How to curl your hair with straightener?

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The hair of a woman most times is her crowning glory. It comes in different colours, thickness. Asides been in different colours and thickness, hair also come in different textures. Your hair is also versatile as it can be altered into different styles and in various ways. You can choose to cut your hair into a short bob, curl it to make it wavy plus addition of extensions. These styles though simple to achieve can be tasking to maintain. This is one of the reasons why extensions and wigs are popular nowadays. Maintaining hairstyles like a bob cut require regular trimming and visits to a saloon which most people want to avoid. What you want is a way to alter your hair from straight to wavy, to bouncing curls, all from the comfort of your home and with the use of a straightener. Easy and simple.

If you have longer tresses, the options of hairstyles are more, but with this styles comes the extra work of maintenance. If you have naturally curly hair, with the use of a spray bottle filed with a mixture of water, your choice of essential oils like Rosemary oil, Avocado oil, Jojoba oil and a water based leave-in conditioner, you can get your curls popping. All you need do is part your hair into sections and spray each section with the mixture. Or you could just spray the whole hair, use a wide tooth comb and get your curls out. You could also just pull your hair into a bun at the base of your neck, depending on the weather and your mood.

For straight hair, it is a bit more difficult. Trying to alter styles with straight hair is more difficult. This might be the reason most people feel straight hair is boring. Your hair styles are kind of limited to just pulling your hair to the nape of your neck or parting it down the middle or side and placing behind your ears. After a while you would want to up your hair style game and one of such ways is to get yourself some bouncing or pooping curls, you can achieve this with the best hair straightener and curler.

Here is a step by step process by which you can get some curls with a best hair  straightener.

Wash hair day.

The first step in the process is to get your hair clean. Using different products on your hair before wash day, would see a build-up of products which in turn makes your hair heavy. So, you need a good shampoo and conditioner which are made specifically for your hair texture to wash your hair first.

Clean dry hair.

Now, washing of your hair is done, you need to get it clean. Most people believe you just need to wrap your hair up in a towel to get the excess moisture out and you are good. Well, sorry to burst your bubble but how and what you use to clean your hair is as important as what you use to wash it. it is advisable to use a good fibre towel to clean your hair is it protects your strands. This protection prevents breakage. After which, please use mild heat to dry further as excessive heat would lead to dryness and breakage also.

Have a straightener.

The best kind of straightener is one with a thin flat iron. This way your grip is easier, and you can straighten you hair with it. the even better reason to have a thin flat iron straightener is you can curl your hair with it. The reason is a thin flat iron is easier to twist around to achieve the desired curls you want.

Use a good heat protectant on your hair after drying.

This is vital. You know your straightener uses heat to get your hair straightened. So, like we said earlier, heat hurts your hair. What heat does is to remove the moisture from your hair so as to make it amendable to any hair style you want to achieve. This way the style is able to stay. The down side to too much heat is your hair would suffer from breakage. The way around this is to use a good heat protectant on your hair. Apply it all over your hair by spraying or rubbing before you use your straightener.

Split your hair into different sections( Try and make them equal).

Achieving an equal amount of hair in each section might be a bit difficult but try. It is best to divide into 4 parts. Next, use some rubber clips to hold your hair in place while you curl each part. This way it is easier to curl your hair. While you are doing this, ensure your straightener is on and turned to maximum heat or heated up.

Next, take one small part of a section and curl it around the straightener. It might be a bit difficult to get to the root of your hair but ensure you get all the strands curled around the straightener for more definition. Then, slowly, swirl your hand in a rotating pattern to get the type of curl you want. Now, you have to try and get this right the first time you try because it might be difficult to get the same curl pattern after releasing your hair from the straightener.

This pattern and process should be repeated on every section of your hair. Remember, the type of curls you hope to achieve would determine now tightly you wrap your hair around the straightener. If you go for a loose wrap, you would most likely achieve a wavy curl look with your hair but going for a tight wrap, you would most likely achieve a smaller curls look with your hair. Remember to apply a good heat protectant before starting the curling process. You could have it applied or sprayed on your hair.

Boring hairstyles should be a thing of the past for you now.


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Nick Guli

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