Curls: types, subtleties of creating styling

Every woman wants to look perfect and feminine in any situation. One of the easiest ways to stay well-groomed, beautiful and at the same time fashionable were and remain hairstyles based on curls.

Naughty playful curls and flowing curls on the shoulders for many years remain the most popular ornaments of the female head. Unfortunately, not all nature has endowed winding mop, in this case, curling irons, tongs, hair curlers, a hair dryer, and other devices come to the rescue, allowing you to create the desired curls on your head.

Curling for a short time is a special type of styling, which includes several successive operations, thanks to which you can create a hairstyle of an arbitrary shape. Usually they retain their appearance for up to three days, gradually unwinding.

If the strands are wet, they quickly return to their original appearance. The length of the wrap directly depends on the characteristics of the curls - they are round, oval, and ribbon-like. The smaller the cross-sectional shape of the curl, the more curly will curls - a similar hairstyle keeps on hair longer.

Daring and gentle curls can be easily done with your own hands, our beauty industry offers a large selection of options for giving styling a refined and stylish look. To do this, use a variety of devices - tongs, ironing, hair dryer, papilotki and many others, while not losing popularity and such "grandmother's" methods, such as curling on fabric or paper. In each case, the curls are different - gentle, curly, textural, wavy or natural.

Depending on the shape of the curl, the curls are divided into several types — straight, oblique, and also vertical, parallel, descent, or crumpled.

• Straight It is customary to designate curls that are horizontal to the surface, and if you twist them in several rows, they will already be called parallel.
• Skew curls are located at an angle of 45 degrees relative to horizontal, stacked so that their base takes the form of waves, passing at the ends of the curls.
• Curls, coming from the middle of the strands in the form of a spiral - runoff.

In order to create beautiful natural curls, use several methods. Let us dwell on the most common.

It is believed that this tool is used to straighten hair, but nevertheless they can make pretty cute curls, and the wider the iron, the larger the waves are.

The technique is very simple. To begin with, a strand is separated from the hair with a thin comb, clamped at the roots and gently lead down to the very tip of the hair, slightly bending down from the bottom. The iron does not need to be clamped too tightly to prevent wrinkles and not to disturb the internal structure of the hair shaft.

After all the styling is complete, you can sprinkle it with a fixing lacquer, and to make your hair look a bit more fluffy, you can first beat the dirt with your fingers or gently walk the curls with a brush.

Everything is simple here - thin strands need to be clamped near the tip with forceps and screwed, then hold for a few minutes. The wave is done from the roots and towards the tips, in this case the waves are smooth. Usually use large curling irons with a diameter of 25 to 35 mm - curls in this case are formed of medium size, to create more curls should choose larger devices.

Koklushki are an ideal option, allowing you to create fairly large curls without damaging the hair, it is a good alternative to chemical perm, the effect of which can last a couple of days.

In order to twist the curls in this way, it is necessary to separate the strands, comb them and, keeping them taut, wrap the curlers inside. Roller fix as close as possible to the root zone.

After your scoop is wrapped, you can either wait for the hair to dry naturally or dry it with a hairdryer.

From the selected type of bobbins depends largely on the type of curls, which will be in the end.

• Velcro - this is the most convenient type of hair curlers, which are optimally suitable for the formation of soft and rather elastic curls, while holding this style for quite a long time. Velcro can be used on any type of hair, their undoubted advantage is that they do not worsen the condition of the hair.

• Thermo curlers - these devices are preheated, as a rule, in boiling water, then quickly wound onto dry, preferably clean, strands with a thermal styling agent applied. Such bobbins are kept on the head until they cool, and then carefully removed. At the output you can get shiny smooth waves, but the effect from them is extremely short, especially on soft and thin strands.

• Boomerangs - these curlers are good for twirling and aging at night, they are suitable for all kinds of hair, while the curls are natural, and the hairstyle is kept for quite a long time.

• Spirals - such devices are a rather unusual spiral-shaped cover; separate wet strands are drawn into it using a special hook. As they dry, they take on the desired shape.

• Velvet curlers and bobbins have a special coating to prevent tangling of strips and damage to their structure. Such curlers perfectly keep their shape, and the curls come out rather large and beautiful.

• Plastic curlers with clamps it is quite difficult to fix on your own, here you need a certain skill. Curls are soft and very voluminous, the shape is kept for a long time.

To achieve textured curls, you can use a special nozzle for the hair dryer - a diffuser. Keep in mind: the shorter the curls, the smaller should be its “tentacles”.

Wet hair is slightly dried with a towel, then foam or mousse is applied. Hair prepared in this way is placed in a diffuser and starts to dry, then bringing it closer, then moving it away with springy movements, strands during the procedure should be screwed onto the “fingers” with nozzles.

This method of curls is well known to everyone who has ever done a professional styling in the cabin. In order for you to repeat it at home, you will need a round brush of large diameter, as well as a hairdryer and a preparation for thermal protection.

To begin with, thin strands are separated and, gradually leading from the roots towards the tips, they curl locks, “watching” her with a hair dryer. The slower the movement, the more spectacular and large curls will come out.

Another interesting option that allows you to create beautiful and smooth curls, but so that the hair at the same time looked a bit careless. To do this, a little wet hair should be applied mousse for styling, divided into separate locks, while the thinner each individual strand is, the smaller the curls will be.

The strand is twisted into a tight rope and fixed with a pin. When all the hair has been collected, it remains only to dry them in the dryer, dissolve and spray with varnish.

For curling hair into elastic curls, you can use any of the methods, but it is important to know some limitations of using each of them.

So, for brittle and crooked strands, irons and curling irons are not suitable - they suggest prolonged exposure to high temperatures, which can only aggravate the already deplorable state of hair.

If you do not want to subject your curls to hot styling, it is better to use a curler or a flagella method. Both of these options suggest long-term drying of the strands, if you need to get a spectacular hairstyle quickly - then it is better to prefer curling and ironing.

The choice of a tool largely depends on which shape you want to get.

Lovers of glamorous Hollywood style usually use tongs or a hair dryer with a large round comb. By the way, elegant curls in retro style are suitable for the fair sex with any type of hair and face oval, emphasize make-up favorably, complement the romantic evening dress, look harmoniously on red and black and blond curls.

If you like the image that came down from the photos of our grandmothers' youth, then you can use the “old-fashioned” methods of short-term curling - to create such curls, use tapes, strips of cloth and even paper, and this method does not hurt the hair, and the styling is held for quite a long time.

Let us dwell on some of the features of creating locks of different types.

To create such a styling, you need to rinse the hair and apply a little mousse to fix, and then dry the strands using a hair dryer with a diffuser. Thus you can get the most elastic curls that look great as a daily hairstyle.

For such a bow, it is necessary to divide the entire mound into separate strands, then roll each into a bundle and dry it with a hairdryer, if you need to speed up the process, then each flagellum can be further walked with an iron.

This styling is quite spectacular, and the curls look textured and very stylish.

Here will help cone curling. It is necessary to warm it up to 200-220 degrees, after which to wind the strands from the thick end of the cone towards its pointed part. To create pronounced curls, you can additionally walk on the finished curls comb with long sparse teeth.

Many women are faced with a situation where beautifully curled locks simply do not stick to their hair and quickly straighten. This usually happens for several reasons:

• naturally disobedient hair;
• the use of low-quality or unsuitable by the method of curling styling tools;
• the use of incorrect methods twisting curls.

Thin hair, especially if it is also rare at the same time, is rather difficult to style. In order to cope with this problem, you need to strengthen the curls with special nutritional preparations and care for your hair as carefully as possible. Girls with hard thick hair often suffer with a perm. To create a styling that will hold on the hair a couple of days, you need to use special emollients.

The result obtained depends largely on the length of the strands.

The average length gives food for all sorts of experiments, but Harmony on such haircuts look curls of medium diameter. By the way, medium-sized hair is much easier to restore the shape of curls, if they bloom a little during the day - to do this, simply collect the hair into an bundle for an hour and a half, and then dissolve again.

Long hair allows you to create curls of all kinds - large, medium, small, spiral and flat, however, in any case, such styling requires the obligatory use of fixative preparations, since the hair straightens under its own weight.

For laying suitable means of several types.

• Lucky - used to fix the result of laying. They are available in several versions from weak to fastening curls almost tightly.

• Foams and mousses - put on clean hair before curling. These tools give volume, protect the hair, but do not bind curls. Keep in mind that for styling you need a very small amount of the product, if it is too much, the hair will visually become as if unwashed and untidy.

• Gels - have a rather heavy texture. They are applied with a comb, they fix hair well, but can only be used on small curls, they are not suitable for large curls.

• Powder - this composition will help refresh styling, if, for example, you need to go to a youth party or a solemn event in the evening after work. Powder is applied to the hair with massaging movements, as a result, the curls become textural and shiny.

Do not forget about the means used by our mothers and grandmothers. Perhaps such a styling is not as good as the latest innovations in the cosmetics industry, but they will help to keep the curls, and in addition, are natural, safe and do not have a traumatic effect on the hair shaft.

• Sugar water - it is made up of half a glass of water and a spoon of sugar, used as hair spray.

• Lemon water - to create an effective styling agent, you need to cut the lemon into slices and boil it, add a little alcohol, and then spray the styling from a spray bottle.

• Gelatin - This is a good way for thin hair. 1/2 cup of warm water take half a teaspoon of gelatin, bring to complete dissolution in a water bath, then cool and use as a normal gel.

How to make a chic volumetric curls, see the following video.