Hair: Curling

Hair: Curling 

When learning to the curl the hair we learnt two different types of curls; first where straight spiral curls which meant you would curl a piece of hair with the tong standing straight up and the second curl was a side curl meaning you would curl the hair with the tong on its side.

I first started by brushing through the hair and then split the hair done the center parting. When having the hair into the two sections on one side of the head I was going to do the straight curls, by doing this I worked from the bottom of the hair to the top. With the first square section at the bottom of the hair I took the heated curling tong and clipped in a piece of hair starting at the end and rolling it carefully towards the head (keeping the tong up-right) and held it there for about 30 seconds. After that you could either push the curl of the tong with the metal end of the pin comb or slowly release it with the tong clip. When released keep it in the rolled shaped standing up straight and pin it against the head. I then continued this all the way up the side of  the head and left them in to set.

The second curl I started on the other side of the head, I used the same technique by starting from the bottom of the head and working my way up but instead I took the tong and curl the curls sideways like in the picture above. Again I would wait about 30 seconds for it to set and then clip in the curl against the head and continue this all over the head.

After finishing the hair and its all pinned in then go and remove and take all the pins out. The hair would have time to have set so the curls should stay in tact. To improve on my look I found that I needed to curl each piece of hair longer as some were not as curly as others and seemed to drop. As you can see from the picture below the left side of the head has loses smaller curls from the upward curls and the right hand curls are tighter and bigger from the side ward curls.

We then as an extra technique we were shown how to add a brickwork effect to the hair (using the diagram below) which we achieved by brushing out the middle back section of the hair and following the brick pattern down the hair. I did this by working this time the top of the hair to the bottom with the side ward curl technique. This was used in the hair to give the hair more lift and make it appear more full/thick.

By Amelia Richmond-Knight