Hair! Haircare, Styling, all things hair.

Very interesting, anyway. Fiber arts using human hair.

Shaggy layers, hell yeah. And whatever the title picture lady has, that haircut is amazing.

I don't like the butterfly cut on any hair type, my stylist does them but the center part and heaviness at the jawline don't work for many.

A very very capitalistic view, but I found this interesting as an example of how much the conformist beauty ideals still hold sway and as a window into that business world.

Not much of an article but nice inspo pictures of hairstyles.

Not sure this is useful in any way, but certainly hair related. Wow, very extreme and creative.

Hair textures:

Coarse - fat individual hairs. Can be wiry and strong, or porous (coarse and porous is common in East Asia)

Fine - thin individual hairs.

Porosity depends on the outermost layer of hair, the cuticle, which you can imagine like scales on a snake:

Low porosity is resistant hair, with a tight cuticle, no gaps between the scales.

Medium porosity is hair with a moderately tight cuticle. Often tight healthy curls are medium porosity because the curves of the curls can make these gaps.

High porosity hair has many gaps in the cuticle. Bleached or relaxed hair is high porosity because the chemicals lift the cuticle to do their work and some scales are lost or permanently lifted. But hair can also be naturally high porosity.

Density is the number of hairs per square cm on your scalp. High density is more hair per area.

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While I think the best way to find a great stylist is to talk to people you see with hair like yours and good haircuts, I've used online searches a lot in my natural hair lifetime.

These worked for my area:

https://curlmaps.com/

https://readcurl.com/curlstylists/

There are also brand specific searches of course.

Deva curl is a curl by curl dry cut, good for all curl and wave types. Closest you can get to wash & go in my experience.

https://www.devacurl.com/finder

Ouidad is a haircut with hidden thinning, it was great for my hair but my stylist moved. Really good if your main issues are bulkiness and lack of definition.

https://www.ouidad.com/pages/salons?srsltid=AfmBOoqsunNt0N9izJV23pfHxC6AzOxsEhzkzyvLyrup70vrrf2Ls4MW

Rezo cuts are retro looking and let your hair fall forward like it always wants to, good for tighter curls.

https://rezoacademy.com/pages/store-locator-1

This came over my news feed. I think everyone is aware of hair changing at puberty but it changes over a lifetime too.

What do you do on wash day and between?

mine: wash day, Malibu C hard water shampoo, Innersense Hydrating conditioner, their Serenity Styling cream. Comb it through, flip head over and rake it through upside down. Scrunch, then scrunch with a soft microfiber towel. Wrap it in the same damp towel (between a plop and turbo twist arrangement) while doing skincare. Then let the hair down and gently clap some gel through, diffuse (sometimes hovering, sometimes scrunching, depends on how it's looking).

Refresh, everything except the shampoo.

Mini-refresh, sometimes I can smooth on some mousse or foam and the added definition is enough. Sometimes it looks good and I can hairspray. If it's stretched out those don't work though.

Do you find product choice more important, or styling technique? I feel like finding a good technique matters more in getting your hair shape (curly, wavy, straight) to look good and hold, and product choice relates to hair type - thick or thin, coarse or fine, porous or resistant.

For the look of my hair I will go with technique. If I couldn't have the products I love I think I could still get a pretty good result by leaving something in it and doing the rake, scrunch and diffuse, and that there is no product that would give me a good looking wash and go.

Please help! I live in the netherlands, where it's crazy humid, I have long, very very thin baby like hair, which frizzes like a tangle ball. It's FULL of tangles and even right after a shower & bruahing it tangles up and feels and looks frizzy.

I currently use the Jessy curl line for shampoo, panten volume for clarifying shampoo, conditioner and treatment deep conditioner, and jessy curl oil + Gel.

A few weeks ago I started using hair styling spray from John Frieda - frizz ease. I think it helps somewhat...

I even cut 2.6 inches off my hair and it didn't seem to help with the "damaged look".

My hair is completely natural, and I dont heat style, tho I started defusing a few weeks ago instead of air drying, which seems to have helped somewhat with the frizz...

I sleep on silk pillow cases, either in a loose bun (cause I can't pineapple anymore because my hair is too long) or In a silk bonnet.

I even dry my hair with a 100% cotton t shirt. I do it all!!

It shouldn't look so damaged and frizzy!!

When I sleep on soft rolls my hair looks better the next day, but very soon it starts tangling and getting frizzy again...

PLEASE! HELP ME!

Perhaps I need to go back to silicones? Right now I don't even care about the curls or nothing, I just want my hair to stop being so god damn frizzy.

Please help!!!

Products that I can use???

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16609017

Please recommend me a shampoo! I have 2b/2c wavy hair. I currently use tresemme flawless curls shampoo+conditioner 2x/week. I'm looking to start using a gentle shampoo more often now that it's summer and I'm working out 6 days a week.

US drugstore brands preferred but I wouldn't mind driving to a cosmetics store to stock up. :)

(I hope it's okay to post here - the hair communities I could find are all inactive.)

Why do I get hair clumps a lot that I need to tear out? I wash hair 2-4x/wk. Most often use Carols daughter wdd shampoo , wide tooth comb in shower, microfiber towel, and denman brush, but on occasion I use asiam conditioner or asiam gel. Reset wash monthly

##Overview I have not cut my hair since 2018. I went to a stylist maybe 3 years ago to get my hair thinned but otherwise it's been just growing freely for many years. I've never had hair like this prior to now and any advice on treatment for it so it can be healthier would be appreciated.

It's incredibly thick. When it's in a pony tail, at the base of my skull it is probably about 1"—1¼" diameter. I've never really been able to freely run my fingers or a straight comb through my hair, as it gets caught on random kinks or tangles along the way. I use a soft bristle wet hairbrush and it has been fantastic for controlling my hair.

I notice texturally my hair tends to have a somewhat paradoxical feeling of being dry and oily at the same time. Even after shampooing, if I feel my hair, the skin on my hand will seem to have a bit of oily buildup on it. But even so, you can see that my hair is often frizzy and the physical sensation as I touch it is of it being rather dry.

It often takes a bit of time to soak my hair when showering, maybe 3-4 minutes of running water. When wet, my hair sits at about my pec, and I've measured some follicles to be over 16" long, though when dry the hair bounces up significantly, barely touching my shoulders.

##Goals I would love my hair to not be so voluminous when dry. It is poofy, out of control. I just want it to sit down a little more so I can have it down without constantly battling it to not get in my face and mouth.

I want my hair to feel smoother. Is silky a goal? Who knows. I've gotten a lot of compliments on my hair over the years and I feel like it could be much better looking than it is now.

If kinkiness and tangles are an inevitable symptom of my hair type, so be it. Otherwise, I would really enjoy being able to run my hands through my hair without accidentally putting strands out in the process.

Thank you for your consideration and time!

I've seen Mell and others do this to speed drying (and her hair does always turn out lovely), but it seems like you'd be pulling out the product you just spent time carefully working into your hair. You could gently re-add product, but the whole time you are applying product you are supposed to keep wetting your hair to make sure the product works correctly, so it seems like you end up in a loop of wet hair-add product-hair too wet-dry hair but remove product-rewet hair to add product-hair too wet-ad nauseum. If it's okay to suck out some of the product to get your hair drier faster, doesn't that imply you shouldn't need that much product in the first place? Or that your hair doesn't need to be that wet to add it in the first place?

Hi everybody! It looks pretty dead in here from the age of the most recent posts, which makes me sad because this was such a healthy, useful community on Reddit (good riddance), so I'm guessing I won't get any responses. But hey, you gotta be the change you want to see, so here goes:

I'm talking about the type of hair dryer that has a diffuser built into it so it can only be used for diffusing, not any other type of hairdrying. They seem to just be called "diffusers" so it's hard to search for them, but I've seen one from BedHead, this very similar item from Revlon, and this different (more expensive, but from the looks of it possibly better designed?) style from Bellisima Italia.

Has anyone used one of these? How do they compare to the attachment types? I've currently got a refurb Shark, which I'm pretty happy with, but it's big (hard to pack/store) and heavy and occasionally I manage to knock the diffuser off the end even with the magnets, because I am horribly clumsy. I never use a dryer without a diffuser, so I thought "Hey, why don't they make just a diffusing device? It would be lighter and smaller and no more struggling with keeping the diffuser on the nozzle!" And it turns out they do but I've never seen anyone talk about them so I figure there must be some hidden problem, right?

Routine:

• As I Am Dry & Itchy shampoo and conditioner
• Scrunch in LA Looks Extreme Sport Gel on wet hair, a dollop for front and back
• Scrunch dry with microfiber towel
• Diffuse with low heat, then cool, until about 70% dry or I'm bored
• Air dry, then scrunch out the crunch

Edited

Hello im new to the CG method, i wanted to ask questions to the community but since we cant create more posts in the reddit well i will try there.

So basically i tried the whole curly girl method but at the end when i “break the hardness” of the hair when the gel is dried my hair cause a lot of flakes, and also how to avoid frizziness ? my hair deal with it a lot and its so annoying, i think gel might work but rn it cause a lot of flakes. thank you in advance for your help

PS : the type of hair im trying to achieve is the messy fringe haircut for males picture :

Also if there is a easier way to discuss with the community such as a discord or something please send me the invite thank you

Hello fellow curly-haired people!

I just wanted to recommend the linked detangler brush. I use this one in the shower on wet hair and it has been a game-changer-- way less pulling and breakage and hair loss in general. I was using a wide-tooth comb before I came across this brush, but it's soooo much nicer and I don't spend 30 minutes picking through my hair now. If you haven't tried one of these brushes, it's totally worth the $5!

So sometimes my hair looks about how I want it, and I don't really want to disrupt it by scrunching. In this example I was happy with the crunchy result in terms of shape but IRL it did look kinda stringy. So instead of flipping and squishing it to break the cast, or leaving it alone to naturally soften, praying hands smoothed down the hair and rub at the roots released just enough of the stiffness without inducing more disorder than I was ready for.

Just a general tip - even though the phrase is "scrunch out the crunch" you can twist out the crunch or smooth out the crunch to leave the ends more defined and a calmer look.

(ETA: also shows that wavy hair can 'curl' from the root - that was one of the bizarre claims I saw on r/curlyhair, that curls always start at roots and waves always have straight roots. This person was classifying someone I'd have called at 3b as wavy because her curls started partway down the hair. Discussion got oddly heated. Root curl is independent of curl shape for sure.)