Q&A: How Do I Keep the Curl Pattern from My Wet Hair? | Hair Rules

Our Texture Guru Dickey explains how to regularly achieve the definied curl pattern from wet hair. Cowashing, Wash N Go styling, and shampoos without suds are all important factors here, especially for people with wavy to kinky hair textures (3A-4C hair).

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DICKEY'S NOTES: This is a good question because I find that a lot of women once you go natural I think the challenge has been that is difficult to find out methods that have been suitable to your texture, so you end up doing alternative things like twist outs, or other styles that are not necessarily the easiest ones. The great thing about being natural and having a curl pattern when it's wet is that those are just small indicators. Whenever you have conditioner in your hair and it's wet, or you have shampoo in your hair, you see curls. The problem is that you can never capture those curls or know what to do, so that's kind of the missing link in going natural. How do I capture this great curl pattern that I see when my hair is super wet with either shampoo or conditioner.? That's always exciting to me because the answer is simple...it simply means that you capture that curl pattern with your favorite styling product.
Hopefully all you naturals are avoiding shampoos that have suds because they are so damaging for your hair. I am talking about the sulfate free ones as well. Because those textures are naturally drier, they will never need anything that has suds be it sulfate free or not. These non-sudsing cream shampoos of course Hair Rules Daily Cleansing Cream Moisturizing No Suds Shampoo is just the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to natural hair. It's a cream shampoo that allows you to de-tangle while you are shampooing and it doesn't dry out your hair, so your hair is left soft, and de-tangled, and freshly cleansed. That's your go to weekly shampoo and that of course helps to bring out the curl pattern.
Once you're finished you have your Hair Rules Quench Ultra Rich Conditioner for textures that are naturally drier or kinkier or curlier textures. Once you put your conditioner in you should be able to see a great curl pattern because soft hair is the only hair that wants to curl up which is why you only see curls when you have conditioner on. So after shampooing with your cream shampoo you want to use your quench conditioner or if you're co-washing you'll use your quench conditioner daily to simply rinse and condition and use your quench conditioner to co-wash. That method of co-washing and wash and wear styling helps to transform your texture to one that is soft and elongated and curlier, it will just get curlier and curlier. Of course you are looking to find out how you capture that curl pattern. These are small indicators, when you see a curl pattern when the hair is wet and has conditioner on it that's just a small indicator that's where you are going to apply your styling products. Again, your conditioner helps to prep your hair which softens it and de-tangles and elongates.
The Hair Rules Kinky Curling Cream and the Curly Whip also will condition the hair. Make sure you use enough. You can't overuse these products. You might use a handful of it or a golf-ball size amount depending on your thickness of hair. You might use more if your hair is longer. Use your product as a tool. Use your styling product to saturate your hair. Once you've worked that product through in a manner de-tangles and stretches out, I like to add a little water sometime so the hair really hangs and then set it. Whether you want it defused, sit under a portable hood dryer and if you don't want to do it in the morning than do it at night and stretch it out afterward. You've got to work it into your lifestyle. Wash and wear styling also allows you to go forward with a lot of versatility styling ,whether you're going to do twist outs, braid outs or straight styling - you don't get heat damage because you're doing a lot of wash and wear on top of hair that is thoroughly moisturized through the method of wash and wear styling.