The Best Heatless Curls / Heatless Waves! Octocurl Tutorial For Overnight Curls That Beat Robe Curls

Hey guys welcome back to my channel or welcome if you are new here. I hope everybody is having a fabulous day today for today's video, i'm going to be showing you guys the absolute best overnight, heatless curl product that i have ever tried ever by a long shot. I thought that my life was forever changed when i figured out how to make robe curls look good, i made a whole video on it. I was like yes, i will never need to use a curling iron again or anything else for that matter, but honestly, rogue curls have literally nothing on the octo curl. So i'm going to show you guys a quick tutorial on how i personally like to use the octo curl kind of talk through some different ways that you can use it to get a different sort of result. Of course, this is what i used on my hair. Last night, so if you're wondering how i achieved these curls, it's with the octo curl, there are a couple things that i like to do, there's a little hack that i have to get really beautiful long, lasting curls, because the other amazing thing about this is that I don't need to use hairspray anymore, and these will last me for days, which literally has never happened to me in my entire life. My hair just doesn't hold a curl normally, so we will walk through all of that, but i also thought it would be helpful to show you guys, differences and lengths. I do have long and regular and there are three fabric options and kind of the differences between them. So if you have been curious about the octo curl, you are trying to figure out which one is going to work the best for your hair. You want to see how to get the absolute best curls out of the octo curl you've come to the right spot, we're going to jump right into that. I'M going to set these down. It feels weird with all of them on my lap before we jump into it, don't forget to give this video a thumbs up subscribe to my channel click on that notification bell and if you are feeling extra generous drop, a comment below. Thank you. So much for doing all those things it really does help to support me with youtube algorithm, so means so so much. Thank you. Instagram and tic tac handles are right here and my lightroom preset filters for editing instagram photos along with merch links, timestamps discount codes and literally anything else. You could need from me they're all listed in the description box below all right, let's jump into it. Let'S get this party started. Okay, i want to start off by showing you guys the difference in length, so the purple one right here is the long version. The black one right here is the standard version, so the standard version is 10 inches long. The long version is 13 inches long, so you're getting an extra three inches there. They say that the standard version is for shoulder length to mid back hair and the long version is for past mid back length hair. So i used this black one actually last night to achieve the curls that i have now so for reference. That'S how long my hair is. I recently got it cut and got five inches cut off. So before i got that haircut, i was having to use the long version, the purple one right here to get all of my hair to fit around it and get the look that i was going for so hopefully that helps for reference. Hopefully, you appreciate how ridiculous i look. Okay, that's difference in size all right now. Let'S talk about the difference in these fabric options, so i'll just show you up close first, what these look like side by side, so this white one right here is the microfiber towel. Camo in the center is cotton poplin, and this magenta kind of fuchsia color on the other end, is their satin option. All of them feel soft, so it's not like. I would think any are going to be too rough on the hair. I don't think you can go wrong from that standpoint. Of course, the satin version is going to be the softest and most gentle, which is why i prefer this, but i also just really love the result that i get with this. I think that this is the best for minimizing frizz, so if you are really susceptible to frizz or tangles, satin is going to be the one for you. So this is definitely my go-to, but it also kind of depends on how you are looking to use these, because this is going to be the least absorbent fabric of the three. So if you want to put an octo curl on your head, that sounded so weird if you want to wrap your hair around the octo curl kind of fresh out of the shower after you've washed it when it's pretty much soaking wet the microfiber towel option is Going to be the best for you in order to wake up with dry hair, because this will absorb the most amount of liquid cotton. Poplin is kind of somewhere in between. So i would say that is the biggest difference between the three is how much liquid they absorb. But i will say that i i use the satin option with really damp hair, almost every single time that i use it and when i wake up in the morning. My hair is completely dry, so i do think it depends on your hair type, but of course also how much water or moisture is actually in your hair. But, aside from how quickly your hair would dry and how much these absorb water, i would say really. The only other major difference between the three is that you can use cotton, poplin and satin with higher heat settings. If you wanted to use it with a hair. Dryer, so if you wanted to wrap wet hair around it, then go ahead and use a hair dryer. That way, you can absolutely do that with both of these, whereas with this microfiber option they do say that they just recommend using low heat settings. So that's really the only other major difference. Octo curl does have a chart on their website where they break down the difference between the three. What may kind of change, depending on your hair type. So, for example, they say microfiber has great grip to it. But if your hair tangles easily, then this may not work the best for you, whereas with satin. This is going to be the most gentle but could be slippery for fine hair. But it's like not really anything. I think that matters that much. To be honest, so i think the things that i talked about are just the things that would make the biggest difference in deciding what to purchase. But again, i don't think you can go wrong and my personal favorite is satin. Okay, all right now that we've walked through all that, let's talk through how i actually like to use the octo curl. So for me personally, if i'm trying to achieve which i am a sleek, smooth, kind of structured curl like this, i can't sleep with soaking wet hair after i've washed it and wake up with curls that look like this. They just look a lot messier, not as structured not as smooth, and they also look mismatched, because i naturally have zero volume to my hair. So my roots will be looking really flat and limp and lifeless and like they need serious attention. But then i'll have these curls at the end. It just doesn't quite look right and it's not my personal favorite kind of look. So i don't ever use the octo curl in that way, but i also don't get the absolute best result if my hair is fully dry either i'll show you guys right here. I still think it looks really pretty, but the curls just aren't quite as structured and those kinds of curls if i use dry hair with octo curl, don't last as long for me either i find that they fall a lot more quickly, so this is only achieved If my hair is dry at first, but then i spray it with some sort of leave-in conditioning spray. So this one right here is the ag hair care conditioning mist, absolutely love it. I'Ve been using it non-stop with this, but really any spray works. Pureology color fanatic, which you guys know i have been a huge fan of for a long time. This works great with it really any sort of leave-in, conditioning or detangling spray like that. That'S going to allow you to get your hair really nice and damp works great, but the key word there is damp because i don't get my hair soaking wet like it would be out of the shower, because then we're back to the initial problem. So you guys will see how much product i apply here and really how damp i get my hair. That is key for me in order to get really beautiful curls now we are actually ready to put this on the head. So if you're wondering how this should actually lay this headband part, oh wait. We'Re twisted! Please hold this stretchy kind of headband fabric right here should go towards the front of your head and i lie it in the center. Like this, i used to bring it down closer to the front of my head, but what that will do is just force your curls to start lower further away from the crown of your head. So if that's the look that you're going for then this is how you're going to want to have it set up. But if not, if you want your curls to start a little bit higher you'll want to make sure that this is back further towards the center. Like so then, i just make sure that i have an even number of strips on both sides. So there are eight strips total, there's kind of like two sets of four, because they're set up like this. So four of those double sets on each side and i try to just have even amounts of hair on both sides of my head, so that my curls are around the same size. They'Re not obviously going to be identical, but as similar as possible is the goal. So i will grab onto a section of hair. That'S about this big. I found for me that, just because of the amount of hair that i have, that much hair around each set of strips is what gives me this sort of curl. But obviously, if you have more hair, then your section of hair would be bigger. If you had less, it would be smaller. You guys get it so i first make sure to take this section of hair and pull it away from my face and then underneath the section of strips that's going to make sure that my curls are facing out and away from my face and not curling in Towards my face, so i pull it out and away. I want to make sure i don't have any of this hair underneath kind of gripping on and then basically what i would say, i'm doing is alternating the hands that are holding the strips and the hair, while twisting my hair around the strips the entire time, and I feel like that makes no sense, and it's just a lot clearer to actually watch than for me to try to explain so here, pulling away holding the hair. In my right hand, the strips in my left hand i'm going to pull my hair underneath the strips like that and then i'm going to grab the strips with my right hand, that's holding my hair. Let go of the strips and switch to hold on to my hair and then pull this way again. I feel like that makes no sense, but hopefully seeing it helps now we're going to do the same thing. Pull it back this way away from my face, i'm going to grab my hair in this hand, that's holding the strips, and now i'm going to let go of the hair and grab the strips instead, so we're kind of back to where we started. Now we go underneath grab the strips switch grab. The hair keep doing that until we get to the end. At the end, this is where it gets a little bit confusing and definitely takes some trial and error. I have messed this up so many times and just could not get the hang of it until i realized what i was doing wrong. So in order to make this easy to secure, you want to make sure that, at the very end you have your hair. Only wrapping around one single strip so no longer around both strips, otherwise, you won't be able to secure it together. It'S like um, hello, it doesn't work, so wrap it around both strips for basically as long as you can until you hit the end, then at that point, take whatever hair is left just the very end, wrap it around one single strip and then you're going to Grab the other and you'll be able to freely use this elastic and you'll just grab it and tie it around the other single strip. And now you know you're seeing it and there you have it. We have our hair in the octa curl. So, let's do one more should we do this front piece right here or maybe let's do a back one on this side, another section again about this big and we are ready to wrap something. I also do is kind of pull this up if it starts to tug down. Because again i don't want my curls to start too low. So i just make sure it's sitting on my head, how i want it to and we are going to follow the same exact process so pull away from the face, wrap underneath make sure we don't have hair from down here. Clinging then pull in towards the face away: switching hands underneath keep going around town, bring it around town. If you know what that's from we're best friends all right now we are at the end. I am just going to wrap that around this single piece. We are going to pull the other strip and elastic away and secure it around the other strip ding and there you have it. So i will do that around my full head of hair and then in the morning, when i wake up, i just loosen the elastics. I do wish that the elastics were a little bit softer and gentler, but i'll take what i can get and then i will just unwrap unravel the curls like so, and i have a gorgeous result. I do usually have to brush through them like it's, not looking fresh and perfect after i wake up, let's be real: when does our hair ever do that at least mine doesn't, but that's how i get these curls baby, but that is basically all there is to It for how i have been using the octo curl to get these curls right here. Of course, this is not the only kind of curl that you can get with the octo curl. You really do have a lot of different options. You can get anything from a really tight, bouncy, springy curl, all the way up to a really loose kind of voluminous, fluffier wave or somewhere in between, like i have right now, so in general, if you want a curl that is tighter and bouncier and more of A spiral: not only are you going to want to make sure that you're just wrapping your hair around one strip, but you're also going to want to make sure that you're wrapping your hair as tightly as possible around that strip, so that you don't really have much Space in between your hair and in between each twist, on the other hand, if you want something that is even bigger and looser than this curl, then you can actually wrap your hair around more strips than two. You could wrap them around three or four. That'S just going to create a bigger curl right there at that, but you can also make sure that you are kind of wrapping more loosely so that you do have more space in between your hair as you're twisting it around. If that makes sense, so hopefully that helps you guys to figure out how you can best use the octo curl to get the exact type of curl that you're going for regardless of what type of curl you do try to achieve. With this i am so sold on this over robe curls. I did want to show you guys the difference in my octo curls and my robe curls so right here i'll show you what my rope curls looked like when i thought they looked really good like that. Was my best result and you can see the difference between that and the octo curl? It'S just no comparison in my opinion, so i am so freaking happy. I found this product. I haven't used a crawling iron in a few weeks at this point and i just don't see myself using one for a really long time. This is, i mean it's the best thing to ever happen to me in my hair. I think. Well, that's a stretch. One of the best i will say that, but that is it for this video, so i really hope that this was helpful for those of you that were asking for a tutorial. I am super curious to hear your thoughts. If you have the octo curl you have to, let me know what your favorite kind of curl is to achieve with it. But if not, you of course have to. Let me know if you're going to try it out after watching this video i'll make sure to have them linked in my description box below. If i am able to find separate links for sizes and fabrics, i will try to include variety in my description box as well. Is that everything i think, that's everything? Let me know if there's anything else, you guys would like to see from me next in the comments below and if you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up, don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't already and send my channel to a friend, thank you so much for doing all those things. It really really does help to support me, make sure to stay tuned for my next video. What'S up with my clap on here, not sure, because that will be up in a few days, but until then i hope you have a great few days.