The Perm

When Aiden was a sophomore, he wanted to grow his hair out and perm it. It was hilarious and I never knew what it was going to look like from one day to the next...kind of chill and just curly, or absolute utter insanity. I feel like it usually leaned in the absolute utter insanity direction most of the time😆
some days he got tired of it being so crazy so he'd want me to put "cornrows" in it. Putting cornrows in crazy curly boy hair wasn't exactly a talent I possessed, but I did get to the point where I could get 3 sets of the tiniest braids I could manage in there. So I would get up really early in the morning with him, and I'd sit on the couch while he sat on the floor, and I'd put braids in his hair before school. I wish I had pictures of it and it's so silly, but I loved sitting with him and just chatting while i put braids in his hair at the absolute freaking buttcrack of dawn...i really didn't even mind and was just happy to spend the time with him❤️
I miss his crazy hairstyles. He liked to change it up and had just about any hairstyle a boy could have from shaved to mullet to permed....he'd try them all❤️ I'll have to find a picture of them all and make an "evolution of Aiden's hairstyles" post...There were quite a few 😉

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