Flat Iron Waves For Short Blunt Hair

Does anyone else want to start a YouTube video off by saying welcome back to my channel just me anyways welcome back. I got my hair freshly cut, freshly colored and it's finally clean hair day and I'm going to teach you how to create some really cool beachy waves with a short blunt cut balm. It has taken me two years and to grow out having a full side. Shave. Actually, I had completely all the way around shaved. It'S taken me so long to grow it out, and I finally have like the haircut of my dreams, thanks to my amazing stylist and thanks to using some amazing products to help with the growth and recovery of my hair. So without further ado, let's get into creating this really fun: look using a flat iron to curl your hair and my favorite blow-dryer of all times. First things: first, you want to make sure you always have some type of heat protectant in your hair. So right now I just shampooed and conditioner, I'm gon na be using the third wheel, which is an amino keratin treatment for your hair from head candy. It'S amazing! It'S got all types of keratin amino acids in it, it's a leave-in strength and shine, but it's also a heat protectant, so you're, getting like all types of amazing treatment for your hair, okay, I'm gon na say amazing. Probably I don't know eighty seven times right in this video. It'S fine, then I just brush it through. I use this naughty girl brush because I have a ton of hair, even though it's fine in texture, I just have a lot of it. So sometimes it's hard to get through it with like a wet brush and this one's kind of rounded to your head and it'll really get down in there and get all of your tangles out, and that is gon na get all the product move through my hair And that is what my secret is to having like that smooth silky shiny, do like all the time. I'M then gon na use a microfiber towel which seems kind of extra, but trust me. This is a step that you definitely want to get into the habit of, and you could use like a t-shirt or you can use like a microfiber towel to get all the excess moisture out of your hair before you dry, it number one. It cuts down your dry time so that you're not like overly using heat on your hair but number two, it's less damaging than like a terry cloth. Towel cuz, all those little hooks on a terry cloth. Towel are actually gon na, be more damaging when you're trying to rough up your hair, so fiber cloth, my favorite next up, you're gon na grab your favorite hair dryer. This is mine. This is the BFF professional blow dryer obsessed with it. It is crazy, crazy, quiet. Let me turn it on ready, crazy, quiet, that's not old laughs, and it is crazy, crazy lightweight and that's my favorite because, like I said, I have so much hair. So when I'm using a bloater, sometimes my arm can just get really tired using a blow dryer. But this one's super lightweight, I love it, it's insanely quiet, so it doesn't wake up my kids and they're napping and I'm trying to sneak and do in my hair and it dries your hair really fast. So it's got a cool shot, turbo shot. It comes with the diffuser. It comes with all types of awesome stuff, so I'm gon na just do a rough dry of my hair. I'M actually gon na time it and see how long it takes okay. So so far it's been three minutes, but I want to teach you a little trick to get more volume in your hair when you're blow-drying, without even using a brush. It'S so simple. All you're gon na do is you're just gon na take your hair and you're going to lift it up and you actually want to drive from the roots first, because, when you're drying from the roots, first you're gon na be lifting up your hair okay. So I get in there and I that blow-dryer to get in there and dry the root of my hair first and then look at all that lift, even though this is still completely wet. Okay, so definitely lift it up off of your head. So all too often, I see that you know someone will have such a deep part that it's it's so flat on their head. All you got to do is lift it up, move your hair, actually blow-drying your hair in the opposite direction of your part. It'S gon na help to lift up that root as well. Okay, now that we have our hair completely dry, I want to talk about one more part of a blow-dryer. That'S really important, and that's this little attachment here. Okay, whatever we're going to call it, I call it a diffuser. It'S probably not called that. It'S fine we're, not professionals. Here, it's a nozzle. It actually says the nozzle right on it. This is so crucial to keeping your hair healthy, and I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to blow-dry my hair with one of these things on my blow-dryer, like, I would always just blow dry on my hair like this right. Well, when you use your nozzle, it's gon na give you that much more space between the direct heat and your hair in the further away that you can get that direct heat from your hair, the more moisture in hair is gon na hold the more shine. It'S gon na have and the longer it's gon na stay healthy. Having that direct heat source, too close to your actual hair is actually gon na burn it dry it out and keep it like kind of dull and lifeless more than like, shiny and healthy. Looking. Okay, now, then, we have our rough dry done. We want to section this off three times: okay, so I'm just gon na use a little alligator clip and I'm gon na start from the bottom. So I'm just gon na clip up everything else that I have up top and leave that bottom hanging out. Okay, I'm gon na brush out any knots, but you can see this is just that rough blow-dried. That'S not! You know anything smooth there anything styled and I feel like that actually gives you a better volume and more texture when you're creating this look. Okay, so I'm gon na use a one inch flat iron. This is the Miss Priss from head candy, I'm gon na. Have it on at 330 degrees? Okay. 330 is perfect to get just that little bit of a wave the higher that you put the temperature the tighter that the curl is gon na, be the lower that you put the temperature the looser the curl is gon na. Be so we want to be somewhere happy in the middle so that we can create these really fun looks okay, so we're gon na start off by taking a little section, pointing our Flatiron down and twisting it away from our face and then leaving the little ends Out so that you get that kind of PC choppy look okay and that's gon na be like the little wavy curl that you get now, don't touch it; okay, let that heat cool off of it. Okay, and now I'm gon na twist towards my face. Okay, so we're gon na alternate we're gon na go backwards. We'Re gon na go forwards. We'Re gon na go backwards. We'Re gon na go forwards, always leaving those ends out and not brushing through the curl just yet so a little tip and trick that works for me is when I want to curl away from my face. I go down and when I want to curl towards my face, I go up okay, so I'm gon na take one more and I'm going up now and that will help me go towards my face. Okay - and you just want to alternate those curls all the way around okay, I still have not touched those curls. Okay, I'm gon na block off now the top section using my little alligator clip. Okay, and now this layer is a little bit longer. Okay, so we are going to take our time to make sure that we get those curls a little bit more precise right as opposed to that bottom layer, which is kind of short, okay with the bottom layer. I feel like when it's short you can kind of like I don't know you can kind of take it a little bit, but that's gon na be the layer that kind of lifts up that second layer. Okay, so again, I'm just gon na alternate grabbing it small sections here: okay, give it a little twist and then leaving those ends out so that they're kind of flat at the bottom, okay and then pulling it through and again we're gon na work. This all the way around, so one trick that I had learned with this is that you want to kind of swipe it through. You don't want to squeeze too tight because then you're gon na get like a disconnected curl, so you want to have a light grip. Okay, really light grips that you can spin it and the hair is almost sliding through the whole time so that we're getting just that wave instead of having like such a curl. Okay, so I'll show you one more time again, I'm on three 34 heat. I have a light grip. Okay get down to that end and then you kind of pull it through and again, I'm not touching these curls. We want them to completely cool off okay, last layer, most important layer. Let'S take this down now. I part my hair. This way, so I'm gon na start my curls on this side. Okay and I'm gon na really pay attention to how these are going, because these are like the curls that you actually see. So I'm gon na choose a little bit wider of a section. Okay and I'm gon na work that all the way through and see how I let it go, I was holding on to it too tight, so I don't want to work this section right away. I want to actually give that time to cool off, because if it's hot and then you go put more heat on it, you're not gon na get the curl that you okay. So now that that's had like a couple seconds to cool off, I'm gon na hold a lighter grip. I'M gon na pull that through look at that shine, and then we have see it's like that choppy with a little bit of the wave okay. Sometimes I still get excited when I see these curls, I'm like yes, I did it okay, so we're gon na grab it again. Okay, give it that curl, I'm having a light grip on it, see the shine that we're working with okay and the flat iron has a lot to do with it. You guys, like this, has the infrared technology in it. So it's gon na give you even heat distribution, as well as like locking in the moisture of your hair instead of pulling moisture out of your hair. So I'm gon na work these few pieces back so that the back has plenty of volume so that we're not just pulling everything to the side and then I'll be back and we're gon na like pull it all through and add some product in okay. Now that we have pretty much everything done, we're gon na go through and touch it up with a few more things. What I love to do, because it's clean hair day - and I don't like to put a ton of product in my hair when it's clean here today - is I'll - actually use some dry shampoo for some texture. So again, we want to lift up by the roots and get in there. Okay, lift up by the roots, and this is gon na just kind of take. Some of that. You know super silky smooth because your hair so clean and throw just a tiny bit of grit on it. Okay, then, I'm gon na take my hands and I'm gon na pull through all of these curls, okay and I'm gon na. Let them do their thing and then I'm gon na take my flat iron and I'm gon na go through in a couple spots, and I'm just gon na tighten up some of those curls so that it's not so like straight and beachy check out that volume, though My goodness, you guys, when you blow dry from the root, I'm telling you you are going to see such a difference. Okay, so find where you want your part to go, let the hair fall and then find the pieces that don't make you happy okay and then you can just kind of add a little bit to it. If you want to like so like, I will polish out a couple of pieces, but that's pretty much it you guys, that's like no product to that's just a little bit of dry shampoo, just to kind of gritty it up a little bit now, if you want To create even more volume check out this awesome product, okay, so I'm gon na put this right into my hair just a little bit now. I use this generously because this does not leave grit on your hair, like some of the products that I've tried. Okay and then I'm just gon na get my hands in here and I'm gon na like boom, lift lift lift that hair up to have this insane volume and then we're just gon na have kind of like those little mermaid waves, and I love it. It'S like a good beach day hair. You can make it as big as you want to, and it doesn't have that crazy crit to it. So that's how I do my little clean hair day, beachy wave using a one-inch flatter and I'm gon na put the link to all the products that I use down in the subscript in the description below. Don'T forget to subscribe like and follow. If you love these tutorials and I'll, see you guys soon for some more hair and makeup, bye,