Best way to get waves?

[FallingDarkness]

As my hair gets longer and heavier, my natural waves are getting less and less prominent :( :( :( Anybody have a good way to get consistently pretty waves in their hair? Thanks much. All yall rock.

[Rebeccalaurenxx]

Braiding, co washing, oiling, and the LOC/LCO method makes my natural waves 10x more predominant.

[FallingDarkness]

What braids do you do?

[littlestarface]

Dutch braids make really pretty waves imo.

This is from double dutch braids.
http://i.imgur.com/bnQNXat.jpg

[Arctic]

Rag curls give very nice waves!

[DarleneH]

French braids for me, because I can start the braid right at my bangs and across the top of my head. You can split your hair into two halves and do a separate braid on each side to make the waves a bit tighter than with one French braid down the back.

[reilly0167]

( little starface) I love your hair!!! So pretty.

[Borgessa]

I do two french dutch braids when my hair is wet and sleep on it over night, I have very thin fine hair. That brings out the most curls/waves for me. If your hair is thicker, maybe four braids or more? I've also heard of folks sleeping in those sock buns when their hair is a bit wet. Never tried that one myself.

Actually my avatar image I uploaded today, it is with the waves resulting from french dutch braids i slept in last night, as you can see they lasted all day as this was late afternoon the photo was taken.

[school of fish]

Going to bat for french dutch braids here as well! Although I braid rarely for texture I have done a lot of heatless wave experimenting and dutch braiding was a consistent winner, along with french rope braiding :) In truth I've settled on a simple bendy-roller spiral set as my wave method of choice (I just dislike braiding :p ) but I can attest that dutch and rope braids do produce a nice, sleep-on-able result on me as well ;)

A single dutch braid (frenched) started as high up toward the front hairline as possible produces a lovely soft, largish wave on me, while a pair of double rope braids (also frenched) started as close to the temples as possible results in tighter, more snakey-spirally waves.

There's something about the inverted direction of the dutch braid versus the upright direction of the standard english braid that seems to give better definition to the texture.

[lapushka]

Styling it with the right stylers can help.

With the curl enhancing smoothie by Shea Moisture, I can enhance from 2b/c to 2c/3a. I get more than a few ringlets this way, and most certainly now that I've gone back to hip - WOW. The thing is you need very little of that product, so a tub will last you a while. Tighter curlies go through the product like water, but for me, when I use more than a coinsize, it gets to be a sticky, knotty, mess. I needed a coinsize (about a 1 to 2 euro coin) for classic, and now that I'm hip, I use slightly less, or a smaller coinsize. This underneath my gel. Works wonders! And yep, scrunch it in!

[samanthaa]

Paranda braid.

[littlestarface]

If you want your natural waves to be more pronounced defined then you can try just cold water and lots of scrunching. That's what I did in my siggy and my black clothed pictures and my hair always turned out amazingly wurly with just cold water scrunching honestly.

[Llama]

Another vote for twin dutch braids here! They give the prettiest waves and are comfortable to sleep in.

Dug up a picture of the waves I got from this method:

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt178/photoz_by_amy/c7420ee0-c872-45da-9955-0727806c18da_zpsry2hkedd.jpg (http://s609.photobucket.com/user/photoz_by_amy/media/c7420ee0-c872-45da-9955-0727806c18da_zpsry2hkedd.jpg.html)

[DarleneH]

I almost forgot to mention buntu knots. I sometimes do a version of them where I twist my hair into just three different little knots (more like buns for me) and leave them in overnight.