![]() After approximately three minutes, the product absorbed all the way, somehow taking the dirt and chalk with it and leaving her skin with a lovely sheen. I kept rubbing the stuff in, unwilling to give up as she watched me blankly. Her arm rolls are long gone, but she still looked like she’d been frosted with buttercream. My girl is a toddler now, and a tall one at that. It wasn’t blending in and my hopes were fading fast. I started to smooth the sunblock onto her arms and legs. It came out of the tube an even brighter shade of white than my beloved Ultra Sheer. On top of that was a thick coat of sidewalk chalk dust. Her ashy legs were coated in dirt from playing in the yard for hours. She was lying in our driveway at dusk, coloring with chalk. I slathered it on my 4-year-old daughter at the first opportunity. This might be what I’ve been looking for all along. When I heard about a new product called Black Girl Sunscreen Kids, I was eager to check it out. My daughter and I never went anywhere without it. Whatever they put into the product to make it “ultra sheer” causes it come out of the tube a white lotion, blend into the skin quickly, and dry clear. ![]() I finally gave up my quest after she turned one, which is when I began to use the same product on her that I use on myself: Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen 55. ![]() No matter how hard I tried to massage these lotions and creams into her chubby little arm rolls, they looked like a row of chocolate cupcakes with white buttercream frosting. But my girl’s skin is a deep cocoa brown. There was plenty of baby sunscreen on the market, but it all had the same ingredients: titanium dioxide or zinc oxide-the two specific minerals that give sunscreen its white, chalky consistency. I checked every drug store and beauty supply in Los Angeles for a product specifically made for African American babies. For the first year of my daughter’s life, I searched in vain for a baby sunscreen that wouldn’t make her look like a mime. ![]()
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