Zig Zag Twist

When I was in hair school I came up with this cute little style. Hopefully you can understand how to do it with the pictures. It isn't super easy to do hair and take pictures at the same time so my husband helped out a little.
This is what it looks like when its finished...


What you need...
bobby pins, a comb and hair spray

Start off by parting the hair into a zigzag right in the middle at the top of the head.



Take just the very tips of the points of each zig zag. There should be at least two maybe three on each side.

These are the tips on the left side...

These are the tips on the right side...

Then take a bobby pin and pin the right sides tips together and do the same with the left tips. The point for this is that we need them to be out of the way and we will use them in a minute.

Now you should have the tips out of the way. You need to go about an inch to and inch and to the right of the first zig zag and make another zig zag section.
After you do you will pick up that section you just created and twist it to the right and bobby pin it at the base to secure it.Now your going to do the same thing again to the right of the twist you just made but this time you are going to include the zig zag tips that you bobby pined away (the ones on the right). Those tips should just look like they are laying over that first twist that you made.

This is what it should look like on the right...

Now your going to do the same thing on the left side.

The only difference is when you twist the hair instead of twisting it to the right you twist them to the left.

Hopefully this isn't to hard to follow, let me know if you have any questions. To finish it off take your hair spray and give it a good spray holding it all in place.


Let me know if you try it and how it worked out!!:))

How to video

I wanted to do a wave demonstration on video so it makes a little more sense. I broke it up into separate videos so you don't have to watch them all if you just want help with one thing.

These first videos show how to start, part and wave the hair with your carbon combs...

The next one shows what products I use to style the hair...
These next two show how to do the up do that Brooklyn has in the picture in the last post I did...

This is the style all finished...

Learn a New Technique

This last weekend I went to the Long Beach hair show, I learned a lot of fun, new things that I want to share one of the new techniques I learned for getting a really fun, kinky wave in your hair.
Things you will need: 2, rat tail carbon combs.
Flat Ironand one or two Butterfly clips

First and most important, DO NOT USE a regular comb for this method I'm about to show you. You must use a Carbon comb. Carbon combs do not melt and that is the reason you HAVE to make sure you don't use any other type of comb.

Ok first thing you want to do is pull up all the hair except for an inch of the bottom section. Use your butterfly clip to hold the rest of the hair out of the way.

Second thing you want to do is take a small section of the hair that was left out and comb it out so that it is smooth. And hold it it in your left hand. HINT- if you want bigger waves use more hair at once and for really small, tight, kinky, waves use really small sections at once.

Next, take your two rat tail combs and hold them in your right hand like this...

Take the small section in your left hand and wrap it around each comb like a figure eight. You want to make sure when you start the figure eights that your combs are fairly close to the scalp. Continue to wrap the hair around each comb like this until the hair is all entirely wrapped around the combs.

Then hold the combs and the hair tight in your left hand and with your right hand get your hot flat iron and place the combs with the wrapped hair inside the flat iron. Press down for about 5 seconds, long enough for the hair to heat entirely.

Now slide the combs out of the hair and your left with the hair looking like this...

Continue doing this over the entire head until every hair has been waved. Then I would use some gloss drops (paul Mitchell), or super skinny serum or some other product that will give definition and shine to the hair. Rub the product into your hands and then separate all of the waves with your fingers.

From here you can either leave it like it is for some really great wavy hair with a ton of body or you can play with it further and do a fun up do, put it in pig tails or just go crazy and make it bigger with some hairspray.:) These waves can be so fun! It reminds me of the crimping day's but better!

I did this the other day on my daughter and we decided to put it up into an up do. I will have to do another tutorial on how I did that next time. Ok now, go try it! First go buy some carbon combs, I would hate for someone to melt their combs onto their hair! YIKES!