The curly method in the salon is a way of working curly and wavy hair without sulfates or silicones: curl assessment, gentle washing, hydration, a dry cut and definition without direct heat. It is charged as a service of its own, with time and price kept separate from a standard wash and style, and it is completed by selling the home routine.
What Is the Curly Method in the Salon?
The curly method, or Curly Girl Method, starts from a simple idea: a curl is not tamed, it is cared for. In the salon this becomes four working pillars, plus a list of ingredients left out because they dry the fibre or build up on it.
The pillars are gentle cleansing with a sulfate-free shampoo or co-wash, hydration with silicone-free masks and conditioners, definition without direct heat using techniques such as scrunching or plopping and a diffuser on low, and combing only when wet, with the fingers or a wide-tooth comb.
| Avoided | Why | How to spot it in the INCI |
|---|---|---|
| Strong sulfates | They dry the fibre | Sodium Lauryl Sulfate |
| Insoluble silicones | They build up on the curl | End in -cone or -xane |
| Drying alcohols | They open the curl into frizz | Alcohol denat. |
What Is a Curly Cut?
A curly cut is done curl by curl, usually on dry hair styled in its natural shape, to see where each section falls before cutting it. Wet, stretched hair is misleading: as it dries, the curl shrinks differently in each area.
Assessment comes before the cut, and it decides the product and the technique:
| Type | Pattern | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Wavy | Soft S | Little product, light textures |
| Curly | Defined loop | Definition without weight |
| Coily or afro | Tight spiral or zigzag | Intense hydration |
Porosity is added to that pattern: the hair's ability to absorb and hold water, checked on damp hair with no product.
How Much Does It Cost to Get Curls?
It depends on the service requested, because getting curls can mean two different things in the salon, and each salon sets the price according to its area, its time and its product.
| Service | What it is | Yanguas product |
|---|---|---|
| Perm | Creates curl in straight hair | Curl.Pro, lotion and neutraliser |
| Curly service | Cares for and defines a natural curl | Love Natural Curls |
The Curl.Pro perm works in two steps, the lotion that waves and the neutraliser that sets, and comes in three strengths: no. 0 for resistant hair, no. 1 for natural hair and no. 2 for coloured hair. The curly service does not change the shape of the hair: it recovers and defines it.
How to Structure and Price the Service on the Menu
The most common mistake is adding curly to the menu without its own price: it is charged like a wash and style, it disrupts the schedule because it takes longer, and it leaves no margin. The solution is to split it into modalities, each with its own time and rate.
- Curly initiation: assessment, transition clarifying wash and definition.
- Curly maintenance: wash, hydrating treatment and definition.
- Curly cut: dry, alone or combined with maintenance.
Selling the home routine is the service's other source of income, and it comes naturally because the client needs to know what to use and in what order.
💡 Pro tip: always clarify the hair before the first curly service. Removing the silicone build-up from previous products is what lets the protocol work from the first session.
The Product the Service Requires
A curly service only holds up with consistent product: if one step contains silicones, it undoes what the others did. Love Natural Curls, the Yanguas Professional care line designed for the curly method, has 95% ingredients of natural origin, is vegan and contains no salts, sulfates, silicones, alcohol or parabens.
It is made in Tudela (Navarra), with an in-house R&D&i laboratory and ISO 22716 certification for good manufacturing practices in cosmetics. What each of its six products does is explained in what products curly and wavy hair needs.
Curl.Pro for perms and Love Natural Curls for care sit, with the rest of the lines by need, in the Yanguas Professional professional hair treatments.
