Wavy Hair Care

Stringy Wavy Hair – Causes & Fixes

February 20, 2021 by Emily Evert 3 Comments

What Does Stringy Hair Mean?

Stringy hair is when wavy or curly hair is forming lots of really thin curl clumps rather than bigger curl clumps. Stringy hair is often more limp and less bouncy than usual.

Sometimes people use stringy hair and limp hair interchangeably. While stringy hair may also be limp, they aren’t the same thing. You can have stringy hair that is not limp, and you can have limp curls that are not stringy. So, I see them as two different things. For clarity, this blog post is specifically talking about stringy hair, not limp curls.

I have a separate post on how to fix limp wavy hair if that’s the information you were seeking.

What Causes Stringy Wavy Hair?

Why Wavy Hair Sometimes Feels Heavy & How To Fix It

November 9, 2020 by Emily Evert 3 Comments

Your naturally wavy hair used to feel light and bouncy. Or maybe it didn’t really feel any particular way that you noticed. Now, you’re conscious of it feeling heavy. If you’re wondering why, that’s what this post is all about!

What causes wavy hair to feel heavy?

When wavy hair feels heavy it’s because it has become weighed down. This is likely the result of using products too heavy in oils, and/or product build up on the scalp.

How I Know When My Wavy Hair Needs Protein

October 16, 2021 by Emily Evert 13 Comments

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The moisture vs protein balance is the most confusing aspect of learning how to care for your naturally wavy hair, in my opinion. I felt really overwhelmed by it early on. I tried to just avoid it, at first, and that wasn’t a disaster.

If you just cannot seem to figure out if your hair needs protein or not, that doesn’t mean you can’t embrace or waves. It may just take time to learn your hair well enough to make sense of your moisture and protein needs. It may help to take my how to determine your wavy hair type test!

Once I started to grasp my moisture and protein balance, it did help me get results that I was happier with.

I’ve gotten many comments and emails from people asking about moisture vs protein. I’ve pushed off writing this blog post because most resources say that high porosity hair needs a lot of protein, and low porosity hair doesn’t need much protein. That isn’t the case for me.

I’m not an expert so I can’t say with 100% certainty why that is. I have found a single source that gave me a potential answer…but just one, which is odd.

I’ve wondered if I just shouldn’t speak to this topic due to my hair not following the basic expectations of how porosity and moisture/protein balance are said to impact each other. I decided to finally write this post, though…because I don’t imagine that I am the only one who has found that my low porosity hair likes protein….a LOT.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there isn’t a ton of research about different hair types and how they react to different ingredients.

While I can’t provide any science behind why my hair needs what it needs, I can share how I’ve learned what my hair needs…and that may be helpful to others who are struggling to figure out what their hair needs, too. With that “disclaimer” in mind…let’s jump in!

How To Take Care Of Fine Wavy Hair

September 12, 2021 by Emily Evert 13 Comments

A couple months ago I got a devacut on my wavy hair. It didn’t turn out like I had hoped…but I still benefitted from the experience. One of the best parts of the experience was that my stylist told me that I have fine hair.

I didn’t know this! I had previously believed that I had normal to thick hair strands, as that’s what results I got from a microscopic hair analysis test I did a couple of years ago.

While I would typically be inclined to believe the microscopic analysis over the stylist, when I thought about it, it made SO MUCH sense that my hair is fine rather than normal to thick. I had always thought that my hair didn’t behave the way that my hair type ‘should’. It makes way more sense that I just had my hair type wrong.

I often see others in wavy/curly communities recommend to newbies that they determine their hair type before they try to determine a hair routine that will work for them. I understand the logic behind this, but I also have found that it can be tricky to determine your hair type, which is why I don’t often give that advice myself.

However, I have now come up with a set of tests that I find to give the most accurate hair type results. So check out my post how to test your wavy hair type if you want to use my method for determining your hair type including porosity, density and thickness.

So first, I’ll share how to tell if you have fine hair and then I’ll go into what techniques or practices may work best for you if you have fine wavy hair.

How To Determine If Your Hair Is Fine

Take a single hair and place it between your thumb and index finger. When you look away from your hands, ask yourself if you can feel that hair. If you can’t really feel the hair, then your hair is fine!

I had heard about this test early on, and had initially thought my hair was fine. However, microscopic hair analysis told me that my hairs ranged from average to thick thickness, so I believed that for a long time. I now believe the hair analysis was incorrect, and the “finger test” and my hairstylist were correct.

How To Care For Fine Wavy Hair

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