I have curly hair. Sometimes, I straighten it (depending on the weather). Sometimes, I do the beachy wave thing (by the way, my hair NEVER looks like that when I'm actually at the beach; rather, it looks more like whipped sphagnum moss). Beachy waves are also weather-dependent. Most of the time, I wear my hair curly.
That may sound easy to someone with straight hair ("Oh, how lucky, you can just let it go and it has all those curls."), but the truth of the matter is curly hair has to be handled very carefully or it frizzes. It takes various hair products and careful drying and following the #1 rule of curly hair: DON'T TOUCH THE CURLS ONCE THEY'RE DRY.
I found this pin on Pinterest, and I was all in:
First problem is I'm 200 miles from the nearest Ikea, the source for the strainer, so I had to resort to a dollar store strainer. It was slightly smaller than the one pictured, but my hair is also a good four to six inches shorter than the girl's hair in the picture, so I figured it would come out about even. Here's how it panned out:
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| Ends of hair in the strainer first. Check. |
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| Lift strainer to roots. Check. Blow dry through strainer. Check. Turn off dryer and move to next section before turning back on. Check. |
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| Look disappointedly at frizzy, straggly results.... |
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| Continue to move strainer and dry other sections, hoping against hope that beautiful curls REALLY ARE forming under the strainer.... |
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| Resign yourself that this is the best you're going to get. Show husband, who says, "Well, I'm not sure what you are going for, but I'm not impressed, if that's what you're asking." |
Contrast the Strainer Method with the Dyanne Method:
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| Use diffuser intended to gently dry curly hair and not one intended to strain spaghetti noodles. Check. |
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| Turn off dryer before moving to another section. Check. |
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| End result: curls that are not very frizzy and don't look as though they were dried with a spaghetti strainer over your head. |
Pinterest fail.
