A certain thirty-seven-year-old Ellie Webb from the USA,left without work alone with two children, was forced to spend a lot of time looking for a job. Everyone knows that appearance plays an important role in finding a job, so Ellie had to get up early to look the part. That's how she came up with the idea of creating a narrowly focused hair salon - only for daily hair styling, nothing more, no cutting, no coloring, and only forty dollars, and in just thirty to forty minutes. This is how Ellie Webb from the USA earned her first million, and now her network has more than fifty hair salons. Her motto: "We will sell women their self-esteem." Unfortunately, not everyone can afford to visit a hairdresser every day, and most women try to do their hair themselves. An easy way to make the most beautiful and effortless styling is to curl your hair. Curls and ringlets come in a variety of shapes, and curling techniques depend on the length and structure of your hair. In this article, we will look at how to curl your hair with curlers or tongs at home, and we will provide other folk methods of curling.
Using hair curlers
It is advisable not to use curlers when they are wet.hair, but on damp hair. We don’t have much time to dry our hair, and dry hair won’t be able to take the shape we need (the exception is thermal curlers). To speed up the process of curl formation, you can dry your hair with a regular hair dryer. You need to curl the strands in the direction of hair growth, first in the center from the forehead to the back of the head, and then on the sides from the temples to the back of the head. To give the curls a natural look, the parting should not be straight, but zigzag. And the strand should be of the appropriate thickness, that is, the larger the diameter of the curler, the thicker the strand of hair you need. And one more important detail. When curling your hair on curlers, pull the strands to the very roots. This way you will add root volume to your hair. Types of curlers If we decide how to curl our hair at home, then curlers are the first thing that comes to mind, because this is the easiest way to get curls. There are many different types of curlers available, you just need to choose which of the following methods is suitable for your hair type and to achieve the desired result.
- Thermo curlers
Hot rollers are smallplastic cylinders filled with paraffin or wax. Immediately before use, the curlers must be heated until the paraffin has completely dissolved, on average, this takes no more than five minutes. Then dry hair is curled on the hot cylinders in the usual way, and after they have completely cooled, the hot rollers are removed from the curls. This method is suitable for hair no longer than medium length and wins over many women with its simplicity and speed of curl formation. Simply put: while you wash your face, have breakfast and put on your makeup, the curlers cool down, and all you have to do is comb your hair - your hair is ready!
- Papillons
Small foam curlers that shapecurls "a la African curls". It is best to curl them at night on slightly damp hair or use a hair styling product. One question is how to curl your hair, and another is how to sleep with it. This applies to conventional curling methods. But papillotes are one of the most gentle types of curlers. They are soft, so you don't feel them at all during sleep. And we borrowed the idea of this curling method (as well as the name for these curlers) from our grandmothers. Only they used paper or strips of fabric as papillotes.
- Velcro curlers
Velcro curlers, or "hedgehogs", can be useduse different diameters - depending on what kind of curls you want to get. The larger the diameter of the curlers, the larger and more voluminous the curls will be. They are very convenient to use because they hold well on the hair; however, you should not curl them on long curls: your hair will either not stick or will get tangled. Velcro curlers are wound on damp strands using styling products and are not removed until the hair is completely dry. It should be noted that it is not possible to sleep in such curlers, and for quick drying you can use a hair dryer.
- Spiral curlers
The curlers are designed for girls with hair length notless than twenty centimeters. They differ from the usual ones by the twisting of strands in a spiral in the existing grooves. The effect is amazing, the curls are formed in the form of curls along the entire length.
Use of forceps, plaques and irons
Another quick and easy waycurling curls is the use of various types of electric tongs (curling irons, flat irons). However, it is also the most harmful, because with this type of curling there is a high probability that you will dry out or even burn your curls. Hair must be clean and dry. The holding time of metal tongs should not exceed thirty seconds, ceramic curling irons allow longer use - about fifty to sixty seconds for each strand. With this method of curling, preliminary treatment of hair with special styling products is allowed. The use of special straightening irons for straightening curly hair is becoming very popular. The question arises: how to curl hair with a device designed not to curl, but to straighten? It turns out that with its help you can very easily create beautiful flowing curls. This can be done as follows: take a small strand and clamp it with an iron a few centimeters from the roots of the hair; then, holding the ends of your hair, wrap them around the iron once. After that, be sure to rotate the device 180° so that the curled strand is on the outside of the iron, and slowly pass the remaining strand of hair through the tongs.
Folk techniques of winding hair
Modern methods of hair curlingappeared not so long ago, but how did our grandmothers cope? After all, they had neither curlers, nor hair styling products, nor time. And even now there are situations when we are forced to use improvised means to form beautiful curls and curly hairstyles. We conducted a survey among readers and found out the most common ways to curl your hair at home.
- One of the common folk methodsto give your hair a wavy shape - braid several tight braids overnight. In the morning, unbraid the braids and carefully comb them with your fingers. It is very easy to do this hairstyle yourself.
- Instead of curlers you can use differentpaper rollers, rags, ropes (so did our grandmothers). Instead of the usual foams and gels for styling, use the usual beer. As a rule, the smell of a foamy drink is very quickly eroded (only take a light beer, it smells less), and the effect from it is no worse than from special means.
- If you want to have African pigtails,wind hair on bobbin, which is used for chemical perm. It turns out absolutely gorgeous little curls, just like African ones. Screwed hair should not be combed, but only slightly disheveled to give naturalness. Such curls last for more than two days.
- A good way to curl your hair is to make tight strands from slightly damp strands and pin them in the form of snails, leaving them like that until completely dry. The curls turn out natural and voluminous.
- You can wind curls with differentclips for the hair. To do this, wet the lock on the finger, then carefully remove it, if necessary, loosen the lock and chisel at the base with a clip-pin. For a firm result, first apply the hair to the hair for the styling. If you do not have enough clamps, you can use ordinary invisibles.
- The effect of wet hair and a small wave can beget, doused hands wet hair with a deposited on them styling means. The method is good because you do not need to comb your hair, and it looks like a natural hairdo.
We hope that now you will not have to face this problemthe question of how to make curls if you don't have the usual modern hairdressing gadgets at hand. Our simple tips will help you curl your hair at home. Experiment and don't be afraid of the result. This hairstyle can be changed every day, and you will always look well-groomed and beautiful.
