FMS407SalmonMRedHeadsandRoyalty: FMS406SalmonM x Hair Technical Curling.

My recent hair practical was focused on learning to curl hair in two different ways, ultimately creating two different textures and styles. I began by sectioning my Katie head down the middle parting, taking one section I clipped it up into a bun and my other section I parted again into two. Starting from the back of my two part section, I used pin comb to section of small sections of the hair and then used some Babyliss curling tongs to style the hair. The technique was to take the hair and wrap it around the middle section of the tongs, making sure that the end of the hair strand was wrapped inwards and covered by the rest of the hair before closing the barrel and heating the hair.
You heat the curl for about 12 seconds and then clip this curl back into the tight curl shape, sealing it with a bobby pin to preserve the curl. This created quite a tight defined curl that faced downwards into a spiral. It was important to create these curls in different directions but facing the barrel inwards and outwards so it looked more natural. After completing the whole first side of my Katie head, I then moved on to practicing a different method of curling.

This time I made small sections to curl just like the first method, but this time holding the barrel of the Babyliss curlers sideways, creating a wide curl. When creating these style curls, I faced the barrel inwards from half of the head, then when I gradually got to the top of my Katie dolls head I began to face the barrel inwards so curls at the front on the head sat in a direction of the hairline. After I created these curls I applied bobby pins to hold the curls just like the first method and when they were all cool unravelled my whole Katie head. I then observed the different curl types I had created, the first curling method created spiral curls that were more tight and bouncy where as the second method made more compact rolled curls that made the hair appear shorter. After observing my curl patters and shown Lottie I was then advised the brush out the curls and observe again what affect it created. The first set of curls brushed out into a wavy hair style where as my second set brushed out more into a straight style flaring out slightly at the ends of the hair. We didn't have to time practice a brick set that Lottie had also wanted us to try, so we are trying it in the next practical instead. I unfortunately forgot to take images of my curling outcomes in this practical lesson before I began to practice crimping.

I found this practical hair lesson fairly easy and felt that I could do the basic curling but feel like I will improve my curls with more practice. I burnt myself on the curlers numerous amounts of time because the whole barrel was black, which was hilarious but also very very painful. Something I felt I struggled with a little bit was, when I first started curling my hair with the first method I couldn't wrap the hair around the barrel properly, which resulted in me creating a horrible dent in my curl. Also I had never learnt how to create curls with the second method before that made wide curls, this was really interesting to learn and it reminded me a lot of country western films were women wore their hair in similar curl hairstyles. After experimenting with both methods I think I prefer creating spiral curls as they create a more defined curl and still look curly when brushed out; holding volume and more length compared to the barrel curl.