#curl routine

[erosmutt]

fellow curly haired mooties, do you have a curl routine? i need advice on how to properly take care of my hair 😞

[thezombocat]

Been taking care of my natural wavy hair for the first time ever and it’s gettin so happy :)

[quicklikelight]

@rosewindow asked about my curl routine so I figured I'd make a post about it. I loosely follow the Curly Girl method, but my hair is a) extremely thick (density-wisr), b) extremely fine, and c) prone to having hands in it (my own mostly but also my girlfriend's) so some things I've altered. My cut was many layers through the top because my hair has a tendency not to curl there. There are longer layers through the middle/ends. My curls are primarily 3a with some 3b and 2c areas.

I shampoo and condition daily in the morning(ish) with sulfate/silicone-free products, usually the Function of Beauty Curly (pink) line that you can get at Target.

I comb my hair to detangle while in the shower, by flipping my head upside down while I condition and raking through it with a wide tooth comb. I then scrunch my hair as I rinse the conditioner out, to help curls form.

Out of the shower, I put in curl cream (right now using Curlsmith Hold me Softly Style Balm) and mousse (Curlsmith Volume Mousse from their purple strength line). Then I plop my hair on top of my head and wrap in a microfiber hair towel so it can dry some.

When I feel like taking the towel off, I scrunch a bit more to encourage it, especially the top, and then I go about my life! I sleep with it in a bun with a satin scrunchie, and am careful about heat, color, etc.

[madelynluvrr]

trying a new curl routine from a girl on tiktok and if my curls don’t turn out even NICE im finding the nearest cliff

[little-red-devil]

Not me casually getting the best results from a curl routine in ages at 10pm on a Thursday night 🙃

Praying it doesn’t get fucked up while I sleep!!!

[2c3alowpo-blog]

Washed with Devacurl Low Poo and rinsed our/detangle with One Condition Delight. Used Shea Moisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil masque for 5 hours with a hair cap on. My hair feels soft and is shiny but isn’t very curly and is likely weighed down. Styling: - Used Maui Moisture Curl Smoothie in praying hands method halfway down - Raked in Devacurl B’Leave In - Raked in 3 pumps of Devacurl Ultra Defining Gel I think that the Maui Moisture is way too heavy in my hair. My hair is fine so products in tubs instead of bottles aren’t great. Especially since I deep conditioned. I should try this style again without it. I might also want to scrunch in the Devacurl products so that it clumps curls instead of elongating them.

[magalis]

notsoinnergeek replied to your photoset “Got my hairs cut! I was growing it out, but then I was like “why would...”

Love the curls! How do you get them to look like that? Special mouse or gel or something? :)

The magic of professional hairstylists! I can never get the curls to look as nice when I do it myself! Yesterday she used a cream and an oil that she mixed together herself, but I only saw enough of the bottles to know that the cream was a Redken 17, though now I can’t find it online! (I can find Redken 17′s, but they aren’t the same one as what I think she used, maybe it was a Redken 07?). And I saw the bottle for the oil, but it was facing away from me so I didn’t get the name. It would have been Redken too though, and was probably some variation of Moroccan Argan oil. She then usually goes through and twists each individual curl around her finger and then blow dries it on a diffuser. I think that’s where I lose her, since I tend to do the top layer/front and then ignore the rest when I twist it and I don’t blow dry it at all. When I was in middle/high school my mom used to buy the fancy products that my hairstylist used on my hair for me, but their stuff is always really pricy and I can get usually get similar results with cheaper store brand stuff (I mean, similar to what I can manage on my own).

Day to day I usually wash it with two types of conditioner (Suave Naturals, and a Humectress-based one, usually also Suave because I’m cheap), then I use either Garnier Fructisse Curl Construct Mousse if it’s not too humid out or a fancy gel that I decided to splurge on (currently DevaCurl Ultra Gel, which I hadn’t bought before, and don’t like as much as Ouidad Heat and Humidity), wrap it up in an old t-shirt that I twist into a turban like most girls do with towels (the cotton in the t-shirt is better for curls than terrycloth of towels), then when I pull it all down again I usually twist a few of the pieces that look like they aren’t going to dry right, and let it all air dry. I rarely brush/comb it, if I do it’s because I’m either pulling it back in a bun and want it slick on the top, or because I’m going to straighten it. Usually my day to day style ends up flatter on the top since I don’t diffuse with a blow dryer.