Heather Kennett breaks down the Curly Girl Method: skip sulfates, silicones, and heat styling. Instead, co-wash with conditioner and let your curls air dry. The payoff is less frizz, more shine, and better-defined waves.
What is the Curly Girl Method? The Curly Girl Method has been around for many years. It's everywhere. Even Wikipedia has a section on it. In short, it's a process to healthier and happier curls. It's a way to treat our hair gently to minimize damage, to keep curls and waves moisturized and encourage our natural curl pattern. We are here to find you a shortcut to great curls. There's so much information out there across many different platforms. It can be quite overwhelming, time consuming and I want to make it easier for you all by sharing what I know and what I've learned. We'll get you started and help you with your knowledge, products, tools and techniques when you're ready. Our products, as you've probably guessed, are CG safe and that means Curly Girl Method safe. We guarantee this and our customers are loving this shortcut. The Curly Girl Method gives excellent, more consistent, better defined curls, happy and better moisturized curls. And we get there by not using certain ingredients. We don't use non water soluble silicones, waxes and non natural oils, sulfates, drying alcohols. We ditch shampoo and we don't heat, style, dry brush or comb our curls. So why don't we we don't use non water soluble silicones on non natural oils or waxes because they need shampoo to remove and we don't use shampoo. I'll tell you a bit about that in a moment. We don't use sulfates because they are a foaming agent found in shampoo and washing up liquid and that's drying. We don't use products with drying alcohols in as they are fillers that damage and dry our hair. They're found in conditioners leave in conditioners, gels, mousses and hairsprays. And we ditch shampoo because we don't need it. We don't need it because we don't put anything in our hair that can't be removed with water. Ditching shampoo significantly helps the condition of your hair. Plus if you're not stripping your hair of its natural oils, you don't need to use heavy conditioners to counteract it, which is always a bit of a seesaw effect. We don't use heat to style our hair because it damages the hair, dries it makes it brittle and it loses its shine. And we don't dry, brush or comb our hair because that leads to breakage. It breaks up our natural curl pattern and creates frizz. Okay, let me explain a bit more about the no shampoo thing. You'll be pleased to know that we do wash our hair. We wash it with water soluble conditioner. It's called CO washing or conditioner washing. And that's why when you stir up the Curly Girl method with us, you only receive a small bottle of shampoo and a very large bottle of conditioner. There is a list of ingredients to avoid that's available to download here. But don't worry because all our products are Curly Girl method safe. They are just there in case you need them. After all, this is a shortcut to great curls. Wow. So that's a condensed version of a lot of information. And now you can see why I put this together. It's a help in this tough arena to navigate when you have life, pets, partners, work and all your other daily tasks to do. If you ever want a refresher, hop on here and re watch our videos. Now let's get started with the good stuff. This regime for curly hair has incredible results for curlies and wavies worldwide. Are you ready for more consistent curl days, reduced frizz shine, more defined curls and better hair health and growth? Let's get you started.
