May 9, 2012

• Curly Hair with a Headband

  I had recently seen a lot of facebook and blog posts by my friends of them curling their hair using a method they learned on Pinterest.  Now, I’m not on Pinterest and don’t plan to be any time soon, but I was intrigued by their descriptions of making their hair curly in the morning by sleeping with their hair wrapped around a headband.  Yesterday I was on StumbleUpon.com and came across a website that showed exactly how to do this process.  She made it look so simple with her step-by-step pictures, and my friends had raved about their results, so I decided to give it a try.

  My hair is curly when it is wet, but the second it is dry and I run a brush or comb through it, it straightens right up.  Normally I like my straight hair, but sometimes it is fun to curl it up a bit.  I don’t like using a curling iron very often though because I have too much thick hair and my arms get tired too early.  I’m also secretly terrified of what the heat might do to my hair.  Here is what happened when I tried this new method.

  Step One: Start with DRY hair.  I suppose it helps if your hair is kind of long, but I think it would work with most hair lengths.  This is mine when I started last night.

  

  Step 2: Put a stretchy workout-type headband on your head.  So you look like a hippie.  It’s very important that the headband be outside your hair.

  

  Step 3: Take a small chunk of hair and wrap it around the headband. 

  

  Step 4 should really be to grow two extra sets of arms/hands because this is HARD.  There are no pictures of this process because it was a DISASTER.  I don’t know how everyone else does it, or how the girl got her hair to look so darn cute when it was all wrapped around.  The back is espcially hard.  I ended up going along each side and then leaving the back.  I braided the back into tight little braids and then kind of tucked that into the headband too.  Here is what it looked like from the back.  Sigh.  Good thing I was just going to bed!

  

  And then you go to bed! Sleep on it all night, and then in the morning go through your regular routine of getting ready.  When it’s time to do your hair, you gently pull the headband off your head, moving towards the back, gently shaking out the curls (and in my case, unbraiding braids).  Then hopefully you’re left with beautiful curls!  Mine didn’t turn out too bad – I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  So there you have it.  Curly hair with a headband.  Maybe with practice, I’d get better at it. 

   

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