Wavy Hair Care

Signs that your wavy hair needs a hair cut

April 1, 2023 by Emily Evert Leave a Comment

Signs That Your Wavy Hair Needs A Haircut

You can see or feel split ends.

Your hair has started tangling more than usual, especially at the ends, or in single-strand knots aka fairy knots.

Your hair feels heavy, and may give you headaches if you wear it up.

Your hair has gotten straighter or isn’t curling up as well as it used to.

The ends of your hair look stringy or have become uneven.

Your waves aren’t clumping as well as they used to or look “stringy”

It’s been more than 6 months since your last trim.

The shape that your haircut had when first cut is no longer the shape it has. For many with wavy hair they’ll get a “triangle” shape or their hair cut will become “bottom heavy” as it grows out.

Does Hair Grow Faster After It’s Cut?

How To Care For Thin Low Density Wavy Hair

March 24, 2023 by Emily Evert 3 Comments

What Is Low-Density Wavy Hair?

Hair density refers to how many hairs you have. Someone with low density hair would have fewer hairs per square inch of scalp than someone with medium or high density hair.

What’s The Difference Between Thin Wavy Hair and Fine Wavy Hair?

People often confuse thin hair, fine hair, and low-density hair! Thin hair and low-density hair mean the same thing. So thin hair means someone who has a lower amount of hairs across their scalp than “average”. Where fine wavy hair means that the individual hair strands are not as thick as ‘average’.

How To Tell If You Have Low-Density Hair

Hair density is primarily determined by analyzing how much of your scalp you can see. People with high-density hair can see very little of their scalp even when their hair is wet. People with low-density hair tend to have a wider/more visible part and can see more scalp when their hair is wet.

Another way to estimate your hair density is to look at your ponytail circumference. I have a blog post that goes into detail about how to determine your wavy hair type which covers density.

How Common is Low-Density or Thin Wavy Hair?

Ouidad Review On Wavy Hair

March 18, 2023 by Emily Evert 2 Comments

Ouidad sent me products for review. All opinions are my own.

Many of you know that I typically recommend really affordable products. I think of myself as frugal, but not cheap. What I mean by that is, I like seeking out value. However, that doesn’t mean that I look for the absolute cheapest products available, necessarily. I’m often happy to pay more for one product over another in the same category, as long as I feel like the more expensive product has something unique that it offers. If two products perform the same, then I’m going to go with the cheaper option.

Ouidad is a brand that is a bit higher-end than most of what I’ve used in the past, but that is popular with many people who have wavy and c urly hair. I had purchased a Ouidad gel on my own during an Ulta hair sale where the gel was offered at 50% off. So, when Ouidad reached out to me to see if I wanted to try out some of their products, I was happy to agree. They sent me four products, so I’m going to review each of those. I’m also going to cover the gel that I had purchased from Ouidad on my own.

My wash day results when using Ouidad Advanced Climate Control Featherlight Styling Cream, Ouidad VitalCurl + Weightless Curl Defining Mousse (a lot), and Ouidad Advanced Climate Control Heat and Humidity Harder Hold Gel (a little).

Ouidad Advanced Climate Control Heat and Humidity Gel Review

Wavy Hair Underneath But Straight On Top

March 11, 2023 by Emily Evert 3 Comments

If your hair is wavy underneath but straight on top, does that make it straight or wavy?

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.

What Causes Hair to be Straight on Top but Wavy Underneath?

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