Why curly girls should give up the towel

The other day I was reading my local message board on The Nest and came across a topic on curly hair. Thinking I might be able to give some advice I opened the post. I did have a few things to offer, but learned something in the process. Curly haired girls shouldn't use a regular terrycloth towel to dry their hair because it causes the frizz. So what should they use instead? A T-shirt! Who knew? Being the hair girl that I am I took to the interwebz and found a few things I wanted to share, like this Plop method of drying I found on naturallycurly.com. You can use either a T-shirt or a microfiber towel. Apply your product first then follow the instructions below.

You leave it up like this for 15-30 min. You might need to add a little more product after you take it down. Then you can finish by diffusing or letting air dry.
So my curly haired friends try it out and let me know.

Coaxing Out Some Wave

I'm a girl with fine to medium hair texture, but I have tons and tons of it. After having 2 kids my once straight hair now has some natural wave in it. I have tried several product combination trying to get it to stay wavy and not look like junk once it's dry. Most products are made for coarse curly hair which leaves a fine hair girl like me looking more like a drowned rat than having sexy beachy waves. I have found that a light weight curl cream works the best when I combine it with a curl enhancing spray. I like my hair soft and curly not crunchy curly that is why I avoid any type of gel. Crunchy curly brings be back to my 80's perm days when I would spray the crap out of my hair with Aussie Sprunch Spray. Ick!

The How To

First, I started with a light weight leave in conditioner, Staying Alive by Kevin Murphy. I always start with this since I live in DRY Colorado. I followed that up with the Abba Pure Curl Prep spray and then the Loreal Professional Texture Expert Elasticite (curl enhancing cream).

This is after I have scrunched the product in my hair. I haven't combed anything but my bangs since I will be wearing them straight. From here I will diffuse my hair on low.

This is all dry after diffusing.

Next I put in 2 drops of Aveda smoothing fluid just to smooth things out and then spray it with the Kevin Murphy Session Spray to hold it.

Last I touch up some of the straighter curls with my curl stick by wrapping about mid length to the end down around the stick. I alternated forward and backward. You don't want perfect curls otherwise they look out of place with the rest.

The finished look. Yeah if you thought this was going to be an easy wash and go style sorry not gonna happen. I takes more work for me to wear it "curly" then it does for me to blow it out straight, but isn't it cute!