There are many solutions that you can take to ensure you are retaining your moisture:

• Sleeping with a Silk or Bamboo Pillowcase
• Tying your hair into a loose ponytail at the top of your head (a pineapple) so that your curls are not crushed during sleep
• Pineappling your hair + Tying a Satin Silk scarf around your head to protect your hair or sleeping on a Silk or Bamboo Pillowcase
• Tying your hair up in a silk scarf
• Wearing a silk/satin bonnet

Remember it is not always the products that are not working for you, but it may be how you are maintaining your hair prior to your next wash.

Our goal at Curly Sister is to help you to maintain your hair in and out of the salon and to get you to your “Aha!” moment. Curly Sister will offer Classes and Personalized Consultations for Stylists and Individuals who are interested in creating fabulous waves and curls. Also, we will offer the necessities that will help you to prolong your next wash day.

I hope you are ready for our launch!!! We sure are!

Curly Sister is a Master Stylist training service that will provide video based education focused on wavy and curly hair, a skill set that is overlooked in beauty school and in stylist education. We will highlight stylists who have taken and or teach classes and help to raise awareness of their services. Our goal is to make this transition easier that it has been for many Wavies and Curlies in the past. We should all be empowered to understand our hair and have a choice to wear it how we wish! And if that wish is to wear your hair wavy or curly you will have the resources available and the stylist to support you to live a fabulous life.

Outside of living a fabulous wavy and curly life, our goal is to also build empowerment and continuing to grow curly and wavy communities. What I have noticed living in the curly world is that an emphasis is placed on products and not really how to truly maintain your hair. Most people do not know that moisture does not come from products, but it comes from WATER. Also, you may have found the holy grail of products, however if you do not know how to use them, the game is over and your hair will look like crap. Our goal is to help you to understand how to style your hair end to end and to have trained professionals to get you there! What have you learned from your stylist?

The majority of the world has textured hair and it is time that people truly have a choice and are empowered to wear it how they wish.

While I agree with his method, I am not keen on washing my hair more than once a week. However, I do believe there is simplicity in his method and it could work. I wholeheartedly believe that you should apply your products to soaking wet hair, and you should also allow your true definition to shine through. I am a tool user for my wash and go’s, but I do believe that I can achieve the same results with my hands.

Like the Curly Girl Method (CGM), the Dickey Method focuses on using your fingers to detangle. However, he falls right in line with my ministry that your hair should not be a ton of work and a wash and go is achievable for all hair types, including type 4. Where he differs from the CGM is he is focusing on the level of moisture in your hair, it is not about spending countless hours doing your hair but finding a quick method that helps to make your curls pop no matter your texture. You should not be spending countless hours or a whole day on your hair, we all have a life to live. He also does not discourage the use of heat tools, like a bonnet or a blow dryer (we all cannot sit around in the house for 6 hours waiting on our hair to dry). Here is his method broken down:

1. Detangle your hair while cleansing, using your fingers and ensuring that your hair is fully detangled. Make sure to do this in the shower and that your hair is soaking wet. In all of Anthony’s videos that I watched, he says “Water is your friend.”
2. Apply your conditioner LIBERALLY and continue to detangle with your fingers, allow the conditioner to sit in your hair as needed. Anthony Dickey says “The conditioner should help to reveal your curl pattern.” You should be using a lot of conditioner for a lot of hair and ensure that your hair is drenched and soaking wet because “Water is your friend.”
3. After rinsing out your conditioner, apply your product in the shower (Your hair should be soaking wet)! The Dickey Method recommends using a leave-in and a styler (such as a gel or custard or a mouse). The product should be applied LIBERALLY and Anthony Dickey says “ This step locks in your curl pattern.” He calls this “a glorified wet set”. Ensure your hair is saturated as your hair will sop up the product.
4. Once your product is applied, place a towel over your face (and only your face) and vigorously shake shake and shake your hair so your hair can fall in place. If it is not in the position that you want to be when you stop shaking your head, slightly maneuver it so that your hair falls into place (without breaking the set curl).
5. Finally, follow your ministry and either sit under a bonnet dryer, or diffuse or air dry. If you want to stretch your hair once it is dry, you can use concentrated nozzle and stretch your hair (by holding your hair on the end and applying the concentrated nozzle to your roots.

He believes this method should be done every 2 – 3 days (or more frequently) where you shampoo and condition on day 1 and on day 3, you co-wash.

Here is a video that shows his full process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6lOMn-c_U

He also gives recommendations for how to do this at night so that you are not taking too much time in the morning: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CG72NyAlbER/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I appreciate all of the various methods that exists for our wavy and curly hair. I believe there are many different ways to achieve the best wash and go and you should alternate styling to find the one that is best for you. However, as Anthony Dickey says, this should be convenient for you. The goal is to curate a process for you and find the best techniques to ensure that you can live your best wavy or curly life with fabulous hair.

Have you tried the Dickey Method? What are your thoughts?