for the first time in my 35 years of life did a "wavy hair" routine and diffused my hair and it looks so good I want to throw up. you're telling me I could have been doing this my entire life and I just didn't? i'm sick

April 10, 2026 - 20:41 UTC

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A tragic symptom of artistry

"Oh THAT'S how chords work? I could have been doing that the whole time? Let me just see if I can hoist this piano up high enough to drop it on my head like a loony toon and free me of this humiliation"
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I read about someone once taking up guitar, and they didn't know the strings were supposed to be tuned a certain way. They just figured out ways to get sounds they wanted somehow
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I so badly didn’t know I had curls that when I was 19(20 years ago) I got my hair permed 😭😭
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I also swapped to a diffuser in the last couple years and its like... night and day. Takes forever but it's so worth it! Now if only my texture would last longer than like, a day before flattening out from oil
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I learned this at 42 😭
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After wearing my frizzy hair stick straight for 47 years, I discovered I absolutely don't have straight, frizzy, hair.

I have wavy/curly hair that i have been abusing my whole life.

You're not alone.
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Yuppp. The pandemic was an eye opener for a lot of us that our hair didn't have to look frizzy and broken all the time if we just let it be itself
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Drop the routine pls.
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this is an absolutely terrible picture but look at this shit
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so. fucking. good.
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Yesssss
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damn, girl.
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At some point you're going to post a pic that's so dazzling my head will explode. Proceed with caution ...
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What guide did you use? I want to try next
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Love it!
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fuuuuck i need that too!
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Ok, I need to get one of those
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loving this for u. went on a similar journey a few years ago. have fun buying 100 new products !!
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hell yeah welcome
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Looks great
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WELCOME
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This is also how I felt after successfully doing sock curls after getting frustrated with the process
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...I mean I thought you just wanted straight hair or I would've mentioned it a long time ago
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oh yeah my wife got one of these when she wants to go Babe Mode
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No one has yet asked the most important question: what does Adonis think of your new look?
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Okay so related to this, every curly and wavy hair routine I see includes some kind of mousse or gel? Is this necessary? I fucking hate how gel and mouse makes my hair feel
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My stylist recently introduced me to Cult+King with their Multiverse and I have fallen in love with it! cultandking.com/product/multiverse-one-styling-product-for-infinite-hair-realities/
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I have 2c curls and once I switched to using shampoo and conditioner bars (Kitsch), I didn’t need mousse anymore. My only styling product is Kitsch Styling Mist, which is cruelty-free, a must for me.
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I do too. I would have more defined waves/curls if I used it but I hate using it so I juuust...don't most of the time. My hair is more soft and fluffy but that's how I prefer it
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You gotta use something, but it doesn’t have to be gel or mouse. Like you can use silicon based styling product (they call themselves oils but that’s a lie. It’s a touch of oil and mostly silicon). But that only works if you’re keeping your hair in a shape that’s similar to its natural one
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OH! So! Try Miss Jessie’s! You cannot feel it at ALL. And it works better than the crunchy shit.
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I don't like how gel or mousse feel, either! I use this curl cream: us.davines.com/products/love-curl-cream
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Pics?!
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I didn’t even know my hair was curly until my late 20s I know this feeling lol
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Had this same experience a year ago and was mildly furious.
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BLESS US WITH A PICTURE i love seeing folks try new hair things
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what is diffusing one's hair? i am in the same position. i would like to do something other than ponytail one day.
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There is an attachment for blowdryers called a diffuser. You can put some curl creme in or just let it go and use that attachment to get the curls of your life. It’s lovely.
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unless yr blowing yr hair straight (like round brushing it) everyone should be using a fucking diffuser
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I don't even know what that is. I will research
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guess what i've been fucking doing???????????
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I don't have time!!
(Except on the weekends, and then my curls look great, under a bandana while I garden)
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But is it as good as Adonis's coat? No.
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Recently, I googled haircuts for frizzy hair and ended up doing a "wolf cut". Guess what? I don't have to do ANYTHING with my hair anymore.
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i started doing the wavy hair thing and my hair… stopped knotting itself

literally my hair would knot itself immediately after combing. when i was a kid, my friends called my hair “the beast.”

turns out it’s bc it’s wavy

i‘m still mad
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I was introduced to a diffuser by a stylist who literally changed my life when I was 12 years old. I’ve never dried it without one since.
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But cait you're only 25.
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As a fellow light wavy who could never figure out why my hair brushed out so poofy, sigh yeah. Yeah.
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The wave is why it brushes out poofy? Grew my fine hair out during COVID, discovered it had a nice wave, and couldn't get it to be non poofy so I cut it off.
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Could you share which diffuser you have? 🥺 asking for a friend who is me
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I've had things like this and the only reason I don't get bummed is I tell myself the fact I can still get surprised by little things in life means that life isn't fully boring yet.
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If you do it right, you'll be surprised how not boring life can remain.
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i've only used a diffuser a few times with curl creme and it's crazy effective
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I didn't even really do it right (apparently you're supposed to do it on low speed to keep the waves defined) and it was still absolutely wild
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Also, if you haven’t already, stop washing your hair every day. When I found out I had wavy/curly hair and was taught how to care for it, it blew my mind.
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Yuuup I seriously wash it 1-2 times a week. I use a dry shampoo in between if needed.

Oh, and if anyone is looking for a curl cream that lasts for fucking ever, holds curl, and is basically weightless you cannot go wrong with anything from Miss Jessie’s.
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This happened to my wife last year
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you’re going to have to drop the routine I fear
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Me after being told by a hairstylist at age 27 "if I had your curls I'd wear them all the time"

I'm sorry, my hair is curly????
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DUDE, I started using a diffuser last year and my life has vastly improved.
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Oh wow it's so pretty!
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