Saturday, January 22, 2011

Taylor Swift Curly Qs! (A Heat Free Curl Tutorial that Actually Works)

Hey Ladies!
Don't deny it. You love Taylor Swift's hair.




 Whether or not you have naturally curly hair and she made it stylish for you to go natural, or you have straight hair and spent hours frying your hair to try and get her perfect ringlets, I have the perfect solution: bendy curlers. When I was 11 I discovered these in the back of the bathroom shelves. What you're supposed to do: heat them up, then twist your hair around them, bend them into a circle, wait, then take them out and have curls! Well, I, of course, didn't have any idea how to use them, but I definitely did use them. My mom of course told me I was doing it wrong and showed me the correct way, and therefore giving me a Shirley Templesque hairstyle. When Taylor Swift first came on the scene, however, everyone was making tutorials. All the heat free ones had you braiding tons of little braids across your head (and waking up with frizzy crimps), yet I didn't want to continue using a curling iron to get her curls. So I looked through the closet and guess what I found? The old bendy curlers. I spent a bit playing with them and eventually found the perfect heat free Taylor Swift hair tutorial! Enjoy!

1. Start with wet hair. Apply an antifrizz serum and brush through.
2. Apply a curl gel throughout your hair. Flip your hair into a towel and wait 1-2 minutes.
3. Take out your hair. It should not be tangled yet it should have some wave at the root. If not, scrunch a bit at just the roots to get some volume and definition.
4. Take your bendy curlers, and start to wrap a small section of hair around the curler (if your bendy curlers have a hole at the top, like mine do, slide the hair through the hole first, sliding the curler to the top, then wrap), like you would to get a ringlet around a curling iron.
5. Do this for your entire head. For your bangs, or front layers, (short bangs will need to be side swept or even pinned back, and she has longer bangs), wrap them facing away from your face, and make sure to start a bit lower, and she has a soft sweep.
6. Spray all over with a bit of finishing or hair spray.
7. Get your beauty rest!
8. When you wake up, take the curls out. Before you separate at all, apply and bit of serum, gel, hairspray, etc to help keep the shape silky and shiny.
9. You will most likely have big, separated ringlets all over your head. Break the ringlets up a bit, to help get her curl size. Play with them and adjust them to your liking.
10. Spray the whole hair with hairspray and you're good to go!

Quick Tip: If you want to get a bit of Taylor in your hair very quickly, the night before, wash your hair, scrunch the roots and top part of your hair with gel and wrap just the front sections/ bangs on each side around the curlers. When you wake up, you'll have the texture at the top with the curled tendrils at the front. Gather the rest of your hair into a messy bun, leaving some of the tendrils out to frame your face as Taylor always does. Spray, and you're good to go!
Like this:


Switch it Up:
Brush out the curls with a wide comb slightly. As long as you wrap them all in the same direction, you'll get softer waves. Like this:

Hope this helps some of you, try it out and tell me how it goes!

Many more hugs&misses to come!
XOXO:
tu amie
PS: Always try out a heat free hairstyle before a big event, just to make sure it'll work!