Some women spend hours trying to create them, and others spend hours wishing they didn’t have them, either way spiral curls get plenty of attention. So why would someone wish they didn’t have something so beautiful people, movie stars and models are willing to curl every hair strand to achieve? They don’t know how to care for their spiral curls, so their hair looks disastrous instead of drop dead gorgeous.
Spiral curls are sort of a mid point between afro-curly and straight. When brushed they often become simply wavy, often frizzy or very static and just plain out not attractive, when left unbrushed the hair can appear dreaded, knotted or dirty, and when styling product is applied to brushed hair it becomes stringy, weighed down and flat. Why?
Because the type of hair that creates spiral curls. People with spiral curls tend to have very fine hair with a tendency to be dry. The strands themselves are thin, light weight and silky. The lightness of the hair gives it a tendency to twist creating a spiral. People with spiral curls often have difficulty growing it out. It normally breaks off shortly after the shoulder due to it’s fine consistency. And for good reason, the weight of long hair would leave the hair curl-less and so it would appear thin. However when properly cared for spiral curls can carefree style wise and envy worthy.
First off spiral curly hair can be brushed, just not like normal hair. Brushing dry upsets the hair allowing the often dry locks to static up and fly away. It can also create breakage to the delicate strands. Brushing wet again tends to create breakage, especially because spiral curly hair can become very tangled when wet. Solution? Brush in the shower. Leading up to tip number two.
Use a moisture rich shampoo. Be sure to message it in to stimulate the scalp which promotes healthy hair growth. Then use a leave in conditioner that you wash out, such as Aussies 3 minute miracle. Leave the conditioner in for the entire shower and before rinsing brush it in. This ensures that the conditioner reaches all of your hair, and that the hair brushes out easily as well as once you rinse the conditioner and exit the shower you’ll no longer need to brush hair after. This also requires you don’t wrap hair in a towel, which actually creates breakage in all hair types. Hair can be dried by simply dabbing with the towel rather the wrapping, or hey just let it stay dripping wet. Using your fingers for any styling after this point helps maintain curls and decrease breakage while lending a very natural look.
Tip number three, avoid styling products. One of the biggest advantages of spiral curly hair is you don’t have to style it, in fact you shouldn’t really. After allowing hair to dry you’ll have perfect ringlets. Hair spray or styling gel tend to weigh down hair making it look greasy or dirty. Styling products can also be bad for the skin of the forehead causing breakouts and complexion issues. Spiral curls look lovely loose, but if you wish to style leaving out the products tends to give a relaxed, natural sort of beautiful. You don’t really have to worry about stray hairs hanging out, because they tend to look as if you left them on purpose. Many hair dressers will pull bits of hair out and curl them for people with straight hair, having spiral curls already does this for you.
Avoid leave in conditioners that don’t wash out as well as frizz eases, or curl enhancers. These products are wonderful for people with truly curly hair but for those with spiral curls they are a no no . They again weigh down hair and leave it looking dirty because spiral curly hair is almost always of such a fine consistency. If you refrain from brushing dry and be sure to use moisture rich shampoo and conditioner you should have no need for these products anyway. Any fly always can be tamed with a bit of water. Which as a side note, spiral curly hair can be restyled as easily as getting it wet again. It will dry in a new spiral formation ever time.
All in all spiral curls are the easiest hair type to care for and a beauty slackers dream. You don’t need to brush unless it’s in the shower. The only products you need waste money on are leave in conditioners that wash out and high moisture shampoos. And your hair will always look wonderful even if you just woke up. I used to spend hour straightening my hair because I didn’t know how to deal with it, causing heat damage and wasting time, when in reality all I needed was a few spiral curly hair care tips which is what inspired me to write this. So let those tresses dangle and enjoy your new free time.
