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!

SIMPLE WAY TO GIVE HAIR BODY AND STYLE WITHOUT THE ROUND BRUSH.

many of us have a hard time using a round brush to hair dry and style our hair. I wanted to show an easier way to achieve this same look without using the round brush. Check out these step by step videos and let me know if you have any questions.







After you take all the the bobby pins out. Flip your head upside down and shake out your hair lightly. Then flip it back and part it where you want and it should look fabulous!



To finish it off just back comb if you want and use a little hair shine or gloss and hair spray.

TIPS ON BLOW DRYING

I colored and cut my friends hair last night and wanted to give a few pointers on how to round brush and hair dry your hair straight.

Before you start to blow dry you need to put some product in your hair to help give it some control and texture. For curly hair I would use a mousse and curl enhancing creme. For straight hair I would use just mousse and for curly hair that you want to blow dry straight use mousse and as well as a straightening creme.
I love Extra volume mousse by Kenra and Ice whip by Joico.
I use bouncy creme by ISO for curly hair and Redkin also makes a good creme for curly hair.
For straightening your hair I love Purologys creme (not sure what the name is).

Before you ever use any sort of brush on your hair you want to make sure to get 80 percent of the moisture out of the hair first. The reason for this is when you use a brush on hair that is too wet it breaks off really easy. Also until your hair is almost dry the round brush is doing you no good.
1.blow dry your hair using your fingers to direct the hair the opposite way that it will fall.
*as you are doing this pull the hair tight as if your straightening it with your fingers.

* I usually do my bangs first. They usually dry the fastest and if I get to them last then they end up looking funky. scroll down to get directions on how to blow dry bangs.

2. When you have removed most of the moisture from the hair then you can start using your round brush. The easiest way to do this is to pull up the hair and blow it dry in sections starting with the hair down by your neck and ending at the top of your head.

*The most important thing is to make sure you are over directing your hair. (Drying and brushing the hair the opposite way that it will fall). This gives it so much more body and bounce at the root of your hair so that it doesn't stick to your head.

*how big the round brush is all depends on how long the hair is and how much curl you want in the hair afterwords. The smaller the round brush the tighter the curl.

*Make sure that the sections of hair you brush are no bigger then your round brush. Otherwise it will take forever to dry and wont give you a great end result.

3. When you feel like the section of hair is completely dry roll the hair up into your round brush and push your cool shot button, (the button that blows cool air) Hold it on the hair for a few seconds and this will cool down the hair, closing the cuticle and it will hold the curl much better!

These pictures should help show what it should look like when your round brushing your hair.


These are examples of the way you over direct the hair while your blowing it dry.

The bangs are the most important part and they finish of the hair making or breaking your style. For Alyssa's hair we decided to do a longer sweep bang which is best for her hair type.

This first picture shows me round brushing the hair in the opposite direction that it will fall. The second picture is me then blowing it down smooth and pulling it tight so that it isn't too bouncy.
*again make sure to use the cool shot button after its completely dry!!


4. After round brushing I usually take my flat iron and smooth pieces that might have a little to much bounce or are too frizzy.

5. Back combing is SOOO important and here is an example of the right way to do it.

1. Take a section of hair at the crown of your head and comb it up completely straight.
2. place the bristles of your comb into the hair completely. make sure it is atleast 3inches away from your head. Comb straight down towards your scalp. Repeat 2 or 3 times until you have a big poof at the base of your head.
3. Then spray the poof with hairspray.
4. After that take the bottle of hairspray and pull the hair over the bottle and hold it really tight for a few seconds. (this creates a bigger poof and compacts the hair so it doesn't look so ratty.
5. let down the hair and comb over the very top layer just to be sure that you don't see any of the back combing underneath.
6. Do this not only on the crown of the head but allover the top section of hair.

6. The last step before you are finished is to to use a finishing product. For Alyssa I used a smoothing serum which really helped smooth her hair out leaving it shiny.

This is the end result from the back.

BEFORE

AFTER

ON STRAIGHT HAIR

I wanted to post a picture of what the twisty hair head band looks like on straight, colored hair. As you can see it shows up a lot better with the color definition in the hair. I think it works great for little girls because it keeps their hair out of their eyes. I wear it like this myself too!

The only difference when I styled it this time is I didnt wet down the hair. I used some smoothing serum and massaged it into my hands so that as I twisted the hair it stayed nice and smooth. (no stray hairs)

Sorry this pictures a little blurry.

HAIR HEADBAND

This could work for any hair type and and it looks great on all ages.

Tools: Water bottle, comb, bobby pin, mouse or gel.

1. Spray the hair with water until its damp.
2. Put a small amount of mouse or gel in your hands and massage it throughout the hair.
3. comb the hair straight back.

4. With your comb, part the hair from one ear to the other ear.

*If the hair your working with is thicker then use a smaller section of hair. (Like for really thick, coarse, hair I would have parted it from the front of one ear to the front of the other ear).
5. take about an inch section (smaller for thicker hair) right about the ear.
6. begin to twist the hair towards the back.
7. After twisting the first piece of hair a few times, pick up another one inch section of hair and add it to the other section. Continue to twist the hair.

8. Continue adding more hair and twisting until you have made it all the way to the other ear.

* make sure the sections of hair you are adding to the twist are smooth and pull them tightly back to meet the twist.

* make sure as your twisting you keep it tight and keep your two fingers firm when your holding on to the hair.

9. To secure the hair you will need your bobby pin. Make sure both sides of the bobby pin straddle the twist, then push it towards the twist so that the bobby pin is secure and hidden.

When your finished with your twist style the back of the hair like you would normally. If your hair is straight it looks really cute flipped out, under or curled all over with a big curling iron.