Curling Hair

In this lesson we were introduced to curling. Lottie spent half an hour demonstrating the looks we had to do.

There was two ways Lottie wanted us to curl our hair. First of all we sectioned our hair in half, so we could work on both sides. With the first curling we had to section one side of the hair in small pieces. When wrapping the hair around the tong, you had to make sure the tong was straight up (See photo for example). You would then place a hair grip in it to help it keep its frame. After repeating this around this side of the head, I left the curls to cool down and I started to work on the other side.

The second curl we had to do was exactly the same but instead of having the tongs up, you held the tongs on side and then wrapped the hair round it.

The end result should look like this:

As you can see there is difference between the two curls. After all the curls had cooled down, I gently pulled the grips out. I brushed the curls out and I knew I hadn't done one side right. Trying to style it was really difficult but I knew where I had gone wrong.

I definitely struggled with the first set of curls compared to the second curls. I think when I redo the curls I will hold the tongs at more of an upright angle and curl the hair round the tongs tighter. The second set of curls I would be more than confident to do again.

Our second part of the lesson we were shown brick work set of how to do curls. (See photo below) 

I instantly felt more confident about this as I had something to look at whilst doing my own curls. I started curling and got it down within a few minutes, as before it took me a lot longer. I called Lottie to see what she thought and instantly said I made a big improvement since the start of the lesson. 

I let the curls cool down and started to take the grips out. I could see straight away the curls were better than the others I had done.

They had a much nice flow to them when I released them from the right curl they were in.

So after two hours of burning my fingers and sighing in frustration, I finally found out that I certainly work better when I am given a brief or a structure to work from. But I know with practise I will be able to do other curls properly without a structure (and not burn my fingers as much).