Mixed hair, question 2

[amo_mea_filiis.]

Dd's hair routine is going very well!

 

She will be swimming in either salt water or possibly chlorine water for 7 days.

 

What do I do to her hair?

 

Is conditioning in the evenings and keeping it in pigtail braids enough?

[amo_mea_filiis.]

:bigear:

[acurtis75]

I don't know how long washing and conditioning takes and whether it's realistic but for my dd who has curly hair we always wash after swimming in either chlorine or salt water. We might only wash with conditioner (like recommended on the curly girl website. If we don't wash out the chlorine or salt it gets way to dry and breaks.

 

eta: if her hair is coarse enough that you can rinse it out and it will still stay in the braids then that might be okay along with conditioning. My dd's hair won't stay braided after getting wet because it's not coarse enough.

[amo_mea_filiis.]

Her hair might stay braided after wetting, but I wasn't going to leave it. I was planning on having her shower every evening, condition the hair, and re-braid it. I'm just not sure if it needs shampoo nightly, or a few times.

[Murmer]

Condition, Condition, Condition...condition right before getting in the pool...and then when showering off condition and then use a leave in conditioner when leaving the pool. But you don't need to be using shampoo a lot more often than normal...just lots of conditioner.