Wavy hair cut?

[melonhead]

How important is it to get a cut from a hairdresser that understands wavy hair ? Since having my babies ten years ago, my long thick straight hair has become a lot thicker, frizzier and wavy. Oh the frizz ...

I cannot find anyone that can cut it. They always do long layers that pooof up, they dry it with a hairdryer and do it straight with bendy ends... all ok until I leave it to dry naturally and it looks awful. I try to explain what I want and it never happens.

Can people with great wavy hair tell me exactly what you say to your hairdresser please!!!

I have similar hair, it also went curly/wavy post children.
I never have layers, I need to weight to hold it down. I only get chunky face framing sections at the front.
It's all about they way I dry it too. You need to keep the moisture in it, a bit like curls. I can't let it hang free to dry or it gets massive and frizzy. It needs sectioning and twirling then wrapping in a t shirt. This gives loose waves for me. (but takes all night to dry)
Only then do I blow dry it with a big hair thingy. That doesn't happen often as it takes too long.

I also use lots of hair masks and oils. It's hard work.

I've found similar, the curly hairdressers don't really get it right (far too many layers, it just went everywhere and looked weirdly flat), regular hairdressers always just assume you wear it straight despite saying you don't. I started cutting my own hair in the pandemic and that was surprisingly better than most hairdressers so I never went back.

Much the same as pp, keep the length and weight in the back and layers at the front works best. I can play around a bit with cutting techniques at the front but that's as exciting as it gets.

I also really like K18 for my hair, it just works really well for letting it dry naturally and looking good without much effort. Without K18 I need to use brushing techniques and extra products to get similar results. I also like a bit of light hair oil to apply throughout the week.

Honestly, people often complement me on my big wavy hair, so I guess it must look swishy and lovely to some.

but it’s a pain - really hard to control as you say. It also gets out of control as the day progresses.

i get the hairdresser to cut long layers (this keeps the weight & gives some shape - otherwise I look like I’ve got triangle hair).

I also use that big hair drier thingy to bring order to it. The frizz… not sure, but the only stuff that makes a diff to me is kerastase (sp?) products - annoying since expensive. But it’s not like I’m a hair guru, and I’m still intrigued by the way @umberelladay talks about how she dries her hair. I let mine dry naturally but perhaps I shouldn’t! T shirt and twisting umberella? Pl tell us (me!) more in detail about how that works, if I you can :-)

I can try.
I comb conditioner through it in the shower, gently squeeze the water out then put it in a micro fibre towel, no rubbing at all. Leave it for half an hour. Then I spray a light leave in conditioner and run some organ oil through the mid lengths to ends. clip it up, start at the Botton/back and do twist sections (twirl it loosely and once I have a few sections I pin it. So it's like a loose u shape (if that makes sense ) when I done it all sort of lift them up and use a couple of those spring clips.
Wrap it in a t-shirt and pin the front. Sleep and remove in the morning. Then unclip the sections, add a smidge more organ oil if necessary.

It's something to do with how it dries and retains the moisture, I think it similar to the curly girl method, but gives a looser wave.

I only wash once every week. I got it from Youtube, can't remember who..I will see if I can find it.

It does stop it frizzing, you do need to sleep with a sleep cap unless you enjoy washing!

Ohh thanks @umberelladay . I bought a micro fibre hair turban thing for drying but it made my hair SOOO frizzy! I’ll try it again tho. Can you recommend a night turban/cap? One thing I learnt from curlygirl was to tie my hair up at night, and that helps against constant washing too (now wash every 4 days rather than every other day, but once a week would be great!). Ironically it gets quite greasy by day 4, even if the lengths are dry and prone to frizz…

I just use an. old silk scarf, I'm too tight to buy a cap😁 Plus I thrash around a lot.

I tried the old silk scarf umbrella TM method last night and it seems to work! Woke up with much smoother hair. Thanks @umberelladay

Thank you and pleased you liked it.