Curling the hair - practical

Spiral Curl

This type of curl is created by using a curling wand. After you have covered your model with a gown and heated the wand to the right temperature (always do a consultation with your model beforehand to find out anything about their hair, i.e. you might need to use a lower heat if their hair is slightly damaged), you should start with the bottom of the head and create a neat square of hair and pin the rest up.

Take a small section from the neat square of hair (about a finger width) and hold your curling wand horizontally and wrap the hair around until you reach the root. Be careful not to leave the hair wrapped in the wand for too long as it might burn the hair and also burn the person's scalp, a rough time should be around 10 seconds. After this time, unwrap the hair from the wand and you should have a curled piece of hair. The next step is to take that curl and a hair grip and pin it to the scalp in a circle shape as shown below.

You should continue to do this until the full head is covered.

 

 

You should keep all of your curls neat and make sure to keep the hairline straight, the best way to do this is to use a pintail comb to section the hair easily. The images above show what the hair should look like after you have curled the whole head.

 

After you have left the curls in for around 20 minutes, you can take them out. This is what the hair looked like after I took all the curls and grips out.

 

You can shaken the hair up a little by placing your hand through the curls but not brushing them (as this will lose the curl shape), the curls will go bigger the more you ruffle them.

                     

You can then set the curls in place of where you want them to sit and what direction they are going in. This is the finished result of what the hair looked like afterwards.


After I created this, we had to do a quick brickwork of our design. This meant because the hair already had some curls in it, if we wanted to pin the hair up again we would know the main pieces of hair to pin up to get more curls.

The image below shows the brick work layout and what the back of the head should look like.



I started with the one main curl in the centre and worked my way down and then going back to the top. I took quite large sections and pinned them into curls on the scalp.



I didn't get to complete the whole brick work layout in time but I got around 7 curls on the head so you could get an idea of what it is meant to look like.



I then took the hair out again to see what the curls would look like. As you can see this is a slightly different style curl compared to the previous one made from the curling wand. The first ones are more loose curls where as these ones are more wavy and tight.