# I'm a Curly Girl too! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828 "2003-12-30T20:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/1 "2003-12-30T20:09:31Z")
I’ve lived a sad life with my straight boring hair, envying those Boticelli-locked beauties with their thick, bouncy amazingly alive hair. So I asked my stylist this weekend what I could do to get my hair to look wavy without spending hours on it. She gave me this book: [Curly Girl](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761123008/qid=1072814545/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-6679722-8559800) and it opened up a whole new world of hair-do’s! Has anyone read this? Has anyone followed its regimen? The biggest change is the whole shampoo deal: only once a week. I’ve followed it for two days and already my hair has more curl in it than I ever thought it could. I can’t wait to see what it looks like after two weeks. I will be either a wavy-wonder or a greaseball. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/2 "2003-12-30T21:02:54Z")
The synopsis of the book led me to believe that this is mostly for girls with curly hair who want to tame/control/enhance the curls they were born with. Sadly, my hair is stick straight and baby-fine, so I won’t be reading this book. But I’d kill for hair like Dyan Cannon’s! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/3 "2003-12-30T21:05:30Z")
And there’s no fucking way I won’t wash my hair every day. No fucking way. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/4 "2003-12-30T22:41:33Z")
Once a week?? Ugh I could NOT do that. My hair is gross after a few days if I’m being lazy at home. My hair is about as curly as it’s going to get. It’s got some wave to it and a couple of places when I let dry naturally start to turn into something resembling ringlets… I’ve been tempted to just try a perm to see how it would work but it would probably fry my hair which is very fine. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/5 "2003-12-30T22:50:30Z")
I flipped through this book when I saw it at a bookstore a while back. I’ve got pretty curly hair, but I too will not stop washing my hair. My mousse and I get along just fine! ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/6 "2003-12-30T22:54:55Z")
Its not so bad! I’m on day three with no hair washing…just conditioning. My hair still feels like I washed it this morning. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/7 "2003-12-30T23:02:58Z")
This last year I’ve just given up on trying to have straight hair. What a relief-- after decades of frizzy, poofed out hair that took hours to get that ugly, I just have to blowdry with a diffuser attachment to enjoy corkscrew curls. Crazy curls suit my personality better anyway. I’m going to try that washing with conditioner idea the book mentions. I can’t wash my hair every day or my scalp and hair both get very angry. Every other day is what works for me; once a week seems a bit too long. Although my great aunt only had her hair done once a week and she never got the greasies, hmmm ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/8 "2003-12-30T23:16:29Z")
**ouisey** , what do you mean not washing but conditioning? I thought conditioner was whatr you put in your hair after you had washed it, in other words that you have wet hair. Are you just not shampooing every day? ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/9 "2003-12-31T02:48:52Z")
I have curly hair, dont really understand why people want to have it, hate the fact that I cant wake up in the morning, brush it and go, well I could but it looks terrible. Think about that the next time you want ur hair to be all curly wurly! Badbaby, maybe you might want to try out those professional hair straighteners, my sister got one for christmas, its called the GHD. Ive used it on my moderately curly hair, and she has on her very curly hair, and its always come up dead straight with no firzziness, providing you do it right. Granted they arent designed for daily use as they will dry out and burn your hair, but for special occasions, or even once or twice a week with a good conditioner, they can be great. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/10 "2003-12-31T05:20:25Z")
That’s why I haven’t gotten a perm… because I’m lazy and it would look horrible. I’ll just live with horrible wavy hair instead. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/11 "2003-12-31T05:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*The synopsis of the book led me to believe that this is mostly for girls with curly hair who want to tame/control/enhance the curls they were born with. Sadly, my hair is stick straight and baby-fine, so I won’t be reading this book. But I’d kill for hair like Dyan Cannon’s! \*\* Really-another here with baby fine, stick straight hair. I hate it. And trying to wash my hair once a WEEK? I have to wash it every 24 hours or it becomes a huge oil slick. It clumps together and it looks awful. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/12 "2003-12-31T06:27:56Z")
I feel that people wash their hair too often today. I mean, go back a 150 years ago and people washed their hair a lot less than we do now – and they never appear hideously greasy and unwashed in their photographs. And I remember reading somewhere that after a month or so, your hair adjusts to not being washed and looks as good if not better. The conditioner-only gang seems to be bearing this out. I’d really like to try it, but I’m on the tail end of my adolescense and I’m hoping my greasiness will eventually lose it oily tendencies, which let it be either totally wavy or totally straight, not both at once. (I can dream, can’t I?) To the people who have to wash _every_ day, have you ever tried dry shampoo or a baby powder or something along those lines? Linky: [http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip543.htm](http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip543.htm) That’s a pretty thorough “analysis” of the differences between Bumble and Bumble Hair Powder, cornstarch and baby powder. If you sprinkle them on your hair and brush them out really well after letting it sit for a while, a lot of the oil will be absorbed and you won’t have wash daily. Sarah – who likes to wake up half an hour before she has to leave for class, and so LOVES finding ways around washing her hair ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/13 "2003-12-31T07:51:42Z")
Wash my hair ONCE A WEEK??!?!?!?!?!?! It gets all oily and dark if I go a day without washing! Birds would be nesting in it if I went a week! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/14 "2003-12-31T10:51:00Z")
The oil is good - you just have to brush it more to spread that oil which is what they used to do. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/15 "2003-12-31T18:05:14Z")
No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way… Hair starts to smell really funky if it isn’t washed at least every other day. Ewww smelly hair. No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way…No fucking way… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/16 "2003-12-31T18:47:42Z")
Dang. I opened this thread expecting something about the Three Stooges. ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/17 "2003-12-31T18:57:54Z")
**Kalhoun** , maybe putting conditioner on the hair keeps it from smelling funky. Judging from your posts though, I’m thinking it would be dangerous for your mental health to keep you from washing your hair. I get this picture of you crouched in a fetal position, rocking to and fro: “no fucking way, no fucking way”. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/18 "2003-12-31T22:13:43Z")
I feel like a right tramp after reading this thread. I only wash my hair twice a week. However it doesn’t get greasy and I’ve not noticed any smell. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/19 "2003-12-31T23:53:40Z")
I’m currently trying not to wash my hair every day. Any of the “non-everyday washers” work out regularly? I haven’t tried not washing my hair after a workout day. I have been rinsing every day and condition most days. I have baby-fine, oily hair, but it seems to be ok the few times I’ve done rinse-only. Haven’t gone more than one day without washing, tho’. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828/20 "2003-12-31T23:55:48Z")
I’ve started on the conditioner only washes. Don’t buy a really good conditioner - get the cheap stuff, the 99 cents stuff. Wet your hair and glop it on. Use lots. Let it sit while you wash everything else, then rinse. Glop more on and rub in your hair. Then rinse. My hair is a lot happier and two inches from my waist length goal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-curly-girl-too/221828.md?page=2)