A good hair day
Hair is important to me. Don’t ask me why. I don’t know how to do a damn thing with my hair but I will pay the bucks to get it blow dried and I will pay the big bucks to have the best guy I know do my hair. I’ll never forget sitting in Edith Morris’ office when we were going to adopt the first child – a girl – and the 20 year old daughter of the birth mother said, “What if it is a girl?” Which caused us all to do a double take. “And your point?” was going through each of our minds. “How would you do her hair?” I told her I would figure it out, hire someone, whatever it took but I would take care of her hair.
And then I learned about black hair and about black hair culture and black hair pride and it’s a long and convoluted tale but I can tell you that 20 year old girl was right – you better know how to deal with hair. I’ve figured out how to deal with my own wavy dry hair and so I know the importance of it all.
Tin’s hair is growing out and we are using Ms. Jessie’s Buttercream which has been great for his dry curls. We wash once a week and in the bath I comb through conditioner to get all the knots that happen during the week. But his hair is looking good these days thanks to me and Ms. Jessie and so is mine thanks to my team – Scott for cut and color, Amy and Joe for blowdrys with occasional fill ins by Andrea.
It takes an army of products and people to get our hair looking so effortless! Ha.