End your Curling Nightmare!

Spend hours curling and styling your hair and find that it drops out after just 10 minutes or you end up with an overworked, crispy, frizzy mess? 

Learn how to get the perfect curls for you ! 

• Try to avoid curling on freshly washed hair. The curls will last tonnes better on "day old" hair as this isn't too clean so has a bit of texture to it meaning it isn't as soft so the curls should last you longer. 

• If you feel that your hair is constantly extremely soft, apply a light dusting of dry shampoo all over the mid lengths and ends to give it that bit more texture to help your curls last.

• When curling ALWAYS make sure that you keep the straighteners moving and turning at all times to prevent burning any part of your hair or having random straight pieces in there. 
  
• I find that a common mistake made by a lot of people (even me when i first started to curl) is that they will clamp the straighteners too tight on the hair which makes it SO DIFFICULT to move the straighteners as all and can be extremely painful when you feel like you are ripping your hair out. My tip is to hold the straighteners really lightly to allow the hair to just glide right through the ceramic plates as the heat will pass over the hair a lot better allowing for a better curl. 

• NEVER forget your heat protection! this is the most important part of curling your hair! This will protect your hair from burning and becoming frizzy or frazzled due to excessive use of heat! Redken have an amazing heat protector which is perfect for curling hair as it has a high hold factor so not only will is protect against the heat of the straighteners but will also hold in the curls for you.
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• Getting those different curls perfect: For tight spiral curls take smaller sections, and for looser more natural curls take thicker sections and don't turn the straighteners so much, and pull out the curls while they're still hot to leave them looser. 



• When applying rollers for more volume in your hair I find that its best to curl the section first before placing it in the roller as this allows the hair to cool in position leaving you with more volume and and a lovely loose curl.

• Try to do curls coming away from your face rather than having all your curls travelling in the same direction as these will look more natural and a lot nicer.