How to Use Mousse on Curly Hair: CG Proof Tips & Tricks (2024)

Before you apply hair mousse make sure that your curls are wet. Preferable clean hair that was just washed with a cg proof clarifying shampoo and not yet styled with styling products.

Start by soaking your curls with water or apply your curly hair mousse after you step out of the shower.

For the best results you can use a hair mousse on damp hair and after that use a blow dryer with a diffuser attachment to blow dry and style your curls. Even better is to towel dry your curls.

The reason why you need to apply the hair mousse on soaked hair is because it allows the mousse to melt into your hair shafts and disperse effortlessly. It creates more volume, adding body and give added texture.

Mousse is a versatile product and also a lightweight product that doesn’t weigh down your hair. That’s why it’s mainly used by people with wavy hair, also called wavies.

But it also is an ideal hair product for curlies who don’t want to spend a lot of time on their hair. Mousse creates a slight cast, so your curls will dry faster than with gel.

You can use a mousse on curly or wavy hair. But there a few differences for example the hair texture. We will explain what to use for yourhair to achieve the best natural curls you can get.

It doesn’t matter if your hair is curly, straight or coily. Even those with fine hair can benefit with a mousse. It can add extra volume to less naturally voluminous strands.

If you have curl type 2 wavy curls, we recommend to use mousse as a styling product in your Curly Girl routine. Many Curly Girls use gel, but for Wavy Girls this is often too heavy. Therefore, we prefer styling mousse.

After you rinsed out, bend over, so your hair is flipped upside-down. For best results, pair mousse with a leave-in conditioner to soaked hair, followed by mousse as a styler.

Divide this over your hair using the praying hands method, and start scrunching. Stand up straight, flipping your hair back to normal in the process, and let your hair air dry.

When your hair is dry, you have a cast and it’s time to scrunch out the crunch!

This involves scrunching your hair again, but now you’re breaking the cast. This creates soft curls with a lot of definition.

If your hair is naturally tin, flat or do you even have straight hair you can still benefit from a hair mousse. Get a hair mousse that works perfectly for your hair. Apply hair mousse to wet hair and then you can carefully curl your hair with an curling iron to avoid burning strands. Don’t forget to use a heat damage prevent spray before using a curling iron!

The mousse will give you an extra body to your locks.

After curling your strands dry wet hair with a cotton towel until it is slightly damped. Use a cotton towel or cotton t-shirt instead of a regular towel.

A regular towel can damage your hair when using to dry your hair. Gently squeeze out excess water as you do so.

If you are in a hurry you can also use a hair dryer.

Instead of spritzing and spraying heaviy with styling producfts, just simply try applying a few pumpos of hair mousse to light soaked strangs. It helps to add hold without your hair getting to heavy.

If you use the right method the hair mousse product should look and feel like it didn’t cost you any time to fix your curls! But still looking fabulous!

Also read: Wavy Girl Method: the routine for wavy hair

Another way to use mousse, is with the mousse gel mousse technique. First apply mousse, then gel and then mousse again.

You don’t have to use two different mousse products, this can be the same one. Then you can scrunch your hair with a cotton t-shirt or microfiber towel and let it air dry or diffuse.

You can also use mousse to refresh your curls a few days after a wash day. Dampen your hair slightly with a water spray and apply mousse using the praying hands method. You need a few pumps in a golf ball sized amount. A quarter sized amount is enough for smaller curls!

Scrunch and let it air dry. When your hair is dry, you can scrunch the cast out again.

Also read: Freshening up your curls in between washes

Does your hair have a protein deficiency and therefore an overload of hydration?

Then it is best to focus on adding protein to your hair and less on hydration.

Is your hair dry, lifeless, and does it feel like straw? Then you probably have a protein overload, or a lack of hydration.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask us!