Do’S And Don'Ts Of Towel Drying Curly Hair (Plopping Explained)

What'S good everybody, it's your main girls, mel and amanda, and today we're going to show you how to properly towel dry your curly hair. Now you might be saying: wait a second you're not supposed to towel dry curly hair! Oh it's great! Can you continue and we used to believe that, however, there was a time and a place and a proper way, and today we're gon na do tickle dress. I found this cute little tickling ass. If i'm yelling at you it's out of love without further ado. Let'S get to it now before we get styling, you might be wondering what are these benefits to towel drying and well to name a few we're gon na get quicker, styling results, more volume, softer bouncier, curls and potentially less damaging from heat and mechanical damage. That'S right! That'S only if you're using the wrong towel. That is absolutely correct. The towels that you only ever see us use on this channel are these ones from the perfect haircare, not these ones. Specifically, these ones are new. These are brand new they're, our newest limited edition. 2022 collaboration, where we personally designed these very retro very swirly patterns - and we are so excited that we get to present these to you while we continue to go through the dues, these are limited edition. So if you do want to pick one up, you can check out the description box, there's going to be a link where you can shop them there and the reason why you want it is because they're super silky going back to the mechanical damage. These are not going to be abrasive on your hair they're not going to pull on your hair they're, not going to cause split ends or a lot of frizz. So the first don't is not to use any ordinary freaking towel that is looped and duped and teary and scary. These have not touched my head in years and it's definitely made a really big difference on the health of my hair. Now the next thing you don't want to do, especially if you have curly hair, is towel dry. It too much or possibly at all before you style, we're going to start styling our hair before it begins to dry. While it is nice and wet, i'm going to put this back over my shoulders, because i hate how wet hair feels on my skin i'm going to scream now. This may not make a lot of sense, especially when we are talking about towel drying. I think we all just register back to you know you get out of the shower. You put your hair in a towel. I personally skip that step. I usually just throw my hair into a clip and then i begin styling right away now, because we're talking my hair has actually been drying. So, that's why i'm keeping this spray bottle handy and we're just gon na wet down our hair. Adding more water to our hair. Now is not gon na add on extra time later, when it comes to drying, but it will decrease the amount of frizz in our hair. That'S why keep your hair wet and style before you go in with your towel? So after making sure our hair is nice and wet we're going to go in with our first styling product, which is just going to be a nice cream, a leave-in, something protective for our hair. This is the one that we're using today. So i actually really like this leave-in from verve it's very hydrating, it's a lot of slip, and it also has heat protection in it, not that we'll really be needing today, yeah, because another benefit to child drying hair, as we mentioned, is that it actually cuts down. My drying time significantly, because i do prefer to diffuse my hair, especially with these towels. These towels can absorb like 70 to 80 percent of the moisture in your hair. Now the next big question that we get is, do you apply a gel before or after towel drying your curly hair? You do it after you apply a gel. I personally like to do that. Anyways because i find it gets more hold to the hair and it makes it less prone to frizz. So in other words, don't towel dry, your hair without a holding product. In now, this isn't a do or don't, but a personal preference of mine is you'll notice that we're styling with our towels around our shoulders. Now this not only helps prevent for the most part, getting your shirt wet. This is just a different case because we're filming here and it's getting messy, but i honestly feel like it does help prevent frizz, especially around the nape area, because of these towels, specifically they're, really really soft and silky, so the hair kind of just glides on it. So while you're styling you're actually preventing any frizz from happening around the nape of your neck, if that's something that happens to you a lot, then styling this way adds that extra layer of protection, in my personal experience, so now that our hair is wet product has Been applied and we have defined the curls with our brush styling techniques that we prefer to do and set it in place with a gel. We can finally get into the plug. Now, there's two different types of plops. You may have heard of a regular plop and a micro plot. Micro plopping is very simply just scrunching, your hair with your microfiber towel. Now i do want to add a joke here. You don't want to squish and squeeze too much moisture and product out of your hair, especially if you start to notice. If it gets a little bit frizzy the hair will get frizzy if there's not enough moisture. So it's a very fine line. Just don't be abrasive. Don'T scrub or do anything too crazy, just a very gentle scoop! This technique is going to be great if you feel like you've accidentally applied a little too much product, because it's going to help to remove any excess water and product, and maybe it's a great way to towel dry. When i am short on time, i don't have enough time to flip which we're going to show you how to do next and we're just using these smaller versions of our towels. These actually come in a pack of two when you purchase the towel itself. It'S a great little two for one and it's matching and it's fabulous. Some stylers will apply better on damp hair than soaking wet hair. And so, if you do this with your microfiber towel gently scrunching or as some people call it. Micro plopping after your cream will help you get more hold out of your gel. If you notice that your hair just falls really lit it's a great time to do this before applying your gels and then you can go in with the big flop. Yeah we're going to show you how to do that right now. You want to lay your microfiber towel on a flat surface and before placing your curls into the plop, i like to shake out my roots, just to make sure that all my hair is falling forward and then gently place my curls in the towel. You can see. I'M also directing my curls with my hand, to make sure that they stay in one place. I will then pull the towel over my head and place it at the nape of the neck grabbing onto the sides and then twisting them into place i'll. Take the excess towel, and what's really nice about this towel in particular, is that it works for longer hair types. I'Ve tried microfiber towels in the past that do not work for long hair and another great feature is the elastic here which you can use to secure. The towel in place to make sure it doesn't fall off. Plopping is scrunching your curls into the towel, so they are situated in a very scrunched up and very bouncy shape to allow them to have even more volume and, of course, dry quicker. Basically, just think of it as the curly hair version of tile drying hair. Now, if you accidentally miss a piece just leave it, if you try to shove it in then it's just gon na get a little bit wonky and frizzy. And honestly it's okay. If you leave that one piece to air dry now, of course, you're probably wondering how long do you plop for don't plop for too long everyone's gon na be different and the finer, your hair, the less you need to plop your hair can dry very quickly. So leave it in for five to ten minutes max. If your hair holds on to a lot of water, i would leave it on to up to 20 to maybe 30 minutes max. Something you can do when you are plopping. Is your makeup? I personally love to do this, while i'm flopping and then i'll either air dry, but most of the time i'm diffusing my hair and it really cuts down that diffusing time, sometimes up to like half the time. I'Ve timed it before and i'll play that video here for you, so you can see it. It really did cut my drying time in half, and so, whenever i'm in a rush, this is exactly what i do and, besides the benefit of being able to multitask. It also just keeps that hair out of your face: yeah, okay, while you're riding it ready and just drives you crazy yeah. However, there's only so much moisture that the towel can absorb and leaving it in for a lot longer than said times. It'S just going to keep the area really moist. When really you could let it be air drying to finish up your styling and on that note don't plop overnight. I don't want to see it. Leaving your plop in for too long can also cause scalp issues. It can leave you with an itchy scalp, a lot of buildup. It'S just not a good idea to keep your scalp warm and moist for a long period of time, but also, let's say you accidentally place it on a little bit wonky. If your curls dry too deep in that you know that funky state well, then that's how they're gon na stay. So i feel like now we're ready to remove the plop. You can see our curls still look really nice and defined if you are noticing frizz. After doing this, you may have left your towel on for a little too long, but there is something that you can do now is a great time to add a little bit of a foam or mousse to help add extra hold to your curls. So we're just going to take a couple pumps - and this is the verb. Curl foaming gel x means by now we're going to use it to just really focus on the ends and if there are any of those frizzy pieces, maybe doing a little bit of smoothing and spot treating, which is pretty much what we will always do. Uh, when we're styling, plopping or not now is the best time to take care of any frizzy bits before they fully dry, while it's still damp, but it does feel pretty dry, it feels pretty dry. Another question that i see a lot is how to take care of your roots. If you have flat roots plopping, your hair in your microfiber towel can really help add volume because it's helping the hair to defy gravity after removing so much moisture. But if you go about the rest of your day and continue to air dry, you are still putting weight on your roots, so the other thing that you can do is just pop in some root clips to help you take care of any flattened areas. A lot of product can trickle down onto your roots, which can weigh them down. So that's when it's a great time to grab your towel and very gently just almost scrunch just the root area, and this is again something that i wouldn't do with just any towel. A terry cloth, normal towel is looped and it can cause a lot of snags in the hair and a lot of frizz and also breakage, but these towels are truly so silky that you can do this and not cause frizz or damage. Now, if you have done this correctly, you should be looking a little something like this notice, how we don't really have any frizz, and we do have a really nice cast from the gel that we used, which means we didn't absorb too much product. If you have frizz, then you've probably gone a little bit too far, but once again that's nothing that a little gel can't fix, or even a little anti-frizz serum we're gon na finish this hair routine. We always finish our hair routines with an oil or serum this one's from verb. It'S one of our favorites one of the best of the best lightweight, even for my fine curlys, and while we our hair, let us recap: shall we for our curlies in the back that we're not listening, skip the towel drying right out of the shower apply your Prep and style products on your wet hair, try micro popping to remove excess product and water. Then you can apply your gel or mousse or foam for hold and plop your hair, but not for too long up to 30 minutes is a good time before you can. Let your hair down and if you notice any frizz, maybe reapply that gel or foam or mousse to further scrunch into your hair, then air dryer diffuse for half the time less than half the time yeah. It took me about 15 minutes to fully diffuse my hair and get the results that we have, and it normally takes me anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes and in the end the finished results should be bouncy, smooth, lightweight, frizz, free and damage free, high feed. Now, hopefully, that's answered a lot of your questions about plopping and has encouraged you to maybe try plopping your hair and if a traditional plop at the top of your head is not for you there's so many different ways that you can use this microfiber towel. I also love to use it before doing a hair treatment if it's required to use on bad hair. I love using it behind the chair as well: they're, truly the best, the smoothest, the silkiest and also the grooviest, and that's why we decided to put our names on this product and work with the brand. We truly really appreciate working with the team at the perfect hair care. They are a family owned, small business and we are so appreciative that they work with us on this and we're so proud of how the prints came out. So again, if you want to get them, they do come in a pack where you get the large microfiber towel, as well as the small micro popping towel, but don't forget that these are extremely limited, so don't walk run. The links for these will be in the description box below and if you have any more questions about plopping that we didn't hit in this video make sure to comment below. We do our best to answer as many comments as we can. We'Ll also include some extra videos and tutorials where we're using our towels in the description box, so you can further check those out. Thank you so much for watching this video. We hope you enjoyed it and found it helpful until next time. This has been your main girls, mel and amanda, and we're out peace. Do you have a bald spot? No, i i get a ball spot here. Well, i get a bald spot up here. Now i get one here. 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