To all my fellow curly haired humans; I understand your struggle, because the genetic roulette wheel hath dealt me a very similar one. We are the commodores of conditioner, the heralds of humidity, the fighters of frizziness. But for all of its pain-in-the-butt qualities, curly hair is beautiful. It's a love-hate relationship but ultimately, we can learn to rock it and love our natural locks.
1. Oh, the humidity.
When it's hot and humid out, your hair will know pretty much before anything else. It can grow to twice its normal size and frizziness is out of control. Even if you throw it up in a hairstyle those cute little baby hairs framing your face still make you look like Simba.
2. Frizziness.
Even without humidity, curly hair still frizzes apart into tiny annoying individual hairs that refuse to fall together into a cohesive, neat layer. Ultimately, you do a a lot of flipping around of your hair, trying to cover it up and hope for the best.
3. Ponytail or pom-pom?
Sometimes when you want a cute ponytail, your hair is too frizzy or unruly that day and it looks like you could have a tiny creature resting on your head. But when you're successful you feel super accomplished
4. Hats are not your friend.
As cute as beanies and baseball caps are, a lot of the time, you just fell kind of trapped in them or like your hair is being forced at some weird angle, not to mention the hat hair and how frizzy or matted your hair feels when you take a hat off. Sometimes though you can totally rock it and sometimes your friends are awesome enough to sew you a hat perfect for curly hair.
5. What will my hair look like when I wake up?
Sometimes sleeping on your curls can crush them and if you don't have time to shower, you feel like you have to hide your hair in a bun or something otherwise you feel like a hot mess. And not to mention the--you guesed it--FRIZ-ZIE-NESS..
6. The endless hunt for the right hair products.
The quest for the conditioner, shampoo, etc. that will make your hair just the way you want it is never-ending. You look up online tutorials and curly hair Pinterest boards and remember something about coconut and another thing about keratin and eventually just pick one and pray to the curly haired gods it works because there are an absurd amount of products promising the same ambitious thing.
7. "You should totally straighten your hair!"
I. Do. Not. Want. To. And okay, yes this is just me personally but the only times I've straighten my hair, someone else did it for me and it took forever. Plus, I just didn't like it. It didn't look like me and I'm just uncomfortable and frustrated when people keep telling me to do something I've made clear I don't want to do. But hey, if you're a curly haired gal who likes straightening your hair--more power to you--it's your hair, so do whatever you wish with it--you go girl.
8. Air Drying.
Applying heat to curly hair via hair straighteners, blow dryers etc, tend to make you look like Simba (again) as seen above. And though your hair looks nice when you let it air dry, air drying takes an eternity and a half because when you have curly hair you also tend to have extremely thick hair.
9. "Go brush your hair"
Not only does brushing your curly hair make it no longer curly but rather a frizzy mess, but it can hurt because it can tangle easily. Plus you probably have so much hair that it feels like you're not getting anywhere and you feel like you look worse than when you started.
10. Can you (k)not?
Lots and lots of tangles and knots can form amongst your lovely curls and you spend a lot of time combing them out and looking for the proper detangling spray to prevent damage and whatnot. Also, when you say (not without pride) that you just got a big knot out of your hair there may be a person or two who say "Isn't it always a giant knot?" (Yes I have had this happen to me.)
11. Ultimately you love your curly hair!
No matter what, whether you style it every day, put it in an up do daily or just wear it down, your curls are gorgeous and a total gift. You can totally rock it!
