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Today I'm going to show you how to do a couple of twisting techniques for curly hair. So
what you're going to do is, you want to start from the base of the hair. Section off a little
piece at the bottom. And depending on how tight your curls are, or how tight you want
your curls, the tighter the curls, the smaller the section. The bigger the curls, the bigger
the section.
So Casey's fresh out of the shower. I've already prepped her hair with a curl energizing cream.
And you can use water. I actually prefer to use a leave-in conditioner spray or something
to prep the hair. Usually because it's a little lighter than water.
So now we're going to twist the hair. I'm going to take tiny little sections and I'm
going to smooth the hair before I start twisting, and then I'm just going to twist. And it's
a light twist. It's not a tight heavy twist. It's almost like a daydream curl, how you're
just sitting around twiddling your hair.
This is a great technique if you have any pieces in your hair that are too straight,
or straighter than the rest of the texture. You may want to just twist those sections
of the hair that are too straight. I also use it on my own hair for pieces that are
too curly. A lot of times near our hairline in the front of our face, around our face
tends to be too curly, or else the hair underneath tends to be too curly, or too straight. So
these are great techniques for utilizing that. It's redistributing your product. So if you
have trouble with your hair with frizz, or with it lasting all day, these are great things.
Truthfully, when I do this to my hair it takes me probably five minutes and I usually do
it on the couch watching TV. So it's very easy.
Now if you wanted to play around with your hair and make it fuller, make the curls a
little bit bigger, you could take larger sections. You could even take as few as three or four
big sections in the back. You could almost create like quadrants in the back of the head
and just curl those big curls, and then just diffuse those and you should see that you
get a little bigger curls. It doesn't work with everybody so be sure and experiment with
your hair.
All the product is in the hair now so as I'm twisting along it's redistributing the product.
If your hair was more on the wavy side, one thing that I like to do after I twist in my
curl enhancing product is spritz on a little beach spray or a salt spray. It's a really
great way to add a little bit of weightless hold and texture if your hair isn't necessarily
curly.
I'm just going to continue on. This may seem like it's taking a little bit of time, but
if you can get a couple days wear out of just twisting your hair and you're happier with
the results, then I think it's time well spent.
I like to, whenever I'm twisting the hair around the face, I try to twist it moving
away from the face, so the direction is moving away from the face. I just think that that
creates a more open space for your face and is a little bit more modern.
Now that we're at the top section of the hair I am going to do these twists on the top going
straight up. So really aerating that root. And then you can see when you lay it down,
you get this little bump here, and that's beautiful.
Last little section here, but a very important section, so I'm just going to make sure that
I'm getting all those little baby hairs, pushing them in with my finger. Making sure everything
is aerated.
Now from this point you could air dry the hair or diffuse it.
So this is one technique for twisting curly hair.