Parting Short Hair for Curling

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to discuss short, curly locks with you. Since Heather does have a lot of layers in her hair and there are a lot of shorter pieces, plus her length is a little bit shorter than most people who get updos, what you're going to do, it's feasible actually for you to do this on your own and get the desired look that you want but you have to be conscious of the fact that you do not have the length of hair in order to fill in gaps. A good way of doing this is getting rid of those shorter layers where you have the longer layers and that your overall length hanging. You're going to put your tail comb in the middle of your head, right back here, and you're going to do that zig zag parting. Once you get to the nape of the neck, simply lower the tail comb and pull your hair to the side. What that will create is a bit of a zig zag pattern that will kind of help when you have your partings that you won't have any spots and you won't have any holes within the up do. Since she does again have shorter hair, I'm going to separate again that section into two other sections, two smaller sections, and I'm going to use our small rubber bands which are better for smaller diameters. The small rubber bands can come in clear which I recommend because it blends in and not that hard to cover. They come in black and they also come in brown. You can pretty much buy them at any CVS, Walgreens, beauty supply store, they do sell them and they're rather cheap and easy to use. You put them in, take that part away so that way it's not in your way and then you're going to lift the remaining sections. Because of the way her hairline is and the length, most short hair updos are going to wind up having a bit of a little tendrils coming down. If your hair is not going to go up because of your length, work that into your style and allow some of those pieces to fall down so again, you're going to grab your smaller rubber band, and we'll put a black one in so you can see the difference of how they stand out especially on lighter hair. So you can see the difference already, how you don't necessarily really see the clear one and how the black one stands out a little bit. If you do not have a rubber band that matches your skin or your hair, then you're going to have to really work at hiding that rubber band once your updo is done. The beauty of updos and getting your hair professionally done which now you should, after this be able to do at home, is that you do not see all of those bobbie pins and all of those rubber bands which are the foundation of your updo."