Common Mistakes When Fighting Frizz✨

Frizz happens for various reasons: humidity, not letting your protective style fully set, hair damage, your curl pattern’s natural propensity toward frizz and more. With frizz having so many causes, figuring out how to stop frizzy hair can be challenging. Still, it’s possible to prevent and control frizz.

Common Mistakes When Fighting Frizz:

1. Drying hair with a terry cloth towel. Wet hair is more fragile than dry hair because water makes strands elastic and prone to snapping. A terry cloth towel is simply too rough on wet hair. By rubbing it into your hair, you’re inadvertently promoting frizz. Use a microfiber towel instead; it’s gentler than a terry cloth towel and is good at absorbing moisture.

2. Using water that is too hot. Heat alone can take away hair’s moisture. So it makes sense that the higher the water temp, the more it can be drying and thus bad for frizz. Lukewarm water, which is a little warmer than your body temperature, is just right for washing hair as it’s warm enough to cleanse without causing dryness.

3. Not protecting hair from the sun. UVA and UVB rays can damage the outer layer of the hair, leading to dry, fuzzy strands. Make a hat your BFF on sunny days.

4. Brushing your hair aggressively. Doing so creates friction, which can make way for frizz and breakage and mess with your curl pattern!

5. Over shampooing and using harsh products. This mistake, like many of the others we’ve mentioned, also relates to dryness. Overshampooing and using shampoos with harsh surfactants, such as sulfates, strip the hair of moisture.

6. Applying the wrong hair products. Not all moisturizing hair products are frizzy hair products, although there is certainly overlap. Smoothing and moisturizing shampoos are great if you want to get rid of frizzy hair, but when it comes to conditioners, opt for ones that aren’t heavy because adding too much moisture can also cause frizz. A hair oil can help control how much moisture your hair takes in by creating a thin barrier that locks wanted moisture in and unwanted moisture (from the environment) out.

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