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- Hey everyone,
I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles,
and today we are going to talk all things
curls and hair routine.
So I'm seeing a trend on TikTok and Instagram
going around where it kind of compares
like 2018-19 hair curl routines to 2022,
and I thought it would be fun.
Just for the record,
I don't think there's a wrong or a right.
It's just very different styling
and it produces different results.
So I thought it would be fun to do
literally a side-by-side of like, you know,
five years ago how to do a curl routine
to today curl routine for some women
and show you what it looks like on their hair
and why it's working differently.
So if you guys haven't already followed my channel
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and let's get into the video.
Okay. So I have parted my hair down the middle.
I am going to take this side
and just put it out of the way for right now.
We will come back to it later.
And this side is what I'm going to work with.
And I'm going to show you
basically on this side what you would've done,
I mean, honestly, what I've been doing with my hair
since pretty much I was a kid.
First and foremost,
I used a microfiber towel on my hair on both sides
and dried it on this side.
It's damp, but it's not drippy wet.
You can see it's like damp, but not drippy wet.
I don't call 'em curls,
I call 'em more like waves,
but when I diffuse my hair and do it right
and add the right products
I can get it to really bounce and look curlier.
This is pretty much damp,
And what I would do normally is take a mousse.
Today I'm using the Hairitage by Mindy mousse
and I would spray a good amount in my hands,
and I would just,
I would probably even use more than that
kind of coat, not like that,
not like that much at one spot,
but I would kind of just put it in my hair
and you can see that while I'm doing this
I am scrunching my hair
and just kinda scrunching, scrunching, scrunching
and you can see I'm just scrunching.
And I kind of use the raking method to put it in my hair.
Some people use the pray hands method
but I just kind of rake it in
and you can see I'm starting to get a little more definition
in my curl.
And now I would take my blow dryer.
I would add a diffuser.
Voila!
Snap it on.
And then I would start diffusing my hair.
Now you're gonna see before I start diffusing it,
cause it's gonna get louder,
what I'm going to do is just basically be doing this motion
kind of trying to get it up into the roots,
diffuse, diffuse, diffuse like this,
and I'm also gonna be using this hand
to kind of scrunch and lift as I'm diffusing.
With this method,
I'm not too worried about disrupting the curls themselves.
I'm just kind of, you know, diffusing as I go
using the teeth to keep it off of my scalp.
Okay. So that's what I'm gonna do now.
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- Okay. So finished basically on this side.
For the record,
I used the high speed, but I used medium heat.
You can use high heat if you want, but I don't recommend it.
And you can see the curls I got.
So they're still pretty bouncy.
They're light.
They're little bit like not uniform.
You can see that it's a little more,
I don't wanna use the word disheveled,
because that makes it sound negative.
It's just not sleek.
It's more of a beachy wave or curl look.
And I would use it like this for day one.
And then on day two,
I would probably use a hair refresher like this one
to just spritz after I sleep on the curls
and kind of just re-scrunch and refresh the curls.
Or you could even use something like
this Hairitage vitamin A sugar spray
to spritz a little more on
and it's gonna give you a little bit of grit
and a little texture to the curls
to just kind of keep 'em looking what I call beachy.
So that's what you're going for on this side.
Okay. Now I'm gonna show you what I would do on this side
if I were doing curls today,
and what people are doing now
to do their hair a little bit differently.
So the first thing I would do is start with my hair wet.
And when I mean wet, I mean, wet, drippy wet.
And the reason is that there are three main bonds
in your hair, holding them together,
disulfide bonds, water bonds, and salt bonds,
and if you're having wet, water,
lots of water in your hair
it allows your hair a lot more flexibility
and a lot more where you can maneuver your hair
and you can create those curls
and it reformulates those curl patterns.
And then as it dries, it stays in there.
This would be too dry.
Okay. So I have my Hairitage by Mindy spray bottle
and I'm gonna spritz until it's wet.
Okay. Okay.
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- Okay, and this is wet-wet, so you can see it's drippy.
So I have stuck my towel under my shoulder
and we are just letting kind of our natural wave
and curl hit.
I'm going to take a little tiny bit of curl cream.
This is the Hairitage by Mindy curl cream,
and I'm going to put a little blob of it
and I'm going to just kind of pray hands it on.
Okay. We are trying not to disrupt the curls a ton.
We want the curls to just sort of do their thing.
We want them to form.
Can you see how that chunk is forming?
That's what we want.
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- Rake it if you have to,
but try not to disrupt the curls too much.
Okay. Once we got that going,
then we are going to add a little bit of gel.
I'm gonna use the Hairitage by Mindy gel
and at the end,
we're just gonna kind of lightly scrunch,
big hand fulls, letting the natural curl kind of form.
And what you're looking for is this.
You see how these are just sort of
naturally forming themselves?
Once you get to this point
there's two things that I've seen people doing.
One is, some people take a brush or a comb
and run it through and try to kind of form
a little bit of a curl with their combs or their brushes.
Like, especially if it's like a,
like a curl-forming brush.
So you can do that.
Or you can just go with what you naturally get.
In this case you can see my curls.
I want you to listen though,
cause I want you to hear how much moisture
there still is in my hair.
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- Can you hear how much water there's still is in my hair?
And you can see like this look,
to me it just,
what happens is it forms more,
I call 'em chunks. Okay?
It's more chunky pieces of curls,
and the goal is to do as little disruption
of those as humanly possible.
So on this side
I was a little more like whatever,
diffuse, diffuse, diffuse,
and this side I'm gonna be a lot more gentle.
I'm going to use the diffuser again on my hair dryer
but I am going to be doing it
in a low heat and a low air speed.
It's gonna take longer.
And you'll see that I'm going to be very gentle
in like just the lifting
and letting the hair dryer sit and then releasing,
trying not to break and disrupt these clumps.
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- Okay. Done.
That's definitely not the faster method.
Um, that took probably three times the amount of time
to dry my hair
because I was being so particular and careful
but you can see the difference.
If you look, especially on my underneath hairs
I have these intact, like more ringlety looking curls
which is really unusual for me,
because that's not,
typically my curl pattern is more wavy, remember?
Not like corks screw curls.
So typically my hair looks more like this on its own.
So by doing this,
I get a lot more of that corks screw curl shape.
You definitely have to just sort of
allow your hair to do its thing.
When this dries a little bit more up in my roots
it's gonna be even puffier up on top and more luminous.
This side will actually dry a little bit flatter
just because it's nearly dry now.
So the volume I'm gonna get is there.
This side ends ends up being a little bit shorter,
I think, than this side,
because it's pulling more of that lift up into the curl
and it will get even puffer.
Now remember, my hair typically is
like a 2B, maybe a 2C.
So if you have like 3A hair, a 3B hair,
like even a 3C hair,
I mean doing this version is gonna really get that curl
in those little corkscrews going crazy.
The gel is gonna help set the hair
which is gonna leave it lasting a little bit longer.
This side,
I can just refresh it
in the morning and it will spruce back up.
But mostly I do it for what am I doing for the day?
Like if I'm going to the beach
where I know the wind's gonna blow my hair
like crazy anyway,
I probably would do this style
because this looks a little more beachy, like breezy.
I'm not as worried about the curls getting messed up.
This side is definitely more like placed look.
So if I know I'm going somewhere nicer
or wanting to go for three days
and I'm just gonna be at home running around,
this side is more what I would tend to do.
And then, you know, just let it live
and get more lived in as the week goes on.
Like I said, in my opinion, there's not a wrong answer.
It's just depending on your hair type
how much time you have, where you're going,
what you wanna style with,
what products your hair reacts well to,
and you can see,
two very different looks.
Okay, I wanted to come into some better lighting
and show you
here is just the beachy side.
You can see it right there.
And here is the more curled side.
You see the more like defined curls.
And there's definitely like more puff on this side now
where this site is kind of falling flatter.
So that's it.
Okay guys. I hope you found that informative.
Hope that helped.
Definitely send me pictures of you guys trying out
both versions on your hair.
I'd love to see 'em.
and if you have more questions,
you can leave 'em in the comments below.
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And otherwise we will see you guys next week!
Bye guys!
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