How to: easy peasy waves May 28, 2008
This trick is great for straight or curly hair, at medium length to long. And one of the simplest things you can do for a subtle style change.
If you have straight hair, it adds a lovely wave to your hair. If you have curly hair, it tames the frizz. At different times I have either curly or straight hair ( thansk to my GHDs), and the photo below is of me starting out with straight hair, and then adding wave. And I like it just as much when I tone down my curls using the same technique.
So how’d I do it? It’s diabolically easy! Just plait you hair before you go to bed and sleep on it. For this amount of wave I plaited two pigtails, secured with hair ties, and slept. Sometimes I go for just the one ponytail plaited. And obviously, if you want more wave, just do a few more plaits - easy as!
In the morning pull out the hair ties, tussle your hair and set with hair spray (optional). And as I said, it’s a nice technique if you curly hair too.
NOTE: This works best soon after washing your hair. I’ve noticed as my hair gets oiler days after washing, the waves don’t hold so well. Oh, and start the plait close up to you scalp so you get the wave starting high up.
I like the idea of this, except that I have to wash my hair when I wake up in the mornings every day, or I feel disgusting. Although I will often twist my hair up in a bun with a pen, and when I let it down hours later it’ll be kind of wavy or kinky, but it goes away when I brush it,
You could plait it when you got out of the shower (give it a quick blow dry while in the plait) and it’ll be ready to take out when you get to work. maybe don’t go for the pigtail plaits in that case.
Actually, I usually wash my hair at night, so i sometimes quickly dry it (or towel dry), then plait and sleep on it and it stops my hair going all aff.
I have lots of thin, very straight hair, so curls are a real problem for me. However I learnt that if you segment your hair (fairly small segments), get your hair straightener and ‘flip it’, then pull it through you get great curls. Think of when you use scissors to curl a ribbon on a gift. The slower you pull the straightener through, the tighter the curls.