I am an Aussie and after 9 years in the UK am moving back home. I have looked on the web to see if there is any british curlies type australian website but alas there does not seem to be. I will be living around the Gold Coast area and am keen to find a good hairdresser and to find out what CG friendly products are easy to get that work in a hot humid climate.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Today I am booking flights to my friends place in Italy, on the east coast, fairly near Pescara.  I am going mid July so its going to be quite hot and need to decide on which products I need to take for my hair to be perfect!

Usually when I go on holiday, the humidity takes over and I look like a baffoon!  To be fair, when I last went on holiday to a hot country, I wasn’t CG and straigtened it for about an hour with my GHDs, only for me to be outside for 5 mins and my hair be really thick, poof out and go all kinky and curly.

Now I dont want the poof frizzy lion mane look in Italy (usually end up wearing hair up on holiday as its too much of a pain), so can anyone advise on what sorts of products I need to use out there and give examples please?

Thank you ever so much!

I’m off to NZ/Oz soon. I have 3b/3c hair which is predominately thick with normal porosity. I am looking for any suggestions for CG low poo, condish & esp a hard hold gel.

Any suggestions on products and/or where I can pick up some CG products on the ground while I’m there Wld be greatly appreciated.

I know Oz has a store specifically for hair prods called price attack or price line. Not sure Abt NZ tho

Thanks.

I’m new to the forum and this is my second post, lol so bear with me if i dont understand some of the lingo. where do i start i’ve been natural for 2 years now, grew out my relaxed hair done my big chop and my hair is now armpit length so i’ve been very happy withthe progress.

I think the hardest part for me being someone who was relaxed for so long is learning how to deal with my hair in its natural state, i love my new found curls and thickness as the relaxer was beginning to thin my hair. i guess for me i like to change my hair up which made permed hair bliss for me as well as how easy and quick it was to wash.

I’m going to Barbados in 5 months and i’m already dreading it! not the holiday of course!!! but the constant hait battle, i’m still in the process of learning to manage my hair, but ii went to amsterdam last year and thought that would be a good time to unleash my fro, the first night was great but the second night i wet it and put gelinit hoping to have a twist out but there wasnt enough time to make it dry and needless to sayit was a nightmare. i dont like cornrows or twists as the dont suit me.

I’ll be going Barbados for the carnival and can imagine being in the sea and it getting wet, can anyone give me any tips. Maybe i’m doing something wrong but i cant style my hair wet, as in put it in a bun like some other women can do… :-(

But i dont know what to do from there the other days, do you have some tips for hair care when you also are swimming and so and how i could do a good wash&go; there or a braid out? I do often wear my hair in buns, so on my vacca i would like to wear some down & out styles, with out causing to much damage, and my hair is past shoulder length/armpit length when stretched and is type 4a.

~Helena

I tried leaving a LOT of leave in in and using protective styling, but the plane got the better of me in the end, and I ended up really dried out for a while.  I feel like maybe you need to create some sort of sturdy seal on the cuticle, but I’m not entirely sure how that could be done without resorting to cones.  Anyone have any ideas? 

I don’t intend to fly in the next few months but I thought this might be a handy forum to have before holiday-season really kicks in.

I just sort of assumed that Science was a universal language, so I’m checking before I find I’m seriously mistaken!

TIA!
Beth

At home, I alternate between blow drying my hair straight and washing it, conditioning then scrunching to produce curls. Annoyingly, due to the damage chemicals have done to my hair, the curls easily brush out so I need to wet my hair each morning to maintain the curls.
Does anyone have any tips on what to put on my hair/how to style it in order to maintain the curlyness?

-C

Thanks