Curly Hair Styling Tips & Tools *New* (Less Frizz, More Volume, Direction, + Control)

My name is Renee and I have very curly hair, very, very curly, hair. I told you all in a recent video that I've been playing around with some styling tricks. I haven't changed my hair products. It'S just the way and the method that I'm styling my hair, and I want to share that with you in today's video, because I have discovered a few super simple, such small techniques that have made a drastic difference in My Curls I have less frizz. I have more defined curls around my face. My Curls are not hanging in my eyes and I have some volume and lift up at the top. So today's video is my tips and tricks and new techniques about how I'm styling my curly hair. So I'm gon na walk you through how I style my hair from just fresh out of the shower when it's wet. Until now and along the way, I'm going to show you the hair products that I use for my very fine hair. I have lots of hair, but every strand is very fine, and so I have specific products that I use they're the same products I've been using for years and years. I love them. They work great with my hair, I'm going to show you my styling tips and two brand new styling products tools that have been absolute game. Changers one gives me very defined curls if I need it or if I have a crazy, wonky curl somewhere, and I have no way to fix it. This tool will fix it for me and the other tool gives me lift and volume right up here in the root and in the back and in places where I tend to get very flat. So this is going to be a fun hair, tutorial video. So, let's get going so after I take my hair down from my trusty microfiber hair turban, I wrap it around my shoulders and Spritz my hair. I want my hair to be pretty wet when I put the product in not dry and my first product is Bounce. Curl light cream gel. I do one squirt, along with one squirt of paw Mitchell, skinny serum squish it around in my hands, and I want to flip my head over and just kind of crunch it into my hair. Just a light quick Crunch - and you can see here - I'm raking my fingers through the very very bottom layer of my hair. Only then I'm going to stand upright and do another pump of each of those products and I'm going to do each side of my head. Very carefully doing praying hands to pull the product through my hair, I'm not putting pressure on my hands and pulling my hair straight. I want to Crunch in that product really. Well, then, I'm going to use my very favorite product, which is curls Rock amplifier. This is the one product I cannot do without rub it around my hands and basically I'm just going to repeat, but on this product I am not going to run my fingers through the bottom layer of my hair, run it through generously scrunching my hair throughout and Again, paying attention to the crown and the front of my hair, the crown of my hair is where I tend to get less volume and I get frizz. So I want to make sure that I get the product evenly distributed in that area. Then around my face. I want to do a little bit of finger coiling to give my hair the direction that it needs. I want to tell my hair where to go instead of letting my hair just kind of make its own decision, so I do wrap it around my finger. A couple of times, just in the crown where I part my hair and I do have a thin spot on one side, so the finger coiling helps to disguise that thin area. On the other side, I have a wonky curl pattern, so I want to get those curls going in the right direction and tell them where to go. Plus my hair tends to get frizzy around my face and when I do a little bit of finger coiling, it makes the hair Clump together and I have definitely less frizz. I also have a frizzy section at the nape of my neck, so I do the same thing in that area. Scrunch it one more time to get everything Blended in really well and then we're good. So I'm going to take off my microfiber towel and I am going to very gently soak up any of the excess water that is in my hair. I'M not disturbing the curls, I'm not messing up the curls, I'm just very gently taking that microfiber towel and removing any excess, drippy water. Now it's time to dry, so my favorite hair dryer, absolutely with the diffuser and instead of flipping my head upside down, which I had been doing at this point, I'm going to stay upright. I don't want to mess up the curl pattern, but I want to take my hair dryer and just run it around the outskirts of my hair to dry the hair. Let it kind of get set, let it get a curl cast and let the curls get defined on their own. Before I start to flip my head and do the roots, so I'm going to do this for a couple minutes. Just not disturbing anything, and I just run the hair dryer all over the perimeter of my head, making sure that the outer layer of my hair and My Curls is getting dry before I start to flip. Now, I'm going to start drying The Roots. The underneath of my hair, using my fingers to kind of lift the hair up and using the diffuser to get into the root area. This is really when my hair is going to start to dry and you're going to see the defined curls start to form. So I just work my way around my head constantly moving my head flipping my head from side to side doing the crown lifting up my hair at the root so that I can dry The Underneath and my hair is still really wet at this point and I'm Not flipping it upside down, I want to stay upright or kind of bent over to the side so that I can draw the roots of my hair and then look how much volume my hair really explodes. When I do this, you can see the volume I don't have any frizz, but I'm starting to get defined curls, and I want to make sure that I dry the hair at the nape of my neck. When I'm standing upright. I don't want to dry the hair at the nape of my neck, when my head is flipped over, because I found that it creates a lot of frizz. When I do that and it's teaching the hair to go in the wrong direction and it takes away the length of that hair, so I really want to draw it with the weight of the hair pulling it down and it's hanging straight. So I do dry. My hair for about eight to ten minutes this way flipping and moving the entire time. It seems that the length of my hair, the bottom of my hair, is the very last thing to get dry, and so I work on that last and when my hair is about 75 percent dry, that's when I'm going to turn off the hair dryer the area Around my ears always takes so long to dry. It'S the last thing to get dry for some strange reason, and I really have to work on those areas to make sure that it catches up with the rest of my head and now that my hair is 75 percent dry and I've turned off the hair dryer. I just want to let my hair fall into place, and this is where I'm going to go about gaining volume. I discovered the new coolest tool it's available on Amazon. I don't know how to pronounce the name of it. It'S something a little crazy, but it is designed specifically for curly hair. It will give your curls lift and volume without disturbing your curl pattern. It'S a strange little device. It has these long prongs, but it worked Wonders on my hair. I tend to get really flat. Hair in the part area, and so I'm using this tool to give me lift and volume the front curl in my face, always wants to go in a weird Direction. So I use this tool to tell that curl where to go to get it back off. Of my face and look at that, it does exactly what I want it to do. I'M going to do it once more back in the crown of my head, which is where my hair is always so flat, and it's going to give me lift so slide it in give it a slight twist put your heat on it for just a couple seconds. Just enough to get it warm and then let it cool before pulling it out of your hair and boom. Look at that lift it's amazing. So you slide it into your hair. Where you want the volume give it a very slight twist, and then I dry it with my diffuser for about five to ten seconds just until it's hot and then I want to remove the Heat and let the tools stay in my hair for a couple seconds Before I remove it, now don't get freaked out if the curls are weird or the angle is weird, because it's gon na fall as I continue to style my hair, I'm just concerned about the volume and the direction I am loving this little tool, I'm so glad. I bought it, it was a bit on the pricey side and I always knew that. I could return it if I ended up, not loving it, but I truly love it and I use it every time I style my hair. So if you have curls, I highly recommend, so my hair is still wet. Don'T forget that I want to dry it 100 at this point, so I'm not going to flip my head upside down anymore. I'M just going to use my diffuser, concentrating it in the areas that are still wet setting in that lift and the volume that I just gave myself around my face and in the crown area. I just want to make sure that my hair is completely dry before I put away my hair dryer and the underneath the nape of my neck, I'm drying it from the outside in I'm not flipping my head upside down. I want to keep the hair elongated with some weight on it from the other hair around it and I'm going to dry it from the outside in so my hair is now 100 dry and look at the curl. The shape isn't great. We'Re going to get to that yet, but it's completely dry, I have volume, I have lift and I'm going to let it sit. I'M gon na go put on my makeup. I'M going to let my hair cool I'm going to, let it chill out for a little bit. Then I'm going to come back and I'm going to style my hair, so about 30 minutes has passed and I'm going to take dry hands and I'm going to scrunch out the crunch from my product. This is the first step in styling, My Curls. I want to make sure the product is loose. My hair is free-flowing, it's soft, and this is when I really can begin to see the shape of my hair, which curls are crazy, which curls are looking real good. Is my hair going in the right direction? Did I end up with the flat spot? This is when everything starts to take shape. I love to give a little finger, lift to my hair up in the crown and pull on the nape of my neck to just get the hair loose, because when I was drying it curls can tend to get stuck together and I just want to free it Up at this point, yep around my face is just still a little weird. I get some crazy corkscrewy curls that have no definition to them. They have straight sections, they have curly sections and I need to fix them. So so my half inch barrel, curling iron. Does the trick, I love this little curling iron. It is super small, the perfect size for My Curls and I just take one small section at a time - put the curling iron in at the root very close to my scalp turn and twist turn and twist. I'M never letting the heat sit on my hair and you just quickly turn and twist turn and twist keeping your finger on that lever so that your hair slides freely through that curling iron watch this. This is crazy. I give curl definition to the curls that don't have a very good curl if you're a curly hair girl. You know exactly what I mean so grab the curl, put it Loosely in curl, twist always pressing on that button. So there's no tension on my hair and I do have the curling iron set on a medium heat. So it's not burning my hair, I'm not going to have heat damage and I only do a couple of curls around my face when it's needed, and it really just gives some great looking curls, where I need them, but turn and twist very quickly and look at How much better those curls look, then I just take my fingers work them in uh. Oh got ta got a crazy one. Take my fingers work in the curls, give it a little bit of lift, get everything situated where I want it to be, and my hair is always really big right after I have just styled it, but throughout the day it's going to settle it's going to calm Down a little bit, but this is when it's at its biggest then I'm going to take my favorite hairspray. Do a teeny, teeny Spritz and I just kind of run my fingers into the root to set the hair. Where I want it to stay, I'm not spraying. My whole entire head - it's really not for hold. It is just a styling trick to keep the curls in their current position. So that is how I am now styling, my very curly, fine hair, my favorite hair products. This little Gadget right here, which gives me lift and style up in the top in the areas that I tend to get flat and then a handy dandy, half inch curling iron. This is what gives me definition and curl when I have wonky Pieces Just Like You All saw. I use this super quick, not a lot of heat and boom and I hope the tips and tricks I showed you in today's video will help you with your curls. If you're interested in how I take care of my gray hair, because you got to keep your gray hair, shiny and bright, you don't want it to be dingy and dull. I have a video all about how I do that and my favorite purple shampoo I'll link that in the description box and I'll see you in the next video