You must have seen me use the word ‘clumped’ curls many times in my videos and even on the blog. In this post I further clarify what I mean by clumping. As seen below, the pic on the right has my hair in clumps. This is when many hair strands together form a big chunk of curl.   Reason why hair does not form clumps […]

Tips to enhance those clumps

We all know maintaining curly hair on non-wash can be quite troublesome and we always end up tying our hair back or if you are a beginner in curly world then you are tempted to comb or brush your hair. Try out these non-wash day routines to refresh. Products used:  Leave-in Conditioner – Alaffia beautiful curls curl enhancing leave-in conditioner Gel – Fruit of Earth […]

How to refresh curls on non-wash day

This video tutorial has been due a long time. Finally it is here… yay!!! I really hope that it will help the beginners to understand all the terms and help them to style their natural hair 🙂 I recommend you to use CG friendly products meaning products that do not contain sulfate, silicone and any drying alcohol. It really helps in maintaining healthy and moisturized […]

The complete curly and wavy hair routine – Video Tutorial

Us curly hair girls in India share the same story of almost no awareness about managing our all-over-the-place hair while growing up. How we would avoid wearing our hair open. The constant struggle to keep our hair as close to straight as possible. Things are changing so rapidly today. For one, we are lucky to have so much knowledge on hair available online now. And […]

Curl to Curl Talk – in conversation with Anjana Muralidharan

Recently I went on a trip to the US. I had only one plan in mind, guess what 🙂 , to buy as many hair-care products as I could stuff in my luggage 😛 . Roaming the streets of NY while visiting a friend, I wondered why I wasn’t thinking of getting the Deva Cut right there at their flagship Deva Chan salon. What is Deva cut For those who don’t know […]

My Deva cut experience

Henna has been popular in India to cover grey hair for ages. It is a natural and safe way to color hair. But many of us do not like the orangish tinge that it imparts to our hair.  Let’s try our good old henna mixed with new ingredients to give you burgundy to dark brown color instead of orange.  The final color might vary for everyone depending on […]

Color your hair naturally with Henna and Beet

Here is a curl story right from the heart. Having met Nupur in person,  I can vouch for her energy, grace and spirit. And I can vouch for her curls, which shall not be tamed. Nupur Saraswat is a passionate stage performer, who brings dramatic hands and eyes to the stage along with her bold words. She is one of the finalists of Singapore’s National Poetry […]

Twisted And Mine

What I love about Curly hair girls is how we keep experimenting with different methods, products and keep trying new recipes. Many of us here are fans of homemade flax seed gel. But we always struggle while applying it in the shower. Half of it always goes down the drain.  So, here we are today with a new recipe of flax seed gel which is more spreadable and […]

Homemade Flax seed gel with Xanthan gum

Everyone in the curly world knows how dreadful it may be to visit a salon for a hair cut.  Each of us has our horror hair stories to tell. Being a curly haired, we rarely have much support at many salons. Either they start selling straightening or smoothening services to us or they would tell you things like “nothing can be done to your hair”, ” the hair cut would not […]

Curly hair Stylists and Salons in India

We Curlies have our own curly world where we have so many terms and methods. Every curly head is different so that’s why there are so many methods to style curly/wavy hair out there. One such method is Squish to Condish. This method is quite similar to Super Soaker method in the way we use conditioner and water to create clumps and pump up our hair with […]

Squish to Condish method for Indian curly and wavy hair