Actually you might be able to help me with a dilemma. My hair has always been fine, thin, oily and now that I am post menopausal and cancer treatment drugs have deprived me of every bit of estrogen I may have had remaining it's dry, wiry and frizzy. I have no clue what to do with it. I have tried a moisturizing based mousse and stopped washing it daily. But it's still a frizzy mess that I often just cover with a cap. Any genius would help. Thank
Okay. So you need to follow the curly girl method. Cardinal rule number one NEVER EVER brush your hair dry. Always either when wet with conditioner in, or wet down on a refresh day. Secondly use curly friendly products that don’t contain certain chemicals. The most important bit is hydration, and that’s literally water. Letting your hair soak under the shower, using a microfibre towel or an old t shirt to squeeze (never rub) out water. And either air dry or use a diffuser. Lots of scrunching too whilst wet (NOT whilst drying) or adding products. That’s cupping the hair in your hands closing your fingers and pushing it up towards you scalp and pulsing your hands to scrunch the curls in. I use a variety of things but a good reasonably priced products. I’ll go see if I can find some suitable for thin hair.
You have gorgeous hair (just like mine! Curly.) As a little kid it was blond and the texture was very static and fly away. Mom put me in pig tails for my first day in Kindergarten and the teacher asked her to cut them off, because I kept hitting the kids sitting next to me with my pigtails every time I turned my head, they'd swing. She refused to cut it, and one pony tail became the style. Then my hair became mousy blond/brown, and it grew very long and frizzy, tangles were called "rats nests." I used to sit on my hair it was so long. Then as a teenager, everyone was trying for the Farrah Fawcett look, I got it layered, but my hair had a mind of its own, no matter how much mousse or blow drying, it always looked odd, I would get these "wings" on the side of my head. I would try to color it blond, but it had a lot of red, so I would be a strawberry blond, close enough. Then in college, New Wave and Punk music inspired the super short spiky Joan Jett look, but it never looked right, not straight enough. After I left college, I let my hair grow and wore it in a short bob and one day, I let my hair air dry after my blow dryer died and discovered that I had ringlets, I never knew because I was constantly trying to tame the frizz, when actually, all I had to do is add water and leave it be. It was even curlier while I was pregnant. After I gave birth, my hair went straight and grew in black, I cut it off, back to the spiky look, for a little while, I finally had Joan Jett hair. Eventually, my hormones settled down once I was on the pill and my curls returned, and the color was mousy red, and the curls have never left. Every now and then, I'd decide I would like to have bangs, I would spend too much time straightening them with the blow dryer and hairspray. I finally got smart and stopped doing that. The last time I cut my hair short was in 1992 and I vowed "never again." I "prune" it once a year, and I wear it in a bun most of the time. I used to color my hair red with a rinse, not a permanent color, I hated dealing with the roots. I stopped coloring it I think around my 50th birthday, I became proud of my gray hairs, (I earned every single one.) During 2021-2022 when my boss started gaslighting me, I was so stressed my hair started to fall out, and I became very sick, so I retired. My hair has been growing back ever since, it's still long, but I have all of these new frizzy ringlets all around my head, I look like I stuck my finger in an electric socket, especially after I wash it. I'm about halfway gray, with a dark stripe slightly off center, which is interesting, I still get "rats nests" if I don't run a comb through it regularly, I'm still as curly as ever.
Curly hair, it is both a gift and a curse!! I hated mine growing up, then learnt to love it and then chopped it all off, but I would rather the wild curl than straight and limp any day!! :) Fab photos!!
That's some seriously amazing hair!
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Actually you might be able to help me with a dilemma. My hair has always been fine, thin, oily and now that I am post menopausal and cancer treatment drugs have deprived me of every bit of estrogen I may have had remaining it's dry, wiry and frizzy. I have no clue what to do with it. I have tried a moisturizing based mousse and stopped washing it daily. But it's still a frizzy mess that I often just cover with a cap. Any genius would help. Thank
Umberto Giannini do some good stuff, start with that, they seem to have good discounts on their website too.
Okay. So you need to follow the curly girl method. Cardinal rule number one NEVER EVER brush your hair dry. Always either when wet with conditioner in, or wet down on a refresh day. Secondly use curly friendly products that don’t contain certain chemicals. The most important bit is hydration, and that’s literally water. Letting your hair soak under the shower, using a microfibre towel or an old t shirt to squeeze (never rub) out water. And either air dry or use a diffuser. Lots of scrunching too whilst wet (NOT whilst drying) or adding products. That’s cupping the hair in your hands closing your fingers and pushing it up towards you scalp and pulsing your hands to scrunch the curls in. I use a variety of things but a good reasonably priced products. I’ll go see if I can find some suitable for thin hair.
Is it curly too, or straight? When it is wet does it crinkle or curl?
Yes to curly. And I would say more crinkle than curl.
You have gorgeous hair (just like mine! Curly.) As a little kid it was blond and the texture was very static and fly away. Mom put me in pig tails for my first day in Kindergarten and the teacher asked her to cut them off, because I kept hitting the kids sitting next to me with my pigtails every time I turned my head, they'd swing. She refused to cut it, and one pony tail became the style. Then my hair became mousy blond/brown, and it grew very long and frizzy, tangles were called "rats nests." I used to sit on my hair it was so long. Then as a teenager, everyone was trying for the Farrah Fawcett look, I got it layered, but my hair had a mind of its own, no matter how much mousse or blow drying, it always looked odd, I would get these "wings" on the side of my head. I would try to color it blond, but it had a lot of red, so I would be a strawberry blond, close enough. Then in college, New Wave and Punk music inspired the super short spiky Joan Jett look, but it never looked right, not straight enough. After I left college, I let my hair grow and wore it in a short bob and one day, I let my hair air dry after my blow dryer died and discovered that I had ringlets, I never knew because I was constantly trying to tame the frizz, when actually, all I had to do is add water and leave it be. It was even curlier while I was pregnant. After I gave birth, my hair went straight and grew in black, I cut it off, back to the spiky look, for a little while, I finally had Joan Jett hair. Eventually, my hormones settled down once I was on the pill and my curls returned, and the color was mousy red, and the curls have never left. Every now and then, I'd decide I would like to have bangs, I would spend too much time straightening them with the blow dryer and hairspray. I finally got smart and stopped doing that. The last time I cut my hair short was in 1992 and I vowed "never again." I "prune" it once a year, and I wear it in a bun most of the time. I used to color my hair red with a rinse, not a permanent color, I hated dealing with the roots. I stopped coloring it I think around my 50th birthday, I became proud of my gray hairs, (I earned every single one.) During 2021-2022 when my boss started gaslighting me, I was so stressed my hair started to fall out, and I became very sick, so I retired. My hair has been growing back ever since, it's still long, but I have all of these new frizzy ringlets all around my head, I look like I stuck my finger in an electric socket, especially after I wash it. I'm about halfway gray, with a dark stripe slightly off center, which is interesting, I still get "rats nests" if I don't run a comb through it regularly, I'm still as curly as ever.
It’s a journey isn’t it?
Oh, yeah!
Curly hair, it is both a gift and a curse!! I hated mine growing up, then learnt to love it and then chopped it all off, but I would rather the wild curl than straight and limp any day!! :) Fab photos!!