r/Swavyhair

I have recently discovered I have wavy hair. My hair has never been pin straight, but after losing half of it two years ago due to health reasons, it has grown back with a wave pattern. These pictures are after my hair has had mousse and air dried. My routine I have been doing is : After shampoo/conditioner in the shower, I lightly towel dry it and scrunch aussie mousse into it. I then let it air dry or diffuse it, depending on my time. Sometimes I use a texture spray if I want more volume/hold. On day two and after, I will wet my hair lightly and scrunch if I want my hair to look like day 1 hair, or I'll brush through it for softer waves. Is there anything else or anything different I should be doing for my hair to look it's best? Thank you in advance for your advice !

I'm 35 and my hair has always been pretty straight, not PERFECTLY straight but definitely not whatever this is. I've been in the habit of blow drying my hair or wearing braids to bed for a while, I guess I haven't really let it air dry in a while, it's so long and thick so air drying takes a while. But I was at the beach the other day and after swimming and walking around with wet hair, I noticed my hair is really not straight like it used to be.

Anyone else have a texture change around this age? How strange is this! Any advice? I'm very excited if I can learn how to manage this lol

I used nym leave-in and la extreme sport gel. I hover diffused until it’s crunchy and cup(?) diffused afterwards. I‘ve tried using nym curl talk mousse and gel, both separately and together, but they just made my hair sticky and frizzy. It doesn‘t hold for even just one day.

What do I do to make it more defined and less messy? Or am I forcing it??

Hi everyone!! Like many of us, I thought I just had straight hair that had a lil fun to it. Lo and behold after looking at some subs, I think I got some wavy hair!!

Pictures:
Pic 1: just shampoo, conditioner, air dry, brush
Pic 2: out of the shower doing new swavy hair routine (details below)
Pic 3: swavy routine but instead of gel, I used NYM curl crème
Pic 4: fully dried swavy hair routine

I’d define my hair as low porosity, fine/medium texture, medium density, leaning towards 2b (?)

My current routine:

In shower
- shampoo: Being wavy shampoo / purple shampoo / L’Oréal dream lengths
- conditioner: being wavy conditioner / raw sugar deep hydration hair mask

Out of shower while hair is dripping wet
- L’Oréal boost it volume mousse
- NYM Curl Talk gel (clear, hold 3)
- micro-plop with microfiber tower
- diffuse using the hammock method & pixie diffusing

I can’t tell if my hair is being weighed down my products, if my hair needs to adjust to my new routine, or if I’m just over thinking. I think because my hair is finer, I gets tangled near the roots and makes it hard to not try and detangle it even after brushing with conditioner in the shower so it is tangle-free. Do my waves go to my root or am I crazy?

I would love any advice y’all are willing to give! I love my hair and just want to have it the best it can be :,)
I couldn’t have done it without this subs help, so thank you for all who contribute!!!!

Looking for some ideas for my hair :) Something easy to do and comfy. I only have a hairtie rn, nothing else.

Thanks!!!

I never thought my hair would turn out wavy lol. I started researching a lot about hair care in September 2025, and got a hint that I might have wavy hair in October 2025 (after spending tonnes of money on anti-frizz and smoothening products).

Searched up reddit, commented on wavy hair sub, got banned coz apparently the last 2 pictures of this thread aren’t wavy. I was confused asf, posted on the curly sub, and redditors on there backed that I did not have wavy hair and when I shared a picture of my long hair to confirm, I was told that it’s coz I tied up my hair when it was damp.

Why am I sharing all this? Not to prove a point, but to share that if you gotta ask “do I have wavy/curly hair”- you most probably do and give the routine a go!

I’m still experimenting and have a lot of room to improve, but just wanted to let it out here.

I genuinely gave up on my waves after that told me I had straight hair, but picked it up again in may 2026 (5rd picture). I used loreal hyaluron purifying shampoo and conditioner, and arata curl cream and gel.

For picture 3 and 4, I used dedicated a dedicated shampoo for curls, and conditioner too. And I also used fix my curls’ gel and leave in conditioner. And at last, used a mousse and air-dried.

The first 2 pictures are from yesterday where I used the same styling products, but experimented with quantities, and used a wide toothed comb after leave in. Also, I only used the loreal shampoo again, and skipped the conditioner (ran out).

At night- satin bonnet and pineapple!

I’m open to suggestions because on day-2 I had a lot of frizz and I go to gym 4-5x a week and idk how to handle/tie styled hair😭 I’m afraid of ruining or “denting” it.

I have been trying to get a middle part flow style for a while now, but I can never get it right. The main problem is that one side of my hair always flattens out. How can I fix this?

Currently using noughtys wave hello shampoo and conditioner. After shower I add Björn Axen curl creator cream onto wet hair, scrunch and let it drip dry onto a towel, I get good waves, sometimes almost ringlets. But if I diffuse by hovering it becomes a straight and frizzy mess, even if I stay still. Also plopping stretches it straight. By air drying the waves stay for max. 3 hours. How can I make the stay longer? I’ve tried Umberto Gianninis curl foam, which made my hair really coarse and straight. I have virgin hair, that’s pretty typical scandinavian hair. About medium thickness and poor/medium density. It air dries in 5-6 hours, diffusing takes about an hour if I start after about an hour air drying session. Pictures from wet to dry.

Do I need a curl cream with stronger hold or a separate hold product. Any recs?

hey!! so i am growing my hair back to long after cutting it to bob length last year, its grown a ton so i asked for it to be evened out since ik i probably didn’t get it fully even, with some face framing and a light layers (not a lot and nothing choppy) so i can continue to grow my hair back to long. i feel like im so close to back to long but with my waves and the trim i feel like she cut WAY more on the sides of my face than i wanted, and it makes it all spring up way too high and clump together and look way shorter in general and it makes me feel like ive lost months of hair growth. jus got the cut almost three weeks ago, then dyed my hair so the last picture is my hair roots after almost 3 weeks. im wondering if my hair is growing at a good speed, and if i just wait it out a few months will the layers and side frame pieces get more and weight to then and look better and will my hair start to read as long again? (ik long is different for everyone, my hair dresser said my hair is already long but will feel more like it in maybe 5 months. i feel like it’s medium-long, but i want it to all look more natural with those layers and feel long and ive been bugging over this ever since the cut. ive just been wearing buns every single day and doing scalp messages and sleeping in bonnets, all the good healthy hair tips trynna focus on the outcome and future and be in the present. my hair effects my self esteem greatly, so i was wondering if anyone has any advice and if they think it’ll look more natural and blended as it grows out. thank you!

Hi girls and guys!
The first and second pics are where my hair is:

1. Full dried
2. Not combed
3. Air dried

The third pic is where:

1. Hair is dried and combed

The fourth pic us where my hair is 80% dry, 20% wet.

Could someone please figure about what kind of waves do I have? 2a or 2b?
Should I comb my hair after it dries? How do I get good defined waves without using many products? Would appreciate some tips to style my hair everyday😭🙏🏻

Thank you💕

*I posted this on another sub but it got removed immediately*
Sorry for the slightly blurry photo! I’m on day 3 of my hair journey and still experimenting with different products. I noticed that my hair looks stringy and very frizzy after breaking my mousse cast. And by midday, my hair falls flat except for the very ends having some bounce. My hair is fine and some shampoos/conditioners like OGX Coconut Milk are too oily for my hair if I use them regularly.
My routine today was: shampooed and conditioned with Dove Lavender and Volume and brushed my hair in the shower after conditioning. Used Nexxus 20in1 Humectress for leave in conditioner, combed that with a wide tooth comb, scrunched Herbal Essences Curl Boosting Mousse, then scrunched again with a 100% cotton t shirt. Finally I diffused with my Dyson airwrap and diffuser attachment and used one drop of Not Your Mothers Curl Talk oil to break the cast.

How do I stop my hair from getting frizzy ive literally tried everything

I think this is 2b hair(?). The time that I took this photo I did not add any leave in conditioner or cream. I added some oil but still looked poofy and has random waves mixed in with straight.

I do use argan oil leave in conditioner but that most likely weighs it down. Any advice on how to make it less frizzy and more defined without it looking stringy?

I have a very slight texture in my hair and I tried to style it, train it , but that didn't work. But I found another way, just letting it dry in a bun, it looked perfect.