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.