The SexyHair Curl Guide: Mousse, Creme-Gel and Curling Creme

SexyHair carries three curl products, and that is worth saying plainly up front: this is a styling brand that handles curls, not a curl brand. There is no curl cleanser, no curl mask and no deep conditioner in the line. What it does have is three genuinely different ways to hold a curl pattern in place.

The three products

  • Curl Power Curl Bounce Mousse (239 g, $26.50) — a mousse for damp hair. Lightest of the three, best for wavy to loose-curl hair where a cream would weigh the pattern down. Bounce rather than clump definition.
  • Ultra Curl Curl Support Styling Creme-Gel (150 ml, $26.50) — the crossover product. Creme-gels give you a cream's moisture feel and a gel's hold, which is the combination tighter curl patterns usually need to stop frizzing as they dry.
  • Curling Creme (150 ml, $26.50) — a moisturizing control creme. This is the one for curls you are shaping with heat — a wand, an iron, a diffuser on high — rather than air-drying.

Which one, in one question

Are you air-drying or heat-shaping?

  • Air-drying a wave or a loose curl → Curl Power mousse.
  • Air-drying or diffusing a tighter curl that frizzes as it dries → Ultra Curl creme-gel.
  • Building the curl with a wand or iron → Curling Creme, and always over Protect Me.

Cocktailing, honestly

Mousse plus creme-gel on the same damp head is a real technique, not a sales line — mousse through the mid-lengths for lift, creme-gel raked through the ends for definition. It works. What does not work is layering either of them over a product you applied yesterday; curl products need clean, damp hair to set against.

Finishing a curl

Curls fail at the finish more often than at the start. Three options, in order of how much they change the look:

  1. Love Oil ($27.75) — a few drops on dry curls for shine and to knock back halo frizz. Silicone-free, which matters if you are avoiding build-up.
  2. Weather Proof ($26.50) — humidity resistance. On a damp day this is the difference between the curl you set and a cloud.
  3. So Touchable ($27.00) — the only hairspray in the range light enough not to stiffen a curl.

What is missing, and what to use instead

There is no SexyHair curl shampoo or conditioner on the current Canadian form. The nearest thing the brand has to conditioning is Tri-Wheat Leave-In Conditioner ($24.50), which is a genuine leave-in and a sensible base layer under any of the three curl products on damp hair. For washing, use whatever curl shampoo you already like.

A curl routine from what actually exists

  1. Curl Power mousse through damp hair, scrunched upward.
  2. Ultra Curl creme-gel raked through the mid-lengths and ends.
  3. Air-dry or diffuse. Love Oil on the dry curl to finish.

$80.75 at current prices, and it is a complete curl routine using only products the brand still makes.

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