No-Heat Cute Kinky Curls

At this point in the game, we all have "damaged hair" from blow drying, flat ironing, curling, coloring, etc. right? I saw a few tutoials on how to get kinky curly waves in your hair without using heat & I gave it a try & thought it came out really cute. This kind of curl is called the "Straw Curl" for the exact reason why you would think its called that LOL. Because you curl your hair with straws. Yes. Drinking straws. To be honest, this hair style is a little "80's" but who dosnt love the 80's? LOL, neon colors, cute badazzled everything, leg warmers, and of course BIG HAIR. Call me crazy, but i should have been a teen in the 80's. When i watched different tutorials on how to do these curls, everyone had their own technique and their own signature way of wrapping the curls, recommending certain products, and how they styled the curls as well. Which was super helpful to me, because I took some of their ideas and incoorperated them into my own way of pulling off these curls. Okay, so lets get started on the supplies you will need. First you'll need a box of plastic drinking straws. Dosnt have to be anything fancy, just plain old plastic drinking straws that you can buy by the box in a super market. Then you will need sectioning clips, a spray bottle filled with warm water, and a tail comb. You may use product in your hair as well if you'd like. I didnt use product in mine, but if you prefer to, you absolutely can. Products id recommend using if you chose to would be some kind of SEA SALT HAIR MIST. I personally love the "Not Your Mother's Beach Hair Texture Spray". Its super light and it gives great texture to the hair for any kind of wavy styling.

Now that you have everything u need, lets get down to the steps to do these curls:

Step 1: Start off with DRY hair

Step 2: DAMPEN (not soak/ saturate) your whole head of hair with your spray bottle with warm water

Step 3: Section your hair in two. Part your hair down the back, and clip the section of hair that youre not working on at the moment out of the way. Save it for later

Step 4: Sub- section throughout the side of the head about 1 square inch of hair and wrap it nice and tight around a straw.

Step 5: Fasten the straw by tying it in a little knot

Step 6: Once your all wrapped up, go to bed!! Goodnight XOXO

Step 7: When you wake up in the morning, take out all of the straws

Step 8: VERY LIGHTLY go over the curls with a flat iron to losten up the suuuuuper tightness of the curls.

Step 9: Back-comb the crown area for some height

Step 10: Use any kind of head band or fun clips you have to add a little accent to your hair, or you can leave it down and wild ;)

AND THATS IT!!! Enjoy your super fun 80's kinky curly voluminous curls!!

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