It sounds like some new exercise trend. ‘Plopping’ refers to a method of helping to create curl structure prior to diffusing or air drying that has become a favorite among NaturallyCurly.com members.
As described by a member, after one washes and conditions the hair, you apply product to wet hair and get ready to ‘plop.’ Put a t-shirt or Aquis towel down on a chair - some use the toilet with seat down. Leaning over the towel/t-shirt with your head hanging down bent over from your waist, position the wet hair onto towel so the curls are all concentrated on top of the head. Then pull the towel taut against the top and sides of the head, grabbing the 2 sides and twisting them into long sausage rolls near each ear. Take these rolled up towel extensions and pull them to the nape of the neck and secure them by tying them together.
Says one reader, “Then I put go about my morning routine — makeup, coffee, etc. The towel helps to absorb excess water while letting the curls ’set’ into clumps. When you take the towel off, gently shake down the curls and diffuse ’s’ shaped, individual curly locks, with some volume at the roots.”
If you want extra control, another member suggests spritzing on on some spray gel or scrunch in a bit more gel after you take the towel off.
This entry was posted on Friday, August 16th, 2002 at 4:38 pm and is filed under It's a Curly World, Tips. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
[...] I use it with a technique called ‘plopping’ or ‘plunking’ and my waves come out great afterward! Naturallycurly.com: Where curls come to life! Demo Videos-Curl-Enhancing Styling Products-Moisturizing Conditioners ^other great how-tos besides [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 3:48 am
[...] my waves and wear it natural most of the time now. I learned how to do so from these two sites: Naturallycurly.com: Where curls come to life! Demo Videos-Curl-Enhancing Styling Products-Moisturizing Conditioners (the Plunking video) It [...]
September 10th, 2008 at 10:31 am
[...] afternoon, I read the article that I linked to above, and learned about ‘plopping‘ so I used a spray bottle to wet my hair, and tried ‘plopping’ before going to [...]
September 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am
[...] only wash, slapped on an intense conditioning treatment, added gel and leave-in conditioner, then plopped for 20 minutes (a perfect time to get the apple pie I had made out of the oven and devour it with [...]
October 7th, 2008 at 7:19 am
[...] lot of people with curly hair, both afro textured and other, like to do a method called “plopping“. Plopping was a no go for me. Turning my hair upside down did not yield results that I [...]
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 am
[...] eher vermeiden, viele Lockenk
January 30th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
[...] fast-forward a few months. I have a Curlease towel that I love to use for plopping, the material was a bit thin for scrunching moisture out of my hair, and I was in no mood to have [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
[...] My hair was dramatically more curly and looked nice with almost no work. Just a shower and a plop and my hair looked like [...]
June 10th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
[...] ospänstiga liksom. Oh well. Körde igång. Tvättade bara med balsam, packade in det ofta och ploppade det varje [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:54 am
[...] How could I not know about all this stuff - about The Curl Whisperer and homemade flaxseed gel and plopping and Deva cuts and Ouidad cuts and everything else???!?!? It’s enough to make a [...]
July 27th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
[...] change. Shortly thereafter I also discovered NaturallyCurly.com, where I learned even more: plopping, a more detailed hair-typing system, new products to try, and [...]
September 14th, 2009 at 9:44 am
[...] possibility is plopping. CurlTalker Littleamazon says “I’ve heard a lot of good things about plopping (the [...]
November 16th, 2009 at 7:35 am
[...] explain “plopping”. I referenced it once in this post, but here’s a picture from NaturallyCurly.com that’s very helpful. Plopping is supposed to help the hair dry and encourage curl [...]
December 15th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
[...] details because I read on the Curly Girl Method that you should use a non-terry towel to ‘plop‘ your hair because it absorbs too much water. I find that it’s perfectly OK to use a [...]
February 28th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Hard to understand these instructions actually. Can someone make a video of it, and put it on here so that we can see it being done. That would help. Thanks!