How to make curls with a hair straightener. Step-by-step instruction

The hair straightener can be used not only as a smoothing device to get rid of wavy strands, but also as a tool with which you can make voluminous curls.

Despite the simple ironing device, which consists of a heating plate, a thermostat and a frame, it is able to create the most unusual types of curls of varying degrees of curl, especially if suitable attachments are present in the set for the straightener.

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How to choose a curling straightener: types, models and manufacturers

The choice of the tool is a fundamental step in creating a high-quality hair curl with a straightener. There is a huge range of irons of various shapes and manufacturers on the market, however, to create wavy curls, the following functions of straighteners must be considered.

It:

• the heating plate must be with rounded edges, otherwise there will be corners on the curl;
• the body of the tweezers should also be as rounded as possible to create voluminous curls;
• small tweezers are suitable for fine strands and for short hair, large for long and hard;
• it is advisable to choose an iron with an electronic thermostat to control the set temperature.

Below is an overview of the most popular rectifiers:

How to create curls with an iron without damaging your hair?

Constant exposure to hot appliances in the form of a curling iron, hair dryer or straightener negatively affects the hair, drying it out and eventually making it brittle and colorless. Unfortunately, this is an inevitable process, but there are ways to slow down hair breakdown.

By observing the following tips, you can keep your hair in good condition for a long time:

• Give your hair a break... Using thermal devices on a daily basis will shorten the life of the hair, so from time to time you should make moisturizing cosmetic hair masks and do not dry them with a hairdryer and iron at least for several weeks.
• Use agents that reduce thermal effects. There is a huge range of gels, mousses and foams that not only fix the hair well and create a favorable base for curling, but also protect the hair from direct contact with the hot appliance. After using them, you should wash your hair.

• Be sure to wash your hair before curling.... Burning excess grease and dust on dirty hair will not only ruin the hairstyle, but also damage the hair structure. Before curling, wash your hair in warm water, but not hot, so that the pores on the scalp do not expand and hair does not fall out in large quantities.
• Styling should be learned quickly. After curling the hair without fixation with varnish begins to fluff quickly and the curl loses its shape.
• Choosing a rectifier model, devices with metal heating plates should be avoided, it is better to use ceramic, Teflon and others. Metal is the most harmful to hair.

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Curling features

How to make curls with a straightener, without the additional use of curlers or curling irons, will be described in detail later in the article. Curling hair of different lengths requires not only different types of irons, but also knowledge of some techniques and features that help create a curl quickly and without much injury to the strands themselves.

To begin with, you need to establish the degree of brittleness and stiffness of the hair, choose thermal protection for them.

For example, for long hair, a cream is more suitable, for hard hair, it is a gel, and thin hair does not tolerate foam well. Mousse, serum and spray are suitable for all hair types.

Short hair

Under the definition of short hair, the length of the strands does not exceed the line of the lower jaw or the middle of the neck. The difficulty of curling short hair is that, due to the limited length, they cannot be wound on a straightener several times and some hairstyles, for example, voluminous curls will not look so impressive on the head or will not stick at all.

For short hair, you should choose an iron with a smaller nozzle volume and a smaller heating plate area. For a round face, small curls are suitable, for an oval face, large ones.

If the hair is no longer than 10 cm, then twist it in one movement inward, holding the iron on one hair area for no more than 5 seconds for fine hair and 10 seconds for coarse hair. Hair 10-15 cm long should be twisted dividing the head into the lower upper sector. First, wind the occipital and temporal parts, then go to the outer layer, starting from the crown.

To create the most natural waviness for short hair, you should take thick strands and using a low temperature, gradually heat them. If the curl did not work out the first time, repeat the procedure after the hair has completely cooled.

Long hair

How to make curls with a straightener from long hair with a length below the shoulders depends only on the owner's own imagination. You can come up with more hairstyles with them than with short ones, but the large weight of the hair does not allow the curls to stay long at the roots of the hair, so most wavy curls on long hair start from the ear and below.

To keep the curls at the very base, it is necessary to curl thin strands, like an Afro hairstyle or a zigzag, so that their weight does not pull the hair down, leveling it. Long hair requires more care, more use of cosmetics, especially antistatic agents and moisturizers.

Since the ends are already old hair and often split and break, you should avoid strong exposure to temperature in these areas or cut them from time to time.

In order for long hair to curl along the entire length, the iron must be held vertically or under a bevel, slowly moving from top to bottom, pulling the strand with your hand on the other side.

The thicker the strand you take, the less rounded curl you get. It should also be borne in mind that when curling, the hair loses its original length, shortening by a few centimeters.

Preparing hair for curling with an iron

Making curls with a straightener is a simple task, which is necessarily preceded by the preliminary preparation of curls. The boiling point is 100 degrees, and this is the initial heating level of the rectifiers. Of course, this temperature negatively affects the structure of the hair, especially if you expose curls every day.

However, this negative effect can be reduced by performing several hair preparation procedures before heat treatment. The initial preparation stage is to wash your hair. The temperature at which you should wash your hair should not be hot. A hot bath will enlarge the pores of the scalp, which will affect profuse hair loss.

The water should be warm, room temperature. After washing with shampoo and balm, you should rinse your hair with a solution of chamomile, nettle, black tea, and you can also rinse with beer, but after it you should rinse with water and vinegar to kill the smell of yeast.

At the next stage, it is worth waiting for the natural drying of the hair to a state of light moisture.

A hairdryer, in this case, will dry out and damage the hair even more, it is better to wait half an hour, thereby taking care of the hair, which is already exposed to high temperatures. At the final stage, you should cover your hair with a thermal protective agent, and only then start curling your hair with a straightener.

Ways and types of winding. A step-by-step description of the curling process

With the help of simple techniques and a lot of imagination with the help of a straightener, you can create curls of different shapes for a holiday and for every day.

To do this, you need to have the straightener itself, the necessary attachments, cosmetics in the form of mousses, gels that protect against thermal effects of sprays, as well as hairspray to preserve the volume of finished curls. Let's consider each of the methods in more detail.

Zigzag

A zigzag with an iron is created according to the same principle as with a curling iron. But in order to wind it up with an iron, you need to choose a flatter nozzle with a smaller area of ​​the heating plate.

Then follow the instructions:

1. Curls should be wrapped starting from the back of the head, therefore, the bulk of the hair must be collected in a bun at the crown;
2. Separate a thin strand of hair, open the iron and wind the entire curl on a heating plate in the form of a spring;
3. Close the rectifier for 5 seconds;
4. Gently release the finished curl and proceed to the next;
5. Release layer by layer from the general bun of hair, creating curls from the inside to the outside;
6. At the end, spray your hair with hairspray.

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Steps

Step curls are made with foil so that the corners are clearly defined. Such a hairstyle requires special care and strong fixation so that the hairs do not start to disintegrate and do not spoil the structure. Thus, you must first wash your hair and treat it with a product that protects the hair from the effects of temperature and start winding it up.

It:

1. From a roll of foil, cut ribbons of the same length as the hair itself and 5 cm wide;
2. Wrap the curl in foil along the entire length, it looks like a flat long metal plate;
3. Bend the plates with the curls like an accordion;
4. Grab each corner of the accordion with an iron for 5 seconds;
5. Wait until the foil has completely cooled down, then gently free the hair from it without damaging the steps;
6. Fix the curls liberally with hairspray.

Careless curls

This type of curl looks like slightly curled, wavy and separate strands from each other. You can create them using a rectifier within half an hour. The advantages of this hairstyle are that during the day, when the hair begins to lose its waves, it will happen imperceptibly and the hairstyle "before" will not differ much from the "after".

So, in order to wind your hair in a casual style, you should follow these steps:

1. Divide all hair into 3 layers, that is, 1 layer is the hair adjacent to the neck, and along the entire circumference of the head, as close as possible to the skull, and layer 3 is the hair lying at the very top, so to speak, the visible layer;
2. Tie layers 2 and 3 at the crown into a knot;
3. Start curling your hair, choosing thin strands, from top to bottom, leaving the ends straight;
4. After finishing 1 layer in a circle, release the 2 layer of hair, return 3 to the bun;
5. Twisting hair 2 and 3 layers, spray with hairspray, gently crushing them with your hands to give them volume.

Large curls

How to make curls with a straightener from thick strands to get large curls, the instructions below will tell you. The principle of winding thick and thin curls is the same, the only difference is the number of hairs selected in a strand.

On washed hair, apply a heat protectant according to the hair type and then do the following:

1. Divide the hair on the head into two parts along the parting, on one side visually highlight 5-6 thick strands;
2. Select the first strand, closer to the face;
3. It is easy to press it at the very roots with an iron, the other hand pulls the hair by the ends;
4. Turn the iron away from you, towards the back of the head by 180 degrees;
5. Slowly move the straightener from roots to ends, holding the iron in one place for no more than 5 seconds;
6. Repeat the same steps with the rest of the strands, fix with hairspray.

In the form of harnesses

Festive curls, twisted in the form of bundles, are created very simply with the help of a straightener, you only need to know one secret, styling your hair on the iron itself. Before creating curls, you need to prepare your hair, wash it and create a finished hairstyle.

That is, if the curls curl from the tail, then you must first tie the hair, and only then wind it, otherwise, after heat treatment, rough movements with the hair will ruin the fixation.

So, after washing and treating your hair with cosmetic preparations:

• distribute hair into curls of the same or different thickness;
• heat the iron to the optimum temperature using a regulator;
• clamp the curl with an iron so that it lies diagonally on the plate;
• turn the straightener with a clamped strand and move slowly from top to bottom;
• fix the resulting bundles with hairspray.

Light curls with foil

Foil is an aluminum sheet thinned down to the thickness of a paper page. Basically, it is a sheet of metal that is highly thermally conductive but keeps the paper flexible.

So, to create curls with foil and a straightener, you need the following:

1. Prepare hair after washing it;
2. Treat each strand that will be curled with mousse or foam;
3. Cut 10x10 squares from a roll of foil;
4. Take a strand in your hands, and twist it with your fingers, making a ring of the desired diameter out of it;
5. Wrap a hair ring like an envelope with a square of foil;
6. Turn on the rectifier at the desired temperature and burn the envelope for 5 seconds;
7. Do the same for all strands;
8. After wrapping, let the foil cool completely before removing it from the hair;
   
9. Remove the foil, treat the curls with hairspray, gently spreading your hands one from the other, without using a comb.

Large curls from hair roots

To create a large curl with a straightener, you should choose the most rounded device. You don't have to curl every layer of hair, just walk the first two outer layers to create the visual effect of voluminous, wavy hair. It should be noted that the more layers of hair are captured, the more voluminous hair will turn out.

How to make curls large with a straightener, the following instruction will tell:

1. Using a comb with a sharp end, separate a strand of hair 2 fingers thick in a flat form;
2. Squeeze a strand at the very root with an iron and turn the device 180 degrees, without pinching the hair too much;
3. Start slowly going down the strand, holding the half-twisted position of the iron;
4. Fix the curl with a lock, proceed to the second.

Beach Curls Technique

Beach curls are a type of curling in which the hair acquires natural waves, as if it had just been bathed in sea water and slightly dried out under the beach sun.

To do this, do the following:

1. Divide the hair into 2 parts along the parting, pinch one part with a hair clip, and divide the other into small strands, about half a little finger thick;
2. Twist the strand around its axis, creating the appearance of a bundle;
3. Warm up the iron to the optimal temperature, depending on the type of hair (put a low temperature on thin and brittle ones, and a high temperature on hard and unpainted ones), and walk slowly along the curled curl;
4. Perform the first part of the hair, secure with hairspray, go to the second part.

The best means for fixing curls: release forms of fixers, brands

In order for such long and painstaking work as curling the hair to last as long as possible, the hairstyle must be fixed using various styling products.

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Curls made with a hair straightener do not differ in quality and shape from those created with a curling iron. The advantage of using an iron is that different types of heater coatings do not dry out the hair as much as the solely metal base of the curling iron.

Every year, multifunctional straighteners are replacing outdated curling irons and curlers, creating more and more ideas for giving hair perfect straightness or attractive curls.

Article design: Anna Vinnitskaya

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