Devacurl wavemaker review how to#

My hair looked fried here but I considered this a decent hair day at the time. Another one from the almost exclusively curly era. It’s not dry now and I have minimal breakage. Low and behold my hair is healthier with regular shampoo + heat than it was using the supposedly gentle and curl-friendly co-wash method. I bought a Dyson Airwrap and was obsessed (I still kind of am) for the past year. What did help my hair was deciding not to keep it naturally curly all the time and going back to regular shampoo and conditioner. I actually dumped more conditioning treatments on my hair in hopes these would help. My scalp became itchy and flaky (to the point where it required a dermatologist visit) and my hair dried out, but for some reason (like many) I did not stop using these products. I was washing my hair with their No Poo “cleansing conditioner” as well as their One Condition, actual conditioner, for the better part of a year. But I also didn’t stick with it as long as I did DevaCurl’s No Poo method.

Devacurl wavemaker review how to#

Prior to DevaCurl I had tried Wen (I sure know how to pick them) which I actually didn’t seem to have a problem with. I was also blonde but only getting my hair coloured about once a year! Still, it’s in better shape now, even after a ton of heat.Ĭo-washing long term also didn’t agree with my scalp. I was wearing my hair wavy most of the time but the waves/curls weren’t stellar. I think this might have been because the products I was using were not moisturising enough for my hair’s needs. While my hair didn’t fall out when I was using DevaCurl, it did break more frequently.

There are more YouTube videos than one can comfortably watch on the subject, if you are interested. Customers have noticed hair loss and breakage after using their products, as well as a number of other problems. As you might have heard, DevaCurl has had some trouble as of late with class action suits (outside of my area of legal expertise). Here’s where I mention that I was using all DevaCurl products. While my hair was still sort of frizzy, I had defined curls for the first time since childhood. When I tried this (for stretches lasting several months at a time) I was amazed by the results, at first. I was pleasantly surprised that my curls weren’t fried. I air-dried my hair a couple of weeks ago, expecting a frizzy mess. It also involves fully committing to curls and never looking at a straightening iron again. It includes co-washing (something I now view as controversial-more about that in a minute) or washing your hair with conditioner, hair gel on soaking wet hair, and avoiding putting heat on your hair (but diffusers might be okay?). I’m pretty sure most of you taking the time to read this already know about it, but if not, it’s spelled out in Curly Girl Handbook by Lorraine Massey. While I’m not 100% sure I ever followed it exactly, it did give me somewhat defined curls and I was devoted for a while. I learned about the curly girl method (referred to as CGM on Reddit, FYI) just a few of years ago.

Then I put it in a bun and get these very loose waves. It takes about 10 minutes to straighten with the brush attachment on the Dyson Airwrap. Here’s a recent photo of my go-to lazy straight hair. Fortunately, I had discovered leave-in condition before college and have never been without it since. This was a monumental discovery at the time. In college, I learned that if I didn’t touch my hair when it was wet, it would frizz a lot less and fall into loose curls that looked nice for a couple of hours. I remember trying to brush it straight in middle school and attempting to blow dry it straight in high school. That’s because I grew up not knowing how to manage my curly hair. When I got my first straightening iron, we were inseparable. I have spent a lot of my life preferring straight hair. Curl quest? Even worse, kinda cringe-worthy, but you get the idea. Lots of people have referred to finding their curls as a “hair journey.” As over-dramatic as I am, I don’t really feel comfortable with that phrase, no matter how apt.

If you have wavy or curly hair, you’ll likely understand the struggle. This is a post about my hair and how I’m attempting to get my waves/curls to, well, curl.