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Hi everybody, today I’m going to show you a tutorial on how I curl my pixie hair.
To get started, there’s a few things you’ll need. I curl my hair with a flat
iron, you can also use a one or one and a half inch curling iron, and it will
work just fine. I prefer to curl my hair when it’s 2 to 3 days dirty. When my
hair is just a little bit dirty, I do use just a dry shampoo. Ive just been
using the Sauvé dry shampoo because I’ve heard a lot of people like it. And I do
like it in the terms that it works, I don’t like that it dries your hair our so
much. Just so you know, I prefer Dirty Secret by Bed Head over this Sauvé. So I’m
going to use a little bit of the dry shampoo on the roots, especially when I need
a retouch as bad as I do right now, it just helps disguise the regrowth a
little bit and absorb some of that oil that takes place after not washing it
for 2 to 3 days. More importantly than the dry shampoo to me is this Spoil Me
by Bed Head, and it’s basically a defrizzer and a smoothing hairspray. It
rehydrates the hair and gives it kind of a nice clean feeling to it. So after I
use a dry shampoo I definitely follow up with this just because that dry
shampoo dries out the hair so much and this just brings back some of that
hydration. So the dry shampoo on the roots, and the Spoil Me on the ends. And
you can just let it sit for a second while it absorbs and dries off for a
little bit. Another thing you can do if you don’t have Spoil me, is a gloss
drop, one of my favorites is Shine Blaster by Bed Head. So it’s basically like
a serum and it adds a little protection from the heat of the flat iron or
curling iron, and it also brings back hydration as well. Another thing you’ll
want or need is a clip, to kind of section off the hair, and a comb if you want
to smooth it before you curl it. So I’m going to go ahead a comb all the product
through my hair. And then I’m going to go ahead and part it. I like to style my
hair coming forward, just so it frames my face, and also, that’s kind of just
the way my hair grows. So for a better style, I always recommend going with the
growth pattern of your hair, cause then you’re fighting less against your hair
and it’s fighting less against you. So I’m going to curl my hair towards my
face, so you’ll see me pulling the flat iron towards my face as well. So take a
section, and the key is to always turn your flat iron and not hold it there because
you will get a crease. And also, place the flat iron right at the base of your
scalp. That’s where you’re going to pull the most intensely, and then you’re
just going to pull straight down, so that you’re not creating a really intense
ringlet, you’re keeping the ends just a little bit straight. And then im going
to curl the next piece of hair the other way. So again, right at the base of my
head, and pull down like that. And you can see this hair a little bit, how it
just has a little bit of straightness at the end. And when I’m curling my hair,
now that it’s a pixie, I don’t worry about including every single hair because
then you’re going to get basically like a helmet shape. But it’s okay, like I missed
some of this underneath but its fine because you don’t have to curl every
single piece of hair because it will create more volume than you want. So I have
this hair going that way, I’m going to go ahead and do this one going forward. And
with the bottom layer especially, I don’t pull it up and I don’t over extend
it, when you overextend it, you’re going to create a lot of volume. I don’t want
a lot of volume underneath cause that’s basically going to shorten the look and
the length of my hair. So holding it downwards, I’m just going to curl tightly
at the roots and pull straight down. And you just repeat that on the second
layer, but going the opposite. So for example, in the back on the bottom layer I
originally curled my hair going forward, I’m going to go ahead and curl it backwards
and basically alternate what I just did with the first layer. But again, I’m
angling the flat iron towards my face. And then you’ll just continue to repeat
that up the side until this side is done and then you’ll start over on this
side from the bottom. And actually I do a pretty dramatic part so I’m going to
leave it right there for now. And switch to the other side. So here’s another
example of how the ends aren’t curled like a tight curl, their barely curled
under. So this front part is kind of where the styling comes into play, because
the direction that you curl your hair is basically going to be the look of the
whole hairstyle. So I start in the back, back here, and I take a little section
from the back left. And I’m going to curl it tightly going towards my face, and
straightening out those ends. Then I’m going to come from the opposite way on the
right side of my hair and curl it towards the other curl, keeping those ends,
again, kind of straight. And then I just kind of keep repeating that towards
the front. And this is where I do like to overextend because I like a lot of
the volume of my hair to be at the top. So again, I’m overextending right here,
and I’m holding the flat iron, or curling iron, just flat against my head,
right at the roots, and getting it really tight in there. And then start to
pull it towards you. And then in here, this is the tricky part because everybody’s
hair is different and everybody’s hairline is different. I find for myself that
the best thing to do is to actually reverse the curl, and instead of curling towards
my face, I curl it going backwards. So I’m going to take this piece right here
and overextend it going this way, and again, I’m going to curl my hair going
backwards. And I only do this on the front part because I like the way the finished
curl looks when I do pull it forward. The direction of the curl basically impacts
the type of wave you’re going to get. And I might actually do a barrel curl and
have this one go the same way. But I’m going to have it angled differently. So,
before I had the curling iron going straight like that. This time I’m going to have
it go this way, just at a slight diagonal. I just want to make sure I have all
of my hair over directed. Right at the roots, and curl it going backwards right
at the ends and curl it so they’re a little straight. And if you’re using a
dryer shampoo that dries out your hair, you just went over it with a flat iron,
which is going to dry it out anymore. So I definitely recommend going over it
with a shine spray, this is called Head Rush and it’s also by Bed Head. And you’re
just going to hit your ends with that. And I would do this while your hair is
just a little bit warm so your hair can absorb it. And this just puts, again, a
little bit of hydration back into your hair. The back of my hair cut is a lot
shorter, so I’m basically going just to attempt to do the same technique, which
is curling it at the base only and then pulling it straight, and alternating
the direction of the curl I do. So just curl the back the bet that you can see,
use a mirror if you have one. And for this top layer I can kind of see what I’m
doing so I’m going to go ahead and face front. And just starting at the base of
the hair and curling towards my face. Sweet, so now all my hair on my head should
be curled. I’m using my new favorite spray wax. Everybody, the Wonza spray wax
has been discontinued so it’s really hard to find, but I like Play Dirty spray
wax, it’s by Sexy Hair. The key to this is that it’s very gritty, and you don’t
want to spray it in your roots, you want to spray it on the ends. So like this,
and you can kind of lift a little bit so you’re getting underneath it as well. So
the great thing about spray wax is it doesn’t get crispy or hard, so it’s
really pliable and you can play with it a lot, but it still holds pretty well. Then,
you can use a tiny bit of hairspray, I don’t like to use a lot cause I don’t like
my hair to be crispy cause I touch it so much. And I know that with hairspray,
if you run your fingers through it, it’s basically undoing the hairspray, it
only has hold one time. So I’m just going to do a tiny bit. And a lot of times
when you mix this with the spray wax it kind of makes a perfect in between concoction.
It will give it a little bit more hold and flexibility when you mix it with the
spray wax. And that my friends is basically how you do my little so-called
curled hairstyle. And I really like it because I can sleep on it and it looks somewhat
the same, it’s a little bit messy and tussled. My bangs to get flatter quicker,
so if they are the next day I can just kind of twist it, and put a pin in it,
and then you have a little rock belle hairstyle as well, or like a fohawk. So it’s
a fun hairstyle, its really playful I think, and I really like it for summer.
But like I said, I like to use it to get more days out of my hair before I have
to wash it again. Hopefully it’s what you guys wanted and if you guys have any questions,
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