How To Curl With A Flat Iron

Hey everyone welcome back to another video of mine. I don't think i've ever introduced myself, but i'm esmeralda if you're new to my channel welcome. So i actually bought a new straightener, maybe about a week or two ago, and it's just the conair when i got this from target for about a little bit over 19 with tax included. So i actually tried it out before so i thought today. Maybe i can show you a video on how i like to curl my hair with the flat iron, so just a few tips if you've never done it before, and i can never get this straightener to stand up. So if you see me fumbling it with it, that's what's going on there, so i'm just going to kind of start side by side and give you an example of the way. I do it and hope that it helps you with you trying to curl your own hair, so the heat that i'm using on this just in case you're interested um i'll, go ahead and link the straightener in the description. But there are five different levels of heat. So it goes from 266, fahrenheit, 302, 338, 374 and 410, so the box set comes with it. Obviously, on the back side, it tells you for your style of hair or your type of hair. What heat is preferred for that hair type? I just prefer to part my hair in halves like this, so i start at the bottom just for me personally, it's a little bit easier to do it that way just go ahead and get the top half out of your face. So right now the only thing i have in my hair is just dry, shampoo, um. I don't think there's really like a preference on how dirty or washed you have your hair when doing this, so i'm just gon na brush that out i'll be using the igk good behavior heat, protectant, keratin treatment, spray, so kind of just briefly spray over it and Brush it through again, if you'd like, so i'm going to go ahead and just get the most bottom part down here, kind of throw the rest of the back with your straightener you're, going to clamp it as if you're gon na straighten it and then you're gon Na turn it backward and then slide it diagonally. So that's pretty much the way you're gon na do it throughout the whole thing. Um. One thing to keep in mind is if you want a tighter curl and just keep in mind when you're done with your whole hair, the waves or the curls are going to drop a little bit anyway, once they cool off. So if you want a tighter curl you're going to want to do this in a diagonal angle when you're pulling downward, otherwise, if you want a more loose wave and i'll, show you in a bit you're going to want to pull straight out like this and i'll Show you the difference right now, so that way you can see what i'm talking about. Okay, so to kind of start again, you're going to clamp it twist once backward, and i like to pull diagonally down like this. So this is the way it will come out. So, even if you start, i wouldn't say necessarily right at the root but get as close as you can before. Turning outward, i do it immediately because it'll create this type of curl, so i'm going to show you now what it would look like if you use a straightener and pull it directly outward opposed to diagonal so again, twirl it once this is straight outward kind of Diagonal because i'm stuck here so it doesn't for me, it doesn't really get a good wave pattern. The way i usually like it, and if you notice that your hair is just not curling in general, regardless of which way you choose to go, it's probably because you have too much hair in that piece. So you want to get a smaller piece, maybe half what you just curled and then do it again so see how loose this one came out and that's because i pulled it straight out rather than diagonal. So this i'm going to do it again, but this way diagonally the way i like it see, and that is the curl that i prefer i'm going to do a few more pieces. So that way you can kind of see the way i get. The hang of things and kind of get the rhythm, okay, so we're gon na do the other piece that we threw back here and honestly because it's curled, like not everything, needs to be perfect. So this is going to be the curled side right here and i guess just to try to keep something in mind again: clamp it as if you're going to straighten it turn it backward once and pull diagonally down. That'Ll, be the easiest way to help you now. If you have shorter hair, the back ends are going to get a little more difficult, so you're going to have to if you're, depending on how short it is. So if it's like something where you can't pull over to the side and like kind of side-eye it from the mirror you're going to kind of just want to get a feel for it so kind of same idea, you're going to want to clamp it back. There turn once at whatever direction, you're doing it and pull it away. I'M sorry pull it. You know obviously away from your head so kind of for both sides. That'S kind of the idea you want to stick to that's just my preference. You can obviously curl inward, but i like the waves away from my face. So that's the way i do it, but let me go ahead and finish the rest of this side of my hair. So you can see how that'll look finished up and then i'll go ahead and show you the other side. So this is the finished side, just kind of run, your fingers through them and break up the waves or curls whatever you want to call them. So that's how it's going to look. You can brush them through which i might do at the end. I don't usually like that, but it'll make it look like a more flowy wave or curl opposed to more defined curls. So your choice, but that's how you would do that side huh. Let me just give you an example of how you would do the other side and just side note. I was complaining about this thing not being able to stand up earlier, but it was user error because it has these little prong things right here now you can see them, so that's clearly made for you to sit on the table and not move around what i Was doing and you probably can't see, there's like a little ledge and i was letting the end of it hang off the table, so that was kind of rolling side to side, but anyway, on to the next side of my hair. Let me go ahead and get one piece: i just get the front pieces. We don't have to throw so much hair in the back, so same idea, so you're going to clamp it as you're going to straighten it troll it outward and pull diagonally downward. So if it comes out loose again feel free to do it again, twirl once go slower and pull diagonally downward. There we go so these are this side. It'S the opposite side of how i would curl it. So you get these nice flowy little curls. So again, let me just run through this side i'll kind of fast forward, so you can see everything that i'm doing and it doesn't take very long at all. It'S it doesn't have to be perfect, like i said so as long as you get the curl shape that you want, like that's your hairstyle, so it's real, quick, just clamp and twirl as if you were straightening it. I think straightening opposed to this. You have to go over several times to make sure it's straight, but this is curled, so pretty much catches it the first time, but let's get started with the rest of this and i'll show you the finished. Look when i'm done here all right. So this is the finished. Look. Let me see if i can raise this light. Okay, maybe you can see my dark hair a little bit better, so these are more loose, but nice curls see here and there they came out tighter. But i'm okay with that, because they'll just drop kind of like this, i don't know. If you see it, it already got a little looser. So i want to show you the back, so you can see how that looks and that's what doing: um half and half. So when i split it, i did this side away from my face and this side away from my face. So let me turn around, so you can see that all right guys, but that is, i think, the end of this video um. I hope that was a little helpful for first timers trying this out again if you're interested in this straightener and you're. Looking for a new budget, one i'll go ahead and put the details down below alright guys, but don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe. 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