Q&A for How to Bring Out the Natural Curl in Your Hair

Alcohol is one of the worst ingredients, as it will dry out your curls. I suggest you find hair care products that are alcohol-free.

I suggest using an alcohol-free product, like mousse, to get the best curl-defining effects without drying out your hair.

Your hair can change any time you have a major hormonal shift. Puberty, pregnancy, and menopause are common times to see changes in color, texture, or curl pattern. Assuming this is why your texture changed (it could also be due to a new medicine or other environmental factors) you shouldn't have to anything to keep it. You should, however get new styling products, shampoo and conditioner—ones designed for curly hair.

You can maintain your curls by using a mousse or hair gel to define them. Follow up with a diffuser to dry and set the curls.

The key to drying curls is not to disrupt them. Try twisting them into sections when they are still very wet, applying a curl enhancer or gel, then drying them with a diffuser. Do not scrunch or shake hair while diffusing, just lift the twists and set into the cup of the diffuser. Dry until 90% of the moisture is gone, then allow the remaining moisture to evaporate naturally.

You can fix your hair by blow drying your curls with a diffuser, rather than using a blow dryer without the diffuser attachment. To control the frizz, use hair serum along with a curl defining mousse, gel or cream. To control the dryness, use hair products that don’t contain alcohol or sulfates. Oil and moisture your hair, and also do deep conditioning treatments.

If you're going to wash your hair every day, it's best to wash your hair with conditioner instead of shampoo. This will still get your hair clean and prevent your curls from drying out.

Make sure you take good care of your hair. Condition when you wash and make sure to get hair trims often. Also, don't use a flat iron very often.

Use a curly conditioner and don't use shampoo at all! I would suggest using "the twisting method" which consists of dividing your hair into two equal parts and then twisting them into little buns. Leave them in for at least one hour, then take them out and use a diffuser.

If you have damaged your curly hair by straightening it for years, you cannot get the curls back. You can use rollers or braid your hair overnight to make your hair temporarily curly. If you'd like to have your natural curl pattern back, you will have to let your hair grow out and eventually cut off the damaged ends. While your natural curls are growing out, you cannot straighten them or you will continue to damage them.

When you get out the shower after washing your hair, get your hair in your hands and scrunch it up. Continue to do so as it dries. You can also use mousse.

Avoid touching, brushing, or messing with your hair as the day going on. The more you fuss with your hair, the more you disrupt its natural curl pattern, which leads to frizz. Also, consider keeping a smoothing serum or natural oil (ie: Argan or coconut) in your purse of backpack. If your hair gets frizzy, apply a small amount to your hair to hydrate it and tame the frizz.

If you don't have naturally curly hair, you will likely end up with limp and/or frizzy waves. Embrace your natural hair, try a no heat curling option like curlformers, or check YouTube for other ideas.

There's no way to change your natural hair permanently, but you can straighten it if you need to. Just make sure you are putting something in your hair to keep it straight, or else it will become curly again.

You should use shea moisture products that are designed for curly hair specifically.

Wave spray can help, since you have waves. After you shower, just spray it through your hair, put some hair in your hands, then scrunch it.

If you have a natural 3A hair type, then you cannot have permanent kinky hair, but you could try a perm.

While you are in the shower, your hair is weighed down by the water. After getting out of the shower, squeeze some of the water out of your hair so it's damp, but not dripping wet. Then use a spray leave-in conditioner (it's light so it won't weigh down your curls), mousse, gel, and a curl-defining cream (optional). After applying each product, you can comb through damp hair with a wide-tooth comb to distribute it evenly. Then turn your head upside down and scrunch your hair. Then wait for your hair to dry. Don't brush or comb it after drying, because you will ruin your curls.

Try a lightweight curl-forming product. Put it in when your hair is wet and when you diffuse, try to set your roots upside down. Your hair weighs itself down and ruins curls/waves.

You can't make your hair permanently wavy. You'll have to braid it every time you want waves.

It might not work as well. You can get more of a textured look, though. I do overnight curling methods that work just as well and look great. You could also get a perm.

You can put your hair in two French braids over night. Take them out in the morning and you should have fuller curls.

Probably not as well. Relaxers are designed to straighten your hair, so it will be hard to counteract that with natural methods.

Use some conditioner that is specified for curly hair, that you can purchase at a salon or supermarket. This will help keep your curls in tact, and remove some of the troubles that you are having with the frizz.

You can cut it in layers.

Coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, and OGX Shampoo and conditioner. Those three made the biggest difference for many people.

If you don't have naturally curly hair already, then you can braid your hair overnight or use a curling wand and just brush out the curls a bit with your fingers. If you already have curly hair, use mousse, gel, and/or a curl-defining cream and lightly scrunch up your hair while it's damp.

Try to Follow the Curly Girl Method for Curly Hair . Avoid sulfates and silicones.

I have the same problem. Put gel in your hair after showering, and scrunch your hair up. Make sure to put more gel on the parts that are less curly. Then, after waiting for your hair to air dry, if it's still wavy, dampen the wavy parts with water, apply some gel, and twist the hair around your finger tightly. Hold it there for a few seconds, then it should be somewhat curly.

Try washing your hair, or curling it again. You can use a curling iron, or use one of the several no-heat methods.