How To Curl Your Hair Tutorial

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Voluminous, shiny curls await gorgeous on whatever hair length, colour, and texture. If you weren't blessed with 'em naturally, there are some super unproblematic ways to become those waves. So how exactly can your curl your hair yourself?

We've rounded upwardly some time-saving tutorials from Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab scientists and pilus pros for every need that even beginners can master, including how to curl pilus with a curling iron or wand, with a straightener, with rollers, and more.

What to know before you curl

Regardless of the tool y'all use, here are some tips you'll desire to keep in mind earlier styling:

Always prep and protect your hair. Before crimper with any method involving hot tools, apply a heat-protectant product, dry pilus fully, and "brush through it to detangle and align strands," says GH Dazzler Lab Senior Chemist Sabina Wizemann.

Cull the right tool. Larger barrels grade looser curls, while smaller ones brand them tighter. For ringlets (or difficult-to-curl pilus), choose ane-inch barrels and smaller. For looser curls and waves, opt for 1.5-two-inch barrels.

Option the correct temperature range depending on your hair type:

For fine or damaged hair: 180°F to 370°F
For normal thickness, good for you pilus: 375°F to 395°
For thick pilus: 400°F to 420°F

Wait for hair to cool earlier touching it to avoid disrupting the style. When y'all're finished styling, mist hair with hairspray and simply once hair is cool, rake through curls with your fingers to separate.

How to Curl Hair With a Curling Fe

For control and definition, go for a curling atomic number 26 with a clamp. A few speedy steps will guarantee shapely, lasting spirals, according to GH Beauty Lab experts:

Do the twist(s). Near the roots of a 1-inch section of pilus, clamp the curling iron downwards, then wrap strands around the barrel abroad from your face up.
Hold for 10 seconds, release and let curl absurd to set, then echo on the remaining sections.

How to Curl Hair With a Flat Iron or Straightener

Your flat iron can do more than straighten: Bryce Scarlett, celebrity hairstylist for Moroccanoil, tells us how to give it a whirl:

Use a apartment iron for beachy waves

Start at your brow. Take a 1-inch-broad section of hair and clamp your apartment iron at eyebrow level.
Make S-shapes through the hair. Repeatedly clench and release downward the section, while holding the ends of hair, moving from side to side in an "S" shape.
Leave out the ends. End styling just earlier yous attain the tips of your hair; repeat all over.

Become curls with your flat iron

Start at the root. Clamp your apartment iron near the roots of a 1-inch-wide portion of hair.
Spin the fe. Twist the iron away from your face up and pull, moving down to the ends "as if y'all were curling a ribbon with scissors," Scarlett says.
Repeat on the remaining sections.

How to Curlicue Hair With a Crimper Wand

A curling wand, which has no clamp, creates looser curls and waves (tapered versions tin can form spirals of different sizes). The best method, from Matilde Campos, a celebrity hairstylist in Los Angeles:

Protect your hand. Slip a heat-resistant glove on the hand that's non belongings the curling wand to shield it from getting burned, especially if you lot are new to the method, she advises.
Smooth and department. Just similar using a curling iron, brush your pilus completely and separate it into 1-inch sections.
Go curling. Hold the wand vertically, pointing the tip down, Wizemman recommends. Take a section of hair at the roots and wrap it around the barrel of the lowest section of the wand, twisting away from your face until you reach the ends. "You tin can curl all the fashion to the ends of your pilus, or you can leave the ends out for a beachy look," Campos says. Repeat all over.

How to Curlicue Hair With Rollers

Curling hair using rollers has added benefits beyond creating bouncy spirals. "Rollers are an like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to add and retain book," Campos says. "If yous're always in a blitz, hot rollers can smooth and ascertain hair quicker than a blow-dry." Here'due south her technique for unlike roller types:

Using hot rollers

Start right. Make sure your hair is dry out and brushed out, and choose the largest rollers in the ready if there are multiple.
Section and wind. Have a one-inch section of hair and starting at the ends, air current strands around the roller toward your roots until all of the piece is wrapped effectually.
Repeat. Exercise the same on the rest of pilus and allow the rollers to cool before unwinding.

With velcro or cream rollers

1. Dry first. Blow-dry out hair in small-scale sections using a round brush, twisting each effectually a roller once dry to set the whorl. "This allows the hair to cool as yous continue to the other
sections," she explains.

2. Piece of work on the rest. Repeat on the remaining hair.

3. Secure the style. Once all sections are in rollers, spritz them with hairspray to set the bend, and then await a few minutes to unwind each. "If you have time, leave them as long equally possible to aid them retain their shape and bounciness," Campos suggests.

April Franzino Beauty Director Apr Franzino is the Beauty Director at Good Housekeeping, part of the Hearst Women'due south Lifestyle Beauty Group.