I naturally have wavy-ish straight hair around my crown area, but around the nape of my neck and forehead, I have spirals like Shakira. Around my temple area, the hair is completely straight! The rest of it is just slightly wavy. WTF? I feel like my hair is fine, thin to medium, however stylists have told me my actual strands are more coarse, and my hair is 100% average thickness.
I want to have all over spirals with tons of volume from the root, like Shakira. I want my hair to naturally curl up like that when it gets wet, so I can air dry it into spirals (with product and a diffuser) or I can straighten it if I want, and it will still look shiny and sleek like a Pantene commercial, not that coarse wavy-ish straight hair that's obviously super curly. I've done some research, and I believe a cold perm would be best for this, definitely not a digital perm.
I dye my hair with a demi dye and volume 10 developer about every two months (This one: http://www.sallybeauty.com/on/demand...Burgundy+Brown with this developer: http://www.sallybeauty.com/ion-devel...cgid=Hair05-06) I've also had some ombre highlights put in a few months ago using watered down bleach, I color over those but they still remain lighter than the rest of my hair, which I love. I've noticed zero damage from the highlights. My hair is in amazing condition, way above average. I am about to buy new hair and make some clip ins, and I am thinking about dying and perming the extension hair as well.
Here are my questions:
Is this unrealistic? Am I at more risk frying my hair than achieving my desired result? Should I just buy a conical curling iron and spend hours doing it that way?
With the extensions, should I dye first then perm or vice versa? And, should I go ahead and touch up my color before I perm or wait until after? The demi seems to condition my hair and make it shiny and healthy rather than rough it up and make it porous like permanent dyes do.
I do realize that I can braid my hair wet, do a sock bun, etc etc, but that's not exactly the look I want, because when I do those, my hair is just a giant zig zag frizz ball because of my natural texture. I want defined spiral ringlets (like Shakira!)
I'm in Puerto Rico right now, and I went to a very Puerto Rican local non touristy salon in Santurce, and the woman there told me that she could do a non damaging perm that consists of painting on some liquid, then curling it with a curling iron, and I couldn't wash it for 4 days, but it would last a few months. I have no idea what this is...
Any advice or input ladies? Gracias!![]()




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