Category: Help for Curly Hair

Twist-outs are for all natural hair types, even tightly coiled hair. This hair type tends to be dry and difficult to create curl definition, leaving you with a twist-out more on the limp side. What’s missing? The correct hair products.

Moisture is essential to maintain elasticity and encourage a distinct curl pattern. Jane Carter Solutions products provide hydration, deep conditioning and enhance curl. Our Tightly Coiled Twist Out Prescription has all of the products you need, plus 20% OFF the full retail price! (get excited) Available only on our website, you will receive:

• Hydrating Invigorating Shampoo 8 oz.
• Nutrient Replenishing Conditioner 8 oz.
• Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner 8 oz.
• Natural Twist Out Foam 8 oz.
• Wrap & Roll 8 oz.
• Creamy Leave-In Styling Smoother 8 oz.
• Curl Defining Cream 6 oz.
• Quench 8 oz.
• Moisture Mist 8 oz.
• Nourish & Shine 4 oz.

Follow our Tightly Coiled Step-by-Step Guide on how to style your hair and how to use the products to receive your desired results and avoid shrinkage.

Love Your Hair,

Jane

The sun is shining and the temperature is rising, spring is here and I can almost taste summer – hot days, sultry nights, stickiness in the air…and unruly coils. (eeeek!) What is the perfect style to combat humidity and sweltering temperatures? Rod and straw sets.

Rod and straw sets are extremely low maintenance hairstyles; it gives your hair a break from the regular styling, combing and brushing manipulation your hair encounters from daily styling. They are also easier on weak or compromised edges than braided and tension producing styles. Sets also last longer than braid and twist outs with minimal daily maintenance. Follow these tips to set your hair and for a daily rod/straw set regimen:

• wash and condition hair with your favorite Jane Carter Solution products
• mist hair with Hydrate Quench to lock in moisture and help combat frizz
• Saturate hair with Natural Twist Out Foam (mix with Condition & Sculpt for a firmer hold)
• Remove rods, spritz with Hydrate Seal & Shine and finger through curls

To maintain, each morning re-coil curls with a bit of Nourish & Shine on your fingers, as needed.

Fluff and go!

Love Your Hair,

Jane

How do you care for your hair at night? You may not know the importance of caring for your hair at night, it’s just as important as protecting it from the harsh elements or from styling and primping.

You might care for your hair well during the daytime hours, but you might not give enough thought to caring for your hair while asleep. For most women of color, tying up our hair before bed is a necessary task. Naturally textured hair is already prone to tangles and leaving it unarmed at night, basically gorilla style, is inviting the possibility of even more tangles. While sleeping, you toss, you turn, and it is likely that your hair will get matted and tangled in the process. Again, leading to more sustained damage. Wrapping your hair at night can help your hair to retain moisture and minimize breakage!

Make sure your hair is moisturized before you go to sleep…dryness is the enemy of hair, especially natural hair. If you don’t have a silk pillow case you should be tying your hair down with a silk scarf; loosely pull up your hair into a bun, re-twist, re-braid, pin curl it and tie a silk scarf over it. Nightcaps and scarves are especially useful if you have curlier styles. These help to hold the curls while you sleep and prevent them from rubbing against one another and knotting up.

How do you maintain your hair at night?

Love Your Hair,

Jane

Some days the task of washing and styling hair can feel like a mammoth undertaking. But rushing through the process can be detrimental to our hair. This is especially true for the detangling process.

It is important to always protect our hair from damage and be gentle when handling our curls. Detangling our hair when we don’t have the time or patience can often result in tugging at knots, leading to breakage. To avoid this choose a day to detangle when you are least busy. Most importantly if you don’t feel like doing your hair don’t force yourself; throw it in a quick and easy protective style like a bun and leave it for another day when you’re not so tired. Try Jane Carter Solution Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner; this lightweight spray will assist you with detangling your hair with ease, leaving hair soft and silky.

Love Your Hair,

Jane

Frazzled by your dry, frizzy, or uncontrollable curls?

The key to finding success with that hair type is to keep the frizz under control and define the curls and coils that are in the hair. Keeping hair moisturized and using styling products that will lock in the natural curl pattern into the hair without encouraging any frizz is the answer!

Start with combing out the tangles with a wide tooth comb in the shower while Nutrient Replenishing Conditioner is still in your hair, most damage done to your hair occurs during the wet combing stage as hair is very elastic when it is wet and stretches easily. Apply Condition & Sculpt liberally to your wet hair and work it through with your fingers. Condition & Sculpt will dry with a little crunchy hold, add Hair Nourishing Cream for a softer hold and shine. Does your hair shrink when wet? Then add liberal amount of Curl Defining Cream to enhance curls and reduce shrinkage. The next day, lightly spritz hair with Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner to rejuvenate the curls as well as reactivate the products that are in your hair.

Children suffer from dry scalp just like adults, especially if products are being used on their hair that strips its natural oils. The fix is easy with Jane Carter Solution products:

• Mist hair and scalp with water (water = moisture)
• Spritz Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner thoroughly onto hair, starting with ends and working your way up to the top of the head
• Apply Nourish & Shine (or Scalp Nourishing Serum) to scalp to retain the moisture; if their hair is in cornrows, make sure to regularly rehydrate the hair and scalp