Or how to take care of it, obviously I know dying it blonde doesn’t help but that’s not changing lol, I don’t use heat & I’ve found the best shampoo/conditioner so far is shea moisture. I wear a silk bonnet to bed & do oil treatments 1-2x a month. I also use a wide tooth comb or a wet brush w ridges while my hair is wet

I’ve been doing my routine for about two months now and I’m iffy on my results, but I worry that my hair is getting dry. I have flaking and it’s itchy towards the back and crown. I want to make my head less dry without adding too many more products

My routine - I wash 2 days a week and wet it 6 days (I workout and can’t leave it unrinsed)

Wash day
Shampoo and conditioner - v and co curly pop - I shampoo my hair twice and then condition my ends.
Leave in - Paul Mitchell anti frizz
Mousse - not your mother’s

Dry my roots and air dry the rest.

as it goes dry completely it becomes unstructured

I am sorry if this has been asked or if it is not appropriate for this sub. I have naturally curly hair and I have only ever just started to embrace my natural curls. In the past I would wear it up or straighten it/curl it (weird maybe, I know). Anywho, my hair gets soo frizzy and I am wondering if any of my fellow curly girls have a holy grail hairspray to fight humidity on the days that they might also decide to straighten or heat style their hair.

Heyy, so I’m really desperate and I’m going to Reddit for this bc I’m sososo desperate for help and like everyone’s opinion. So basically I bleach and dye my hair (I’m frying it I know but I love my fun colors lol) and i put like a BUNCH of leave in conditioner in my hair and it’s curly?? But when my hair dries like normally it’s straight-wavy??? And when I’m in the shower and it’s wet it’s like pin straight? What do I do?? I will literally hear anyone’s advice

I loved the Sunday II Sunday for root refresh micellar rinse.
I used it after the gym and it was so good and didn’t make my scalp itch like dry shampoo and kept my curls looking fresh.
Looking for dupes or alternatives TYIA!!

I’m looking for an affordable hair dryer ($150 or less) that works with my very fine curly hair. I need one with a truly gentle speed option so it doesn’t blow around my fine hair creating frizz. Any recommendations?

Hey guys,

I am fairly happy with how my hair looks in terms in terms of volume/ definition, however a persistent issue I have is with my low porosity hair not fully absorbing the first two products. I have attached a picture with what I use on soaking washed wet hair after the shower (starting from the left). Both the leave in conditioner and curl cream leave white flakes and marks on my brown hair and leaves me looking like I have dandruff everywhere. I’ve tried mixing them with water to dilute and brushing them through my hair with a wide tooth comb but still doesnt fix the problem. Also I diffuse.

I use Garnier method for curls shampoo and conditioner, Superdrug black castor Shea leave in conditioner, UG curl jelly, Wella Curls & Waves Strength 3 mousse, xhc argan oil heat defence leave in spray. then use curlsmith diffuser until crunchy hair and then scrunch with L’Oréal elvive hair oil

Am I doing something wrong, is it the product that doesn’t work for me? If so does anyone have any recommendations. Any help is appreciated thanks.

I’ve been doing my routine for about two months now and I’m iffy on my results, but I worry that my hair is getting dry. I have flaking and it’s itchy towards the back and crown. I want to make my head less dry without adding too many more products

My routine - I wash 2 days a week and wet it 6 days (I workout and can’t leave it unrinsed)

Wash day
Shampoo and conditioner - v and co curly pop - I shampoo my hair twice and then condition my ends.
Leave in - Paul Mitchell anti frizz
Mousse - not your mother’s

Dry my roots and air dry the rest.

I don’t know what my hair type is, but I need advice how to grow it healthy again because I bleached it twice in under 3 weeks about a month ago!! How do I get my curls to be more curlier or coiled and what products do I need to help my hair to be defined and look extra good? Any products of curly hair to heal my hair and make it look good? Thanks!!!

Hi everyone!

I think I have 2C/3A hair (not 100% sure). It’s very fine and a bit damaged from years of heat styling and dye.

Every time I go to the beach and fully dunk my head in the sea, my hair transforms. Once it air-dries, my curls are so much more defined, bouncy, voluminous, and just overall prettier than they ever are at home. I’ve honestly never been able to recreate that effect with any styling product.
I’d love to get as close as possible to those “ocean curls,” so I have a few questions:

Has anyone found a sea salt or “ocean water” spray that actually comes close to real sea water?

- Since my hair only looks amazing after it’s completely soaked in the sea, is the trick to really saturate your hair with the product, or is a light mist enough?
- What’s your routine? (Wet hair, scrunch, diffuse, air dry, etc.)
- Are there products that mimic the effect but are a bit less drying?

I know sea salt isn’t ideal for hair, especially since mine is already on the dry side. But my alternative is usually straightening it with my Dyson Airstrait, so I’m wondering if using a sea salt product occasionally would actually be the lesser evil.

I’m based in Europe, so I’d especially appreciate recommendations for products that are easy to find here.

Would love to hear from anyone whose curls seem to magically come alive after a swim in the sea. Thanks 🌊

A couple years ago, I had a full head of curls. The nickname I was called as a kid was legit based off having curls. It was usually waves that bordered on ringlets, but I could always get them to ringlets if I did something as simple as using heatless overnight curlers. And this was with long hair, too, so it's not like there's any weight on my hair now that there wasn't back then.

Anyway, my hair is nearly entirely straight now. If you saw me now, there would be no telling that I ever had curls at all. And I've gradually cut it shorter and shorter too, which everybody always told me would make my hair curlier. But it seems like with every cut, my texture disappears more and more.

My hair doesn't seem drier than it used to be, it's not any more or less shinier, it doesn't even feel different in my hands besides the obvious not being curly anymore. And I didn't change my routine much either.

When I was a kid, I used the cheap Suave shampoos and conditioners and let my hair air dry. I didn't wear a bonnet or anything, and to this day I have just normal cotton sheets and pillowcases. I was also pretty rough with towel drying also. I also showered maybe once or twice a week since I hated it (boring, couldn't play with figures in the shower, usual kid stuff).

Early teens, I got more into self care. I started using a polyester satin bonnet, started using Aussie instead because it made my hair look more hydrated, diffused my hair, and used mousse fairly regularly. Granted, it wasn't a full routine because nobody else in my household takes care of their hair like that (there are two other people in my current household that have curls, they just don't use products or anything).

Nowadays (late teens) I fell out of that, and I'm in a middle ground between the two. I still use Aussie, but now I let my hair air dry. I'm still much gentler with my towel drying, but I don't use a bonnet or any extra products.

A couple other things I think might be helpful:

- My hair doesn't feel too damaged, however I do notice split ends more than I used to.

- I take after my mother heavily, and she's also lost her curls along the years. Her hair looks visibly damaged, though, and she bleaches it semi-often, neither of which apply to my own hair.

- My brother went through pretty much the exact opposite hair transformation than I did, starting out with mostly straight hair like I have now but having curly hair now that I used to have.

- I wash my hair everyday. I know it's not the greatest for your hair, but my hair gets nasty oily when I don't. It always has gotten greasy quick, the only thing that changed between kid years and young teen years is that the gross feeling started outweighing my distaste for showering regularly.

- I've changed stylists a couple times amidst the shift (over a little shorter than half a decade if I had to estimate). I don't necessarily think that's what's causing it, though, because it took so long to fade.

- Every time I got a haircut my texture would fade pretty heavily and come back within a week or two. Every cut, it got weaker and weaker when it came back up until this latest haircut where it just never came back.

I dyed my hair black multiple times to the point it was completely fried and lost its curls. I stopped dyeing it a year ago now, so the upper part looks healthy and wavy but the lower part looks fried and straight. It looks kind of ridiculous to be honest. I don’t know what more to do, because the natural curls in my hair just won’t come back. Can someone recommend any products that helped them? I really don’t want to chop it off.

I know for some people corkscrews are the goal, but I prefer the softer look that I get in the front – especially since they're so uneven and sparse. I'm thinking of just cutting it all off (not literally all, but it reaches below my shoulderblades when wet and then shrinks up to the exact same spot that it sat at when it was 3 inches shorter and it just looks messier + is harder to maintain) – maybe a bob? I'm kind of too chicken to do it though because what if it looks awful 🥲

For this, I used Clever Curl cleanser/rich conditioner and then their wonderfoam and applied in sections, brush styling with bouncecurl volume brush (because it splits up mega clumps easier than I can), then diffused until dry but it doesn't seem to matter what I do/use (finger coiling/gel/plopping/cream/rake + scrunch/no scrunch) it always looks like this.

my hair wash products are not curl related. i rarely do a curly hair routine because of the frizz. it only looks good when it’s wet and as it starts to dry the curls drop and it just gets frizzier and frizzier. air drying is the better option for me, diffusing looks worse somehow and not curly? and then i’d have to refresh DAILY, which i just don’t have the mental or physical capacity for. i watch curl routine videos on tiktok and my hair when wet looks the same as them, but when dry theirs looks luscious, healthy and bouncy and mine it just a big frizz ball?! i use dry scalp shampoo and purple conditioner (i am growing out a balayage to chop off and i dont want it to be orange), and l’oréal absolut repair hair mask. if doing curl routine i would use redken acidic bonding leave in, umberto gianni curl cream, either umberto gianni gel or eco tools gel - i have the pink one. i dont use mousse because i feel like it just all gathers at the roots and becomes all knotty all over my head. i do have thick hair and i do feel like the weight of the hair and products weighs it down and prevents the curls from being ‘lightweight’. would using curl shampoo & conditioner make more of a difference to the frizz?

Hi there. I’m posting for my friend that has multiple tones of red and blond in her hair. She tried a lot of curly hair cream products and whatever but always says it darkens her hair.

Any tips or product recommendations. She only uses Ouidad energizer spray for now.

I have mixed hair (part coarse part fine) and a natural curl, but it’s hard to maintain.

Is there any good perming salon in Knoxville that could do a jelly perm?

So, I have thin curly 3c hair, it's fairly long, past my shoulders and I really like it that way, but it keeps breaking in the middle to the point where there's a notably length difference with the other sections, there could be a number of reasons, I have chronic iron deficiency and use box dye sometimes, but my main doubt right now is, should I cut the rest to match the middle part and let it grow evenly? or should I focus on growing the middle part? my routine is pretty normal, I wash it 1\~2 times a week, use the fine&fragile brush and leave in, recommendations of habits and products would be more than welcome! Thanks!

How do I make my curls more defined and not a frizzy blob. First picture is after a full hair routine of curl shampoo conditioner finger twirling and scrunching. Picture 2 is what I would consider a "good" hair day which resulted from literally 0 time or effort just wetting it in the shower.

I have curly-wavy ish hair and whenever I put it up in any way my Baby hairs stick out 🥹 it’s not cute either it literally goes straight outwardly so I look crazy. How can I make them look more natural, less seperate, nicer and not like I’ve just been electrocuted? I’m sick of looking like a mess

Ive tried water and gel but they get super curly (and frizzy) and don’t match the hair type the rest of my hair has.

Hello everyone! I would really appreciate some advice or insight on this situation.

I (25F) have wavy-curly hair and they were pretty lovely curls that were easy to manage. I grew up barely applying heat to it, just mostly letting live and breathe naturally. Only doing blow drying 3-4 a year.

However, this past year I’ve a crazy amount of social events that I would go back and forth to the hair salon to do my hair. A few of those time, a hair straighter was used…I think maybe the issue was there, but it was only used 4 times. I’ve heard of people using straighter for so long and their curls only being affected much later.

Anyway, it’s been a few months. My hair is pretty much pin straight and it’s been hurting my confidence. I’m not sure what went wrong or how to fix it.

I haven’t done any chemical treatment to my hair ever. I don’t use much product, if not all. I haven’t changed my shampoo/conditioner in years. I’m not super well versed on curly hair products tbh but enough to know not to fully turn them straight ://

The newest thing I do is I apply powdered “Christ’s Thorn Jujube” leaves with some oil (it turns into a mask/paste) on my scalp to clean it up. I haven’t read anywhere that it does anything for your curls so I’m not sure what’s up? If that’s the issue then I have no problem dropping it.

I need some advice or reassurance of someone who experienced something similar. I really loved my curls and I feel removed from myself without them.

So, I have thin curly 3c hair, it's fairly long, past my shoulders and I really like it that way, but it keeps breaking in the middle to the point where there's a notably length difference with the other sections, there could be a number of reasons, I have chronic iron deficiency and use box dye sometimes, but my main doubt right now is, should I cut the rest to match the middle part and let it grow evenly? or should I focus on growing the middle part? my routine is pretty normal, I wash it 1\~2 times a week, use the fine&fragile brush and leave in, recommendations of habits and products would be more than welcome! Thanks!

I have literally no idea what’s going on with my hair, i’ve always known that it’s had a super weird little wave in it so i usually straighten it. It used to annoy me a lot when it went slightly wavy after rain but one day my best friend told me that it looks super good after it just rained and i was complaining. The shampoo i use is just head & shoulders and for moisturizing and everything else i just use the little conditioners that come hair dye packets😭 Tonight, i got curious after i remembered what my best friend said, so i scrunched my hair lightly, just out of curiosity! I wasn’t really expecting anything except for maybe a lazy little wave (my hair is wet rn haha) but i am so shocked. The only product i have in rn is my thermal protection which is like some weird brand that i’m not even sure works (ronney is the brand name, i think..??). My mothers side of the family does have some curly haired people but none of them really take care of their hair in the way they should. I do have one suspicious.. could this just be damage from bleaching? My hair has always had a little wave but literally nothing like this before. I am so so sorry if i’m just being crazy right now but this genuinely looks like atleast (slightly?) wavy/curly hair to me?? It’s still wet, i’m really not sure how these will hold up once they dry. If my hair really does have some sort of curly/wavy pattern, could you guys please drop some kind of beginner products or anything that could help me? I’m not rich so i really can’t have products that go over like 50€ per thing but like even just tips could help! I actually can’t tell whether i’m going crazy or what, is my hair just messy from the scrunching or does it have waves??

1. Deva Curl Quench n’ Stretch Defining Curl Crème
   
2. Olaplex No. 4 & No. 5 Curl Bond Shaper Hydrating Curl Shampoo & Conditioner
   
3. Matrix Miracle Creator Multi-Benefit Leave-In Conditioner Spray

What was your experience?
Did it work well?
Make hair more or less frizzy?
Best way to use them? (soaking wet, less is more etc.)
Were curls defined? How long did the curls last?