nerdfishgirl replied to your post “One time my sister in law made a comment about there only being curly…”
I mean she could just bring her own?
nerdfishgirl replied to your post “One time my sister in law made a comment about there only being curly…”
The worst tho is hotels – nothing but crappy shampoo and conditioner that does NOTHING to tame frizz. I end up bringing oil everywhere I go.
I mean that’s what I do (bring my own everywhere… unless I’m staying with a family member like my aunt who has almost the same hair so her stuff is appropriate for my hair type) … well that or just plan not to wash my hair while I’m away from home. I mean I rarely travel for more than a week at a time.
It was just such a weird comment to make. I mean the two of us have very different world views in general, but it was just such blatant evidence of how straight hair-centric the world is. Like it would just never occur to me to expect that someone else would have hair products geared towards my hair type in their home.
ETA: Oh hotel shower products. The very idea of using them makes me laugh. Maybe I should just start bringing them home and save them for her (my sister in law).
Straight hair centric – so true! You can pick up shampoo appropriate for straight hair in any dollar store or whatever, but shampoo for curly hair is only at some stores and expensive. I just gave up on having good shampoo – I need shampoo to have zinc for my psoriasis, and there really aren’t many shampoos for curly hair that have that. And I just can’t justify the expense. The oil (I use sunflower) seems to restore the moisture enough tho.
And yeah – I have never not traveled with shampoo and stuff, even before I knew how to care for curly hair.
My mother is of the belief that in order to be polite to your hosts you shouldn’t use anything of theirs except for space, possibly a bed (she will often bring sheets for that), and food (but only if they offer it to you – and you should bring food with you in order to offset the cost to them), and so that’s the social norm I got raised with and tend to follow.
I ended up having to use hotel shower stuff the last time I was traveling because I ran out of shampoo and yeaahhhh my hair did not look so good, which was not ideal because I was interviewing with potential professors for grad school.
My dad brought home hotel shower products for YEARS so we have this box of various small shampoo bottles and soaps in the closet. They do work well for traveling, particularly for flying because they’re usually under 3 fl. oz.
I saw a commercial on Hulu that showed three women with three different hair types (including a Black woman with 4C hair) using the same hair product and I was like “eeeeeehhh”
Oh maaannnn yeah I couldn’t see that happening.
For my one friend (who only barely has curly hair imo), she has to use SO many products to get her hair to look nice.
Whereas I’m good with just the sunflower oil – but only that works? Even canola oil, which is similar, doesn’t work as well because its slightly heavier. And soybean oil also causes my hair to be different. But I know people who use coconut oil and that works well for them!
I feel like someone could do a thesis project on the chemistry of curly hair tbh.
That must be some powerful magic potion! (Like literal witchcraft because yeah… no.)
My hair definitely falls in the looser curl category (anywhere from 2C to 3B depending on the chart and the day)… which means it very easily falls into undefined frizz. It’s incredibly thirsty but I also have super sensitive skin so trying to get my hair to look okay without causing a major breakout is nearly impossible. I’ve tried so many things that make my hair greasy without actually penetrating the hair follicle to deal with the straw/dryness situation (and I’ll admit that what goes in the guest bath is stuff that was rejected like the Shea Moisture line that my mom gave me a bunch of and totally didn’t work for my hair but I guess my sister does like).
I’ve been using the Deva Curl line for the last five years or so, and that seems to pretty consistently work if I’m willing to put in the effort to do my full routine faithfully. Before that I used to use Aveda’s “Be Curly” line and this moisture locking pomade they have, which is still probably the best thing I have had for protecting my hair from frizzing out in humidity.
I bought the pomade stuff a few weeks ago due to your suggestion and it arrived earlier this week! It’s amazing. It actually makes my hair feel silky.
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