31 Problems Only People With Curly Hair Will Understand

Don’t touch my hair. Seriously, it’s going to frizz if you do. posted on June 25, 2013 at 5:15pm EDT

Erin La Rosa BuzzFeed Staff

1. This is what happens if you accidentally fall asleep with wet hair.

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2. When you realize you shouldn’t have tried to straighten your hair, but it’s too late to turn back…

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3. Getting bangs, and realizing you’ve made a huge mistake.

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4. And then trying to grow out your bangs, and having this happen:

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5. Your hair looks great for five minutes, then it’s back to the POOF.

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6. Helmets are your mortal enemy.

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7. But so is humidity, in general.

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8. Waking up and discovering that your hair has grown three sizes in every imaginable direction.

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9. Spending a fortune on products, and having them last all of a month.

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10. These have become your new BFFs.

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11. Whenever you try to get up on someone, your hair inevitably gets in the way.

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12. Snapping hair ties with the force of your curls on the regular.

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13. When you use way too much mousse and your hair gets CRUNCHY.

Crunchy hair = unhappy me.

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14. Frizz, in general.

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15. People are always trying to touch your hair, which just makes it frizzier.

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16. The fact that it will take all day for your hair to fully dry, and you can’t do anything about it.

Blow-drying will only make it worse!

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17. When you wear your hair up, it’s like one giant pom-pom.

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18. People saying, “Your hair looks so much better straight!” and thinking that’s a compliment.

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19. Combing your hair is useless.

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20. And often makes things worse.

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21. You’ve accepted that curls will regularly be in your mouth.

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22. Being afraid to cut your hair too short, because this might happen:

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23. You leave the house, and your hair looks great! Then you catch a glimpse of yourself in a window, and everything is terrible, and you don’t know what you did to deserve this.

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24. This is what happens when you try to brush your hair.

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25. This is what happens when you try to wear a hat:

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26. The dilemma of having a GREAT hair day, but knowing you need to take a shower and that could ruin it all.

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27. Finding a stylist who won’t destroy your hair world is A TERRIFYING ENDEAVOR.

I’m praying for you, boo.

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28. But even though you have a love-hate relationship with your curls, there are those truly amazing hair days.

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29. Where you feel fierce and like YOU OWN THIS.

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30. And you wonder why you ever wished you had straight hair in the first place…

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31. Yeah, you get it with your beautiful, curly-haired self!

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