By Jennifer Janisch, Ouidad certified.
Ouidad is a cutting and styling technique for wavy, tight, kinky, frizzy, hair. Ouidad is life changing for many people with unruly, frizzy, hair. How do I know? Because I live it!
My name is Jennifer and I have very curly hair. It has changed over the years. I started out with a loose wave when I was little. During my teen years my curls became tighter. As a tried to brush through them my hair looked extremely frizzy and not at all anything I wanted. A family friend permed my hair in hopes of loosening my hair. My hair turned into a insanely kinky mop after I permed it.
While in highschool I attended beauty school and leaned how to better handel my hair and grew to look it. However, my hair lacked any kind of definition. My curls moved as one full mass, never as strands. It was so stiff from the wrong products that a bird could have gotten stuck in my hair!
Many years later my good friend Andrea Kelly introduced me to Ouidad. INSTANTLY the cut "skinnied" my hair. My hair was no longer as wide as my shoulders. My curls were defined with the "rake and shake" styling technique and my curls moved like strands of hair and blew in the breeze. I had volume, not a helmet, yay! My hair is now soft and touchable.
The other thing I have found with Ouidad's cut and styling technique and the correct product description is, curly hair appears longer because it is not as wide. The whole process elongates the hair which is something us curly girls are looking for.
This experience prompted me to go to Ouidad and become a certified stylist as well. Now on a daily basis I direct curly girls to the right products for their hair. I give them a cut they love and teach them how to have amazing, healthy, defined curls that last!
Since I have curly hair myself and use Ouidad myself and on my clients, I know what works and what doesn't work. It's a BEAUTIFUL thing.
Example of a before and after by Andrea Kelly at Adored Salon
Example of a before and after by Andrea Kelly at Adored Salon