Those of you with naturally curly frizzy hair

Follow @Londondreamer instructions and add a silk bonnet to your bedtime routine.

Lower your expectations and accept a routine of....

Day 1: Wash day - shampoo, condition, shove in some cream, leave in conditioner of some type and gel or mouse, accept your hair will take the entire day to dry and you will look like you just got out the swimming pool.
Day 2: Usually the best - hair is finally dry and looks ok, curls have settled and not too much frizz, just a little lived in ruffle.
Day 3: Yep, its a nest, try to recover by adding a little extra water or gel etc to pull it back into some kind of order, make it look worse. Shove it up in a pony.
Day 4: Back to wet all day again.

I actually like my curly hair.

I use a silicone and suplhate free products as much as possible, either cheap supermarket ones or expensive curl specialist ones when I am feeling flush. I shampoo (not co-wash) one of my favorite shampoos is the faith in nature bar, then condition no favorites here. Then use a tiny amount of some kind of cream (currently cantu curl activator) and I prefer gel (currently umberto curl jelly) both added while my hair is sopping wet. I squeeze out excess water give it a quick smooth and scrunch and either diffuse or leave to air dry.

I sleep with it in a scrunchie on the very top of my head to protect the curls. In the morning I take the scrunchie out and might smooth it with a little water or gel, but mostly just accept what it looks like. I tend to wash twice a week, if I go four days from wash it usually needs to be tied up (mine is short so I mostly just pin back the top layer as that looks frizzy, the bottom layers being more protected look great. I also have a curly cut.

As mine is short (above shoulder bob) I have a large variety of pins, clips and claws that I accessorize with.

When I was child free I used to take much better care of it (and it was waist length). Then I used to do a weekly deep conditioning treatment. A curl specialist deep treatment put on wet hair, then a heat cap over the top, left on for an hour) it made such as difference, my hair was in great condition. But now I cant be bothered and accept a little more frizz and call it character!

It’s shoved in a bun. I can’t be dealing with a complicated hair routine.

There are 4 options with curly, frizzy hair:

1 Get it cut short into a pixie cut or similar
2 Get it straightened or professionally styled very regularly
3 Embrace your curls. Have it cut by someone who can manage curly hair and only use appropriate products for your hair type.
4 Tie your hair back or wear it up most of the time

I’m a mixture of 3 and 4!

Curl specialist cut
mousse and gel and diffuse until crunchy then scrunch it out

Been there, done that. If your hair is in anyway frizzy, it's because it is curly or has some wave to it. Straightening may work at first but it is a losing battle.

As others have said, conditioner is the hero here. When you've washed and conditioned and your hair is wet, put about a two pence worth of conditioner through your hair (mines about shoulder length) and then scrunch. You could then put a gel over the top, I've used Boucleme gel for years, or even the conditioner on its own will help.

Keep scrunching then scrunch using an old cotton t shirt, don't use a towel, it makes it frizzy, this gets the excess water out. Then leave it to dry or defuse.

Seems like a faff at first but you can get multiple days out of this by just spritzing with water in the morning and scrunching again.

Good luck, release the curls!

When damp after washing, brush with a very wide toothed comb, and then add curl cream. Leave to dry naturally. Try to avoid windy days :D

Wash it - use loads of conditioner.

towel dry - a little more conditioner in hands / scrunch it through - let it do it’s thing!!!! as now all curly but the conditioner tames it down a bit!!! Alice band or head band to keep out of eyes.

just cheap supermarket shampoo and conditioner- nothing special.

takes 5 mins to sort…

or if I’. being super lazy or haven’t time to wash it - bung it in a pony tail .

life too short to waste hours on trying to tame my hair! Someone once straightened it for me (their insistence) it took them 3 hours - I just don’t have that time or patience !

Make sure your hair is dripping wet when you put in the mousse/gel/whatever so the curls form nice clumps. If you towel dry it first they will separate and go frizzy!

Totally get where you’re coming from.

Decent cut and Diva products. Their gel is a game changer.