Hair Type - Thick and Coarse Hair
Thick and Coarse Hair
Thick and Coarse Hair - the most resistant to curling
You, more than likely, have lots of admirers wishing they had as much hair as you—meanwhile you are probably trying to find more ways of getting rid of some of it. Am I right? It’s true . . . the grass is always greener elsewhere.
“the haircut is most important for coarse and thick hair type”
Coarse and thick hair type is normally dry and generally resistant to curling Experiment with how long you can go between shampooing and still have your hair look good. Some people with thick and coarse hair can go as long as a week between shampoos AND see their hair become softer and shinier during the process.
Try just a water shampoo, (massaging your scalp with water) in the shower in-between regular shampooing. This will add much need moisture to your hair without striping away all your natural oils.
Conditioning is important. It’s your lifeline to softer, shinier, more manageable hair. Condition after your faux (water) shampoo daily and do a deep conditioning basically whenever you feel your hair getting too dry and dull. For your thick and coarse hair once every two week wouldn’t be too much.
You can use any thick, concentrated conditioner for doing a deep conditioning treatment. If you want to read more on how-to do a deep conditioning treatment at home, check out my article Hair Type - Straight Hair with Body.
As you might have learned from past bad experiences, that the art of the haircut is most important for coarse and thick hair type. Your hair type requires a talented hair stylist . . . period! It takes experience and know-how to be able to make your coarse and thick hair submissive and keep it under control. The correct thinning techniques on you will work wonders but, the wrong ones will leave you with a mass of uncontrollable frizz.
It’s well worth your time and effort to search and find an experienced stylist. It will save you countless hours of unnecessary pain and frustration in battling with your hair. Although chemical treatments can be done on your hair . . . less is definitely better than more. Lean towards more gentle color treatments. Perms can be absolutely explosive unless done with TLC and kept to a minimum. But again, done artistically these processes can be good, especially when tamed down with creative styling techniques.
Got a question, war story or comment about this topic? Click on the "Leave Your Comments" link at the very bottom of this article. Some of my best ideas for future articles come from reading reader comments. I'd love to hear from you!
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I have really thick hair and It’s like you said. People often tell me how much they love it and want it. In my personal opinion its just annoyance and stops me getting a lot of hairstyles as the hair needs to be thinner.
Right now I have shoulder length hair, front fringe and no layers. However, today I am getting layers cut in, losing an inch and straightening it.
Comment by Katie — August 18, 2008 @ 5:09 am
I have thick hair and i straighten it all the time but within an hour after i straighten it the ends and sticking up and it goes frizzy, what should i do? can someone help me?
Comment by Monique — September 16, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Monique,
Have you thought about having it relaxed?
It’s probably hard on your hair to straighten it all the time.
I would guess also that your flat iron may not be hot enough and have a tight enough clamp to iron the hair.
Also you can try a smoothing serum.
I have a number of atricles that explain all of these options. Just do a ’search’ on this site to read more.
Comment by Barb — September 18, 2008 @ 2:45 pm