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How to Curl Curly Hair

Curly hairs take efforts to manage and give them sleek and beautiful look. Some natural curls may not be perfect for a particular face. They may lack the smoothness and uniform silky look. This leads to making curly hairs curlier or less curly to suite a face or a personality and gives shiny look to hairs.

 

Making curls with finger rolls.

How it is done.

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  • This is the easiest methods to curl curly hair. Shampoo hairs and dry them with drier or air dry. Then t divided you hairs into sections, the size of the sections should depend on the size of curls you want.
  • Move fingers through hairs to remove any knot. Comb if needed. Clip the section
  • Put some non sticky spray on hairs. And move fingers to distribute spray evenly
  • Subdivide the section and roll hairs on index finger. Take the roll to scalp
  • No need to clip this roll, after rolling to the base of scalp, just left the roll and let the hairs fall.
  • Repeat this with other sections of hairs. Cover all hairs with this method.
  • Let hair dry naturally for best curls. You can also use drier but the best result will come through letting them dry naturally.

 

Curl curly hair with flatiron.

It is done to give shape to the curls. If your curls are not prominent or less prominent, the curling curls will give the desired shape. Some also like to give outward or inward shape to already curl hairs. You can straighten the curls at the bottom of the section to give you different look.

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How it is done.

  • Shampoo hairs and air dry.
  • Make sections of hair. Just put non sticky on hairs and move fingers through hairs. And take each section and roll over the flatiron plate.
  • Make the size of section according to the size of curls you want.
  • If you are rolling away from your face, the desired impact will be exposed face and confidence look.
  • Inward rolling towards face will provide seductive kind of look.
  • Roll the iron down the section of the hair.
  • Add some spray to fix the curls you just got.

Take following precautions.

  • Do not hold the flatiron at one point of the section of hairs. It will burn hairs.
  • Flatiron should be away from the face and neck.
  • Do not curl the hairs which fall on face. Just take them at the bottom and twist a bit
  • Do not rotate the iron when you are pulling it down the section of hair.
  • Flatiron must have multiple temperature settings.
  • Release the hair from iron before reaching the end.

 

Turning natural tight curls into soft curls

This is done with the help of rollers. The size of the rollers should be bigger than the size of natural curls.

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Take the following steps to get soft curls from tight natural curls.

  1. Shampoo the hairs and dry them with towel.
  2. Apply spray. The kind of spray will depend on choice of curls. For hard curls use gel or wax based spray and for soft curls use foam or mousse.
  3. Move fingers or comb to spread gel even.
  4. Take the strands and roll them on rollers. The size of rollers should be slightly bigger than the size of strands.
  5. Tightness of the rolls should be comfortable.
  6. Finish all the sections or strands which you have made.
  7. Secure all curls. And let them dry naturally. You can also use drier to dry.
  8. Remove all the rollers gently and allow the hairs to come to the curls shape.

Creating soft waves from naturally curl hairs.

Again this is done to achieve something which looks best on you from the curls which may not have been giving you the desired look and image.

Process is simple.

  • Wash hairs and dry them naturally.
  • Use sprays which will relax the curls. Distribute then evenly
  • Take the flatiron and put hairs under it and move the iron to the bottom of the hair section before rotating at desired curls.
  • Go to the bottom part of the strands more than the top, because bottom part is curlier.
  • Let hair air dry and you have wave curls.

Creating Waves curls with rollers.

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  • After washing hairs and use volumizing spray.
  • Take sections of hairs and roll them on rollers.
  • The size of rollers should be more than the size of hair sections for loose wave’s curls
  • Take all section of hair in roll and secure on the top of head.
  • Allow it to dry or use drier
  • Remove rollers gently after drying all hairs.
  • Then separate curls with wide tooted comb.

 

Creating big curls.

In this method big curls are created from small curls.

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  • No need to wash hairs. Just dry natural curls are enough for getting big curls.
  • Brush the hairs with gentle moves. The bristles should be flexible.
  • Apply heat protection cream or spray.
  • Smooth the section of hairs with fingers or with brush.
  • Make big sections of the hairs for creating big curls.
  • Take hair section from the ear side first for rolling on barrel of roller.
  • Roll sections in the barrel of the roller by starting at the roots gently and come down the section slowly.
  • All curls should be in one direction
  • After going down the section from top to bottom just leave them without any spray.
  • Let hairs dry naturally
  • At last when fingers are moved through the hair, a big curl will come up.

 

Keep following things in mind.

  • The direction of curls will determine how close or far they are from each other.
  • Making curls alternately towards face or away from will separate them.
  • This way will create texture look.
  • By moving hands through curls away from face will give you natural and big curl

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