White Girls w/ Curly Hair
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I doubt OP cares ding dong. She just needs the right product for her daughter. AA products are usually too heavy for most white girl curls. |
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Ha ha! I always get white girls. I'm AA with a bi kid. Try clearing your cookies. |
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Make sure shampoos are SLS- and salt-free!
Use Aussie Three-Minute Miracle Use leave-in keratin spray like SallyHershberger only use detangling wide-tooth comb DO NOT TOUCH let air dry at least 2x weekly Use high wattage ionic blow dryer with more heat protecting spray & if using flat iron, don't forget the CHASE COMB |
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Lots of good advice in the PPs' comments, if you can get past the vitriol from some of the commenters. Curly hair varies in texture, just like straight hair. Agree with the PP who suggested you start by figuring out her curl type at http://www.naturallycurly.com/hair-types.
My DD has curly, fine hair (3A). Her curls are beautiful! I have straight hair, and I had the exact concerns that PPs have voiced about not knowing how to style it and having her grow up hating their hair. What has worked for us is to wash and condition infrequently (a few times a week at most, not every day) using a sulfate-free shampoo and gentle conditioner. We use a California Baby conditioner, not one that is specific for curly hair because those were too heavy for her fine hair. The other days we use a detangling spray to comb out the tangles. I swear by the Knot Genie Detangling Brush. If DD's hair gets too frizzy, I wet it with detangling spray and put it in pin curls to reset the curl. Also agree with the recommendation to go to a DEVACurl-certified stylist. We started taking DD to a proper salon when she was 3. Yes, it seemed kind of ridiculous to take a small child to a salon, but it made a huge difference and really wasn't that expensive (maybe $25 plus tip?). You can find a certified stylist at http://www.mydevacurl.com/curly_stylist_finder. We have used Sue Tang at W Salon in Burke and Megan Mosig at By Shear Design (also in Burke), both of whom are excellent. |
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I am an AA with curly hair.
Contrary to popular opinion "AA" is not a hair type - we have different types of hair too. I have very fine, dense, curly, long healthy hair. I wear it naturally curly, in a neat tight bun, or blown out. I agree w/ the recommendations for detangling/slip/clumping. Products I like: Tresseme Aussie Moist Aubrey Organics GBP Kerastase Oleo & Nutri-Thermique Lines Kenra Moisturizing Line Matrix Biolage Ultra Hydrating Line Limit heat Co-Washing Denman Brush D4 Wide detangling comb Also, if you have heat damage, Nexxus Emergencee is fantastic for helping to put the oomph back in your curls. Also if you put a frizz serum on hair when its wet (normally when you would spray) that also helps curls to try with nice form and removes knots when detangling I rarely use "AA" products - they are too heavy for my hair, usually don't like how they smell, and they have never really done anything for me. I like the Olive Oil ORS sometimes, but that is about it. |
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| I am white and was born with natural spiral curls. My hair was always dull,dry,brittle,non growing. I always use a old t shirt to towel dry,never brushed wet,barely use heat tools,etc so I took care of my hair and scalp but never had beautiful natural shiny growing hair.I am 40 yrs old so I had plenty of time to use "the next best thing" that came out for curls BUT no matter what salon products,OTC,department store products,DIY remedies,never worked to bring shine,growth,De frizz until 2 yrs ago when I started using a naturally based botanical oil hair care system called Monat. Since using Monat my natural curly hair is softer,shinier,growing healthy,and a lot less frizzy.Which is huge considered I live in Southeast Georgia where humidity is crazy high. Also learning my hair porosity played a factor too because I know exactly what styling products to use w/o causing the wet,sticky,crunchy texture. You have to learn what hair porosity you have to properly know how to use any leave in treatments,or styling products. You can't just follow the directions on the bottle because they are on!y General directions and not for specific hair porosity types. |
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It's me again from above comment and I just want to point out what works for high porosity hair most likely won't do well for someone who has low porosity hair. Also there are different types of frizz too. Not everyone has the same type of frizz due to everyone's different porosity hair types,environment,wrongful use of styling products,or the wrong styling,leave in products all together. So you have to find out your hair porosity first to determine what products to use. There are many different styling products,hair masks,for each hair type. Do you need a mask to add moisture or do you need a hair mask to add protein? If you use the wrong deep conditioner,or hair masks that too can cause dry,frizzy,dull curls! So learn your hair porosity by doing a hair porosity test or ask your hairstylist your hair porosity.
Any time you do a protein mask it then needs a deep conditioner followed because protein can actually cause strands to dry out. Our hair needs the proper balance of moisture and protein.ALWAYS WASH AND RINSE IN COOL TO ROOM TEMPERATURE TO CLOSE THE HAIR CUTICLES. If you don't close em then you will just create more frizz. Also sleeping on a silk/Satan pillowcase helps to decrease hair strands friction. Trust me! A pillowcase can make a world of difference on your tresses! Hair friction also causes frizz. |
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Take a look at the instagram #TheMonaCut--- GORGEOUS haircuts but clearly not for white people. Unless you want to look like Rachel Dolezal |
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I have curly hair. This website was enormously helpful, and I get compliments on my hair a lot. |
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Wow, I’m the OP of this and just...how odd to see this come back. (And how sad I’m still on DCUM)
Thanks to everyone who helped back in 2012, we get compliments on her hair all the time now. |
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What products and routine do you use on your DD curly hair now? |
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We alternate between mixed chicks and deva curl. Very little shampoo, tons of conditioner. Air dry. No towel (use T-shirt). Went to the naturalcurly website and learned a lot. Also, good haircut for her. As a straight haired person, I live in awe of the amount of work and effort curly hair takes. But, no one ever stops me on the street to complement my hair, it happens to my kid almost weekly. |
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The AA hair care lines are better products! I just discovered this last year. I had started buying high-end hair care products for frizz control, curl enhancement and then on a whim bought something from the AA hair care section of Rite Aid and it is AMAZING. It works, it smells great, it's all natural. Why didn't anybody tell me that these are high-end products at drugstore prices?
These marketers are really pulling a number on us, convincing us that black hair has fundamentally different moisture needs than white curly hair. The AA-geared products are even sectioned off separately in the store from the other hair care products. Ridiculous! |
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I also had a very curly DD and I had to learn to care for it because I have straight hair. DD gets hair cuts from a DevaCurl stylist, very little shampoo, hand-combing only, leave-in conditioner (DevaCurl and one other whose name I am blanking on). But DDs hair looks amazing. She probably hears from some random stranger every 48 hours "You have amazing hair." Or something like that. I worry about too much positive attention tlbut at least it's not the teasing my curly friends endured when I was a kid. |