Curls/waves in thick hair

[soloula]

I have thick, coloured hair - really thick almost wiry individual strands and also lots of it. I am ok curling my hair with my tongs to get that curled, tousled look. It looks lovely when I first do it but within an hour or two some of the curls drop and it goes really frizzy. What am doing wrong? I don't have any specific products I use apart from my heat protect spray and a split end cream that I put on when my hair is damp. My hair is mid-length, down just past my collarbone.

I thought I'd give you a bump.
I would mix hair styling gel and conditioner and scrunch it into the hair as this is what the hairdresser told me to do, but I don't tong my hair.

I find I have to use ultra strong hairspray and spray it to an inch of its life if i want it to stay styled.

Gooodmythicalmorning I did use hair spray but maybe not enough? Do you spray before or after curling (or both??).

Hair gel and conditioner? That's interesting mikeuniformmike I don't have enough natural curl for scrunching so I'm wondering too if it would hold when tonged or maybe it would be too damp?

I think you should try the curly girl method. Have a google.

I do the curly girl method with dd1 but is it not just for natural curls? Dd1 takes after DH in the hair department. I don't have any real curls or waves.

I think it all probably help your hair too - you can but try!

What are the tongs you're using? They need to be more expensive than Babyliss/Remington, preferably ceramic and really, really hot. I use the Cloud 9 original wand and they stay for a couple of days.

if your hair is frizzy you should have a curl pattern in there somewhere - it's just damaged and dry possibly? i'm loving the aveda style prep for curly hair. it's a bit magical in my hair which is just a bush.

I have thick hair and mine takes curls well, however if I need them to stay put I use a setting lotion on damp hair. www.feelunique.com/p/Schwarzkopf-Professional-Silhouette-Setting-Lotion-Super-200-ml?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxNLYlO-33AIVhLTtCh10ZQNXEAQYBCABEgIKvPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds this is the one although you could probably get it cheaper elsewhere.

Oh, also, I have the cheapest tongs in the world. They are probably really bad for my hair. I got them from argos for about a fiver (but they don't sell them any more, probably because they frazzle your hair) they look like this www.salonsdirect.com/hairtools-chrome-waving-iron-tong-small-13mm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlras2O-33AIVTbTtCh1gOgBXEAQYASABEgKrkfD_BwE

I spray it after. I need to use a lot otherwise it just goes rubbish. Yew to expensive tongs, cheap ones just dont do the same job.