How to Get Tousled Hair

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia and I'm going to show you some ways to get tousled hair. If you've got natural hair, it's easy, it probably looks tousled anyway, all you've got to do is fluff it and go. But if you've got straight hair, or hair that just has a slight wave to it, then you're going to need to do some things to get that sort of wavy, beachy tousled look. When it's damp, you're going to want to twist it around your fingers after applying some product. Anything will do, something light, you can even use a little hair spray. Just something to help give you that separated look. In this model's hair I've got a little bit of hair spray. So, I've just been twisting it around my fingers. Now you can let it go like that, walk around the house for a bit, hitting a little hair spray just to help bundle that hair together. You're going to want to let it dry. You can also roll it up, like really twist it, almost make some zulu knots with it, and I'll show you what a zulu knot is. It's just twisting all the way down. By doing that you're going to get, and then just take a hair pin and stick it, by doing that you're going to get a lot more of a tighter effect. Once it's dry, you just scrunch it, take this out. You just scrunch it, you can flip your head upside down, give yourself a little bit more volume, and that's going to help give you that tousled look. Another thing to take in to consideration when you're doing a tousled style is you're going to want to have some layers put in. If it's all one length, you're not going to get that look. You need some texture, you need some movement, and they layers are what's going to do that, because you, the lift that layers give, that's what helps bring out this tousled look. So that's how you get tousled hair."