How to Quickly & Effectively Enhance Curly Hair?

Romantic waves and beautiful, luminous, bouncy curls look gorgeous but every owner of this hair type knows how hard it is to keep it looking stunning and maintain the curl so you don’t end up with dull, frizzy flyaways due to wrong hair care or unsuited styling products. Is there a quick way for defining the curl and beauty of hair? How to get healthy, shiny curls? A few simple hacks will do!

What disturbs the natural curl of your hair?

Both subtle waves and coils rebel from time to time and lose the natural curl. There are a few reasons:

• too high air humidity – unfavourable dew point; hair (even straight) gets frizzy in an uncontrolled way
• wrong hair care – too many silicones in products
• too few proteins delivered to the hair
• lack of proper moisturising routine before styling hair
• going to sleep with wet or damp hair
• dry air because of central heating, scorching sun or frost

How to define curls – tried & tested hacks & remedies

1. How to define curls – a dose of moisture

Curly and wavy hair is quite sensitive (lots of hairstylists classify it as sensitized hair) – it quickly reacts to drying styling products and isn’t fond of too many silicones or heavy alcohols (e.g. alcohol denat). The right dose of moisture is the key to hair bounce which enhances natural curls. Before the styling routine, spray a moisturising mist on hair, apply a suitable hair oil or use a special hydrosol which will protect from loss of water.

2. How to define curls – oils & hair oil treatments for curly hair

Every hair type likes natural oils and hair oil treatments. Waves or curls are no different – to keep them healthy, bouncy, moisturised and shiny, without weighing down (which happens using most styling primers), use an oil or a good blend of oils, designed for a hair oil treatment.

Natural oils are second to none, making hair stronger and sensational-looking, not weighing strands down: apply them to hair and scalp the way you apply a regular hair mask. Leave them in for around 30 minutes and give your hair a good washing. The oils penetrate inner hair structures and protect the external layer, stopping frizz. Moreover, they strengthen and stimulate bulbs to work, and lift hair roots for volume and bounce. In wavy and curly hair care routine, regularly-performed oil treatments define the curls and bring a natural shine out.

3. How to define curls – a suitable hairdo

Going to sleep with wet hair doesn’t give benefits but if you get wet hair in the right do and apply a proper oil or natural styling primer – feel free to go to sleep and unbraid your hair in the morning for beautiful waves. All you do before sleep is divide hair into 2-3 sections, wrap them till you reach the hair roots and secure with hair ties. That’s the easiest curl-enhancing trick. Your hair might be slightly damp in the morning: blow it dry, gently running your fingers through hair or apply a fixing spray and let it dry naturally.

4. How to define curls – scrunching

It is both a child’s play and an incredibly effective technique. If hair tends to get wavy or curly – you don’t need specially-designed styling primers – all you need is a bit of oil or light fluid for protecting hair ends and … a dose of patience.

Start scrunching when your hair is still damp. You may as well spray dry hair with water. Next, bend your head forward, scrunch your hair throughout its length, hold it and let it go – repeat a few time so that hair ‘catches’ the natural curl. To avoid the air-dry frizz, spray it with a mild, styling lotion.

5. How to define curls – plopping, plunking

It’s a very comfy and easy styling method: after scrunching, you wrap hair in a towel. It makes an ideal choice before bedtime – hair has lots of time under the towel to get pretty coils or romantic waves. Moreover, it doesn’t lose any moisture because there’s a kind of mini-sauna so water doesn’t evaporate easily from the outside. Lots of girls rub some natural hair oil in lengths to ensure shine and gently scrunch them again. In case of humid air, protect hair with a spray or oil-based styling primer.

6. How to define curls – baby wipes

It’s a thing on beauty blogs now, successfully promoted by vloggers and bloggers. It involves winding hair strands on traditional baby wipes. They should be winded the way regular curl rolls are: wind a thin hair section on the wet wipe and tie both ends together to keep hair in place. Take the wet wipes off in the morning and… admire your gorgeous (and moisturised) curls.