Haircare is for Dads, Too ft. Charlotte Mensah, Owner of Hair Lounge

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

While speaking with Charlotte Mensah, she shared her expertise in caring for Afro-textured hair, with products, tools, and styling recommendations. Charlotte also revealed how significant it was for her to grow up surrounded by family, having her hair done and styling it for others. Our conversation illuminated her decision to develop the Curl Power Workshop, an annual haircare and hairstyling event where adults learn to care for the Afro-textured hair of the children they love. For the second year, the workshop focuses on teaching fathers and grandfathers the skills they need to master hair care.

Tune in as we discuss:

The workshop’s origins as support for biracial parents
How important it is that children see one another and the similarities in their hair
Her hopes that his workshop takes the onus off moms to have to do it all
Why patience is the most important tool in children’s hair styling

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0:00.0	There are so many unique joys to becoming a parent, but one of those unique joys is realizing that not only do you have to do your own hair, you have to do your child's hair.
0:11.0	Now when they're like little babies there's very little
0:13.4	hair maintenance but now I have a three-year-old and he is like very specific about
0:18.1	how he wants his curls I actually love doing his hair we have our whole routine down, we have our tools, we have everything we use.
0:26.0	I really wanted to talk to my guest, Charlotte Menza, you all were able to hear her story at the beginning of the week.
0:31.0	She's one of the leading hairst stylists for afro-textured
0:34.3	curly hair, textured hair. She can do all types of hair in the UK because she was
0:39.2	running this clinic, this experience for learning how to do children's hair that was targeted towards not just
0:45.2	the moms but actually targeted towards the dads which I think is very revolutionary very important because so
0:52.1	often we know the work of getting the child's hair
0:55.3	done falls on mom and why should it be that way it is a joint responsibility
1:00.2	this has inspired me to have more conversations with my husband about being more involved in the hair care of our child
1:06.1	And I wanted to hear more about what gave her the idea to do this how the men feel coming out of this experience, what they learn.
1:12.8	And she also shared some very quick tips and tricks
1:15.8	for all of us listeners about how to care for young kids' hair,
1:18.9	about how to care for mixed race hair,
1:21.3	which can be kind of different. really informative quick mini episode just in time for Father's Day. I hope you all love this conversation and I'll be back next week with a brand new interview.
1:30.6	So Charlotte I saw something that you're doing called Curl Power Workshop Father's Day
1:35.6	edition at your salon on Portobella Road that I just I need to know more about this and if it is what I think it is teaching these dads how to do their
1:45.6	child's hair I am extremely interested.
1:48.7	Yes that is like it's it was so successful we started started it. We started the Cal Power Workshop from 2015 and we've been doing it for like moms and you know like we have a lot of clients that come in and they buy racial the moms are like you know
2:06.1	Europeans and they find it so difficult to manage the children's hair like we're good to do it for them in
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