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Mixed race - straight hair?

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le42 · 31/01/2019 14:11

Hi - just wondering about my little ones hair, my partner is mixed Caribbean (50% Caribbean, 25% Ghanaian, 25% white) and I’m white - our beautiful little boy is a week old, his hair is totally straight and very soft, will this fall out and be replaced with curls? My partner has very tight curls and I have quite thick wavy hair.

Thanks !

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laul · 09/02/2019 06:52

Hello
My little boy is mixed race he's 11 months and his is just starting to curl up now hope this helps
Xx

Iloveyoubaby26 · 09/02/2019 07:09

My little boy is mixed race. He now has curly brown hair. His dad is black afro mine his wavy brown. Till he was about 3 months it was straight and used to stick up.

lboogy · 09/02/2019 07:14

It's likely to curl but won't be as tightly curled as your husband's hair

noneofyourbusinessx · 09/02/2019 07:20

I'm black Caribbean OH is white my son had dead straight hair up until 7 months. He has a head full of curls now XX

silkpyjamasallday · 09/02/2019 07:22

DDs dad is Jamaican and I'm white with very curly hair, and DD had poker straight hair for the first year and a half, then it suddenly sprung into the most incredible ringlets! The curls will come, you just have to be patient!

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 09/02/2019 07:23

My DDs-mixed race-hair curled after about 2 months

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 09/02/2019 07:24

It doesn’t fall out- it will curl up, you will notice it won’t hold straight after washing it etc

enoughisenough2 · 09/02/2019 07:29

My baby had straight hair for a year... got beautiful long curly hair now at 5 xx

Hermie12 · 09/02/2019 07:32

Yes the same dd has lots of soft straight hair when born but started to curl around 3/4 months

Fadingawayagain · 11/02/2019 19:08

My 6yr old is mixed me being white and his dad African, his hair was very tight curls from birth and now he has a very tough Afro and definitely takes his dads side with the hair, very unlike curly mixed raced hair. It grows but stays put!

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le42 · 12/02/2019 01:40

So interesting thanks everyone. I totally don’t mind what his hair is like of course! I think he is beautiful however it is, just interesting to see how it might change ❤️

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JasonGideon · 12/02/2019 01:43

Thanks for posting this OP, I have been curious about Dd. Her hair is still poker straight at 4 months but jet black. Hopeful we will get some curls now!

brookshelley · 12/02/2019 01:51

No one can tell you for sure! I know people who are mixed who have tight curls, loose curls, straight. My DCs are 1/2 African 1/2 white, one has basically Afro hair and one has loose curls. There's no formula it differs from person to person.

HoppingPavlova · 12/02/2019 01:56

I don’t have a mixed race child but just thought I’d add you can’t really tell irrespective. I have one who was born with dead straight hair, had the same dead straight for 10 years then around 12yo hair went from dead straight to tightly coiled ringlets over the space of 18 months. It obviously had something to do with puberty. 10 years on its still tightly coiled ringlets and people who don’t know them including hairdressers assume they are mixed race due to the hair.

Happyfuture · 21/01/2024 12:09

All three of my biracial children were born with straight black hair. My daughter's turned curly at 6 months, but her hair turned dart straight when she became 7 years old. She's 21 now and her hair has been straight ever since. My eldest boys hair is thick black and straight, but my youngest son who's 18 his hair randomly changed from straight slightly course hair to thick curls at 14. Very unusual mix of hair and I think my daughter is slightly annoyed that her curls dropped as she wishes her hair was curly. I haven't met many people with biracial daughters who's curls randomly dropped out and hair turned completely straight. I never straightened her hair as a child and I always used the correct hair products for her hair type. Just genetics I guess....

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