Curly hair is difficult to treat: here are 12 very useful tips to always have perfect hair!
Curly hair, valuable advice from hair stylists. Curly hair is beautiful but difficult to treat, however a correct haircare routine combined with some small tricks can help make the hair magnificent. Here are the 12 useful tips to have perfect curly hair, always in order, healthy and naturally beautiful. These are the tips of the hair stylists and hairdressers of the stars dedicated to both women and curly men.
1 How To Wash Curly Hair
Curly hair should never be washed too frequently, this is to avoid damaging it, thus losing its natural shape and elasticity: 1 or 2 thorough weekly washings are more than enough. Use a little shampoo: put it on your hand, the perfect amount has the size of a walnut! In addition, it is always advisable to prefer specific shampoos for curly hair, not too aggressive and preferably bio, which contribute to texturing the hair, making the curl soft, defined and shiny.
2 How To Dry Curly Hair
One must avoid subjecting the canopy to direct heat. In summer, it is always better for curly hair to prefer natural drying in the open air after having buffered the hair well to eliminate excess water. In winter and when there is little time, the hairdryer is used, limiting the heat, keeping the device at a distance (10/20 cm) and with a jet of air to a minimum. If you have it, you can use the diffuser which gives a beautiful volume but tends to dry out the hair. To avoid this inconvenience it is essential to apply a pre-crease product that serves to protect from heat and facilitate styling.
3 How to Comb Curly Hair
Combing curly hair is never easy. Curly hair must be combed when it is still wet and after applying a specific detangling conditioner or a specific mask for curly hair. With what to comb them? A wide-toothed wooden comb must be used. This helps to reduce static electricity, to gently remove any knots and to give greater definition when brushing. The use of brushes on dry hair should be absolutely avoided as the curly hair tends to lose shape and definition, resulting in excessively frizzy.
4 How To Have Defined Curls
To have defined and elastic curls it is important to dab the hair after washing, with a soft microfibre towel: never rub because the friction tends to wear out the hair, inevitably making it frizzy. To give greater definition, it is possible to use specific styling products for curly hair such as foams, lotions or disciplining creams to be applied before proceeding with drying and styling.
5 How To Eliminate The Kinky Effect From Curly Hair
Unfortunately, frizz is part of the natural characteristics of curly hair and tends to accentuate itself in case of humidity, making the hair dull, stringy and neglected. Avoiding this inconvenience is possible, using specific anti-frizz products to be used on both dry and wet hair which help to make curly hair soft, shiny and disciplined. An excellent solution is represented by the use of specific oils and liquid crystals that applied on the ends, regulate the curls, making the hair particularly shiny and visibly healthier.
6 Curly Hair: How to Feed It
Curly hair needs constant nourishment and hydration to maintain the original flexibility and elasticity. For this reason, the constant use of nourishing masks and wraps based on butters and oils, contributes to making the curly hair soft, voluminous and disciplined as we wish.
7 How to Tie Curly Hair
How to tie curly hair without risking breaking it? Sponge elastics should be avoided and replaced with spring elastics that retain the hair without traumatizing it. The use of hair bands, tongs or pins is always preferable, which also allow us to create simple, trendy and effective hairstyles without compromising the health of our hair.
8 How to make your hair less voluminous
Among the drawbacks related to curly hair, the unpleasant swollen effect given by the excessive volume certainly appears. Natural drying without heat, after applying a pre-crease styling product, is the simplest and most immediate solution to avoid swollen hair. For daily management, lightly dab your hair with a little water to reactivate the pre-crease product in order to control the volume and increase the definition of the curl.
9 How To Straighten Curly Hair Without Drying It Up
The use of hair straighteners and straightening brushes is always harmful to the hair: excessive heat characterizes thermal stress which inevitably damages the hair in the long run. The advice of hair stylists is to reduce their use to the bare minimum, preferring a classic blow-dry with low temperature hair dryers. The hair will thank!
10 How to Cut Curly Hair
Given that it is always advisable to rely on the expert hands of our trusted hairdresser avoiding do-it-yourself, it is important to know that curly hair must always be cut dry, never wet. This is to prevent the hair from taking on a pyramid shape which is not aesthetically pleasing. It is necessary to tick the curls individually limiting themselves to the tips, after simply holding them between the fingers. Only the cutting scissors are used and never the razor!
11 Who Curly Hair Looks Like
Curly hair smoothes marked features and is perfect for rectangular and triangular faces because they soften the line of the cheekbones. Medium-short bob cuts are recommended for oval and elongated faces, never too bulky, with a long forelock that minimizes the length of the face. For the round face, a cut with little volume focused on verticality is more suitable, therefore curly hair is not recommended. Full and voluminous cuts are very good on the square face, perhaps with a fringe as the hairstylist Fabio Salsa often proposes to us. The angular cut with a triangular shape with a vertex downwards is perfect for minimizing large ears, while the pixie cut à la garçonne or boy’s is the right choice for proportionate and heart-shaped faces, but also for smoothing the effect of a nose straight and long. For fine curly hair Jean Louis David gives us a golden tip: bring them loose and reward a slight degradé effect that will make them appear fuller and fuller, and therefore healthier.
12 What Are The Best Cuts For Curly Hair
Among the best cuts for curly hair, short ones are inevitably the most suitable for keeping defined and tight curls, as in the case of the afro curl, the tightest ever. The shorter and more casual pixie cuts can also be sported with a light shave on the nape of the neck or with the undercut effect that is popular among both men and women. For those who love rock accents there is the tapered cut, short on the neck and behind the ears and long with cascading locks on the head. Slightly longer than the pixie tousled, the famous pixie cut, which from the 70s to today remains an evergreen for medium-short hair. The bob cuts on the shoulders and the helmet and bowl cuts, a must of the 80s and 90s, are nowadays among the influencers in the versions with long side tuft or with fringe. Finally, the “collarbone-cut”, the lob or long bob at the collarbones sported for years by Julia Roberts, remains a classic for those who love a more romantic style.
