Ryleigh's hair crisis #2

Remember Ryleigh's first hair crisis? I knew that was the first of many.  So here we are about six weeks later and on another hair crisis. 

I babysit a little boy (Cole) and a little girl (Kaylee) three days a week.  Last week during quiet time the girls were playing hair.  This has happened several times before so I though nothing of it.  After maybe 20 minutes Ryleigh comes into the kitchen and asks for help to get a comb out her hair.  When I turned to see it I was shocked!  This is what I saw. . . .

I was speechless!  I asked what Kaylee was trying to do and was told that Ryleigh wanted her hair curled.  I put Ryleigh up on a stool and started to see what I could do.  While I was working I thought I should probably prep her in case I can't get it out and we have to get it cut.  She was not happy (can't say that I was either).  I tried and tried for 45 minutes and couldn't get it out.  So I told Ryleigh we were going to go to a haircutting place and it would probably end up getting cut out. 

When we got to the salon the hair stylist were confident they could get it out.  The hair stylist put Ryleigh into a chair and got to work.  She at first used a rat tail comb and wasn't very successful.  The second attempt was to use a hair product to give the hair some slip.  After she tried for about 20 minutes the hair stylist was successful. Ryleigh's hair was definitely curly. 

We had to do a small trim to get rid of the damaged hair but we were able to save her already short hair!

 Needless to say I bought some of the product they used and will keep it on hand for the next episode because I am sure we are far from being done with hair traumas.