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Editorial Review: Your hands-on guide to the best care for your child's hair Now taking care of your child's hair can be fun, easy, and trouble-free! In Wavy, Curly, Kinky, renowned stylist Deborah Lilly shows parents the best ways to style and maintain African American boys' and girls' hair from infancy to the preteen years. She presents clear, easy-to-follow hair care guidelines for the three different types of African American hair and gives you expert recommendations for the best products and techniques for each hair type.
Featuring step-by-step instructions, photographs, illustrations, and a helpful question-and-answer section, this comprehensive, user-friendly guide shows you how to:
- Determine your child's hair texture
- Get up to speed on hair care basics from washing to combing to braiding
- Press, relax, or texturize hair
- Weigh the pros and cons of cutting your child's hair
- Train, nurture, and manage problem ha...
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Disappointing and Promotes Insecurity About Black Hair, 2008-01-07
First of all, the author was CLEARLY biased against kinky hair and clearly favored what she described as "wavy" and "curly" hair. I was also apalled to read comments in where she refers to the delicate hair that very young children have as "angel hair" and then wrote that this "angel hair" turns into "something else," clearly attaching a negative connotation with kinky-textured hair.
She also used phrases like "training your childs hair" and endorsed relaxers and texurizers as if they were safe and possibly healthy; even insinuating that they become "neccessary" as the hair becomes more of a challenge with age. How irresponsible and misleading.
Another disturbing revelation of this book is that Lily generally limited kinky-haired girls' styling options to braids which I found apalling. As a natural woman with very kinky hair who wears her hair out [and has been complimented] I find this irresponsible and damaging. She made it seem like kinky haired girls should never wear their hair out; meanwhile the "curly" and "wavy-haired" girls had their hair out in many photos.
In fact, the only time she really showed kinky-haired girls with their hair out was when...you guessed it...the hair had been straightened with a pressing comb or permed. As I said her favortism toward curly and wavy hair was very obvious.
Also, not to be predjudice, but many of the little girls appeared to be mixed, a few even looked part asian. Of course if you're mixed with white or asian your hair is likely to be looser curled! I do not feel it is fair to portray biracial textures as black textures when a different race has directly influenced the texture of the child's hair.
And as a sidenote, I found the pictures of made-up, pageant-looking girls a little off-putting. She should know that mothers are likely to read this book and maybe seeing a 5 year old wearing a ton of makeup and posing like a grown woman wouldn't sit well...
Overall, Deborah Lily's book reeked of the old-school, grandma "we gotta train this bad hair" mentality. She should be embarassed.
7 of 7 found this review helpful:
Pity the trees that died for this book..., 2007-02-27
The other reviews were right on target. I'll add: little substance, spelling/proofreading errors, unfocused photos, and very little useful information. I'm not impressed and I'm getting my money back. The only marginally useful part was the list of brand-name products and tools at the end. For a momma committed to my daughter's natural hair health, this book has way too much about chemical treatments.
My most used references: It's All Good Hair (Michele N.K. Collision) and Kinki Kreations (Jena Renee Williams). This just isn't worth the shelf space on my bookshelves.
2 of 2 found this review helpful:
Problem Print, 2006-08-17
This book has several good points, however it was hard to keep focused due to bad printing. There were several pages with light print. This made it diffcult to follow the book. I know errors can happen, however it wouldn't hurt to have a preview staff on hand.
2 of 3 found this review helpful:
Boy was I underwhelmed, 2006-08-09
I expected more pictures not so many stories, they way it was presented it what a book about a hair needs, pictures
23 of 26 found this review helpful:
Self Hate and African American Women, 2006-03-17
Upon buying this book I was hoping to find new and easy styles for natural African textured hair. I was EXTREMELY upset by several suggestion to chemically treat a CHILD'S hair if it is not what this ridiculous author considers "angel" hair. I was also under the impression that in this day and age, African American women were becoming more comfortable and loving of ourselves naturally, and I am highly dissapointed to see otherwise. I would like a book that caters to BLACK hair. Not black people who want white hair. For the biracial women that think this book is a dream come true, mark these words: Your child will probably have a hurdle to jump being biracial in a world that demands that we define ourselves as it is. Don't subject your child to further self scrutiny by teaching them to hate their physical attributes. If you don't want black/biracial children-and all that comes with it, don't choose black partners.
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