Finger Wave Tutorial 1/2 (With Wave Clips)
- Posted on 02 July, 2010
- Clip-in Hair Extensions
- By Anonymous
Don't you just love that 1920s/1930s red carpet or Downton Abbey style??
I learned the basics of finger waving through this series of instructions: http://www.vividinfinity.com/fingerwav... Which I highly recommend using along with this video.
However, I found that the waves are MUCH easier to achieve when using wave clips, and thought that the illustrations were very confusing.
This is a style that requires lots of practice to master, so get all the supplies and borrow a friend on a lazy Saturday afternoon before you attempt a finger wave style for a special event. I'm not a cosmetology student, and this video was made after I'd practiced ~5 times, and the results aren't perfect, but I hope the instructions will help you get the technique down so you can try it out on your own. The first few times you do this, it might take 30-40 minutes, but you can get faster and make the set in 15, dry enough to remove the clips in another 20 or so.
This is part 1/2. There's a lot of babbling and editing, but don't worry, anything that I feel is an important instruction is coming across loud and clear.
So I'm going to do some finger waves today, they're a really popular style from the 20s and 30s. They were sort of to give some glamour and softness to bobbed hair, and so it really works. Well, if you have a shorter hair, probably shoulder length with the max, but if you have longer hair and want to play with it, you can try curling the ends and things like that. So what you need is a small fine-tooth comb and I've got setting lotion. That'S been diluted as per their instructions, and I put it in a spray bottle to make it a little more unity um. This is kind of sets your hair like gel, but it ends up being a lot softer. It doesn't make your hair hard and stiff, and you can actually just comb it right out. Um and I've also got some wave clips both of these things. You can get at Sally Beauty Supply, so Kristina's got her hair um just slightly damp um, and I will part it on the side um. You can really part it wherever the hair falls, but um in the middle is going to look crazy. I don't know um, and so I'm going to call this side of her head the heavy side on the side, the light side, because this one has more hair on it. You want to comb the Heaviside back a little and then start kind of coming it around. So that the light side goes towards the front, a little bit spray on some setting lotion, just sort of at the crown of the head coming through, I'm going to start with a clip on either side of the part. Okay, and so I'm going to do a couple waves right in the front at first, so how you do it is you start combing it back and then set your finger down, probably easier this way and then start combing it in the other direction looks like. I need a little more selling lotion because it's not quite staying. That'S better whoo there's a finger for the first where's, the first wave. So then I'm going to clip it in place, then I'm going to start on the second part of the wave. So what I just did was, I went back and then forward so on this one, I'm going to go forward and then back so now, I'm going to start doing waves all the way around the head, which is a little bit tricky, but here goes start with Solution, try to get it, so what I'm trying to do is line this part of the hair up so that I'm forming another little Ridge. That would be even with this one. So this clip is a little too big because I want it to to curve around the part of the hair and may even use some body mass. For this. I would like the Internet to know that I feel much better after the NAP. I talk so I'm just doing this stitch right and keep it curved and match this sort of line around the head, and if anyone has better tips for matching the wave around the crown of the head that works better than this, I would love to hear about It because this is not something they really discuss as an issue in the beauty books, but very much as when I'm getting all sorts of confused. Let me do so. What I really like doing is having in the front having a wave up and then down and then down again, so let me go ahead and form this wave and that way I can see how things line up. I will keep this one going, despite being serious science graduate students, sometimes our planning leaves something to be desired, so you're going over what you did with the BA, because, yes just so that I can keep it in place and this hair doesn't move around as much When I'm doing that wave, this is the part where you shave the back of the head, not even necessary. How do you do this Jairam head war? That is why I'm doing video - so that's that is I'm that oh, your friend went into that for you, okay, useful. This is the second time that Laurel is finger waving, my hair mm-hmm. I hope that will be even prettier this time. Don'T we, I don't know, I'm kidding, that's okay, so I'm just trying to do this little swirly spiral. So that way this is going to line right, okay, cool yeah, but it's hard to get all the hair in one clip there we go. Okay, you supposed to sleep in this: no, you don't really need to just um until it dries a little bit, and especially the great thing about the setting lotion is that it hopes it dry mm-hmm. Well now, I just think it helps it stay so that wherever you put it, it wants to stay there as its drying mm-hmm, one might say it sets it in place. Yeah mm-hmm, you smart. I mean it really. Is this amazing thing that I didn't even realize existed until I started reading blogs about it, vintage hairstyles? How far down the head? Do you set the waves, that's weight to the eyes or something? No I'm with Christina's here, because it's just really a perfect length for
Comments
laurelannlucy: Wow, I posted this video and forgot about it for a while, but thanks to Downton Abbey this style is gaining in popularity! I've practiced some more since then (still entirely amateur though!) and I'm thinking I might try to make a more nicely edited video with a model with longer, lighter hair to show a different style finished off with pin curls. Hit 'like' or leave a comment if that would interest you! Or if you think there are enough finger wave videos on youtube now, let me know that too!
jayme g: My grandmother was a young women in the 20's and I went to beauty school in the 70's. I had her show me how to do finger waves. She used the wave clips and these long clips (I've forgotten the name). She had short, thick, perm curled hair and had it all done in about 20 mins.with almost perfect deep waves. She did not use any type of gel or hairspray just water. That's how it was done back in the day.
yo12qwerty: wow! you make it look so easy! great video i am so doing this!
laurelannlucy: @HotPhlash Thanks for the suggestion. I stopped the first top wave alongside the part because my hair model had a very pronounced part and I found it too difficult to turn the wave on such a tight radius. As I've gotten more practice, though, I can see that it creates a cleaner effect.
laurelannlucy: @howareyoumrfish They're just called "wave clips" and I got them at Sally's Beauty Supply, something like a set of 5 for $5. They also can be different sizes--some of the ones I have, I picked up at an estate sale. I'm glad you found this helpful, happy waving!
Sanbika: Using duckbill clips or hair separating clips to wave the back is much easier than using bobby pins but you can't use the clamps over them .
strawberryvine9: thanks! I finally know how to use wave clips
2emeraldeyes: Actually there are some very cool finger wave styles with the part down the middle. Keep watching those old movies! :)
LoraEshleman: Thanks. I have a hard time with these. Never thought about using those clamps i have those.
primaveraliberta: Ladyeeyore 7 just read your comment and I think u should do a video for all of us trying to learn finger waves with your nan showing us like she showed you how to do it You can't beat vintage finger waves
Jody Hakala: Nice to see how you do it from above. But I want to know how someone does it with out a stylist.
Daniela Gaviña: where can i find the setting lotion?
hotnov: I didn't know that she was doing a real person's hair to be honest. I thought she was a mannequin! Wow.
scarlett holloway: could u do a video for fingerwaves and long hair?
Bklyn_Butterfly: OK. Both African-American AND Caucasians CAN use wave clips. It's not considered lazy. They were used by both in the 20's and 30's. Why? Because one of my grandmother's is white and the other black and this is how they styled their hair back then. The ONLY time I've seen this done without wave clips is usually with Jamaican women when they plaster their hair down with tons of gel and use their fingers and a rat tail comb. The waves clips are more if you want a classic finger wave look.
yoyokittentoez: You wouldn't have to use the clips if you used more water and gel
Fay☆Durham: curl clips are really nice to keep a wave without the crazy little dent from a bobby pin, just fyi
Magica: how can i do this as a perm?
Jewel: @iamDiamondCut This is the traditional 1920's style and YES they DID use CLIPS -- unless they were black and that was a completely different style of wave! Ask any woman 70 or over. Additionally, I am a writer, and I just did research and an article about waving black hair vs. the waves done with clips. So broaden your spectrum before mouthing off!
gabriel o: FINGERWAVES - NOT CLIP WAVES! the C shape should also extend down to the face. Hold your fingers super tight and you wont need clips. Pretty messy too... have it smooth and nice...
BodianaB3auty: This so bueno
Dana Dugan: let me tell you how much i despise finger waves. i am currently enrolled in cosmet. school and early last year we had to learn how to do finger waves, i spent 4 hrs trying to do these and at the end of four hours, i had 0 finger waves. i have to do them again since its one of our current assignments. so god help me and let me get this right so i can get a good grade on it.
Christine Rottler: Oh my God! This is how you should NOT do it. Unfortunately this technique seems to be forgotten. Shame...
Christina West: I learned: 0
Tiffani L: No end result?
Vero Nica: Ols School Video -
MrSouthphillyitalian: Dam girl you got dandruff
gabriel o: @AlexaML1234 Umm, those are SHITWAVES! So messy and bad lol
MrSouthphillyitalian: @foever17 lol
heba youssef: The way u speak is a bit boring, its like u are too bored to do anything else..