fuzzy hair - nothing works!

[howlingmoon]

Seriously. It's all a giant con.
I have healthy yet fuzzy hair, quite wavy, doesn't hold a curl.

Tried:
Curly girl, just no.
Kerastase, no difference, in fact some, even up to £40 made it worse.
Aussie - nope.
Liz Earle - nice smell no change.
Keratin - drier, and it isn't generally dry!
Basic stuff from supermarket - no change. Certainly no worse!
Babyliss big hair - more frizz.
Straighteners, both cloud9 and GHD - snaps, dries, cripples.
Blow drying - poof, kinks, fuzz.
Tying back in a pony - snaps and creates breakage.
Wearing loose - fuzz.

Anyone else like this? Fed up of spending as there is no solution? I am tempted to embrace my mad hair and wait until society reels back into adoring it, lol.
It will happen!
Do we even need a solution? Why do we believe that our hair is even bad?

Try rice water in hair overnight and put a bit of oil in your hair before you apply rice water. Leaving it overnight and washing it the next day or even leave it for a few hours and wash it and your hair will stop being puffy. I've always struggled with puffy hair but as soon as I started using these combined it's helped my hair so much it's also so cheap and easy to do.

My dd's have curly hair which looks the same as each others but they have to use different products, it was trial and error for us to find what worked.

We had "The Year of the Hair" during which I bought and tried all sorts of different products until I found what worked on each dd.

I was going to say very small amount of argan oil after washing- but I now wonder having read this if it's actually the move to a soft water area instead.

This is what my hair is like. It took ages for me to work out what the issue was.
Protein made it crispy and I never felt like it was dry so stayed clear of products with oil because I was worried it would go limp with it being fine.
I got a silk pillow case, went back to using silicone and sulfate shampoo and conditioner and I use an argon oil smoothed over the top.
I do an oil treatment once a week.

My frizz has totally disappeared.

You've said you've tried keratin, by that do you mean a kerastraight treatment?

My daughter had this and it's completely changed everything for her. She can now actually style her hair, and have it down, whereas nothing worked before. It was expensive, but I would have paid double as she's so happy now.

I wouldn't recommend the keratin straightening treatments. Damaging for hair and makes it look thin.

Yes, be careful with protein as has been said. Also coconut oil does not suit all. I use it as a rare mask treatment, but not regularly.

Have you tried massaging rose hip oil before you qash it?

*wash!

I have never paid more than £100 for keratin treatment in London. Maybe the expensive salons in central London charge £200 but not the local ones.
Try K18. It's brilliant

Different brands of keratin do different amounts of straightening, from what I've read, and have different amounts of formaldehyde (carcinogenic).
Kerasilk is supposed to have no formaldehyde but as a result just smooths, not straightens.

I am thinking of trying it but haven't yet.

I can get smooth results with Babyliss big hair or other devices or serums but they don't stay if I go outside, no matter what sprays or sealants I use. It just frizzes up horribly. So I hoped keratin might help smooth but keep the curls.

These products will be a game changer for your type of hair.

Email customer services and they will advise which products will suit you best.

onlycurls.com/

Curly girl, just no.

Well your hair sounds wavy so of course not. 
You'd need wavy girl method. Lighter, different products. Though that's not for everyone.

@Willowswood there's nothing wrong with either photo, but I prefer the before, wavy hair photo which looks lovely even with slight frizz. The keratin straight photo makes the hair look fine and the ends uneven and damaged.

Well my daughter is much happier with her hair in the after photo. She's 12 and desperate to fit in and be like her friends.

It hasn't had a cut, so the ends would look damaged, thanks for pointing that out. The rest of it is really shiny and the difference it's made to her confidence speaks volumes.

Oh and to add, it's still really straight but not as straight as the day it was done at the salon (this is normal), but zero frizz. It's really thick and in no way fine.

I'm sorry if I offended. I had no idea of the age of the person in the photo. I'm only going by what I see in the photos.

I've got most of a set of these going spare if someone wants them (I'm away for a bit though). They have good reviews but didn't work for me (made it sticky and wild)

@Willowswood your daughters hair is curly .. she just need product and a diffuser and it would have been amazing

Lovely that you have helped her but when it wears off she could have the most amazing hair !

That's just it though, she really didn't want it curly. We went to a salon and they styled it curly, so we could see how to do it curly at home, she hated it so much.

It affected her confidence and self esteem, and she was about to start a new school, so having the kerastraight has been amazing for her.

@Willowswood yes and I'm glad about that but one day she will want her hair curly I'm sure ..

I've had my hair curly all my life and people fawn over it ina daily basis even at nearly 50.... it's really fashionable now !

It is fashionable, I love curly hair. However we can do so much more with her hair now it's lost all that frizz. Also I can still curl it with the curling wand, and it's lovely smooth curls as opposed to resembling something like Hagrid from Harry Potter 😂

Bless her .. my daughter cried when she was 12 and I joked that her dead straight hair would go curly like mine when she was 13 ( there was zero chance ) but I never joked about it again 🤣🙈

It makes me laugh that instagram thinks it invented curly hair like the wheel or something 🙄! Just walk some mousse in it and diffuse it 🤷‍♀️🤣

Reading with interest as my once sleek long hair is now frizzy and fragile.
I changed nothing! 😫

If it’s fuzzy then there are waves you haven’t discovered yet. I’ve literally just this past year discovered how wavy my fair really is. Before, I would have called it straight but unruly and fluffy. I hated it. But I developed quite a strong wave pattern at the crown which I couldn’t ignore any longer so decided to learn about wavy hair.

First I tried the bowl method which was really effective but a bit faffy. Also had a load of problems getting some lovely waves in place with my head over the bath, but getting into a pickle when it came to tipping my head upright again.

So these days I comb with conditioner in the shower ONLY. When finished, I scrunch the worst of the water out, apply mousse, scrunch some more, gel, scrunch again, then dry with diffuser.

That happened to me. Pretty sure that it is menopause related.