A wavy hair blog sharing tips and tricks for embracing naturally wavy hair.
Both! Often, people feel like they have to have one hair type, and one hair type only. I’m not really sure why we have this tendency to categorize our hair in a single way. It’s very common for people to have multiple hair textures. If your hair is wavy in spots but straight in spots, then you have some straight hair and some wavy hair! It’s both.
There are several types of hair bonds that can be broken. The ones broken during the process of bleaching hair or dyeing hair are primarily disulfide bonds, which are a type of covalent bonds. Those disulfide bonds cannot be fully repaired with any technology that we currently have.
The cosmetic chemists on the Beauty Brain podcast say bond builders like Olaplex and wellaplex do more conditioning than bond rebuilding. Covalent bonds or disulfide bonds are the ones damaged when hair is dyed. “It’s literally impossible to fully restore disfulfide bonds”. Hair repair products may rebuild hydrogen bonds or electrostatic bonding.
Episode 216 on bond building explains how Olaplex has a patent that claims they rebuild disulfide bonds, but patents aren’t evidence of effective peer-reviewed science.
Typically 15-25% of bonds are damaged while bleaching hair, but it can be up to 45% in cases where “severe” bleaching is being done.
This is a quote from from Chemical and Physical Behavior of Human Hair by Clarence R. Robbins.
“Robbins and Kelly [5] have shown that 15–25% of the disulfide bonds in human hair are degraded during “normal” bleaching, however, as much as 45% of the cystine bonds may be broken during severe “in practice” bleaching. This latter amount of damage may occur while frosting hair, or while bleaching hair from black or brown-black to light blond”
One of my more popular posts is How To Determine Your Wavy Hair Type. It goes over density, porosity and thickness. To make testing your hair as easy as possible, I made these little quizzes! Leave a comment letting me know what you think.
The curly girl method can be followed on a small budget. People often hesitate to start the curly girl method because they fear it’ll be expensive. It’s easy to get the impression that embracing your naturally wavy hair has to be expensive. A lot of content for wavy curly hair does feature high-end products. However, influencers or content creators are more apt to use expensive hair products than a non-influencer with wavy hair.
You certainly can spend a lot of money on your hair if you want to, but it’s not necessary to get good results or to follow the curly girl method.
I’ve shared content before that is specifically aimed at showcasing how affordable embracing wavy hair, even while following the curly girl method, can be. Here are some of those posts below:
Cheap wavy hair products that work well for me
Dollar tree curly girl method routine / Cheapest way to start the CGM
Once you know that you don’t have to spend a lot of money, you still may wonder if you should buy higher end products.
