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I hate my 2c hair so much :(
bignosegirly0
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For all my life, I've treated my hair like it's straight and always struggled with thick and frizzy hair. And I've tried everything to get rid of the frizz. However, later on in my life, I've learnt that frizz usually means you have wavy or curly hair. After trying different tests, I've realised my hair is 2c/2b. But I don't know how to style it.
Usually, you have to wet your hair, add leave in conditioner, curl cream, mouse, scrunch your hair, add a heat protection gel and dry it with a diffuser. But I don't have time to do all of that. Not to mention, if I add too much products, my hair will get greasy and my curls will fall flat.
So often, I would wet my hair, add an leave in conditioner, add curl cream, scrunch and let it air dry.Sometimes, it ends up alright, but if I keep doing my routine every time, the products builds up and makes my hair greasy.
And I know that some people will say that you don't have to wet your hair every day to refresh it. You can leave it in a bonnet, pineapple ponytail with a silk scrunchie, etc. I've tried that, but I still wake up with my curls flat.
I don't know how to care for my 2c hair 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Usually, you have to wet your hair, add leave in conditioner, curl cream, mouse, scrunch your hair, add a heat protection gel and dry it with a diffuser. But I don't have time to do all of that. Not to mention, if I add too much products, my hair will get greasy and my curls will fall flat.
So often, I would wet my hair, add an leave in conditioner, add curl cream, scrunch and let it air dry.Sometimes, it ends up alright, but if I keep doing my routine every time, the products builds up and makes my hair greasy.
And I know that some people will say that you don't have to wet your hair every day to refresh it. You can leave it in a bonnet, pineapple ponytail with a silk scrunchie, etc. I've tried that, but I still wake up with my curls flat.
I don't know how to care for my 2c hair 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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i am in no way a professional when it comes to hair lol though ive always struggled with thick and frizzy hair more or less, and unsure of how to do anything with it - recently i’ve began using the garnier ultimate blends stuff, specifically the coconut oil and cocoa butter things! i use the hair mask twice a week (typically wednesday and sunday) then only wash my hair those 2 days, i recently got the coconut hair oil too for frizzy hair and it’s been amazing - my hair has been so much better since using these!
sometimes things like tiktok can be really helpful for hair tips too, that could be worth a try if you haven’t already?
i don’t know if this is in any way helpful at all, apologies if not
It sounds like your hair looking in a way you want it to is something that is important to you and how you feel within yourself, which makes a lot of sense. It can feel like a huge part of our identity! I'm afraid I do not have any specific places to direct you to as charities and organisations don't necessarily specifically focus on things like this, but what Shannon said is something I have also noticed. I've learnt a lot about different hair types from Tiktok content and the comments are normally quite informative too, so it is a good suggestion from Shannon for sure.
I just wanted to say that we hear how important this is to you and hope that you can find something that works for you that doesn't feel exhausting with how time consuming it is, as you have enough on your plate without feeling like that will drain you too! You got this