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Summary: How to curl the back for curling short hair; get professional tips and advice on methods, techniques, and products for doing your own hairstyling in this free beauty video.
Lauren Farraher has been styling all types of hair for more than nine years. Farraher has experience in cutting, styling and coloring men's, women's and children's hair. She attended a...read more
"Hi, my name is Lauren, on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to discuss short, curly locks with you. As you can see I already started to curl some of Heather's back. You want to curl these ponytails and kind of get them started. How you're going to do it is you're going to lift up small sections, you're going to take a little spray, spray will help set the curl so that way the curl will stay in and it'll just stay there as you go. You're going to again go with the ducktails in order to prevent fishtails or kinks in the hair. You're going to do this for each one of the sections that you did and that you've already kind of parted out. This is the beginning foundations of the back of your updo. As you can see, I've left a considerable amount of Heather's hair out of the rubber bands just because with shorter hair, as I said, there's not enough hair in order to really fill in those gaps so you need to be really conscious of the fact that you don't have as much length to play with and you don't have as much length to fill in those areas. Once again, spray, start in towards here, you do want to be careful, the rubber bands are plastic, if you do too close to the rubber band, a curling iron heat will melt them and they will snap and you'll have to start from the beginning again by replacing those rubber bands. And that is kind of how you can curl the back of the hair. So you can start that style."
eHow Article: Curling the Back for Curling Short Hair