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How To Care For Low Porosity Wavy Hair

September 16, 2022 by Emily Evert 2 Comments

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What Is Low Porosity Hair?

Low porosity hair is hair that has tightly closed hair cuticles. Our hair cuticle is often compared to a pinecone (closed for low porosity, open for high porosity). Another analogy for the hair cuticle is a shingled roof, with a newly made roof being low porosity, and a roof with some raised/curling shingles and/or missing shingles being high porosity.

Having a tight, closed cuticle means that once water gets into your hair strand, it’s likely to stay nice and hydrated as the tight cuticle will be great at holding water in your hair. It may be harder for water and hair product ingredients to get into your hair though. For this reason, some with low porosity hair struggle with dry hair while others with low porosity hair struggle with over-moisturized hair.

If you have low porosity hair and aren’t successful at getting water and products into your hair strands, it can become dry. If you have low porosity hair and are successful at getting water and products into your hair strands, it can become over-moisturized.

Signs That You Have Low Porosity Hair

How To Determine Your Wavy Hair Type | Porosity, Density, Curl Pattern & Thickness

February 16, 2022 by Emily Evert 18 Comments

What Are Wavy Hair Stats?

Your hair stats are made up of your curl pattern, your hair strand thickness, your hair density, and your hair porosity.

When I first started embracing my wavy hair about four years ago, I tried following someone else’s routine who had wavy hair with a similar curl pattern to mine. I was so confused when it didn’t work for me at all.

I eventually realized this was because we had different hair stats – hers was low density while mine is dense, and hers was thicker textured than mine.

Does Your Wavy Hair Type Matter?

When looking to start the curly girl method or wavy girl method, some people tell newbies the first thing that they should do is determine their wavy hair stats. When I first attempted to determine my wavy hair type (and even on the second and third attempts to determine my hair stats!) it just didn’t help! Due to this, for a long time I’ve recommended to people that they just experiment with their hair, instead.

I have finally – FINALLY, found my true hair stats and now I have found that knowing my hair stats really has helped me with finding my routine. However, I do still advocate for experimenting!

Now I now see the value in determining your hair stats, as it can help you determine which products will work well for you and what routine will work best for you. It’s essential that you determine your hair type correctly, though.

I incorrectly typed my hair multiple times, so I tried following routines based on the wrong hair type is why those routines didn’t work well for me. They weren’t really for my hair type!

What Products To Use Based On Your Wavy Hair Type

March 2, 2022 by Emily Evert 11 Comments

In a recent blog post, I shared how to determine your wavy hair type. I had mistyped my own hair for a long time, and that resulted in me thinking products ‘should’ work for my hair that didn’t. If you missed that post, definitely go check it out to double-check that you’ve got your hair type correct.

Once You Know Your Hair Type, How Do You Know What Products To Use?

Now you know what your hair properties are – hooray! That’s great…how do you know what products to use now though, right? That’s what this blog post is all about!

What products your hair likes primarily will come down to four factors.

How much protein to use
How much moisture you need (or can tolerate)
How often you’ll need to clarify your hair
How much hold you’ll need.

What Is Low Porosity Hair?

Signs That You Have Low Porosity Hair

What Are Wavy Hair Stats?

Does Your Wavy Hair Type Matter?

Once You Know Your Hair Type, How Do You Know What Products To Use?

How Much Protein Each Hair Type Needs