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Design Essentials Almond & Avocado Curl Forming Honey Custard 12oz jar, styler that defines curls, elongates patterns, and provides lasting hold.
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Almond & Avocado

Almond & Avocado Honey Curl Forming Custard

$17.99
Best for: 3A-4C Routine: Style

Defy frizz and embrace flawless curls. Our curl-forming custard sculpts, defines, and elongates curls with lasting hold and radiant shine—zero stickiness, zero flakes.

Curl Enhancing
Firm Hold
Frizz Control
Non-Flaking

Size:
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Design Essentials Almond & Avocado Curl Forming Honey Custard 12oz jar, styler that defines curls, elongates patterns, and provides lasting hold.
Design Essentials Almond & Avocado Curl Forming Honey Custard open 12oz jar revealing texture inside.
Back label of Design Essentials Almond & Avocado Curl Forming Honey Custard showing ingredients and styling instructions.
Almond & Avocado Honey Curl Forming Custard - Hair Reference Chart

ALMOND & AVOCADO HONEY CURL FORMING CUSTARD

Is this Right for Me?

Great for: Medium to coarse curls and coils from 3A to 4C

Best used for: Wash-and-go styling, finger coils, or two-strand twist sets

Leaves hair: Moisturized, shiny, and long-lasting with flexible hold

Key Ingredients

SWEET ALMOND OIL

Deeply moisturizes and softens hair, helping to reduce frizz and leaves a luminous shine

AVOCADO

Strengthens the hair shaft, prevents breakage and provides intense moisture.

HONEY

Provides deep moisture and sheen, smooths the hair cuticle, increases manageability, seals in moisture, reduces breakage and adds shine

Deionized Water, Polysorbate-20, Polyquaternium-37,
Polyquaternium-11, Glycerin, Hydroxypropyltrimonium
Honey, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Silk Amino Acids, Phenoxyethanol, Benzoic Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin,
Glycereth-2 Cocoate, Chamomilla Recutita Extract,
Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Fruit Extract, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Fruit Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Leaf Extract, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Extract, Simmondsia Chinensis
(Jojoba) Seed Extract, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract, Aleuriteus Moluccanus (Kukui) Seed Extract, Fragrance, Linalool

Additional Information

Overall rating: 4.613497 / 5 from 163 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

This Almond & Avocado Honey Curl Forming Custard is praised for its ability to define and enhance natural curls and coils, providing lasting hold and shine without leaving sticky residue. Customers appreciate its lightweight formula, which controls frizz and leaves hair feeling soft and moisturized. The product is also noted for its high shine and ability to prevent flakes, making it a reliable choice for various curl styles.

Summary topics

  • Appearance (6%): Customers expressed satisfaction with the look of the product, as they found it healthier, soft, manageable, and beautiful.
  • Scent (20%): Many customers expressed satisfaction with the smell of the product, describing it as great, fabulous, and wonderful.
  • Curl Definition (12%): The feedback is varied, my curls really pop after using, no frizzs, and my hair feels soft and shiny.
  • Product Effectiveness (6%): It was observed by customers that this custard is the best they have ever bought and keeps their coils poppin longer.
  • Hair Sensation (6%): Customers raved about how this product leaves their hair feeling very soft and moisturized. (100% agreement)

Review topics: [size, results, feeling, smells, texture, look, amount, work, hair, residue, jar, service, curls, shine, definition, custard, flakes, hold, gel, build, frizz, leave, curl pattern, styles].

Review highlights

  • "Like this doesn't leave my hair frizzy it feels nice doesn't make my hair hard the smell is okay." — Tamara W.
  • "Great product my hair looks great" — Christine N.
  • "Leaves my hair feeling very soft and moisturized." — Yvonne W.

Reviews

My curls have never been

"My curls have never been so easy to form. I love the hold it provides. I can go a good week with my curls as long as I tie it up. And smells good. The curl refresher is awesome. Pops that shine and moisture back on my curls"

— Kisha M. (5/5)

Keeps my hair looking shine,

"Keeps my hair looking shine, soft and frizz free. Holds my curls for a long time."

— Odetta N. (5/5)

I love design essentials outside

"I love design essentials outside Products. Curling forming custard is amazingly nourishing to my hair."

— Dedra A. (5/5)

I love this stuff! It

"I love this stuff! It is the only thing that keeps my hair soft and moisturized."

— Nichele J. (5/5)

"Love this product it is amazing in my hair."

— Oneida S. (5/5)

"Love their products"

— Aulander (5/5)

Great product 😃

"Great product 😃"

— Winna J. (5/5)

Perfect for my wash and goes.

"I love this produce. It is my go to for a well defined long lasting washing and go. My hair feels soft and does not dry out when using this product."

— Monique (5/5)

i bought this & applied

"i bought this & applied it once to my hair and it had a fishy odor. I wrote in to notify customer service immediately with no resolution very disappointing."

— Tanisha T. (1/5)

Excellent all the way

"Excellent all the way"

— CAROL R. (5/5)

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