Child has 5 inches of Dead hair. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone. I sure hope you can help me.

Wet my 7yr old daughter's hair is past the middle of her back ofcourse dry it shrinks alot. I took her to the Salon Fri. And wash shocked at how much dead ends/hair she had. I knew it was soaking up moisture BIG TIME, but wow. I actually saw it. It was about 5 in. My fault because she's only had a hair trim in her life, I've probably used the harsh shampoo,brushing, bad products w/mineral/alcohol etc. Plus, she has fine/way hair on the roots but 1/2 down it's VERY dry w/spiral-coil curls. What makes it worse, she's VERY tender headed esp in the back.. The stylist suggested we cut off 1 1/2 inch now. Every 2-3 mos she'll cut 1/4 in off ( if it's ok w/me). She said not 6-8 because blk hair grows slower than caucasion hair.

Before this I had already purchased the Aussie line, Marc Anthony strictly curls and Curlbiz.com for Multi-racial/texture hair (hasn't arrived yet) Now I"m not sure if this will work. I"m not sure which will work but I figured I had to start somewhere....Reading here, the Mega Growth sounds great for her scalp too. ..My ? is, Is 1/2 in too much in 2-3 months plus I've been reading on the cite naturallycurly.com, that shampoo is bad for you. I'm not sure now how often to give her hot oil treatments/deep conditoners.

Your comments,suggestions and advice w/b greatly welcomed. Thank you

Thanks Cmesweet
That info was so helpful. I visit the naturallycurly website and they say the same regarding condiitoners. Some of them don't use it at all. They clarify with like Brown sugar and ACV (vinegar) to get rid of build ups.

Her hair is sooo different from mines. Mines is curly but the curls are much loser than hers.I shampoo mines 2x a month condition a few times inbetween deep cond etc and my hair's constantly growing and is as healthy as it has EVER been (thank God). I want the same for her too. Anyway, I did hear from other's our hair grows a bit slower, and I assumed she (the trained beautician) knew what she was talking about. I ordered some products from the www.naturallycurly site (Curly Q for multi-textured hair), so we'll see how it goes. If I have more questions I will surely contact you. You seem very knowledgeable. Again ty

Did you check out the site motowngirl.com as well. I am now natural because I use to have a perm. I have spoken to a few people who swim on a regular basis, I have yet to do it. They said they wet their hair than put in conditioner and than the cap. The things you do sound good as well. It is different for every person.

The reason the hair dresser said that like I mentioned as our hair grow it coils around itself of course it will look shorter but everyones hair is programed by genetics 1/4 to 1/2 inches in length per month. Trimming the split ends do help to allow the hair shaft to be healthy. People with perms seem to have longer hair because their hais is straighten out but if it was natural it would look shorter cause of the direction the hair grows and the curls. Chemicals, heat and alot of manipulation can cause hair to grow at a slower pace because you break the bonds of the hair and alot of times it gets over process causing more breakage making the hair appear to grow slow or to not grow at all.

Naturallycurly.com is a good site as well I do recommend the site of motowngirl.com and hairfoodforthought.com

Just cut like 1 cm of all her hair like a trim her hair should but perfect in weeks on and everybodys hair is dead all hair is dead cells just like fingernails

I hope you and your daughter enjoyed the movie

Well I don't see anything wrong with putting it on the scalp one in a while. I'm sure if you aren't putting it on there everyday that it will be a problem. I keep hearing about this product I really need to try it. I just got a 1800 number for it to get free samples.

The product that I am talking about is the Mango. I plan on taking my God-Sister to see the movie. She is seven, so we are going to have a girls day out!!