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My new curly hair routine for 3A/3B curls

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My new curly hair routine for 3A/3B curls So over a year ago, I did a post all about my  hair care routine  and explained how having good hair seemed to help me with my depression by lifting my spirits. Well since then I've done a heck of a lot of research into the best ways to care for curly hair as well as trying a few different techniques. Now along the way, there was lots of frizz, lots of knots but in the end, lots of good results. So I thought I'd share this new routine with all my curly haired friends out there and those who are intrigued by curly hair, which to be honest seems to be everyone in my life who doesn't have it. I mean, I even have complete strangers sometimes come to look and even try to touch my hair. No, not weird at all, go ahead random person I don't know, attempt to run your hand through my impossibly thick hair while knotting it up in the process. Just....just no.   Now, just a couple of things bef...

Hair Hair everywhere... (my hair care routine)

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Hair Hair everywhere How I take care of my crazy, curly hair.   Just to let you know, most of the products I use come from the UK store BodyCare and you cannot see their products online so I'm afraid that I cannot link them for you, sorry about that.   There is no denying that my hair is crazy, curly around 95% of the time. I blame the fact that I am both part Scottish and part Irish and therefore it's down to my genes (that also explains why I'm a redhead). Anyway, it has taken me many years to accept just how my hair looks and the right way to take care of it.  Now you may be asking "but Abbie, how does your hair link to your anxiety and mental well-being?". Well you see, when I was around 6/7 years old, for whatever which we still don't know to this day, my hair was falling out to the point where I had bald spots on my head and I would wake up to clumps of hair on my pillow. The only solution to this was to have my remaining hair cut very short to ...