Long Curly Hair Bounce Test

Series Summary

Since the dawn of time, women have sought the perfect hairstyle. That elusive blend of volume, smoothness and style has created frustration in many women who seek to express their personalities and creativity through their locks. In fact, hairstyles often represent the cultural, social and ethnic identity for many individuals and can also represent a certain social status. While hair density, texture and length are all factors in a persons hairstyle, fashion trends tend to play the biggest role in women's hairstyles. Curly hairstyles are one of the easiest and most envied hairstyles. Many people are graced with curly hair, which makes their hair care routine simple. However, curly hair can get out of control with humidity and frizz. In this free video series, learn how to style curly hair. Our expert, Holly Zapata, is a instructor for Aveda. She demonstrates some simple things to make curly hairstyles last. Learn about products to use on curly hair. Also, get tips for evaluating the level of bounce in the hair. Curious about styling long or short curly hair? Holly demonstrates how to do both. So, take a moment, and learn how to tame curly locks today!

Video Transcript

"Hi today we are going to talk about naturally curly hair. For those of you that have naturally curly hair I can sympathize, I've had it my whole life. I'm going to talk today about the different types of natural curl, the product usage, the styling techniques to utilize the best that nature has given you. First we are going to talk about the bounce factor. What the bounce factor is is the amount of inches that your hair bounces up from when you pull it down and you let it go. That will determine the styling product usage and how to style it. So I'm going to bring in some models that have the different bounce factors just to demonstrate. So what we are going to do is we are going to show you from curliest to the different bounces and I usually talk about it in inches. So actually we are going to swap these models here and we are going to bring you down here, there we go, o'kay. So the bounce factor is if you pull a curl down and then you let it go how much does it bounce up so different hair has different curl factors. So here is one right here and you pull it down and let it go and you can see that she has got a good one and a half inch bounce."