To have noticed a curly hair renaissance?

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I'm noticing more and more (usually younger) people with curls this past couple of years. I am slightly curly myself so it stands out to me.

It's kind of great because a lot of these looks are pretty natural, even embracing the frizz. I know we're supposed to loathe frizz but it is often a natural consequence of normal hair types reacting to the environment, etc. I'm seeing more people just going with the flow with that now, so it's kinda refreshing.

When I go to the salon they never try to get the irons out on it now, thank god. It seems there's a growing appreciation of a long neglected hair type slowly blossoming.

I guess a lot of people my age (late gen x) are still so used to GHD's and the likes we might end up wondering wtf!

Anyone else noticed this? I hope more and more wavies and curlies are embracing their hair.

(disclaimer: all hair types are gorgeous, but curls/frizz have been shit talked for too long).

I just stopped fussing about products at start of first lockdown.

I always used to fuss about reducing frizz and would buy anything to combat that.

After lockdown I couldnt be bothered and just washed and shampoo'd as normal, then stuck in a plait to dry. Morning after it fell in shiny waves. It seems the initial frizz I get after washing just falls out if left alone, so I was wasting a lot of money fighting what wasn't a real problem.

I did used to use GHD's but my hair never grew and they fairly knackered it. I do know people who use them every day and suffer no damage at all, so....

This is just me though. Im not convinced every curly has to have CGM styled hair that takes hours to faff with. But then some do. Hair is complicated

Any recommendations for sodium and sulphate free shampoo and conditioner that doesn't cost a fortune?

I have the world's straightest hair but lost my hair 18 months ago due to cancer. When it grew back it was curly and I absolutely loved it. Very short crop and wild curls. Unfortunately it was straight again six months later.
I was a teenager in the 70s and no curly perm ever gave waves like it.

@StoneofDestinyalberto balsam raspberry conditioner is only £1 in boots!

Thank you!

There’s a real fashion for 80’s looks at the moment. I was at the hairdressers last week and my stylist was saying they’re getting absolutely loads of enquiries about perms for the first time ever. They’re having to send people to the old ladies hairdressers instead as so few ‘modern’ hairdressers have experience doing perms.

I've just started to experiment with my curls. 2 washes in. I look like I haven't brushed my hair in 3 weeks. It took such a long time to straighten my hair and now with covid I don't fancy sitting in a salon for 6 hours getting it straightened so I thought I'd see what my natural hair looks like having seen the curly girl method. I live in vain hope that my hair will look like some of these curly girls but it's so thick and so coarse that I think it will just look rubbish whatever happens. I fully expect to have to beat it into submission with straighteners but I'll give it a month and try not to scare small children. I do feel uncomfortable though. I'm too introverted to be curly!

I have quite fine wavy hair which I keep shortish with layers as I tend to flatten it easily in bed. I look really weird if it's too straight so I tend to just let it flick about a bit. I went for a post lockdown cut a couple of weeks ago and the stylist "encouraged " the curls so much I ended up looking like Phyllis from "Call the midwife". Lovely husband started going on about Kevin Keegan 😀
I am back to just letting it kink about a bit now 😁

I've never straightened my hair, I've always loved having curls. Also, I'm lazy and no way could I be bothered straightening it every day!

I've not used straightening irons in 15 yrs, I've embraced my wave. But wavy hair has been popular for ages so straight hair will be likely be the thing again soon.

Poker straight hair must be so simple to manage.

My sister hates it. I just wash & go & only wash every 3 days. She prefers every day & always uses a hairdryer as she hates the lack of volume.

I guess we are never happy with what we have. I've always been envious of poker straight hair that can just wash, go and shake into place.

I was desperate for it in the 90s but i'm
over that now.

I'm 29 and I've embraced my natural wavy hair. Mainly because it's thick and I can't be bothered straightening because it's way healthier for it than the straightening every few days

@Sawyersfishbiscuits

It's brilliant! I'm a curly girl (never could be bothered to straighten) and there's so much advice available and much more curly products again! It's really made things easier.

I was going to say this. I’ve always had curly hair, but access to products is easier now compared to the nineties when I was I was teenager. Still was curly then it just looks much better now

Yep, I’m a 3b curly girl but wear my hair straight most days because it’s easier.
I’ve loved being able to use decent products to really bring out a defined curl for an occasion as well, and I’m no longer “ashamed” of my curly mop!

I have very curly hair and have only straightened it 4 times (people always seemed to want to straighten it as a challenge when I was younger). My mum chemically straightened her hair for years (mixed heritage afro) and always warned me not to wreck my hair by straightening it. I discovered CGM about 3 years ago, tried 'plopping' and co-washing etc and have settled for CGM friendly products and only washing it once per week. I love that we're "allowed" our curls now according to fashion and that decent products are so readily available now, spent most of my teens and twenties being the only curls in the room. I'm early 40's and very grey, and have fully embraced my grey curls, it's great to see more people embracing their natural hair whatever they have.

Lots is due to products being sold.

If everyone is supposed to have straight hair, loads of straighteners will be sold. Even straight haired people were encouraged to straighten their hair.

In about 1990, everyone was getting perms and curling their hair. Straight hair was no good. Again, loads of items sold to curl hair.

Thing is now, most people have straighteners. Time to get them to buy something else.

Personally I don’t think anyone needs to straighten or curl or colour their hair. We should all just look like what we look like. Easier, quicker, better for the environment, cheaper, healthier, less stress.

Natural all the way for me. My hair's not curly, but it's not perfectly straight, either. Slightly wavy, I guess, more pronounced when it's shorter. I've never straightened it, never really curled it, either. If I looked too long in the mirror, I might have briefly worried about the random frizzies and fly-aways, but it's too much work to pursue the fantasy of perfect hair.

As long as it's clean, it's fine!

I had ringlets..
Then i started medication that is usually used for chemo and then it changed my hair. Its now a wavy non curly mess.

I miss my curls so much.
I think there is much more info out there now for looking after curls and im so jealous. I would have wonderful curls now if i hadnt been ill.

Before lockdown I had my hair in a chin length bob. Over lockdown I've grown it to just above shoulder length. It used to be straight, and easy to keep it that way, at its old length but it is now neither straight nor curly. A blow dry used to last me five or six days, now it's ruined after sleeping on it one night. It looks great freshly washed, blow dried and straightened, but the morning after it's just sort of collapsed and sticking out everywhere. I am seriously thinking of having it cut back to its pre lockdown length.

Personally I don’t think anyone needs to straighten or curl or colour their hair. We should all just look like what we look like. Easier, quicker, better for the environment, cheaper, healthier, less stress

THIS.
This is definitely what I am noticing out and about.
I don't see anything remotely similar to 80's hair. Curls and waves are not quintessentially 80's, (it's a bit older than that.....heh) there are far more romantic styles around, beachy waves, curly pixie cuts and just people letting it the hell alone.
I think this is the thing, it is not a revival, just likely people are fed up of torturing the crap out of their hair for once.

Also think it's sad that so many of us hold the view that wearing our hair natural is unthinkable or shocking. Even if we joke it's still there, brainwashed onto us via repressive fads and people trying to drag money out of us.

Embrace the curls! I gave up long ago (10 yrs +) trying to get my hair to do anything other than what it wants to do. I’ll say that products are much better now than in the past. Aveda has a great curly line.

A stylist needs to know what they are doing too. Mine cuts my hair twice, once wet to get a general shape then when dry to make it look good with the curls.

Honestly, I wash every day and don’t actually own a comb or brush, don’t need it. I cultivated a ‘deliberate messy’ look and it works, because my hair defies ‘polished’, and most rules... but there you go.

Lots of people started embracing their natural curls in the first lockdown.

The transition period where you find products to suit your hair can be a bit tricky.

I now have a layered shoulder length bob, the layers took out the weight and tangles. I either air dry... or for more volume I clip the roots (around roller type root clips) and blowdry with the diffuser. It looks great the first day. A bit messier and frizzy the second but I just wet it and add more curl cream or gel.

It’s so nice to not need to pin it up all the time or straighten it or use lots of anti frizz products.

Natural curls and waves look so much nicer than over-processed straightened hair IMO. Once you get the cut and products right for your curls it’s so easy.

Each to their own. But do show me a curly haired celeb who still has curls. Markle, Kidman, Chelsea Clinton, Sarah Jessica Parker...

Ten mins with the g h d s doesn't give me super straight hair but it removes the rough frizz and tangles, And the triangular look. Then it is 30 secs with a comb to tidy up. So much easier.