How do I control the frizz?

Hair Guru Scott Musgrave answers your curly hair questions.

(Scroll down to listen to my interview with Scott.)

In a nutshell, here are Scott’s recommendations:

Steps to create curly hair you can’t help but embrace.

1. Start with a mentality change. “Curly hair doesn’t need to be fixed. It needs to be embraced,” says Scott. Your hair has been cut with tools and methods made for straight hair, and you’ve been using products that have created the frizz. What if you your hair didn’t frizz or have a triangle shape? Would you wear it curly?
2. Stop towel drying your hair (use a t-shirt instead), and put away the flat iron and brush forever.
3. Make sure the cleansers you use on your hair are: water soluble, silicone-free and sulfate-free. (You’re used to calling them shampoos, but Scott calls them cleansers.) Sulfates explode your hair and it becomes frizzy. If you doing the no ‘poo method, read this first.
4. Rub your scalp to stimulate hair growth.
5. Swap out your cotton pillowcase with a satin pillowcase.
6. Have your hair cut by someone using the “Curl by Curl” technique. He or she should be taking a clump of curl (grouping formation) and cut more on the loose curls and less on the tighter curls. Scott talks about this in more detail in the interview.

Every now and then I get a question about our Second Life hair butter. Here’s one: “I have very coarse, hair and frizzy underneath the top layer. I colored it naturally with henna and love it! I’m always looking for products/remedies for the frizzy stuff! Would your product help?”

Is it as simple as a product fix? While I worked the product with certain hair types in mind, I felt that just like with dry skin and eczema, there’s likely a deeper issue at hand that could possibly be fixed with a change in the way we cut, style, or work on our hair. I asked my newsletter list what type of hair issues they had, and over 500 people responded. Most had the same questions related to:

• frizz (will it ever go away?)
• products and their ingredients (what’s safe, what’s not)
• flat irons, brushes, relaxers and chemical treatments (should I or shouldn’t I?)
• unevenly curly hair
• hair breakage
• hair loss
• no-poo method: how can I get it to work for me?

I needed a professional. I called on Scott Musgrave, who has spent the past 30 years professionally and experientially learning everything he could about curly and wavy hair. I came armed with my questions and he graciously answered them. Keep reading and I’ll tell you what I learned…

Who is Scott Musgrave? Scott has been cutting hair professionally since 1986, he has implemented the CURLYS method of training for stylists working specifically with curly hair, and he created Curly Hair Artistry, a place where Curly Hair Stylists are trained to learn all things possible with hair that’s curly, wavy, coily and/or multi-cultural.

The interview lasted almost an hour, but I’’ve summarized hi main points above.  It’s worth a listen, however, to get Scott’s full message.

To hear the entire interview, click the button at the bottom of this post.

LISTEN TO MY INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT MUSGRAVE HERE

Where to learn more:
Find a Curly Hair Specialist here.
Learn more from Scott Musgrave here.