35 Pictures Showing The Struggle Of Curly Haired People

Just 11% of the world has curly hair! Looking at this number, you can see why the world doesn’t cater to those with ringlets and spirals. But that doesn’t mean that we aren’t understood by each other!

1) People Trying To Touch Your Hair

Listen to Solange Knowles when she says, “this here is mine.” Her hair is awesome and so is yours. It’s not free real estate and should have the same rights as straight hair.

2) When You Fall Asleep With Wet Hair

Someone with straight hair can usually fall asleep with wet hair and just brush it when they wake up. But when you have curly hair, you never know what you’ll wake up to.

3) Failing With Curly Hairstyles

Finding a curly updo that works is no easy task. You can’t control exactly what your hair will do any it seems like anyone who does curly styles has naturally straight hair.

4) Never Wearing Hats

Wearing a hat can be bad for anyone’s hair. But when you have curly hair, you can come out with a tangled mess of matted rat’s nests. Ya’ll know what I mean.

5) Not Running Your Fingers Through It

When you see other people run their fingers through their silky tresses, you get a little jealous. If only life were that simple. But it isn’t, and you don’t even touch your own hair.

6) A New Meaning To Bend And Snap

If you could make a ponytail holder last more than two days, that would be great. You’ve probably tried a dozen different specialty hair ties and none of them seem to last.

7) Finding These Lost In Your Hair

If you haven’t found bobby pins in your hair hours after taking your hair down, do you really have curly hair? These things can be life savers but they can also ruin your night.

8) Dealing With The Mousse Crunch

No one wants that gel or mousse crunch. It’s totally 2002 and should be left there. It was all fun and games before but now soft spirals are the way to go.

9) The Shower Dilemma

Taking a shower will reset your hair. But when it’s been a couple days since you’ve washed your hair, then you kind of need to do it, right? Even if you are having such a good hair day.

10) When You Regret Straightening

Straightening your hair takes hours. It always seems like such a good idea at the time but once you’re about a quarter of the way there, you realize what a huge mistake it was.

11) Having A Fear Of Stylists

Everyone has a slight fear of stylists, but when you have curly hair, it’s way worse. When you ask them if they cut curly hair and they say, “hair is hair,” you know they aren’t the one.

12) It Takes All Day To Dry

You might be able to get away with diffusing your hair if you put protectant on it before hand. But even that takes an hour. If you let it air dry then you have to wait all day. Then it’s time for another shower.

13) The Major Change When It Dries

When your hair does dry, it’s completely different than when it’s wet. It looks darker, longer, and smoother. But give it a few hours to ligthen up and poof, poof, poof.

14) Trying To Cut Your Own Bangs

Cutting your own bangs is never a good idea. But when you have curly hair, it’s the worst idea in the world. It takes a special person to correctly cut curly bangs.

15) That Amazing Hair Day

When you have that one hair day that is just amazing, you can’t stop smiling. Having all of those messy days makes you really appreciate it when you have a good one.

16) People Complain When You Get Too Close

Your hair may be tangled, poofy, and out of control, but you’re not the only one who knows that. If you try to cuddle with your partner, they may protest with hair in their mouth.

17) Owning Those Great Hair Days

Not only do good hair days make you giddy, but they make you want to go on a photoshoot. Ain’t no one got nothing on you, right? You could slay the red carpet any day of the week.

18) Just General Frizz

Frizz. It’s every curly-haired person’s worst nightmare and everyday life. There’s nothing you an do to control it 100% but at least after all these years, you’ve learned to deal with it.

19) The Pineapple Head

There’s a reason curly-haired girls don’t usually wear buns on top of their head. When they do, there is a sort of pineapple effect that looks like a nest on top of your head.

20) Then You Try To Grow Your Bangs Out

After a failed haircut, you let your bangs grow out. When you do, it takes everything in your power not to cut them again because that in between stage is even worse than having them short.

21) Remembering Those Days You Longed For Straight Hair

It takes time, but eventually you learn to love your curls. You wonder why in the world you complained so much as a teen and straightened your hair every day. What a waste!

22) “Your Hair Looks Better Straight”

You get tired of people telling you that your hair looks better straight. It’s like them telling you that you look better with a different skin tone or eye color. Rude!

23) Every Curly Haired Person’s Dream

This is a certain hair type. You have beautiful bouncy curls when you let it go all natural. But the second that you sleep on it, it looks like hair stuck to the bottom of a vacuum.

24) The Obsession With Curl Types

The day that you found Naturally Curly and embraced your own hair type will forever be melded into your brain. To this day, you believe you have at least three different types!

25) Having New Best Friends

You will always have a few go-to products that you can’t go without. Everyone has their own set and yours is a special combination that you put your trust in every day.

26) Straighties Trying To Give Advice

Straight-haired people trying to give you advice is like people who aren’t parents trying to give you parenting advice. They don’t understand and never will.

27) Getting Caught In Everything

You can’t get through an entire day without your hair getting caught in something. Just don’t commit any crimes because your DNA will be everywhere. I promise.

28) The Inevitable Poof

The poof is scary everyone knows it. When you have curly hair, your first priority is minimizing it as much as possible without actually losing the naturally body your hair has.

29) When It Looks Perfect At Home

If you take a shower and let your hair dry before bed, for some reason, it looks amazing. Maybe it’s the lack of stress and your hair isn’t reacting the same.

30) Never Enough Conditioner

Shampoo is the worst! Especially if it has sulfates. That’s why curly-haired girls use so much conditioner. It is your best friend and keeps things as smooth as possible.

31) Combing Is Futile

Combing your hair isn’t just pointless, it makes things worse. You can try to shimmy a comb down those locks, but good luck getting out with all of your hair.

32) Misrepresentation In Movies

When you read a book and find out that a character as unmanageable curly hair, you feel understood. Then you see the film adaption with someone that has “curled” hair. Not curly.

33) Using Your Fair Share

Is there anyone in the world that only uses a dime-sized amount of conditioner? As a curly-haired person with long hair, you probably use a half-dollar sized amount.

34) Straigtening Never Works Out

If you make it through straightening your hair, you probably don’t want to leave the house. The only thing worse than humidity on your curly hair is it on your straightened hair.

35) Totally Relating To Hermione

We all watched the first Harry Potter movies and felt Hermione’s pain. She had the frizz bug and you wanted so bad to teach her how to care for her young curls.

36) Unspoken Competitions

This is so true! While you’re not serious about it, you can’t help but compare your hair to other people with curly hair. If they win, you want to ask what their secret is.

37) Not Knowing Your Hair Is Curly

There are so many girls who have straight-haired parents who didn’t know how to treat their hair. So they spent years washing and brushing it before they realized it was curly!

38) Gaining Length When You Straighten

Asking a curly haired person how long their hair is can be tricky. It has a different length when wet, dry, and straightened. One does not simply know their hair length.

39) Trying To Find A Good Sleeping Position

Finding a sleeping position that doesn’t disturb your hair is nearly impossible. And if you do find one, it’s so uncomfortable that you start not caring about your hair at 2am.

40) The Search For Sulfate-Frees

As a curly hair girl, you yearn to follow the curly girl method. This entails using sulfate-free products. So you make sure your shampoo is up to par.

41) Eating Hair In The Wind

If you are out in the wind, you will wat hair, have it in your eyes, and other people’s faces. If you’re lucky, you can pull off the curly ponytail. But most of us are not lucky.

42) Um…Water?

People with naturally straight hair don’t get it. The hair is curly and it does what it wants. To make it curly, you just get it wet and let it dry. Simple as that.

43) Experimenting With Products

While you may have your favorite products, you can’t help but buy new ones every once in a while. They usually don’t work out so you have this giant collection just sitting there.

44) The Ultimate Bedhead

That scene in Brave is a perfect example as to what it’s like waking up with curly hair. It’s a mess, it’s in your mouth, and it scares everyone else in the room.

45) The Unpredictability

Who knows what your hair will decide to to today? It really does have a mind of its own. It might have one flat side and it might be all poof. Might as well do the shower reset now.

46) Fearing Short Hair

Getting short hair is totally in right now. But when you have curly hair, there’s always that fear that you’ll get a look you weren’t going for.

47) Constantly Breaking Brushes

You may break your fair share of ponytail holders, but what’s even more disheartening is when you break your favorite brush. Those things aren’t as easy to replace.

48) Helmets Are The Enemy

While hats are bad, helmets are ven worse. Not only do you get hat hair, you get helmet hair. Which includes the strap getting stuck in your hair and you losing a few strands.

49) Thinking Everything Is Fine Until You See Your Reflection

Oftentimes, your hair is on point when you leave the house. But after walking around for a couple of hours and you catch your reflection in a window, you wonder why no one told you that you were such a mess.

50) Humidity Will Ruin You

Humid days are worse than rainy days when you have curly hair. It doesn’t matter how many products you use, you can’t stop the poof and the poof is your worst nightmare.

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