Curly Hair & Wash Day Hats

Curly hair comes with its own method, vocabulary and calendar. The Curly Girl Method was popularized by Lorraine Massey's book Curly Girl: The Handbook, first published on December 20, 2001, after she and Dennis Da Silva opened the first Devachan salon in New York in 1994. DevaCurl launched its first no-poo cleanser in 2002. The method discourages shampoo, straighteners and blow-dryers and encourages cleansing conditioners, which is where wash day comes from: a multi-hour ritual of washing, plopping in a towel or T-shirt, diffusing, and scrunching out the crunch once the gel cast has dried. Curly-hair lists agree on the rest. Hair brushing is a big no-no, and "behind every curly girl is an epic battle with humidity." CURLY HAIR and WASH DAY are the plain badges, and CURLY GIRL METHOD gets the arch. The longer designs cover scrunching out the crunch, clearing the calendar for wash day, the plop, scrunch and never-brush creed, a humidity forecast delivered by the curls themselves, and a dry time quoted in business days. Satin-lined baseball caps for curly hair are already an established category, marketed for days when you don't want to wash or style your hair. These are plain embroidered dad hats for the same days. Two designs come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one if the routine is yours, or give one to the curly-haired person who owns more product than groceries.