My Hair Journey! I didn't know my hair was curly/wavy (with pictures!)

[@godsavethequeen457]

I have just begun my curly girl journey last week. I am 38 and believed my entire life that I had lifeless straight hair. I decided to try the curly girl method recently to see how it would turn out and I am floored. I was initially skeptical but I am a true believer now. I have genuine 2a - 2b waves like I never would have imagined. Even though my hair is in the transition phase and looks more frizzy than it did before, I am still loving the results I am seeing and I can't wait to see what it will look like in months/years from now. My hair feels like it has more life and volume to it and I love it!

[@intofinnair]

i also had youtube recommend that 'i didnt know my hair was curly' video and thats how i started to look into my own wavy hair 😂

[@tabithagingerich]

Haha crazy! Love that 💕

[@saggguy7]

Same!! It was that video that started my curly hair journey lol

[@jeng6786]

Same

[@beckabecks]

I'm 46 and I just found out my hair is wavy, like a couple of weeks ago. Would always fight frizz while blowdrying and when it was humid - there was one section that would refuse to be blowdried straight, right on top of my head, so I thought what would happen if I just scrunched it with some product? Bought some random product and got amazing curls that look like yours. Now I'm on a journey, bought more things, a diffuser, and exploring this new me.

[@valentinagomez6838]

I’m 25 and I’m just discovering my own wave pattern. Your videos have been so helpful to get started on this journey!

[@tabithagingerich]

💕💕

[@jennettecolon7772]

To my eyes, my hair has ALOT of volume and a slight wave and my cousin ALWAYS tells me "you have wavy/curly hair, you just don't know it" I'm going to go on a wavy/curly journey to see if it's true. Thank you for this video!

[@tabithagingerich]

Love hearing this ❤️ thank you for watching!

[@jennettecolon7772]

@@tabithagingerich you're welcome! Love your channel, from fragrance reviews to hair journeys ❤

[@tabithagingerich]

@@jennettecolon7772 Awwh I appreciate that so much!!

[@jessicagalyon5840]

How did it go? Just starting mine. I always thought my hair was just frizzy w a bit of wave

[@MimicIsaac]

I suspect my phone's ability to really listen to me is why youtube and I get along really well.

[@tabithagingerich]

Lol true

[@page7892]

I live in Tokyo and recently got a perm. Months before getting the perm my hairdresser said I already had wavy hair so I probably didn’t need a perm. But I dismissed her comment. Now that I have a perm and researching how to look after curly hair I’m realizing I probably do have naturally wavy hair 😬. Now I have to wait months (only had it for a month) for it to grow out to see if I do have wavy hair. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@kailey3909]

wow I’m so early! I didn’t really know mine was wavy/curly either but now that I know how to take care of it, I embrace it!

[@tabithagingerich]

Welcome 🤍 love that!

[@abbyseaders2135]

Those pictures at 20:11 are so pretty! I love the texture you had there

[@eshashah17]

The similarities between your hair and mine are uncanny. Thank you for sharing your method, always very insightful. It would be great to see your hair journey over a week - how often you end up refreshing, styles you might do when you don't have time to wash/refresh. Looking for an honest perspective and ideas on how to manage wavy hair, I'm assuming you too have days of not perfect hair which would give a fellow wavy girl some solace haha :)

[@barbarametzger9616]

This! This is my story as well but I’m 47 😆 during the pandemic I’ve been watch many more KZbin videos.. I stumbled on a video on here and realized my ever frizzy poofy hair that was often super snarly could possibly have natural bends to it. Tried a few of the techniques I learned and low and behold I do indeed have wavy/curly hair. Who knew?! 💁🏽‍♀️

[@tabithagingerich]

Love that! It’s so fun discovering it isn’t it!? 💓

[@amymbeauty8765]

Love your natural wave pattern now and the lightened color is beautiful but you looked absolutely adorable in that picture @ 19:34 Seriously such a great look! I get why you liked dark hair. I've also always been super experimental with my hair and have gone through every phase of cut and color and am only now starting to finally embrace my natural waves instead of fighting against them lol. These videos have been very helpful so thank you 😊

[@anaabsolute]

LOVED all the throwbacks 😍 & love your hair I think short hair suits you better too. & I really really love the lighter hair too,

[@tabithagingerich]

Haha they’re a lil cringe for me but it was still fun to put this together ☺️ thank you! And thanks for watching!

[@dianneb7316]

I love this length and color on you. It looks beautiful.

[@kimmiehengz]

I’ve always had silky soft smooth hair but when I’m swimming or at the beach, i see little waves in certain lumps. Once i comb it, it’s back to silky straight ish again. I’m 37 now and decided to try this out. And yes. I’m a type 2a wavy girl 😂 i love it. But it is a lot more work compared to my usual wash, comb and airdry smooth hair

[@Mona-nx3bb]

Woah that's the same video that got me into my curly hair journey! It just popped up on my feed one day and I don't remember ever searching about anything hair related prior to that 🤯

[@tabithagingerich]

Crazy right!?

[@Mona-nx3bb]

@@tabithagingerich Definitely!

[@lettinggrace]

I love your long hair, but this length is soo pretty on you too!

[@satvik4566]

You discovered it when you hit 20. I discovered it this year. I am 27 already. I felt I wasted the best 7 years of my life not knowing what to do with my hair.

[@irairod5160]

I discovered it last year. I'm 53. I win! (Or, "I lost!"...oh my goodness! All of those years not knowing!) The first time I used a gel and scrunched my hair, I was shocked, SHOCKED, to see waves appear. It was a revelation. Now I have 2b waves that I adore!

[@aliciaaltom6652]

I'm in my 30s.. so don't feel bad! Most ppl with wavy or "frizzy" hair have curls to some extent they just don't know it and or it's damaged and that's why. Let's reclaim our curls girls!! 🧜‍♀️

[@srishtisaha3981]

You are beautiful! And so is your hair!!

[@tabithagingerich]

Thank you!! 🤍

[@annaburns5382]

I really like your hair longer. It's so pretty.

[@tabithagingerich]

Thank you 🤍

[@rebeccar628]

I relate so much to this. Thinking my hair was just poofy and frizzy. Girls would come to school with wet hair and it would dry perfectly straight and I was always like 😮

[@tabithagingerich]

Haha I definitely feel that 🥲

[@ViaK-gs9fn]

i wanna do my routine on my mum so badly cuz she defo had curls but she refuses to believe me and she has sm bleach and heat damage. once we were out and her hair was wet and i scrunched it and she didnt take notice cuz she was talking to my dad and i said to her when it dried a bit more look at ur hair its wavy and she jus brushed me off. im so upset that cuz of where and when and the way she grew up meant she hated her hair growing up and that lead to me growing up that way too

[@ChangesOfTomorrow]

I always wanted to have curly hair instead of the frizzy puffy mess on my head. Turns out I always had waves, but kept ruining them for 30 years :| I also discovered that randomly, via tik-tok video. It's reassuring that others were also struggling figuring out their hait. I'm at that weird stage where it's definitely more curly than a month ago, but still doesn't look particularly good. Better than before, but now that it curls more it looks like I have less of it, (not just shorter) not sure how to explain. Any advice on that?

[@sirenelectric143]

Am I the only one that has two hair patterns? Both my parents have wavy/curly hair and so does my brother but I always assumed I just got “straight” frizzy hair. KZbin started recommending these “I didn’t know my hair was wavy videos” and so I thought I would give it a try (turns out when I put product in my hair it has 2a/2b waves) now the big c waves around my baby hairs make sense! But I struggle because the bottom half of my hair has waves even when it dries with no product bu t the top layer of my hair is soooo difficult to get any waves in it, even with products it never waves from the root only from halfway to the tips. It makes me question if I don’t actually have wavy hair? Just wondering if anyone else deals with this...I know it’s possible to have two or more curl patterns, and my top layer may also be the most damaged and that maybe why. It’s just very discouraging to try to keep at my hair journey because sometimes I feel I may be forcing my hair to do something it doesn’t want to

[@tabithagingerich]

It could be a number of things, I wouldn’t give up yet! If you have a wave or curl pattern that’s natural, then it’s normal for it to be inconsistent. It could be damaged like you said, or maybe add some layers if your hair is all one length?

[@saumyapandey04]

I have actually read about people having more than one hair texture on their heads. Look up for it, maybe that helps

[@bobbieditcharo-roland608]

You have beautiful hair; would love to see your wavy hair a little longer.

[@ViaK-gs9fn]

omg u literally spoke my childhood in one video. only difference is i realised my hair was naturally curly at 15 and started transitioning which was going well till now. my routine was no longer working and school is stressing so i cut it all off myself without telling my mum. i got sick of all the aunties being like mAsHaLlAh uR hAiRs sO lOnG aNd bEauTiFuL aNd sTraIGhT. i still argue wit my mum who loves my hair long and straight but its the best reset for my curls and im so happy i cut all the heat damage off

[@ioanaschifirnet3814]

Blast from the future in 2023: you did grow your hair super long and it’s very cool! Haha. Great video!

[@lottieluluheaven1419]

I’m so confused with my hair and I don’t know where to start or what products to buy😭

[@monsev.arellano9125]

Have you watched Manes by Mel? She has great videos and she has really helped me a lot.

[@SAHMOMentum]

Absolutely love your videos!! Thank you for sharing!

[@thepinkblush119]

Nice! my natural hairs 2a, 2b wavy I usually wear it natural

[@kitti2345]

I have 2A hair after brushing it out or frizzy straight hair. I wonder what would happen if I try the curly girl method

[@cornellfoodie]

Love that pixie on you!!!

[@tabithagingerich]

Thanks! 🥰

[@reyfarce5697]

You are drop dead gorgeous😍

[@SwavyBlonde]

Story of my life and many other wavies out there!

[@tabithagingerich]

❤️❤️ love that we can all relate in this way

[@abbywalker4293]

I just figured out why mine completely disappeared. Bleaching 😭 my untouched under length is wavy and on top is almost straight.

[@ramisa1059]

My hair looks like your hair in the picture. But using curly products doesn’t help my hair much. I have thin hair and it gets weighted down. But thank you for sharing your story!

[@CJbrieflittlecandle]

My hair is thin too and I find if I only use a volumizing mousse or foam with some protein and no coconut oil in it, it’s wavy and less frizzy and not so weighed down

[@ramisa1059]

@@CJbrieflittlecandle Thank you! I will try that!

[@aliciat6719]

This might be a random question, but when you get your hair cut what do you ask for?? I never know what o ask for that will benefit my curly/wavy hair (which is actually very similar to yours!!) to prevent the "triangle look" LOL

[@tabithagingerich]

This is actually one of my most asked questions 😁 we start with a blunt cut (slightest angle to the front) and then I ask for lots of texturizing and some discreet hidden layering. (Layers within the hair)

[@aliciat6719]

@@tabithagingerich thank you so much!! :)

[@amypreece9882]

That was the same for me I have thick wavy curly hair

[@rinidmoron]

I have thin low density hair,waist length wavy hair. My hair usually gets quite flat at the roots. Do you think I should keep the length short to have more definition at the roots?

[@tabithagingerich]

That might help.. what if you just added layers to your long hair and just took off an inch or so? Sometimes our curl patterns are just different and certain areas have more definition than others. Hope I could help ❤️

[@JenniferHeartsong]

I am 42 and still trying to figure out how to style my hair... It's a combo of waves and curls.. wurly..

[@tabithagingerich]

Haha yess! It’s a journey 💓

[@heleneward1]

How do you know the different curl types

[@pgibby25]

I’m watching this forever later, but it’s funny to me, because I did the same thing! Cut my long hair into a bob, grew it out, cut a pixie, and now two grow outs and pixies later, I’m trying to grow it out long again 😅

[@labornurse]

Wow, I have never seen anyone experiment with their hair as much as me, until now!

[@amypreece9882]

My nice gave me some ideas like you

[@amypreece9882]

I love watching your videos

[@hayat4110]

Never have been sooooooo early❤️❤️

[@tabithagingerich]

❤️❤️

[@kayceejames9769]

This is actually kinda crazy, your wave type looks exactly like mine. The first curly hair video that made me realize i had wavy hair is the exact first video you watched. My mom has curlier hair than me but she's never styled it curly, it looks just like your mom's hair in the back. My sister has about 3b coils like your sister as well. What ethnicity are you?

[@sweetpeaify]

Wow this sounds like a lot like my hair journey minus a few things.

[@tabithagingerich]

❤️❤️

[@sweetpeaify]

@@tabithagingerich ❤️❤️

[@brianna._.faith5]

I’ve always had long thick hair and I never knew it was wavy but it was always just not right then TikTok convinced me I had wavy/curly hair so I tried my hair to see if it is wavy/curly and I actually have 2c/3a hair and I need help...I don’t know what I’m doing LoL ❤️

[@auroracharming5531]

Our phones listen to us is a terrifying sentence!🤭

[@tabithagingerich]

I know 😳

[@buddyholly4672]

Your hair texture/density wouldn't change from a haircut. It would change from years of applying chemicals directly to your scalp.

[@tabithagingerich]

I’m sure I didn’t suggest that my hair changed from a haircut 🙃 I said it changed as I got older 😊❤️

[@canileavethisspaceblank6190]

Some say my hair is straight. Some say it’s wavy and I don’t know it. At this point I have no idea lmao

[@tabithagingerich]

Watch some videos and experiment with it 😊 good luck!

[@canileavethisspaceblank6190]

@@tabithagingerich thanks! I might need it, lol

[@aish0059]

How old were you when you got married?

[@tabithagingerich]

Barely 20 🤪 I got my time estimates wrong though because I was actually 21 when I discovered my wavy hair. It was probably a few months after my birthday

[@aish0059]

@@tabithagingerich oh wow same age as me! Have you tried the jessi curl products?

[@tabithagingerich]

Haha nice! I haven’t yet, it’s a brand on my list but there’s so many!!