@AngelPuppy1 wrote:
@Icegoddess
Condolences on your loss - so sorry about your deary kitty!
Your hair looks amazing! What type of perm do you get? It's so pretty and soft looking --- not frizzy at all --- and looks like natural curls! What kind of styling do you have to do? I gave up perms eons ago because of the damage and frizz. Seeing your hair makes me think ---- hmmm --- should I try one again???
Thank you everyone for all your kind comments.
@AngelPuppy1 she uses a Tressa Perm: https://www.tressa.com/tressa-products/waves/zone-control/
It's good for color-treated and previously permed hair. I had to look it up by the color of the box. All I could see was the brand name before she took it away.
She also uses fairly large rods. My hair sucks up a perm and always has even before I started coloring. The stories I could tell. I'm done in the shortest amount of time. They no longer even check me anymore. I'm not sure if rod colors vary by manufacturer, but she uses purple (the smallest), orange, and peach rods. After she rolls it she inserts zip-ties to stabilize them.
I only shampoo once a week with a sulfate-free shampoo and use a cleansing conditioner the other days (every other day).
For styling, I actually use an old T-shirt to wrap my head in when I get out of the shower. I have read that the little nubbies on standard towels are bad for curls. I don't like microfiber becaues it pulls too much water out of my hair. I want it fairly wet, but not dripping when I put product in. I comb through with a narrow-tooth pick. After that I spray in leave-in conditioner and an anti-frizz spray. I then add in a curl cream and a gel that I scrunch in upside-down, and let it air dry as long as possible. I finish up by diffusing with a diffuser that has a deep bowl and holes in the "fingers" so that the warm air gets down to the roots. I push it against my head and lift a little to lift the roots as they dry. After that all I do is put in a little of the Tweak'd Restore Treatment oil as a styling cream.
I mostly stay away from Sulfates, silicones, and drying alcohols (not all alcohols are drying), although I do use a bit of hairspray to keep hair from falling in my face. Silicones coat the hair and keep moisture from entering the hair shaft. That can be good for frizz control, but many of them require a sulfate shampoo to get out, so they build up on hair and also don't allow the good moisture to get into the hair.
I picked up some of my pointers from a curly hair group on facebood, although I have never tried to totally follow the Curly Girl Method. Now, the group has morphed into a sorta Nazi-ish only water-soluble products which they have determined only exists in a handful of lines and I thnk it's much more complicated than that because emulsifiers turn non-water-soluble products into water-soluble, so it's really the combination of products you use and there's no way they can determine that. Besides, I have extremely hard water, so I need to clarify occasionally to get that buildup out of my hair which I do before I color anyways.
I'm sure that's TMI, but if you want more info including what specific products I use I'll be happy to share. Actual styling time besides diffusing takes a lot less time than the time it took me to type this, so even though it's wordy it's actually very low maintenance for me.
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