How To Style Longer Curly Hair

Hey guys my name's Wynne and I make videos on how to style and manage curly hair. I made a video, maybe like a year and a half to two years ago, when my hair was a little bit shorter on how to style, curly hair at that link, and I thought, since I've been growing it out for about 22 months and it's quite a Bit longer I'd make another video showing you guys how I do it now now I will say in advance. This process is a little bit more involved than my previous process, but you know if you want balm curly hair, you got ta put in the work, so let me walk through the products. I'M using these days I'm actually gon na wash it and condition it off-camera and come back for the styling routine, but before we do that, I wanted to kind of give you an overview of what we're gon na do so lately I've been using this product. It'S called the the curl Smith curl quenching conditioning wash, and I know in my previous video. I was using a lot of diva curl and you may wonder why, as I go through this routine, I'm no longer using diva curl and if you haven't heard already, there's been a big controversy with them. I haven't personally had issues with it. I did notice when I switched my scalp stopped being a little bit flaky, but there are people claiming that it's made their hair fall out in clumps that it's given them terrible rashes on their scalp, and you know there's enough curly, hair products out there these days, That I kind of figure - you know, don't take the risk. You spent all the effort growing your hair anyways, so why would you want to take the risk of it all falling out? So this is what I washed with these days. It'S a co-wash, meaning it's a very mild wash and you don't have to use a conditioner after so after I've do that I've been using this primer before I do my styling routine. Now I will say this is the moisture memory reactivated from Carl Smith. I don't really think you need this product, but since I have it, I've been using it supposedly it gives you a bit of UV protection, which you know is always good so for my styling routine, it's similar to how I did it before, but it's evolved a Little bit, I use this hold me softly, styling, balm from Carl Smith and the good thing about this product. It'S it's similar to the Shea Moisture smoothie that product also, they change the recipe, and I noticed that it was kind of starting to behave a little bit differently and was a lot heavier for my hair and all the curl smith products they're natural and they work Really well, I've liked them, and since I needed to find something new, you know here's what I went with, but any kind of cream should work for this step. This is really just to help moisturize and tame the curls and help define them. Then I've been going in with a Denman brush which looks like this to help define them this step. You know you don't necessarily have to do, but I found it has yielded a lot of really good results, and so I've been doing it and then, finally, after all that I've been using this curl Smith, curl defining styling souffle - and this is basically a gel. I love this product out of all of those. I really like this one. I probably will try some other ones, because I've only been using this line for about a month, and I like it, but I've noticed like on day 2 or 3. It tends to like frizz out just a little bit more than I'm used to, and after all that I have been using this wonderful Dyson hairdryer that I actually got for Christmas to diffuse. My curls and I'll explain why I've been doing that a bit more later and then sometimes, if I diffuse all the way I'll take a bit of argan oil. This is a pure adore, pure organic argan oil. You can just buy it on Amazon and I actually use this for my beard as well, so it works good for me and then I'll kind of walk you through how I like finish that off, but that's kind of what I've been using right now. So let me show you my hairs like pretty frizz out, because you notice I've brushed it since looks a little bit crazy, but yeah so like I said this has been going for about 22 months. It comes down to about here on this side. The front is about this long on the sides. Probably I don't know it's probably about 10, almost 12 inches now, so it's getting pretty long but yeah. So if you like to see me, go from this to this, keep watching alright guys. So we are back. I just got out of the shower. I use that co-wash. I showed you earlier scrub, my scalp really well and just kind of clipped it up, soaking wet, so I could show you guys the styling routine. So when you do all these steps, you really really really want to have your hair soaking wet. I feel it defines the curl a lot better and you'll just have a better success rate. So take my advice there. So the first thing you're gon na want to do is prime, your hair. If you decide to do this again, I don't think this is absolutely necessary. I just have the product, so I've been doing it. I think it. If anything, it adds a little bit of slip in your hair, which is like kind of a slipperiness. So it's easier to work with I'm just gon na brush that through you make sure it's all incorporated. I know somebody's thinking it. So I'm just going to say it: I'm none of these products are sponsored. I bought these always my own money. I wish I was a big enough youtuber to have sponsored products, maybe in the future, but we are not there yet so brush that primer. All the way through and then the next step, you're gon na want to do is section your hair into two or three sections. My hair is pretty thick, especially the crown, so I will usually section it into three, and so that would be this crown area. The middle area and then the lower area, where you have the longest hairs. So I kind of go about here straight back and then just kind of make like a horizontal line to your goods that you just kind of spin it up and then any kind of click will work. I use these little scrunchie clips so flip that one up and then I go about my level straight back it up like this and really all you're doing here is sectioning it out to make sure you can get to every section and really work the product through. So, like I said, it's really good to keep your hair super soaking wet when you do these steps. So I have this little likes like a continuous spray bottle and sometimes it gets messed up so just kind of like opening and closing. Sometimes it gets stuck. But this is like a really good way. You see just click it a few times and it keeps spring just to make sure everything stays really well, while you apply this product, next will be the whole Denise Ave, styling balm from curls myth so take about. Maybe this much rub it in your hands like this and then just kind of smooth it through and sometimes I'll flip back and forth, to make sure I'm really getting in through again. This process definitely takes a little bit of time, but you know I usually only wash my hair, like I don't know, maybe once every three to four days, that's pretty much it so for me, it kind of averages out over all the days, and so the next Thing I've started doing is using this Denman brush to help sort of define the curls. I'M gon na show you kind of how I do that with one section and then I'll, probably time-lapse it through the rest, but basically I'm gon na. Do the exact same thing. I just did to the bottom section, the middle section and the crown section and then I'll be ready for the next step. So when you're using this Denman brush the cool thing about, it is because it has this sort of like curved profile. It sort of helps your curls find their curl pattern in a quick way. So usually I will brush it a couple of times just to make sure everything is straight and then get kind of close to the root, pull it out and kind of like you're curling. A ribbon - and you see how, like these all, just get really really defined and you're gon na want to kind of pull sections of each thing and are each kind of larger section like you're doing this one, and you just want to keep doing that same thing. Over and over again so see if I can brush it out and then like you're curling a ribbon see so I'm going to go ahead and do the other side of the middle layer and the top layer and I'll be back to tell you the next step. So now we're at the middle layer, I'm just kind of a recap: it's kind of the same process, I'm gon na, take a little bit more because it's a bigger section spread it through trying to get like all the pieces pretty evenly. My the back of my head is a little bit coarser, so I try to get more product in that area and then again I take a section and if this seems like you know, I'll, probably make a video in the future on how to use the denim Brush a little bit better, but just for the length of this I'm gon na save that for another time. But if you guys would like manes my Mel who's, another curly hair youtuber, who I really love her videos. She kind of approaches. Everything from like a sort of scientific way that makes a lot of sense, I'll, link her video. She did one on how to use a different brush and like kind of the differences it makes, and if you're interested in this I mean you can see like look. How well those are defined, but if you're interested in this styling technique, her video is a great place to start. I remember again: she's coming out like you're curling a ribbon yeah and you can see they kind of start to form curls. So I'm going to finish up the rest of this section and then I get to the top I'll explain what I'm doing there all right. So once you get to the top section, instead of going in sections that are kind of like vertical all the way around. I usually go and kind of like linear sections from the back to the front, I have a lot of hair on the top and have a hard time kind of managing it. So sometimes I'll switch it into two sections. So let me just kind of go through that really fast split it in the middle like this, but this one here and for each of these sections, I'm gon na use about that. Much so grab all the pieces of that section smooth the product on like this. Just make sure to get it all the way through take the brush get close to the root brush it out again, like you're curling a ribbon. I kind of smooth it down like this as well kind of Falls back nicely. So let me finish the rest of this and I'll be back to tell you the next step, so this front section here, I just want to make a quick note. This one's kind of important to get really smooth because it like is right in the front of your head and if you don't do it right, it'll, it'll kind of show all right. So that's all these all the defining with the diamond brush. It does take a little bit of time, but you know it speeds up once you've done it a couple of times, and I think it's worth it because it makes the curls stay for a couple more days. You get a really like soft and defined curl, and you know: do you want to look your best? You and you got to put in a little bit of time like I said earlier, so I'm just gon na check really fast to make sure there's no curls around the edges that are frizzy, because sometimes, if there are, you might want to like finger coil them. Like this to make sure they're looking how you want and everything seems to be looking good, so something you're looking for at this stage like if you kind of see on the on the backdrop like there's no like frizzy pieces sticking out, and that just means that, When it dries, it's gon na be very well-defined and you're, not gon na see frizz. So to lock this in. I used this curl defining styling souffle, and this is really like a gel. It'S very interesting consistency. I don't think you can tell it's almost like jello, but I take - and it's very weird like if you ever seen, flaxseed gel it's kind of similar, but I take about like this much. You have to emulsify it in your hands. Kinda like this, and then I kind of go to this side, I'm like starting on the ends. First, slowly smooth it down like this, making sure I'm getting everything - and this is really just like sort of creating a caste and like locking everything in you - can kind of push it back up. And then I get a little bit more for the other side, not too much flip everything over again about listening out, maybe a little less and just kind of smooth it down all over and once you've done this a few times honestly, it gets a lot easier. They'Re, just kind of becomes part of your like getting ready routine all right, so usually I would be - and I always have like a little a couple pieces here that get frizzy, so I just sort of put it like finger coil of them all right. So after you have this, I will usually wrap it for about like five to 10 minutes just so I can like, because I'm usually doing this in the morning, so I can get ready for work. Maybe have some coffee, whatever you like to do, and it saves a lot of time when it comes to drawing with the hairdryer. So all you do is flip everything down. Take a microfiber towel. This one is by aqueous I'll link it below I'll. Put it like this just twist everything lightly trying not to disturb anything too much, put it straight back and then clip it back and not the cutest look ever but nobody's probably gon na see you but yourself so give me about five or ten minutes and I'll Be back to finish up the styling routine! So now that we've let our hair dry a little bit in the towel again cutting a little bit of our blow-drying time. We'Re gon na! Take it out, thank goodness, being very careful not to create any frizz. At this point, it's a good time to just take another look, make sure, there's no pieces that are looking extra frizzy or anything. Oh. I think this looks pretty good, so we're gon na move on to blow-drying. So these days, I've been using this Dyson blow-dryer that I told you guys about earlier. I really like it for a couple reasons: one it tends to regulate the temperature so you're not causing as much heat damage it's fairly powerful too, and I have noticed a lot quicker drying times and honestly, that's one of the reasons that I started using it because You know before it would take me like 40 minutes to diffuse, and now I can do it in like 15 minutes, which really isn't that bad, especially in the winter, it really sucks to walk outside with wet hair. It'S freezing cold. It'S not good for your hair either. So really the dryers just been a win-win situation. So basically, what you're gon na want to do is dry all your roots. First, you can do that by kind of leaning to the side and kind of going like this and then again flipping your head doing the other side going down doing the back. I will blow dry on low heat and low heat and high speed, because the high speed and this particular dryer isn't blowing my hairs around. So it's not creating frizz and the low heat. I think I would rather just stick with low heat and not damage. My hair, any more than is necessary, so I'm going to kind of start blowing drawing my roots, I'm going to move to the middle section and then kind of go under, and one thing I've learned recently is like try not to disturb the hair. So you might, when you're doing this, just kind of stay on the outside and the reason you're doing. That is because, when you start like pushing it in and moving it all around you're breaking up the curl patterns that you work so hard to form so bear with me. I'M probably gon na put this into time-lapse just so you guys don't have to sit here and watch me blow dry right here, but stay tuned, and we will look at the result when we're finished so now that we're all dry, you just want to kind of, Like double check to make sure there's no wet spots, because you don't really want to be breaking up the curl cast before it's totally dry and when I've started doing which helps kind of like seal in the moisture and makes make this style last. A little bit. Longer is using some argan oil, so this is again the pure ador argan oil. I just take like you know, maybe one and a half pumps of it, get it all over your hands and then first start by kind of, like smoothing it down just sort of break up that cast, and you can see how it's kind of going from. Like ramen noodles to like actual curls, that's what happens and you use a gel and then I'm gon na go back and just kind of scrunch. It a little bit break up that a little bit further kind of flip, your head back and forth, and then I usually go down and shake it the roots just a little bit, get it how you like it. I usually wear all kind of one side and that's like whatever side is sort of behaving the best on whatever day and that's pretty much it. So let me kind of give you a little spin, so you can see how this looks when it's all finished after you did all that hard work. So here we have the front kind of from this side and it may be, like my. I think it might be like you know, maybe like three percent still dry wet, but that's okay, it'll air dry, the rest of the way - and it shouldn't like for is that bird get too crazy from this point on so yeah there you have it um thanks! So much for following along this long, if you're still watching your trooper. I know that was a lot of steps, but, as you can see, it'll have a good result. If you guys have any questions, please comment below or videos you'd like to see in the future. Always looking on new ideas of what I should make, if you'd like to follow me on instagram, its dot dot win so dat WI in, I started doing a couple tic TOCs, but it's a lot of work so we'll see if I keep doing them. That'S all so that way until next time, thanks for following me and good luck with your curly hair journey, thanks bye,