Those of you with naturally curly frizzy hair

I get an olaplex treatment on it at the hairdresser nd use it at home. Use wella fusion shampoo and conditioner, a good serum. I wear it up mostly day to day in a high bun.

When im going out I have to dry (takes forever 🙄) then curl, crimp or straighten it. I only wash it twice a week or it gets so dry. I used to let it naturally air dry with mousse and scrunching when younger but it's SOOO thick and so much of it now, I just look like I've been dragged through a bush.

Weirdly, I always wear it down and curly on holiday and it sits really nice, curly and no frizz.

Sent a pm

Im in the north, please could you send me the details?

Definitely embrace the curls.
Only Curls and boucleme products are great for me and they have handy styling videos.

I have very curly hair but only need to wash it once a week with a good routine.

Loads of conditioner, brush through with bounce curl defining brush in the shower to get nice curl separation, put gel and mousse on when soaking wet, plop hair in micro fibre towel, diffuse for 10 mins then air dry and scrunch out the crunch when totally dry. Don't break up curls until dry or you'll get frizz.

Sleep on a silk pillow/ bonnet makes a huge difference too.

Oh, and I sleep with hair pins I to keep the curls tight.
Hurts like hell but my hair looks great so I put up with the pain 😬

Put in curl cream while hair is still wet.

I love my curly hair and get compliments from randomers every time I go out. I do the following to get my ringletty (non frizzy) curls:

• Wash with shampoo and conditioner (cheap, 99p argan products)
• Towel dry and brush through - I never brush my hair unless just washed
• Scrunch gel through
• Hairspray all over
• Leave for 15 mins
• Hairspray all over again
• Dry with hairdryer while scrunching
• More gel and Hairspray

Leave for 4-5 days and repeat 👍

But I have those anyway! I always comb my hair with my fingers when I have conditioner on anyway. But I also wash my hair in the evening but then soak it the following morning before putting product in then.

Plaits. All over!

Seems to work better. When the mousse is almost dry I put some boucleme gel on. It’s expensive but using once a week means it lasts years

What did women with our mad hair do with it before products? Any social historians on here? Would love to know.

Sleep with it in bunches.
Never brush when it's dry.
Don't blow dry it.
Soft water areas seem to be best, move house? 😁

Going to a curl specialist hairdresser can help. But my experience is that it cost three times as much and took three times as long (so fair enough they earned their money) but my hair didn't look three times better. It looked about 10% better. So I don't know if it's worth it.

What the hairdresser did confirm though is what I had suspected which is that I, and many people with wavy/curly hair, have a mixture of curl types and what works well on tighter curls can make looser waves lank/ while what works well on waves can make tighter curls frizzy. So unless you treat different parts of your head with different products, it's always going to be a compromise.

The thing that made the most overall improvement to my hair was moving to a soft water area. When I had to move back to hard water area I bought a water softening showehead and that seemed to help with the frizz although not to the same extent

This. On wash day it looks 10/10….. for about an hour before the humidity has turned into a frizz ball again. No amount of gel/mouse/cement has worked for my hair. I get so many compliments on it but I absolutely hate it 90% of the time

Keratin smoothing treatment. Just takes all the anger out of it but waves and curls remain. Doesn’t damage hair at all. I do it at home with a kit from Amazon.

Really depends on what type of curly hair you have. Mine doesn't respond to curly girl at all but I have lots of products and routines that work for me.

This is interesting, so you put one product on while it’s really wet, then turban it up in a t shirt and do the mousse when it’s just damp? I’m going to give this a go!

I use ogx shampoo, conditioner and oil and it's made a huge difference.

the wavy hair method by Charlotte Rich on Facebook is worth a look, good advice on there

I'm with OP on this one... I was watching 'Unorthodox' on Netflix and thought that shaving one's hair off and wearing a wig would be preferable to having to deal with my own on a daily basis!

Seriously, wild hair is not easy. Mine has a few main looks: windswept Shetland pony, a 1980's newsreader, or a cross between Brian May and Hagrid. A relation refers to me as 'The Hair Bear Bunch' when it is in its natural form. Even when I attempt to tame the mane, it still escapes and does its own thing.

I've tried conditioning routines, my hair hasn't seen a hairdryer or straighteners for quite some time, I generally avoid doing anything with it (to the point that I found a dreadlock beginning this week...), and I just bundle it up in a hair turban when it's wet. It still does its own thing if it is too hot/windy/rainy/snowy/humid outside... I was considering having it permed straight at one point.

As for how I manage it, it requires a lot of hair slides and gets hidden up in a bun. I love the winter as I can just wear a hat 90% of the time.

I'm sending solidarity, OP. Good luck!

Give it a try. Once you’ve put your conditioner in your hair and let it sit for a few minutes brush it through with a wide toothed comb or a tangle teaser. You’ll have more defined and frizz free curls.

It’s not difficult to do, but it can be difficult to find the right way for your hair
your routine wouldn’t work for my hair, I need clarifying shampoo every 3-4 days, virtually no conditioner, never leave in and hairspray to stop my hair being so soft

YABU because it’s not that hard.
condition condition condition.
wash (for me weekly), condition (I use diva curl products) let the conditioner soak in, only lightly rinse out.
towel dry so it’s not dripping
wide tooth comb every couple of days.
curl cream (this takes trial and error but isn’t hard) I like diva curl or Morrocan oil curl cream.
done.
my hairdresser is an older Italian woman, she uses cheap products and still gets the curls to curl. She likes to twirl a few strands.
none of this is difficult.

I wash it very rarely - once every 8 to 10 days with a cowash conditioner with no sulphate or silicone. And then Ieave it alone to dry. Do not brush or comb when wet or it breaks.

Apart from that I wear it up in a messy sort of bun most of the time and just let it grow. I brush it at bedtime with a soft brush and plait it then wear a silk bonnet in bed.

Soak hair. Wrap in a towel while you clean your face, don’t rub. Then brush through conditioner. This defines/coats the curls. Allow to dry naturally. You need thick conditioner. I’m on a roll with Lee Stafford curly conditioner. Sounds disgusting, but I keep wetting (not soaking after the first day) and adding condItioner because build up helps.