curly girl method didnt work :( i'm giving in + buying ghds!!

[mummee09v]

just wanted to moan really!! i have been following the curly girl method for about two weeks and my hair looks SHIT!!!!!

didnt go for the full co-washing, but i bought an organic childrens shampoo (halos n horns) with no SLS, silicones or parabens and also a leave in conditioner without those things in (a natural tea tree one from home bargains)

and i styled with frizz ease gel and boots pink curl creme. but still didnt get the nice shiny defined curls promised it has looked a horrible frizzy mess and seemed drier than ever. also my hair never quite felt clean while doing it either!!

also after a few days of using the curl creme i looked at the ingredients and noticed one of them is "polyquaternium 10" - thought "polyquats" were to be avoided??? yet on the curly girl thread that is highly recommended??

has anyone else tried this method and failed?? i have decided to buy some GHD's and just wear it straight from now on!!!!!! it might damage my hair but at least it will look better

[mathanxiety]

If you didn't use conditioner only for your hair (plus gel for scrunching), then the method didn't fail, you just did something else that didn't work. Google Lorraine Massey or Curly Girl for the source of the method. There was a lot on the threads here that didn't come from the original CG idea.

[ruddynorah]

maybe look up the curly girl method on google, also youtube has good clips. and british curlies is a good site.

frizz ease is the worst!!

[mummee09v]

aaargh it just seems so bloody complicated

the reason i was using the pink curl creme and the frizz ease was because i read somehwere on the original CG thread that they were ok!!!!

and i was still using shampoo because i read that it was still OK to shampoo as long as the shampoo had no SLS in it!!

aaargghhh sooooo confused (trust me it doesnt take much!!) am going back to read the thread in full again and i might try again with different products this time....really want to give it a go coz i know how bad it is straightening your hair....

[ImSoNotTelling]

I posted a reply earlier what happened to it

it was very boring though

Worth a try maybe trillian. The aussie shampoo does smell lush but is full of parabens, as are the original source conditioners, but that's another kettle of fish I guess.

[TrillianAstra]

I am a curly (I think) just not oing the method as my hair is fine as it is and I have massive bottle of shampoo to use up - might ocnsider it when I come to buy new hair stuff

[ImSoNotTelling]

Forgot to say thanks trillian! Must have been a slow day on MN if you read that huge thread and you're not even a curly

[ImSoNotTelling]

Good lord

Well I got the aussie shampoo recommended on the other thread and it smelt so gorgeous it seemed a shame not to use it, so I have been, and then washing with conditioner and then leaving a bit of conditioner in. then leave to air dry which is what I've done for years.

So I have accidentally done it right! wahey!!!

My hair looks thicker and stronger and in better nick. It is also happily doing what it likes which is quite curly underneath and straight on top. So it looks healthy but very untidy. But hey-ho I'm happy

[TrillianAstra]

I've only read about the thing on a few threads but apparently there's a range in how much moisturiing vs cleansing your hair needs.

very curly - condition only
wavy - shampoo with something gentle (not sure of deifnition) occassionally

Why do I know this when I'm not even doing it?

[BitOfFun]

AnnaSui- I don't know, I was thinking of the frizzease gel.

[ImSoNotTelling]

Adjust the regime for wave rather than curls?

No-one mentioned that on the original huge thread! Well that I read anyway...

How do you adjust?

[TrillianAstra]

I'm not doing the curly girl thing myself but I love how all the people saying 'curly girl doesn't work' either don't have curly hair (and haven't been adjusting the regime for their slight-wave-rather-than-full-on-curls) or in fact just haven't been doing it right at all.

[BornToFolk]

Full on curly girl doesn't work for me so I do my own version!

I wash everyday. Mostly I co-wash with Original Source tea tree conditioner, but once or twice a week I wash with shampoo. Just a tiny bit and just one wash - none of this rinse and repeat business. Then I condition with a Fructis conditioner.

Then I use Umberto Gianni Scrunching Jelly, twist a few curls round my face and the top layer and leave it alone for about half an hour. Then blow dry.

Mostly my hair looks quite good, I think!

I think the key is finding the right styling product for your hair. That Boots Pink Creme was rubbish on my hair, made it feel sticky and dirty. The Umberto Gianni stuff is brilliant though.

[JackBauer]

I've been doing it properly for the last few weeks with DD2, only with cheap conditioners and with no product (as she is 2!) and the top of ehr head is gorgeous, all ringletty and lovely. The back and siodes are stilla bit frizzy because when she sleeps she thrashes, but they bounce back after a spray.
Try it with proper stuff before giving up.

[fishie]

frizz ease will utterly fuck your hair up. it is basically silicone, might as well wash it in fairy liquid.

i like aveda curl stuff, it seems expensive but lasts ages.

[ruddynorah]

OP you didn't actually do the CG method though! so it wouldn't 'work' would it?!

[AnnaSui]

is it the 12 wk blowdry thing that is full of silicones BOF?

[BitOfFun]

I've just looked the ingredients up- it's choc-ful of silicones! No no no no. These are sealing moisture OUT of your hair and building up on it, as only strong detergents like SLS can break them down. That, my friend, is the problem.

But I'm not a chemist. But I reckon that's the reason the regime hasn't worked well.

[BitOfFun]

Some polyquats are ok as they are soluble in water, so don't worry about polyquat-10.

What about the frizzease gel though?

[Jewelsandgems]

I tried it on my DD1s hair (she has curly hair) and it kinda worked at first, and then the more I did it, the worse it got - it seemed to get straighter and - well just lank really.

I then washed it with her usual shampoo I had kept, and after washing curled her curls around my fingers, and her hair is back to it's normal, shiny bouncy (albeit slightly frizzy in wet weather) hair.

[drinkmoretea]

Didn't work for me either...

[bebesequin]

Nope no success with curlygirl either back to frizz ease for me -

[AnnaSui]

here, I know somebody who had it and i'm so jealous

here

[ginnny]

Whats a 12 week blow dry Anna?
I couldn't get on with the curly girl thing either. My hair felt dirty and still went frizzy.
I'm back to the ghds now but I know they are bad for my hair.

[saythatagain]

I should add that I don't subscribe to hair straightners - my hair is too fine (but curly) and doesn't look good. So I would agree with AnnaSui....don't do that bit!

[AnnaSui]

ps, I couldn't do curly gurl either, my hair is too thick. It is just wavy and thick and it looks horrible.