Whether or not your child is born with a head stuffed with hair or not, be assured that she may have as a lot hair as any regular particular person, as she grows up. However if you’re an Indian, then you understand that new moms, and all people round them is obsessive about the newborn’s hair! How a lot hair does the newborn have, is it straight, is it curly, is it thick, is it black sufficient? These ‘points’ then entail a variety of myths and silly practices that promise ghane, mulayam, kaale baal (thick, mushy and darkish hair). Evidently, none of it really works as a result of the amount and high quality of your hair rely on what number of hair follicles you might be born with and your genes.
So collect round and let’s snicker at a number of the stupidest myths I’ve come throughout!
- Pink lentil paste: Upon getting tonsured the newborn, the very first thing you must apply on its head is a paste of purple lentil. No one ever cared to elucidate why. How does purple lentil profit hair? And why do you’ll want to apply proper after tonsuring. Do not ask.
- Burnt burlap sack: This one takes the craziest fantasy award palms down. So this is what you do (hypothetically, solely) you’re taking a burplap sack, those used for storing grains in warehouses. Reduce a chunk, you may be as fancy about it as you need. Burn it and apply the ash on the newborn’s freshly tonsured head. This one is messy, bizarre and is unnecessary in any respect.
- Egg: Now egg is a good supply of protein and does make hair softer when used as a hair masks. However how does it profit a child whose hair is any manner softer? In my view, whether or not you apply egg to a child’s hair or not it makes no distinction.
- Tonsuring on a full moon night time: This one is straight out of a werewolf thriller. You child has brown hair? Gotta tonsure her on a full moon night time. That can make her hair develop lengthy and black. In all probability throughout her physique like a werewolf. Simply saying.
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