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Hello my name is Kevin Saris I'm from Air Hairdressing in Malvern and today I'm here to show you some long hairdressing techniques.
The one technique I'm going to show you today is a barrel curl technique.
Most of the time you set the hair on rollers and put them in barrel curls or you set the hair wet
and then put it under a hood dryer, but today I am going to do a different method.
I'm going to blow dry the hair and then actually going to let the sections cool in the barrel curls.
What I've done with Sam’s hair we’ve shampooed and conditioned,
kept the conditioner just to mid lengths and ends not to make the roots too soft and we’ve applied a lot mousse.
That is something that’s the key point that you really have to apply a lot products when you’re doing this method.
Also traditionally if you were to set the hair with barrel curls you would have used setting lotion as well,
which is a very strong product so it gives you the hold.
So I've applied a lot of mousse, so even you think you put a little bit of mousse in you’ll have to put a lot more,
I'd say eight golf ball size amounts of mousse which these days seems a lot but it's going to give it the hold that we’re looking for.
So what I'm going to Sam’s hair is I'm going to section off the nape area
and I'm going to blow dry the sections in three, so one, that middle section and then the end section.
Okay so blow dry that section dry
and I'm just going to start just to take that section up with my thumb,
I’ve got the thumb in on the nape and get one of these little clips, clip it from the one side
and then another clip just get going from the other side.
Okay so that’s our first little barrel there.
And now for the middle section.
So the idea of this method is when I'm touching the hair now the hair is still hot
so the idea of that is that you’re letting the actual hair cool down with the curl in,
so really that’s the same method if you were setting the hair under a dryer you’d obviously put these same barrels in wet,
you’d apply your setting lotion and put your same barrels in wet and then you put your client under the dryer to dry.
So what we’re really doing is accelerating that situation there.
Again got my thumb on the nape, open it from the one side
and pin it from the other so the curl does not unravel.
Okay again doing that three section method.
Also when you are using this method or using the barrel curls do blow dry the hair
in the same way that you blow dry it just to get the maximum lift than you would usually,
so it's not just a case of straightening it you want to get root lift in as well.
So the key really is to just get that initial root lift, you can actually see the hair sitting up at the root there
so it's not just drying the hair straight it is actually putting some root lift in.
You can see that sections I've got they’re reasonable thick as well you don’t want to go too fine with them.
Again you can the root lift in there;
I've got my thumb on the base of the nape behind the curl.
Any excess hair you just want to pop that back into your barrel and we’re going to pin that in.
This is ideal when you have a salon in a very busy environment because what you tend to find
is some clients with finer hair what they’ll say is you can blow dry their hair and then what they’ll ask you to do is
to put some Velcro rollers in afterwards just to give some extra body but of course that’s really time consuming in a busy salon,
so this is ideal because in a way you’re doing both of those things.
You’re blow drying the hair with root lift but then also you’re putting curl in it as well
so your client feels confident it's going to have some root lift in.
So I've done the back sections now and I've just worked up onto the sides so you’ve just got to choose parting,
but Sam’s because it's quite a short parting I'm going to take the rest of it back.