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Dry Curl Cut Advice For Wavy Hair

July 6, 2021 by Emily Evert 5 Comments

My last post was sharing my devacut experience on wavy hair. It wasn’t a great experience. Which makes it a little bit weird to now move on to sharing advice about dry curl cuts. However, I think I did learn quite a bit from the experience that may help others.

I also know there are some basic questions about devacuts or other types of dry curly cuts that I know the answers to. My other post was long enough so, I thought I’d do a second post to answer some dry curl cut questions.

Dry curl cut advice for wavy hair. I got a devacut that I regret. So, here is my advice for how to avoid getting a cut you dislike!

Is a wet cut or dry cut better for wavy hair?

Whether a dry curl cut or a traditional wet hair cut is best for your wavy hair will depend on your exact hair type, as well as your styling preferences and your budget.

Wet hair cuts are best if you have a limited budget, if you ever wear your hair straight, and maybe if you have a delicate wave pattern. Meaning, if you need to use a product with hold, such as gel, to maintain your waves.

Dry curl cuts may be better for your wavy hair if you always wear your hair wavy and want to balance out an uneven curl pattern.

traditional wet haircut on wavy hair

This was after styling my own hair after returning from getting a professional wet cut. It was uneven once styled, even though it was even when wet. This is due to my uneven curl pattern.

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Getting A DevaCut On Wavy Hair [My Experience]

July 4, 2021 by Emily Evert 17 Comments

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My experience with getting a devacut dry curl haircut on my naturally wavy hair

I started the curly girl method over 3 years ago now. A couple months after starting, I got a regular, wet haircut. Prior to embracing my waves, my hair was dow to my natural waist. I had grown it as long as possible to help weigh it down. I knew that when my hair was longer, it was less poofy.

After I started embracing my waves, that length was just way too much work, though. So I wanted a decent amount of length cut off. I just went to an affordable salon in my area called Cost Cutters. The cut looked poofy when I was leaving the salon, which worried me a bit.

However, after I washed it and styled it myself (with gel) the poof went away. After this cut, I began to notice how uneven my curl pattern was. Getting the excess length off my hair allowed the hair to the right side of my head to curl up tighter, but the left side didn’t see much change. This left me with visibly curlier hair on my left side.

Traditional wet cut on wavy hair

The left is before the wet cut, the center is after, ad the right is after I washed and styled my new cut myself.

For 3 years after that wet cut, I occasionally cut my own hair using a dry curl cut technique. The first time I cut my hair dry, I thought I was likely to ruin my hair. I had tried cutting my own hair as a teenager when I wore my hair straight, and it was always a disaster. So, I was impressed to find that I could dry-cut my own waves without ruining my hair. Plus, it was free!

So, I stuck with that for 3 years. I cut my own hair 3 times. The collage below shows before and afters of each of those 3 cuts. The “afters” are not immediately after I cut my hair, but were after I washed and re-styled my hair. When I first cut my own hair, it looks pretty straight and poofy until I re-style it again.

DIY dry curl cut on wavy hair

Also – sorry for over-exposing my face in these photos and in many others here on my blog. I know the pale-as-a-vampire look isn’t particularly appealing, but if I don’t increase the exposure of my photos, you can’t really see the texture of my hair because it’s so dark!

Anyway. I was pretty happy with the results I got from cutting my own hair each time. But, I also kept seeing experiences of wavy/curly haired people online, talking about professional dry curl cuts. Most of the ones I saw were DevaCuts.

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My Experience Seeing A “Wavy Specialist Vs A Curly Specialist

June 28, 2022 by Emily Evert 4 Comments

My curl specialist experience last year

If you’ve been following me for a while you may recall my 2021 haircut. I saw a Deva certified stylist with over 20 years of experience and it didn’t go well. In part, I didn’t communicate as well as I should have. In part…the stylist just didn’t seem to understand my hair type. The collage below shows my before (first row), my “just got home from the salon” (second row) and my first attempt to style it myself (third row).

Devacut before and after on naturally wavy hair

If you’d like to read more about my experience last year, see my blog post Getting A DevaCut On Wavy Hair [My Experience].

After that experience last year, I initially thought I’d go back to cutting my own hair again. After a while though I started daydreaming about trying a dry curl cut again. For a while I was thinking I’d try out a Ouidad cut or rezo cut rather than another Devacut. Then I found Locks By Alaina out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s a Deva certified stylist which wasn’t what I thought I was looking for but…

Alaina has wavy hair herself, and her Instagram is full of clients who also have wavy hair. I was pretty immediately interested, but what really hooked me was when she posted something about how wavy hair often needs strong hold. If there’s one piece of information that people seem to get wrong about wavy hair most often, it’s the idea that wavy hair doesn’t need gel or doesn’t do well work hard hold.

If you go to the hair section of most any store and look for products that say ‘wavy’ you’ll mostly find texturizing sprays or other very light hold products…so it even seems to be a prevalent idea in product marketing. Anyway…I knew she would understand my hair type, so I was pretty much sold.  Let me be clear that she doesn’t advertise herself as a wavy specialist.

I just framed this post that way on my own, because I could see that she has more experience and knowledge with wavy hair than the other stylist I went to…and I think probably more than your average Devacurl specialist, but I am guessing.

Locks By Alaina Review

I was really happy with my experience seeing “Locks By Alaina”…for a whole bunch of reasons.

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How To Do The Curly Girl Method When You Shower At Night

June 15, 2022 by Emily Evert 5 Comments

I’ve had people ask me if they have to shower in the morning if they want to follow the curly girl method or otherwise embrace their natural waves or curls. Nope! You can shower at night. It does take some additional planning, though.

I have always preferred to shower at night (I am not a fan of waking up earlier to shower and do my hair!) so I can share how I make it work! Well, this is what I do on ‘regular’ wash days anyway. Sometimes when I’m doing blog posts for this blog I will do my hair differently for the sake of a blog post.

How to shower at night while following the curly girl method for wavy hair. Can you air dry overnight? Can you plop overnight?

How To Wash Your Hair At Night On The Curly Girl Method

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About Me

My name is Emily, I have been blogging since 2009. I found the curly girl method in 2018, which helped me to discover my naturally wavy hair. Since then, I’ve continued to wear my hair wavy, reading and watching tons about wavy hair. This blog is where I share what I’ve learned, in hopes of helping others. More about me and my backstory can be found on my about page.

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