Swing Curl Clump Method -- Hack To Styling Wavy Curly Hair
I finally gave my technique a name! The Swing Curl Clump Method! This is the easiest way to get wavy curly hair to clump together. This can be done on any hair type! And can be used with 1 styler or 10! Ok maybe not 10 stylers, but you get the idea. Make sure you watch till the end!
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I'M finally doing it, i'm giving my technique a name, hey there guys welcome back to my channel. I am so glad you're here and i am really excited for today's video. I just realized that i don't have these lights on in the background one moment, that's better! All right, i feel a little ridiculous filming today's video, but something i have noticed is that everyone in this wavy curly hair community here on the internet, comes up with a method, a technique, and then they name it and i felt like oh, that would be cool. I should try that, and four years later i am finally giving the method that i use to wash and style my hair, a name. This method is battle tested tested by hundreds of women that have taken curl coaching sessions with me, and this works. This works for short hair. It works for long hair, it works for fine hair, it works for coarse hair, it works for wavy hair, obviously, and it works for curly hair. The main thing about this technique is that it will not work. If you don't have the right amount of product and water in your hair, that's all i'm gon na say right now, but with that being said, the name that i've come up with for the way i style my hair is the swing curl, clump method, scc. For short, swavy curly courtney see what i did there. Yes, i know that this is a little bit ridiculous and that there are some physical limitations to styling your hair. This way, if hanging upside down doesn't work for you, if kind of swinging your head around, doesn't work for you, whether it's back issues, neck issues, vertigo, i understand, and there are modifications to doing this technique. You don't have to swing your head as quickly as i am going to demonstrate here shortly in my bathroom, but i'm really excited to show you exactly how i do this. Thank you, dear husband, for participating and helping me film. This. Let'S go into my bathroom. We will be starting off with freshly washed and clean hair. You could have co-washed, you could have washed your hair with a low, poo and rinsed out your rinse out conditioner. After a thorough squish chicken dish, you could have just finished clarifying and deep conditioning your hair. It matters not so long as you are starting with clean, conditioned hair grabbing the first of the products that we will be leaving on our hair. This is my leave-in conditioner. Well, actually, it's a curl cream, but what the main point is is that you need a conditioning product to start breaking through your hair. This is where we start organizing the curl clumps gently finger detangling. Theoretically, your hair is already thoroughly detangled from your cleansing and conditioning process. You will just be distributing your conditioning product through your hair, with your fingers once you've done, that you will grab your favorite brush and gently start pushing the hair away from your face. This creates a bunch of awesome parts on the top of your hair, really nice and straight so that you can pick your part once you're done now. My hair is really sticking up that won't look cute. When i flip my head right side up, i'm going to pull the hair off the sides of my face and off the back of my head, you can already see that using this brush is helping my curls start to organize and clump together and look like ribbony Seaweedy awesome goodness, the curl clumps have started to form, but things are a little bit stuck still right at the top of my head. Instead of trying to organize it with a brush, the simplest way is just to pull them off. The back of my head with my fingers now remember how i said that this method only works. If you have the right amount of product and water in your hair, we're going to be adding just a little bit more water to my hair, usually if your curl clumps are not coming together. The way you want the answer is not more product. It'S usually add more water, but courtney. I'M rinsing out all of that leave-in conditioner, oh nae-nae, my friend, your hair will soak up the leave-in conditioner that it needs, while the water helps your curl clumps, stick together and form really really nicely. Now, i'm just gently squishing and pulsing this leaving conditioner curl cream product into my hair with lots of water, i'm not trying to squish all the water out of my hair, i'm just trying to swoosh and pulse it around to make sure that there's still plenty of Water in my hair for the first swing that about a swing you swing up, shake the hair off the back your head and then swing back down and watch. This see how i kind of flung my head around and all the curl clumps kind of twirled together for a second. This is the beginning. Basis of this method stand up shake the hair off the back of the head swing back down. Let'S see that one more time really nice swing, curl clump together. I know this seems ridiculous, but i promise it does flick and twirl the curl clumps together. It keeps things big and juicy while allowing all your natural curls to come together on their own. Sometimes, when you use a denman brush to artificially clump the hair together, the curl clamps are too big. They'Re kind of weighed down they're stretched out. Sometimes finger coiling can do the same thing by awkwardly clumping the hair together. This method allows your hair to clump together. In the curl families that it wants to, naturally, this is very similar to we dad's raken shake but again you're, not artificially clumping things together, you're allowing the curl clumps to find their homes by themselves. Now, i'm going in with the second product. This is my curl enhancer, and this is kind of the first real styler. Now that i have my curl clumps organized ish with that leave-in cream conditioning product, i can start locking them in place with gels. This isn't really a gel. It'S a custard, slash, curl enhancer. Anyway, i glazed that over roped it in and now i'm gently scrunching in the middle, then on the side, then, on the other side, gently beginning to turn my head from side to side to side as i scrunch, because i'm winding up for the next big swing. You want to swing your head in between each styler. This make sure that things don't get stuck in an awkward spot. It keeps things tumbling off the back, your head, making sure that the curl clumps are still staying together in their curl families. Remember you have enough water and product in your hair to hold those curl clumps together. If you don't have enough water and product in your hair, they won't clump together properly. You can see there. I was pointing out that i got this big chunky spiral from all that twirling and swinging. Now we're going to lock all of this in with a hard hold gel, you don't have to use two separate stylers. You could use four separate stylers with this method. I have done this with a leave-in conditioner and a single styler. I have done this with a curl cream and three gels on top. The main principle is that you are going to stand up and swing the hair around off the back, your head in between each application of product same gel product application. Here i do not rake or brush gels through my hair. It does not work with this method. It breaks up the curl clumps instead of keeping them together, so we did a glaze, a rope and then a scrunch, and you can see that things are still really nice and big, but not too big. Again. If you get your curl clumps too big, then they weigh each other down gently scrunching in the middle. Then the sides then the middle. Then the sides slowly turning my head from side to side now. Another big swing, shake things off the back of my head and let the curl clumps twirl back together, more scrunching and pulsing to get that product distributed into each and every single curl clump. Now i'm going to stand up and swing again off the back of my head and let the curl clumps twirl back together all right. I think i've made my point with the swing curl clump method here, you've seen it demoed, probably more times than you wanted to. Thank you for sticking with me. Thank you for keeping an open mind and really paying attention. While i demo this method, everything in this method is intentional and it is developed out of years and years of trial and error. It really does work for all different hair types, so many people have tried this out and it does work, i'm giving my hair one good final scrunch to remove excess water and product. You are now ready to plop and diffuse and then enjoy your glorious waves and curls all right guys. That is, that is it. That is how i get my curl clumps to organize themselves into their curl families. If you've been here on my channel before you have seen this in part before, but hopefully now, with the extra footage that i couldn't get before and now have thanks to the help of my husband, you can really get a visual for the full motion. That is kind of twirling the curl clumps. Together this works better for me than brush styling. I can never reach around and get the back of my head finger. Coiling takes forever finger rolling takes forever for me. If i just take an extra couple of 20 seconds, while scrunching in my product to kind of swing, my head, my curl clumps, find each other the hair's tumbling around, not getting stuck to the back of my head this this. This is it. This is what i do, and this is what works for me. Part of me feels real self-conscious right now, because i i understand it's a little ridiculous to to swing your head around, while you're, washing and styling it. You can do this in the shower. If you so desire, it does work. You don't need just a whole lot of room to do this. I have done this in very small confined spaces. You don't have to swing your head around violently like i do. I'M just really trying to show the motion that i'm using it's kind of a smooth motion. Anyway, if you so choose to use the scc method to style your hair, the swing, curl, clump method, to style your hair, please feel free to use that hashtag on your social media accounts tag me. I would love to see it. You may or may not be featured in an upcoming video if you use the swing, curl, clump method, alright, guys. Thank you for putting up with me. Thank you for hanging out with me. My hope is to be as helpful as humanly possible to anyone who wants to embrace the hair that they are fearfully and wonderfully made with. I went from hating the hair that grew out of my head, really fighting it constantly flat ironing it not knowing why it was so dry, so brittle so frizzy to discovering this thing called the curly girl method back in 2018 and then using tips and tricks from That method that really improved the health of my hair, which has led me to what this today naming this method of swinging my head around as a as an actual technique to style, waves and curls, always keep in mind. You do not have to follow any technique. Whether it's brush styling or finger coiling or the swing curl clump method, you do not have to follow any one method to the letter, pick and choose elements from all these different methods and put them together for what works. For you pick the things that work for you and use those and leave the rest. This is just meant to be helpful and give you a really solid visual of this technique. All right enough talking, i hope, you're having an absolutely fantastic day, and i will talk to y'all later bye. How do you feel about them babe? I feel good my butt burns. So what you're saying is you get a good glute workout whenever you do this too? Yes, you do so double the benefits. Oh, my gosh, strong, back strong butt enough talking. I'M gon na go sit down and ice. My backside because we had to film that so many times my buns hurt guys. I haven't bent over my bathtub for that long. Ever we filmed this all yesterday and had to refilm it today, because we couldn't get the angle right and then there was a lot of practice, shots that didn't get recorded. I'M i'm not gon na have to work out for, like six months now,
Comments
Elizabeth Thomas: I'm in a slump (medical flare) and your trick will be my next shower attempt! Thanks for always taking one for the curly family by working so hard (in many ways) to educate us. :-)
Charmaine Lim: I'm gonna try this on my next wash day! Still in the transitioning phase but I think I'm truly starting to get the hang of how to care for me hair now. Largely thanks to all your videos
RealHousewifeRachel: I'm just sitting here behind the screen, giving you some applause for your hard work in this video! This is so good, Courtney!
Lindsey Steel: Congratulations on naming your method! That's so awesome! I've been doing most of this method minus the swing for awhile and still have been struggling with hair getting stuck a bit on the back of my head and curls not wanting to form correctly in some places. I'm definitely going to add the swing! Will let you know about my results. Thanks Courtney!
Faye Berman: I love how you demonstrated your method super clearly. The proof is in the pudding, it clearly works. It won’t be the method for me, not just cause of the medical stuff, but because I don’t have the patience to scrunch like that! :)
Alyson Knop: I can't do lots of head swinging because I have an occipital through C5 fusion thanks to childhood rheumatoid arthritis. But I just want to say that I do most of your method, and you were the one I first found when I started embracing my wavy hair in 2020, and you are the one that I've stuck with. There are a number of reasons for this colon you are a delightful personality;you understand and explain clearly the science behind all of the hair stuff, whether hair products or how our hair follicles grow or whatever; You share just enough of your personal life to make you human and to be helpful to others while still protecting the privacy of your family; and you are also dealing with RA, which I have battled for all but 8 years of my life. Honestly, I can't imagine a better person to go to when I want to learn wavy curly hair stuff, and I've tried lots of other people and I don't want to disc them at all. You are just by far the most helpful for me. I just wish I could be helpful in return for you with your RA journey. But I believe that you, with your strong faith (which I wish I had had growing up with RA as a child) And your knowledge of science and your patience will all get you through this really well. Plus, there are so many better medications now available to treat the illness. I wish you all the best all for you and for your family. Thank you so, so much!
Anna Bradley: Yes, I love this method! I found your videos summer 2020 and since then I’ve done a slightly modified CGM (still use sulfates to clarify before deep conditioning once in a while). I’ve gotten a few ringlets in my hair swinging my head around when I don’t style upside down, my roots look ridiculous too so I’m very thankful I’m able to hang upside down for a long time! Love the videography in this video too!
B: Yes! Stake your claim! I have early onset arthritis in my neck and it's painful to stay upside down more than 3 minutes, but I've been trying your movements gently and staying more horizontal to get similar results!
Mattar: Yess loving you going more into the SCC method! I have been doing this for years (not as violently swinging lol) after seeing how you style on soaking wet hair in all your videos the past few years
Kara Talks about Stuff: This is great!❤️ I've been doing a much gentler version of this (the swing motion would be a bit too much for my particular combo of medical ailments) for a while now, and it's worked great for me! Mostly, I 've just realized how important it is for me, personally, to move my head around as much as I can while I'm scrunching in stylers.
Kay Rosswog: OMG Courtney I have never been able to get good results with upside down styling, until today! My hair is much like yours but not fine and I am more on the wavy side. First time in a year since starting this journey and I got the best waves! Thank you so much for sharing your method!!!
Amy Senffner: I absolutely love watching you! Thank you for all of your teaching and looking forward to doing my hair. Thank you so much!
Michele Bronnenberg: Super helpful!! Seeing the actual swing makes sense. I think I did some of this before (moving hair side to side), but doing the back swing should definitely help. I'll have to let you know when I do it!
Patty DeCosta: Great job!! It is not rediculous. I’m trying this next wash day. I try so many different ways and can’t get it to where I am totally happy. This SCC method looks promising thank you
Tiffany: I’ve been following your method with swinging my head from side to side but not the entire swing/twirl! Trying this on my next wash day! Can’t wait!!!
Debbie Panik: Thank you! Looking forward to trying this! I’m 8 months in and love my progress. You help me a lot!
Tara Patel: Omg I've been unknowingly using a version of this method for a while now! The only difference is that I wash right side up and then swing and shake (like a dog ) to align my clumps. It's the easiest and quickest way to do my hair, nothing else works!! I've got super fine, delicate, low density hair and brush styling leads to so much hair fall! Will definitely be trying your version today
Caitlin Modine: i love it!! this is so similar to what i've been doing, but i'm gunna add your formal swinging method next wash!
justsewit_TK: Thanks Courtney for show use your method. I feel inspired to go and have a washday now. It might help me to feel back to normal again after having to isolate due to covid (I have a house where three of the five of us have come down with it for the first time and we're all needing washdays)
Jo Ann: I can’t wait to try this!! Thank you for all you do for us! I LOVE the name!
Carrie Jussely: This is fun to watch! I’m REAL new(like 8 months) to learning my hair is wavy curly after 30+ years of thinking I had BOARD STRAIGHT hair. But also….my hair is(layered and healthy…but also…) almost waste length. And the whipping gives me legit fear of my hair tangling because of my length. Is that irrational?
Cheryl Young: So happy you found the perfect method & coined it SCC! So perfect! And yay your curls & waves look AWESOME
Joy C: Would really love to see this done on short hair without throwing one's neck out lol
Amalie Kandel Damgaard: I just tried it, and it worked beautifully on my bob-cut hair - curls clumped so well! However for my hair that is coarser I need to not squeeze out as much product while doing all the things (I know you said that my hair will absorb what it needs, but I felt it needed to have stayed in :D). I'm still figuring out how to make it do so, do you have any suggestions? Thank you as always for the wonderful content you bring out, I get so excited every time you post!
Sandy Brown: Thanks for a full video of your technique! I know why it's swing but I keep wanting to say swirl since it rhymes with curl! Thanks for all your helpful videos!
Kayo Ell: I'd like to see what some of the adaptations (in the shower, for those with neck problems, etc) to this method look like. How do you manage/control the frizz? I think all this movement would induce frizz.
Ida Syvertsen: Love this! Can't wait to try it! My shower is very small though. Could you please show how you make this method work in a more narrow space sometime?
Zsófia Zádor: Just washed my hair and tried the SCC method :) It's in the plop right now but my first impression is that is minimized my wet frizz and webbing :) Hope for the best with diffusing later :)
Sandy Bird: I love your videos. You don't look the least bit ridiculous I only just started watching your videos about 1 yr ago. I've learned so much about my hair from you. I never could figure out why my hair was so frizzy the moment I ran a brush through it. I've always known I've had some wave in my hair but I just called it body. I am still trying to figure out my hair. But my hair is so much healthier. I still color my hair. That will never stop. I don't want to be gray I still use my joico shampoo. I know it has all those things that they say not to use. But the girl that cuts my hair says it is so healthy. Anyway, I want to say thank you . Your hair looks amazing. God bless you.
Karen N: If you have an alternative to scrunching, I'd love to know what it is. Currently my RA prevents me from doing so. I've tried using an open palm, but just don't get the same results. So I've resorted to micro plopping but I just don't get clumps like I would with sopping wet hair. Sigh.
Kathi Murray: I am literally doing this method as I type. I will say space is an issue if you have long hair. My hair, when wet, goes past the middle of my back. I have a rather narrow bathroom. Swinging my hair is a huge challenge at the moment. I can do it, but not with the force I would like. I will comment later how it all turned out...lol...
Amy Goulet: Not ridiculous at all!! I have not straightened my hair for three years, but I have always finger curled the front of my hair. Then I had to go in and (gasp!) curl those sections the next day with a curling iron. Since trying your method, I have learned that the front of my hair actually curls the OTHER WAY! and now I have ringlets in the front that are still there on day two! So thank you!
Alyson Knop: Question for anyone else who's had severe damage due to years of arthritis: how do you squish to condish and scrunch product into your hair? My hands look like a gnarled witch's (I say that with complete love for my hands), with fingers fused in a way that makes it impossible for me to make a real fist. I've found the only way I can begin to squish or scrunch is to use one hand over the top of the other to try to get extra force. Works to some extent. But using both hands this way, and due to shoulder limitations, I can't really get the sides of my head, so everything gets clumped in front. Will see if I can do a bit of swinging, but my real issue is trying to get more effective and evenly spaced squishing and scrunching. Thanks!!
Jenn Leah: Even if I didn't have herniated disks in my neck, my large, crazy, swirl shaped cowlick at the back of my head plus stubborn growth patterns towards the front half of my head cannot be styled upside down. I have tried every single trick in the book, multiple times. Even my curly hair stylist I go to (who is amazing!) Couldn't really get it to work. She had initially done it by only flipping the hair up until the cowlick, but due to the growth patterns which goes down each side of my head, it wouldn't cooperate. She still managed to do it, but we had to do a LOT of re arranging of clumps that had to be re-brushed in tiny sections, & once you did it to one, it caused a chain reaction. Because I have bones lol, it's not something I could ever do on my own, because I wouldn't be able to reach or see. I've tried. She said this just happens sometimes
Sara McIntosh: I like how you measured the product..... everybody’s “generous amount” is different! Now I know how much you use! One question...was that a tsp or tbsp?
Adelaide Wendel: Hi Courtney! I’d love to see you review the Andrew Fitzsimmons products that just launched at ulta! He’s a celebrity hair stylist and has a whole curly line now
Maureen Toomey: Yay yay yay!!!! So happy you finally gave it a name! Thank you so much, you rock!! #SCC
Christy Price: The only problem I have with doing my hair upside down is the back pain, ugh.
Amanda Lininger: I would love to try your method! Only problem is, I have a big cowlick down the right crown and back of my head, so I have to do right side up styling! Wonder if I could make this work .
Isabeau Seaghdha: I shall have to give this a go next wash day.... my hair is much longer (down to my hips), so it will be interesting to see how it goes.
Cindy Holman: Mine is too short - but love watching you :)
Claire Elise: Hi, need some help. When I brush out my hair it’s kinda poofy and frizzy. But when I try to do CGM or WGM my hair turns into nasty stringy waves and always falls flat by the end of the day. Should I even continue trying CGM or WGM?
Carolyn Fitzgerald: Congratulations on naming your method I'll have to try swinging my hair and see how it goes Outtakes lolol
Cheeky Monkey: Hope you’re all doing well you look amazing!
Bonnie ImNotControversial: Oh my! You've come a long way baby Lovin' this method of yours. I'll have to give it a try
Meiries.curly.journey: I wish I had seen this this morning!!! It is wash day and I'm satisfied with the turn out... buttttt.. this is intriguing!
Wendy Martel: Did you wet plop or micro plop after the stylers?
Karissa Thatcher: Love your videos Courtney!
Loch Briar Knits: Ooohhh I am going to give that a try next wash day!
KathleenKC1: I don't know if my back can handle all that, but I will try a modified version. It would have been a perfect video if you got your cousin to do the voice over.
Melanie B: Im just trying this now. Watched your video conveniently while doing a hair mask. Does it work ok with airdrying as i dont diffuse often
angelic hamdi: Wish I could show you a picture of my hair after this method but sadly Can't I'm Muslim and where hijab but this the best my hair has ever looked after using your method I started mid June of 2021 never knowing that my hair has been wavy since junior high probably and I'm 46 now my hair is still in transition it took it almost 9 months to do anything and now if I put enough stylers in using what I learned from you I get from 2a all the way to 2 c waves with 3 or 4 ringlets in back my hair today best ever mostly 2b with loads of 2c and ringlets thanks so much for the video
Melissa Andrews: Yes,Girl! I do this, too!
Catherine Flores: Love it!
Kayo Ell: I tend to do better reading to understand than listening to someone present. Does this seem correct? 1) Rake leave-in conditioner through your hair. With your head tilted forward and brush head towards your face, brush your hair off your scalp and the sides of your face. You are trying to 1) start organizing your curl clumps 2) pull your hair away from your face and scalp and 3) provide multiple options for where your hair might part when your head is upright. If you feel like the hair at you crown is "glommed on" to your scalp, finger comb this hair to lift it away from the scalp. 2) Add water to your hair and gently pulse the hair. You are NOT trying to squeeze water out of your hair. Rather, this step will help distribute product and encourage curl clumps to form. 3) Leaning backwards (with you hair trailing down your back) swing your head around the side to tip your head upside down. As your head comes to the bottom of this arc, continue the motion by looking towards the direction you tilted at the beginning of the movement (if you swung your upper body with the movement starting towards the left, turn your head towards your left; if you started the motion by tilting to the right, turn your head to the right). Alternate sides several times. This swinging motion is the "Swing Curl Clump" (SCC). 4) Add curl souffle/gel/hold product of your choice by glazing it over your hair and roping it in. AVOID RAKING THE PRODUCT IN AT THIS POINT, as it will break up curl clumps. Then repeat the SCC motion multiple times, remembering to alternate sides. If you choose, you can repeat this process with a second (or even third) hold product. If you are struggling to get curl clumps to form, add more water. The addition of water is more likely to help curl clumps form than will adding addition product. 5) Plop/micro plop your hair as per your normal routine, then diffuse when a sufficient amount of water has been absorbed from your hair.
bcgrote: My hair is just shoulder length, but I will try it. I usually end up with thin curls, no clumps... I ALWAYS work it upside down, and NEVER have volume. Sadge old lady hair!
Kassie Johnson: *Watches this video* Ten minutes later: *in the shower trying it out*
Sarah SP: You mention the Denman maybe not giving the best clumps. If one were to use that as their brush of choice, would it have a negative effect on the clumping?
Holly: You look so pretty upside down! I’m 50 so when I turn upside down my skin goes the way of gravity LOL
Chris Stone: Why do you never part your hair? It’s always on one side
Kara Talks about Stuff: I laughed too hard when you winced and grabbed your butt.
Tina T: Yay! It has a name!
Jeanne Sohre: Thanks
Joy C: #scc is not a good hashtag unfortunately lol