I always thought I had terrible hair. And I’m not just fishing for compliments here (ahem: the comment box is below. I’ll wait.) For my entire adult life, my hair has just been … not good: it’s half-heartedly curly and wavy at the same time, super frizzy and fly-away, prone to split ends and breakage, and extremely thin. It tangles and breaks off if I so much as look at it the wrong way. And it has a never-ending thirst for blood moisture.
Needless to say, it was NOT fun to travel with. During my year-long honeymoon, I backpacked around the world with my hair shoved into a messy bun, which I dreaded undoing because I just knew there would be awful tangles and breakage to deal with. I didn’t have space in my travel backpack for conditioner, and I didn’t have much luck finding any on my travels. I returned home with some of the worst hair of my life, and I was ready to chop it all off.
But then I heard about something called the “Curly Girl Method.” And while the full method was more involved than I was really prepared to do, even trying a half-a**ed lazy version of it actually changed my life. I mean, mostly it changed my hair, but it changed it so much that it spilled over into other parts of my life, too. The confidence boost was real, y’all!
Suddenly, I didn’t have wishy-washy frizzy hair anymore. It turned out that all that frizz was actually just thirsty curls waiting to live life to their fullest potential! And even though my hair is still super thin – my ponytail is the width of a pencil when it’s totally straight – you’d never know it to look at my hair when it’s curly. All you see is full, glorious, bountiful curls! I felt like a new, confident, sassy, curly-haired person ready to take on the world.
Let me show y’all what I mean. Here’s my before hair, a wishy-washy fine mess with no real texture that couldn’t decide if it was wavy or curly – and this was on a good hair day:
And here’s my after hair, full of luscious defined curls that I literally never even knew I could have:
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