7 TIPS TO FIX FRIZZY CURLY HAIR: Girls with curly hair
PURE KERATIN on 14th May 2020
Girls with curly hair are gorgeous; it can create an aura of innocent, but sensual look.
The current fashion style especially when it comes to hair dictates enhancing the femininity of women.
Vibrant hair styles for curly hair are not hard to achieve whether you have short, long, or medium hair.
It is important to achieve the right bounce as well as movement of your curly hair. This is the latest trend when you talk about curly hair. You can easily check lots of variety of fabulous hairstyles you can try with your hair.
Learning how to keep your curly hair healthy can be a challenge because so much of the hair styling methods we see on television commercials doesn’t work for curly hair, and in fact, makes it dry and frizzy.
What is Frizzy Curly Hair?
Frizzy curly hair is hair that is mostly curly with patches of frizz that just won’t behave and join the curly hair party. The first thing you need to know about frizzy curly hair is that curly hair is healthy hair and usually, the frizzy hair is dry, damaged hair.
Frizzy hair is unruly. It just won’t do what you want it to do and will soak up any moisture in the air and expand and crinkle, turning your careful styling into a wild poof of frizz with a mind of its own.
4 Causes Of Dry Frizzy Hair
a) Dryness – Curly hair has lots of curves that keep oil from the scalp from flowing down the length of the hair. You could help distribute the oil by brushing, but brushing curly hair is also one of the ways that it is damaged.
So curly hair benefits from gentle applications of natural (vegetable, not mineral) oils to the length of the hair strands. Shampooing curly hair also strips it of oils, allow as much time as you can stand between shampoos.
Most shampoos contain sodium lauryl sulfate, which is extremely effective in removing oils from the hair, which is just one of the reasons that it is damaging to curly hair.
b) Rough handling - Brushing, too much combing, blow drying, too much handling, hair accessories, curlers
c) Heat - flat ironing, hot curling, hair dryers
d) Chemicals – perms, relaxers, texturizers, shampoos containing Sodium lauryl sulfate, mineral oils, silicones, bleaches, dyes, chlorine, and saltwater
7 Tips To Fix Frizzy Curly Hair
Curly hair is prone to frizz and hence there are some precautions you need to take after curling the hair.
Heat increases dryness and frizz and hence if you have got a perm done, it is best to avoid using blow dryers.
Even women with naturally curly hair should avoid using heat appliances. Also don’t rub the hair when drying it with a towel.
Curls look their best when left alone. This means that you should avoid touching or scrunching them repeatedly so that friction is reduced. It is also advisable to go to a hairstylist who specializes in curly hair. Deep conditioning is very good for curly hair as it prevents dryness and reduces frizz.
The list above contains a lot of methods that we normally use to make our hair look better in the first place. They are fast fixes and make hair look better for a short time. And yet, using those short term fixes actually damages our healthy hair, turning it in to frizz in the the long term, and causing already damaged hair to break off.
We already know that preserving the curls has become a big challenge for most women with a straight hair. If you have fine hair and thin, is even more difficult.
Fortunately, there are some tricks that you can try in order to enjoy your curls for a longer period of time. These tips will increase the life of your curls.
1) Protecting Curly Hair
Oil protects curly hair from environmental damage by protecting the cuticles of the hair from breakage, and by keeping moisture inside the hair strand. Deep conditioners, hair masks and hot oil treatments are wonderful for curly hair. Curly hair needs to be protected against mechanical damage like brushing, and even moving against rough fabric, which is why many curly girls sleep on satin pillowcases.
Letting curly hair air dry enhances the curl pattern in the hair and cuts down on the frizz caused by blow drying. If you must blow dry your hair, use a diffuser and use as little heat as possible.
2) Do not wash the hair every day
When you wash your hair, you remove also the natural oils produced by the scalp, which helps you to keep any hair style, in this case the curls.
Be gentle with your curly hair. Don’t wash it too often, don’t brush it, and try not to excite it by moving it too much.
3) Avoid the styling products that load the hair
Creams and gels that contain wax weight the hair, literally is pulling down the curls. Use instead products which have a light formula that gives shine to your hair.
4) Use A Stabilizer Lotion
Stylists rely on these lotions in order to help the hair keep its shape, whether it is curly or flat. Simply spray this product on the wet hair before starting the curling process.
5) Fixative = Your Best Friend!
After you have curled the hair, whatever the methods, you must spray a generous amount of fixative over it. Although is not so smooth to touch, the fixative will outline and maintain the curls.
6) Keep Your Hands Off
Touching your hair with your hands, even unintentionally shortens to half the “life” of your curls. Fingers can remove the styling products special designed to maintain the look , in some cases even the oils from the hand can break the curls.
7) Enhance Your Curl
Here are some ways to enhance curls without drying them out and damaging your hair.
Leave in conditioners help keep your hair moist and help it curl.
Hair gels are wonderful for helping to define the curl pattern, eliminate the frizz, and hold your style.
Plopping — curly girls are so smart! Plopping works well for longer wet curly hair and helps your curls form as they dry.
When all else fails, you can gently encourage your hair to curl by twisting moistened hair into hair twists while it dries to calm the frizz and help your hair form a neat curl pattern.
Many thanks to the thousands of curly girls who have devised easy and effective ways for all of us to have healthy, beautiful, curly hair!