My annual hairdryer embargo has begun. Every year around this time, I give up straightening my naturally curly hair. Between the New York City Every-Day-is-Trash-Day smell, the invisible rain from overhead air conditioners, the steamy subway, and the ridic level of humidity, I have learned that forcing your hair into an unnatural state is a losing battle come L'Ete. I use Bumble and bumble's Curl Conscious for fine to medium hair. I apply to wet hair, starting at the roots and working all the through to the bottom layers. I then twist my hair into ringlets and let my hair dry naturally if I have the time. If I need to be somewhere quickly and with dry hair, I use a diffuser set on medium or low heat. If I have to be somewhere like work, for example, I just go with a wet head and let it dry from there. It sounds intuitive, but having curly hair is a WHOLE different ball game. Thankfully, there are directions for use that come with the product in case you forget these.
I have long, curly hair and over the years I must have tried at least 100 different types of gel. Oddly the cheaper they are the better they work for me. Every gel I've tried that was over the $5 mark made my hair heavy, greasy, or just not curly. Right now I swear by Pantene springing curls - it's light, not too sticky, and really defines my curls. And it doesn't matter if I go through the whole bottle in under a week - it's under $5 and usually on sale at CVS. Another product I still swear by but am too impatient to use is Suave spray gel, which is about as cheap as you can get. After years of fighting against my curly hair, this is the product that made me realize I could have beautiful hair too, even on humid days. The spray factor makes it easy to distribute the gel evenly throughout your hair, but gives you a finger cramp and leaves a sticky gel film over everything around you - my high school friends and mom can attest to this.
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