Haircare Products for Coarse Hair
What Hair Care Products to Use to Wash Condition and Style Wiry Hair
Mar 25, 2008
Recommended styles and hair care products to tame and condition coarse, wiry hair. What tools to use and what to avoid.
Wiry hair feels rough and bristly. It’s difficult to tame and even more difficult to style. The answer to softening coarse hair is to close the cuticle tightly, smoothing each strand.
- The first step to beautifying this hair type is trimming it every four to six weeks. This eliminates split and over-processed ends, which make hair frizzy. Ask your stylist to cut hair using a hot razor. Heated blades seal the strand where the cut is made, closing the cuticle at the end of the shaft.
- Keeping your style simple will be easier to maintain. Straight, layered, shagged, bobbed or texturized are natural cuts. The shorter the hair, the greater the chance it won’t lay flat and will spike. Chin length or longer is the best. A benefit to this type of hair is that with an excellent professional cut, few styling products will be needed. This is a European approach to hairstyling—letting the cut do all the work and not relying on product. Go to the best stylist you can afford who has updated education and training for the right cut for your hair type. You may never have long bouncy curls, but you can have a customized look that suits your needs.
- John Paul Mitchell Systems has one of the best professional lines of hair care specifically formulated to smooth hair. The key ingredient is Super Skinny Complex, which penetrates deep into the hair, constricting each strand as it displaces excess water.
- Super Skinny Daily Shampoo, and Daily Treatment (conditioner) clean and soften hair without roughing-up the cuticle. Daily Treatment repairs existing damage, and prevents further damage that commonly occurs with blow-dryers and styling irons. Super Skinny Serum is an award-winning, silicone-based treatment that seals the hair shaft to create smoothness. The Serum’s counterpart—Super Skinny Relaxing Balm—is a similar product but is cream-based and adds needed moisturizing wheat and vegetable proteins to the hair’s core. The Relaxing Balm is also humidity-resistant, making it a staple for straightening hair or in muggy climates.
- Another professional product is It’s A 10. This leave-in treatment has ten different purposes, ranging from eliminating frizz and adding conditioners to being a thermal protectant. Its efficiency replaces the need for multiple products in your hair wardrobe. This is truly a less-is-more treatment. Only two or three spritzes treat a whole head of hair, making it cost-effective and long-lasting.
The right tools are important for calming textured hair.
- Ensure you are using a brush with negative ion-infused bristles to shrink water particles in the hair. Ceramic-coated barrels add extra smoothing properties as well. Drugstore brand brushes and combs don’t compare with professional technology. They easily aggravate the hair shaft and cause damage. The same can be said for styling irons and blow-dryers. Look for any professional brand with the key words "ionic", "tourmaline", or "ceramic" in the product descriptions.
The right styling products have high hold, such as pastes and waxes.
- Low-hold aids will only weigh hair down and won’t be useful. Ask your stylist to test products in the salon and don’t rule out products that are marketed to the opposite sex.
Coarse, undesirable hair becomes thick, luxurious and enviable with the right cut, and the right products.
Source: Beauty Systems Group Canada
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