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CG Method-Friendly Curl Defining Gels for Summer
Summer is around the corner in the Southern Hemisphere. In Australia, the weather is already warming up and the sun is getting shinier by the day ☀️
With a humid climate on the way, you’ll want to protect your wavy, curly and coils hair with moisture. You’ll also need a curl defining gel that can withstand the conditions.
Here are some examples of affordable curl defining gels that are Curly Girl Method friendly for your upcoming summer adventures:
What is Curl Defining Gel?
This type of product is designed to tame and define curls by trapping moisture in the hair and protecting it from frizz. This is all whilst enhancing your natural curly texture.
Wavy Hair Textures:
AA curl defining gel might be too heavy for waves. Try lighter styling products like creams or mousses. Try kms - Curlup Control Creme or MATRIX - Curl Please Super Defrizzer .
Curly Hair Textures:
Those of you with more defined and tighter curls can probably handle a curl defining gel. A gel like aussie - Instant Freeze Hair with Jojoba Oil & Sea Kelp Gel is great for humidity. You can also try BIOSILK - Rock Hard Gelee for another affordable option.
Coily Hair Textures:
Our coily CGM friends always rave about the cantu - Shea Butter for Natural Hair Coconut Curling Cream and ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel for an affordable and long-lasting hold.
Why are These Products Curly Girl Method Friendly?
The curly girl method approves brands and products that don’t include harmful, drying and dirtying ingredients. These include sulphates, silicones, mineral oils, parabens, alcohols etc.
You can use a site like www.isitcg.com to check your products ingredients!
Pro Tips for Using Curl Defining Gel:
🖤 Most hair types will benefit from additional moisture during the warmer months.
🖤 When you get out the shower after washing your hair, wring some water out, take a blob of leave in conditioner, and squeeze it into your hair. 🖤 Scrunch from the ends up to the root.
🖤 Follow this up with a blob of curl defining gel, mousse or cream. Scrunch it into your hair to lock in the moisture and encourage a curly texture.
🖤 Towels can be damaging to curly hair so scrunch with an old t-shirt to dry off the hair some more.
BecomingKyra
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Shoutout to when first day wash and go’s turn out as planned 💙💙💙 Products:
#SheaMoisture - Raw Shea Butter Restorative Conditioner
#Ouidad - Curl Quencher Moisturizing Shampoo
#ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel
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My Current Favorite Curly Products
I will be showing in the picture slides the ones that I have at home with me at the moment but will let you down bellow more info about others products that I like. Hope you enjoy.
I wanted to share some of my favorite products for my curly hair. Down bellow I will be sharing why I like each of these products and why you should try it if you haven’t.
1- Shampoos: All of these shampoos clean my scalp/ hair but doesn’t make my hair dry which is why I love all of them.
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Shampoo (current fave)
LOVE beauty AND planet - Shea Butter and Sandalwood Purposeful Hydration Shampoo
SheaMoisture - 100% Virgin Coconut Oil Daily Hydration Shampoo
2- Conditioner: my always feel silky smooth, hydrated and easssy to detangle.
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Conditioner
GARNIER - Whole Blends Replenishing Conditioner Legendary Olive (current fave)
SheaMoisture - Superfruit Complex 10 in 1 Renewal System Conditioner
aussie - Paraben-Free Miracle Curls Conditioner with Coconut & Jojoba Oil For Curly Hair (bomb)
3- Deep Conditioner/ Mask: Make my hair feel alive/nourish, super soft, moisturized and shiny.
AFRO LOVE - Hair Souffle (my fave 4ever)
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Hair Masque
MIELLE - Rosemary Mint Strengthening Hair Masque
aussie - 3 Minute Miracle Moist Deep Conditioner
4- Leave in: Not a leave in type of girl but these are two of my favs so far. They make my hair easy to brush through and give me a boost of moisture.
Kinky-Curly - Knot Today, Natural Leave In / Detangler (bomb.com)
GARNIER - Whole Blends Replenishing Leave-in Conditioner with Virgin-Pressed Olive Oil & Olive Leaf Extracts (also bomb)
5- Styler: I always alternate between these three depending on what I want. Fun fact: I love them equally.
cantu - Shea Butter for Natural Hair Moisturizing Curl Activator Cream
AFRO LOVE - Curling Puree
SheaMoisture - Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie
6- Gel: I don’t really use gel for my wash n go’s but I do use them for a high/ low pony tail, buns and baby hairs.
ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel
ECOCO - Eco Style Argan Oil Gel
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Yarlin_
my five-star product lineup for natural 4a hair!
these are my holy grail products for my low porosity, medium density 4a hair. i stopped flat ironing my hair in 2014 to really see how my natural curls would develop. it has been a roller coaster 🎢🎢🎢 journey to find the products that work best for me. after lots of trial and error, these are my favorite products. i have used them pretty consistently for the last two years.
amika: - Soulfood Nourishing Mask - this is the old packaging for my favorite deep conditioner. the scent is amazeballs and it does a fabulous job softening my hair and creating some slip before i cowash. the sea buckthorn oil is the secret ingredient - so moisturizing! i wet my hair with a spray bottle and deep condition for 2 hrs to a full day (up in my high bun).
AS I AM - Coconut Cowash + TANGLE TEEZER - The Original Detangling Hair Brush in the shower to condition and get all of the shed hair out. my hair, like my skin, can be quite dry, so i need super nourishing products. this cowash has been a constant in my routine basically since the beginning. sometimes i’ll skip the tangle teezer and finger detangle, but i really want to make sure that i get that shed hair out during wash day.
DevaCurl - Devatowel Anti-Frizz Microfiber Towel to dry off these tresses.
EDEN Body Works - Coconut Shea Natural Curl Defining Creme + ECOCO - Eco Style Argan Oil Gel - i part my hair in half, mix these two together, and run the product through semi-generously. then i’ll put each half into three twists to prevent tangling and let air dry.
SheaMoisture - 100% Pure Argan Oil - once my hair has dried, i’ll use this oil to gently unravel the twists. the oil helps me ensure that i’m not pulling too hard on the hair, since it’s dry and more fragile at that point.
i don’t do much between washes, to avoid product buildup. i sleep in a pineapple 🍍 on a satin pillowcase, and usually wear it down for a few days before putting it into a pineapple / bun for a few days. when my life is together, i do my wash routine every 5-7 days.
i love talking about natural hair!! 👩🏾🦱 let me know if you have any favorite products or tips. 🤗
lns.xo
Hair Journey ✨curly girl method✨
Curls - Lavish Curls Moisturizer I use this to refresh my hair the next day I wash it.
SheaMoisture - Coconut & Hibiscus Curl & Shine Shampoo
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Yogurt Hydrate + Repair Protein Power Treatment
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Yogurt Hydrate + Repair Conditioner I use this hair mask once every two weeks.
ECOCO - Ecostyler Professional Styling Gel with Olive Oil I LOVE THIS GEL 💕 I apply this gel after leave-in.
SheaMoisture - Sugarcane Extract & Meadowfoam Seed Silicone Free Leave-In I apply leave-in conditioner when my hair is wet, then I detangle it with a wide tooth comb.
After gel, I wrap my hair in a microfiber towel for an hour, then I dry it using a diffuser, around 10-15 mins.
PerlaV
My Current Favorite Curly Products
I will be showing in the picture slides the ones that I have at home with me at the moment but will let you down bellow more info about others products that I like. Hope you enjoy.
I wanted to share some of my favorite products for my curly hair. Down bellow I will be sharing why I like each of these products and why you should try it if you haven’t.
1- Shampoos: All of these shampoos clean my scalp/ hair but doesn’t make my hair dry which is why I love all of them.
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Shampoo (current fave)
LOVE beauty AND planet - Shea Butter and Sandalwood Purposeful Hydration Shampoo
SheaMoisture - 100% Virgin Coconut Oil Daily Hydration Shampoo
2- Conditioner: my always feel silky smooth, hydrated and easssy to detangle.
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Conditioner
GARNIER - Whole Blends Replenishing Conditioner Legendary Olive (current fave)
SheaMoisture - Superfruit Complex 10 in 1 Renewal System Conditioner
aussie - Paraben-Free Miracle Curls Conditioner with Coconut & Jojoba Oil For Curly Hair (bomb)
3- Deep Conditioner/ Mask: Make my hair feel alive/nourish, super soft, moisturized and shiny.
AFRO LOVE - Hair Souffle (my fave 4ever)
SheaMoisture - Manuka Honey & Mafura Oil Intensive Hydration Hair Masque
MIELLE - Rosemary Mint Strengthening Hair Masque
aussie - 3 Minute Miracle Moist Deep Conditioner
4- Leave in: Not a leave in type of girl but these are two of my favs so far. They make my hair easy to brush through and give me a boost of moisture.
Kinky-Curly - Knot Today, Natural Leave In / Detangler (bomb.com)
GARNIER - Whole Blends Replenishing Leave-in Conditioner with Virgin-Pressed Olive Oil & Olive Leaf Extracts (also bomb)
5- Styler: I always alternate between these three depending on what I want. Fun fact: I love them equally.
cantu - Shea Butter for Natural Hair Moisturizing Curl Activator Cream
AFRO LOVE - Curling Puree
SheaMoisture - Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie
6- Gel: I don’t really use gel for my wash n go’s but I do use them for a high/ low pony tail, buns and baby hairs.
ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel
ECOCO - Eco Style Argan Oil Gel
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Yarlin_
Low Porosity Hair: No Gel vs Gel
What my Low Porosity hair (i think it is, at least) looks with no product right after a wash vs. with eco style gel right after a wash. Both are still wet.
OChristine
What hair type am I?
I first thought I was 3C, but then I realized my hair had heat damage and resultantly, a looser curl. Then I grew out the damage and thought ok it’s 4A, but honestly I just don’t know. Any naturalistas out there want to chime in? When my hair dries it just gets frizzy and shrunken.
This photo is right after a hair wash (still wet), styled with Eco Style gel.
I hate to say it but no matter how many gels I try, Eco Style is the only one that takes away my frizz without feeling heavy. I have since embraced the frizz and hardly use gel at all in my daily routine, but am dying to try flaxseed gel like the one Naptural85 makes for herself.
ECOCO - Eco Styler Krystal Styling Gel
OChristine
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MIZANI - Edge Control Taming Gel Had no flaking at all but not a very strong hold and didn’t really dry.INC. - Crystal Ball Roller Gloss very moisturizing, use it every morning!😊ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel some flaking with the eco after a few ours but a good stick!
.INC.-Crystal Ball Roller Gloss
Low Porosity Hair: No Gel vs Gel
What my Low Porosity hair (i think it is, at least) looks with no product right after a wash vs. with eco style gel right after a wash. Both are still wet.
ECOCO-Eco Styler Krystal Styling Gel
The Most Moisturizing Gel You’ll Ever Use-CHEAP!
I have wavy Type 2 hair and I cannot say enough good things about this product! I got this massive container for less than $7 and it holds my waves beautifully! No crunchy hair, just soft moisturized waves! This product is no secret to those with natural hair but I feel like those with softer curls or wavy hair don’t realize that these products are formulated for all hair types, are alcohol free, and do not dry out your hair or scalp! I highly recommend it even for those with straight hair who want a slicked back look occasionally, this stuff is great!
ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel
ECOCO-Eco Style Olive Oil Gel
My first time doing finger coils!
I tried finger coils for the first time! I’ve been wanting to try them for a while! Some came out really good and tight and the others were a little loose at the roots. So when I do them next time I’ll have to put a clip at the roots, blow dry them and see the results. But not bad for my first time. I listed the products I used and I also used hair foaming moose. I used a little bit of each product, I didn’t want to say my hair down. SheaMoisture - Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie ECOCO - Eco Style Olive Oil Gel SheaMoisture - Coconut & Hibiscus Curling Gel Souffle
SheaMoisture-Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie
