r/curlygirl

My problems:
•undefined hair
•doesn't hold scrunch from gels
•hair doesn't stay soaked no more than 1 minute while STILL in the shower

I feel like my hair was more defined during the beginning of my journey when I found out my hair was wavy a year ago. I have been having problem with frizz and the lack of definition these couple of weeks. I tried finding the right routine for myself but nothing seemed to work.
Tried mousse alone, I had the softness but not the definition and the 2 gels that I had (bounce curl lightweight gel, and aunt Jackie's glossy curling jelly) I tried them each alone and with the mousse, it just felt like my hair was not holding defection nor the scrunch. It didn't feel like I had any gel on.

I recently bought umberto giannini de curl cream and the vanilla gelato curly jelly scrunching. This picture was my second time using these two products together after my shower and my hair actually holds definition...to a point,

But I know I am lacking something or I am doing something wrong, I just can't seem to figure out what it is.

P.S. I think I have a low porosity hair since the water gets absorbs quiet fast, but my main problem is after shower. My hair doesn't stay soaked like I'm still in the shower, not even 2-3 minutes has past. Especially the back of my hair, it almost feels dry

A more detailed routine description:
I wash my hair with my not your mothers matcha green tea & apple shampoo
Then I use Camille rose Moroccan pear conditioning castard
And during detoxing my hair. I use Olaplex clarifying shampoo and Camille rose honey nectar deep conditioner

When I am done, I comb my hair and while still
In the shower I wet my hair one last time then start using the products. I rake in the de curl cream of umberto giannini, then rake the gel in, then praying hand, then I start scrunching my hair up.

At the end I use Lee stafford heat protection spray then use a diffuser to dry my hair.

My hair has ringlets in some places and large deep waves in others and I can never seem to identify my own curl type... what letter and number combination would you call this? Any feedback is appreciated!

In these photos my hair was washed with BrioGeo Dont Dispair, Repair! shampoo and cond or Joico Moisture Recovery shampoo and cond.

It was styled with Curlsmith air dry creme raked and then scrunched, and then Not Your Mother's Curl Talk Gel hold 3 also raked and scrunched. I always allow my hair to air dry and then scrunch out the curl cast.

Hi!
I had really curly ringlets as a kid and then decided to get a pixie cut at about abs 7 and since then my hair grew back a lot more frizzy and a lot less curly.
I’ve been trying to bring back the waves (curls?) for nearly 3 years but i always just give up and go back to brushing it and dealing with the frizz.
Recently I’ve been noticing that brushing my unstyled dry hair leads to more frizz, matting and also a lot of hair loss so i’ve decided to try again and i really want to find a routine that works for me.

Today I got out the shower and literally just added curl cream (the ouai curl crème) and then scrunched with a microfibre towel before diffusing to almost completely dry - I have quite thick hair so it takes a while for it to dry.

Ive inserted photos of my hair straight out the shower and then after what I described above as well as photos of it air dried and a few of previous times i’ve managed to style it.
I just want some advice on what might work for my hair type and any tricks on maintaining it past 1 day - i have a bonnet and it doesn’t seem to help that much.

If you read this far thank you!!

Hey! I think I have 2B–2C wavy/curly hair, but I’m really struggling to get consistent definition.

For context, I’m 18F (indian) with thick, long hair. I always knew I had some texture, but it usually just looked like “blow-dried hair” (not super frizzy or dry), so I never followed CGM. I’m starting college soon and want to actually embrace my natural waves/curls.

Right now my routine is kind of all over the place:

Shampoo: Dove Intense Repair

Conditioner: L’Oréal Hyaluron Moisture conditioner

Styling: homemade flaxseed gel → scrunch → remove excess with a cotton t-shirt → air dry (sometimes use a blow dryer for ~5 mins on high)

So yeah… not really a proper routine 😭

Main issues:

1. Frizz, especially at the top

2. Little to no definition near the roots

3. Curls fall apart / look uneven

4. Hair looks fluffy instead of defined

5. Not many well-formed clumps or defined strands

I’ve watched a LOT of videos, but it’s honestly overwhelming and expensive to experiment with products, so I’m trying to be more intentional.

Questions:

1. What’s a simple routine that actually works for my hair type?

2. Any affordable product recommendations (curl creams, gels, etc.)?

3. How do I get better definition without weighing my hair down?

4. Does my hair actually sound like 2B–2C?

Also, I keep hearing that wavy hair needs bigger clumps than curly hair when styling (finger/brush coiling), but I don’t understand why — can someone explain?

Would really appreciate any advice!

Heyyy, à vrai dire j’aurais besoin de conseils parce que je trouve mes cheveux.... moches? Normalement je trouve ça vraiment beau, mais mes cheveux sont lisses sur le dessus de ma tête et bouclés au milieu et en bas, donc il m'arrive parfois (je n’ai pas de photos pour montrer) que mes cheveux soient super lisses, puis mes bouclés soient tournes vers l'extérieur et le contraste est vraiment....ew....

Enfin, j’ai quelques photos pour montrer un peu la nature de mes cheveux lol.

Est-ce que quelqu'un a le même soucis ? J’aimerais des boucles un minimum uniforme et je garde espoir de pouvoir y remédier 😭

SACHEZ! que sur la photo 1 c’était un jour où je trouvais mes cheveux coopératifs bahaha, donc c’est seulement un exemple. Malheureusement ils ne sont comme ça que lorsque je m’en fiche d’eux....

Ps: j’essai de prendre soin de mes cheveux un minimum: shampoing garnier, après shampoing...aussi garnier... Puis je laisse sécher à l’air libre lol

Been trying to do a curly routine for about a year now and my hair seems so delecate. I have very fine hair but also a lot of it.

I use Ogx coconut curls shampoo and conditioner. I only shampoo when it's greasy, and condition to detangle.

After conditioning I use Lorel Elnett Dream De mousse to soaking wet hair, then use tresemme heat defense and deffuse.

I also rewet my hair with a spray bottle in the morning and deffuse again as the curls go flat in the night. And I sleep with a silk bonnet.

Hi, I'm very confused about my hair. I would be grateful if you could help me. As a child, my hair was very curly, as you can see in the first picture. This is due to curly hair genes from both my grandfathers, even though my mother and father have wavy hair. I've worn my hair wavy for years, as long as I can remember, and I'd completely forgotten I had curly hair. Looking at my childhood pictures, I remembered that my hair was curly. I wet my hair with just water, without using any products, scrunched it with a silk t-shirt, and curls formed as you see in the picture. I did this to see if my hair would become curly again, and curls did form. But I'm still confused because sometimes, even when I scrunch it, it doesn't curl like in the picture. Would trying a curly hair routine help? Or have I lost my curly hair? For example, why doesn't my hair curl without conditioning? (One photo of my childhood, one wavy which gets most of the day, one after scrunch gets curly)

i need advice guys. i sleep with my hair braided with garnier leave in conditioner or mielle. i always where a bonnet, but when i wear my hair out, its okay for like an hour and then it gets frizzy. what do i do? (sorry for the bad pics i tried so hard to take them myself) i use the garnier shampoo and conditioner when i shower, i wash my hair twice a week. my hair is dry in this picture.

Is my hair wavy or curly? + other things

One picture is my hair wet and the other dry from today. I’ve tried Bounce Curl, Ouidad, Merwave, Umberto Giannini, and Only Curls. My routine was washing with a standard shampoo, using Only Curls conditioner and then Only Curls gel and I diffused, if I air dry it gets even frizzier. It looked better this morning but as usual it only gets frizzier and less defined, it didn’t look that defined or nice this morning either.

I don’t know if my hair is wavy or curly or whether it’s fine, standard, coarse etc. I think fine(?) my hairdresser originally told me it was a normal thickness and now says it’s fine so I have no idea anymore.

I’m just going insane at how bad it looks, it usually looks okay at the front (though I didn’t include front pictures) but it’s just a mess of frizz at the back and almost looks matted sometimes.

Any advice?

I clearance shopped every store near me when they discontinued it and am now on my last bottle.

NYM sea minerals mousse is the only one Ive found that will allow me to wet my hair, scrunch it in, and go without any additional work and my hair loves it.
Please help

2021-2022-2023-2024-2025-2026

What used to embarrass me the most and made me feel ugly as a child is now a huge source of pride and what makes me feel beautiful and special <3

Just did a big chop on my hair. Trying to find volmizing products and that won’t weigh down my hair
Open to all!

For the longest time I thought I had wavy hair and I never really styled it or used products other than some texture spray. Over the last year or so I’ve started thinking maybe I have curly hair, maybe 2b or mixed? I have tighter ringlets on the underside and then the curls/ waves get looser when they get to the outer layers. My hair also thrives off of humidity, my winter hair vs my summer hair is like 2 different heads! What do you guys think?

For context this is what my routine is currently:
- Shampoo and conditioner about 2x a week, clarifying wash 1x a week
- comb rough with wide tooth comb while wet and then rake through with mouse and scrunch
- use flax seed gel praying hands on wet hair in sections
- just started using the bounce curl brush (love)!
- scrunch with curly towel
- diffuser

Looking for advice!

It was always too frizzy, too dry, too chaotic… years of bad hair days, eons of flat ironing, thousands in products that didn’t work.

If you see someone dancing on rooftops this evening, don’t worry about it, it’s just me.

This is just regular shampoo/conditioner with curl cream and gel. I am SO excited to see how it blooms once I get some curl nopoo and conditioner 🥰