Wavy Hair After Pregnancy!

Hi S.!

I'm a cosmetologist so let me tell you that your hair chaging from pregnancy is VERY normal! My hair got darker with my first child and then lighter with my second. I don't know why those hormones affect us so - you'd think with everything else that happens during pregnancy we'd get cut some slack! ;-) I had a hard time determing how "wavy" your hair is from what you wrote. If it's just a little wavy getting a flipped out bob is really cute and works well with that hair type - I know, that's mine! For a medium to very wavy/curly believe it or not, getting a perm can be a big help. My sister has very curly hair but I preiodically perm her anyways. The problem with natural curl is that it very often tends to be uneven curl so getting a perm will give you uniform curl and should allow you to style it with more ease and less product (so it doesn't get crunchy.) Hope that helps and good luck!

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LMAO sorry but i've spent 5 years thinking i was crazy!!!! i had wonderfull hair just enough body to be nice and full but i never had to do a thing other than brush it and go, 3 kids later and ok a few inches shorter, and it's curly, but only if i use product, so yeah it happens, my feet got bigger too, lol. anyways i love the styling shampoos, no particular brand over the others but i have one for curly days and one for staight days. i avoid anything that says volumizing or clarifying, it makes the frizzies worse. the heavier the conditioner the better if i want to go straight. and on culry days i use a cheap gel when my hair is wet and let it air dry and as long as i don't use to much it doens't get cruchy. keep in mind though that some of this has to do with the length of your hair, i'm letting mine grow back out, short it curls easily and if i just use some product i can avoid friz and be fine, but right now it's at a length where it won't curl, it's to long but it's still wavy and frizzy, so it's terrible right now, i'm hoping if i keep letting it grow it'll get heavy enough to pull the curl out and at least slightly resemble my long lost hair from before i had children.

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I had the exact same reaction with my hair. The lady who cut my hair before my son was born knew how straight it was. I didnt go back to see her until he was over a year and she could not believe me when I said I think my hair was starting to get curly. We put a curling mousse in and sure enough curly hair. Mine is the same way - if I do nothing it is a mess of frizz, to make it straight takes way too long, so I have gone the mousse and diffuser route. I really liked the salon product that I used the first time but way to expensive to buy regularly so I just get the Fructise brand and it works pretty well. I have to be careful how much I use to keep the crunchies down. I also find taking a large comb to just the ends helps make it look a little more natural.

Good luck - I feel your pain. Sadly growing up in the 80's I used to spend so much $ to make my hair look like this and now that I have it some days I would love to go back to straight!!

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I have always had super straight hair, never even would keep a curl with a home perm or anything. Straight hair for 35 years until after baby #3, but I kept it long, so I couldn't tell very much. After baby #4, I donated my ponytail and I've been hating my haircut for 6 months now! Hairdresser suggested Rock on curl activator or something like that. I have two bright blue bottles of stuff I put on. And a new blow dryer with a diffuser.

I'm planning on growing out all these layers again, so the weight of my hair will give it just a slightly wavy look instead of messy mop top.

Good luck to ya!

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I have the dreaded wavy hair too! But, I've actually come to realize that I am the only one out of all my friends who can straight OR curly hair, depending on how I style it. It took a long time for me to come to this realization and embrace it, but I figured "well, I'm stuck with it, so might as well find the positives". So, here are some suggestions..

If you want it straight, you are going to have to blow dry it. There's a product by Big Sexy Hair called "Straight Sexy Hair, Smooth and Seal" It is the ONLY product out of probably 20-30 things I have tried throughout the years that gets my hair stick straight with no frizzies. When you use it, pull all of your hair up into a clip except for a fairly small section going all the way around the bottom of your hair in the back. Spray and flat iron. Then undo the clip while holding onto your hair and use your finger to part out another section. If you do it in thin sections, you'll get the best effect. I used to do it in about 4 different sections, but then was told to use smaller ones, so now I use about 10 and LOVE the difference!

For curly hair, you have the right idea, mousse and diffuse.

If you want to let it dry naturally, the only thing I've come to know that I can do without having nappy hair when it's dried is to put mousse in it while it's wet. It dries with a lot of wave, but the mousse keeps it from getting frizzy, so it's not bad at all. Then, I am a bobby pin junkie. While it's drying, I usually twist my bangs back and bobbie pin them, totally cute!

Oh! If your hair gets crunchy to where when you shake it out with your hands it doesn't soften up, use a little less mousse until you find the right amount. When I wear my hair curly though, it's usually a little crunchy.

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