frizz
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- noun
- /frɪz/
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frizz
- Netta's hair was light brown, cut short, and had once been permed, but today it straggled around her face in a limp frizz, giving her a woebegone look.
- frizz of hair
- frizz and flyaways
- frizz of curls
Even though this humidity, this heat, the frizz ain't being stopped by nobody.
- Even though this humidity, this heat, the frizz ain't being stopped by nobody.
- It's really smooth the frizz and just left my hair like feeling really soft.
- Like I can feel the frizz under here because you it's really difficult.
- I think it's good for maintaining and smoothing the old frizz.
- It sinks in, makes it look really nice and sleek calms any frizz down.
- And so once the curl starts to fall out, you're kind of just left with that textured frizz.
- So I'm using Eden Body Works Jojoba Minoi oil, and this just helps prevent frizz when I'm taking the twist out.
- Again, like I said that I don't want to do much and really the biggest thing I don't like is frizz.
- It prevents any frizz and that gives it that like wet look that looks really nice as well.
- And then I'm going to take some Hairspray in the palms of my hands and just press that down on the top to try to help with the frizz.
Examples
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Her hair had been so vigorously shampooed that morning that it lifted from her head in an astonished frizz, carroty-red mixed with gray like the underside of those layered, dense clouds called cumulonimbus.
Fiction book (1997) -
A cloud of curls... no, a mass of frizz.
Fiction book (1992) -
And also I like having that frizz for this look.
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If I let it grow, it turns into one big frizz.
Fiction book (1999) -
These are girls who can get their hair wet and have it dry with no frizz.
Fiction book (2000) -
Let's see if this reduces frizz or if it's all a lie.
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To battle unruly frizz, spritz your ends with clean water.
Blog text (20) -
Conditions detangles and reduces frizz, leaving coat shiny and refreshed.
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My brown hair was pulled up into a wind-snarled, curls-gone-to-frizz ponytail.
Fiction book (1999) -
After using the new conditioner, her hair looked smooth without any frizz at all.
Synonyms
Dry, curly hair that looks rough and is not smooth
Antonyms
How Curly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Frizz comes from the French word friser, which means 'to curl', and is like the English word frizzle. So, think of a head of hair full of many tiny, tight curls or a fuzzy halo — that picture explains the noun meaning of frizz.