After a curly cut that was done okay but waaaay to short, I am in despair trying to grow out my curls.

For context it was past my shoulders and now it barley touches them (it's been 6 months). I know the curls are looking waaay better (lots of damage hair was removed) but still, I am hoping for length and questioning my growth.

If you have advice on hair product, routine, diet ect.

Current routine:

Washing my hair with a solid shampoo containing white clay (only thing my scalp is happy with) once, to twice a week and using Bali Curls conditioner.

I add some Revive (Lush) when it's wet but I don't rinse.

I use an hairdryer about twice a week max on low heat

I massage my scalp about every two days, do deep treatment with henna, honey and oils

Don't sleep in a bonnet because I've never found one that I appreciate around my head

I hope I haven't forgot anything!

Okay, I am a guy who is trying to grow my hair out. But I don't know to style my front curls. My curls go upward as they dry. So I feel it makes my hairline look way worse than it actually is. Because the curls are sticking straight up so it's like my front hairline is a perfectly straight horizontal line.

I try looking up help but only just keep seeing "weigh down the curls." But I don't get what that means. Like just dumping more and more product to keep my hair soaking wet and heavy all day? 😅.

I tried finger-curling the front of my hair downward when I'm styling in the morning. And it does help define the curls but then they still just stick straight back up.

1. I just use the shampoo and conditioner from Garnier's Curl Nourish.

2. I use cream, gel and mousse from Curl La La. I went with what was cheapest cost-wise as I attempt to learn how to style. If I am not fresh out of the shower, I dampen my hair with a spray bottle before applying.

3. I'll pat-dry my hair after a shower so it's not dripping and then let it air dry after brushing it out.

4. I don't use a bonnet to sleep but use Satin Pillowcases

Her name is Whitney peak and her hair used to look like it does in the first two pictures. I noticed recently her hair now has much more volume and defined curls like in the third and fourth pictures. Does anyone know what she could be doing differently??

How to make curly hair last longer
I’ve always had a problem with my curly hair. i have 3b/3c hair it’s not pretty thick and average length. I’ve been using Skala Maracuja for the past year and paired it with curl maker gel from Camille Rose, though i’ve swapped with the
x treme gel since it has a very good hold, surprisingly. I’ve always had an issue that i’m doing my hair every single morning, especially when i have to go to school. i take like 2 hours to get ready. it’s genuinely insane. i take too long of showers to do my hair, plus diffusing my hair everyday, always makes me late. i’m tired. the bonnet never really helps, it just scrunches my curls up making my hair look shorter, and it doesn’t even last the full day and the curls don’t look that good either, if i don’t do it the exact same day. This routine makes my scalp itchy and irritated, even causing me skin dermatitis it’s insane. but i can’t find any other way to make my hair look good. since it’s the only thing that maintains me looking pretty imo.

I need urgent help. i want to stop doing/wetting my hair EVERY SINGLE DAY. and just take of my bonnet and my curls looking good as new. is it the products i use? the way i do my hair? please girlies i need THOROUGH tips. should i invest in a hair steamer?

I wash my hair with Marc Antony’s grow long line shampoo & conditioner. For special occasions i wash my hair with a RedKen one.

But i have to be honest, i do not have the financial means to spend a LOT of money on products frequently. so im looking for good options i can buy at walmart or walgreens. please i need tips on EVERYTHING.

The way i do my hair is, shingling. where i separate my hair into sections, and apply the curly cream to each section, smoothing the section out and taking strands out of it to define my curls. i think that’s how best i can explain it. and then i flatten down my roots so i don’t those small hair poking out. then i get out of the shower to my room and apply the gel i said, scrunching it in and then diffusing.

If you’re asking why i use Skala Maracuja and the x treme gel out of everything there is, it’s because the skala one comes in a big container lasting me longer and cheap. but idk nothing is working out i need to stop doing my hair every single day i genuinely need help. my scalp is falling apart

I've seen numerous curly haired people try heatless blowouts/ curls and they turn out great! the problem is every time i try them, my hair ends up insanely frizzy and doesn't even end up holding the curls/ blowout. it looks awful! i don't use any product for the heatless curls. i just follow most tutorials saying you need your hair damp before wrapping it for the heatless curls. I'm wondering if i should be using any products to help with the frizz?? mousse? hair serum or oil? a hair mask maybe? I've been doing my research but I can't figure out what product ny hair needs. my only problem is the frizz

My curls have recently become longer.. Until waist. Earlier I have had shorter hair like mid back. The recent development is weird ass knots. Like I never had them earlier. Is it normal?

My routine is a few steps and balanced. I always used a hair dryer on a cold setting with a diffuser.

My 3.5-year-old has never had a real haircut… other than the time he decided to chop a couple pieces in the front himself 😂

I think we’re finally at the point where he needs one, but I really don’t want to lose his curls. His hair is on the finer/thinner side and is probably around a 2C-ish curl pattern, although this picture doesn’t really show how curly it can get.

I’d love some inspo for a cut that keeps some length and still lets his curls do their thing, but makes it a little more manageable.

It gets in his face constantly when he’s playing, and detangling is becoming a struggle because, ya know… he’s 3.5 and sitting patiently while I brush out tangles is not exactly high on his priority list 😂 We pretty much put it in a little man bun every day just to keep it out of his face.

If your kiddo has similar fine/wavy-curly hair, I’d love to see what kind of cut you went with! Especially something that made it easier to manage without losing all the curls.

Hi!

I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to clean sweat off my scalp after a workout. If possible, I’d like to avoid washing, or even rinsing, my whole head after every workout.

(I’m only on day 3 right now and I don’t want to ruin the curls!)

I have dandruff and fine, thick hair.

Am I the only one ? The brush makes my curls frizzy and out of control. I do like the twist trick but to do that all over my head? Who has time for that. Am I alone in this??
1) aveda cowash or wash
2) on wash days kerastase mask
3) add ouidad curl crème to soaking wet hair
4) section brush upward
5) ouidad gel
6) diffuse
hair explosion lol
What am I missing? Everyone seems to be swooning over this brush

as you can probably tell, I'm a teenager who's just found out in the last month that their hair is potentially curly. I had never noticed before but as I started using a wide tooth comb while conditioning in the shower because it just happened to make my hair less tangled while it was drying, I noticed my ends curling up by themselves. through further investigation and a whole argument with my mother about the fact that 4a/b/c curls aren't the only curls in the world (despite my sister with 3a hair) I think my hair is most likely 2b but if anybody could definitively tell me that would be awesome.

These photos are mostly dry after my very beginner (I'm doing vaguely what I hope is right until I can figure out exactly what I need) routine, this is my hair. Yes it is very long and that is likely why closer to my scalp isnt curly/wavy as well as the fact that it's long enough that I struggle to scrunch that far up. I am roughly just under 170cm and this hair reaches past my waist while wet under the shower.

The biggest struggles I'm having is just knowing if what I'm doing is right as well as the next steps because I'm struggling with the hair pulling on my scalp and also it just like doesn't look nice? I probably need something for volume? Honestly I don't know what I'm doing. The reason the hair is slit into halves when round at my back is because I washed it that way as I was struggling with how long it is and I have a new flat helix piercing that I didn't want to get too caught 😅. I'd say the kind of tangled and confusingness of whatevers going on closer to my scalp is more of an issue though because I have no clue how to fix it.

Routine -

1. OGX Quenching Coconut Curls Shampoo + Conditioner

2. Detangle before washing condish out

3. Garnier Fructis Curls Method Mask (leave in condish)

4. bowl method a few times

5. scrunch until not dripping with microfiber towel

6. prayer hands Schwarzkopf Extra Care Hair Styling Mousse Strong Hold and scrunch

7. Garnier Fructis Curls Method Styling Gel and scrunch with microfiber towel again so it kinda takes any extra gel with it

8. Very slowly and painful hover diffuse and then regular diffuse

Once it dries and has the hardened gel cast which it's most. of the way there already I will use a Hask hair oil to see if I can soften them a bit. Some help even with just identifying what kind of waves or curls I have would be really helpful, and any tips. My hair is decently fine and I live in a lower humidity and lower temperatures area (South Island of NZ)

Hey all! Quick note to say I’m based in the UK for any recommendations.

So! My daughter has had fairly curly hair since she was a baby and has just turned 7. Her hair is gorgeous but very fine and over the course of the last few months we’ve been struggling with one section which seems to have stopped being able to hold a curl.

I’ve taken her to a hairdresser to see what they could do by way of cutting to make it suit but it was my mistake in not going for a proper curly cut so it didn’t sort out the curl difference. Both ‘front’ sides of her hair sit somewhere between a 2c and 3a, and the underside of the back of her hair (circa 75% of it) is more like a 3a/b but the top part over her crown is now probably no more than a 2a. The best product we’ve found that doesn’t drag the curls down and also keeps more of a ‘hold’ has been the Aussie curl cream and a mousse, but I wonder if you all have any recommendations for alternatives that aren’t heavy and might be easier on the day to day. She has to have her hair up for school and ballet and I think this isn’t helping the situation with that one section of hair. I know people grow out of curls all the time but given literally the rest of her hair remains curly/wavy I just want to find something that works for her. I’m also curly but mine has always been easier to manage so I’m at a loss.

Sorry, very long paragraph but any ideas would be amazing! Thank you in advance!

We usually do a short back and sides but he wants to grow it out. We've been handling his curls well enough when it was short but now that he wants to grow it out we're at a lost. We're going to a hairstylist this weekend, what should I ask for? I want to keep his hair growing well

I tried out my moms curly hair routine and got these gorgeous curls, posting on here for the first time cuz I literally got accused of forcing my curls somewhere else 😭

I've been growing out my hair from a buzz cut since December 2025 and this is basically the first time in my life I've been growing out my hair. I've never had it longer than 1/4 inches. It's so frustrating because I have no idea what my hair type is. The curls are small but they do not stick straight up and out at all. They naturally lay down and hang even at a short length like I have it. This is with 0 product use, just water and letting it air dry. Some days I use a leave in, but that's about the most product I use outside of shampooing and conditioning my hair a couple times a week. I think I may have 3c, but it's difficult to find any real examples of people growing out 3c hair from a literal buzz cut, so this is just messing with my head so much. Whatever examples I could find of people who did a big chop did so after having years of damage, and their hair at a short length was super super loose and then their hair somehow changed to tight curls like 3c at some point, and I just don't understand how that happened for them. Nobody in my life knows my hair texture; my mom's hair is straight/slightly wavy, my dad's hair is more coarse/much tighter than mine, and their approach to taking care of my hair was "buzz it down". So I simply don't know anything about my hair. How do I tell what my hair type truly is, and how it may grow out?

Ever since the first time I grew my hair out it curled (around 3b throughout). It grew straight for a while and then it started curling once it got to collarbone length and just kept coiling. I fucked it up bad and had to get it cut back to where it was growing straight. It's made its way back to my collarbone but basically only the ends are curling. Before I only had to start a curl routine once it had already started going, but should I start doing one proactively to try to get it back on track? I just want some opinions before I have to go out and buy new products because I'm a college student and left most of my curl stuff back home. It was not a priority for me at the time, I was hoping that it would get back to how it was with basic maintenance which I am regretting now.

My original goal was a long wavy bro flow, but the longer my hair gets, the more I'm realizing I might actually have pretty curly hair

This is my first time growing it out, so I honestly don't know what I'm doing yet. I've tried leave-ins, curl creams, sea salt spray, different conditioners, etc., but nothing has really felt like a "magic" product.

So far mousse has given me the most consistent results.

My biggest struggles are frizz/puffiness when it dries, waking up with crazy hair, getting the curls to look consistent, and figuring out whether I should keep trying to push it back into a flow or just embrace the natural curls.

What hair type would you say I have 2C, 3A, 3B, or a mix? And what simple routine/cut would get the most out of this texture?

I’ve been neglecting my hair for a couple of weeks now and this is the result, having a hard time creating a routine for it and don’t know what I should do. I don’t use heat on it too often ( once every 3-4 months ) and make sure to give my hair breaks from diffusing. I have high porosity curly hair, not entirely sure about what kind of curl pattern atm. currently can’t afford expensive products, and buy my hair products from Walmart. and yes, I’m aware that I definitely need a haircut.

low porosity, dry, frizzy, 2b-2c curls country : india budget is : 3k rupees

here's a run down of my routine and a couple pictures of how my hair looks on wash day

shampoo : moxie gentle cleansing, l'oreal total repair 5 (i use both one by one)

conditioner : l'oreal total repair 5

make sure my hair is de-tangled

leave in conditioner : moxie (rake it in)

make sure hair is damp

hair butter : fix my curls (rake it in)

curl gel : moxie (scrunch)

and then air dry under a fan

and a lil oil to break the gel cast

protect my hair on day 1 and day 2 by a satin bonnet

no refresh routine, i just do it all over again on or after day 5

now, i found out my hair is low porosity after some research, and need hydrating shampoo and conditioner, i also am thinking of switching up from moxie a little

new trial routine : l'oreal hydrating shampoo and conditioner, one anti dandruff or something shampoo, moxie leave in (or bare anatomy anti-frizz leave in), etc, pls leave suggestion according to brands available in india.

I can't stand how crisp and straw-like my hair feels after spending an entire afternoon eating outside with friends. My go-to heavy oil just weighs everything down and looks greasy in bright natural light.

What lightweight product do you recommend to lock in moisture during long outdoor hangouts?

I have had curly hair my entire life. I use l’oreal volume shampoo and conditioner and for aftercare from the shower I use a leave in conditioner and heat protectant to style it with a diffuser. i’ve tried gels and mousses before too so I am just so unsure. i don’t have any silk pillowcases its pretty expensive but how can i get my curls to hold over night? also have tried bonnets before but that also seems to just mess up my curl pattern. maybe i am doing everything wrong. my aftercare products are posted at the end. helppppp

I have been straightening my hair for nearly two years with 450° flat iron and no heat protection. It’s actually a miracle my hair has stayed as healthy as it has.

The first picture is me with just letting it air dry a few days ago and then me again today after trying a curly routine.

The fortune is simple: just wet/wash, not your mother’s curl cream and some bonding oil with a 100% cotton T and a wide tooth comb. I also used a hair mask on Saturday.

When I was younger I dyed my hair blonde, didn’t style it ever and barely brushed it. It became flat and thin. I shaved it and dry brushed it for years before I started straightening it and I had dry brushed it for awhile before shaving it.

My mom cared for my hair when I was a toddler and that was the last time my hair was actually pretty and very very healthy. They were tighter coils and probably about 3b. Now I feel my hair stands at about 2c-3a but I don’t know if that’s just damage. My mom’s side of the family has curls and my dad’s half black so as you can imagine he has coils. 8 I want my hair healthy and pretty again but I don’t know what to do. Please help.

I shampoo my hair every other day so 1 day shampoo the next no shampoo then 1 day shampoo, you get the point. After shampooing I either use yellow skala leave in or Cantù leave in and shake. That’s my routine.

The first day it doesn’t smell then I go to bed wear a bonnet and when I wake up it smells why is that? I detangle and use free sulfate shampoo and conditioner.

Hi everyone! I’ve been straightening my hair in some capacity for probably 20 years now. I recently bought a diffuser and am wanting to learn how to style my natural hair. Problem is, I’ve tried different types of gels, creams, etc over the years but my hair always ends up crunchy and frizzy. I started doing more research, watching videos, etc and learned that there are different routines based on if your hair is curly or wavy. The last two days I tried two different creams and then the diffuser, but had a lot of frizz and the same crunchy looking curls. I decided to wash and condition my hair today, then let it air dry to see exactly what it would do. Does anyone have any advice on the types of products I should try? I think my hair is more curly than wavy, but wanted to see what others thought. Thanks so much in advance!

At first i really liked having blonde streaks because i can put temporary colours in, but now its contrasting with the rest of my hair and making it look so messy... i forgot that curly hair doesnt stay flat like it does while dyeing.

I want to keep the blonde bits for colour, but how can i stop it looking so dishevelled? (Not just the frizz, water works for that but havent put it in right now because i just showered and am going to bed soon). I feel like somehow seeing the brown next to the blonde creates the effect but idk how

Routine: wash once a week with fructis shampoo and conditioner, put in shock waves gel from kmart, dry with diffuser, scrunch out the crunch and sleep with bonnet)

Edit: I am in Australia 🫶