Why is it better to comb your hair when it is wet

Comb your hair when it is wet

Learning how to properly comb your hair will create perfect spirals instead of a big damaged puff that you have to find creative ways to hide. Displaying the beautiful texture of your hair when it's fully expanded and frizzy is a stunning style with lots of impact. I will sometimes, ever-so-gently, finger-separate my hair to make it big and fuzzy. What I'm saying is that dry brushing or combing your hair the wrong way will damage it severely and limit what you'll be able to do with your hair in the future because of that damage.

First, there are a few rules for our curls. To keep your hair happy and strong and to grow it to its maximum length, it's crucial that you cause as little damage as possible when you comb. Your hair should be combed only after washing and conditioning. And then, only with the help of a good, slippery conditioner in it. After it's combed and is drying - or dry - it should never be combed (and never, ever brushed with a regular brush) again until it has been washed and conditioned again. Combing your curls when they're dry will only make them explode into frizz. And in doing so, you'll either break your comb or cause your brush to become hopelessly tangled in the web of fuzz you've created by combing the curls that way.

What you need to comb your hair right

Time to dry your hair. It's best to do this in the morning so that you have the rest of the day to let it dry while you do errands.
A strong nylon brush with smooth teeth and a rubber base.
An old pajama top or bathrobe.
Soaking-wet hair slathered in conditioner.
A smooth hair clip to hold back your hair.
A small pair of sharp scissors to snip off little knots and snarls.
A smooth barrette or two or a headband to keep the hair off your face while it's drying.

You could comb your hair with a wide-toothed comb, but the nicest results are created with a strong styling brush. The best type of brush has a rubber cushion and about nine rows of smooth nylon pins. My favorite is a Denman brush, one of the "Classic Styling Brushes," #D4.

Make certain that whatever brush you use, the teeth are smooth. Very curly hair will wrap around any little balls at the tips of a comb or a brush and then tangle itself into the brush. You'll have to spend many frustrated minutes extracting the brush from your hair (which happened repeatedly to me until I figured out that brushes with little balls on the tips were not for my curls). Make sure that your comb or brush is designed to hold up to your high-spirited hair. It will be worth the investment. I like Denman-type brushes with rubber cushions because they have some give, instead of the give having to come from my hair.

Super-curly hair is strong en masse, but your individual strands are fine, so they are easily stretched and hurt. Combing with an unforgiving comb can repeatedly damage your hair by stretching it past its recovery point. I've also found that regular combs separate everything into an unevenly organized mass, while a regular bristle brush would be ineffective at working through your tangles at best or would get totally wrapped up in your hair at worst. The rows of teeth in a Denmanstyle brush lock your strands together into curls. Curls hold all of your individual hairs into curl units, which then keep them from puffing.

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