I do want to mention that after this routine I can go right back to styling my hair wavy curly and it springs right up! Brushing it out straight and air drying dose not adversely effect my curl pattern at all!

My go to for “energy efficient” styling is washing then putting it in a couple braids 😂 i keep the braids in for a couple days, then wear it wavy until I absolutely have to wash again. Theres my wash week 😂

This was so validating for me. I can't tell you the number of times that I've done washing with the suave professionals natural hair shampoo which you recommended, and then the Cantu conditioner that you also recommended, with a little bit of squish to condition, and then that's it. That's all I can manage. And my hair really doesn't look that bad, still wavy. Thanks for sharing that you do this sometimes to, or at least your version of a product free wash day. Thinking about you and praying for your family and your little girl.

You're such a kind soul, Courtney. You are so empathetic and understanding, that you care enough to remind us that is ok not to feel our very best all the time. Thank you for this video and for always being so caring with us! I send you tons of blessings to you and your loved ones. 🤗💖 PS: it warms my heart to see your belly growing! 💞

When I air dry, I tie a silk scarf around my neck so that I have friction-free sitting wherever I am. I can just pull the ends to lie between my hair and the couch, but when I stand up, the scarf just comes along!

As someone who’s really been struggling with ADHD executive dysfunction, I really appreciate this. For some reason it’s just been really hard for me to get in the shower in time to style my hair the way I used to, so I’ve been blowing it out and straightening it a lot more than I should lately.

Baby bump is soo cute!

It is nice to check in with your hair without any hold stylers in AND sometimes I just want to be able to run my fingers through my hair. 😂 The Bounce Curl Leave-In is my absolute favorite for not styling.

This really came at the perfect time. I've been feeling super discouraged by my transition phase and decided to take a break from styling until 2022. The challenge is to make sure I'm keeping my hair healthy and hydrated because it craves moisture like no other 😂 Also, it was really encouraging to see how your hair looked when you were finger detangling. Seeing how much your clumps broke up made me feel like my tiny clumps weren't bad or ugly or somehow a negative reflection of my hair care skills. This whole video was really encouraging, and I really needed that 🥰

Thank you for posting such an honest video on how exhausting dealing with wavy hair can be and that you don't always have to do the most! It turns out the world will not end if I my hair doesn't look perfect! Crazy, huh? hahaha I have watched this video so many times - every single time I've hit that wall where I just wanted to do anything BUT style my hair and try so hard. This has kept me from just going ahead and straightening it into oblivion! Hope life is amazing with the new baby girl!

Very pretty!! I will try this. Thanks!

I have type 3 hair and do a routine like this often. I just do not have an expectation that I will wear it down afterwards. Lol!! I usually follow-up with a bun, ponytail or two twists going back into pigtails. You look sooooooo beautiful!! Always love the baby bump cameos! 🥰

Fantastic! Thank you for this, I definitely have days when I need to do this 🥱 💜

Thank you for sharing this. I have RA and I’m recovering from spinal surgery. Wow! My hair is screaming at me and I’ve been guilty for not paying my hair attention. I needed this, thank you! 😊

I love all your videos! And I feel like the way you explain concepts really works for my brain!

I REALLY love your hair without product! wavy effortless, SUPER COOL

Looks great!!

Your hair looks so healthy, beautiful and shiny however you style it! 😍😍

I have really enjoyed doing this same thing on washday. It’s really helpful when I get home from work and don’t have the energy to wash my hair all fancy like for the next day or when I’m sick. I also find it really peaceful ☺️.

Your hair looks gorgeous this way too! I’ve discovered I can easily get away with scrunching in a leave-in conditioner and diffusing, no styling products. So freeing!

You upload this at a great time. I've been really struggling these past couple of days. I barely want to take a shower so thinking about styling my hair is even more depressing. Thank you 💙

Your hair is so shiny and healthy looking, it's beautiful. You look amazing too. Thank you for all you do for us, especially now with all you've got going on. I appreciate you so much. ❤️

Thank you for this video!! By the way ... you look amazing! God Bless you & your sweet family

Wow, very easy and convenient. Yes I do have my lazy days where I just do not want to mess with my hair. With my curly hair I will need to be sure I add a leave in, otherwise it will be a total frizzy mess. 😊👍❤️

I have a tighter curl pattern but not coily. I am going to try this next wash day. I haven’t felt like styling lately due to health issues but I have been forcing myself to. Your hair is so shiny

Thank you for this video and most of all for your approach of this subject! I'm pretty tired (pun unintended 😂) of how much the word "lazy" gets thrown around in the curly hair community.. Can't wait to apply these tips! Love from Belgium 💜

I don't know why but I really enjoy watching these types of videos! I'm currently trying the no poo method again, just washing my hair with water and no products other than oil. My curls are actually way more defined, and I'm not a super greasy girl so it seems to be going well.

The overnight bun has been my favorite forever. I thought it gave me waves. Turns out the waves were already there and it just gave them a shape i love. :)

Boy, did I need to see this video today! I’m so discouraged right now. I have been having a lot of bad hair days, and I thought when I got it trimmed it would fix my limp, flat hair. But no, it just looks crappy shorter. So I am taking a break from styling and stressing over it. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and struggles. Take care and put your feet up.😊😊😊

Thank you for this! This is the hair routine I need as a busy mom. 🤗

Thank you for mentioning the fact that having a great wash day only to have it all fall apart 3 hours later is a “thing”!! That’s been my frustration and no one ever even addresses it. I almost didn’t watch this one because I thought well, that’s the way I addressed my hair before jumping into the CGM. However, your commentary made this subject so relatable and so worth my time. Thank you, Courtney. I so appreciate you bringing us along on your journey through some “real life” challenges that we all deal with on some level. Blessings to you and yours…❤️

I am so greatfull that you made this video... I have alot of back and hip problems so standing and sitting to style my hair curly hurts.... I am able to wash my hair with shampoo and conditioner... I hope to see more videos like this from you.... I wash my hair every 4 to 6 days and I also use a leave in conditioner

I do this type of wash day from time to time! I put it up into a bun and add a wavy/curly "faux ponytail" to create a beautiful and effortless look. Most people don't even know that it's not my real hair!

I do this type of wash day from time to time! I put it up into a bun and add a wavy/curly "faux ponytail" to create a beautiful and effortless look. Most people don't even know that it's not my real hair! ☺

When I don't feel up to styling after a wash I do a deep side "part" brushed back (no defined part) and I shake it at the root a bit and tuck the sides that fall in my face behind my ears to keep it out of the way. When it's dry enough on the one side I switch the deep part and repeat the shake and ear tuck. I have really tight curls from root to chin where my bangs would be so I don't mind the ear tuck because it waves those otherwise curly annoying bits.

I recently cut my hair to a chin length bob, and when I got it cut the stylist asked if my hair got curlier when it’s shorter. I said yes because.. yes? But turns out, no! Somehow since getting it cut this short length it’s barely curly at all, and honestly I kind of love it? I miss my spirals and ringlets, but I’ve been loving that I’m able to have such a simple routine! So much less stress every day!

I have followed your for a while, congratulations on your new baby! This is off the topic of hair, but your eyes are stunning! Have you done any makeup tutorials? I'd love to see one!

I know you hear this all the time, but if my hair looked like yours - I would never bother styling it! It looks so good! But definitely going to follow your steps exactly to try to get my hair to act reasonable without stylers :)

Courtney, your hair is so shiny and healthy looking 😍😍

I’m having a product free day today. I still plopped but didn’t do more than min squishing while in the shower. I plopped for a long time and then ran my finger through my hair when it was dry. Im surprised at how nice it still looks today. It won’t last as long before I have to wash again. Mousse at the roots really helps keep the oil at bay, but it’s easy and nice to do sometimes. Im going product free because my scalp is giving me problems and nothing else is working.

I’m still trying to fix the damage to my hair but I can’t wait till mine looks so healthy with no product and air dried! Some days my RA doesn’t want to do all the work required!

In the last few months I've been going product free and my hair feels amazing. My scalp got so much better! I only use products if I have a special occasion

Since starting the curly girl method just over two months ago, I still have awful hair days, or days I don't bother styling BUT I have noticed that the super dry scalp that I have struggled to get rid of all my life has now cleared up... So it must be doing good thing for my hair if my scalp is sooo much better... Just waiting for the super glossy locks like yours to follow :)

My hair is so stinking frizzy, I don't know if this would work for me!!! 😂

Professional and higher end shampoos won't suds up the first time you shampoo because sebum inhibits the sudsing bubbling action. But if you lather, rinse, repeat the suds will happen on the second shampoo. If you get a lot of suds the second time you can know your scalp is clean because the sebum isn't stopping the suds anymore. This is why you're supposed to shampoo twice, but since people associate suds with cleaning lots of drugstore shampoos add so much harsh surfactants to so that suds happen no matter what.

Before I started my curly-hair / healthy-hair journey, I used to be able to do that twist bun and just... tuck the tips into the bottom of the bun. No elastic. It would just *stay there* because of the friction from having such damaged/dry hair cuticle. Oof.

I really enjoyed this video and it would be nice to do this every so often. What would you suggest for a person who has short hair? I would very much like to do this.

I do the same thing but the next day after my hair is fully dry I do 1 Dutch braid. In a few hours I take it out and it creates the most beautiful mermaid waves ever. The Dutch braid gives a much better affect then the French braid imo. I sleep with it as well. It's just beautiful.

Love this video, thank you! I have EVOLVh “Smart Volume” leave-in conditioner. Would this work the same as the one you used?

I love doing this weekly on my treatment day. Where did you get that lovely scarf?

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Your hair is STILL really GORGEOUS without all the work. I actually prefer the last look after it had been in a top knot. It looks glossy and glamorous! 👏🏻👏🏻

I've been wondering how much your hair has grown back in since the hair loss you experienced. It looks nice and thick and shiny.

I'm so glad you did this video. I gave up on my whole wavy hair routine because the effort involved is not sustainable for me (I'm 31 weeks pregnant).

I just got a wavy perm yesterday so I've been soaking up all the curly info I can get and found your channel. I do have a super random question for you. I noticed you have some super cute rashguards/long sleeve swim shirts. Where do you get them?

That beautiful bump looks like she's really popped a lot more! Thanks for this video, it's lovely to see alternatives when you just cannot do the whole shebang

Courtney, thank you for doing these product-free routines. I've just started my wavy journey this week (after years of being heat-free and using sulfate-free silicone-free shampoos and conditioners). Right now I'm struggling between having nice waves with enough hold and my waves being stringy (happens with hard hold gels). My product-free routine was almost the same as yours (only thing I didn't do was not using leave-in conditioner). Do you think not brushing wet/damp hair in this routine and finishing it with an alcohol-free, silicone-free serum would allow 2a waves to last through several days?

I love that you respect your kids privacy.

Completely unrelated, but could you film a video about your dog ? He/she is so adorable

I did this routine without meaning to and discovered I had wavy hair 😂 my hair definitely gets more frizzy than yours, do you have videos on how to pick out the right shampoo and conditioner?

I'm jealous! I can't go styler-free with my coarse, thick curly hair.

Suds are not necessary for your hair to be clean! You don't need more product necessarily. Without all of those things in the shampoo, it's NOT going to lather like you're used to. Just enough to clean the scalp is fine. If you feel you need more to clean the mid to ends, then fine. Do what makes you feel good. But it's not necessary unless you're clarifying. Also, for my hair specifically, when I get a good slip, I lose all of the curl. Because my hair is 70% silver, that doesn't want to curl as much as the rest. I have absolutely straight parts in the front where I'm 100% silver. This will curl if it's not over-conditioned. With conditioner? It's completely flat. I have baby hair and honestly, the silver isn't coming in much more thick. It's porous by default, but it still can't take conditioner. Even a light one, unless it's a conditioning shampoo. Silver shampoo, even the Walmart brand, works well. Wella also has a conditioning shampoo that works well. I tried the Kinky Curly line. LOVE the clarifying shampoo, but the conditioner, even if I rinse it out, is too much. The gel is also too heavy and too loaded with oils. Weird, huh? I get great curls when my hair is on the dry side and almost nothing when it's conditioned. I always have to be different.

Just popping in to say hello and how absolutely adorable you are today :)

*watches full-well knowing that my puffy hair will not be having any of it*

I am struggling right now with my hair! My curl pattern is...odd: The top 3/4ths is straight/barely wavy, then the ends naturally just curl into ringlets. If I twist my hair around my finger, it will stay in that shape for a while on its own as if I curled it. (My dad has the same pattern, and so does my daughter.) I have tried everything; plopping, twisting, scrunching, arranging it piece by piece, waiting till it's dry, yadda yadda. As soon as I scrunch the gel cast out of my hair, any curl that I managed to summon into being on the top part of my hair immediately falls flat, and it looks like I haven't just spent literal hours on my hair. It's frustrating to the point of tears and I just want to give up! To make it more difficult, I am a SAHM to three autistic kids, and when they need me, they need me, whether I'm in the middle of doing my hair or not. It's so easy to talk myself out of even trying right now, because "it's not going to work anyway and I might as well not take that time away from my kids."

?? I realize this video was posted a year ago, but I'm hopeful you'll see my question and have an answer or someone else will. My issue is I don't have time for it to air dry. If I wash after work, it's still wet by bedtime and damp in the morning. If I blow dry, it whips around and becomes a tangled mess. Diffuse, a puff ball. I have an attachment to blow it straight. It kinda works, but seems like a lot of heat and takes a good bit of time to get dry. I have a 6 week old and will be returning to work soon enough. I need a better solution and really do not want to a do big chop as my hair is finally growing with improvised CGM. It's to my mid-back.

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I don’t wash as often as would be ideal because it’s just too much work to style some days

I wish I could do this and have it look ok. But it just turns into a big fizzy poofy mess even after 2 years of modified cgm.

What is the name of the brush?

I'm chronically I'll, so lately I've been doing just shampoo and conditioner. That and a lot of leave in products make my sensitive scalp irritated

I just can’t get my hair to dry when I do this. It takes FOREVER

When I try to do this my hair just poofs up! How can I prevent this? I feel like it happens when I brush my hair after showering

Her hair looked absolutely lovely! But I feel like she did some unnecessary steps here. I don’t quite understand why she brushed it soaking wet (not so great for your hair), wrapped it in a towel and then re-brushed it. I’d think the easiest thing would be wrapping it, and then letting it air dry. This isn’t meant to be a criticism, it just seems like added work.

As to the detangler, for my hair, what I found to be the best is detangler hair spritz for children. Why did I go there? I have baby hair. So, what I'm seeing in all of the videos I've watched for curly/wavy hair, there is a reason that women would decline a date because they had to do their hair. It's so much work!!! Products, curling, drying, conditioning, hover drying and scrunching (now). I had NO idea until my hair went wavy curly. I'm over all of the work that goes into "perfect" hair. I've never been "that" girl. It's tedious and expensive. What I need is volume at my roots, clean hair, and healthy waves that aren't weighed down by expensive products. If you want to embrace your waves and curls, let your hair speak to you instead of trying to product it into submission. Condition when needed. Add only only the product you need (like anti-frizz or volumizer) and ditch the rest. I'm learning that taking care of wavy/curly hair is a scam. It takes way too much product, at very spendy prices. And that is irritating. Sure, if you have a special occasion, use them! But for everyday? Just stop. Find a product that works for cleaning and conditioning. Quit with all of the BS foam and creams and oils and whatever. I refuse to spend $100 a month on my hair! I don't even wear makeup. I saw a video that reviewed products that sounded great for my hair type, but it was more than $100 a month in product and more than an hour to dry with all of the sectioning, the root volume, and whatever else it took to dry the hair. Yeah, no. My hair is what it is and it will tell me what it needs when it needs it. Too frizzy consistently? Maybe I need a mask on my ends. Too oily at my scalp? I should use a clarifying shampoo and start over. I'm on a well, so it's not just about clearing product, but all of the minerals like calcium and lime and whatever. Itchy scalp from the common seborrhic dermatitis? Use coal tar shampoo, or clarify. (Seborrheic dermatitis means that your scalp gets red and itchy in patches because your scalp hasn't been properly cleaned of oil). Listen to your hair. It will tell you what it needs.

6/2023: @swavycurlycourtney Can you already tell if your baby girl 👧🏼 (one year old now) is going to be a swavy-curly baby? 💞

I do this type of wash day from time to time! I put it up into a bun and add a wavy/curly "faux ponytail" to create a beautiful and effortless look. Most people don't even know that it's not my real hair! ☺