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Summary: How to pin the curls for curling short hair; get professional tips and advice on methods, techniques, and products for doing your own hairstyling in this free beauty video.
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Lauren Farraher Lauren Farraher has been working in hair styling for more than eight years. She studied at the art of cosmetology at The Learning Institute of Beauty Sciences... read more
Hi my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village I am here to discuss short curly locks with you. Another way that you can achieve a more of a curly look is to do pin curls. You would do this when your hair is wet. It is more or less setting your hair. This is just to give you different options from over-using your thermal styling tools. What you would do is grab sections of your hair, little baby sections, hold them out, give a little bit of spray. While your hair is wet you can use a little bit of a setting lotion. They sell them in every beauty supply store and they also sell them in any drug store. You are going to bring the hair down. You are going to curl your ends. Now the difference between a barrel curl and a pin curl is that the barrel curl is going under or over. Your pin curl is actually looking to form that S wave. So you are going to pull it flush down against your head and you are going to roll it into the hair. So your first roll should go like that. The tighter you roll your pin curl, the tighter it is going to be. So you will set it, you will bring it forward, and then you can use either a bobby pin or a curler pin in order to keep it in place. It is a little bit easier than sleeping on curling rods or using the curling iron every single day because some people like to enjoy having that curl. Also the larger the diameter of section you take, the bigger the curl is going to be. They will fall flush against your head. This is what your curler rod would look like or your duck clip. I personally go for your bobby pins just because your bobby pins are a little easier to sleep on. So again roll it forward, gather the points at the ends, create that little circle and then simply follow your fingers and allow it just to roll up and towards the scalp. This is another way that you can create the curly look without using thermal styling tools every time you want to do your hair curly.