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Alright, so now I'm going to grab a curling iron and just finish off this side. I'm actually
going to add a little bit of wave to this side, and then I'm going to pin the other
side. So this is about a one-inch curling iron. One thing to remember when you're curling
hair, especially short hair, is you want to avoid getting little dent marks, and so what
I do is I try to hold my curling iron really, really loosely. I'm not clamping it down tightly.
One thing that I always think of is I put myself in the mind frame that I'm a ballerina,
and I'm trying to hold it as elegantly as I can.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take this kind of top portion here, this
temple section, and I'm going to pull each piece straight out to the side, and I'm just
going to curl it away from the face. I like to start at the root and work my way down
to the tip.
Traditionally, we would start at the end and work our way up, but the reason that this
works a little bit better is that the hair is the softest at the root, and so it needs
a little bit more time to be heated up. And the ends tend to be the oldest part of our
hair and take the curl really quickly. So you get a more even curl if you do it this
way.
So now that I've curled that top section, I'm going to curl this bottom, and I'm going
to go in the opposite direction. I'm going to go towards us, again starting in the middle,
just heating it for a little bit, ignoring the pieces on the top. We get a really nice
shape in there. Really run your hands through it, and you can touch up anything that you
need to touch up in the bangs that way, too. Again, super, super light touch. Sometimes
you just need to touch up a little end piece, just trying to give the hair a little bit
of movement over to the side. I like these kind of little wild bits here.
So now I'm going to take it, and I'm going to bobby pin the other side really tightly
to the head. And again, I'm just doing that because it's really going to emphasize that
this side is a little fuller, a little curlier. So I'm taking my bobby pins, and with short
hair I like to use these really, really tiny bobby pins. They're pretty easy to find almost
anywhere. They're maybe an inch long instead of two inches. These are a little bit easier
to control, and they kind of blend seamlessly into the hair.
I'm just going to finish now with a light spray of beach spray. And then I'm actually
going to just tousle the hair between my hands. I love using a beach spray or textured spray
on short hair because it just gives so much interesting dimension to the hair, so instead
of just seeing a silhouette of the hair, you see very interesting details with it. But
you could use your favorite paste or smoothing wax to get the same effect. And then just
situate it where you want it. And that's a cute style that you can do with a side ***
and a bob.