Heather KennettFounder at Curly Girl Method Club

Wash First, Style Later: Ready to Try This for Your Curls and Waves?

Name: Wash First, Style Later: Ready to Try This for Your Curls and Waves?
Uploaded: 2023-08-14T09:16:11+00:00
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Channel: Heather Kennett
Description: In this tutorial, Heather Kennett introduces the "Wash Now, Style Later" approach for managing curly and wavy hair. She clarifies that the method…

14 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this tutorial, Heather Kennett introduces the "Wash Now, Style Later" approach for managing curly and wavy hair. She clarifies that the method involves thoroughly co‑washing the hair, optionally applying a light leave‑in conditioner, then allowing the hair to plop or rest briefly before styling. Styling is performed while the hair is mostly upright, using one of several techniques—shake‑and‑rake, finger‑coiling, or a Denman brush. She emphasizes that this differs from a full wash‑and‑style routine where leave‑in and styling products are applied together, and directs viewers to her product‑technique videos for detailed demonstrations.

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Once you've got the first wash under your belt and you're doing that well and you're understanding things a bit more as time goes on, I wanted to talk to you about Wash Now Style later that you might see floating around on the Internet. What that means is that you are thoroughly co washing your hair, you might be adding some leave in and you're either plopping or leaving your hair for a little while before applying your styling products and your product technique to apply your styling and that is called Wash Nail style later. So if you're doing going to have a go at Wash nail style later, don't do the full wash where you're putting the leave in and style it and products all in. What you'll be doing is washing your hair, maybe leaving a little leave in and then moving to styling your hair mostly in the upright position. You'll have a few choices from there and all of those videos are in the product techniques. So you could choose to shake and rake, you could choose to finger coil, you could choose the Denman brush styling. So that's what was now Style later is. I hope that helps.