Children Have Hair Too! What can I do?

                                                    CHILDREN IN MY CHAIR?



This entry is meant for any child who needs a permanent relaxer intervention.

The most troubling service that I have ever been faced with is doing a relaxer on a child under 12 years of age.
Many mothers in this country are faced with having children and wanting to return to work after having a baby as soon as possible.

The troubled economy has made an impact on how I am asked to participate in  a young families life in terms of taking care of the hair of an infant girl's hair.

The fact that, in a two parent family, both parents needing to work means that a little girl who needs a lot of help with her hair has a hard time looking as sweet as the parents would like.

What is a little girl to do?

If a young family can afford it, they will take her to a trusted cosmetologist for help. Very often, if the child is under an age that the stylist is comfortable working on, the child will be turned away. Fearing of damaging the child's hair, and the possibility of seriously burning the scalp.
Burning the scalp could cause scaring that might prevent healthy hair from growing forever.

Being faced with the desperation of parents needing to free up time that would go into the hair care of a young child has created a stressful conversation. The parents may threaten to find somebody to do it no matter what.

Now what?

If anyone has ever thought that the life of a hair tech doing his job is a fluffy job?

Please consider the trust that is given to the stylist by parents who have no choice but to place the care of their most beloved possession in your hands.

STRESSFUL FOR SURE!

The trust that the stylist has in his own ability to do such a job has to come from a place of loving care and the ability to understand the descriptive words of a child who does not have full command of there own language.

Is your heart pounding like mine is right now?  Just writing the passage give me palpitations!

I have washed the relaxer out of the hair prematurely. Hearing the words " Mr. Tommy my head itches" demands immediately that I make an important decision.

To wash or not to wash???

I wash. No matter what. I wash the hair immediately.
Sometimes the relaxer has been left on long enough, but most often the hair doesn't have even relaxation to do much good.

So it needs to be repeated in a week. This is a corrective service and is done with no added charge to the parents.

I should have turned the kid away!

NO!

Sometimes you just need to suck it up and move gently and cautiously forward.

Truly

Tommy the Hair Guy.