Ten Best Easy Curly Hair Styling Tips
Curly Hair Care
Enhance your hair’s natural texture and rhythm by encouraging your curls with these 10 Best Easy Curly Hair Care Styling Tips you can use at home today.
1. Towel drying for Curly Hair
Press and twist your hair into the towel. Do not rub your hair with a towel, it will promote frizz by roughing up the cuticle. You can also wear a towelling cap to absorb the moisture.
2. Use a wide tooth comb rather than a brush
Whether your hair is naturally or artificially curled a wide tooth comb will enhance your curls while reducing frizz. If your hair is tangled comb it through when you are conditioning it.
3. Whatever product you use, scrunch your hair
Use an upward movement to scrunch your hair into a fist, hold, then let it drop. This helps your hair fall back onto your curls. You can do the same to your ends, just twist the ends around your fingers, pushing up, hold for a couple of seconds and then let it drop.
4. Use curl cremes for Curly Hair
Curl cremes will enhance definition while moisturising your hair. Apply from the mid length of your hair, they are light enough not to weigh your hair down, but are not designed to be applied near your scalp.
5. Use a diffuser when you blow dry Curly Hair
Diffuser attachments were made for curly hair. Technique: let your hair hang by leaning forward, or if someone else if doing it lean back and let it hang over the chair. The idea is to let the hair drop into the diffuser and then your curls will wrap around the prongs as you twist the blow dryer (set to low).
6. If you use hair spray use a light hair spray or a gel spray for Curly Hair
Use light hair spray for curly hair. At Urban Fringe Hair when we need stronghold, for example for weekly blowdries, we prefer gel sprays because they never look stiff or crackly and can be brushed out.
7. Manage humidity frizz
A light styling oil is usually best for turning humidity frizz into well defined waves or curls and also for loosening tight curls but they are generally not promoted by stylists for curly hair because even if they are light enough clients tend to apply them too heavily at home. A simple technique I use is to heat a couple of drops by rubbing it in the palms my hands and then rake through the hair to the ends with clawed hands with finger tips on the scalp. There’s no oil on the fingertips so the scalp is avoided while the mid to end lengths get as much oil as they need depending on how far they have frizzed out. The raking helps separate and define the curls. Finally hover over the hair with the palms and lightly pat down any missed frizz.
8. Moisturise the ends of your Curly hair
Conditioners, leave-in conditioners, oils - heavy or light, deep conditioning masques…ask your hair stylist and experiment to find what suits your hair best but you need to keep your curls moisturised. Because curls sit out from the head they miss out on the natural oil your scalp produces so they can easily become dry and prone to frizz. Hairdressers focus on styling so will recommend curl creme rather than leave-in conditioners or oils but before bed a couple of drops of argan oil, for example, rubbed in your hands then applied lightly through your ends will help keep your curls moisturised and will reduce cuticle roughening during your sleep.
9. Loosening your curls
An easy method at home is a simple ‘set’. Stretch your hair with a blow drier on low heat to remove excess moisture then do several large plaits around your head in rough sections. Leave them in for several hours so your hair can 'set' into larger, softer shapes formed by the plaits. This is the reverse of women putting rollers in their hair.
10. Salt Spray for Curly Hair?
Some people love salt spray because it definitely helps to define or loosen curls, some people hate it because it definitely dries out your hair ( and in fact can be used instead of dry shampoo although it only masks oily hair, not ‘degreases’ it ). Salt spray gives grip, volume and texture but you need to research techniques that suit the outcome you desire.
If you are looking to manage your curly hair give Urban Fringe Hair a call or drop in at 3 Lavelle St, Nerang just off the M1, central Gold Coast, so we can find the best solution for you.
