Online Find: British Curlies

While looking for products to treat our natural afro hair, we came across British Curlies. Intrigued, due to the fact that it can be hard to source US products – which tend to be better suited to our hair type – we had a brief chat with the company about the natural hair movement and the wonderful world of curly hair!

Jill Scott

British Curlies was launched in May 2009 and has a global following of customers from all ethnicities who they help to understand how to properly care for their curls while providing all the resources to enable them to have their best Curl days ever!

They are the only UK website dedicated to naturally curly hair providing a curl forum, styling advice and a curly emporium with the best products for naturally curly hair.

The company was started by Keisha Jo Lawler after she stopped relaxing her hair. She soon realised that Curlies in the UK did not have a great selection of products or any online community to share and learn from and that Curlies seemed to be lacking representation in the UK media. Keisha Jo wanted to change that!

Solange 

AB: Solange Knowles seems to have started a trend toward natural hair - have you noticed curly hair is more popular now?

BC: Solange is new to the natural curly hair community. The Natural Curly Hair Community has been going strong for many years now and it is nice to see young celebrities realising that they don’t need the weaves or the relaxers to make it in Hollywood or anywhere for that matter. I would definitely not say that we are seeing a trend just the awareness growing as more women realise the harmful effects of chemically processing their hair and equally the joy and beauty to be had in wearing their own natural texture with pride. Type Natural Hair into YouTube and you will see the thousands of women from all over the world celebrating their natural hair. It is an inspiring and joyful movement.

AB: What products work best on different types of curls?

Yaya DaCosta

BC: British Curlies provides solutions for wavy, loose curls, curly and tightly coiled afro curly hair for both adults and children. Each texture has different needs, for instance wavy curls need products that provide hold but no weight while tightly coiled afro textures loves hair butters, oils and heavy creamy products.

We offer a service called the Curl Guide in our Curly Emporium where customers who need product selection help can submit their questions and get information on choosing the right products for their personal texture. We also have videos showing great styling ideas plus style guides that can be printed off our site in the comfort of your home.

Whatever your hair type – corkscrew curls, fractal curls, wavy or cherub curls – British Curlies has the right advice and product selections for you. They ship internationally and carry bestsellers like Mixed Chicks, Miss Jessie’s and Kinky Curly.

www.britishcurlies.co.uk