Every Heatless Curls I’Ve Ever Tried Ranked - Kayley Melissa

Hey everyone Kayley your friendly neighborhood hair, stylist here.. Today I am ranking every heatless curling method. I have tried on my hair over the last 10 years.. Let'S get into it. ( light music ). The idea for today's video comes from Natalie on Twitter and I wan na say thank you Natalie, because it's great., I have done so many different curling methods over the last 10 years here on YouTube, and I thought let's take a walk down memory lane and rank Them based on what works best to what worked the absolute worst., I'm gon na just give you guys some feedback on, maybe what I would do now to fix it ,'cause some of these are Green Sheet days, and now I know more than I did, and so I could help some more and also just which ones you should absolutely avoid and never do.. So that being said, let's get into it.. Okay, this very first video we have is from the Green Sheet days.. As far as I can tell the very first heatless curls or waves I ever did - and this is No Heat Beach Waves., Oh the music.. Oh no, I'm gon na need you guys to comment. If you remember this: music., Hey girls, Kayley here.. So today our video is for no heat beach, waves., Oh she's, talking so fast., Oh, oh, oh, oh! No! No! We need to stop.. We need to stop right, there. The eyebrows.. Why are they five inches apart? Somebody tell me why my eyebrows are five inches. Apart.. All right getting into the actual method, it looks like I wet the hair first, I did some leave in protection and then I did a blow dry. Gel., All good things still recommend all those things., Oh and I did a mousse. Okay, you might not need to do all that. And then I raked it through got my hair to 90 % dry, and then I did one version where I did a French braid And then I did one version where I did Dutch braids. And let's see the after. Okay, so here's the thing I'm noticing with this one right away is that I started the braid fairly far back on my head all the way back here, and so once it Falls forward, I do have really pretty waves when I turn my head to the side, which is probably why I used a lot of those clips because the waves started up here really well, but I had really straight pieces in the front.. So if I were to redo this - or if I were to do this today, I would start the braid a lot closer up to the front for sure.. Let'S see this double braid action, though, how did that one turn out Ooh? She got a smoky eye for this one and a big necklace.. I oof. Okay, so I know some people look so cute when they've double braided their hair and then they take it down the next day.. I do not think that is the look for me.. I don't know what went wrong here. I don't know why it's super crimped in some areas and not at all in others, but I'm gon na say that's a no.. Some pros to this hairstyle is that it is really easy.. Some of these require a little bit more skill with this one. You just have to be able to braid, and it looks really good on some hair types.. The con is that it doesn't work as well on fine hair, and I have fine hair, because fine hair is gon na show all of the little kinks and everything.. So it's not my personal taste for me, but I do think it looks so good on. So many different people.. So for that reason, I'm gon na put it right in the middle for now. All right. What did I do next Ooh? This is now the next setup that I had.. This is before the blue wall went up and this is titled Easy. Heatless Curls Tutorial. Does anybody remember when I had auburn red hair, I went dark brown and then I had to go back to red to get to blonde'cause. It was not the move.. Also how long and thick was my hair. What So much jealousy for past me.? Okay, so `` what you'll need'' These are old school, bun formers.. These were around so much around this 2013 area.. We were using socks, we were using bun formers, everybody had a ballerina bun., I'm saying step. One is to brush, then use something to add hold because my hair doesn't hold easily. Okay, so this one relies on a mohawk of buns., I'm wrapping it around the bun former and then I'm rolling it down to the head and then twisting it into a bun. Huh until there was a whole mohawk all the way down and at the very end I showed you how to do it with a bun maker, because again those were very popular., I'm gon. Na be honest. I don't remember filming this video, so I have no idea how this turned out.. Oh, that does not look good.. The ends are so sad. Oh no, It looks wet at the root. Kayley Melissa. You got ta call it out when it doesn't look good girl.. You can't just ignore that no no no. ( gasps ), That is a big frizzy mess. What is that Kayley Melissa? Oh, no! No! No! No no.! No! No! No! No! No! No! No no. Ana Laura. ( Kayley giggles )! Oh my God.! That is that's a lot. Wow. Wow.! No, no! No! No no.! I love past Kayley enough to speak the truth. Okay. So here's why I think that went really wrong.. First of all, I don't remember what that spray gel was.. I don't know how. Recently I had colored my hair., Whatever happened, there was way too much hold and not enough moisture in my hair number one. Number two. Those bun formers are rectangles. They're, very skinny and very wide. So it was like folding your hair around a block and hoping it would come out in curls And it didn't so yeah. That'S a no.! That'S gon na be a no from me.. Reviewing that one, absolutely no don't do that. The placement with the mohawk section might work with other rollers, but bun formers Heck, no techno we're never doing that, again.! No, no! No! No! I'M putting this one at the bottom, which is currently place number two, but this is this one's ha., Okay, moving right! Along.! Now we have Back To School, Heatless Curls, exclamation point., This one is August, so this is just a couple months after that first one. Man. Do you remember when YouTube videos were only three minutes, long [ Kayley In Video ]? Let'S go ahead and get started. Okay, so I am making a pin curl and I am wrapping it up. Okay and then I'm pinning it in place.. So this method is just making pin curls with your hair.. This is a very old school way to do. Curls.. This is how curls used to be done back before curling irons., Vintage, hair. Stylists still do this quite a bit, so this method is pretty good actually.. I don't know how it turned out for me that day., I think the only downside about pin curls like this is that they can take some skill to wrap correctly and to pin well because if you pin it incorrectly, you're gon na have a crease.. But if you're patient, it's actually a pretty good method, hypothetically., Let's see how this turns out. Last two have not been impressive. All right yeah. It is also key to put something over your head to keep everything in place that really wide headband was definitely the move.. Oh see those curls are so much prettier.. Look, the ends are pretty. The curls are actually curls.. This is our first successful curl example. Wow. That actually makes me wan na try that again., Okay, okay, okay. Aww, so cutie Wow yeah. I like those.. I think the only thing that I would change about this if I was doing it today, I'm going back to look at how I set that front pin curl.. I just think that that very front piece again needs to be a little bit tighter. But aside from that, I love it. Absolutely perfect. Go past, Kayley., First post that it works.. But the second thing is that you can really determine exactly how each curl falls.. So if you want some towards your face some away whatever., If you want little curls big curls, you can do all of that.. I think the only real con to it is that it does take some practice to do correctly.. But if you put in the time it can work and it can be really really good., I'm gon na say: ugh eh, ugh., Okay, I'm gon na put it right below braids., Even though this one looks better than that first braided, one that I did. I think, as far as actually doing it on yourself, the braids are probably a little bit easier and a little bit more reliable., I'm the rank queen. I get to put things where I want them. That'S where I want them. Now we're moving along to October of 2013. I did three in 2013.. My hair has gotten lighter progressively throughout the year, but we're doing nice little blonde copper.. Oh, my God, I'm doing braids, again., (, laughs, ), Okay, and this time I'm braiding closer to the hairline.. There you go past Kayley.. I still have that shirt. I love that shirt. All right. Let'S see how these turned out. Eh. It looks better than the time I did it before and it doesn't look bad, but can you guys see why it's not my favorite one? For me, Some girls take their hair down from braids like Ana Laura. She takes her hair down from a braid magic mermaid.. When I do it, it's just just a tiny bit deflated., It's missing that je ne sais quoi, you know Just ugh.. I still really like this method. I still think it really works well for people.. Let me know in the comments what your hair type is like, and if this braid method works for you., I just don't feel like it works for me.. So, even though I'm hating on this a little bit, it's still in first place and I'm just stacking this one on top of the previous one, because they're the same method, just two different videos. And moving along. Ooh. Okay, now we're getting into some new stuff.. This is Heatless Soft Curls Inspired By The Grammys. [ Kayley In Video ], Hey everyone Kayley here., So I thought it was about time that I did another heatless curl tutorial., Okay, my hair looks good though.. My hair was so full in this 2014 2015 region. [ Kayley In Video ]. Now for the method, I have something new to teach. You guys., I'm going to be using a T-shirt to create these curls.. So I made a Pinterest graphic for this.. I promoted the heck out of this.. This is probably one of my more successful videos and, as far as I know, I made up this method.. I was sitting there trying all sorts of different ways and this popped into my head., I'm not gon na say it's. The best I'm gon na be real honest, but I am proud of past Kayley for using her noggin to create something new.. So you twist the T-shirt and you put it around into a donut.. You put that on top of your head and then you wrap the hair around it.. It'S a simple idea in concept.. However, I have to say it's a little difficult in execution.. First of all, you have to balance it on your head.. Second of all, you have to wrap everything really really nicely and evenly around it.. And thirdly, you are wrapping everything up to one specific place, so this hair in the back isn't going to start curling until about this far out from your head., I got so many comments about how this looked like an 18th century updo or whatever and honestly you're, Not wrong. All right and now I'm taking it down and those curls are beautiful.. Oh my God., My hair does look really good guys.. Honestly, I don't know if it was the curling method or that my hair was just living its best life in 2015, but either way those after shots are some of the best work. I'Ve done. Pro is that it is better than the bun makers or putting your hair in a scrunchie first or trying to do it with a headband. Cons, balancing a halo on top of your head and that I really think there's no way for it to work. On short, hair whatsoever. Could not do it with my hair length and it does kind of create curls that only frame the front of your face. So you have to bring your hair down over your shoulders. That aside, it creates a ton of volume. It creates really pretty waves, I'm into it. I'm gon na put this one. I'M tooting my own horn a little bit, but I think I'm gon na put this one in front of braids for the current first place: position. Alrighty and now moving on to 2016. Easy Heatless, Curls, Hair Tutorial.. These all have the same title.. Oh my gosh. Apparently, my hair was still going strong in 2016 guys.. Oh, I remember that sweatshirt I loved that. [ Kayley In Video ]. First, I used Flexi Rods and these are just Okay. So now I'm using Flexi Rods.. These are really popular in the natural hair community and they were starting to kind of pop up on YouTube a little bit more, so I decided to give it a try and I remember, really really liking it.. I remember this. I tried setting lotion.. I had learned a lot about it in cosmetology school., It's kinda an old school idea, but I thought I'd give it a try.. You guys never got the update on that, but after I tried it for a while, it just ended up making my hair kinda feel dried out and a little too hairspray-y, even though it wasn't hairspray.. So it wasn't a forever part of my routine, but it was fun to try out. Okay. So I'm splitting my hair into four. It looks like. Brushing everything up: spritzing, hair with water, adding setting lotion and then wrap it around the Rod and then twist the Rod. Closed., So this is not too different from the way that the bun makers worked, except instead of rolling it up at the top and then rolling it down like a sleeping bag. You wrap it around like a curling wand, which is a lot more intuitive, based on what we're all used to with styling our hair.. Also, this is a cylinder shape instead of a very skinny rectangle, which is definitely an improvement. Okay, so I'm taking it out. It's in a ringlet, ringlet., Okay, so then I'm taking it and I'm breaking it into little pieces and they look good.. That looks like the pin curl method curls, but it's a lot easier than doing. Pin curls.. I feel like these days. I might do that with a one inch Flexi Rod instead of a one and a quarter, inch.. Okay. So now I'm running my fingers through it and now I'm running a brush through it.. I feel like you, either rake through with your fingers or brush through. I wouldn't do both. Yeah. I don't think I would use setting lotion now to tame stuff.. I like to use an oil or a serum to tame any fluffy areas.. It does such a good job.. I remember I was taking a hair skin nails vitamin at the time. I need to look up which one I was taking and do that again ,'cause, my goodness, my hair looks good. That looked great.. The only thing that I would change today is that I would not use a setting lotion. I would use a mousse or just any product, that's meant for blow drying. That adds hold, basically anything that works with your hair type.. So for me, probably a volumizing mousse would be a good one. For somebody with a little more texture to their hair. I would say something very moisturizing and then maybe a moisturizing mousse or a curl enhancing gel that kind of thing., Because this method is more versatile and I could actually do it on my hair length. Now, I'm gon na put this one now at the very top.. Also, do you wan na see how much I love Flexi Rods, One sec. Flexi Rod, pack. The Flexi Rods from that video. Skinnier, Flexi, Rods. And just a couple more packs for good measure., All right, moving right, along., (, laughs, ). Now this is not so much of a heatless hair tutorial as it is me trying out the Sleep, Styler. (, laughs, ). This opens up so questionably., So you wrap the hair away. You wrap the fabric around and now I'm just giving it a little try.. Okay. I just skipped to where all of these are in, and this is like a full cloud around my face. That is so much bulk around you, oh my goodness., So I'm unwrapping taking down what looks to be the third one and that one is completely wet.. Oh my gosh and then that one that's second from my face is all kinds of crimped.. What even is this? I'M pretty sure this is the first time you guys ever saw rage Kayley on camera.. I don't know I don't what ugh. So frustrated right. Now. Did not expect to be rage Kayley this morning, but goodness gracious people.. It looks so bad, I'm still mad about it. Today. It's been three years and I'm still mad about it.. Okay, so I tried it a second time. Okay, so I did better the second time, but there are still kinks in it.. It'S just not good guys.. No, we've seen enough of this. I think. This was just it was not the move. Okay, so I just wanted to include that one, because it was a heatless, curl method. I tried., I don't think it went well mm.. I didn't have a good experience with it.. If you have, let me know in the comments, but at least for me it just wasn't the move.. I did not like it.. It was not it.. That being said, I'm still not gon na put it at the bottom., I'm going to put it underneath, pin curls, but above the bun formers, because nothing yet has been as bad as those bun formers.. That was a mess. Oof and now we're on to Testing Weird Rollers from Wish.. This is, I think, four different heatless curling methods in one video. Let'S see how it went., Okay, so I'm gon na skip ahead to the very first one that I used, which were these plastic-y ones.. I don't still have these anymore. I threw them away., Oh my gosh, were they terrible.? They felt so cheap and so flimsy.. The deal with those is that you wrapped them around and then you wrapped them up and you knocked them together and you did that all over your head and then you let it dry.. So, let's skip ahead to fully dry. Okay, so the first couple ones came off okay., Oh my gosh, and then I remember they got stuck.. I lost so much hair.. I didn't totally film it'cause. I was mourning and grieving at the time, but so much hair got lost to those rollers. It was so bad., Oh no! Oh no that looks so bad.. I see myself trying to save it.. Okay, so the one side that's curled was okay. The other side. I don't know what happened there.. Was it still wet Oof.? Okay retrospectively? I'M not sure how much was user error and how much was the rollers ,'cause, I'm not perfect. I'M not gon na get it right on the first. Try all the time. That'S fair., But mm mm the little teeth on it grabbed my hair, so badly ripped out so much hair. Never tried it again, threw them straight away.. It was a big no. And those are gon na go at the very, very bottom of the list.. You could not pay me to use them again. And now to the next., Oh okay, so the very next one we have are these spiral rollers.? So this took me, I think two hours to get all of this in.. I remember it was just this very long. Very arduous process, because you also had to get the hair specifically in each of the grooves of the spirals., And I eventually ran out of curlers, so I switched to straws.. Then I took it down and I had to do all sorts of finagling afterwards, because thy were very, very tight curls. If you're a natural hair girl you're trying to recreate how tight your natural curls are totally great, totally recommend.. But for me it was just they were really really tight., So I had to use some water to loosen it up. I had to go through and do all this different work, but once I did it, those curls looked good. I felt cute.. I did really really like these., You could never sleep on them and it takes a while to put them in, but you do get a really good return on it.. I think for the spiral rollers just because you can't sleep on them and they are very time consuming. I'M gon na put them right below, pin curls and above the Sleep, Styler. All right and then moving on. I had the suction cup rollers.. I saw them in Marvelous Mrs Maisel, like many of you guys did and they were used to keep the curls in place overnight.. They were not meant to go from wet to dry., So that makes a lot of sense, but they were marketed as a wet to dry product.. But the thing is because it encapsulates the hair in plastic. It doesn't dry.. So I had these in for 24 hours and my hair didn't dry and aside from that being a little disturbing, it was also very ineffective., So we're just gon na go ahead and put suction cup curlers at the bottom of the list.. I think these were definitely definitely definitely definitely the worst things that I've ever used.: Okay, cool, let's skip on to the strawberry rollers.. Those are so cute. They're just little sponge rollers. Basically, but because of the shape, you can wrap your hair around them and it'll just stay inside., So it's not as difficult to do, which I love and they look really cute.. Also if your hair ever gets stuck they're really easy to just rip apart.. I remember loving these strawberry rollers, so let's just see how this looked. Yeah that's, really pretty.. I notice that the curls are tighter at the top looser at the bottom. I think because when you first put it on you're wrapping that top layer around first and then every other layer is a little bit more after that, and so I definitely got a little bit of an uneven curl from that., And I did touch it up with A curling iron, and once that was done, this looked perfect'cause yeah it didn't take long to do it didn't take a lot of heat on the hair.. Those were really easy to sleep on and they were so inexpensive.. So I really really liked them., I'm gon na put the strawberry rollers just underneath braids and above pin curls.. You know what we're gon na leave it there for now.. I think I might need to reorganize once we're done. Moving on to a whole dedicated video on straw curls.. Oh, my gosh look at those itty bitty little curly, curls., So cute.. So this is Straw, Curls Heatless, Faux Curly Hair.. So in this video I tried out a few different methods of doing straw curls.. So I used plastic straws, paper, straws and little bitty Flexi Rods with kinda the straw, curl style, and I went through all of my hair wrapping these up and then let's just go ahead and skip to taking them, out., There's so many tips and tricks and everything In this video, so if you are interested in straw curls, I recommend watching this video for sure. Yeah, so they came off and I can see that my ends are really really frizzy.. I think I was probably due for a haircut, let's be honest, but I should've used more conditioning products for sure., Maybe a curl cream or a curl, defining gel just to go ahead and take care of things. A little better. I mean overall yeah. You get a really nice tight curl.. I do like the results from the Flexi Rods the best because they were the right width.. They were the widest of everything that I used, and I think that was just the best for my hair ,'cause. Like I mentioned earlier, my hair is fine, so it takes things really literally, so it did the curls really really tight. And then with straw curls. You can't just take it out and go because there's a whole extra finessing moment to it.. So then I go through how to apply product, how to pick the hair apart, how to fluff it up at the roots, all that kind of stuff., Very, very, very important., And then I come back the next day and the curls have fallen a little bit.. I talk a little bit more about how to keep them styled. I mean overall, this is a great inexpensive method to try for getting really nice tight, coil-y curls.. We love curly hair over here., Obviously, love any way that we can create that and celebrate it., Whether it's training, your own natural curls or faking, a more curly look for the day as long as we are giving all of the love to our curly haired sisters. I love it.. I find this method really really easy.. The only difficult thing is just styling after you've taken it off the straws, and I provided a lot of info in this video. So I think if you follow that you're pretty much good to go., It's a very easy method, with very reliable results. Straw curls. I am going to put above the braids and below the halo curls.. Moving on to 2020, we just got two left guys.. We'Ve got first of all the TikTok Heatless Hair Trend, and oh, this is from lockdown when Ana Laura and I were filming in different locations.. So this one is where you take a bathrobe and you wrap your hair around it and then you can either leave the bathrobe down or you can tie it up around your head, but that is the entire method.. You just wrap your hair around a bathrobe.. It is one of the easiest things I have ever tried. And then, when you unwrap it, look at her curls, They look so good. I mean you have now seen a bazillionty different kinds of curls. Tell me those are not the best ones. You'Ve seen. Oh my gosh. I remember that it did not work out well for me, the first time ,'cause, my hair is shorter.. Wait: okay, nevermind! That'S a really pretty ringlet.! Okay yeah! So I remember that the back looked nuts yup., ( laughs ), So it's like party in the front just absolute tragedy in the back. And I tried all sorts of stuff to style around it to make it look okay., It didn't quite work.. I ended the day with a party pony and we tried again later.. So then we both tried it doubling up our little robe tie and I made sure to go straight back with mine, like I was doing two Dutch braids and the results I think were much better for both of us.. Let me see., Oh yeah. That looks like what I would do with a curling iron. Absolutely and it was super easy. And Ana Laura little cutie in her freaking retail establishment of a closet. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I like it so much more on both of us with the double wrap.. So I mean I feel, like I've gone on a journey now, seeing all these different trending ways to style your hair heatlessly, and that one is still so good.. It is the evolution of all of these.. It'S it's perfect., Okay, bathrobe tie is going up at the top. I'm starting to lose my mind.. I can't quite remember what I've said and what I haven't said anymore.. I watched way too much: hair curling.. Let'S finish this off with the very most recent one that I made in July., This is My Favorite Heatless Method: Yet. Ooh, that's the title.. This is me both trying and reviewing the Octo-Curl.. So first we tried it on Ana Laura and we braided in each section.. We eventually kind of figured out what we were doing and it wasn't so bad. And then I used it on my hair and I wrapped my hair around a couple of sections. All right, skipping to day two, where we reveal our curls.. I'M gon na take mine out first. All right, so I'm taking them down and I had old Hollywood waves.. Those are so pretty.. That has to be some of my prettiest waves.. I mean I really really liked the towel, one for sure. Those waves are gorgeous and the back of my head looked so good., Oh and I did end up heat styling, a tiny, tiny bit on these.. You can pry my curling iron out of my cold dead. Hands. I love curling irons.. It'S not surprising me that I touched these up, but I touched it up so minimally. Those waves. They are so good., Okay, so straight off of it. It was a little bit uneven and the ends were pretty crazy, can't lie., And then it took us a minute to pick out the right size, curling wand, to touch up with. I remember that., But then once we did, let's skip ahead to the final afters. Wow gorgeous. Beachy mermaid, wonderful, goddess perfection. I mean the only thing I would change about Ana Laura's hair is just getting it in maybe with the heat or anything getting it. In a little bit closer to the root, but it's perfect. My waves, there look amazing.. I forgot how good this turned out., So the Octo-Curl I tried it when I had long hair. I think there are pictures of that in this video.. We tried it with short hair. We tried it on Ana's hair and I've done different curls every time. I'Ve done it and I've loved all of them.. It'S so easy to use., It's so good.. I keep forgetting how much I love it until I go back and look at the results.. I think the biggest thing to learn with the Octo-Curl is how to get the ends right, because if you get them all kind of crazy and caught up in the elastics at the end, there's a good chance. You'Re gon na end up with some crazy, crazy ends.. But as long as you're willing to use heat to touch up, while you learn how to do it correctly, you're gon na be smooth sailing. It'S so good. Octo-Curl, I'm gon na agree with the title of my video.. It goes up at the very top. Hoo. I said a whole lot of things.. I hope that this was fun for you guys.. This was fun for me to take a little journey through my past videos.. I hope that you guys enjoyed it.. Let me know what your favorite heatless curling method is below, and what videos you'd like to see next. If you did enjoy today's video. Let me know by hitting the like button.: That's how I know that you liked it and it helps to support my channel. If you're new here hit that subscribe button to join the Braidaholic family here on Kayley Melissa. 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