Our version of Knotting Hill

Since S's hair was long enough for her to twist, she's been a hair twister. This child has created some Guiness Book of World Record worthy hair knots. When she first started, we had to cut her hair a little bit to get them completely undone. The obvious problem with that is that it left her looking increasingly lopsided, but thanks to the fabulous talents of Jen Temple, we managed to salvage her hair from being cut really, really short. It also helps to use a leave in detangler or conditioner so her hair won't snarl as much or as badly.


Luckily for us, S mainly twists her hair when she's in bed before she goes to sleep. The more tired she is, the less she twists. Last night, she apparently wasn't tired whatsoever because when she got out of bed this morning.....wow. When I saw her hair I told R we had to take a picture of it. It's one of the worst ones I can remember.

Here she is, just out of bed. You can't see the knots on the back or other side very well, but you can get the idea from the monstrosity that you can see on her left side.

This is about halfway through the process. Most of the knots are out, but her hair has been twisted so long and so tightly that it's all over the place. I call this her Medusa look (which certainly fit with her attitude yesterday).

Finally! It took about 15 minutes to get it all untangled, which really isn't bad. She's a pretty good sport about sitting to have it fixed, so I try to be a pretty good sport about the fact that she does this. At some point, she's bound to stop, right?