When I say I?ve tested more than 200 curl products, I think I?m actually low-balling that number. It?s probably closer to 300?maybe 400" Yeah, that sounds like bullshit, but not when you consider the fact that I?ve spent the last four years of my beauty-editing life testing at least one new curl product a week, in addition to the decade I spent throwing my allowance at every drugstore curl product I could find.
And despite the billions of dollars I?ve slathered on my hair at this point, nothing?and I truly mean nothing?has ever come close to the curl cream that I first fell in love with in high school, almost a decade ago. Yes, this is a love story, folks.
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Source: Instagram It?s important to first understand that my curls are confusing as hell. Not only are they baby-fine and super limp, but they?re also part-flat and wavy, and part-ringlet-y (that?s 2B/3A curls, for you curl-guide followers), which means that almost every curl product either weighs down my hair or leaves it feeling too soft and fuzzy. So over the years, I?ve filled my bathroom and bedroom with the newest serums, shampoos, creams, jellies, mousses, leave-ins, and every other curl ?must-have? that I saw in message boards and articles, and still never came close to the AnnaLynee McCord curls of my dreams.
And then, in high school, I found it, the holy-grail curl cream that gave my curls almost weightless hold and definition, without ev...