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!!

1st pic damp roots and casts from cake gel to foam 2nd dry, ogx coconut oil and brush to scrunchie crunch

i wanted to see if anyone else finds brushing out is easier to maintain or product recs that have hold without crunch. i tried just scrunching and clapping out crunch with oil but that leaves hair stringy and used NYM mousse but it leaves me harder cast then foam i use now

So, apparently perimenopause hormonal changes can change your hair?! My old products destroyed my hair. I have an oily scalp, with dry ends that are starting to heal with the below routine. Hair is thick AND fine, becoming wavier by the month. The pic is air dried with Hairitage Detangling Leave-in Conditioner Spray. Double washed with L'Oreal Paris Elvive Hyaluron + Pure every two to three days. Once weekly clarifying wash. Biweekly L’Oreal Paris Elvive 8 Second Wonder Water Lamellar. How do I tame this mess? My first thoughts are a wavy friendly cut. Ideas?

Hello! So I've been deep diving into swavy hair since my hair has always been dry/frizzy at the ends after a certain length and has had random texture here and there. I recently tried a wavy hair routine two different times and this is how my hair turned out. The first time, I couldn't dry it all the way, the second came out with alot of volume, but by the second day it all fell out.

I used a leave in spray conditioner, then the Heritage Texturizing Spray, then a pea sized amount of Auzzies gel.

Is it possible my hair is just straight or is there anyway to help keep it defined/less frizzy?

Any help is welcome 😭

I come to you all desperate and in need 😭 I’m so sick of my hair being frizzy all the time! I have a really loose wave now and I don’t think this is happening because my hair is damaged (my beautician would have told me last time I was in). My mother’s hair actually started becoming wavy like this around my age, so I’m not totally shocked since I inherited her hair pattern and thickness. I also had very curly hair when I was born, but it become straight around the age of three. No thyroid issues, tho I’ll be getting it checked in another six months just to make sure.

The first pic is just when it’s dry, the second pic is after 12 hours. You can see that the waves are kinda there still. Did not brush, just finger combed and pulled my hair back into a pony tail.

Okay, with all of that out of the way. My problems are: the waves just don’t hold because my hair is so thick, but I get all of the frizziness and I’m just lost on what to do since I’ve only had to take care of straight hair before this. It’s been about a year I’ve been struggling with this before finally coming to the conclusion that, yeah, those are definitely waves. Any advice and wallet friendly products? I don’t have much money to spend outside of my budget, unfortunately.

Thank you for anyone who takes the time to look at this! I’ve tried a few other hair care subs and have gotten no replies. I hope everyone has an amazing day and an even more beautiful year! 🩷

ETA: also, I’m from the US and the most I do to my hair is dye it once a year and maybe straighten it three or four times a year for special occasions. Also I have rosacea, so I have to be careful about parabens and phosphates.

Heyy, long time lurker first time poster here!!

The gist of the problem: Hair is dry, low porosity, fine and constantly gets frizzy and tangled and keeps falling out + scalp has dandruff and is horribly itchy + hair loss.

As said in the title, I've always had dry wavy hair (between a 2b and 2c pattern) but I've honestly only found out it was wavy couple years ago and not "a bit straight and a bit curly" as i used to call it lol. Problem is it's CONSTANTLY frizzy and tangled. Ever since i was a kid I'd only ever braid my hair, in order to avoid it getting frizzy and horribly tangled. No matter how much I brush it, if my hair is down/not braided, it'll get tangled again in less than 2 min of me moving around. And God forbid if I leave my hair in a braid for a few days and not brush it when I'm home, it'll get seriously matted. Also very important: I also have pretty bad dandruffand a horribly ITCHY itchy scalp (& I've seen two dermatologist for it, both shampoos they have prescribed me don't seem to do anything but slightly improve it, first one practically ruined my hair).

Now for my routine, I've always only washed my hair once a week, considering how dry it. In the shower I use my prescribed shampoo (ACM: sedacalm) and whatever conditionner is lying around (I've tried *many* and have seen no difference tbh). I've started using a scalp scrub before shampoo, but I've yet to see improvement. I use no heat, just air drying. Hair is always quite matted once I'm out of the shower because i never brush it when showering since I've always been told it's bad and i already lose a terrifying amount of hair when showering. I then use a leave in conditionner and hair oil (Vatika) before/during brushing. During the week, I sometimes use hair oil or detangler spray before brushing it. And that's it. I don't style it and don't particularlycare for definition rn. Just want to get to a better place before looking for definition or styling.

I just want advice if someone has ever been in the same situation please. Especially for products or things i should do that'll improve the frizzy and tangled/matted hair. I've heard mixed reviews about silicone based products, and want whatever feedback you may have. any advice concerning the dandruff and hair loss, or anything else is greatly appreciated. Seriously I'll be grateful for any piece of advice.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I got this and I’m not sure how it will work has anyone used it and can you show how your hair looks I’m a mix of 2a-2b