How to Get Wavy Surf Hair

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Lauren, and today I'm here to discuss how to get wavy surf hair. If your hair has a natural wave in it you can just kind of enhance your hair. We all know how much we love beach hair and how your curl seems to be a little bit more defined, a little bit easier to maintain and you are less prone to get frizz. A great thing to do is to get a tasseled wave spray, usually those sprays have sea salt in them. Sea salts actually help dehydrate your hair and will actually increase the amount of wave you get and will give you that very beached waved look. A few other ways, especially if your hair has been on the straighter side and you don't have a natural wave to work with, one way you can achieve it is by using a curling iron. You'd want to use a larger barreled curling iron, depending on the length of your hair would depend on what you want to use. Very long hair I would go more with your 1 3/4 inch or 2 inch barrel. You're going to want to section your hair according to the size of the diameter of the curling iron. You're going to go with the duckbill down, in order to prevent any fishhooks you want to go with it and turn the hair with the duckbill. You're then going to release the hair. You're then going to continue this throughout your entire head leaving those curls exactly where they are. That will continually- you'll work your way around, spray it with some hairspray and let it set for about 5 minutes. After the hairspray dries and it's all set you're going to use a bit of a fiber paste, molding mud, anything that will kind of help add definition plus create smoothness. You're going to emulsify it really well in your hands and then run your fingers through those curls in order to create more of your tasseled wave look, you can kind of even tassel it yourself. Another great way in order to get wavy hair is to actually set it at night. There are things called pin curls. And what you're going to do is you're going to create these little curls like this and actually keep them in your air until your hair dries. The larger the section of hair you do, the larger the diameter of the circle you do, is going to determine how tight the curl is. I already have two pins up, about an inch in diameter, anywhere from about 3/4 of an inch to an inch will actually make the curl of a more tasseled wave and a tight curl. You're going to grab a section, and obviously your hair would be wet and you'd be using a setting lotion in order to do this, something that's a little bit light weight but will help you keep the style. You simply turn your ends in and grab it as a circle and then roll it all the way up and then pin it. After your hair is pinned in then what you'll do is you'll let it dry and then you will actually take out all of your pins with your pin curls and you will finger it just the way you did with your curling iron curl. So that is how you create the wavy surf look."