Curly Hair Method for Tight Curls

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My hair is very thin, quite wire-y and is quite tightly curled. I have been roughly following the curly hair method but all the scrunching makes my curls even tighter and so my hair looks even shorter (it grows sooo slowly) I still want my hair to be bouncy though. I'm not sure if that's even possible as it's quite ridgid. I feel like the curly hair method is best for people who have wavey hair that want curly hair. Whereas I want my curls to be a bit looser.

Does anyone have an tips for not making my hair not curl up so tight? Obviously I can just stop the scrunching but wondered if there was anything else.

Also I'm not sure if I should be using mouse of cream first. I use the mouse for volume.

No, I'm wavy and dislike the tighter curl result you get with cgm too, I wouldn't mind if that was my actual curl pattern but it always seems to be one pattern up and then it falls after a day or two and looks weird.

I don't know how tight you are but if you're 3c or over you're probably better off looking at 'natural hair' resources which is more black hair focused, then look into curl elongation styles, sometimes called anti shrinkage.

If you're 3c and under you're probably best off looking into brushed styles (usually using a de man brush), Manes by Mel has some good tutorials for this.

*Denman brush not de man

Yeah thank you.
Natural hair stuff seems geared towards really thick afro hair. My hair is somewhere between afro and Caucasian hair but it is so so so thin and not a lot of it!

Anyway I need to accept that it's thin and probably just put products in it to moisture it even though it may way it down.

I'll look up denman brush 👍

I don't have super thick hair either but it's healthy so usually fine with just lighter weight products. The 'moisture' products seem to just make me look like a drowned rat. I just use leave in and a mousse and brush it through with the denman brush technique. Gel if I'm feeling up to it but tbh IME it's a lot of faff for minor improvement.

Cgm is basically no shampoo and no direct heat.

Styling methods are a whole separate thing.