Reader, Anna emailed and asked for advice on taming frizzy curls. I jumped on that because guess what…I have curly hair! Curly, curly hair. And, I’m pretty sure I’ve got the “non-frizzy” and “non-crunchy” curls down pat….after years of ultra-frizz. (It’s not very often that we post pictures of ourselves, but I felt like I just had to this time…to show y’all I really have curly hair and I might, just this one time, know what I’m talking about!
So, when I was little my hair looked like butt. It was super long and super frizzy, mostly because I wasn’t really interested in fixing my hair. There were plenty of other things that were far more entertaining than doing hair. Anyway, I became of age where I needed to start attracting the male gender and had to figure out something!
Jessica (isn’t she lovely??!) & I at Disney on Ice with our princesses!
Luckily, my mom was not into spending big money and would buy me the cheapest hair products around! Since then I have figured I should try the big names (salon brands) and I ALWAYS go back to my staple cheap stuff. Why??? It works better, I swear! Aren’t you happy to hear?? So, I came up with a routine that if there are ANY deviations…results in frizzy hair…it’s really quick and easy…but it has to be followed exactly! Silly, huh? But, that’s how it goes, yo.
So, here’s my secret…you will need 3 things…all can be found at any grocery store and they all have great prices!
This is the best hair gel, I’m not kidding. Dep Styling Gel
. I’m pretty sure it’s under 3 bucks. It has to be the blue color. The orange is even better but they stopped selling it, so get blue. It is such a staple in my life that I have like 15 bottles in my food storage room. That’s right, when Utah finally has it’s massive earthquake at least I won’t have frizzy hair. Priorities.
. I’m pretty sure it’s under 3 bucks. It has to be the blue color. The orange is even better but they stopped selling it, so get blue. It is such a staple in my life that I have like 15 bottles in my food storage room. That’s right, when Utah finally has it’s massive earthquake at least I won’t have frizzy hair. Priorities.
Aussie Sprunch Spray
, also under 3 bucks and found at any store. It HAS to be the Sprunch Spray…they have lot’s of other options that sound lovely but don’t be sucker, Sprunch Spray only.
, also under 3 bucks and found at any store. It HAS to be the Sprunch Spray…they have lot’s of other options that sound lovely but don’t be sucker, Sprunch Spray only.
Lastly, you need a cheap-o wide-toothed hair brush to get great curls. I can’t stress enough…wide toothed. The more teeth your brush has, the more frizz you will have. A wide tooth brush helps the curls clump together. I’m talking under ten bucks.
1. Your hair needs to be wet, obviously. Pretty wet but not ultra-sopping wet. Meaning, you need to start fixing it within 5 minutes of getting out of the shower. Brush it with your wide tooth brush.
2. Rub the Deb Gel through your hair. Brush it through.
3. Flip your head upside-down and using your wide-tooth brush slowly re-brush the middle to ends of your hair. The reason you are doing it again and SLOWLY is because you want the sections of your hair to be in larger clumps…not single strands.
4. While upside down (just your head!) SLOWLY scrunch your hair with your hands. Carefully, roll your head to the side and scrunch and then to the other side and scrunch. Leave your head upside down! Again, you are doing things slowly because it helps retain the larger hair clumps…
5. While your head is upside-down, spray the Aussie Sprunch Spray over your hair…underneath and on top.
6. Blow dry (head upside-down) while slow-scrunching at the same time. Squeeze up clumps of hair in your hand and point the dryer at the hair in your hands for 20 to 30 seconds. Carefully, flip your head to each side and do the same thing. Then flip head up-right and slowly scrunch while you dry. Give your roots a blast of Sprunch Spray.
7. I never dry my hair completely with the dryer. The above process takes only about 5 minutes. This is the point where you get dressed, do your make-up, etc. Then about 20 minutes later….turn back on the blow-dryer and slowly scrunch and dry…squeezing out the crunchiness. You don’t want your hair to be crunch-curls, it’s yuck! This part just takes like 2 minutes. Give a little spray with hair spray and your done! It will look even better when the day goes on as your hair dries more…
I promise…despite the looks of it, this takes just a handful of minutes to do! Let me know how it goes!
* Also…for extra smooth, shiny, and manageable curls…shower at night and then in the morning when you are ready to do your hair, just wet it and condition it while sticking your head under the tub faucet…using lukewarm water. The reason this works so great is because you aren’t in the shower for 15 plus minutes in the hot water where the pores of your hair are opening up. A quick, lukewarm head drench keeps the pores closed resulting in smoother, shinier hair. Try it sometime! Those are my BEST hair days!
I swear by Sprunch Spray! (seriously – I sprunch spray promise you!)
my little girls have “combination hair” meaning there are clumps of straight, clumps of wavy, and clumps of FrIzZ… it’s horrid. make that HORRID. We do a lot of the above steps, but have to add straightening irons and curling irons to get a good overall effect.
Stupid Genetics… I blame it on my great great great great great great great great grandmother… mostly because my mom was offended when I told her it was her fault.
LOVE THIS help today! Thanks for the tips, and I’m totally gonna buy those products for the days when I don’t have my straightener or the time to use it!
I can’t wait to try this! I spent $65 on a haircut from a professional stylist who specializes in curly hair and over $100 in product – and it still doesn’t work! I can’t wait to try this, I love how your hair looks!
Thanks for the info!
Camille
I will save this post for Halle when the time comes, because Im not so lucky and have straight hair. Im sure we will both appreciate it!
I have always envied your gorgeous curls, and I knew there was some secret behind the perfect hair. Thanks for sharing. Now, when will you do your post on straightening your hair?!?
It’s coming right up, Becc! Straightening hair post in the works…
Thanks for coming by! I miss you!
Mariel
I’m so glad I checked in today. I have wavy hair and it tends to look puffy and frizzy. I’m going to try your routine and see if the waves turn out. Thanks for the tip!
Great post! Have you tried that routine in humidity? I live in FL and have natural curly hair and when I let it go I look like a big goofball. I heard Bumble and bumble surf spray is a great product… ever tried it?
thank you so much, Mariel!! i’m going to try this asap and let you know how it goes– hopefully i can get my hair looking at least half as good as yours!
xo-
What I want to know is how you got to be so BEUTIFUL! 🙂 Thanks for the tips! Now I just need to grow some hair inorder to use them! Arrg…
Amy,
I used to live in New York where it was fairly humid…same routine but if I remember right I think I used more sprunch spray. Also, to eliminate extra frizz…I would try doing the suggestion at the end of the post…where you shower at night and then just wet your hair in the tub in the morning (with lukewarm water)…helps keep your hair smoother when it doesn’t get so heated.
I absolutely love the Sprunch spray too! Although, I have found some curly hair products that are absolutely amazing! Unfortunately, they are pricy and you can only order them online. Go to http://www.jessicurl.com. I swear by Confident Coils and Rockin’ Ringlets. You have to at least try the products once but I think you’ll be hooked!
–>I have embraced my curls my entire life and often arrive to work with my hair still wet. HUGE fan of the hair upside down scrunch move. Thanks for the tips!
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My daughter has curly churly hair (her genetic materials donor is Black), and the texture is like mine. So, she has soft, curly, somewhat tight curls. I have had much trial & error already, and she’s not even 4. We use a WIDE tooth comb, Redken Fresh Curls shampoo & conditioner, & I now love Biosilk Silk Therapy. It is SUPER expensive, but it does last for a long long time. We also like a few different somewhat cheap curl lotions. I cannot stand for her hair to start looking frizzy at the ends, & I need the curls to stick together. Also, somewhat frequent hair trims (at a Black salon) are needed to keep the ends fresh…which keeps them from getting tangled. Just a few tips from the straight-haired mom of a Curly Q!
Thanks for the extra tips! We love when y’all help out!
Do you use a diffuser, or just the straight blow dryer when you’re drying it?
No diffuser…it seperates the curls too much causing more frizz.
Thanks for coming by!
I can’t believe you never told me about your curl method before!! How long have we known each other and you knew I have curly hair? Sheesh!
I’m scared not to use a diffuser.
I’m excited to try your method! One thing I swear by is at the end of my shower, like you were saying with the hot water for 15 minutes, I will flip my hair over and do a cool water rinse which closes the pores and stuff. I do the night showers when I can, but if I have to shower in the day, the cool water works every time!
I’m going to the drug store in the morning!!!! Can’t wait. I do have a tip to add that I swear by, although my hair stylist laughs at me. Never use a towel to dry your hair: it’ll separate the strands. Use an old cotton t-shirt. When I take it off a few minutes after I shower, my hair falls down in ringlet style, not frayed-mop style.
I found the orange gel at Meijer today. Although they also only had sprunch spray in an aerosol. I’ll have to check wal-mart tomorrow.
Thanks!!
The Curly Girl has a lot of tips too, one of the big things that curly girls should not do is use shampoo wish sodium laurel sulfate! It’s too drying on hair.
One of the best defrizzing things I have found for my hair is coconut oil, seriously, that is the most awesome stuff. It leaves the hair nice and soft but not too greasy.
Thanks for the great tips… I’ll have to try the Aussie stuff, but I never blow dry my hair, so I’m wondering if it will leave my hair too crunchy.
You should see my Yorkie try and play with my hair when I have my head upside-down and I’m schrunching (?real word) it into curls – it’s really cute.
curly hairs is a cool hair style… but xtreme is not fr regular outgoing … i think wet look with curly hair is good fr anyone… i like your blog in it…
regards
cleon dann
Can’t wait to try your tips… Do you wash your hair and go through this routine every day??? I color my hair, so I only wash it every third day. Any tips on how to get the lovely look on days when I don’t wash (and still have the styling products from the day before in my hair)?
Rayna,
No, I don’t do this every day. I’m the same as you…wash every 2 to 3 days. To be honest, I just don’t fix my hair every day…so, it’s not really a problem. If I do my hair curly one day, the next day I usually wake up and throw it in a bun. But, sometimes I have just rinsed the product out with water (head under the tub faucet), conditioned the ends, and styled as usual. It seems to take care of the build-up enough to last one more day until washing.
Anyway, I’m too lazy to fix my hair every day.
Thanks for the great post, I’m 40 and have very curly hair I’ve fought all my life. Now my daughter has my curls, and I want her to love the hair she has. We’ll try this one today. However, my browser won’t let me see the first picture, the blue but the orange is better one, so would you please post what the name of the product is? Thanks so much!
Sorry, Allison. I put up a new pictures and the product is Dep Hair Gel. It’s super cheap and you can get it most anywhere! Good luck.
I stumbled upon this blog, and then upon this post and went out the next morning to get the stuff to try it right then. I have short hair (just above my collar bone) and a LOT of hair, and it’s curly and coarse. It does bigger ringlet-type curls, and this method worked pretty well for me. I have to do some shaping of a few curls, but I LOVE the sprunch spray! Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
So, how does all of this work with the no-poo method? All my years of hair care cringes at the thought of putting spray in my hair and then NOT washing it out the next morning.
That’s a great question, I’ll ask Kate to address that on her next post. I haven’t been using lots of product lately…mostly straightening my hair. I hate having a big pregnant body and big hair to go with it…I save my big, curly hair for when I’m not preggo 🙂
Find your post really helpful. I have curly hair for very long time now and always have struggle with the curls. I will try your methods and totally give you the feedbacks soon. Thanks for the great sharing!