Learning to Love Your Curls As if figuring out how to take proper care of your curls is not a whole journey in itself, curly-haired people tend to be subjected to believing that they would be better off with straight hair. Commercials that I saw on TV as a child were mostly of models with straight hair or hair with a barely-noticeable wave. Before and after photos would have pictures of girls with "untamed" frizzy, curly hair as the before photo, and the improved version would be of girls with slick straight hair. As a child, I was at a salon saying my hair would look much better if I just straightened it. I eventually formed a habit of straightening my hair whenever I wanted to look, "put together," until one day I woke up and realized I was pushing my natural curls away for no good reason.