If you have curly hair like me, you know that it is just a completely different monster to tackle and a lot of the things that might work for our straight-haired besties don't really work for us.
So I'm going to give you 3 of our top tips from Ms. Sandee Kranz, the curly expert herself. Sandee spent years perfecting her curly technique!
TIP №1 - wear a satin bonnet or a use a satin pillowcase.
I will say as someone who sleeps on a satin pillowcase every night - a bonnet is more effective than a satin pillowcase. Both are great, both work, both help, but a bonnet is going to be your absolute BEST bet. But if you don't want to do that, that's okay, and you can use a satin pillowcase instead.
TIP №2 - use your products in the shower.
Typically you get out of the shower and you towel dry your hair so it's not dripping and then brush through it and then start applying products.
For curly girls what you want to do is shampoo and condition your hair as normal.
DO NOT wring your hair out. You want it to be completely saturated with water. Then you want to start applying your products from lightest to heaviest: such as a leave-in spray or serum then you would move to your cream or treatment product, and finally a gel or mousse. Something that's going to give you a cast and help those curls form together.
The reason for this is because the hair needs to be 100% saturated with water
for even product distribution
that will help trap all those little frizzies and fluffies into the cast of the curl instead of having canvas frizz
When it's totally saturated you have no frizz, right?
It's all laying down, it's all wet. When you apply your product, while your hair is totally wet, you're trapping all those little hairs into that moisturizing product so that it stays interlocked into the curl versus making your hair look fluffy and frizzy.
TIP №3 - Use either a microfiber towel, a flour sack towel, or something that is not going to rough up your hair texture.
When you come in for a curly transformation with Sandee. She sends you home with a little gift and one of those items in that gift is a flour sack towel.
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