Ξεκίνησα κούτσα στραβά το cgm αλλά δεν ξέρω τι προϊόντα να χρησιμοποιήσω που να μην έχουν θειικά και σιλικόνες αλλά παράλληλα να κάνουν μια αξιοπρεπή δουλειά.
Hey! I’ve been doing this for about 6-7 weeks, and mainly focussing on improving hair health, but I’d also like to see more waves. When my hair is wet I can get a lot of wave/some curl but it’s generally pretty straight within a few hours. I know technique and finding the right products is a lot to do with it but I’m hoping hair health plays a part and as it improves will retain wave more.
On the plus side I’ve had lots of lovely comments about how my hair looks, thicker, shiny and vibrant natural colour. Hairdresser commented that my hair felt much nicer, so it’s doing good!
I recognize that for some, these techniques are a holy grail and may have helped you transform your hair into something that looks way better than it did before. That's great and that's not really what I'm talking about here.
Rather, I want to share that I feel the whole "find out if your hair is wavy!" trend is overdone and is making some people look worse than they did before. Having very, very slight waves in your hair is a natural hair type held by many people, and it's not always just "waves that aren't styled right". It's just the person's genetics, you know? And it's not necessarily bad or ugly. Some of these before and afters have people's hair looking crunchy and wet looking, which is fine if that's what you're after, but in my opinion it kind of defeats the purpose because it looks harsh. Might as well just do a blowout with a round brush instead.
Secondly, people with wavy hair who have fluffier/fuzzier waves often have people suggesting them to style their waves to make them smoother, have a greater coil, etc. While in fact this may look great on some people, it's not actually harmonious on others.
I'll use myself as an example, I'm a Kibbe SN with a very high trust face, with wavy 2Bish hair and I find that I like brushing through my waves to give a softer and fuzzier appearance, kind of like ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian times. This suits my personal taste and I find it more harmonious with my features. It feels like today, intentionally brushing through your waves when you are aware of the alternative "curly girl" methods seems foolish or odd to some.
Uneven, fluffy, fuzzy, messy, "mild" waves look naturally amazing on some types, IMO.
What are your thoughts and personal experiences?
And I have gotten more random compliments on my hair in the last month than I have in my entire life! I have always hated my hair but I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel!
I just had to share how absolutely amazing it has been!
It feels like I can't go more than a few videos on Insta or YT without seeing another girl dedicating themselves to and documenting their Curly Girl journey (it might just be me, but I'm mildly amused at the lengths a few of these girls with the tiniest amount of wave in their hair go to to force curls into shape). You'd think that given Boob's love for long, curly hair, and the way it'd be objectively healthier for her hair than whatever she's currently doing, Jinger would hop aboard the Curly Girl train. Or maybe she just hasn't stumbled on that corner of the internet and we'll start to see her do a bunch of paid promotions for curly hair products.
Edit: thank you all for teaching me how hair evolves over time!!
Edit pt 2: I'm not insulting all of the girls doing the Curly Girl thing. This is not me ribbing on them--calm down and take your pissy comments elsewhere. I am just clocking a trend that's started to take off.
I (17F) have pin straight hair, but a while ago the ‘Curly Girl Method’ for hair overtook my TikTok FYP. I was interested in testing it out, but obviously it would be kinda useless on me. So, I turned my attention to my little step-sister “Amy” (4F). She has amazingly curly hair, but no one in our families ever really do much with it, as we all have straight hair (I should clarify now that we’re all white, including Amy - none of this is a cultural issue).
I bought all the products and we made a special day of it (at-home pamper day, the whole shebang). By some miracle, she sat for the whole thing and loved the results. Her curls weren’t tangled anymore, and it didn’t hurt her when I did it, unlike when either my or her mom went at it with a brush. I helped her to maintain in for the rest of the week she was at our house, seeing as she’s 4 and can’t really manage it herself yet. As a bonus aside, it was a great way for us to spend time together and I am taking great joy in currently being her “best sister” (I’m her only sister, but still).
Then, she went back to her mum’s house, as per their custody agreement (one week at each house) and was apparently upset at the return to her mum’s approach to her hair (basically just treat it the same way you treat straight hair) and wanted my way of doing it back. Her mum then texted my step-dad (Amy’s dad) and asked that I don’t do the CGM with Amy anymore because it was too much for Amy’s mum to keep up with. I offered to send the products over, because I know they cost me £££, and figured that was the problem, and then Amy could just bring them between the houses. Amy’s mum refused and said it was just too much time to commit to Amy’s hair. It sort of escalated to Amy’s mum scolding me herself and saying that I should just “listen to the adults” and that I have no right to control how she does her daughter’s hair.
I sympathise with Amy’s mum - I know she has two other kids who aren’t that old either and she works full time. I have the liberty of time to spend all the time I want working on Amy’s hair, unlike her. At the same time, I loved seeing how happy it made Amy and I really enjoyed our bonding time, so I’d hate to stop that now.
AITA for still wanting to do the CGM on my little sister?
I say this as a guy who's only just discovered the cgm and honestly I've never looked as good or felt as confident.
I think most guys are put off by the cgm because they think it's just for girls or they find it too complicated/time consuming or they simply aren't aware of it. What I say is if you've got curls (and especially longer curls) it doesn't matter if you're a man or woman you need to know what products to use and how to style it ect unless you do actually want to look like a frizzy, mushroom haired nerd.
As someone who's gone from said frizzy mushroom head to defined, stylish curls thanks to the cgm I have realised when I look in the mirror how much of a difference your hair makes to your attractiveness. Not only that but the halo effect is real - when you look good people really do treat you differently, especially the opposite sex.
So guys, don't feel that using the Curly Girl Method will emasculate you or that it's in some way vain to spend that much time on your hair (if it's not vain for women it's not vain for men). It might just change your life!
Hi guys, I’ve been wanted to try the curly girl method to see if it can bring out my waves. I have super straight hair, it is fine but I have a lot of it. If I let it air dry without brushing it, it has a bend to it.
Problem is, most hair products really weight it down. And I like my hair looking weightless and bouncy, so I do love a good clarifying shampoo once a week lol.
I’m worried some of the products would weight my hair down. Do you have any recs? I would say my hair is between 1A-1B
Both my parents have curly hair, dad's is very thick and mom's is thin but super curly/frizzy. I lie somewhat in the middle I think. When I let my hair air dry it has some mild wave to it, and some frizz. I have thinner hair, but LOTS of it so it seems thick. I flat ironed my hair for years in high school, then the past few years I've moved away from that but wear my hair in a tight bun a lot. I don't use heat on my hair often, but I do wash it about every other day (with non curly approved shampoo/conditioner 🥴)
Basically I want to be happy with my hair if I let it dry and not have to style with heat to be happy with it. But I don't know if my hair fits in with the curly girl method?
I swim four (sometimes five) days a week, and i've been interested in the curly girl method. The sides of my head have 2a waves, and the back has 2b (possibly 2c?) waves.
For the past week and a half, I've been switching up routines based on what fails (gel not working on wet hair, etc) and my current one i've been using for the past few days is conditioning, brushing, scrunching, plopping, air-dry, then gel. I rinse my hair out before I swim and following this routine.
Any advice for it to work together? And please don't troll me and tell me to quit.
I have 2b/2c/3a hair and CGM does not work for me! I hate how my hair looks when I'm encouraging all the curls and not brushing them out - I've tried plopping and every combination of product, but at the end of the day, defined curls just don't work for me.
Brushing them out stretches the curls and soften things in a good way, but of course that makes frizz. Sometimes I can brush them out, mist my hair, and let it dry in a bun for cascading waves, but it doesn't always work.
Is anyone else frustrated with CGM? Are there alternatives?
