Friday, April 16, 2010

How to Take Care of a Perm/ Curly Hair

Taking care of one's hair, in general. can be a daunting task. With the speed at which everyone moves there is no time to put on lotion, how can one take the time out to do hair. Curly hair, though differing from one person to the next, is basically wash and wear. But, without proper product curly hair has the tendency of just becoming super poofy as the day goes on. Ten minutes! Ten minutes is all that is needed for one to properly primp one's hair. With the following quick and easy tips one will be able to manage the unmanageable.

1. Run hair through water if a shower is not taken. It's much easier to work with damp curly hair than dry curly hair.
2. As you run your hair with water, don't forget to condition it well.
3. Dry hair with towel until it's lightly damp.
4. Use leave in conditioner or if you don't have any, regular conditioner will do. Run the conditioner through hair until you've detangled every strand.
5. Take a wide tooth comb and comb hair from top to bottom, remembering that you want your hair to be smooth and, again, detangled. Use as much conditioner your hair calls for.
6. Take a bit of gel, moose will work--but gel is preferred, and run fingers throughout hair. The more gel one uses the crunchier one's hair will become. If you want a softer look, use only a little to keep curls together.
7. Now take a towel and crunch hair up from ends to roots. The use of the towel removes some gel, shapes curls, and keeps hands sticky free.
8. Continue with this process until hair is fully crunched to your desires.
9. If you choose to blow dry remember to blow air downward. Blowing air any other way causes hair to poof, and removes any refinement the curl once had from the process of geling and then crunching.
10. Air drying curly hair is actually the proper procedure.

It's not terribly hard to get that hair done. Ten minutes is all you need for a more refined hair do.