If you’ve got curly hair, you’ll no doubt know the struggles of trying to find the best hair mask for curly hair. Curly hair is usually in desperate need of moisture, but you don’t want anything that will weigh your bouncy locks down. You also want something that will help to detangle unruly curls, reduce any frizz, treat dryness and make your hair feel all around goddess-like. Yep, that’s quite a lot of boxes to tick, but don’t worry – we’ve got what you need.
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And although there are some amazing salon treatments that will aide curly hair, you don’t need to leave your house to keep your strands in line. The right hair mask for curly hair will give your locks what they need from the comfort of your own bathroom (or bedroom, or lounge room, or courtyard – I don’t pretend to know what you do).
Once you’ve given these a go, you’ll be seeing less of the things that make you want to literally pull your hair out (dryness, frizziness, tangles) and more of the stuff that makes you want to show off your curls (bounce, volume, definition). Because unlike Miley Cyrus, curly hair can be tamed – it just needs the right line up of products to get it there.
Alfaparf Milano Precious Nature for Curly & Wavy Hair Mask
The Alfaparf Milano Precious Nature for Curly & Wavy Hair Mask is ideal for dry, fine curls as it’s lightweight and won’t add excess weight to your hair. It’ll also help to define curls, add bounce, detangle and make short work of frizz and flyaways. We’ll take 10, please!
Pureology Super Smooth Relaxing Hair Masque
Got super coarse hair that just won’t quit? The Pureology Super Smooth Relaxing Hair Masque is the one for you. It’ll give your hair the hit of moisture that it’s so desperately crying out for and leave you with smoother, silkier strands.
Kérastase Paris Discipline Masque Curl Idéal
The Kérastase Paris Discipline Masque Curl Idéal is the perfect hair mask for weekly curl maintenance.The formula works with curls to enhance their individual shape and movement and a Pro-Keratin and Elastin complex works to discipline and define curls, creating a desirable springy effect while still nourishing the hair fibre. A+!
Aveda Be Curly Intensive Detangling Masque
If you’re more into naturally-derived formulas, the Aveda Be Curly Intensive Detangling Masque is gonna be your new best friend. It’ll separate tangled curls, moisturise the bejesus out of them and then work on minimising the frizz factor. Natural shea butter and certified organic babassu and baobab oils will calm your hair while the organic lime, lemon, bergamot and orange scent will make it smell bomb AF.
Moroccanoil Smoothing Mask
Sayonara unmanageable strands! The Moroccanoil Smoothing Mask has a thick, rich consistency that will get right into the hair follicle and travel down to the dry ends of curly hair (which doesn’t occur naturally when your curls are coiled super tight). Argan butter, argan oil and coconut-derived fatty acids in the formula will also help to restore health and shine.
Shea Moisture SuperFruit Complex 10-IN-1 Renewal System Hair Masque
Curly-haired babes will want to start lining up now for the Shea Moisture SuperFruit Complex 10-IN-1 Renewal System Hair Masque (From $12.99, amazon.com.au). Launching in Australia very soon, the Shea Moisture range is popular with curly hair types for a reason. This winner fuses split ends, seals in moisture and leaves curls shinier, stronger and healthier.
John Frieda Frizz Ease® Miraculous Recovery® Intensive Masque
You’d expect nothing less than a stellar hair mask for curly hair from these guys. The John Frieda Frizz Ease® Miraculous Recovery® Intensive Masque is another great addition to the Frizz Ease® range that is created specifically with spiral-haired beauties in mind. This one helps to work against breakage, which is very common with dry curly hair. It contains avocado oil to visibly repair and fortify dry, damaged and frizzy hair and it actually is quite miraculous, really.
Redken Frizz Dismiss Mask
If frizz is your main hair gripe, the Redken Frizz Dismiss Mask will sort you right out. It’s got zero sulfates and it’s sodium chloride-free, so you can be sure that it won’t anger your frizzy hair further. Rinse it out and voila – curly hair, minus the halo! You’re very welcome my curly-haired friend.
I use John Frieda & MUK other products dont seem to cut it with my hair type.
I have a friend who has super curly hair. I will have to ask her if she has used some of these products.
So many of those products have silicone in them, which is actually detrimental for the moisture that makes curly hair healthy.
Love Kerstase
love to try kerastase
I'd love to have natural curly hair as my hair is frizzy with no curls.
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These all sound good, especially Alfaparf. I'm using the Pureology shampoo and conditioner at the moment and I like them so perhaps I should give their mask a go first
I have used Alfaparf Milano shampoo and conditioner before and its great for curls so the mask sounds like its worth a try too