Adorable Five-Year-Old Girl Has Uncombable Hair Like Albert Einstein

A five-year-old girl’s uncombable hair is so extremely rare that it makes her so adorable!

Meet�Lyla-Grace Barlow.

She is one of only 100 people worldwide known to have an Uncombable Hair Syndrome — a condition that is caused by a mutated gene which creates abnormal heart-shaped hair follicles instead of round ones.

And yes, she is in esteemed company as�famous scientist, Albert Einstein was also known�to wear that same�hairdo.

The condition makes�Lyla’s fluffy locks stand constantly on end and refuse to be tamed earning her the nickname ‘the Candyfloss child’.

Her parents, Alex and Mark Barlow, have tried various�hair products and spent hours trying to comb through her knotty tresses, but to no avail.

Mum Alex, 28, from�Crewton, Derby, said that Lyla was born bald and her hair started getting frizzy, which stood up on end, aged one and a half.�”When Lyla was little it used to stand up like Sonic the Hedgehog, like a little white afro.�Some people look and laugh and say, ‘That’s what my hair looks like in the morning’. They think that when you say Uncombable Hair Syndrome, you just have messy hair, but every strand of her hair is like spun glass.�It’s so hard to get a hairbrush through it and she cries when I try,” she said. However, Alex said they wouldn’t change it for the world.

“Sometimes I just want to shave it off for her. I have to be really careful and it definitely takes a lot more love than other kids but we would never change it.

“I’ve never seen anyone with anything like her hair in real life. We tell her to embrace it because it’s so rare and beautiful,” she said.

Alex said that Lyla is unique as she is the only one in the family with that kind of hair. She and her husband�both have straight, brown hair and so do their two other daughters, Emilia, seven, and Nancy-Rose, two.

“Everybody else in the family has nice, dark normal hair and then we’ve got this bright blonde little one in the middle of us. It’s fantastic. It matches her personality perfectly she’s fun, crazy and happy,” she said.

Alex also described the time when they dressed up Lyla as Albert Einstein during Halloween.�”We dressed her up as him for Halloween one year and we didn’t even have to buy a wig. There can’t be many kids who can pull Einstein off with their real hair,” she said.

Scientists at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany explained that UHS is caused by a mutation to one of three genes PADI3, TGM3 and TCHH.

Alex and Mark each passed Lyla a mutated PADI3 gene, resulting in the condition.

The defect impairs the interaction of the structural protein that gives hair its shape and strength and gives hair follicles a triangular, heart or kidney-shaped cross section.

Sources:�News.com.au�and�Dailymail.co.uk

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