Hey everyone! So my hair is extremely long, and I love trying new styles...or old styles! We recently vacationed to Lake Tahoe, and of course I checked out the local thrift store. I found a "vintage" crimper (on the right) for $4, and I decided to try it. I had no idea what I was doing, so I went online and watched numerous YouTube videos. Thank goodness for the internet, because it turned out great! I'll walk you through the steps:
1. Brush your hair. You want your hair to be as flat as possible, so some of you may need to straighten your hair if it is naturally curly. Mine is inthe middle, so I was fine. But make sure that there are no tangles in your hair!
2. Give your hair a light coating of hair spray. I used Garnier Fructus, but any brand is just fine. But DON'T use an air spray. This will make your hair crunchy, as I call it, which is not what we're going for. What we want the hair spray to do is help the crimps to stay. So once you spray a LIGHT coating on your hair, you can also brush it a little to avoid the crunchiness.
3. Crimp! Grab a thin section of hair, and start as close to the root as possible without burning your scalp. Close crimper for about 2 seconds (it's different for everyone, but that's how long it takes me. You can test it out and see how long you need for the crimp to be defined enough), and then open. Now overlap the next crimp a bit, so that there are no gaps in between them. (You're crimping down, by the way.) Hold for two seconds, then open and repeat until you have done the entire section. Then do this on the rest of your hair, and hopefully it will turn out like one of these:
This is the standard way to crimp your hair, but there are many other ways, too. Some people just crimp a few parts of their hair for accent, or maybe you could just crimp the top or bottom. There are so many possibilities!
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