This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bates chapter.
Curly hair is gorgeous, but as a curly-haired gal, I’ll be the first to say that it comes with certain experiences that most other people don’t have.
- When people ask if they can borrow a brush, and you just have to laugh. Let’s be real, I haven’t bought a brush in over half a decade.
- Humidity is not your friend.
- There are few feelings worse than the realization that it’s raining, right after you straighten your hair. Soul-crushing stuff, really. You can kiss the last 45 minutes to an hour of your life goodbye.
- Your stockpile of hair products rivals that of your hairdresser. “Here’s my shampoo, my conditioner, my leave-in conditioner, my curl cream, my hairspray, my hair masks, my heat protectant, my smoothing spray…”
- You take a shower and your hair doesn’t dry for approximately 10 years.
- Washing your hair is a process. An event, really, that can take precedence over every other activity.
- People ask to touch your hair all. The. Time.
- Curly hair can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but when it looks good, it looks great.