- Hey everyone!
Kayley, your friendly neighborhood hair stylist here,
and today I'm gonna show you three different ways
to curl your hair with the same curling iron.
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So, I actually did this video a long time ago
like back in the green sheet days
and I wanted to resurrect it.
Wait, Anna, can you look up how long ago
that video was?
Oh!
I remembered it totally wrong.
I thought it was one curling iron three different looks
it's one curling method three different looks.
Oh yup, green sheet days.
- Hey girls, Kayley here.
I've been getting a lot of requests
- My voice!
Okay, so that video was about eight years ago.
Oh my gosh!
It wasn't the one I thought it was
but it did give me the idea for today
because I really wanted to kind of
break up my own rut with my hair,
I tend to curl my hair in a very similar way every time
and I figure that if I do that, you guys
probably experience that as well.
So I wanted to show you three different ways
that you can utilize the same tool.
These are not methods that I've talked
about anytime recently so it's
lots of fun, new stuff, and I'm
really excited to get into it.
If you do like how my hair is typically curled in my videos
I would recommend my Instagram waves video
and my secret sauce waves video
because those are what I use pretty much all the time.
But today we're gonna get some new stuff
and I'm real excited about it,
so let's get into it.
Our first option are these soft waves
which are, admittedly pretty close to
stuff that I wear all the time
but this is a new method that you've never seen before.
So, for this video I'm gonna be using my
Kristin Ess one inch curling iron.
I very much love this one.
I use it in most of my videos.
But basically any one inch curling iron will do.
And now cut to not yet curled hair Kayley.
To begin, let's use some heat protectant.
I'm gonna use the Ouai Memory Mist
'cause this is pretty much my favorite one.
It helps to add hold and memory to your hair -
and protection, little bit of shine,
all that good stuff.
I'm gonna start by sectioning the hair in half
and clip the top half out of the way.
And now to make this really subtle, barely there wave,
what you're gonna do is wrap your hair
around the curling iron only once or twice,
let that heat up, take the curling iron out,
and then do the same thing slightly lower down the hair
making sure to leave the ends out.
This is gonna give you that look of having done
the whole like loop and pull thing
that I showed you guys in my Instagram video
but it allows you to do it even if you're
using a curling wand which can be a really good option.
Or, if you just wanna be a little faster,
maybe the whole twisting the wand situation
has eluded you so far, this is an option you can use.
(Laughs)
This is the goal for sectional one,
just a very loose bend.
Now we take down section two
and we're gonna keep doing the same thing.
So if your hair is naturally straight to moderately wavy
then you can just go ahead and do this
on your natural hair as is.
And then if your hair is naturally very wavy to curly
you could always use this after
rough drying your hair straight
or maybe after you've straightened your hair
and it's been a couple days,
so the straight is not looking as sleek and shiny anymore,
you just add a little bend in there
and work with your texture and just make it look,
you know, effortless and cool and make that
third, fourth, whateverth day hair work for you.
Once you've curled the second layer you might go back
and see some places where you want to touch up
or maybe you want things to be a little closer to the part
and in that case all you have to do is go back in
and pick up some little pieces around the part
and fix any little areas that might not look
exactly the way you want them to.
And there are our curls/waves.
Now, mine has a little bit of, kind of,
poof and texture to it, so I'm gonna use
the Kristin Ess Depth Defying Pomade
just raking it through the hair
and scrunching to get that definition.
If you felt like you wanted to get
a little bit more of an airy texture
I would recommend using a texturizing spray.
There is your soft wave option.
I wanted to include it because it's a way to get,
kind of a one and a quarter inch look
from your one inch curling iron.
It's also 'cause it's a really breezey,
easy hairstyle to wear and just throw
into your routine, however you need.
And today, let's talk about beach waves.
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Now if your hair has any natural kind of texture,
if it's bleached, if it's naturally
porous in any way, you probably
don't have to work too hard for the extra texturizing,
but if your hair is a little bit smoother
and silkier naturally and you really want
that texturized beachy look, I recommend
going in before you dry your hair
with a beach amplifying mousse.
This one actually is just a mousse
that adds holds and that will help your hair
to maintain that beachy look throughout the day
so it doesn't go straight to straight.
So you can use that if you just want hold
but if you want texture texture
you could use something like a sea salt product
or a surf enhancing product that are
meant to go on wet hair, blow dry
or let your hair dry as normal
and then you can use your curls
and the texture is still gonna be there
even after you've utilized your heat tools.
So, basically, you're getting texture into your hair
before you ever curl it and then
if you need more you can go in with the texturizing spray.
I wish I could flip these and put 'em back in a holster
but I think I would just drop them.
Nope (laughs).
So that being said, today I'm starting
with my heat protectant.
You could keep using the Ouai Memory Mist
but I'm gonna go with the Kristin Ess Dry Conditioner.
This one actually adds a little, tiny
bit of texture into the hair,
so it's gonna help today's situation out.
And now we section.
You just want to leave down the hair
at the nape of the neck so you can
work in nice, small, tight sections.
The basic idea is that you're going to take
a small section and just wrap it around your iron,
whether it has a clip or not, just wrap and go.
And as you do that you want to leave
a little bit of the ends out and you can even
rock your iron back and forth
to, kind of, break up the curl
and make it a little bit more tousled.
Then for your next piece of hair
you're gonna curl in the opposite direction.
For this whole time we're going to be
alternating the curl direction back and forth
in order to get the most natural tousled look possible.
I've got one more piece on this side
so I'm just gonna finish it off.
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So, here is this side.
Now, for each piece that I put on the curler
it was about as thick as a pencil and a half.
So, that's kind of the look that you get here.
It's a little bit of a softer, more tousled look.
On this side I'm gonna take smaller sections
so I can give you a piecey-er look
and you can see what that does.
Now, pro-tip if you want to be able to be lazy
you can do the bigger pieces on the bottom of the hair
and then once you get from kind of the ears
or the temples up you can switch to doing the piecey pieces
because that's gonna show up more anyway.
Just a tip.
I think the most important thing when
you're trying to do the piecey curls or the little curls
is that you go in smaller sections
'cause if you let down a big section of hair
and then you try to take small pieces you're gonna get lost.
It gets very confusing because you'll pick up
a section on top and curl it and then there's like,
a section underneath it, and then there's
like half of one underneath that.
It's too much.
Just go in narrower sections if you're
trying to do the piecey-er curls.
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Now everything is curled.
It does still feel a little bit 2006-7 for me
(laughs) because it's still very piecey,
so I'm just gonna use my fingers to kind of
tousle it a bit and break up the curls
and make 'em look a little bit more natural.
And that's the difference.
Right?
RIP to the bottles of gel I used
trying to scrunch my hair.
Nobody told me that your hair has to have
a natural wave or curl to scrunch into a wave or a curl!
So all I had was stick straight gelled hair!
Why did no one tell me?
Now, I already really, really like this.
This is so much body I just forgot how much
volume you get with this method.
Hello!
Now, this is cute.
I wanna 2019-ify it a little bit.
So, the first thing I'm gonna use is
the Down & Out Dirty Spray by IGK.
This adds just a little bit of texture and separation.
And, for me, this is the kind of sea salt look I like.
You have the piecey-ness, the separation,
the texture without the dryness that,
I at least on my more porous hair,
get from beach texture sprays.
Now, to be fair, the dryness is a "lewk"
so if you're going for that, obviously you can go there,
but for me, I like a little bit of the more, kind of,
lived-in, separated look, and that's how I get it.
And I'm gonna finish this off with
a very light hold hairspray, this is
the Tresemme Micro Mist and this is in
texture hold level one.
And as I spray it in I'm also going to scrunch
to help augment and define the curls a little more.
And that's how you can use your one inch iron
to get a beachier wave.
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Today we're gonna do a full blowout with a curling iron.
I have debated in my head at length whether I should start
with the top or the bottom but
let's go ahead and start with the bottom of the hair
and work our way up because I just find that the easiest.
Let's spray on some Ouai Memory Mist.
And also on my hair today when it was wet
I used the Ouai Soft Mousse because I wanted hold
but I also just wanted a lot of softness,
and didn't need a lot of texture or anything
and that mousse is really great for that.
So the curl method today!
Were going to curl the hair, wait for it -
toward the face.
Who is she?
(Laughs)
I think the important thing for today's video
is not just showing you a lot of different ways
you can use the same curling iron
but getting myself out of my rut
because you guys know how I normally curl my hair.
Right?
Right.
For this I'm gonna hold my iron at a 45 degree angle
curling it toward my face until we
get to the bottom of the hair.
I'm going to go in larger sections
because I want this to be a looser curl,
I kind of want to fake a one and a quarter inch
look on my hair.
And I'm also gonna go a little bit more quickly
over the ends because I know my ends
and they will be like way more curled
than everything else if I don't.
There's that section.
Now let's let down another.
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All right, let's keep going!
Now, if you're working with a wand
instead of a curling iron with a clip
you can just hold the iron the same way
and wrap the hair around the curling iron,
making sure to keep it flat all the way
around the curling wand.
Also, if your hair holds a curl really well
you might want to go ahead and rake your hands through it
right after it comes off the iron.
Mine holds about a medium amount
so I'm gonna let it cool like this.
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All right and last section.
So, in all, I'm doing maybe ten curls on my entire head,
each section is about two to three drinking straws thick.
My hair's pretty fine so I can move through that
very quickly with this method.
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Now you can use your fingers or a wide tooth comb
to rake through your hair.
And now the other side.
All right, the end of this curl looks a little lackluster
so I'm also gonna recurl that.
Given that everything else has been Ouai products
let's go ahead and seal it with the Ouai Soft Hairspray.
And that is the curl method!
I might start curling my hair towards my face now.
I love this because one, it's super easy,
two, it's very bombshell, three, it's really feminine,
and four, I don't have to use a round brush
and a hair dryer - and honestly
that's pretty much the biggest reason (laughs).
Okay, and those are three different ways
that you can use the same curling iron.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this video
and the little cameo from my birthday manicure!
I turned thirty last weekend and I decided
to give myself a rhinestone manicure
so that I could fully celebrate it.
Can you believe I'm thirty?
'Cause I can't.
Anyway, it was a really great weekend.
I'm really excited for this next decade
and to keep making videos for you guys.
I hope you enjoyed this one.
If there's anything else you want to see comment below
and let me know your favorite new method
from today's video because I'm very curious.
Anyway, that's it for today.
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Bye!
When my curls are poppin' so am I.
Aw, Taylor Swift and I are both turning thirty this year.
Is that enough reason to get me in the next music video?
Why do beach waves always make me feel like Shakira?
(sings) Oh, Shakira, Shakira.
Peace out cub scouts.