Beauty Devotion

Helllaww, this week I thought I'd talk to you about hair..

I have HUGGEEE what I like to call 'slight afro' hair, that is naturally wavy/curly but with a few products added has the potential to turn into a humongous afro beehive, and I love it. I like having big hair sometimes (admittedly) I does get to big and uncontrollable but with just a few trusty products It can be beautiful. My hair colour is in between things at the minute, I have a mousy brown hair naturally but a few months ago got a full head of blonde highlights.. I like it but think I might go back to a caramel (or not)

Anywhoo ,

Step 1. Wash and towel dry your hair (the night before you want to wear the curls) with your preferred shampoo and conditioner and preferably curl enhancing but this isn't necesary.



Herbal essences I <3 you.

Step 2. to controlling the 'fro apply a good oil treatment to the ends of towel dried/damp hair for some good old moisture. I use VO5 Miracle Concentrate Elixir - £5.19 - I use half of the "squeezy" tube thingy and just massage it into the ends of my hair, as I said before I have bleached my hair recently so all moisture is good moisture!!The elixir is also high in antioxidants and vitamin E so it's suuuper good for the hair, I was sceptical of buying this at first as the bottle is soo small but honestly it lasts foorevverrr so it's well worth the money.

Step 3. time for some salt, I have been using salt spray for years now it just defines the curls more and makes the hair more controllable (for me at least I know this is very much debated upon in the blogosphere) I've used most branded salt spray's and never found one that was better than the other so after researching on the internet I found a post explaining why salt spray's were 'a waste of money' and how to make your own, so I've been doing exactly that for the past year or so and honestly it's better than the branded salt sprays - this may sound stupid -  but literally all you do is mix salt with water, who would have thought eyy -insert eye roll here-
I use just regular sea salt which is readily available and filtered water and mix them together and put it into a spray bottle.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Step 4. last year I discovered a brand called 'Samy' whilst traipsing the aisles of Superdrug, the brand is most famous for it's "fat hair 0 calorie" hair products which are directed to volumising. I however use the 'curls' line which is blooming brilliant. I use 2 products the 'get curls, curl reactivator' and 'big curls, curl crème'. They're very affordable and last forever as you only need a tiny amount. I use a pea sized amount of the big curls crème and rub it between my fingers and scrunch it into my roots for some definition at the roots as this is where my curls tend to become less defined. I don't use both of these product's I use the curl crème on freshly washed hair and the curl reactivator on 2nd day hair, to obviously "reactivate the curls".



Step 5 this step isn't necessary but I use this every morning for a bit of a perk up, it's a shine spray you can use any but I like the L'Oreal Professional Crystal gloss Techni art which I was given  at my local hairdressers, it's not brilliant but it works and it has a really nice 'hairdresser smell' if you understand it smells professional and gives a good shine so I use it but any will do.

 

Now the best part - sleeeep - for as long as desired. Alternatively a diffuser can be used if your in a hurry but I try not to use heat to often. 

And Voila Big bouncy Easy Beachy hair..

Tell me if this was useful to anyone and suggestions are welcome :)
Also if you've used any good curl products I'd love to try some more.

Oh and thank you all so much for the followers and views I'm overwhelmed :D

Lots of love

Soph

xox