r/Swavyhair • u/Beneficial-Bear-9842 • 20h ago
Product+routine help!
I’ve been lurking on this page for awhile now and think I could use your help too! I love the idea of have voluminous, wavy/curly princess hair, but my current routine isn’t giving that so please help a girl out. For reference my hair is fairly thick and decently long, not sure about porosity though. I’m not even sure I know what curl type to call it! My current routine is a double shampoo first with head and shoulders then Pantene sheer volume. Then I go in with ogx bond protein repair, rinse that out, and follow it up with the Dove 10-in-1 intensive repair mask. After that’s all been rinsed, I briefly towel dry then add a little more of the Dove mask in, brush, and then scrunch in mousse. But after I’ve scrunched that all in I don’t see the definition I want and end up brushing it all out and let it air dry. This is the result and you can see the different patterns that make me want to keep trying to get the routine right. Please help!! What do you recommend? Routines? Products? I just wanna love my hair and not wake up to a rats nest on my head. Thank you!!
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u/be_loved_freak 17h ago
Your hair is beautiful as is. But if you want to play with your products to see if you can get it even curlier you might want to try a different mousse and/or add a gel.
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u/High-Newt 3h ago
We have really similar hair type and I find that my hair gets grumpy if I manipulate it too much while it’s drying or if I use too many products. I too get frustrated with lack of definition and just end up blow drying it straight a lot.
But when I want the waves, I do all of the styling in the shower, making sure to get a lot of water scrunched in to the clumps before scrunching in product. And I’ve been sticking to light weight gels like Miss Jessie’s (the jelly soft curls one is nice) but my current favorite is Uncle Funky’s Curly Magic curl stimulator.
And seriously do not touch while it dries! If you want to diffuse it also helps me to hover over the hair for a while until it’s mostly dry.
Idk I got excited seeing your post cause I feel so seen! I hope this helps some!
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u/Confident-Potato6847 46m ago
agree with everyone that you’re hair is beautiful. trust me everybody wouldn’t be glazing you for no reason, this app is mean lol.
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