Curly Hair Resources & Education in New Zealand
If you’re here, you’re probably trying to make sense of your curls.
Maybe you’re right at the beginning. Maybe you’ve tried a dozen things already. Or maybe you’re tired of opening one more tab and feeling more confused than when you started.
Overwhelm is common in the curly world. There’s no shortage of advice. What’s often missing is context.
As a curl specialist in New Zealand, my aim is to provide curly hair education that is practical, thoughtful, and relevant to real life in Aotearoa.
So instead of sending you everywhere, here are a few places I’d genuinely suggest starting.
The Curl Next Door
This is where most of my curl education now lives.
It reflects the conversations I have every week in my private studio in New Plymouth. These are the real questions people ask about density, strand width, product choice, hormonal changes, children’s curls, silvering hair, and why something worked once but isn’t working now.
The Curl Next Door is an evolving education space built specifically for curly people in New Zealand. It’s added to in real time, based on what I’m seeing and teaching inside appointments.
If you’d like to begin there:
👉 Visit The Curl Next Door
Ingredient Glossary for Curly Hair
If you’ve ever read an ingredient list and wondered, “What do all these ingredients actually do?” the Curls Naturally Ingredient Glossary can become part of your answer.
This glossary explains what ingredients are designed to do, how they behave on different strand widths and densities, and why one product works beautifully for one person but not for another.
You don’t need to become a cosmetic chemist. But understanding formulations helps you make informed, intentional decisions about your curly hair routine.
Explore the glossary here:
👉 Browse the Ingredient Glossary
My Training and Background
Before Curls Naturally and The Curl Next Door became education platforms in their own right, I invested in specialist training with internationally respected curl educators around the world, including Lorraine Massey, author of Curly Girl: The Handbook.
In 2018, I began sharing what I was learning publicly on social media here in New Zealand on both Curls Naturally and The Curl Next Door. That work grew into what you see today. Product curation and product know-how through Curls Naturally, and inspirational and relatable curl education throughThe Curl Next Door.
For a period of time, I also created a national directory to help connect curly people with stylists who had completed recognised curl education. While that directory is no longer active, the intention behind it remains unchanged: curls deserve informed, thoughtful care.
Personal Curl Guidance
There is no substitute for personalised advice.
If you’re feeling stuck, unsure about product choice, or confused about what your hair actually needs, the most direct path forward is a 25-minute Curl Consultation $65 (New Plymouth / Online Video Call) / $80 (during my Auckland cutting trips) with me via Zoom or in-person.
Sometimes one focused conversation replaces months of trial and error.
If you’d like to arrange that, please use the Contact page to get in touch.