How To Manage Curly Hair: The Wet Look

In the interest of full disclosure:

That is not my wet curly hair in that picture.

Nor are those my eyelashes.  Good Lord, I wish.

Ahem.  Anyway.  I do, however, have naturally curly hair that I adore.  I have learned how to manage curly hair using product and a diffuser with my blow dryer.

But I have a confession to make:

Sometimes I am far too lazy or busy to spend the extra five minutes necessary to blow dry my hair.

Unfortunately, I have short curly hair so making use of a cute pony tail when I’m in a hurry is out of the question.  Recently,  I’ve stumbled on some great new products that allow me to very quickly tame my curls and get predictable results that I’m willing to go out in public with.

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How to Manage Curly Hair: Product. Product. Product.

I have naturally curly hair that I love.  Now.

It took me years of trial and error to get here.

I spent decades of my life walking around with a frizzy sort of kind of wave thing going on and I hated my hair.  I brushed and brushed and blow dryed and sprayed and it always just poofed.

My senior year in highschool, I discovered gel and scrunching.  Then, instead of a poofy triangular shaped fro, I had a crunchy spiral perm that always looked wet.

I’ve tried every cut, product, and gadget on the market.  From the very, very cheap to the very, very overpriced, I’ve experimented with everything in an effort to manage my curly hair.

About three years ago, I stumbled on the secret recipe.  I’ve tested it since then – trying to swap out one part of the formula or another – and time and time again I have proven to myself that this is what works on curly hair.

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