About r/curlyhair
In its own words:
For all natural curlies, coilies, and wavies! All hair is good hair. Find help with your hair: product recommendations, technique advice...anything to help embrace your natural texture!
Community guide
r/curlyhair (#746, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: For all natural curlies, coilies, and wavies! All hair is good hair. Find help with your hair: product recommendations, technique advice...anything to help embrace your natural texture! Recent activity samples show 42 posts/day in recent samples (~45% gallery, ~28% text, ~25% image). Public rules we collected include: Routine required for photo posts (within 1 hour); Content must relate to curly hair; Reddiquette; No sexual/creepy/harassing comments; Include everybody. Directory metadata files it under “Lifestyles”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Help!, Hair Victory!, Discussion, Before & After.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Dec 9, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 599 subscribers (+0.04%). Among the 11 communities on our haircare list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/PraiseTheCameraMan (#745) and ahead of r/greentext (#748) in our ranking.
What sets r/curlyhair apart
Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (21:00 UTC) sees about 6.3× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/curlyhair went up from 1,418,267 to 1,422,479 subscribers (+4.2K, +0.30%). That is about 96 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/curlyhair talks about
Looking at the titles of 262 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “hair”, “help”, “curls”, “curly” and “routine”. Other frequent themes are products, curl, dry, good, advice and haircut. Recurring phrases include “curly hair”, “low porosity”, “hair routine” and “fine hair”. By format, 45% are galleries, 28% are text posts and 25% are images.
Popular post flairs: Help! (199), Hair Victory! (23), Discussion (21), Before & After (8), ISO (6), Update! (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/curlyhair gets about 42 new posts a day. The public archive holds 346,809 posts and 2,590,853 comments in total, about 7.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (54 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (27). Posting peaks around 21:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/curlyhair
The moderators of r/curlyhair list 8 rules. In short:
- Routine required for photo posts (within 1 hour)
- Content must relate to curly hair
- Reddiquette
- No sexual/creepy/harassing comments
- Include everybody
- Respect cultural terms
- No self-promotion/for-profit activity
- Do not privately message users
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/curlyhair and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/curlyhair?
r/curlyhair has 1,422,479 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #746 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,212 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/curlyhair created?
r/curlyhair was created on Dec 9, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 19, 2012.
Is r/curlyhair still active?
Yes. r/curlyhair gets about 42 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 346,809 posts and 2,590,853 comments. In a sample of 262 recent posts we counted 216 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/curlyhair?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 21:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/curlyhair?
The community describes itself as: “For all natural curlies, coilies, and wavies! All hair is good hair. Find help with your hair: product recommendations, technique advice...anything to help embrace your natural texture!” Recent post titles often mention hair, help, curls, curly and routine. Most posts are galleries (45%).
Is r/curlyhair SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/curlyhair as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/curlyhair?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/curlyhair accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Routine required for photo posts (within 1 hour)”; “Content must relate to curly hair”; “Reddiquette”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/curlyhair?
Communities with similar topics include r/Hair (4.5M), r/Awwducational (6M), r/Outdoors (5.1M), r/Aquariums (1.6M) and r/ShittyLifeProTips (1.7M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/curlyhair.