Products to loosen tight curls
I am an African America male who has been using products that contain no Sulfates for the past 5 months now. I am in need of advice to help loosen my naturally coarse-tight-curly hair. I have been using the following products:
Shampoo: Organix ( I wash every other day)
Conditioner: Organix (I wash every other day)
Leave-in Conditioner: Cantu Shea Butter (Every other-day)
Daily Mosturizer: Organics by Africa's Best - Shea Butter Plus (Contains no Petroleum or Mineral Oil)
I don't have have a photo because I recently cut my hair and it's not at a length where you'll be able to notice my curls. Any assistance would be helpful?
Shampoo: Organix ( I wash every other day)
Conditioner: Organix (I wash every other day)
Leave-in Conditioner: Cantu Shea Butter (Every other-day)
Daily Mosturizer: Organics by Africa's Best - Shea Butter Plus (Contains no Petroleum or Mineral Oil)
I don't have have a photo because I recently cut my hair and it's not at a length where you'll be able to notice my curls. Any assistance would be helpful?
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Shampoo: Taliah Waajid - Total Body Shampoo
Styling Product - Axe: Style and Shine
Pomade & Ampro Styl Gel
Hair Type: 4a
To stretch the curls you will need to comb out all your hair when you detangle in the shower with conditioner and water. Comb it while its saturated with the conditioner.
Then you will want to do some techniques while styling with gel. First ry putting in the gel and then combing it out again. As it dries it will curl up (if you have naturally curly hair) but because you combed it with gel it won't curl up as much as if you had not combed it.
The only other problem you might encounter is styling or going after a certain look but at least you know you can stretch out the curls naturally without using heat tools or chemicals.
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Thank you for your insight. I was not aware of the "Cone" ingredient so I will be doing a switch in products soon. Do you recommend any conditioners, daily moisturizers, and gel?
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Thank you
I think I'll just try co-washing first and see what happens.
http://streetetiquette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/joshfloal1.jpg
I'm thinking co-washing, a leave-in conditioner, and a daily moisturizer and/or gel.
Thoughts?
You will definitely need to use a good and creamy leave in but most likely will require something with mineral oil.
I would just section in about 12 parts apply the leave-in and oil throughout and kinda twist the sections so they stick.
To finish I would wet the very ends and apply your favorite gel so only the ends curl up and any pieces that don't quite stick into sections.
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What will the mineral oil do? I stopped using products containing this ingredient due to it possibly being bad for my hair.
I'm considering this hairstyle, with half the length shown, will I still need to use gel? I'm just not a fan of putting a bunch of products in my hair..
The mineral oil or grease will keep the hair thick and poofy. You can try Lusters Pink Oil or something that also adds vitamins and not just mineral oil. Personally I could not do this style 100% only because I don't use anything that requires shampoo later.
You can try something without mineral oil and without cones but it will probably be too conditioned and won't help keep it firm and poofy.
You can substitute the gel for conditioner but whatever you use will have to add to the ends curling affect.
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I'll look into curling gel/cream too. Thank you for your advice.
@Tank10 It's cool you know him personally. I asked him on his Twitter account and his website about his hairstyle but I'm sure you'll get a faster response since you know him.
You can see in the front he still has it twisted but somebody took the time to curl and add texture to the outted hair so it's not just wavy which normally happens with twists or braid out...they did a curly thing to it so it looks more like a twist out curl style.
You can have a lot of 2inch long corn rows (or twists) going back and then a week later unravel but leave about a quarter of an inch still twisted.
Like this from the side. The dollar signs is the braid out after a week and the -- is left still braided/twisted.
And see how they're short and not one long braid from front to back of neck
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I usually pick up some females hanging in the hallway or somewhere and have them braid my hair. Show somebody that pic and the method I suggest for braiding in sections. Then loosen 3/4 of the braid at least 72 hours later.
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