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Hi, I'm Leo Bancroft, this is my model Scarlett, and today I'm going to show you a simple way
of how to create the perfect vintage wave. The first step, and probably one of the most
important, is to make sure that you've moussed the hair from root to tips whilst it's damp.
Blast dry the hair, 100% dry, almost over drying the hair before you actually attempt
to curl it. Before you apply the heat, at a distance,
spray the top and the underneath of the section. Place the hair in and just wind the hair once,
about an inch away from the roots. Hold still and horizontal for a few seconds before you
start winding one more time. Hold the entire section for about 20 seconds and then unwind
the hair to create the perfect wave and curl. What you're looking for is the hair to come
off the face. Now, vintage curl, or a vintage wave, is actually
all brushed into one, so it's really important that you get into the habit of doing each
section identically. Again on the top and underneath and then the same principle again;
hair is thicker here, finer here. You can see now that when I come to comb this out,
all this hair is going to gather into the same curl.
If you don't want to comb it, you can just shake them; so each section you do, you can
just give the hair a shake and you can see you start to get the body, the volume. Good.
I'm going to repeat exactly the same thing on the other side.
To create the ultimate vintage look, it's all about combing the curl out and making
it all gather together to give it that real glamorous feel. Just take a few curls at once
and we comb the underneath of the section and we comb the hair forward, just using a
wide-toothed comb rather than a brush, the hair will gather. Don't be scared to comb,
I'm hardly touching the hair, just allowing the comb to gather it all together. The fringe,
just comb the top, use your hands to mould the hair. If you want, at this stage, you can
apply some serums; if it's gone a little bit of frizzy, apply a little bit of serum on
the ends. And then to finish, a bit of shine spray, always at a distance. And then my favourite
trick, a bit of hairspray into the fingers, just to lose any of those flyaways. And a
little trick to finish, where you see an indent, not where you hit the bump, you can just very
gently backcomb into these parts of the hair, just to give it a little bit of a lift. So
take the whole section and just a little bit of a tease.
And that's how you create the perfect vintage wave.