new style or product or bead. Yes, I\u2019ve spent another fortune on supplies, but look!<\/p>\n

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Little braids<\/p><\/div>\n

Look what Josie and I did together. They\u2019re cornrows. No kidding.<\/p>\n

After her bath and a dinner break, I sat on the couch with her on a pillow on the floor. I laid out my Noah\u2019s ark full of haircare products (2 brushes, 2 combs, 2 tubs of hair goo). I popped in the Poppins, detangled and sectioned her hair, and started cornrowing. The style took about 30-45 minutes to complete (I\u2019m so slow). Josie had to get up and run around a few times. I was sure she was going to refuse to sit back down and that we\u2019d be stuck with half-finished hair for the week, but she came back. She came back! When I really needed her to sit still, I held her head between my knees. When I did the sides I sat on the floor. We make such a good team.<\/p>\n

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Tough to get her to hold still for the picture<\/p><\/div>\n

If you have a kid with curly hair or have curly hair yourself go visit Happy Girl Hair<\/a>. I think you\u2019ll kind of love it too.<\/p>\n

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She asked for "sumpin with cheese on it" for dinner<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have I told you about my new favorite site? My new best friend? The red-headed Messiah of African-American haircare? Perhaps Messiah is a bit much, but let me say this: she is the BOMB. Really. Joyful Mom has two African American children, one with kinky, curly hair and one with looser curls. She posts information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-mom","category-bi-racial-family","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}