Tight Curls

What are tight curls, and how do you care for them? Tight curls are strands wound like a corkscrew, a mix of curly and coily hair, with lots of bounce and volume. They need extra moisture: replenish it often, use products that give the hair amino acids and silk proteins, choose a sulfate-free shampoo, skip products with alcohol, avoid regular heat, and handle your curls as little as possible.

One of the major advantages of having tight curls is the volume they provide. On the other hand, one drawback is the fact that they are not easy to maintain. Of course, learning how to manage your tight curls and using the right products can make all the difference.

Some people will naturally have tight curls but one can also get them artificially too. Either way, they require a bit more special care than other types of hair.

What Are Tight Curls?

When we say tight curls, imagine hair strands like a corkscrew. With each hair strand so tightly wound, the resulting hairstyle is quite bouncy and it features simply stunning volume. If you naturally have curly hair, you can identify your type as tight curls if the hair strands are a combination of curly and coily. The overall hairstyle has quite the definition and volume, and when managed right, natural tight curls can be absolutely beautiful.

How Do You Get Tight Curls?

You may hear many women with natural tight curls complaining about maintenance, but many others actually want to get them. There are plenty of methods, both with heat and without heat, to get tight curls. If you can’t manage it yourself, it is recommended to visit your nearest salon.

At home, you can use curling rods, blow dryers, gels, curlers, and a few other methods to achieve curls, but often getting intense tightness in your curls is difficult so people prefer getting the help of a professional or using high-quality beauty accessories.

How Do You Maintain Tight Curls?

If you have natural tight curls, you will always have to take certain measures to keep them in a healthy condition. Likewise, if you have chosen to adopt this hairstyle, you will need the same measures to keep the style going for a longer period of time.

Here is what you need to manage tight curls:

• Keeping your tight curls moisturized is a must. Since the hair is so tightly wound, they require more hydration from the scalp. This means you will have to constantly replenish the moisture. Dehydrated tight curls will become frizzy and unruly. The definition and volume will be destroyed, giving an unwanted messy appearance.
• Use products that provide amino acids to the hair strands. This will maintain their volume and shine.
• Providing the curls with silk proteins locks the moisture inside them. This will keep the curls bouncy and strong, maintaining a healthy appearance.

Here are a few things to avoid:

• Don’t use shampoos with sulfates. Try using completely sulfate-free ones, like those offered by Shinkafa.
• Avoid hair products with alcohol as an ingredient.
• Don’t mess with your curls too much.
• Avoid using heat regularly.

Coiled Hair

In cases of severely coiled hair that is impossible to comb, more treatment is required. This type of hair is dense, springy coils that is tightly coiled. This hair is actually quite delicate and very dry, brittle and shrinks down upon contact with water. This hair type finds it difficult to comb without some type of help in extreme cases. This hair type will tend to want to go natural but difficult to execute.

For this hair type, Shinkafa’s revolutionary formaldehyde-free 4-Step Keratin Relaxer Kit will be ideal to allow the person to manage the hair. You are able to expand, smoothen and loosen tight coils, curls, tight waves. Tame, smoothen and de-frizz problem hair without harm to your hair or scalp.

Shinkafa’s Keratin Relaxer Kit is not a Brazilian treatment, it does not have formaldehyde and does not give off formaldehyde. Shinkafa’s Keratin Relaxer Kit is not a hair straightener. Shinkafa’s kit works to expand your coils, curl and waves by about 30% which is desirable for a tightly coiled curl. Shinkafa’s Keratin Kit does not burn your scalp. Shinkafa’s Keratin Kit grows, strengthens, softens, smoothens and expands your curls, reduces hair shrinkage, while enhancing your hair’s body and leaving it healthy, smooth, soft and bouncy with a natural look and feel.

You can now handle your hair with ease, whether you style it naturally, curly, wavy, sleek and straight, or somewhere in between. Again, Shinkafa Keratin Hair Relaxing Kit is not a hair straightener. It simply expands your coils, curls and waves to allow you maximum ease in the daily management of your natural hair.

Tight Curls: Common Questions

How can you tell if you have tight curls?

Look at a single strand. Tight curls wind like a corkscrew and sit somewhere between curly and coily. The overall look is bouncy, well defined and full of volume. Very dense, springy coils that shrink a lot when wet and are hard to comb are coiled hair, which needs even more care.

How do you keep tight curls moisturized?

Because each strand is wound so tightly, moisture from the scalp has a hard time travelling down it, so you need to replenish moisture often. Products that give the hair amino acids help keep volume and shine, and silk proteins help lock moisture inside the curls so they stay bouncy and strong.

What should you avoid with tight curls?

Avoid shampoos with sulfates, hair products that contain alcohol, and regular heat styling. Handle your curls as little as possible. Dry, over-handled curls turn frizzy and lose their definition and volume.

Can you get tight curls if your hair is not naturally curly?

Yes. Curling rods, blow dryers, gels and curlers can all create curls at home, with or without heat. Getting very tight curls this way is difficult, so many people go to a salon. Styled tight curls need the same moisture-first care as natural ones.

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