Welcome to a week celebrating curly hair!
Now you know why your hair is curly but what if your hair changes?
That’s exactly what happened to my hair.
For years I had long, straight hair. Maybe it was a little wavy, but never frizzy. Then one day it started to change.
All of a sudden I had curly hair.
And I had no idea how to style it.
It took a long journey of trial and error to work out how to style my curls. I slowly fell in love with my curls and they are the reason I started Hair Romance.
Now I know from your comments and questions that I’m not alone in this hair change and I have found some reasons why this happens.
Why did my hair change from straight to curly?
There are several theories as to why hair changes texture.
Hormones, stress and ageing as seen as the common causes for changes to your hair texture and quality.
You’d think, with the size of the hair industry, there would be a conclusive answer to this question, but research is still underway and there are no decisive results.
One interesting fact about curly hair is that the gene for straight hair is recessive but that the curly hair gene is not completely dominant. That means you could have the curly hair gene but until it’s activated, your waves and curls will be dormant too.
The most likely theory, in my opinion, is to do with your hormones. Hormones are a possible trigger for the curly hair gene.
As well as affecting the quality of your hair, hormones can change your muscle tone too. This includes your scalp. The change of muscle tone could affect the shape of your hair follicles and their direction of growth. Straight hair follicles grow straight out but curly hair follicles have a hook shape.
With my hair, puberty was the when my curls decided to appear and this fits with the hormone changes. For many women, pregnancy and birth have a significant impact on their hair too.
So if you’ve noticed significant changes to your hair texture, check your hormone levels and talk to your doctor and hairdresser about it.
How to cope with the change to your hair
If like me, you’re finding your new curly hair difficult to handle compared to straight hair, help is at hand. Start here with my guide to styling curly hair and check out my other curly hair posts.
On the other hand, if you had curly hair and it’s starting to go straight, find out how to get your curl back.
Have you experienced a major change in your hair? Has your hair gone from straight to curly, or the other way round? Tell me about it in the comments.
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My hair has changed more than once ! According to my mother and photos , I was born with a big curl to my head .. like a big quiff. My daughter did the same but my son was born straight & dark which turned to blonde & curly as a toddler , and then back to straight & brown! As a 35 year old he now has brown curly hair if it’s not cut short. My daughter went from quiff to straight – all brown but with a blonde streak down the front – to brown n wavy at 33 .
Me. Well. The quiff went straight. My mother tried for so long to put curls back in my fine , dark brown hair with no success .. I’ve had perms over the years. Now , I don’t need one ! My hair has finally gone curly ! Tbh, it’s always has one bit that’s fine it’s own thing .. you know what I mean ? Won’t be blow dried into place . Forget the heated rollers.
But … my mother is marvelling at the fact her 58 yo child Finally has natural curls !
I’m putting it down to menopause which has FINALLY started. (Yup. I’m a late finisher- 4 months now without a period )
I’m blaming it on my fathers side – he had blonde curls as did his mother … who had a Shetland ancestry . So maybe it’s the inner Viking in me !
Thanks to my hairdresser I can go blonde And curly now 😉
My hair sounds similar to Cherrie. Fine hair with just a kink, even having perms in the eighties!!! Then in my late forties it started getting curlier and curlier with the humidity making it frizz. I have bought every product under the sun, all to no avail. I can define the curls but the top goes flat, so I have to have layers to allow height. At 66 years of age, I either look like a witch when it is grown past my shoulders, or like an old lady with a curly perm if it is shorter. Dilemma ! Any help out there?
Grew up with FINE, PIN STRAIGHT hair…hormonal issues in later years began to change that. But here’s the thing I’m struggling with…what cuts will work with my hair. I am a wash and wear gal who will maybe put in some gel, but otherwise, I will not mess with my hair. The crown is totally straight and flat and just below the crown it is now SUPER curly with a few straight bits. What cuts work and can you do a post (or have you?) showing photos of cuts that work for that half and half hair…either curly crown/straight remainder or straight crown/curly remainer. I have a cut that is working mostly, but it will become dated if it hasn’t already. What then?
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So I’ve had dead strait hair my whole life. I’ve always wanted curls though. If I tried to curl my hair with heat or even with overnight cold methods, the curls would look amazing for all of 12 minutes before the curl would just fall strait out, regardless of how much product I used (short of making it disgustingly crunch with excessive hair spray) and my hair would be back to dead strait within an hour or so.
Fast forward to being in my late 20s and after having my 4th baby (I had them all super close together) we end up finding out that I had early stage uterine cancer. The pregnancy hormones had fed the cancer and now that my uterus was empty omg did we have some troubles. Long story short I had to have a complete hysterectomy. Strait into menopause at 28… after 1 round of chemo and radio they were confident the cancer was gone and hadn’t spread past the uterus. However, the chemo and or radio triggered an autoimmune disease… and the treatment for it? Yep, more chemo. For the rest of my life on and off!
My hair never fell out from my high dose chemo and the chemo used to treat the autoimmune disease (methotrexate) is considered “low dose” and is oral not IV. After about a year of this on again off again chemo my hair did start to fall out though not completely, it just went really really fine and grew a lot slower. Eventually I got the drs to agree to stop the chemo for a while and use other treatments that while not as good at controlling my condition have given me a much better quality of life. My hair though has never been the same!
It’s strait at the root and starts going wavy about an inch or two down before curling like yours at the ends. It’s fairly long, about mid back. I have no idea what to do with it. It’s curlier when it’s wet but as it dries (before brushing or anything) it just starts straitening back out at the top. I almost never blow dry or towel dry. I have a like a poncho towel with a hood and I just wear that for an hour or so after hair wash day while I do my nails and a face mask. I only wash my hair once a week too. My hair is dyed but I use direct dyes, nothing with ammonia or peroxide. Because of the way it goes strait at the roots it ends up limp up top and frizzy and weird at the ends.
Nothing I’m doing is working. Then again all I generally do is brush it once a day with a natural bristled brush and put it in a messy bun ?
Can I get it to curl the whole way? Why is it strait at the roots still? It’s driving me nuts.
I had straight hair until in my 60s I had breast cancer (no chemo) & took arimidex for 5 years (its a medication that lowers estrogen to reduce the risk of cancer coming back). My hair got curly which I loved. Now it’s straight again. I’m fine with that, just curious if this happens to others?
I’m 58 and until 4 months ago, I had straight hair. No waves at all. Long hair, short hair, I couldn’t even curl it and have it stay for more than 2 hours. I knew how to deal with that hair as I’ve been doing it my whole life. This “new” hair is a nightmare! First, it’s growing straight out of my scalp in spots and has a poof to it. It’s wavy but not particularly curly. It’s more of a mountain road with switchbacks and right turns. It seems pretty dry also. I’m masking it, got smooth shampoo & conditioner, styling products, that all result in the same thing. It’s my Chia Pet look. If I let it dry natural, Frizz. If I blow it out with product, Frizz. Curling or Flat Iron, Frizz. I give up. I pull it back 90% of the time because I’m sick of fighting it.
Hello, I am 32 years old and I used to have silky beautiful straight hair but all of a sudden it started to change to curly and now it’s getting worse, frizzy, fried (dead) and unmanageable. I did try straightening and relaxing my hair but it only damaged it more- maybe because the locations did not have experts but I tried so many different places in different countries even. All my blood work has come back okay and I am healthy, I don’t smoke or drink or dye my hair and have stopped blow-drying or using a styling iron for 10 months now. I was hoping to figure out what is going on and find a treatment for my hair.
I would really appreciate if you could guide me on what I should do next. Thank you so much, Diana
Im sixteen my hair started changing last year from straight to wavey but in a very weird way ………it started growing wavey so now my roots are wavey but the reat of my hair is straight and because of the wavey roots its giving my hair way too much volume….and i dont know what to do because it looks weird i dont want to use heat on it every time i go out ….and i think wavey hair looks better on me but i dont know how to fix that ..helpp
I have simple wavy and somehow straight fussy hairs but from last few months i am noticing some changes in my hair texture like from the top of my head there are some crimped thick hairs are grown up i simply pulled them out but now there are too much crimped hair there, is it okay or I have to consult my doctor about it.
I am glad to hear I am not alone! I started Menopause early at the age of 43. I am now 46 and my hair stylist and I started to notice in the last 2 years or so my hair started to have a bit a wave. Now it it is super curly. I have been working from home due the pandemic going on so I have not been styling my hair and when I wash it, I let it air dry. Air drying it really accentuates the curl. I like the curl, but after years of styling my hair straight, I really have no clue how to style it or what to do with it,so I ultimately just end up taking a straightener to it and styling it straight. I would love to wear it natural with the curl because it is a very pretty curl and brings out my blonde hair, but have no idea what to do with it!
My straight hair became curly/ wavy at age 51! I’ve always wanted big wavy hair but now have no clue how to accentuate the waves. If I brush it out it just looks like a poof! If I leave it natural it looks wavy but with too much frizz from the shirt prices. Oh well, I still like the change!
Interesting post. My father had straight hair as a kid and it went curly as a teenager. He is mixed Asian and white, so I always figured that mix of genes had to do with it. I also expected the same to happen to me but it did not.
I am 27, grew up with straight hair, and also have a thyroid problem (hypo). Since I was a teenager I’ve suffered a lot of hair loss but with successful treatment it has started to grow back. But my new hair is curly and the new hairs are naturally shorter than the older ones, making my hair look extremely frizzy. I’ve been bothered by this recently and am searching for some solutions to try and smooth it out. I’m using a boar bristle brush, hair oils, and conditioning a lot but it still looks frizzy. There are a lot of hairs along my part line that are wiry and stick straight up as well. At this point I figure I just need to be patient and let it all get long enough so I can get a haircut that evens it out. Wish there was a product to fix it but time seems to be the only solution.
I’ve noticed that my hair follicles are very skinny ovals and the bulbs are very noticeable. I’ve looked at diagrams and whatnot, and they look like curly/coily Hair follicles. But my hair is wavyish, could it be hard water or the weight of my hair that is holding it down. My hair is only down to my boobs though. I did cut it from just past my hips to my chest and it started waving. I’m only 15.
My hair has changed to, to the point that I can’t even wash or brush it, it is so knotty and matts with with curls. I have been trying to control it with the help of my hairdresser who has said it confuses her because my hair was always straight and she thinks my hair has suddenly changed to curly. I’ve had two babies within a year and having traumatic time with my ex husband and my son has been diagnosed with autism so it’s not been easy. I’ve had to have it cut quite short just to try and make life easier as spending 40 mins trying to brush the knots out every day isn’t helping. We’ve also been giving it major moisture kicks. Any other advice would be helpful Thankyou. Btw I’m 38.
Hello,
I had a baby 1 year ago, and since then, my hair has gone from straight, with a bit of wave, to having frizz in the front, and even one little curl. My hair couldn’t even really hold a curl previously, but everything is changing. It is only the front of my hair, where bangs would be. Is there anything I can do to tame the frizz, and get rid of the one curl I have?
Two years ago my hair went from short and straight to wavy, it’s now sboulder length and tight corkscrew curls.Now I have found someone that knows how to cut it properly I am able to embrace and love my curls but it has taken a huge adjustment and no-one can explain why
I’m 16 and when I was 14 with thick straight hair ( I have 2 sisters with 3b-3c curly hair) ((I’m latina)) but always some sort of texture I decided to change to all natural products for my hair since I learned what the ingredients actually have in it and almost within a couple weeks (I wash my hair once every week since it was super long up to my thighs on a 5’4 body) I noticed I would get about 4 inches of waves on the ends of my hair but it would later frizz up ofc then when I turned 15 after all the quinces celebrations I cut my hair up to my shoulders and immediately within the first wash it was super wavy now after accepting my waves im trying to figure out how to style them but I cant find any products that help? Any recommendations?
My hair were straight before marriage to age of 30. Within one year my hair tired into curly and frizzy hairs.
I have done blood test and I got thyroid. now I am regularly taking tabs but issue is still there.
Please suggest what should I do
My hair has always been quite fine, dark blonde and straight, but over the last year or two I’ve started growing almost black curly hair that’s twice a thick as before. My problem is that these hairs are short, and don’t mix in with the rest of my hair, which is still straight and blonde. I have excess testosterone, is this the cause, and what can I do about it?
I’ve had fairly straight hair my entire life. I have extremely fine and thin hair, which is a pretty unflattering combo. It would hold no sort of curl. And then up until about maybe.. 2 years ago? If I left it to dry it wouldn’t dry exactly straight… figured it was just cause it was longer and sat on my shoulders oddly. Nope. Now when my hair dries it’s very obvious I have waves, basically beach waves but very very unorganized and ugly. I don’t know how to tame them besides straightening them and my hair still does not know how to hold a curl, or how to not be frizzy (since it breaks so easily) Help..?
As a child I had long straight hair and as a teenager it turned incredibly wavy to the point of ringlets around my ears. Then it went straight again! Both my parents have wavy hair but I have heard you are actually more likely to inherit your hair texture parent of the opposite sexes hair and my hair seems to be the same as my paternal grandmother. Gotta love science.
My hair used to be strait with lots of cow licks, 5 to be exact. I kept it short & had it cut to stick out all over, this was attractive & super easy to style. But then in my 70’s it started to get curler and curler & it was an effert to get it to stick out. Since I’ve had to work with my cow licks & my motto has been to “go with the flow” I’ve completely changed what I do with it. It will part naturally on either the right or left side & in the middle. I should also say it dosen’t seem to be following the rules as it’s still not gray although it does have some gray it it & its not dry or thin. My biggest problem is that it’s kinda fly away & kinky in the mornings when I get up. I’m still experamenting with stying it but seem to settling into parting it in the middle & pushing in waves around my face after wetting & combing it first thing in the morning. I’ve also developed another cow lick and if I side part it it twings out to the side so I’ve been parting it in the middle. I used to envy people with naturally curly hair but now realize It’s a new day every day & humitity has a great deal to do with how it looks & how much wave/curl it has. I’v never bin big on “beauty regimes”, & just can be bothered with fussing over my hair or skin. Now however since its long than it used to be i’ve been using a small amount of contitioner when I wash my hair so it dosen’t snarl and on the other hand don’t want to use so much it takes the curl out. I need a product that will keep my hair from snarling but not take away the waves.
This is the same situation I’m in! I used to have paper thin hair and then after puberty it became thick. All of the sudden about two years ago it got wavy and when it’s wet it goes all ringlety on me! People say not to brush it in the morning but then it looks messy!
I’m super late to this, but I’m in the same situation. I am 16, but in the last two- three years my hair has gone from a loose wavy texture to a mix between waves and ringlet curls (especially near the nape of my neck!!). My hair looks so sloppy in the morning because, from what I see online, I am not supposed to brush my hair, but then people will tell me that my hair would look better if I brushed it. To their ultimate dismay, I brush my hair for them and it grows three sizes and turns into an absolute frizzy mess. I don’t know how to style my hair, creams feel sticky and heavy on my hair, and I can’t even identify my curl pattern. It seems to range between 2a and 3b. Ugh I love curly hair, but when it actually looks good. Mine is a disaster and I have become very self-conscious of it, especially when people only compliment it when it is straightened or styled with heat 🙁 So far, all I have been told is to just put it in a braid everyday, get a straightening treatment, or put heat on it. Help?!?
Ive always had very thick straight hair, my late sister had the curly locks. Ive had numorous hairstyles over the years, long, short, perms which instantly dropped out as my hair was too heavy. Im 73 this year and for the last 5 years Ive let my hair grow and trimmed it myself. A couple of weeks ago I decided to cut it short myself and it looked a right mess so I got a hairdresser in to put it right. Its now short and tucked behing my ear and CURLY!!!! I couldn’t understand why my hair has gone curly, so I googled and discovered that hormones / stress / illness can cause your hair to go curly. I have had a lot of stress the last 3 years and I have M.E.
Now I wash and condition, towel dry and ruffle my hair between my fingers and let it dry naturally and I love it. ??
I had extremely curly hair until I turned 30 and now my hair won’t curl to save my life and I’m devastated about it, I loved my curly hair and I’m so confused on what happened.
I’m half Asian. So you can imagine how straight my hair must or should be. I’m 36 and for the past several years my hair has been growing more curly starting with the back of my head. It started with a small wavy patch and now half my head has a tight waviness to it. I wouldn’t call it a tight curl, but much more than just wavy. Somewhere in between. Half my head. So strange. At this point it’s annoying because it’s only half my head. I wish my hair would decide one or the other.
I got a perm aged 10 and my hair stayed curly! 33 years later it’s even curlier. Maybe that activated it? I’ve never been sure.
Always had straight hair. I wear my hair short now. Well I turned 67, and now I have waves and curls. I do not know how to handle it now. Help.
Hi I’m 14 years old and I’ve always wanted curly hair I have long hair that goes to my shoulders my hair is straight but a small amount of wavy but where my hair ends I have curls I was wondering if I could get my hair to be naturally curly when I cut it will it grow curly or straight ? ALSO I’m a boy
Hi Brian, there are so many things that affect our hair so it’s impossible to say if your hair will become curly. I love that you want curly hair and for now, I’d say to enjoy your long hair and then when you feel like a haircut, see what happens. Our expectations can be too much pressure and change our perceptions of reality. Curly, wavy or straight, your hair is lovely x
My hair always had a slight kink in it, and just over a year ago I had major bowel surgery whereby they removed about 14 inches of my colon – not cancer, and no chemo. Since then my hair has become increasingly curlier and I’m not exactly sure why :/
Hi! So, i have been trying to do some research about my hair. I have very straight and thin hair. Lately though when I sweat all of my short hairs curls. And sometimes my hair will be curly after showers and other times not. I am curious as to what you think might be happening with my hair. My dad has curly hair and my mom has straight. They are not tight curls just like loose curls like when you would take like a curling iron to it. I would love if you could respond to me and tell me if I need to use any products for me to keep my curls or just make them stay.
hi! I would experiment to see what works for your curls. With fine hair, too much product can weigh your hair down. A spray gel can work well to hold your curls and set them in finer hair. Or try a leave in conditioner spray. Good luck and I’m glad that you’re trying to embrace your waves xx
My hair was always strAIGHT, barely wavy and would hardly hold curl. 2 yrs ago it all started changing. the left side of my hair is straight while the right side is very wavy. it is like you drew a line down the middle. I have even had strangers comment that it looks like my hair is not cut even in the back but it is even. Just the left side will not curl like the right. I even had my hairdresser but a light wavy perm on the left side to try to make it match better. It did look better but it grows very fast so it is back to looking wonky again. I have considered just getting a curly perm all over and see how that does. I still love my hair. It has always been super thick, so much that I keep an undercut to cut down on the weight of it (and the heat from it). But it does drive me nuts!
My hair was never straight straight, but not curly either, kind of fuzzy and fly away. As a small child I looked like I had a cotton ball for hair that tangled up if I sneezed. In the last 12 yrs or so my hair changed. I had very very long hair that only seemed messy all the time, but not even wavy. Then, when ever I got it wet it would curl up into these long lulu curls. Now, in the past one & a half years or so it has been getting curlier and curlier. It’s kind of funny because it’s only curly on one side. My left side is only wavy. I can still brush most of the curls out on the right side as long as I start wet and continue brushing till it’s dry. Then I’m back to the full head of the fly aways. I turned 60 last April and am finally (it only took 23 years) in full menopause. I get how hair can change with hormone changes, but why only on one side?
Well, I’m very late to this conversation, but it’s fascinating to read everyone’s stories. I had fine, straight hair all of my life. At the age of 43 I had to have a benign brain tumor removed, which is major surgery and required shaving part of my scalp. My hair took nearly 4 months just to grow back to buzz-cut length! I just cut off the rest of it and wore my hair very short for the next 12 years. During that time I went through menopause, and was nearly finished with that process when I decided to grow my hair out again. I found that my hair was very hard to manage, and I was complaining about it to my hairdresser one day when she asked me, “Why do you fight your natural curl?” Of course I said, “What natural curl?”, whereupon she styled my hair by just scrunching it as she dried it, and lo and behold, it was curly! Curly! Whaaaat?
So after several weeks of getting over the shock of seeing my (curly-headed, but sadly long deceased) mother every time I looked in the mirror, I embraced my new curls. But even now, 4 years later, I still don’t feel confident that I know what I’m doing when I style my hair. My hairdresser always does a lot of foo-foo-ing with it and makes it bigger than I would like when she styles it, but I’m more of a wash-n-go kind of person. I’m considering seeking out a Devachan salon, or a DevaCurl-trained stylist, but that’s a big investment and I’m on a limited income, so I don’t know. At any rate, it’s been a journey!
That sounds like what happened to me. I always had huge voluminous blonde hair down to the top of my butt, no curls but I could do anything with it I loved my hair. So at 58 years old I had to shave my head for medical reasons, WOW did I cry !! I had also had a very severe femur fracture. So it starts growing out and once it gets 4-5 inches it starts curling. I developed full on ringlets. I was clueless..my Norwegian German dad had very small tight curls. Being an R.N. I love to research anything health related, so started trying to figure out my curly hair. I enjoyed the ringlets but NOT the upkeep. It was okay the day I washed it but thrashed the next, Despite trying to refresh a ton of different ways. Now it’s barely wavy in the back and crown of my head and just a couple ringlets left. I just wish it would be consistent.
Until a few years ago, I had dead straight hair – it wouldn’t hold a curl if I tried. Then it started getting progressively curlier, from wavy at the back to full on curly. But the sides and front are still dead straight. I don’t know how to manage it because it’s not uniformly straight or curly. I prefer it straight but I don’t know how to straighten it (I have dyspraxia and struggle with the coordination involved in tasks like this). And I can’t just embrace the curls because then the straight front looks weird. No idea why it changed either…
I have had straight hair all of my life. I am almost 35 and it is suddenly going curly and gray at the same time. But more almadming is am losing hair as well. Do you think that is hormonal?
It is absolutely hormonal. Have your Thyroid checked
I had longish hair until I was 6. It was straight. After it was cut it stayed straight but a little wavy. I kept it short until I was 23. I grew it longer again, about as long as it was when I was a child. It came in with these huge soft sausage curls. I loved them but wow! I had. No idea why or how it happened. When I was 24 I cut it again short. It was short until I was 28 when I grew it out again. Well it was straight. Straight and flat. I’ve had it long now for 20 years and it’s still straight. It’s a bit longer than shoulder length. I’ll never understand. I wouldn’t mind the sausage curls back again.
After I got it cut really short at like 9 it’s been wavy ever since, and my girlfriend just had a haircut that was way to short (like super short boy cut length) it was straight and poofy and now it’s curly??? Is it normal to happen after short hair cut????
I have always been blessed with a thick head of hair. It was extremely long and straight when I cut it shoulder length at the age of 40. But it has turned semi curly at the age of 57. I absolutely love it! It has body galore! I color it using champagne blonde, but I have white where I part it on the side. People think it is a hi-lite, but it’s completely natural.
Growing up I had straight thin hair and pretty i was 17 years old my dad cut my hair like a boy style while it was growing out to where I could put my hair up. Now my hair is wavy thick and frizzy… So my question is when putting my hair up in a ponytail did that train my hair to be wavy thick and frizzy?
I think it’s just your hair 🙂 it can change texture for lots of reasons but a ponytail isn’t one of them xx
I’m 17 almost 18 and I’ve had naturally straight hair my whole life and never had to really straighten it. 3 months ago I got a haircut of about 4 inches and also got long layers cut on my pretty thick hair. Ever since my haircut I’ve been getting wavier hair and it’s making me mad because now I feel like I have to straighten it more. The only really wavy part though, is a good size chunk on the front right side that has about 5 loose curls in it. The rest of my hair isn’t as straight as it used to be either- it’s got a big 1/2 loose waves in it. Is the cause of this my age or my haircut(really long layers)? Will my hair continue to get wavier or will I be stuck in this in between zone??
I began noticing a change in my straight hair when I was abut 35. A huge place in the back is where it began. Just a little to the side, it looked like that bum; you get after having it in a pony tail. Here I am 7 years later with gradually increasing waves/ringlet curls. NO idea what to do with this wavy, curly, straight hair that I have now. Do I straighten it daily? Curl it daily? Leaev it alone? Cut it short? WHAT! I just don’t know what to do.
Do you know how one would make their hair grow naturally curly without a perm?
sorry Nathan, if your hair isn’t curly, only a perm or curling wand will create curls x
When I was a toddler I had a little curl in my hair at the nape the rest was board straight and pretty much stayed that way until menopause at age 50. Now I have wavy all over! I attributed it to the incredible body heat I’ve experienced ever since. I’ve heard a “cool cap” is sometimes used on chemotherapy patients to prevent hair texture change. I could of used one during those hot flashes for sure!
I have had very straight, stubborn hair all my life. Suddenly at age 78 it has become wavy. I couldn’t believe it at first and thought it from a highlighting with foil treatment. The color has grown out but I have soft waves. I don’t know why it happened but I love it!
sounds like a lucky change, Linda! Enjoy it 🙂 xx
My hair was straight but very frizzy but definitely not curly (maybe just a little bit wavy – just a bit), so a few years ago I started to dye my hair. And then ‘b curls started to appear. If I don’t blow dry and brush my hair (when it’s dry) it’s wavy/curly. But only the parts that I’ve dyed. My scalp currently has my natural hair and it’s straight. What do you think of this? I’ve searched the web but couldn’t find any answers. People usually complain that their curls are gone after dying process. I still don’t know if I have straight or wavy hair since my hair used to be always frizzy and I’ve been dying it for years.
I am 63 years old and have always had straight hair with some body. My hair color began to turn silver at about 60 and as it did, it began to grow in curly and course. And I mean CURLY! Everyone in my world is shocked…I cannot blow it dry because it just gets stiff and extremely hard to style. But if I let it dry naturally, it’s soft and feminine. I’ve always had a very short, kinda boy cut but I am now growing it out to hopefully find a cute curly style. You have to embrace what you cannot change…I will also say that I am on Hormone Balance Therapy (the pellet) for the last 5 years so that may be what has caused this gene to come alive!
Hi! My hair was always frizzy and straight but within the last 2 years my hair is very complicated. The top layer of my hair is straight but if you pick up and look at the bottom it is all curly and wavy and super thick. Now my hair is very dry and frizzy . But my main problem is that i have extremely greasy hair so if i don’t just use a oil control shampoo i won’t even be able to go a few hours without becoming greasy so i can really do anything to define my waves more. I don’t even use conditioner
I have wavy hair bt few strands of my hair especially the hair near my neck and back are curly ..I have only few curly strands and that too for soo many yrs ..whenever hair near my ear/ neck get wets they automatically get curly ..I usually see those strands after I wash my hairs ..bt after my 2 day of shampoo all my wavy and curl hairs become straight… what shall I conclude from this
Heyy, so i use to have straight hair but then i inly dyed the tips then cutt them off but somehow the part of the hair which wasent dyed because frizzy and curly, i dont want to get treatments, i straighten them every other day i need help from someone pleaee help
My hair went curly at menopause. Well, there’s the hormones lol. It was not properly straight or wavy before, it was very annoyingly cowlicky instead and I had to beat it into submission with hot tools unless I wanted to look like I lived outdoors. Now I just grow it out long, slap on some leave in conditioner, get it damp and scrunch it in the AM and I am done. The funny thing is, parts that are cut short (my bangs) barely have any bend to them. I am sure if I grew this part out it would also become curly. I don’t even know how that’s physically possible. Anyone got the answer to that?