chapotraphouse

So I've never been about to figure out how to cut/style my hair. It's somewhere between curly and wavy. Wavy on a good day, but humidity or failing to pick or brush it brings out the curls and it starts to get matted and tangled.

Usually I wear a hat to deal with it getting in my face, I try to tuck it up in there or pull it back so it looks like a mullet. But usually it defaults to coming out the side in real tangly curls like a mf circus clown. Thing is I don't have a mullet, it's about 8 inches long rn all around.

I really want to keep it longer, but I'm thinking of going down to 4 inches cuz I wear a hairnet for work, but rn I am literally pulling tangled clumps out of it everytime I shower or run my fingers through it.

I've recently been using a 100% cotton towel for drying it, trying to dab not rub, but I still wash and rinse with hot water which I hear isn't good for curly hair. I use a plastic brush with the little plastic bristles with the rounded tips and a traditional hair pick to comb it. For hair product I use Aldi brand moisturizing shampoo with vitamin E, and Not Your Mother's Curl Talk sprayable leave-in conditioner.

I've come to all these methods after years of advice from hair dressers and friends, but I can't figure out how to make it more manageable and less tangled and matted. I've never posted about it tho, so maybe my fellow bears have some good advice?

Thank's for reading this, love you all!