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We answer a common question among the owners of curly hair.
Girls’ curls are a real luxury. Moreover, one of the most fashionable styling of the summer 2020! Many dream about them, but not everyone was lucky enough to have them. However, behind the beauty is a titanic work of proper care of the shock of curly hair. They need to be washed with special shampoos and balms, combed correctly (and sometimes not combed at all), properly dried and styled. But let’s take a closer look at everything.
How to comb your curls?
Curls have a very delicate structure, and improper care can destroy all their charm, injure and spoil the look and quality of the curls.
Remember as an axiom: you should never comb dry curly hair! At the very least, you will get a shock of hay instead of a hairstyle and you will look like Boniface the lion from the cartoon, or you will deform the structure of the curl. What to do?
Use your fingers instead of a comb and gently beat the hair with them, thin out the curls.
The best option is brushing wet hair, generously flavored with balm.
In the most extreme cases, you can take infrequent comb and gently walk them over the head of hair, centimeter by centimeter tidying up the hair. Needless to say, you can’t roughly scratch your curls?
What means to use?
In addition to a comb, care products can also spoil the natural look of curls. Shampoos, conditioners, leave-in balms and oils for curly hair should not contain silicones: they make the curls heavy, greasy and eventually straighten the curls. The hairstyle will be, to put it mildly, not very presentable.
Silicone has many names, look for these names in beauty products: Cyclopentasiloxane, Bis-aminopropyl dimethicone, Dimethicone, Cetearyl methicone, Stearyl dimethicone, Trimethylsilylamodimethicone, Amodimethicone dimethicone, Dimexythicon Beethicone …
If found, then this tool is not for you! It is better to go the beaten path and choose cosmetics from special series for curly hair.
What else can you not do with curls?
Wipe them dry! Surprisingly, this is true. We are all used to wrapping our heads in a towel after washing to dry our hair naturally. But you can’t do this with curly curls. It is better to lightly blot them with a towel to get rid of excess water and then leave to dry without additional manipulation.
The hair dryer is also undesirable for curls. This way you can fluff up the curl a lot and dry out your hair in general. Then instead of a hairstyle on the head there will be a semblance of a dandelion.
What about stylers?
Curling tongs, straightening irons – all this is extremely harmful for curly hair! It’s all about the structure of the curl itself: curls have a more porous texture than straight hair. There is less moisture in them, and heat-irons for such are just death! Hair also has a memory, so if you often straighten curls, sooner or later they will simply stop frizzing and being frizzy. To spite you! Only now they will not be straight, and you will have to either twist them with curling irons, or straighten them to give the hairstyle a divine look.
Why can’t you brush your hair outside?
Finally, let’s plunge into the world of folk signs. We all know that nails and hair are the materials that carry energy. After all, they are required by magicians and fortune-tellers as biomaterials in order to perform some kind of healing rite (or vice versa).
Therefore, a string of legends and superstitions has been drawn about hair from antiquity. For example:
You cannot comb yourself or children in front of strangers. In ancient times, the process of combing was considered almost sacred, so it was impossible to involve outsiders in it.
It was also impossible to show your comb to a stranger, because if an envious person or someone who is not in good mood sees it, then the owner of the comb may have health problems.
You couldn’t throw your hair out, especially in crowded places. It was believed that this harms others and the person himself. Hair was supposed to be burned!
If we are not talking about signs, but about simple rules of etiquette, then combing your hair in public is not worth it: this is still a hygienic procedure that needs to be done away from prying eyes. Moreover, hair that has fallen out can fly to the sides, which is ugly and unpleasant for others.
See also: “Curly” hair care method: step by step instructions