8 Tips for Styling Curly Hair
Let’s be honest, curls have a mind of their own. They can be moody, unpredictable, and difficult to say the least.
Those who have learned to love their curls know thats the key is perfecting their curly hair routine.
With the right techniques, products, and hairstyles curly hair can be managed much easier, leading to a luscious defined growing curls in return.
Here are a few tips, hacks and products you can incorporate to help you live your best curl life. Consider this your ultimate guide to getting healthy, bouncy spirals.
How to Deep condition Curly Hair
Curly hair is prone to dryness, deep conditioning is a must if you want to keep curls moisturized and beat frizz.
Try deep conditioning on dry hair to help maximize its potency. Deep conditioning on dry hair before shampooing is also known as a pre-poo treatment.
Pre-poo treatments help prevent detergents in shampoos from stripping your natural oils from your curls, causing frizz and dehydration.
Water fights with conditioner for space in the hair cuticle. Hair that is already saturated with water won’t be able to absorb as much conditioner.
Begin by coating curls with a deep conditioner or oil. Clip up hair and slide on a plastic cap for 30mins or opt in to leave in overnight. This ensures strands are penetrated and reaping all the moisturizing benefits. Finish off by shampooing hair as usual.
Give your hair the ultimate reset with our Deep Repair Treatment. Formulated with the perfect balance of strength and hydration, this intensive mask revives dry, damaged strands while keeping them soft, defined, and healthy. Infused with keratin protein and rich moisturizers, it works from the inside out to repair, fortify, and restore your hair’s natural beauty.
Features:
Deeply hydrates while reinforcing strands with protein
Infuses keratin to strengthen and protect against breakage
Restores elasticity so curls clump, pop, and define
Improves softness, shine, and manageability
Ideal for hair that is heat styled, color treated, or prone to dryness
Benefits:
Hair feels instantly stronger and more moisturized
Visible results, curls spring back with bounce and definition
Keeps straight naturals and curly girls alike protected from heat and stress
Perfect for weekly deep treatments or paired with a steam treatment for maximum absorption
When your hair needs both moisture and strength, the Deep Repair Treatment delivers. It’s the key to keeping your strands resilient, hydrated, and full of life.
What’s inside:
SUNFLOWER OIL + MALACHITE: restore moisture, shine, and resilience while protecting hair from environmental stressors.
RHASSOUL: a mineral rich clay, makes this a great treatment for even finer textured hair.
How to Use:
Apply to clean towel dried hair and leave in for 5 to 15 minutes, then rinse. Tip: Focus on mid-lengths to ends to help prevent split ends.
2. How Often to Shampoo Curly Hair
As we mentioned, shampooing can be harsh on your curls. Try reducing the times you shampoo as cleansing agents can be drying and cause frizz.
Opt for a moisturizing shampoo and focus on cleaning your scalp rather than your hair. As you rinse, the water and shampoo will run down your curls and cleanse them.
If you use a lot of styling products opt for a clarifying shampoo once a month to deeply cleanse and remove build up.
Bring your hair back to life with our Moisture Shampoo. This creamy, nourishing formula is designed to infuse your strands with long lasting hydration while keeping them light, bouncy, and full of movement. Unlike heavy moisturizing shampoos that can leave buildup behind, this one delivers the perfect balance: deep hydration without weighing your hair down.
Features:
Gently cleanses while replenishing moisture to dry hair
Creamy, rich formula leaves hair soft, hydrated, and manageable
Keeps hair weightless, making it perfect before blowouts or silk presses
Strengthens and nourishes from root to tip
Safe for all textures, including fine hair, extensions, and color-treated strands
Benefits:
Your hair feels hydrated, silky, and smooth after every wash
Perfect second step after the Volume Shampoo for a balanced cleanse
Preps your strands for styling by keeping them moisturized and pliable
Helps prevent dryness, frizz, and breakage between wash days
With Moisture Shampoo, every wash day leaves your hair hydrated, soft, and ready for whatever style you choose, whether it’s a blowout, silk press, or natural curls.
What’s inside:
SUNFLOWER SEED EXTRACT: provides UVA and UVB protection to preserve radiant color.
COCONUT MILK: creates a strong barrier around the hair shaft to prevent breakage.
RHODOCHROSITE: balances moisture levels.
How to Use:
SHAMPOO: wet hair and lather from roots to ends. Rinse well. Repeat if necessary.
CONDITIONER: after cleansing with shampoo, apply evenly from roots to ends. Leave in for 2-3 minutes and rinse well.
Gently cleanse hair while drenching it in moisture, silkiness, and shine! Powerful anti-aging and collagen-building properties act as a barrier to seal the hair cuticle, protecting from color fade and damage without weighing hair down. Sulfate and Paraben free.
The Benefits:
SUNFLOWER SEED EXTRACT: provides UVA and UVB protection to preserve radiant color.
COCONUT MILK: creates a strong barrier around the hair shaft to prevent breakage.
RHODOCHROSITE: balances moisture levels.
How to Use:
SHAMPOO: wet hair and lather from roots to ends. Rinse well. Repeat if necessary.
CONDITIONER: after cleansing with shampoo, apply evenly from roots to ends. Leave in for 2-3 minutes and rinse well.
3. How to Wash Curly Hair Without Stripping It
A cleansing conditioner or co-wash is best to use in between wash days when your hair needs a refresh to clean your scalp without dehydrating curls.
Those with extra dry curls or type 4 hair will find co-washing beneficial. Co-washing ensures that your curls are getting maximum moisture while preventing your roots for getting overly dry.
Pump up the volume! Essential amino acids provide easy and complete absorption of nutrients into hair’s innermost layers. Cleanse and rebuild each strand to a visibly fuller, lighter, and glossier finish, for hair that resists shedding, breakage and is larger than life!
Sulfate and Paraben Free.
The Benefits:
•QUINOA PROTEIN: penetrates the hair shaft plumping each strand to maximum fullness.
•BENTONITE CLAY: plumps, strengthens and protects hair.
How to Use:
SHAMPOO: Wet hair and lather from roots to ends. Rinse. CONDITIONER: After cleansing with shampoo, apply evenly from roots to ends. Leave in for 3-5 minutes and rinse thoroughly.
4. How to Detangle Curly Hair
It’s best to detangle curly hair when it is sopping wet with conditioner, starting from the ends up towards the scalp with a wide tooth comb. Try detangling hair while you’re still in the shower as the water and conditioner will provide slip so curls may easily untangle. The water and conditioner will also encourage curls to clump and dry together in their natural pattern.
5. How to Get Defined Curls
For defined curls, layer your styling products so that they may meet your specific styling needs and retain moisture.
Start with a leave-in conditioner for added moisture then apply a light oil to seal it all in. Lastly opt for a styling cream or gel to define your curls and prevent frizz.
Meet the curl game changer: our Versatile Styling Cream. This unique gel-cream hybrid combines the hydration of a cream with the hold of a gel, giving you long lasting definition without the drying effects of alcohol-based stylers. It’s the perfect finishing layer for a frizz-free, shiny wash and go that lasts.
Features:
Provides long lasting hold and definition
Infuses moisture while locking in style
Prevents frizz and dryness with a nourishing formula
Works as the perfect topper over the Amplifying Foam
Benefits:
Keeps curls moisturized and defined for days
Smooth, touchable hold. No crunch or flaking
Reduces frizz and shrinkage for a polished look
Suitable for all textures, especially curly and coily hair
The Versatile Styling Cream is the ultimate styler for juicy, defined curls that last. All while keeping your hair soft, moisturized, and frizz-free.
What’s Inside:
• PUMPKIN SEED PROTEIN: provides flexible strength and manageability to hair.
• KAOLIN CLAY EXTRACT: provides hold without stickiness and absorbs negative oils to prolong the hairstyle.
How to Use:
Apply to damp hair. Do not rinse out. Style as usual. For sleek, controlled looks, apply to damp hair and allow to air dry. Apply generously for more hold. Repeat on dry hair if desired.
6. How to Prevent Frizzy Hair While you Sleep
To prevent overnight frizz which may lead to tangles and breakage, sleep on a silk pillow case or with a satin bonnet. The smoother the surface on which you sleep the less tangles and frizz you will experience in the morning.
Also put hair in a pineapple or ponytail at the top of your head before you sleep. While you sleep your curls have the potential to get stuck and knotted on a cotton pillow case and strip curls of moisture.
7. How to Refresh Curls in The Morning
A curl refresher spray with a leave in conditioner will replenish and redefine curls that have dried out over night. Lightly spray your refresher all over hair and fluff curls back into your desired style.
Give your hair the hydration it craves with Emergency Miracle Treatment. This lightweight leave in conditioner penetrates deep into each strand, delivering lasting moisture without heaviness. Perfect as the foundation for any style, it preps and protects your hair so it stays hydrated, healthy, and manageable all week long.
Features:
Lightweight formula absorbs quickly to hydrate from the inside out
Provides lasting moisture retention between wash days
Strengthens and softens without buildup or heaviness
Ideal prep step before blow drying or heat styling
Safe for natural hair, relaxed styles, extensions, and fine strands
Benefits:
Keeps hair hydrated longer, even if you heat style weekly
Perfect balance of moisture and weightlessness
Leaves hair soft, manageable, and frizz-free
A must-have for straight naturals or wash and go girls who need moisture without reapplying product daily
With Emergency Miracle Treatment, you can enjoy long lasting hydration and strength without compromising your style, it’s the leave in that truly lives up to its name.
The Benefits:
• SILK PROTEIN: nourishes, repairs and protects hair.
• SERECITE MICA: smooths, seals hair color and provides radiant
shine.
• UV FILTERS: block sun damage.
How to Use:
Depending on the length and type of hair, apply desired amount to damp hair after washing.
Comb through roots to ends for even distribution.
Do not rinse out. Style as usual.
8. How Often to Cut Curly Hair
The best cuts for curly hair allows curls to assume their fullest shape rather than trying to tame them and chop them off.
Curly girls should look for cuts that allow their hair to cascade down as it grows out as opposed to growing out into a triangle.
If you want to continue growing your curls you must cut out the damage such as split ends, thinning ends and knots. Head to your hairstylist every six to eight weeks for a quick trim.