Beauty Basics for Baby!

Eek! The winter has taken its toll on mama's little sweetfaced beauty...her posh little pout is peeling, her cute little coif is crackling dry and her supple skin is sallow! :( Not to worry little one, mama's here to save face!!!

Kenna's hair is wavy, not so much curly, and drinks oil like a Hummer! Just when I resigned to saying good bye to her little pigtails to inevitable breakage from dryness, I reached back to my own mother's toolbox for some beauty basics...that's where I rediscovered LIV. That's not an acronym people, its a fantastic alternative to goopy hair grease! After being told by, count 'em four of my five aunties that hair styling was not my gift, they all gifted me jars of grease!...including Royal Crown! Around 6th grade, my mom discovered Liv, a dense moisturizing creme dress that kept my hair soft and manageable. I immediately ran to my neighborhood Korean- owned beauty supply, as I knew Target wouldn't have it...but the Koreans did. Eureka! Her little pigtails are better than new!

Onto her soft little skin and lips. I somehow knew that my go to lip balm(C.O. Bigelow) would burn my child's lips to toast and I hardly think the subtle tinge of color is appropriate for a 1 year old. Her skin was suffering big time, so I grabbed the one thing I hated as a toddler...olive oil! Before church, my mother would stand me on top of the camode and shalack olive oil on my face with reckless abandon. In her beauty book, a shiny baby was a pretty baby. Warning ladies: Just a dab will do ya here. If your kid looks like she/ he narrowly escaped a fish fry, you've done too much. Vaseline also works great for those extremely dry areas around the mouth and nose!

In other news, your favorite toddler mistook a portrait of Dr. King today as her daddy! During a ceremony at my center, she saw his picture and shouted and pointed "Daddy!". Upon my telling her "that's not daddy", she shouted even louder at the man she was convinced was her father. LOL!