What I didn't realize was that, to the Curly Girl community, my hair struggles simply translate to potential.

Our Miracle Curls Mousse smells amazing, and its formula, infused with ingredients such as coconut and Australian jojoba oil, takes no prisoners — it’ll have your waves, ringlets or kinky curls ready to face the day quicker than you can say a quick prayer to the curl gods. To Curly Girl experts, the Curly Girl Method involves understanding your hair's porosity level, feeding your strands the correct amount of protein, and remembering a long list of sulfates and silicones to avoid at all costs.

Infused with Hemp Seed Extract, this collection refreshes your hair and leaves it beautifully smooth and nourished, not frizzy.

If you're interested in joining any of these spaces, all you have to do is ask (read: hit the "join" button to request access). Fortunately, baby steps are encouraged, so I focused on the two aspects that seemed the most important: co-washing and post-shower styling. Commenters are quick to point out a sneaky silicone or a suspicious alcohol in the mix if the product doesn't fit within the list of Curly Girl–approved products. I'm a big proponent of adjusting your hair with your lifestyle changes (yes, that includes the breakup haircut). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I just use my hands or a microfiber towel to gently scrunch my hair and break up any strands that clumped together when drying.

If your hair’s still suffering from frizz, our Calm the Frizz collection will help you regain control. The harder part is resisting the urge to touch my hair at all since that can interfere with how the curls form and cause extra frizz.Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. For example, when I want to "look nice" for something, I no longer reach for the straightener—I just spend more time caring for and styling my waves. Certainly, those who have used a diffuser on their curly hair have probably made one or all the common mistakes. To experience our little miracle: Squeeze the mousse into your palm, rub hands together and scrunch the product into wet hair.

Transform them into soft, defined, and manageable waves without the frizz with our styling mousse—made just for you! But after seeing that her "before" hair didn't actually look that different from my wavy locks, I was optimistic about what this routine could do for me.

Our styling mousse with Wild Cherry Bark extract will leave your hair with the fragrance of Summer (so an outback campfire favorite).