The hair is curlier on the other side

I love my natural curls. My daughter has Stick. Straight. Hair. and sadly I can’t braid it at all (which is what she’d like me to do) nor curl it. One time I put it up in rag curls and it was very curly but within a few hours had slid into total straightness! In fact I just checked and it has been over three years (!) since I tried to curl her hair. When it was finer (when she was littler) I could do more with it, put it in a little corona on her head, do twists…).

I’m thinking I am not using enough product? Or something?

Now I’m totally tied up in knots and feeling guilty about my daughter’s hair. :-(

Love the pictures and LOVE the PhotoBooth. I never get tired of that program. Took some pics of my cleavage yesterday.

So gorgeous. Totally jealous of the curls! xx

Your curls look great! Living in a humid climate, coupled with super fine (+ oily) hair means that my curls NEVER stay put. I'm tempted to perm, but I'm going to give setting lotion another shot…

You're so lovely. And as soon as I'm moved and settled, I'm totally buying a FAT shirt!!

Love the hair! I have incredibly thick, baby-fine hair that's just wavy enough to be obnoxious. It's also really heavy, so it tends to do what it wants and my preferences be damned. I've tried to give it curls before. Short of an actual perm, they just fall flat within a couple of hours. Sigh.

In summer it gets super humid here, and I don't curl my hair anywhere NEAR as often because it just goes lank and flat! But for as long as our version of winter hangs around, I'll take the opportunity to curl as much as I can :D

I've never tried setting lotion, I can never seem to find it over here!

The curls are fantastic. I can't tell but is it shorter on one side…I love that style! Mine is so thin and fine it doesn't curl, so I will just look at yours and sigh for a while!

My hair would do exactly that all the time! I think what's helped me in recent years is having a fresh cut, because without layering my fine hair is awfully heavy and it just falls straight out of a curl. I don't get my hair cut that often, but I always notice that curls last longer the month after I have it cut.

This is my favourite hairstyle of yours yet, and you've definitely had some winners. Your recent tumbling about blowouts etc. has inspired me to inflict some serious damage on myself. I have some dry shampoo that I've been using (which turns my black hair grey… I'm actually pretty into it), and I just now set up my curling iron to try to get some ridiculous volume going.

Wow. I'm totally unskilled at any kind of hair curling skills. I do sometimes pop into the hairdressers for a “do” for special occasions but doing it myself – I'd just end up with a bird's nest and 3rd degree burns.

I really did think for years that my hair would never hold a curl! It's only been in the last 2 or 3 years that I've tried – I have a Vidal Sassoon You Curl contraption that works pretty well, and now my hair is shorter the wand works beautifully! I think it has a lot to do with your cut, mmhmm.

Thank you Heidi! *hugs*

It takes a little while but it's worth it! I think you should give it a go, you'd probably look wayyyyy too adorable!

I love how you guys call them “blowouts”, it makes me giggle!! I really need to investigate these dry shampoos, I mean, sometimes I use talcum powder but are they much different?

Oh believe me, I burn myself really well sometimes :P Some days it works out, some days it doesn't. At least if I totally screw up curls I can just use my straightener and iron it all out!

They are! I use talcum too (or used to until dry shampoos started to become available outside of hair supply stores)… Dry shampoos are like hairspray and talcum in one. You get hold, volume and grip and a nice matte texture… if you spray them on your dry before you style your hair the style sets better too.

I've been using this one most recently: (http://well.ca/products/klorane-oil-supressing-…), which I think I like the best.

I've tried this one: (http://www.tigihaircare.com/consumer/en-Us/rock…), which smells really nicely but isn't top shelf.

This one (http://www.aveda.com/product/CATEGORY6158/PROD7…) isn't a dry shampoo per se, but acts like one. It also smells great and works really well but it's too expensive to get regularly.

I've also tried the bumble and bumble hair powder sprays which you can buy to suit your colour. They work wonderfully, downside being that the colour comes off on your hands if you touch your hair.

oh my goodness,I love the ringlets look on you!

Pretty :)

Love it Love it Love it!!!

This looks so pretty!

I love it! It looks really good on you:)

Hooray for curls! You look fantastic Natalie :)

Love the colours too.

You have some mad shine on those curls! My hair is naturally curly (and I love it!), but I find that I can't get it to be as nice and shiny as I would like.

Looks great! :)

I love the second photo — gorgeous.

I am one of those curly-headed folks that wanted straight hair. Mostly I have learned to love the hair I have, it's just not worth fighting its natural state most days, esp. in the summer.

Looks so good.. love the pink lips with corkscrew ringlets, so Shirley Temple! How long does your hair usually hold curls though? I have fine, dead straight hair too.. but I usually find that by the time I've curled the other side, the first side of my head has dropped so much… blargh.

Gorgeous! Even though I go to all of the effort of relaxing and straightening my hair, I love big bouncy curls! I just wish I could actually achieve them, I may have to invest in a wand.

That is a fantastic haircut!

I have the opposite problem. During the summer I just leave my hair curly because the humidity ruins it if I straighten it. During the winter I can straighten it as much as I want without a problem, though.

Looks beautiful. My hair won't curl… just frizzes up.

god your curls are beautiful