How To Get Big Volume Curly Hair

I am often complimented and asked how I become and then much volume in my curly pilus, particularly at my roots. I'd non actually given it much thought earlier, every bit I've e'er had big curly hair with lots of volume. So I paid closer attention to my products and routine so I could share my tips with you. You'll be pleased to know it'southward mainly down to technique rather than particular products.

Do Everything Upside Downwards

Hands down (alibi the pun) I think this is the biggest cistron in how I get root volume in my curly pilus. I launder and rinse my pilus upside down. When I wash my hair continuing up in the shower, I'll always squish-to-condish with my hair upside downwardly, and exercise my final rinse upside down too. I apply all my products to my hair with my head constantly tossing upside down and side to side. I'thou essentially tricking my pilus to fall and be styled i way (upside down) but to toss it the other way (right way up) when it'due south dry out. This causes the roots to stand and creates volume.

how i get root volume in my curly hair

Alter Your Parting

Don't panic! I mean change your departing when your drying your pilus. No thing what I practice, if I style and dry out my hair parted where I want information technology to be when it'south dry, it will e'er go flat at the roots – fifty-fifty with curl clipping! Like when I use product, I likewise flip my hair upside down and flip information technology over each side as I dry it. The roots are never getting a chance to dry flat. Past drying information technology in the opposite direction of how you want to role your hair, you'll create more than root volume when it's dry and you role it where you actually want it to be parted. Make sense?

how I get root volume in my curly hair

Diffuse

My hair has and so much more book and bigger ringlet definition when I diffuse my hair to dry it. As you've probably guessed past now, I diffuse my hair upside downwardly and flip it side to side. I as well use the piffling protruding grips inside the diffuser to 'lift' my roots as I dry them. I ballast the diffuser in my hair, near the roots, and then move the diffuser upwards an inch or two, lifting information technology at the root. This dries the roots at a 90 caste angle to my head, creating volume.

Kiddie Tip! When I diffuse my girl's long curly hair; I lay her on the bed with her head hanging off the edge, turning her from her tummy, to her sides and finally on her dorsum – supporting her neck. I sit down on the floor and lengthened her hair from underneath, the same mode I do my own pilus, upside down.

Curlicue Clipping

I'm not sure if I've spoken virtually this in a previous post still. Just clipping curls at the root will actually help create book in fine pilus that can easily go weighed down by water and/or product. If I'm drying my daughter'southward pilus without the diffuser, I'll scrunch dry it with a cotton towel and then clip her roots until it's dry out. It's easier for kids rather than getting them to flip their hair effectually whilst it dries; or if yous're pressed for time. I'll clip my curls if my pilus isn't completely dry after plopping or diffusing. It'south piece of cake to practice, just lift individual curls at the root, and pop the prune in so the curl stands upward. I got mine from Emerge's. Take the clips out once the hair is completely dry. As y'all can see, I don't clip my pilus along whatsoever particular parting.

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Pineapple

I don't but put my hair in a pineapple at night. I exercise information technology for 20-30 minutes during the day if my hair is a flake flat on the second or tertiary day afterward washing. It'south a quick and easy manner to gently pull and encourage curls to go the opposite style at the root, thus creating book. You tin read this postal service to observe out more than about this technique and how to do it.

Clarify

This is something I've only discovered and learned about recently. In December 2017, my curls were so apartment, limp and lacked all kinds of volume and definition! My pilus had a lot of problems, which I'll go into in some other post. Simply one of those issues was product and mineral build up from living in a hard-water area. You lot don't have to meet or fifty-fifty feel product and mineral deposits for your pilus to exist weighed down. In order to maintain healthy, weightless, divers curls with book, you've gotta practise a skilful clarifying wash once a month! If your hair is in really bad shape, like mine was, you might even have to do 2 or three of these clarifying shampoos to get your pilus back to full health. Always, always follow upwards with a really expert deep conditioning handling!

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Clarifying vs Chelating

Clarifying shampoos, such as Kinky Curly Come Clean, As I Am Clarifying Shampoo and MopTop Clarifying Rescue Treatment (to name just a few) will only get rid of production build upwards in your hair. To clarify your pilus from mineral deposit build up such every bit lime, you need to use a chelating shampoo. These shampoos have sulfates, and that's okay for occasional clarifying/chelating shampoos. Subsequently a tonne of research, I went for Bumble & Bumble'southward Sun Shampoo. My advice is to avoid clarifying/chelating shampoos that also contain silicones, like this popular ane from Joico. The reason they contain silicones is and then people aren't alarmed at how dry out their feels after a sulfate-loaded shampoo and they brand the hair feel soft and hydrated. But if, like me, you're post-obit the curly girl method, we don't want to introduce silicones back into our hair, information technology's bad plenty swallowing the bitter pill of sulfates!

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The Thing About Plopping…

I talked about plopping in this post most curly girl techniques. However, if I plop my pilus when it's soaking wet, it makes my roots incredibly flat! Especially at the back and front of my head, where the plop is tightest. And to me, that defeats the whole purpose of plopping curly hair. So when I plop, for added curl definition and root volume, I do it when my hair is 70-80% dry and I don't tie information technology then tight.

Products

I'g a firm believer that great curl results are from proficient techniques rather than a particular product. However, for my fine, low-porosity 2c/3a curly hair; creams or besides many products weigh down my curls no matter what techniques I use. Mousse, gels and whipped creams which are lighter in texture, or custards piece of work all-time for my pilus. I can't use products from Shea Wet or Cantu. They are but too heavy for my hair, no matter how much I clip my curls, lengthened, plop, pineapple and do all the things upside down. So if you're doing all these techniques and your hair is still flat and limp, take a wait at the products you're using and the last time y'all did a clarifying wash.

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