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Each cocktail was created using input from our loyal curlies, and contains a customized combination of your “Holy Grail” products. They come specially packaged with a range of three to five products, a recipe card and a wide-toothed comb.

“The benefit of using more than one product in curly hair is that you can fine tune the texture and resilience of the curl and the shape of the style,” says Giovanni Giuntoli, a session artist for Redken. “Sometimes one product doesn’t give you all the benefits of two or three. It’s similar to giving your hair a multivitamin, compared to just a Vitamin C tablet. It helps out more.”

Diedre Boone, owner of The Root of You Salon and Day Spa in Houston says women with curls and kinks have such a wide variety of hair types and one product rarely does the trick.

“The fact that their hair textures vary so dramatically, we find it necessary to mix together different products on different people,” Boone says.

In addition to offering up our new cocktails, we are kicking off our “Create Your Own Curly Cocktail™” contest during the month of October. Readers are invited to submit their own cocktails, and the winning creation will be announced in NaturallyCurly’s Nov. 20 online newsletters as well as on the NaturallyCurly site.

Readers are allowed two options: create a cocktail using products available in CurlMart or create a cocktail using any products of their choosing, whether they be salon brands or drugstore offerings. Winners will be selected for each option, and each will receive a $50 CurlMart gift certificate.

We asked for your favorite Curly Cocktails™, and you sent us a wide variety of delectable concoctions for every curl type It was tough to choose a winner! We chose two that were creative as well as user friendly. Thank you for all your wonderful entries.

Cocktail #1 (CurlMart products): Piña Curlata (For type 3b hair)
Mixed by Laura Benton, aka mysteryflavored

Innersense Quiet Calm Curl Control
Alagio Crazy Curl Curl Enhancer Balm
Curl-Ease Towel
DevaCurl Set it Free

Mix equal parts Innersense Quiet Calm Curl Control and Alagio Crazy Curl Curl Enhancer Balm in the palm, and rake/smooth into wet hair. Scrunch or plop in the Curl-Ease towel and finish it off with a couple spritzes of DevaCurl Set it Free. Voila: soft, frizz-free curls with a yummy, fruity scent!

Cocktail #2 (non-CurlMart products): 2 Smooth “Fixor” Creme (For type 3a hair)
Mixed by Carrie Bowling

Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum
Bumble and Bumble Curl Creme
Aveda Confixor and
Aveda Light Elements Smoothing Fluid

Apply Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum to lightly coat hair. Apply Bumble and Bumble Curl Creme and Aveda Confixor to control and activate curl. Air dry or diffuse. Then apply a small amount of Aveda Light Elements Smoothing Fluid to the ends.

Both winners receive a $50 gift certificate to CurlMart, NaturallyCurly’s online boutique, just in time for some holiday shopping.

Laura will see her idea become a real Curly Cocktail™ next year in CurlMart!
Carrie wins virtual retail therapy — customized, personalized expert tips and tricks for tackling the toughest clothing calamities — courtesy of FashionJunkie.com.

Congratulations again to Laura and Carrie!