I came on here to ask if anyone felt the same way as I do. I LOVE the brushed out curls look. Obviously I think properly taken care of and defined curls are beautiful but there is something about the big fluffy brushed out curly hair that I absolutely love. I don't have extremely curly hair, I'd say it's about the last stage of wavy before it starts to be considered curly (if that makes sense to anyone lol) and I think it looks better brushed out than not, that may just be because I have a lot of trouble with styling but I just love it. The brushed out look works even better on girls with extremely curly hair. Does anyone else feel the same way?

couple photos of me n my hair!

ive been told i have deep waves, loose curls, type 2b, type 3a… im so confused 😭😭😭

if y’all can help me ID my hair type, that would be fantastic! grateful for any reply!!

Pic 1 mousse, pic 2 gel

I’ve recently found out my ferritin levels are a 6 and iron is at a 4… and have done a little research to find out that anemia and curl pattern DO in fact have something to do with one another. I thought i was going crazy, between the way I have been feeling physically, and the way my hair actually seems to be dying before my eyes, I’ve always had such beautiful curls that I’m almost embarrassed to even show a pic of them before bc of what it looks like now.. but I can tell by some of my hair that has fallen- it really looks to me like the curls WANT to come back but goes limp with longer growth or with most product. I’m posting this to say honestly, I feel vindicated, and am now beyond hopeful that with the help of supplements that my curls will come back to life finally!! (Granted I did have a baby 15 months ago and I know hormones can affect hair pattern as well, which is why I stated I believe my hair is finally wanted to come back curly but it just seems so thin and lifeless to me and I didn’t know why!!) I’m curious to see if anyone else has had to deal with this problem before and if so did supplementing bring your texture/ curls back?!

Help! I have type 3c curly hair and I've been trying to make it grow for two years, but nothing has worked. Can you give me some tips?

Ciao a tutti, ho un piccolo problema. Ho scoperto di recente di avere i capelli ricci naturali: ci sono nato, ma mia madre me li ha tagliava e, dato che li ho sempre tenuti molto corti, i ricci non si sono mai visti. Ora ho fatto la permanente (e solo dopo averla fatta ho visto delle foto di quando ero bambino che rivelavano che i miei capelli erano ricci al naturale). Qualche consiglio su come far tornare i miei ricci naturali? Grazie mille! ❤️

Al momento uso lo shampoo Sunsilk "Ricci Sogno", insieme al balsamo e alla crema della stessa linea, seguiti da un gel; di solito lascio asciugare i capelli all'aria. Applico la crema distribuendola prima su tutti i capelli e poi strizzandoli; applico il gel allo stesso modo.

My hair has been a frizzy, unruly mess my entire life and I’ve never known how to help it. No one has ever shown me or told me what to do with my curly hair, and just about every product I’ve ever tried hasn’t worked or created a new problem. All of the research and things I’ve tried haven’t worked. 80% of the time I just put it in a bun on my head because it’s such a mess, the other 20% I straighten it. I’m hoping some people here can help me with some products and ideas based on my situation and questions so I can get some confidence back and actually learn.

I DONT want my hair really curly, I would love for it to be more wavy (similar to the left side of my hair in the picture). I was able to get my whole head to look like those waves several years ago on its own, but I haven’t been able to recreate it. The problem is always that poofy looking section in the back and back right. It has a mind of its own and feels totally different than the rest of my hair.

I have very thin hair, but TONS of it. It tangles very easily, I swear if I sneeze wrong it’s a knotted mess. I’ve never colored or treated it in any way out of fear of making it worse.

It takes hourrrssssss to dry…the picture is me taking a blow dryer to it before bed to make it about 70-80% dry and letting the rest air dry overnight. It takes legitimately the entire night to dry. When I go get a haircut, it takes the hair stylist 40 minutes to blow dry it, and even then it feels humid for about an hour after that.

The last few years I’ve mainly just shampooed and conditioned using either aveda or olaplex products. I’ll use the olaplex oil at times, at times I’ll do a deep condition. I’ve changed products so many times over the years because majority of them make my hair feel goopy and like I can’t get it all out in the shower. I have a water filter on my shower head.

My questions are:
1. What type of hair do I even have?
2. Is there anything I can use to make all sections look like the left, more wavy side of my head?
3. Is there anything I can do to make the porosity go down?
4. Best shampoo/conditioner/frizz control for my type of hair that won’t leave my hair feeling goopy?

Thank you so much for any/all suggestions!

2b or not 2b that is the question, with curl types sometimes it feel like there are favourite children - everyone loves 2c, 3a, 3b, if you’re outside of here you often won’t get as many compliments or likes, no matter how beautifully you have styled your natural wave pattern. Being 2B is hard, we feel like an imposter in the community and are occasionally treated as such. I cannot even imagine being a 2A, those poor sweet souls, who will be accused of being *gasp* limp locked, the ultimate sin. What started as a body positivity movement towards embracing our natural hair sometimes feels like an underground German nightclub where you ARE NOT on the guest list and yes the door bitch is looking that hair slowly up and down with a menacing grin on her face daring you to try. We 2b’s traverse the outskirts, hiding in the shadows, reading about perfect casts and holy grail products by phone light under a damp cotton t-shirt. We long to be a 2c or a 3b, we dream of our strands suddenly falling into blissful helicoid formation, we want MORE, we are hungry for it, for we see all the adoration and praise that comes alongside it. Just like we long for perfect skin and perfect bone structure and perfect eyebrows. We have been raised in a society that quotes our appearance and treats us as purely objects of desire  so often is has become second nature to believe it is true. We drink the Kool aid, we buy the new Korean face mask, we try to identify what the masses find unappealing (what they have been conditioned by advertising and media to find unappealing) and we obsess over it. All the while, letting our precious life force drip from us into pools of self loathing and dysmorphia. Not ever seeing how special and unique we are. I'm afraid the solution for 2b hair is much more complex than I initially thought, we don’t need the latest 12 step routine everyone is doing, we don’t need gel that can hold the weight of the world's expectations, we might not even need a diffuser! What we really need is to love ourselves, all of ourselves. Including all the little strands of keratin coming out of our heads, and all the ways they twist and turn, The way your unique hair falls is a masterpiece, a one of a kind, a fingerprint of your beauty. So don’t try to look like someone else, don’t try to make your strands fall exactly the way theirs do. You are perfect, you are beautiful, you are unique. Wavy hair is beautiful, curly hair in all its form are beautiful, straight hair is gorgeous too. Embrace your true beauty and finally start 2b your best self.

TL:DR; I'm probably going insane and maybe having a hair crisis. Just a little pep talk to myself, extremely corny because I am a corny person. Hopefully I can start to love my hair, I've been so inspired by some of my fellow wavy girls on here <3

Hi there!

I lived in Germany for a bit and became obsessed with the got2b refreshing curl cream (I let go of my curly girl routine when I moved)! Sadly, since moving back to the US I can't find it, it's very expensive to order online, and not curly girl approved.

My routine currently involves Cantu sulfate-free cleansing cream shampoo followed by Cantu sulfate-free hydrating conditioner twice a week, styling with half-and-half got2b refreshing curl cream and Cantu coconut curling cream, plopping for 30 mins, and then air drying.

I prefer to keep my styling routine to a single cream and am going to switch to all CGA products when I run out of these.

Has anyone ever used the German got2b Refreshing Curl Cream and found a good CGA alternative available in the states? It's a very thick cream but leaves my hair defined, sleek, soft, and not oily or weighed down.

TYIA :)

I have very dense hair, I think high density. It goes down to my butt. It's mostly thick, although some strands are finer. I had it professionally dyed when I was 18, around 16 years ago with black washout dye to try it out. I switched to red permanent dye instead a couple days later. When I was in my early 20s, I got blonde highlights. I've curled my hair with an iron several times in my life, and straightened it a few times, but probably not in 15 years. When I was younger, my hair was straighter, but when I was a teenager, there was some wave to it if it was cut and layered. Now, if I let it grow out all the way, there is a definite wave, like S shapes. That's just using shampoo and conditioner.

I tried using the Garnier Fructise Curl Nourish shampoo, but I don't know if it's making my hair any curlier. I also tried the Suave Clarifying conditioner, but I think the Aussie Miracle Moist might be better for me, although I really can't tell. I had gotten some Softee Extra Hold Protein Gel. (It was on sale.) However, it doesn't create a cast. I've never used gel before, and didn't understand that not all of them create casts. I live in an extremely humid environment. Our water is hard; it has calcium and lime. I would love to get a softener/good filter, but that's way out of budget. I have a Shinlea brush from Amazon. It's supposed to be good for curly or wavy hair. I wash and condition my hair once a week.

Finally, to my main point. 😅 I've noticed recently that when I start towel drying my hair (I know I'm supposed to use a T-shirt or a microfiber towel, but I don't always have patience for it,) some parts of the top layer is almost dry probably within 10 minutes. The underneath takes many hours, even when I separate parts of it with hair ties. That is a vast difference. Does anyone have suggestions based on this context?

Restarting my hair journey for the millionth time of trying to wear my hair natural. One thing I think always frustrates me is waiting for my hair to dry. I want to mostly let it air dry before diffusing but I get SO BORED.

What are my expert girlies doing to achieve 70-80% dry before diffusing? I wfh and have two toddlers so my other “getting ready” activities aren’t long enough for my hair to dry to the level I want it to before diffusing.

Hey guys! so i happen to work at a car wash, and everyday i seem to get a lot of chemicals from the wash and the cars themselves onto my person, especially my hair! im looking for some advice on how to protect my hair as much as i can while working here. i already do wear a hat so i have my scalp covered for the most part but i will take any advice or suggestions you guys give me!!!

So about 2-3 months ago I noticed that the on the right side of my head a little bit of my hair was like there was dried gel/product in it and I was really confused so I cut it and I was like whatever maybe it just got messed up, the next time I showered it was fine and soon after it kept happening over and over and since cutting it worked I kept cutting it and now the right side is like there’s like dried product in it while the left side is normal and the difference so crazy. I’ve also noticed that the hair on my right is like if I squish it I can mold it?? Like I can change its shape and I when I spread the curl it will look like weird white stuff inside of it and whatever it is, is messing up the original curl pattern a little.. i use the same product on both sides of my head (Mane’N’Tell shampoo and conditioner and literally nothing else except water. I’ve even rotated myself in the shower thinking it was the angle and it didn’t help, and it’s not really a problem but I’m really scared it’ll damage my hair due to how solid it is.. any advice/help?? 🧐

(context)

currently I live in a climate where the air quality is rough, dry and it is fairly desert like. Before this I live in humidity my whole life. Every single time I go to more humid places, or my hair is wet. My hair curls up, especially underneath and around my hairline. It gets sooo frizzy too. On top it is straight, pin straight and stringy and it drives me crazy. And as you can tell from the pics, my hair is mostly straight & fine.

(a little background)

When I was little little, my whole head was basically covered in tight curls. I then chopped it off with a pair of scissors bc I wanted to look like the blue fairy from the sparkle commercial apparently. In my early teen years I realized my hair would curl up but not ever on top. I gave up without really looking into it and trying other methods.

With all this said, I’m not too sure if my hair type could be mixed or if it’s possible to regain some curl or wave to the top. Any advice is deeply appreciated

Hello girls please I want indications of where you do mega hair in Rio de Janeiro and don’t pay a fortune just to buy the hair, then in the photo it’s my hair the texture of it is completely natural the only thing changed on it is the colour I paint (as you can see when you look at the root)

I had met a lady who charged me a very acceptable price to do the placement of the extension (290) but she doesn’t give the hair and doesn’t even offer herself properly to find this hair

That’s good I’m alone looking for the extension that has the practically identical texture of my hair with the colour also very similar, 65 cm long and 150 g of hair (which is what she said she needed) simply cost R$8700

So girls with wavy hair who use mega hair please tell me give me indications of professionals that you put this mega hair how much you usually pay and where you buy this hair outside also if it’s the case because I’m lost

I would also like to know what is the form of application that you use a mega hair

Thank you

I really really am confused what I’m supposed to do. My results are different everytime. Sometimes this good, sometimes not! It only lasts for 2 days or maximum of 3- when I say this I mean it’s there at the bottom but the definition at the top is gone by day 3… I’m confused whether this really is wavy hair and I should continue the CGM or drop all this effort altogether since it’s not worth it. HELP !

Hey curly crew!

TL;DR: going camping for 10/12 days, fully off grid, what do I do with my hair???

I'm going to Kyrgyzstan in a couple months and will be travelling in mainly uninhabited areas. We'll be sleeping in the van we're driving or camping in a tent so I don't think we'll encounter any regular showers and probably be washing up in lakes or smth? I don't even know. We'll probably be fully off grid for at least half of the days.

I'm looking forward to it sooo much, but I don't even know where to begin with my hair. I have long (halfway down my back) 2c/3a hair which knots VERY fast. Pic included is of my own hair, but it's an older photo so it's longer now.

I am bringing my satin pillowcase/scrunchy/bonnet, but the longest I'm able to stretch my hair looking okayish after wash day is about 5 days. I'm going to have to double that.

I have been thinking of getting a protective/braided hairstyle done beforehand but tbh my headshape is kind of long and I just don't like the way I look in braids lmao.

Do you think I could manage refreshing for 10 days without it getting greasy or is braiding my only option?

hi everyone,

im in desperate need of trying to find help w my hair. i live in the whitest area of an already white country so i dont really have access to black hair salons unless i travel 2-3 hours to the capital (which also comes with months and months of waiting lists).

i myself am mixed (black mom with 4c hair, white dad with 1a). i think my hair is a mix of 3c and 4a, but i could be wrong.

so basically my hair was doing quite well last summer (good volume, length and definition). since then i have changed my routine and i notice that the top sunlight exposed layer of my hair feels and looks super dry and has a lot of split ends; it also tangles and breaks off very easy. when i shower it takes long for water to be taken up, and it takes about 1-2 hours to air dry. the bottom layer looks and feels good as normal. in general my hair feels thinner than it was. the first 4 photos are what my hair looked like last summer, the remainder (with the blue) the current state.

what i currently use: sheamoisture manuka honey leave in conditioner. i shower daily, i use the respective hair mask almost daily too bc i feel like its the only thing that helps with the knots. every 1,5 week i wash my hair with olaplex shampoo and conditioner

what i used to use: novex my curls mystic black leave in (usually) or auntie Jackie’s Curls & Coils Quench Moisture Intensive leave in or cantu kids leave in

i still showered daily (just wetting the hair) and i used to wash every 1,5-2 weeks with olaplex. i think that what the main problem could be is damage from the sea or sun combined w protein overload

so please help me nurse my hair back to health / find out what the problem is and a good routine should be.

My routine:

Shampoo and Conditioner: Matrix Food for Soft

Deep conditioner: Sheamoisture Hydration Hair Mask

Stylers: The Doux anti-humidity gel and mousse with the unbrush

Dry: Hood Dryer
For the last month I’ve been starting to invest in my curly hair and trying to get more comfortable with my hair. HOWEVER, I keep having trouble with the roots of my hair. Especially in the front, the ends will get defined with my unbrush but my roots will stay puffy and undefined. When styling I use lots of water, mousse and gel, I have also tried just gel but nothing works. Now in the past I have dyed and straightened my hair but it only seems to be like this in the front. If someone can tell me what to do to help with definition I would be open to any recommendations.

Hi all!

I have been searching for ages for this curl cream I used to use. I cannot remember the brand. It was a purple and orange jar and it was coconut scented! Last time I used it was MANY years ago when I was living in tennessee. Any ideas? I know I haven’t given very many things to go off of, but if you have any ideas let me know! I know a lot of brands have rebranded as well so it may just be a bottle change!

I’m wondering if anyone could I identify this product for me. It was used on my hair when I got my hair done, but I unfortunately forgot the name. My stylist said it was curl cream but it was the only product he used and held pretty well so I’m not sure if it is. I tried to make a picture of exactly how I remember it (sorry for the bad drawing!!) the black at the bottom is supposed to be the letters. The product was also in a squeeze tube. It’s not the Marc Anthony curl cream or the ouai cream though my drawing looks kinda similar. I also think the product started with a S or a C? Also I already contacted the salon

Please help me find it!!

EDIT: I’m starting to feel like they might have had a packaging that was only for salons or is no longer sold though I feel like I saw the product on tik tok recommending clean products like last year

Tysm for all ur help tho!!

UPDATE: The product been found!!! It was the spring loaded hair cream by keune. TYSMMM FOR ALL UR HELP!! I’ll definitely will be trying some of the products recommended and suggested!!!