Using a Curling Iron for a Curly Hair Up-Do

Video Transcript

"LAUREN FARRAHER: My name is Lauren, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about curly hair updos that you can do at home. When you're going to be doing a curly style, especially if your hair is straight or even has a bit of a curl, what you really want to focus on when you're blowing your hair out is your actual volume of your hair. You're not going to want to focus so much about getting your ends straight and smooth because you are going to be going over it with a curling iron. Curling irons can almost act as a flat iron with the heat that is going down on the hair. If you grab a section, what I suggest you do is you utilize the fact that it is a thermal instrument. So you're going to bring it up to the base of the head, bring it down. Now this duck clip, you're going to want to go with the grain. So you're going to want to turn with it in order for it to go down. Then you're going to roll it up. The heat of this is automatically going to give you a bit of smoothness. Even with no product, she's still getting the smoothness. Now, a lot of people tend to go the opposite way, and this is where their downfall is. They're putting the duck clip on top and then they're rolling against it so the hair is like that. What you're going to get then is a crank in the hair and a lot of people go wrong by putting that crank in. You want to keep your curl natural smooth."