Beeboo123
December 24th, 2017, 10:53 AM
I am seeing my cousin over the Christmas weekend, and she noticed that my hair had gotten a lot less frizzy and more shiny over the past year. Thank you, co-washing!
She approached me for advice on how to tame her mane. The following is a hair-typing photo that she took. Her hair was washed and left to completely air dry.
http://i.imgur.com/8hz5Q0T.jpg
To my surprise, we’re nearly hair twins! She has MBL hair. Her hair is coarse and a little thicker (4.25”) than mine, so she is a M/C/iii. I am not too sure how to classify her wave pattern- I feel that it is is a little looser than mine, so 2a maybe? Her hair is very heavily layered, which I heard can affect the apparent pattern of the waves? What do you think?
Her hair routine currently consists of daily washing with a sulfate shampoo, a rinse-off and a leave-in conditioner. She dries her air either by blow-drying it (to make it straighter and less frizzy), or with the help of a fan.
Her main problems are frizz, and from what I observed, a lot of breakage.
This is what I recommended:
- Switch to a cleansing conditioner, instead of using harsh sulfate shampoos (she tried mine, and likes the results, but thinks it’s weird because it does not feel clean)
- Finger detangle or comb with a wide-toothed comb only, no brushing
- Plop for more definition
- Continue to keep her hair up. She works in a lab, so she has her hair braided most of the time, however she has a lot of breakage throughout. I suspect that it’s because her hair is so similar to mine, it hates being put up, but she does not have the option of having it loose (while avoiding leaning or rubbing against it). But I also noticed that most of her breakage is around her shoulders, which is likely due to rubbing.
- Quit using a blow-fryer, air dry only
- Grow out those layers that the hairdresser insisted on, because they aren’t doing her any favors and making her hemline look ragged, and to give more weight to the hair so as to help hold it down
- Grow her hair longer, so the strands will have a harder time floating about and frizzing.
Have I missed anything out? What would you recommend?
She approached me for advice on how to tame her mane. The following is a hair-typing photo that she took. Her hair was washed and left to completely air dry.
http://i.imgur.com/8hz5Q0T.jpg
To my surprise, we’re nearly hair twins! She has MBL hair. Her hair is coarse and a little thicker (4.25”) than mine, so she is a M/C/iii. I am not too sure how to classify her wave pattern- I feel that it is is a little looser than mine, so 2a maybe? Her hair is very heavily layered, which I heard can affect the apparent pattern of the waves? What do you think?
Her hair routine currently consists of daily washing with a sulfate shampoo, a rinse-off and a leave-in conditioner. She dries her air either by blow-drying it (to make it straighter and less frizzy), or with the help of a fan.
Her main problems are frizz, and from what I observed, a lot of breakage.
This is what I recommended:
- Switch to a cleansing conditioner, instead of using harsh sulfate shampoos (she tried mine, and likes the results, but thinks it’s weird because it does not feel clean)
- Finger detangle or comb with a wide-toothed comb only, no brushing
- Plop for more definition
- Continue to keep her hair up. She works in a lab, so she has her hair braided most of the time, however she has a lot of breakage throughout. I suspect that it’s because her hair is so similar to mine, it hates being put up, but she does not have the option of having it loose (while avoiding leaning or rubbing against it). But I also noticed that most of her breakage is around her shoulders, which is likely due to rubbing.
- Quit using a blow-fryer, air dry only
- Grow out those layers that the hairdresser insisted on, because they aren’t doing her any favors and making her hemline look ragged, and to give more weight to the hair so as to help hold it down
- Grow her hair longer, so the strands will have a harder time floating about and frizzing.
Have I missed anything out? What would you recommend?