Does The Curly Hair Hydration Treatment Turn Straight Hair Curly?

Many of our clients had expressed an interest in finding out if their hair was naturally wavy (Type 2A/2B). We realized that if we taught them our exact curly hair hydration treatment routine, that we could make a blog post showing others how the routine forms the curls.

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Does the curly hair hydration treatment create curls?

The curly hair hydration treatment does not turn straight hair curly. It only produces waves or curls on hair that is naturally textured. If someone has truly straight hair, the curly hair hydration treatment will not make their hair wavy or curly.

Let’s jump in to some of the more specific misconceptions.

Curly hair hydration approved products do not make straight hair curly. The products are designed for curly hair, but if used on straight hair, the hair would remain straight. If we use curly girl approved shampoo and conditioner, but no gel or mousse and we brush our hair? It’s pretty straight! Thus, the products definitely don’t create curls!

Does scrunching create curls in straight hair?

Scrunching straight hair doesn’t create waves. Scrunching helps curls to clump and spring up, only. If scrunching created waves or curls then anyone who scrunched their hair would get the same results. Scrunching results vary greatly based on each person’s natural hair pattern.

This is perhaps the most common misconception we hear. We’ve heard it a lot in response to the TikTok trend. People say “Of course if you scrunch your hair and then let it dry it’s going to be curly. It’s not natural though!” We understand why these seem logical.

If you were to get your hair wet, then lay down on the floor, have someone make a zig-zag with one clump of hair and you didn’t move until it dried – then yes, you would have created a zig-zag hair pattern artificially. Many people assume that scrunching is doing that same thing.

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Why Scrunching is Different?

The reason why scrunching is different is because it’s not creating each bend in the hair, the way that forcing a zig-zag pattern would be. It’s just squeezing hair, and letting it wave up or curl up in the size and tightness it naturally is prone to doing. Some will scrunch and get very loose waves.

Others will scrunch and get tight curls. While for some who scrunch, they will get fairly thick swoopy waves. If someone with pin-straight hair scrunched their hair, it would still dry straight because it wouldn’t curl up when scrunched. Similarly, when people with different types of textured hair scrunch their hair, it gives them a different result.

Some of our clients wet waves are primarily 2A more subtle waves, while some are a tighter pattern with deeper “swoops” almost making full loops in some cases, a mix of 2B and 2C. If we did the same thing – we scrunched the hair in the same way, at the same part of our routine. The reason for subtle waves to turn out differently than those of tighter pattern is because scrunching isn’t what creates the waves. If scrunching did create the patterns, we would get the same pattern from scrunching. Another reason how you can tell that scrunching doesn’t create waves, is how your hair pattern can’t be “fixed” with scrunching. You may have some of your curl clumps aren’t as tight as others. In fact, there may be some smaller pieces that are straight or very nearly straight. There could be section of some curls simply is not as tightly textured as the rest of the hair. Thus, it still won’t make it curl up much at all, and certainly not as tight as some of my other clumps. That’s the same reason why the parts that do make full twists, do so by just scrunching them as they are just naturally tighter textured than the rest of the waves.

Therefore, the curly hydration treatment doesn’t create curls in straight hair. The curly hydration treatment can help define and “bring out” natural waves or curls. It doesn’t create waves or curls in truly straight hair. This is also evidenced through the difference in some of the results. If the results were wavy, because the client’s hair is naturally wavy. However, if the curly hair type is different, the wave pattern will be different too, even though the same products have been used, and all the same curly hair hydration treatment.

Does scrunching hair create curls?

If the curly hair hydration treatment doesn’t make your hair curly, why does it change how hair looks? This is a really logical question. When looking at people’s before and after curly hair hydration treatment results, there can be really dramatic differences in the before and the after. So if the curly hair hydration treatment isn’t making straight hair wavy or curly, then what IS causing the difference, right?

Well, the method IS making a difference in how the hair looks. Using gel or mousse makes the waves more defined. Diffusing instead of air drying helps the hair to dry tighter (more wavy) because the water doesn’t have as much of a chance to weigh down the pattern. Moreover, curly hair products has helped make the hair shinier and healthier over time, too.

Is the curly hair hydration treatment manipulating your hair pattern?

We think that brushing your hair can be seen as manipulation because it combed the waves and forces them straight. People who have hair that naturally dries quickly tend to have a tighter wave pattern when they air dry, vs people who have hair that takes forever to air dry. Therefore, having your hair stay wet for a long time “manipulates” your hair into a straighter pattern, and that diffusing your hair to remove the water more quickly, helps preserve your natural pattern.

Yet others see diffusing as manipulating, and air drying as not-manipulating. We think it really can get into semantics that really just shouldn’t matter that much. Our opinion is that chemical treatments (perms, chemical straightening) or changing your texture with heat tools (flat iron, hot curlers, curling irons, crimpers, etc) are clearly manipulating the hair pattern.

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