I didn't really think much about it as I added it to my stack of books to check out. But as I was flipping through the pages and I began to read the testimonials about having curly hair,it really caught my interest so I started at page one and read the book cover to cover.
If you have naturally curly hair you will find yourself reading this book and nodding your head. You might even say "That's right" out loud in agreement to what it talks about.
If you have straight hair, you will probably not even bother to get past the introduction; but if you do you may learn some hair care information that will help you too. Or at the very least you'll understand curly haired people better than you did before.
It talks about how when a curly girl goes to a salon for a haircut, she never knows what she is gonna get. Always, and I mean always, the hair stylist washes your hair and cuts it WET. Well, do you wear your hair wet? A curly girl needs it cut dry because as her hair drys the curls shrink up, and the results of a bad haricut can be awful. I've had "just an inch" look alot shorter when the hair dried and shrank up about 3". Now it comes time for them to "style" it and they usually want to blow it dry straight....you know, just to see how it will look. You leave the salon, and feel pretty good about the haircut....until you get home and style it yourself the next day. Most of the time you wear your hair curly, since that is the way it is naturally and it's easier and quicker to do that way....but when you blow it dry the way your normally do, you see that your curls won't really curl, they might even look kinda like cotton candy....sigh. I've had more bad hair cuts than good ones to be sure. I always hear the stylist say "Oh, don't worry, I know how to cut curly hair." They thin it, razor it, texture it, layer it, oh my, I even had one take my hair in small amounts, twist it it as tight as she could get it, lifted it straight up and then cut into the twists. It looked cool while she was doing it, but the results were NOT so cool. My hair was messed up big time. sigh, sigh, sigh.
I learned alot while reading this book. I will blog what I read, and share what the author recommends and what I am putting into practice, and how things are going.
I can tell you this, she recommends, no blow dryers, no curling irons, and no straighteners, no combs or brushes.
All these items damage curly hair and the curl will not look healthy, and actually causes frizz
I've been following that part now for 4 days, and I can tell you, it's been interesting.....my hair right now looks like a bad perm from the 1970's. LOL
After washing my hair, (more details on how to do that in another post) I dry it with a t-shirt by carefully scrunching the ends into the T-shirt in an upward motion. Then you carefully shake your head, then apply gel all over your hair, gently squish it or scrunch it, and let it air dry. I think it's just gonna take some time to get the hang of how to style it...
Part of me wants to give up, but it's only been a few days now.
Here is how my curls look today.
BUT...I am curious to see how long it will take till they look like the author promises they will: Healthy and Beautiful ....I'll check back with you soon on this.
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