Curious Curls

19 Jun 2010 1 Comment

by Ellie in Tips&Tricks

This is a little tutorial for all the girls with straight hair out there who, naturally, sometimes want the big waves, the beautiful curls without having to go to the hairdresser or having to buy expencive machinery to curl their hair up and spent several hours on it with medium satisfying results.

I’m not the first one to come up with this but I’ve recently heard from a couple of friends that they never thought of this easy and cheap way to curl their hair.

All you need is:

(depending on how much hair you have) 1/3 to half a roll of tin-foil and (again depending on much hair you’ve got) 1/2 to an hour of time (time that you can spent in front of the TV or outdoors because this method doesn’t require you to stand or jump or do any other weird things that could keep you from sitting on your couch or a blanket outside).

Step 1: Devide the tin foil into smaller bits, about as long as your index finger.

Step 2: Scrunch the foil into little “worms”, so that they look sort of like tin-spagehetti.

Step 3: Take a strand of your hair (small for corkscrew-curls, big for a more wavy result) and put hairspray on it from either side.

Step 4: Take the strand and one tin worm and roll your hair around it to the point where you want it to start to curl (near the head looks more natural but might be difficult to put in a proper hairdo later on, further away from the head makes hairdressing easier but looks more “fake”).

Step 5: Knot the two ends of our worm firmly together or twist the endings so that they feel securely closed and won’t loosen.

Step 6: Proceed with all your hair, it might be difficult to do it on the back of your head and maybe you want to get someone to help you but I always do it alone and it ends up looking okay at the back. Still, if you’re going anywhere really fancy you should ask a friend to help you at the back.

Step 7: Once you’re done, the “pre-do” needs at least 5 hours to curl up your hair, it works even better if they’ve been ‘towel-dry’ in the begginning and you use your hair-dryer on the fully curled in hair, heating up the tin-foil so it sort of ‘burns’ the curls into perfection.

My tip would be to sleep on it, secure the tin-locks with a hat so that they don’t open when you’re in bed.

It’s surely not too comfortable sleeping on a tin-foil head but the results are most satisfying after the 8-10 hours of sleep.

The final result of my last tin-session looked like this:

I curled my hair in to the roots and slept on them. I had a hard time getting them to fall right the day after but I used bobby pins to put them in place creating this nice little Monroe-esque hair-do.

I hope you find this tutorial useful, I might put some more of them on here for make-up and such.

Comment if you liked it, please.

Yours, Ellie xxx