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How to create hollywood curls (waves) with the curling iron

Posted on 26 October 2016

How to create hollywood curls (waves) with the curling iron

The most beautiful of all, they look at the long straight and the nature of the hair. It is better to style your hair to one side, so make a side parting. 

  • Do parting.
  • Begin with the lower tier: it is necessary to wind the strand on a large curling iron or the average diameter and wait for 5-10 seconds. Note: forceps must be placed parallel to the parting, make a curl and wind the hair so that the coils were held tightly to one another.
  • Be careful to pull the curling iron and curl fix invisible.
  • Curl this way all the hair, moving clockwise.
  • Wait about 5-10 minutes to cool down the hair, then remove the invisible and comb hair comb with a few teeth.
  • To give the hair more than the vintage chic, you need the front part of the hair (a person) to stab several clips and leave it for 5 minutes. This will help make the waves more visible.
  • Finally lightly spray with hairspray.

hollywood curls

hollywood curls

hollywood curls

What locks are obtained with different diameter of curling iron

  • 50 mm. The biggest. It helps to twist the ends of hair and create a very large wave. Best for long or medium hairstyles.
  • 38 mm. We need to create large soft waves. Good for long and medium hair.
  • 32 mm and 25 mm. Receives an average curls.
  • 19 mm. One of the most common ploek. It allows you to get elastic curls. Well suited for creating spiral curls.
  • 16 mm. Obtained small curls.
  • 10 mm. To create a super-curly hair. If the comb after the wrap, you can get the effect of a cloud of hair.

How long to keep the device

Metal curling. Hair Interaction and hot metal should be a maximum of 5 to 10 seconds.
Ceramic, tourmaline, titanium and other curling tresses can rotate up to 20 seconds.


Hair length

If you have short hair, curling suitable small diameter, as if to use 32-50 mm device, then you simply do not have enough length.
For the head of hair to shoulders, or to the middle of the blades used model with a diameter of 19-25 mm.
For long hair is not suitable too thin curling as curl length is too big for her rod. Optimal use of instruments with a diameter 25-38 mm.

Tips to care curls

What to do to keep long soft hollywood curls (waves)

When voluminous curls are not completely cooled down, touching them (and even more so - to comb) can not. Otherwise, they immediately fall apart.
To resulting curls were strong and resilient, it is recommended immediately after perm curls fastened to the pin.
If you treat the finished hair spray, do it from a distance of 25-30 cm. If applied lacquer closer ugly hair can stick together and look sloppy.
If by the end of the day hair is oily and have it washed stranded hair, of course, lost. To delay the shampoo, you can use a dry shampoo. It will help keep the hair for another day.
If the street is windy, and you are afraid that the curls will dissolve, fling hair shawl or light scarf.

How to create hollywood curls (waves) with the curling iron

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