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Did you know that 65% of women that have naturally curly hair?
If you are struggling to find ways to style or manage your natural curls, don't resort to cutting your hair off! Ditching your styling tools can help you embrace your natural curls without damaging your hair.
That's why today, we've created this complete guide to help you understand how to make the most of your naturally curly hair. Here are our best curly hair tips to help keep your natural curls bouncy and healthy. Keep reading to learn more!
Dry Your Hair with the Twist and Press Method
Roughly drying your hair after a shower will cause you to develop frizz by crushing your natural curls. Instead, it would help if you tried pressing on your hair and twisting to help preserve your curls' natural shape. Plus, this method will also provide your hair with body and volume.
To apply the twist and press method to your hair drying routine, you'll have to take your towel and press and twist your hair. This is in comparison to how most of us dry your hair, which is roughly rubbing a towel back and forth on our heads.
Use a Diffuser
When blow-drying your hair, you should always be certain to use a diffuser. A diffuser will provide your curls with some shape to them. When you're using your hairdryer, make sure to attach the diffuser and turn the hairdryer on a low setting.
A diffuser will evenly disperse the airflow from the hairdryer throughout your curls. This is different from how you would blow dry your hair without a diffuser, putting hot air on one section of your hair. As a result, this can cause your hair to straighten out and become frizzy.
Stop Using Anti-Frizz Products
Do you use many anti-frizz products such as shampoos, conditioners, leaves in treatments, or dry shampoo?
Using all of these anti-frizz products will add a lot of weight to your curls. This will cause the curls in your hair to become weighed down and won't be as voluminous.
Alter Up the Hairspray You're Using
Using strong hold hairspray is very heavy and can cause your curls to be weighed down. Instead, try switching over to light-hold hairspray to help walk-in your hairstyle. This will help you to make sure that your hairstyle is locked in but that you aren't adding in any extra weight to weigh your curls down.
Use Specialized Shampoo
If you find that you like the squeaky clean a feeling of your hair after you wash your hair with shampoo, you need to find a new shampoo. When you have this feeling in your hair, it's because there are chemical formulas leftover in your hair that is causing your curls to be weighed down.
Instead, you should try switching it to a specialized to shampoo that helps to support your curls' health. It would help if you looked for a curl specialty shampoo that's free of sulfates.
Plus, you should limit your hair washing schedule to only washing your hair with shampoo once or twice a week. This is especially beneficial if you want to keep moisture walked into your hair if you also suffer from dry hair.
Get a Trim
Have you noticed that you have a lot of dead ends or split ends? It's time for you to get a trim. It would help if you never sacrificed your hair's health for the length that you currently have.
Hair is more delicate than your skin is. This is because your skin is made up of living cells, but your hair is made up of dead cells. Once your hair has damage to it, it isn't able to repair itself.
Using any reparative conditioners or leave-in treatments will only conceal the damage that your hair currently has. You should get a trim and have all dead ends or split ends chopped off.
Not cutting off your damaged or split ends will continue to create more frustration in your journey for healthy hair. You will have an easier time styling your hair and managing your natural curls by cutting off all of the damage.
Limit Your Use of Heat
It can be challenging to completely eliminate your use of heat styling products in your hair. Instead, you should find other ways to style your curls without using heat-based tools frequently. One way you could do this is to braid your hair the night before a special event instead of relying on your curling iron.
Stop Washing Your Hair So Much
You should also limit how much you are washing your hair every week. Some women will only wash their hair once a week. Others will wash their hair every third time the shower.
How frequently you wash your hair will be dependent upon at how oily your hair is. Limiting how much you are washing your hair will help to preserve the natural moisture your hair produces, reducing your frizz levels.
Instead of washing your hair consistently, you may want to consider implementing dry shampoo into your styling routine. This will suck up additional oil levels in your hair without you having to wash your hair every day.
Learning About the Best Ways to Enhance Your Natural Curls
When it comes to learning how to enhance your natural curls, it's all about discovering what tips work be best for you. Remember, everybody has unique hair, so what works for you may not work for someone else.
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