How do you deal with frizzy hair?

Oh boy - gray hair is a different thing all together. My hair is super curly and thankfully, my gray has kept the curl. I just went to the hairdresser for the first time in years and she gave me a product for making my curls softer. My dd just used it when she was straightening her hair. It's professional, but it's by Redken and it's called Curvaceous. Alta probably sells it. I can recommend that for softer curls.

 

Most of the curl products I use to control frizz are gels, so they won't help you much. I don't know if this trick works for waves or just curls, but I keep a spray bottle of water with a little conditioner mixed in. When my hair is frizzy I spray it (until it's slightly damp all over, not just-showered-drippy) and then re-scrunch the curls.

 

oh good luck! watered down conditioner spray like Rachel said sometimes helps in humidity here but i'm not sure how it'd go particularly re: grey

 

I have kinky curly hair. I got a brazillian blowout for the first time a month or so ago and it is great. I have done keratin treatments in the past, but with thinning hair, it is very flat. Also I use Living Proof Anti friz products and I have heard that Perfect 10 is good as well.

 

I don't know if it will work for everyone...my son has curly hair and if he lets it go it can get super frizzy. He uses a product called As I Am Coconut Cowash. It has been amazing and my daughter even started using it and said it has made her hair super soft. I'll be keeping an eye out on this to see other good suggestions!

 

I swear by Alterna's Caviar CC 10-in-1 cream. Not sure about all 10 of its supposed benefits, but it definitely helps control frizz (and makes hair feel softer and smoother, I guess). In the US, you can get it at Sephora or Ulta. It's not cheap; but a little goes a long way... and it really does help with the frizzies, without making your hair feel gelled or greasy or sticky, without making you feel like you're wearing a helmet head.

 

I too have curly hair and a LOT of gray. My hairdresser said that the frizzies I've been dealing with are because of the gray hairs. She said that coloring the hair definitely helps tame the frizzies and I most certainly agree because after I get my roots done, the frizzies are so much better for a few weeks. She even send me home with my own coloring kit so I can do my own roots every three weeks or so. I also use Moroccan Argan oil on my wet hair before my Tousle Me Softly mousse. I know you don't want the mousse part, but maybe just the oil part would help tame some of the frizzies. I have a LOT of hair though, so my hair can handle the oil and the extra weight it might add. I am definitely going to bookmark this thread though because I see lots of products that I'd like to try here!



Here's a layout that shows how much hair I have.

 

In summer I gave up and always had it up in a clip or a ponytail under a ball cap

 

This thread is GREAT!!! I've only recently experienced my hair being curly after washing. Was very straight for most of my life unless I curled it. Now I can let it air dry except for a few front face framing strands! But I too have the frizzes- and now I have some good things to test out!!! Thanks, EVERYBODY, especially @QuiltyMom !

 

I use shine drops. I bought them a few years ago (ok, I just realized it was 10 years ago!), and they still work. Just a little bit makes my hair heavy enough not to frizz. I like it because it gives a little shine without looking greasy. My hair mostly frizzes in humidity.
That said, it's not grey hair so I don't know if it acts different on that? And too much makes your hair look greasy.

They are similar to the silk drops at Sally Beauty Supply, and about the same price ($10) I paid a decade ago.

 

Well, I must be the anomaly. My grey hair is no different than it used to be. It doesn't frizz at all. And, it behaves the same as it always did!

I do use a shampoo for grey hair at least once a week to keep it from looking yellow. Jhirmack Silver Brightening found at Wal-Mart. I did switch to another shampoo/conditioner in the last 9 months to try to help with the damaged ends of my hair. A little more pricey but so far I really like it and have noticed that my hair is not breaking on the ends as much. I took the quiz at Olaplex.com to determine which of their products I would need then found a trial size set on Amazon so that I didn't pay a lot in case I didn't like it. I've now bought regular size bottles.

And, since I've retired I have found that I don't have to wash my hair every day especially this last year. My hair used to be so greasy that I'd have to wash it daily but now I can actually wait and do it every 3 days but I usually do it every other day. And, I usually let it dry on its own instead of using a hair dryer. Honestly, my hair is probably in better shape now that it was before. I no longer perm. I no longer color. I no longer use a hair dryer or curling iron. In other words, I'm no longer doing damaging stuff to my hair.

 

My hair is grey, curly and it frizzes, but my hair has always frizzed in the humidity. My solution has always been to simply jerk it back into a ponytail. I will say that it has really thinned over the last two decades, and keeping it contained in a ponytail causes breakage which annoys me.

 

Try a scrunchie (fabric covering the elastic) that will help with the breakage a LOT!

 

Yep, I only use scrunchies.