Finding affordable curly hair products in Atlantic Canada has not always been an easy task.

In June 2018, I shared this post about my hair routine and the cost of embracing my natural hair.

At that time, I had been working on my curls for about a year after a lifetime of struggling against them. What worked for me: DevaCurl. For the first time in my life, my hair was, for the most part, behaving.

Fast-forward to 2019-2020. There has been a great deal of controversy about DevaCurl. While I have not been affected, the whole situation did get me thinking: what would I do if I started having trouble with DevaCurl? Or if the products disappeared from the shelves?

That started me on the path of doing something scary: trying new products.

That might sound silly but after years of searching for products that work, the idea of messing up a good thing didn’t sound appealing. Still, I knew I wanted to have more options.

More specifically, I wanted more affordable options.

So I set out to try some new products. Here’s a look at some of the products I’ve tried.