When all the coconut oil and shea butter in the world can’t improve your damaged, frizzy or dull hair, it’s time to begin playing some damage – control offences. Curly hair is a trend which never goes out of style though you might have to take good care of those unruly locks. It is quite obvious that they can be wild and crazy depending on the level of humidity. However, there is nothing as beautiful as a beautiful curl pattern.
Curl-shaming is something which might provoke a lot of women with curly hair to straighten their curls and hence damage them into nothing. On the other hand, there are other ladies who have never actually learned how to control their manes.Time is precious, but some hairstyling alternatives just aren’t worth the damage they could possibly cause your strands, even if they save your valuable minutes getting ready.
Here we have given eight surprising mistakes that you have been doing which has been ruining your curls.
Washing them in hot water
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Your curls need moisture, and when you use hot water, it sucks out the moisture directly out of your strands. Moreover, it absorbs the moisture out of your skin too. Hence, it’s best to apply warm water to your hair when you’re in the shower. Make sure that you do a rinse with cold water before you get out so as to prevent frizz.
Using a regular towel
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Regular towels are going to be your enemy if you have curly hair. Just drop the terry cloth right now! If you use a regular towel so as to dry your hair, it will increase the frizz and hence dries out your hair like no other since the material is so rough.Even if your towels are really soft,they will make your hair go all frizzy and tangled. Do a favour for yourself and your curls and buy a microfiber towel so as to squeeze out the excess moisture.
Not using a diffuser
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Just as mentioned above, the curls need moisture, and they don’t benefit from unnecessary heat. This means that using a regular hair dryer on them is a disastrous idea unless you’re attempting to straighten out your locks. If you don’t have the tolerance to air dry your hair or can’t give up your hair dryer, what you need is a diffuser. This is not arbitrary. Any curly girl who dries her hair with heat requires a diffuser to evenly dry curls, and hence add volume, and decrease frizz.If you use a diffuser, it can turn your curls from dull and somewhat curly to shiny and bouncy in just a matter of minutes. However, make sure you use all your products to wet, microfiber towel-dried hair. Then spread in sections with your head turned upside-down.
Brushing them
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Do you brush your curls? If yes, then you have been doing it wrong all the tie. Curls must never be brushed. The brushing will not only give you crazy frizz, but it will also destroy your curl pattern and thus cause breakage. If you have any sort of knots or tangles, then you can spritz a detangling spray in your hair and then make use of a wide-tooth comb so as to remove knots.
Washing them too much
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Shampoo denudes the curls from all the natural goodness that makes them bouncy and shiny. If you tend to over-wash your curls, particularly with shampoo which is not designed for curly hair, your curls will get dried out, and they will look frizzy. Since curls demand more moisture than other hair types, you should not shampoo more than three times a week. Moreover, if you can make the turnabout to a low-poo or no-poo cleansing solution, then you should do so.
Not conditioning enough
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Another real curl-problem other than over-washing is under-conditioning. Oudiad Creative Director Morgan Wilhite states that more than any other hair type, curls must regularly be conditioned. If you want to see those curls happy, then you need to condition your hair every time you wash your hair, so as to lock in the moisture. You can also do a deep conditioning treatment once a week, or perhaps twice a week so as to actually moisturise and protect your hair.
Using regular hair ties
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Most of the hair ties that are available in the market are not curl-friendly. They snag, tug and tangle, which makes the curls to knot and then break. No one wants that to happen to their lovely locks. So, the next question is, how do we tie the hair? Scrunchies and thick elastics are the solutions.
Touching them
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No more touching! If you are done with styling your curls, then you should probably stop touching them. John Frieda curl expert Nadia Dean says that you should not touch your hair at all while it air-dries. When you’re always messing with them by pulling on those spirals, you’re doubling your chances of frizz and moreover tangling them into a mess. Playing with those curls is fun. However, if you want ‘them’ to be as happy as you are, then you should leave them alone.
