Summer time is here!!!!

The kids are out of school, Moms and Dads are trying to balance out their week. Summer camp schedules, lawn care, vacation time, Grandparent time then as quickly as it started summer is over and it’s back to school.

What happened over the summer? The kids shot up two inches in height, clothes that fit fine just a few short months ago, make the boys look like they are trying to wear their Mom's Capri’s. That aside, the hair needs to be cut and groomed for the new school year.

But parents who want their kids to have input in the hairstyles their kids wear are tired of the hair hanging in the eyes; boys looking like they seen ghost when they emerge from their bedroom caves in the morning.

Tangling long hair that is too dry from the pool and sun, hair that has seen the great summer days, now needs to be cut into a “cool cut”. A hair cut that all the guys would like to wear, and girls just love to touch.

Ok then, well now that we know the problems of summer hair, let’s look at some solutions. Here in Florida, most kids have the dry worn out hair from the pool and the beach. What to do? It is hard enough to get the tweens to comb their hair much less shampoo and condition their hair. So to the Moms of these tweens who are trying to be as cool as their teen peers, are in the battle of “I don’t care if your hair is longer, I just want to see your eyes and see that you are combing it”.

Here are some simple to follow solutions to the tween and teens with “summer hair”:
1. First, be honest, if you get a great cut most of the tangled and gnarled hair would disappear. There are several ways to cut the longer hair that will allow for a sufficient length to remain. A long razor cut after the ends are removed, is a great cutting technique that gives those wild locks some tameness, well at least tame enough for Mom and wild enough for the “look”.
2. Condition, condition, condition. Hair is a loose non woven fiber that needs softener just like your clothes do. We all know that the dryer sheets work better than the liquid softener, and then just like Downey has a spray that removes wrinkles from clothing, your hair needs to be revitalized with a spray leave on conditioner that re-hydrates the hair. This is especially important to those who shower and shampoo just before they go to bed and wake up in the morning with the BED HEAD look.
3. Salon professional products are concentrated by nature. Meaning they go a long way if they are used right. So how do you keep the boys from picking up a bottle of shampoo and the conditioner in the shower and keep them from pouring it out over the rim of their hand? Answer is easy- go to the dollar store and pick up a couple of empty bottles that have pumps on them, you know like the ones you put your hand soap in, just a suggestion make sure that the two bottles are different colors so the boys can tell them apart in the shower. While you are at the dollar store pick up a small spray bottle. After you have filled the shampoo and the conditioner bottles in the pump bottles, then in the 8 to 10 oz. small spray bottle, put in 2 oz. of conditioner and and add warm water to almost the top.  Shake well.  Now you have a leave in conditioner.

Side note:
Perhaps the most irritating conversation to Moms and almost to the delight of the sons is the question, “Did you shampoo your hair when you took a shower?” The son looks at his mom and says, “Yea, I did!” Exasperated, the Mom will ask “With SHAMPOO!?!?”

Next week we will look at the styles that are hanging out through the summer.

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