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

[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....

[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!!

[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.