Flat Iron Hacks To Style Your Hair Better, Faster, Easier

Hi beautiful, what's up I into it today were talking about flat irons and if that sounds like a boring topic to you. Well, it isn't it's fun as fudge mmm, I'm trying stop swearing so much it's getting a little bit out of hand on this channel and I'm so sorry for that, except I'm also not by Barnes. I love them they're great for everything, literally everything and I always shock people with some my skills. So I wanted to show you guys a bunch of stuff today with the flat iron that is going to blow your mind. I swear. Let'S um get some mannequins out. Let'S do it welcome back Miss Minnie Quinn, she's gon na gone for a while this one I didn't know she would ever see the daylight again, but today she's come back out. This is my from the overtone, video I did but um and she seems to love this color on this mannequin, so much like when they come to my house like who is that I'm, like that's, Miss mannequin, number, 63, um, she's retired, but now she's back. What'S up girl, you look cute, so of course I prepared her hair with glitterati by a brand called X mondo. I don't know what it is but like it works, just kidding it's my brand and it's gon na be phrase smooth ad hold and a lot of shine and, of course, a little extra Sparkle, so whoo, let's just get into the things. Why don't we start off with the most simple of simple things to do with the flat iron, which is flat ironing with a flat iron? You can actually straighten hair with a flat iron. I don't know if I knew that today, I'm using the t3 flat iron and I'm not sponsored by that - they did tell me this, but I didn't they didn't pay me anything for it. So I do like ceramic plates a lot and it's set on the third highest temperature, which is around like 350. I typically don't ever use it all the way at 450 I mean it's just like really not needed. That'S a lot of heat, so we're gon. Na start off in the front of her now I like to work in sections that are small about an inch wide, a little less than a half an inch thick. I always recommend following the comb with a flat iron and not the other way around, not going like this, because guess what you want to make sure that hair is combed out and ready to go before the flatiron even hits the hair all right. Because if you have a tangles in your hair, you're going to flat iron the tangles into your head - and you don't want that unless you are into tangly hair - I don't know you, I don't think you want that. So we're gon na go like this and hold it at first and pull it really far away from the head. That way, you can get really close in there to the scalp and then start with the comb, and this is the secret. You guys go slow, slow and steady wins the race. I love when hair smokes, my the only one because typically means that the product is working and is protecting the hair. In my eyes at least, that's beautiful look at that already so straight and stunning. Okay, now, typically, I go with a second pass, all right and a slow pass. This is not a whoever finishes: first, wins the race type of race. This is a whoever finishes. Last wins the race type of race and one of those races and look at that two passes completely straight you're gon na see a lot of shine and honey that is from the glitterati honey you've got. I wish you could feel her hair through the screen. I want it to be my blanket. This is super simple, but it acts me when girls take the flat iron and just go really fast, with the sound effects and everything and their hair still is in the street. Okay, it's about being slow and steady. I swear you'll, probably get your hair done faster if you just go slower, alright and we're gon na follow with the comb or lead with the comb. Sorry and we're just gon na straighten this out super simply and damn I don't even have to go with a second pass. However, I would love to just because I just like a little extra Sun and the second pass. You can go a little bit faster. It'S that first pass that is gon na make huge difference. Okay, look at that shine, that's from going slow and using the proper products; Wow; okay, sorry back to what I was doing, so that's that that's always fun and we're gon na move on all right. Let'S do something a little bit more fun: let's do some waving techniques, I'm gon na show you all the different ways you can actually wave hair with a flat iron and curl it. I'M also going to show you two on short hair, so just stay tuned. For that, if you have short hair or if path forward, whatever you want to do, first, we're gon na do a simple curl technique with a flat iron. So, let's start with a curl, just a simple for some people: um flat iron curls, so you're gon na start off at the roots of course, and you're gon na make sure this all combed out on yourself. You'Re gon na be like this like pointing upwards towards your head and you're gon na turn. The hair backwards away from your face, most modern hair stylists have waves going away from the face for curls is more of an old Hollywood style. So if you're into that, if you want that totally do that, go forward. Otherwise, you want to go away from the face, but I like to also alternate the curls like I'll show you in a second. So I go up to the root you'd be holding like this, and you turn half way and you grab the ends again and you pull out. You see that it's really not that hard. I don't know exactly why everybody seems to make a fuss out of it. If you get too much of a curl at the ends, you can just quickly go in and add some heat and it'll release that curl a little bit, but that's one down. Let'S do the front piece and now again we go from under uploads the iron twist. Halfway and start to pull quickly, not too fast, but you don't want to let sit in one place for else. You'Re gon na get a lot of crimping and it's gon na be ugly and nasty and make sure you go all the way to the bottom. All the way, all the way and twist it with your fingers, because if you don't twist it with your fingers, oh look that beautiful old girl, hello, how you doing waves! Are you doing curls how you do it? We know pretty there if you don't twist it at the end, it will release some of the wave you have to think hair gets hot and when it cools down it sets into place. So when it's still hot and you twist on your fingers, you're kind of molding it again to reassign that curl to where it supposed to be so you have a little time to reshape after you're done. If the curls do tight, you can pull it down really hard and pull your hair a little bit and it'll release some of that wave as its setting and you can kind of rake it out. Your hands obviously have moisture in them, so you can use some of that moisture to take some of the wave out and let's just do a few more I'll show you that again, we're gon na alternate a little bit in the back and then we'll move on. Let'S just fast-forward through this, so what will happen if you curl everything away from the face? Is it clumps together and to me like clump, together what curls aren't cute, so you can kind of throw an odd ball in the mix and do it forward and that will stop the hair from clumping together there you go it kind of splits them up and Adds a bunch of body and texture, and I think these are too curly, so I'm just gon na flat iron them really quick down just to make them a little bit more modern and pretty but yeah. That'S the basics of curling with a flat iron. Congratulations! You passed my class to get an a-plus beautiful and she looks stunning and she could leave the house right now, but she's not going to. Could she can also brush it out and make a really soft fabulous wave BAM all right. Let'S move on to the next sort of thing we should talk about. I want to go on to the purple now that we have the curling figure now we're gon na move on to stuff a little more artistic if you're ready for it. Okay, so I love to do this again, take a same section now this I don't really use much of a comb or brush my hand for this. I used my fingers. This will give you precision. This will give you part actually they'll both give you art, but these will give you some more art. So I like to take the hair and you're gon na turn. It half way down and you're gon na turn, half way up and half way down and half way up. Can you guess, what's gon na happen here, you're gon na get these fabulous waves that are almost natural-looking. This is a lot of what we're seeing now. It'S kind of this like wave, it almost looks like it could be somebody's natural hair, but it's not it's a flattering wave and that's how you do it. So let me show you that again, you're gon na take the section boom clip it on boom. Halfway turn pull out halfway, turn pull out and make sure every turn is even make sure. The last turn is the same as the first turn. So, if you're pulling for like one second you're gon na turn it away for one second and either way for one. Second, so that way that the wave is cohesive and even all the way through it's gon na help, also, if you kind of push the hair up after you do it, it's give you kind of a more defined wave if you kind of like push it upwards Towards the scalp, as you do it, so, as you can see, she has these beautiful waves going on and they are very artsy waves, they're, very natural-looking and they're kind of just boho chic we're not looking for anything perfect here we're looking for organic. You can also kind of go back in on some parts that weren't wavy enough and just turn half way and just remember to keep the iron moving at all times. Don'T stay in one spot. You'Re gon na get burning. Now, I'm kind of using my artistic touch here to just add more texture and more wave to it and you're just kind of eyeballing the pieces that need a little bit more love and also you can take some hairspray or some texture spray. Add it on there in order to get a little bit more definition as you're doing the wave all right. As you can see, it's messy, it's cool, it's not supposed to be all pretty. This is supposed to be pretty. This is supposed to be kind of like oh I'm, a cool girl, and I, like my hair wavy, you know what I mean like she's, not trying to impress anybody she's just trying to live her life, and this is how I wear my hair. If I was a girl, a little more texture spraying here see that difference, girl, boho, soho, boho, stuff, actually, Soho NoHo. I don't know one of them. It'S cute. I like it, it's fun, it's a very light, dirty sort of wave moment very cute and very chic. Let'S move on okay baby: what should we do next mmm ready for that? You think so? Okay, all right, so we're gon na spray, some texture spray. In first this process, I would do probably right after you blow-dry, if you tend to have flat hair. This is gon na be good for you. This is gon na help. Your look last so miss Brenda texture spray. Here it is very texturizing which I happen to like say you just have flat hair. You want volume you're like do it never last. This will help you, alright, I like to go in the give it a damp bevel dude like just bevel the root, so you're pulling it away from the scalp and giving it a little bit of a bend, you're, really just adding texture in there and you're gon Na get height, okay, this girl's hair is majorly flat. The fact that I just got that volume in there just a flat iron, it's pretty dope. So this is something you can do super fast and on the fly, and you can also just do it on the top of your head, where it's really flat and just take the hair up in sections, give it a bevel and hold it there for a second Him that is gon na give you some major volume, all right, we're gon na brush it out after we're done with this part, but I'm just gon na keep going and show you what I mean all right. So once that's all cooled down, you're already seeing a lot of volume, you can also see little holes of volume in there. Now that this is cooled, we can now take our brush and brush that out and, as you can see, the hair is no longer stuck to the head and she's got some volume down there, and this will last you a lot longer than blow-drying volume, we'll just Because you're really flattering that product into the hair and giving it that bevel and that high heat it needs to stay. Let me just flat iron the ends just so you can kind of see the look. This is great when you're on the fly, and you just want to spruce up your hair a little bit. Obviously, I'm not like going full-on with the style right now. I'M not trying my heart as to like make it look perfect with a lot of things to go over, but that's how you bevel the hair. You get the point. It'S pretty doped just give it a little bit more of a refreshed, volumous look with a flat iron, so one tool great for everything. Yeah. If you want that wavy look we did before, but you don't exactly still know how to do it. You'Re still confused. There'S other ways: now it's gon na give you a little bit of a different wave. This time it's gon na give you a little bit of a tighter, even more of a raw cool girl vibe. So if you're into that, I'm gon na put a bit of texturizing spray on again same OGX or hair spray, or anything like that. Now I would recommend blow-drying the roots just get the roots a bit, not wavy, but otherwise just braid your hair. Okay, you can take bigger sections or smaller section, it's the bigger sections, the heat isn't gon na penetrate as much and it's gon na give you less tight waves. Otherwise this is gon na give you a very extreme wave, which is the vibe I'm going for. So now that we have this all braided, all you're gon na do is take the flat iron and slowly move down the hair, as if you are flat ironing it straight. We'Re gon na do two passes and a little curl in the ends cause behind on. Maybe a little extra alright as you're, letting it cool down. I just wan na mention. Please use enough product when you do this, or else it's not gon na give the effects that you're looking for it needs a lot of holes and don't make it like extremely big of a braid, or else it's not gon na get enough heat to penetrate all The layers of the hair: let's let that cool down a bit all right, let's see how this is going, I'm just gon na be delicate with this scrumptious okay and it's gon na kind of give you that crimped hair vibe that is so cute and I'm the Only one who likes the flake, probably you're, gon na get that super crimped awesome. Look with the dark hair, it looks so pretty I love it. That'S how you do the crimped look, the longer you let it sit, the better will come out. I lived in Lepus. Very long, so it should should be more crimped than that typically, but it looks dope all right now that we went over those techniques. Why don't we break out some short hair? Because you guys think that you know you can't do these things on Twitter? It'S not true, and I'm gon na show you a few more things. You can do and kind of combine all these things we just did into one mega. It'S not ironing. I can't get this thing off. This is recognize this girl from another - Oh God. Actually, her hair came out really cute, I'm actually obsessed with it, but she was from teaching my brother had a cut hair. Video was a fun video, so now that we have our techniques down fully go through how I would exactly style, it say she wakes up or she lets her hair air-dry. It'S just a mess right, she's just like well. This is what you do. I like to take a round section out: halo sections like to call them, which is just taking the perimeter out, otherwise take a little surprise break it up. Okay, cool we sprayed it up. Did that now we're gon na start on the back? You don't need a lot of way back here and what's gon na happen, if you do a little wave is you're gon na get stacking. You don't want stacking when you have short hair. Okay. So typically, I like to just keep this part straight honestly, give it a little bit of a bend. That'S fine! You just don't want to put too much of a bevel in the hair in the back or else you're gon na get it really gross stacking, and it's gon na look, not modern. That'S pricey! A lot of girls go wrong as they're, giving it too much curl for their shorter hair. It'S all about doing the least when you have a short bob or anything like this. The least I'm doing the least see that we're never doing the most okay, except for, like usual day life, but right now we're gon na do please take it boom boom boom boom. I like to use the wave technique for most short hair bob looks again we're twisting and a half way twisting and a half way twisting in that way, twisting you're half way and look at how ha Jing pretty. That is dude and are you thinking well? How does that look so easy, but when I do it at home, it's not just don't overthink it man, it's supposed to be organic. It'S supposed to be fun now to make this hair go out of their face. We'Re gon na do a little bit of a curl backwards, so you're kind of mixing all of those techniques. We just learned all in one. I don't like the way this kind of pops out. You see that so we're just gon na kind of go Boop and straighten that back down and now comb it out see if it's your liking. If it's not go back in, do it again, that is one layer fully down that took me to me in 30 seconds now, we're gon na take a big chunk of hair. Again it down that first layer being straight, is not going to show. So don't worry about it and then we're gon na form with our hands, see that we're taking our hands and work that hot hot hair. If we're gon na go like this scrunch it and your any of that wave, that is fabulous. Okay, I have one of the beauty cons. I did a presentation on how to wave your hair and they gave me ten minutes to fully describe the look and then do the look. So if I can do that that fast, you can do it too. Just again, don't overthink the steps and kind of keep looking in the mirror and say: is this too poufy and then just adjust from there just feel it be an artist of your own hair? That sides done that took me all of four minutes. Five minutes to do I'm gon na kind of break it up again. I think it looks too perfect pull these pieces down. I also love to put pomade in the hair. Just rub it on your hands and kind of go in there and it kind of just forms so wave for you a little better. It'S it's looking too straight at the ends, so we're gon na take the flat iron and just go in on those ends. Give it a little bevel right here that looks cute to me. That looks modern. That looks fresh. That looks fun. Maybe some people will say this looks terrible. This looks messy, but to me this looks modern and beautiful teach their own right. So, let's move on to this side and I'll do a little bit more of a romantic wave, something that doesn't look as boho and chic cuz. It'S not everybody's, not boho and chic. Okay, we can't all be like you know, we're gon na work for this side. In a bit of a different way, we are gon na again. Do the halo section all right and it's it's messy man. It doesn't need to be perfect, I'm not much of a perfectionist when it comes to like styling. I just like organic. If you like, we're gon na click, the forgot this video we're in now take it and we're gon na do a half-turn, like I taught you before, and this time this is the serious part twist it twist it twist it pull it, pull it pull it down. Don'T kill your client or yourself, but that's gon na make an extremely flat wait see how flat that is, and now you can go in and flatten it even more that way. You don't get that stacking that you're gon na get, if you don't pull it down after I'm gon na. Do this way it's going forward with short hair. It'S important that when it comes out of the Flatiron you twist it right away, or else it's not gon na give any kind of that bevel to the hair. So I did that piece forward. I'M gon na do this piece forward again and we're gon na give kind of variation of twists backwards and forwards backwards and forward, and just pull that hair down and just don't give too much wave to it all right now. This part is the part again that people will mess up on the most, which is giving it too much wave. I like to just babble the ends a little bit different directions. So it looks a little weird and confused, but I don't actually like to put wave back here because it will just give too much of volume a little bobs like this, so you got kind of texture. You got your curl wavy thing in the front and now on to the next layer, we're gon na cut this in half and go again and we're gon na do some backwards: waves, okay and twist it with your hand, boom and now we're on to the last Layer and that took again all of five minutes to get here so we're gon na finish this top layer and we're gon na put a nice wave right in the front because that affordable look the most give me that really like Instagram you like ooh. I just got my hair done. I got a bob kind of moment. Let me do this one forward, feel it guys she an artist. So as you can see, we have two totally different types of waves going on. We have one side that is very boho, chic, very modern, very cool and this sides more refined, still really cool, but a different vibe, as you can see, I'm more of this girl, so I'm even more of this girl. Also now this is cooled down. We can kind of brush this out with our hands and modernize it a little bit more and you're gon na give it a little bit more volume to it, a little more texture, and if you say you like this, but you like this too that's okay. I got an answer for you. You can do both so now that we already have these waves going on. We can just dig into this pile of wave and add a few waves. I can join the other side so now you're getting two different textures in one, and that is probably my actual favorite. When we're doing this, I like to mix up styles and that's how you kind of keep it fresh, and it really doesn't need a lot of these just by putting a few in really kind of switches up the style a lot. Let me show you that it's gon na give kind of a confused little wave, and it's not gon na be as perfect. So a couple different ways to wave hair super different super fun and you can do it on really short hair. Those are all my beautiful fabulous techniques on how to do some Flatiron tricks all right now you fudge it up, says you get in there and you do that now. If you're wondering is flat, I this question: a lot is titanium or ceramic plates better. Now, there's no real easy way to answer this. I use a lot of ceramic plates that are not good. I'Ve used a lot of titanium plates that aren't good either so honestly just buy a good flat iron. I used the t3 today, however, before I started using the t3, my first and probably true, love right now and that I've used for ages, the GHD gold iron, I mean they make great tools. My flat iron has been with me for like 10 years now, it's expensive, but it never broke great iron. It has temperature control. But honestly, I don't want to give you any misinformation, so I just say that, as long as you are using the correct techniques, you should be able to get away with both with either one. I haven't noticed a huge difference between the two, so I don't think it's that crazy important. Just being honest with you, you might watch this video and you might try this at home. All these techniques just have patience with yourself a lot of these techniques. I did get down really quick, however, I'm a very visual artistic person, so I think it comes more natural to me where some people are very technical and wanted to are being perfect and right. Be creative. With your hair have fun with it. It doesn't need to look perfect as long as you put a little effort in you know. People will notice it and appreciate it. So just practice these things practice at home keep trying and you will get it. I promise you, as you keep going and as you keep trying just like anything in life, you know it's the same with hair so get on that start waving your hair star, curling it or start straightening it and it'll change your life. Okay, that is all for today. I hope you guys liked that. I know you like some informational videos, so there is one again. Thank you. So much for watching. Don'T forget to follow me on instagram mi, Brian exile, hair and mine is my feet on Twitter and also tick-tock. Don'T do that shop glitterati, you, my excellent O'Hara fellow, and that is all for today. Thank you. So much for watching don't forget to live your extra life. I'Ll, see you next time. Bye, love! You see, leaders deuces ye, that's stupid!