Easy Wedding Hairstyle For Naturally Curly Hair

Hey guys it's Gina, and today I'm super excited to be sharing with you, my wedding hair tutorial, I'm actually filming this. Of course, after I got married because I wanted to include some photos and some actual clips of the day of when I'm getting ready - and I take you through how to do this really easy hairstyle for naturally curly hair. It was really important for me to wear my hair, naturally curly it for my wedding, because that's how I normally look. That'S my natural hair and I think it's really important to just show off your natural texture for your big day at vs., straightening it or blowing it out and my wedding was outside and it was the first weekend of October. So it's still a little bit humid. So it really would have been pointless to straighten my hair and that's not how I wear it on a regular basis anyway. So I'm really glad that I chose this hair so where it's kind of like half up - and I love how, with naturally curly hair it. You don't really have to do much to it at all, like it just already looks portable because of the curls and stuff. So it's not like you have to go through and curl it with a curling iron or anything, and I share with you tips too, in the video on how to actually create ringlets without using heat and without having to use Hot Tools on your hair. So I am gon na be taking you through the full wash day routine from start to finish. It'S a fright didn't include the actual shampoo and conditioner part, but if you want to see what I did first, I actually did a clarifying treatment first, using an apple, cider, vinegar, rinse. I will put that video down below all about clarifying, but I did the apple cider, vinegar, rinse first and then I did deep conditioned. So I do have a video all about how I deep condition. So I did those two first and then I styled it with the routine that I'm going to show you now. So let's go ahead and get started, so I'm first gon na start off by wetting my hair down. You want your hair to be a pretty wet. My hair is freshly washed, so I'm just getting it a little bit more wet to go in and apply it. My styling products and then I'm gon na be using the shea moisture, strengthen and restore anti breakage spray. This is what I pretty much use as my leave-in treatment. I know it's hard to see it with the camera glare, but I will be sure to link all these products on the blog post. It goes this video if you're interested in getting them, but I like to spray just my ends with this and that's just to use as a heat protectant when I do go in and diffuse my hair. So now I'm gon na go in with my favorite styling cream. This is the diva curl styling cream. It'S a really great all-around, curl cream for any hair type. If you have less curly hair than me or more of a wavy texture, you could go with their wave maker or any curl cream will do or you can skip a crow cream all together and go straight in with the gel. I love the dippity-do gel that we're gon na be using it by itself, but I just felt, like my hair needed a little bit more moisture if your hair is pretty dry or if you have high porosity hair like me, then it's good to use a curl Cream first to add that moisture in and then you can use the gel to seal that moisture in so you don't have any frizz. So now it's time for the dippity-do it girls with curls jelly. This is my all-time favorite gel. It always works so good. It gives me a really great definition that lasts a long time and I like how I can scoop out as much product as I want and I like to apply quite a bit of product. I really try to coat my hair evenly. I'M sorry I'm just coming this all throughout my hair and then I did flip my head over, and this really helps me get a lot more volume at the root by applying my styling products, totally upside down. It'S kind of hard with this gel because it is such strong hold that it's kind of hard, sometimes to get your fingers through it, but just be gentle and just work slowly, so your hair doesn't get tangled up, but it does help with having that cream in Underneath I did add a little bit more water just because my hair starts to dry really fast as I'm applying it, but I would note that, with this gel, you don't want your hair to be too wet. I made that mistake the night before my wedding when I was styling my hair. I think I used too much water to wear when I actually went in and diffused my hair. It'S like, I had hardly any product, and so I definitely had to refresh a lot. The next day, but I would recommend, having damp hair and don't wet it too much so here, I'm just using the Denman brush to smooth that product down. I really like using this brush to distribute the product, so I'm just combing that all throughout my hair - and I have a really annoying part in the back - that no matter how much I comb my hair over it, it still shows it's bothering me as much as It'S probably bugging you, but I'm just smoothing the curls down, and this really helps give me great curl definition. It also helps distribute the product. So now I'm just giving my hair a little bit of a scrunch, I'm gon na scrunch, when I'm totally done so. I didn't want to do too much here then. I flipped my head back over and I like to section off the top layers and make sure that I get enough product right at the root in this area, because I tend to get frizzy up around the top part section. So it does what I'm doing here. Just dividing it up and then I'm using my Denman brush to create a lot of room around my face, because this is the area that is going to show up a lot with the half-up hairstyle. You do see a lot of this underside layer, so I want to make sure I have a lot of good ringlets with it. You can also use the brush to go around the crown area and make sure you have a lot of volume back there. Then I'm gon na plot, my hair, I'm actually just using a t-shirt today, because my favorite hair repairs, how that I always talk about, was actually in the wash, but I will link you to that. Towel um. So I popped my hair for about 20 minutes and now we're taking it out and we're ready to diffuse. So I do defuse upside down. I'M using my croc magic diffuser, which I have on my Amazon page. It has really long teeth on it, which is nice, because I can get right. I'Ve got my roots, I like to defuse upside down for added volume, and then I do flip my head over and I also get the underside layer with it upright. So once I'm done diffusing I like to go in and just touch up the ends around my face because they tend to get really frizzy um. So I'm just adding a little bit more water, a little bit extra gel and then I actually go back and and diffuse it just to touch it up. I think these just get frizzy from getting rocked up with a diffuser. If you do find that your hair gets super frizzy with diffusing, you can kind of just hover the diffuser around your head versus actually touching your hair with it, because that will start to break up the gel cast if you diffuse for too long. So now I'm finally done diffusing. You can see how much volume I have. I did try to not make a part. I tried to keep my hair back, because I knew that I would be doing the half-up hairstyle tomorrow. Okay, so now it is the next day and I'm actually gon na show you how I did a refresh in the morning. So my hair looked pretty good. Still. When I woke up um, I did have to wet down some of the upper area that got pretty frizzy, so I just sprayed it with my spray bottle and then I smooth some gel back over it. I also like to take the Denman brush and redefine it. Some curls that might have been frizzy or tingly. I do sleep with my hair up in a satin bonnet, which helps tremendously, but I do like to touch up especially the areas around my face using the Denman brush, and this is a really great way to get really good ringlets. So this is an excellent way to do that versus using a curling iron. I do not want you guys going out and using heat for your big day. I definitely think you can use other methods to try to get good ringlets. So I highly recommend the Denman brush, it's really affordable on Amazon and I get great ringless with this. I have a whole video that I did all about how to make your hair curlier, and so you can use some of those tips. Another tip is to blow-dry it after you do that, even when you're refreshing, because that just helps set the curl in place. So this is all that I did with my hair that morning, so I did try to refresh a little bit before actually going to my wedding venue and decorating for about four hours, and then I did a little bit of a refresh before I styled my hair. So now's, when I'm actually gon na take you live on my wedding to earn out live but actually show you the footage. From the wedding day, I did have my sister who's, my maid of honor. I did have her take some footage of me getting ready and doing my hair the day of so it's really special to have this footage in here and too bad. I couldn't get more from that day, but she did show how it was kind of a spot. Refreshing, my hair, my hair, didn't get messed up too bad because we're mostly inside when we were decorating and stuff, but I was surprised I didn't get more messed up than it did, and I had to do this super fast too. I had like 10 minutes because I spent so much time on my makeup that I didn't have much time to do my hair. So now is when I start gathering my hair on top of my head back to where I can pin up the top pieces using bobby pins, and I recommend trying hard to not separate your pearls too much. So if you can kind of pick up different ringlets and pull them back versus separating your pearls and pulling them apart, which would give you volume, but you might lose some of those defined curls if you're trying to go for having lots of ringlets. So you'll see me here: I'm just kind of picking up different curls that already looked like they're form together to pull that back versus separating a bunch of girls. I mean I am using a little bit of water. You can use water on your hands if you want to kind of smooth down frizz. I do like how the gel can be reactivated with water, but I didn't want it to be too select back. I wanted it to stay kind of messy, which is why I did this on second day hair, so I'm just kind of gradually using my fingers to comb it back. I didn't actually brush it with a comb or a brush, or anything like that. You just want to kind of use your fingers to pull it back, so you have kind of that messy PC, look and now I'm actually gon na take two bobby pins that match my hair color and I'm going to criss cross them in the back, and this Is going to make sure that it holds up really? Well, it's not going to slide through out the night or anything like that. So once I got the hair up, I was actually able to see it which pieces in the front needed to just be fixed, and so that's what I was doing but pretty much. I was good to go to go ahead and add at the actual hair clip. So here's, where I'm adding the jewel hair clips these actually got on Amazon, they're, just two pieces that you can kind of criss cross together and make into one or you can use them separately. I did need some help arranging these. It was kind of hard to do behind my head, so my super nice photographer actually helped me with it, because my sister was recording here, but I did just put one clip on each side, so it was kind of like a butterfly shape. I kind of wish that I had crossed them and put them closer together, but I think it looks okay and I also liked how these were bendable. So I probably should have kind of flattened them down to my head, so they weren't sticking out, but I think it turned out fine. So now we are good to go and here's the finished. Look, I love how it turned out. You could definitely use other hair clips if you had a jewel hair pin that went all the way across. I think that would look even prettier, because it would definitely hide those bobby pins, but overall I really loved how it turned out. So that is it for this really easy, naturally curly bridal hair. Look, I will put all the products that I use that link to on the blog post. That goes with this video, which will be the first link in the description box down below the video, and I will also link you to where I got these hair pins from Amazon. I believe they come in other colors, too, really affordable and they held up pretty well throughout the night and if you're interested in seeing more of my curly hair videos, I do have a playlist that I've been working on called curly hair care for beginners. Where I take you through how to transition to your natural texture, tons of tips for beginners on how to care for your naturally curly hair - and I have tons of routines and stuff if you want to see some other styling routines, elf, with those playlist down below. So if you decide to try out this look, I would love to see your hair looks in your Bridal photos. Please tag me on instagram. If you post any or you can send it me any in a direct message, I would love to see it. Your hair for your big day, if you decide to try out the slope and that's it for today's video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Congratulations! If you are getting married, please consider subscribing to my channel. If you have already - and I will talk to you next week - bye Arlen