Shea Moisture Weightless Hair Masque, £9.70, another black-owned hair brand.I’d had no idea how quickly and impressively Xavi’s hair could matt itself into tangled mop, until one day, at the end of his tether he enlisted the whole family to help wrangle with knots the size of golf balls, that had taken up residence after a beach holiday.
After another holiday his box braid plaits - which I’d naively thought would protect his hair from the elements - turned to stiff salty stalactites, matted into sandy dreadlocks at the scalp.
These days Xavi conditions and detangles his hair every couple of days, leaving it to air dry, before layering on moisturising oils or creams like Cantu Shea Butter, Moisturizing curl activator cream for Natural.
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