Easy Overnight Curls (No Heat)

Hey how's it going you guys. My name is rosie and today i'm going to be showing you how i do my overnight kind of lived in curls. I really like them. I sort of like that messier curly looks i'm going to show you how i achieve this, but before we get into how i actually do that, i'm going to show you how i make one of these. This is a hair donut. You can buy these from shops and they're kind of plasticky and they're really great for setting your hair overnight to get this sort of bouncy larger curl. The only thing about the ones you buy from shops is that they're plastic they're really harsh on your hair. If you're wrapping your hair around them and they can cause your hair to break, they can cause frizziness, they can cause flyaways um. So i decided to make my own. This is made out of a fake satin. It'S really smooth, it's the same material. I used for this shirt in my last video and i'm going to be showing you how to make one of these and then how to put it in your hair to set your hair for an overnight hairstyle if you're not interested in the sewing part of this Video i'll leave a time stamp down below on how to actually just do the hair uh. But if you want to learn how to make one of these just keep watching, because that's what we're doing now, okay, so this hair doughnut, is actually just the easiest thing in the world to make. All you need is your silk satin fabric, whatever you're using as i said, this is um synthetic, it's not real, which means it can get wet. It'S still smooth. So it's not going to be rough and um cause frizziness in my hair, that's kind of what's important with this. Otherwise you could really just buy a hair donut which i've done, but it makes your hair incredibly frizzy um. So something smooth and you want to cut out a rectangle now. My rectangle for me is going to measure 11 inches lengthwise and that's going to be the curve around and then five inches widthwise and that's going to wrap over before my actual tube. The width of your rectangle will depend on how large you want your curls to be. I go for five inches. That sort of gives me a nice sort of medium bouncy, curl um, and your length will depend on how thick your hair is. My hair isn't super thick, but it also isn't super fine. I found eleven. It just works for me um to create sort of a big enough hole to get my hair through, but also not too big that the doughnut's just gon na fall out of my head. But if you have really thick hair, you may want to make it slightly bigger and if you have really thin hair, you may want to make it slightly shorter, um and again with how big you want the curl. You may want to increase or decrease the width depending on how tight or how bouncy you want the curl to be so. I'M going to draw out a rectangle, it's going to measure 11 inches by 5 inches and then i'm going to cut that out. So the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to fold over my short edges by about a quarter eighth of an inch ish. It doesn't really matter um and i'm just going to stitch that down so that when it comes to closing up the donut, i wouldn't i don't have any raw edges. So once you've turned under those edges just fold it right sides together, and then you want to stitch down that long side, closing it to form a tube. Now you just want to flip that right side out and now you just need to stuff your tube, which is possibly the worst sentence. I'Ve ever said in my life, but really the choice of stuffing is up to you. You don't want it to be too dense. So personally, i would actually avoid things like wool, like your regular stuffing, i'm gon na be using scrap fabrics um. This is not enough. I will be cutting more, but i save all my scrap fabric and i use it to stuff projects like these um. You don't want to stuff it too densely, because again, if you're going to be sleeping on this damp hair, it won't dry properly and it will mold um. That'S another thing about this: make sure that you dry it out properly put on a radiator when you're not using it just so it completely dries um. Otherwise, the insides will mold another option. Apart from scrap fabric is scrap toweling. Obviously that is meant to absorb water. So it will do quite well um or you could use plastic um. Scrap plastic would work like leftover plastic. That kind of thing that's not gon na mold, it's gon na be fine. It might just be a little bit harder. You'Ll have to shred it properly. A great way to shred plastic if you want to reuse plastic by the way is, if you have a higher powered blender, that's an option, but i'm just going to use scrap fabric. So i'm going to stuff in as much as i can making sure it doesn't fall out, the other end um and then i'll show you how to close it up. Okay, so i have stuffed it a little bit. I put a pin at the end, so i wouldn't have everything fall out. Um, it's not completely stuffed. It'S got quite a lot of room to move, because when you do this, if it's too stuffed, you won't be able to make your hole in the middle. So now what i'm going to do, i'm going to unpin that and truly this is the easiest thing in the world. I'M just going to whip stitch by hand around this closing kind of like you're making if you're from a scrunchie same thing um and i'm just going to close it up into a hole and then i'll redistribute the stuffing once it's closed and try and get it. Looking a little bit more circular, so let's do that! Shall we okay? So now i've closed that all up? I have a little donut and you can just sort of use your fingers to manipulate stuffing. So i'm gon na go wash my hair because my hair is kind of gross right now um, i'm gon na, let it dry basically to 90 and then i'll show you how i wrap my hair up in one of these things. Okay, so i'm going to show you how to use this thing, so my hair is about 90 dry, i've just washed it. You can do this with much wetter hair than that this, but it just means you need to leave your hair to set and dry for a lot longer, and my hair takes an age to dry. I washed my hair about four hours ago um, so you know um, so i'm going to first of all put a little bit of hair oil through my hair. Just because i have the driest hair in the world. It'S really annoying because i don't use any heat on it. I haven't dyed it in forever. This is all virgin hair. At this point, i've cut out all the dye bits um, but truly, i think it's the water in my house you've got hard water. It'S really quite unfortunate, so i'm just gon na run some hair oil through my hair, and this also helps weigh down, fly aways and then i'm going to tie a ponytail right at the top of my head and you don't actually have to tie your hair up. You could just slip the donut on like now. You don't have to tie it if you're afraid of getting hairband marks um. That doesn't really bother me, but what does bother me is having my hair even ever so slightly loose. I think it's from doing ballet for about 10 years during my childhood um and now just having like loose hair, makes me want to die. So i throw my hair off into a really high ponytail. I'M then going to take my little donut thing, which i've shaped as best. I can to be honest, these get into a better shape the longer you use them because you wrap your hair around it and it molds it. Whilst you wrap your hair um, but i'm just going to put my fingers through, it pull my hair through. So once it's on there, i'm going to split my hair in two and i'm going to wrap this under going around this way and then i'm going to do the same on the other side. Wrapping it around that way, then i'm just going to leave this little end out for now i'll deal with that in a second and i'm going to wrap it around the other way, and this is easier if you have like a bigger hole in the middle of Your donut, but then it is more likely to fall out, which is why i tend to go for quite a small one. So now, with my little ends, all i'm going to do is i'm going to take a kirby grip and i'm going to pin them down and underneath the doughnut just there um. Theoretically, you could wear this hairstyle outside and about and if you're gon na do that. Just spread out the hair so that um, you can't see any of the doughnuts um and then you can actually just wear this as a bun. But i just wear this to sleep in so i'm going to put a hair spreadsheet around it just to hold everything in place, and i kind of find that's enough. I don't need to secure it with pins or anything, and then i can just sleep on this, which i'm gon na go, do and i'll wake up tomorrow morning and i will take it out and show you what it looks like okay. So it's been about 12 hours. Obviously i have all these little baby hairs that have fallen out that are just too short to be stuck in, but apart from that, it's held up really. Well, i'm going to take it out and show you what it looks like and how i then judge up my hair to make it look good um. So i'm just pulling out that hair scrunchie, the curvy grip that i put in there and then you just sort of pull it and it just unrolls. And then you get these really big curls. Sometimes they don't sit super nice. Sometimes they do um. Most of the time it's fine, but sometimes you need to play around with it a little bit um and either. I will leave it like this and have it really big and bouncy, or i will go in with a hairbrush and i'll brush out starting from the bottom, just to try and cam it all down a little bit and i use my hand to like wrap around And this is what it looks like sort of styled into my normal everyday hairstyle um. This is normally how i wear my hair, just because it's easy and it's cute and i've yet to fully accept the fact that i'm a fully grown adult just some general maintenance. With this thing, um, if you are using damp hair on it, obviously it will get damp. It is fabric. If you leave a big fabric thing uh damp for a long period of time. It will mold so make sure you dry out properly either store it in front of a bright window where it gets sunlight and it can dry out or store on a radiator um you just you, don't want these things going moldy, because that would be gross and Then you'd be putting it in your hair. Same thing goes for beauty blenders by the way, just as a general psa, don't put your beauty blenders in a box or something leave them to dry out, or they will mold and it's gross. Nobody wants that um, and that is what we're going to leave today guys. Obviously, this video is a little bit different from what i normally do. Normally, i'm doing sewing videos um, but you know there's a little bit of sewing in this and i kind of just wanted to do something small, i'm kind of very busy with uni. At the moment, i'm not going to be making any videos for the next three weeks because it's just not going to be possible uh with what i've got going on and then the video i've got coming after. That is a very big sewing project. It'S probably going to be in two parts: i'm really excited for it um. So if you're interested in that, please do stick around. Let me know what you think of these types of videos. Do you want more of them? Do you never want me to do one again? 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