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A review by leahnoel
Curly Girl by Lorraine Massey
1.0
Unfortunately this book reads like a teen mag for girls who hate their curly hair. Curly Girl is written by a hair stylist that speaks confidently about the best ways to manage curly hair without actually providing much (if any) science behind the claims. "I estimate that 65 percent of all women have wavy or curly hair..." Based on what? Does it include all women in the whole world? How many men? Baseless claims like these are rampant.
Her homemade hair treatments are mostly rubbish. Having had curly hair for over 30 years I can say with certainty that the author's advice never to use shampoo on curly hair is not good advice for most curly hair. I've spent considerable time using only conditioner, baking soda and apple cider vinegar, and just water. None of those methods work for me, although the baking soda and cider vinegar were decent. In this book however, the author mentions using baking soda but leaves out cider vinegar, which is necessary in cleaning and conditioning your hair because the science of pH levels actually works. Anyway, it's not true that conditioner cleans your scalp- it actually clogs your hair follicles and causes your hair to suffocate and stop growing.
The whole book should be discarded; there wasn't enough salvageable material in this book to glean even 2 stars.
Her homemade hair treatments are mostly rubbish. Having had curly hair for over 30 years I can say with certainty that the author's advice never to use shampoo on curly hair is not good advice for most curly hair. I've spent considerable time using only conditioner, baking soda and apple cider vinegar, and just water. None of those methods work for me, although the baking soda and cider vinegar were decent. In this book however, the author mentions using baking soda but leaves out cider vinegar, which is necessary in cleaning and conditioning your hair because the science of pH levels actually works. Anyway, it's not true that conditioner cleans your scalp- it actually clogs your hair follicles and causes your hair to suffocate and stop growing.
The whole book should be discarded; there wasn't enough salvageable material in this book to glean even 2 stars.