Showering - Try to shampoo only once or twice a week, use a heavy-duty, moisturizing conditioner. It’s best to comb over and work out any tangles in the shower since brushing dry curls can create a frizzy mess! Combing with the conditioner helps easily remove tangles and ensure the product is evenly distributed throughout your hair. After you shower, using a styling cream helps lock in the moisture.
Silicones - Using products with silicones can cause build-up and pull down your hair. If you require to use them, ensure the silicones in your product are water-soluble since those cause much less build-up.
Sulfates - Sulfates can dry hair out, so using them can negate all the hard work you’re doing trying to keep your hair moisturized. Not to mention, sulfates can affect your bonds (mainly keratin ones), causing them to slip precipitately. Don’t even think about it! They’re just bad news all around.
Styling - You don’t always have time to let your hair air dry after a shower, but you’re worried that the hairdryer will dry out your curls too fast or blow them into a crazy mess. The easy solution? Just use a diffuser! If you use a medium heat setting, you won’t over-dry your curls, and the diffuser reduces the air velocity of the dryer so it won’t affect their shape.
If you find a few strands are losing their curl or wave, feel free to use a curling iron for a quick fix. As always, make sure you use a heat protectant before using hair dryers or curling irons. Just don’t straighten the hair! The curls and waves in our extensions will relax over time, but using a straightener will speed up this process, giving you a lot less wear time—and that’s no good!
Sleep - The friction between your hair and pillow can cause extra frizz that you surely don’t need. Sleeping with a satin pillow or headscarf is a simple solution to this problem. Also, as with all types of extensions, sleeping in a braid keeps hair from cover and tangling, and it works double duty for wavy and curly extensions—it helps them keep their shape longer!