Free Styling Tips For
All Curl Types!
Below are descriptions for wavy, curly, and coily hair. This may help you when determining which curl pattern your clients are. I've also created a guide for you about the top 5 mistakes people make when styling these curl types and what you can do to correct it.
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Wavy Hair falls in an ’s’ pattern, sometimes ending in a curl but the majority of the hair is in an ’s’ pattern from root to ends. Some may have several ‘s’ shapes, or only a few. This hair type is also very easy to straighten, which is why some people don't realize they have wavy hair. If someone has to use a flat iron or curling iron to “smooth” their hair, they're definitely a wavy!
Curly Hair falls into clumps of full rotational curls, around the size of sidewalk chalk to the size of large Crayola markers. This hair remains curly throughout the whole hair shaft, through all seasons and may appear shorter or longer depending on the weather and climate. It has a fairly good recoil when someone chooses to pull on it, as they always want to!
Super Curly Hair falls into clumps of small curls that rotate and kink (‘S’ and ‘Z’ shapes) more like the size of skinny Crayola markers and continuing down to where the curls are the size of the tip of a pen. The tighter versions of these curls are often referred to as kinky or tight coils. Length retention is always a challenge.
