So I've never been about to figure out how to cut/style my hair. It's somewhere between curly and wavy. Wavy on a good day, but humidity or failing to pick or brush it brings out the curls and it starts to get matted and tangled.

Usually I wear a hat to deal with it getting in my face, I try to tuck it up in there or pull it back so it looks like a mullet. But usually it defaults to coming out the side in real tangly curls like a mf circus clown. Thing is I don't have a mullet, it's about 8 inches long rn all around.

I really want to keep it longer, but I'm thinking of going down to 4 inches cuz I wear a hairnet for work, but rn I am literally pulling tangled clumps out of it everytime I shower or run my fingers through it.

I've recently been using a 100% cotton towel for drying it, trying to dab not rub, but I still wash and rinse with hot water which I hear isn't good for curly hair. I use a plastic brush with the little plastic bristles with the rounded tips and a traditional hair pick to comb it. For hair product I use Aldi brand moisturizing shampoo with vitamin E, and Not Your Mother's Curl Talk sprayable leave-in conditioner.

I've come to all these methods after years of advice from hair dressers and friends, but I can't figure out how to make it more manageable and less tangled and matted. I've never posted about it tho, so maybe my fellow bears have some good advice?

Thank's for reading this, love you all! stalin-heart

  • GarfieldOfficial [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Pretty loose curls here (red hair), that I’ll wear at ~3-4” on top and then just w/e makes the sides look good. My biggest change was going to rarely washing. My curls used to be very dry and frizzy (esp in winter), I had scalp dryness, and it in general looked like Lucille ball (not what I was going for unfortunately.) I’ll maybe wash my hair 1/month if it’s getting gross or I get stuff in it. if I do wash it I’ll typically use a leave in conditioner (currently using “Function of Beauty” products), but it still feels like it takes a few days before my hair isn’t dried out. Somewhere in there is a theoretical sweet spot where I’m really happy with how my hair looks.