I wish I could tell teenage Di back in the '90s that she didn't need to walk around with rock hard hait. I wish I could tell her that some simple scrunching after her hair dried would create beautiful, bouncy curls.
SOTC = Scrunch Out The Crunch
After washing and styling, you may notice your hair harden as it dries. This is known as the "cast," or the "crunch."
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR HAIR UNTIL IT IS 100% DRY
Benefits
Your curls are actually setting under the cast. The cast protects your hair from frizz, and helps your curls last longer.
How to SOTC
To break the cast, you can use your hands (dry, with lube - yep, that's a thing! Or with an approved oil. I recently discovered Righteous Roots Oil and it's amazing for SOTC), or a cotton t-shirt.
Flip your hair, hold your curls and squeeze them in your hands. Squeeze and scrunch from the tips up to the roots, or smooth with praying hands from the roots to the tips - or combine! The goal is to break the cast and give your curls some body.
Squeeze and scrunch until they are soft! Check out this video from @curlysusie on Youtube
Alternatively, break the cast in your roots only. Squeeze the hair on top near your roots to do so. The rest of the cast will fall out naturally over the next few hours, and your curls will last longer.
Not every gel or styler will leave a cast - and that's okay!
But never, ever touch your hair until it dries 100%, no matter what you put in it. This is just ASKING for frizz!
SOTC = Scrunch Out The Crunch
After washing and styling, you may notice your hair harden as it dries. This is known as the "cast," or the "crunch."
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR HAIR UNTIL IT IS 100% DRY
Benefits
Your curls are actually setting under the cast. The cast protects your hair from frizz, and helps your curls last longer.
How to SOTC
To break the cast, you can use your hands (dry, with lube - yep, that's a thing! Or with an approved oil. I recently discovered Righteous Roots Oil and it's amazing for SOTC), or a cotton t-shirt.
Flip your hair, hold your curls and squeeze them in your hands. Squeeze and scrunch from the tips up to the roots, or smooth with praying hands from the roots to the tips - or combine! The goal is to break the cast and give your curls some body.
Squeeze and scrunch until they are soft! Check out this video from @curlysusie on Youtube
Alternatively, break the cast in your roots only. Squeeze the hair on top near your roots to do so. The rest of the cast will fall out naturally over the next few hours, and your curls will last longer.
Not every gel or styler will leave a cast - and that's okay!
But never, ever touch your hair until it dries 100%, no matter what you put in it. This is just ASKING for frizz!
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