Thick/Curly Hair care & Routine

For years and years I have struggled with my hair as it is very thick and weighty to style and care for. I have always dyed my hair and at one point in my life straightened it whilst it was wet (I can hear hairdressers all over the world screaming in anger). Now I'm at a point in my life where I am looking after my hair properly, it's at a good length and I love styling it. A lot of the time I'm also asked if I'm wearing extensions or just in general how I style it.

To begin with, I always wash my hair with some sort of L'Oreal shampoo and conditioner combination as I always dye my hair with a L'Oreal kit and find that it always works well with my hair and leaves it in the best possible condition. When my hair is wet and fresh from the shower I spray my heat protectant from the roots down and same with the L'Oreal Elvive Damage Care spray which I find helps with my hair as it gets incredibly dry. The last step in my pre-styling routine is to add the Umberto Giannini Frizz Off Blow Dry Cream and this helps with keeping the frizz away from my hair and to make it manageable.

I then obviously blow dry my hair and straighten it to just get rid of my natural curls as the final look of my hair styled with curlers looks a lot nicer when its straight to begin with...

Once my hair is straight, I section it ready for curling...

I then take a section of hair about 15cms wide ready for curling...

I then take my curlers and wrap the hair round away from my face for about 10 seconds, the key to the loose curls is to have big pieces and apply heat for a short amount of time to get to loose look. I also NEVER curl from the roots, I start curling from about half way down to again give the curls a loose look...

I continue this process until the bottom section is complete, alternating from curling in towards my face and away from my face to give the curls a bit of definition...

The whole process of curling my hair will literally take me about 20 minutes, even though my hair is thick and there's a lot of it, it's a quick process.

I then go round and spray my hair with a hair spray and a climate control spray from Lee Stafford which I find just helps to keep away any little fly away hairs and keeps my hair looking tamed...

The final step is to then run the VO5 nourish my shine serum to keep my hair looking shiny.

The products I use on a daily basis after I style my hair to keep it looking nourished and healthy.

I hope you enjoyed this post and maybe even found a new product that you could use if you have hair the same as mine! As always, leave me comments on any other posts you'd like to see and follow me on Instagram & Twitter - @ellie_christmas

                                                               Ellie xxx