Flat Iron Waves Tutorial | How I Curl My Hair In 15 Minutes

Hi everyone today, i'm going to show you how i style my signature messy waves, the secret here a little bit of dry texture spray and a flat iron. I do not use a curling iron when i curl my hair, so no curling irons were harmed in the making of this hairstyle. I'M going to show you exactly how i sell my hair. So let's go before. I start my hair tutorial on how i get my flat iron waves. I want to show you the exact flat iron that i use. This is from ghd. It is their platinum, plus one inch styler. I have had this exact flat iron for a few years now and i use it every single time. I style my hair. It has this silicone heat protectant on it, which is perfect for travel if you need to pack quickly after using the flat iron. But what i really love about this ghd platinum, plus flat iron, is that it has smart technology in it to adjust the heat of the iron as you're running it through your hair. So basically, it can tell when you're going fast or slow so that if you stop you're, not gon na break your hair off, because it has technology in here to adjust. I like using these little hair clips whenever i'm doing my hair just to help section off the portions um. If you don't have these clips, you can always use a hair tie, but i find that these are easiest for me and the beauty about this messy waves. Hair situation is that you don't have to be absolutely perfect when you're doing your hair, so you don't have to grab the same amount of hair every single time. You'Re sectioning doesn't have to be perfect. That'S sort of the beauty of this hairstyle is that it's a little bit undone and it's a little bit messy. There are two different techniques that i use to get my flat iron and messy waves. The first way is to hold your flat iron vertically, like this and you're, going to grab a section of your hair. Now, when you're curling your hair around your face, you want to make sure that you're curling away from your face so you're. Turning out to the back, almost like you have wind blowing like beyonce, and your hair goes back, so hold your flat iron vertically and you're going to take the hair in it turn your wrist away, while also pulling down, and it's gon na give this nice loose. Curl now, as i'm going through my hair, i like to rotate the direction in which i'm curling it i feel like that. Just gives it a little more of a natural curl so that when you're done your hair, you have curls going kind of in all different directions versus like a repeat pattern, one after another. So i would say maybe every few sections go ahead. Turn your wrist! The other way so i'll do that for this right now, so that you can see so for this, i'm turning my flat iron toward the screen and pulling down, and you can see it, gives that curl in the other direction. So once you're done with that first layer, you can go ahead and take that clip out and then section out the next layer of your hair to be curled so, like i said it doesn't need to be perfect. Sectioning again, that's the beauty of the hairstyle. Is that it's a little messy a little non-conventional, not uniform, so i'm going to take my ghd, platinum, plus, styler and again repeating the same direction here, because it's near my face so just sliding down and look at that. So i like to kind of run my fingers through my curl right after the heat touches. It just gives it a little more of a natural curl versus that tight, like man-made curl. So i mentioned that i have two different techniques that i use to get my flat iron messy waves. The first way is to hold your flat iron vertically and then to turn your wrist away sort of like a more traditional curl. The second way you're going to hold your flat iron horizontal, like you, would, when you normally straighten your hair and you're, going to grab a strand. Now for this, as you're holding your flat iron horizontally you're going to move your wrist in and out sort of like a wavy motion as you pull the flat iron down the strand of your hair. So you can see i'm bending out while pulling and then in out and in out so it creates this nice little s wave. I like to use this technique every now and then and kind of throw it in there again to change up the uniformity of curls. So that you don't have the same curl in every direction and the same type of curl to give your flat iron waves a little more spunk. The key to this hairstyle is to make sure you're just switching things up so when you're holding the flat iron vertically make sure you go away from your face when it's around your face switch directions when it feels good and then add that little horizontal technique that I showed you whenever you feel like you just want a change of pace in your hair. I personally like to leave my ends straight, but if you overdo it and you go all the way to the bottom, luckily you can take your flat iron and you can literally just kind of move it in the other way to straighten out those ends all right. I am on my final layer generally, i like to do the top layer, all curls, but it also just sort of depends on the mood i'm in and what i love about this since it's not a perfect hairstyle. It only takes me, like 15 minutes, start to finish every single time, which is really nice. If you're like me - and you like to get out of the door quickly so final little details on these flat iron waves, you can also once you're done, go through see what parts maybe didn't get curled and kind of redo them as needed. So, that's quite all right, so here we are everything curled at the very end, i kind of like to go in and take a look and see what parts aren't as curled and maybe need a little extra love with this flat iron for these flat iron ways. Also, if you feel like you over, did it on a curl, because you have a flat iron, you can literally just go in there and straighten out the ends. I prefer straight ends at the bottom of my hair, just because i feel like it gives it a little more of a lived in look. So my final step for my flat iron waves is to add texture spray, to give it just a little more messiness and a little more ump, my favorite dry texture spray is from orbe. This is their dry texturizing spray. It is literally a cult favorite if you're gon na try any product from orbe definitely get this. It just adds some really great grip to your hair so that everything has a little more volume and it feels a little more tousled. So i'm going to show you actually on one side of my hair versus the other, so i like to kind of get under different sections and spray right at the root and then like get in there and mess it up a little bit. So this way, when you're done curling your hair for your flat iron messy waves, because that grip is in there, it won't fall flat as quickly so here's the textured side and then the non-textured side. So you can see a little more of that like grittiness volume and whatnot, so i'm gon na finish it off with the orbe dry texture spray on this side really get in. There trap that air in between oh, yes, much better! So there you have it. My messy beachy waves using nothing but a flat iron, i'm going to leave the links of the products that i used in this video below. If you liked the video go ahead and give it a thumbs up and be sure to hit that subscribe button below so that you never miss an update, bye, you