 Hi, beautiful. You look incredible. Thank you for being here. Today, we're talking about one of the most magical, glorious, fabulous tools to ever be created for hair-styling purposes. And that is the curling iron. The thing that I don't think I could live without, it creates texture, it creates volume, it creates magic. All right, if you know how to use it correctly, it can create real magic. And if you don't believe in magic, today I'm gonna change your mind on that. We are about to go on a curling iron adventure today, and I hope you'll come along with me. There are so many different ways of just using one tool, and that's what's so exciting. And I've already done a video like this about flat irons and all the different amazing, fabulous ways you can use a flat iron. And curling irons are just as fun. So today, let's go through all of my different hacks for using a curling iron on your head. We're going to go over how to make curls, how to make your hair look like it was just blown out with a curling iron, how to make your hair look textured and fun, how to make your hair look like you have kind of like a chic bedhead after sex hair kind of moment. And we'll do all that on long hair. And then after, we'll do all of the same stuff on short hair. And I'll show you how to do that on both lengths. That way, if you have long or short hair, you can use these techniques you see today on your hair, no matter what length you have. And with that all said, let's break out the curling iron and let's get hacking. Let's do it. Now that I'm here with Miss Manny Quinn. Hi, girl. How you doing? Show your face a little bit. Hey. Anyways, so she's always trying to steal a spotlight for me, but it's like not gonna happen. Like, hello. I today am using my trusty one and a quarter inch Marcel iron. If you have no idea what a Marcel iron is, well, this is it. It does not have a spring on it. You see, you are responsible to use your fingers as the spring regular irons had that spring so that you don't have to like do this yourself because it's really easy to drop these things like burn your face off. If you don't know how to use them like practice first, for sure. And don't burn your face. Thank you. Otherwise, you can just use a one and a quarter inch spring iron that is fine. Some of the parts where I do like a drop down moment, it's not gonna be as easy for you, but you can still do it. Now I have Miss Manny Quinn prepped with a nice blow dry. All I did was put a heat protected in and if your hair does not hold curls easily, please prep with a hairspray, a dry shampoo, a texture spray, anything that's going to add a little bit of hold to your hair. That way your hair doesn't just completely fall out after five minutes of wearing your curls because that's not fun. So I also just have a comb and a clip. Those are always great things to have when you're curling hair. The first thing we're going to do is just a regular type of curl and I'm going to show you how to brush it out and make it look like a nice blowout. So we're going to start in the first section here in the purple section and I'll show you guys how that is done. This might be self-explanatory to a lot of people. However, I think you could probably still learn a thing or two. Everybody does things a little bit differently and I'm sure even if you know how to curl hair, this will be a bit informative for you. So we're going to take our first strand about, you know, this much hair, you know, not too much, not too little. You don't want to be here all day and you don't want to do too big of strands or else the heat won't get all the way through the hair and it won't curl properly. We're going to start off right up here and we slide it down and curl up and we work our way towards the ends until we hit the bottom. That way we get the entire strand on the curling iron and we get no hooks at the end. Please be careful with getting hooks in your hair. If you don't know what hook is, I will show you in a second. So we're going to let that sit for no longer than like 15 to 20 seconds. That is a springy curl. All right. And by the way, when I'm doing curls like this, you can have it on a little bit of a higher temperature just because we are trying to get that very intense curl. I have mine at around 400. I mean, it's definitely hot, but not all the way up. Now, what a hook is, is when you go like this, when you clamp it down and you go in the wrong direction and you get this. What is that? That's disgusting. Can you see that? Okay. So don't do that. I see a lot of girls doing that and it drives me nuts. We're just trying to curl everything in the same direction because we are going to end up brushing it out later and we want everything to be unison and we want it to kind of clump together because that's the kind of look we're going for right now. 10 seconds is probably good enough and let it out and let that cool down. I'm going to work my way through the front of the hair and Marcel irons just make everything so much easier. Just make things go faster because you only need to use one hand. It makes your life so much easier and you're like, wow, how did I ever use a spring iron before? But you're going to hate them at first. They're just hard to use at first. Boom. It's time for the fun part. We let that cool down for a few moments, spray with a little hairspray and then we can brush it out. Now I'll be using a Mason Pearson brush today, but you don't need to buy this expensive of a brush. It's just not necessary. Definitely an investment, but people swear by them. This is going to be great for brushing out curl sets like this. It just has the perfect amount of bristles and it really softens the hair, gets through any tangles very easily. So I love it for that reason, but you can use any kind of flat brush with a mix of synthetic and bore bristles. That's the best option. So we're just going to take this and we're just going to brush them out. Now they're all cooled down and this is going to give you that amazing kind of blowout wave effect. This is when you're going for a very classy night out. You want to look very polished and put together. If you're like, yeah, Brad, we get it. Like we know how to do that. Well, I don't know. Maybe have you ever tried back combing the curls when you're done? So I like to really get my hands in there because you do have moisture from your hands and using that moisture to pull out the curl is always great to give it a more relaxed feel. And now after we have that curl kind of settled down a little bit, we're going to take the brush and we're just going to gently back comb it. This is going to give it a bit of volume. It's going to give you a little bit more separation. It's going to give you that bigger, sexier hair blowout look that I am trying to achieve right now. How sexy is that? Took me five seconds and we could just spray that and it'll stay in place all night. And you can kind of keep working on it until you feel like it is perfect. So that looks beautiful. And I just wanted to explain one more thing. I generally use this size curling iron on pretty much every person's head. I feel like even short hair, it gives the perfect amount of wave without looking too overdone and same with long hair. I think it's a great curling iron for all purposes, all hair lengths. If you're looking for a one size fits all, it's going to be this. However, you know, if you're looking for a tighter curl, obviously get a smaller iron. If you're looking for a very, very loose curl, get a bigger iron, test out the waters, see what you like, what you don't like. It's all preference. Okay, now that we've done that, why don't we move on to another technique that is very similar. But I do want to show you it just in case people out there don't know how to do this. We're going to take the hair and instead of clamping it in, we're going to use this baby as a wand. There was a big moment that everybody wanted to wand their hair. It was like the coolest thing ever to like use a hair wand. And I honestly thought it was like the ugliest thing ever because I didn't like the tapering at the bottom it gave you because a lot of the irons went from large to small at the top and it like didn't look good. I don't know what the purpose of that was. I think it was just to give you more of like a beachy look, but it never looked right to me. So I like to use just this regular old curling iron, open up the clamp. And this makes it a lot easier with the Marcel iron because you can kind of like leave it open like that and just tightly wrap it around. And you want the hair to twist as you wrap. And that's what gives you more of a wave rather than a curl. And we're just going to let it sit there and try and get all the way to your fingers here. So there is no hooks at the end and just drop it out and let that cool baby. And we're going to do all of these again in the same direction away from our face. Unless you want that old Hollywood curl style, you can definitely go towards the face and it'll give you that. The front is going to be a little more chillax and these are going to be a little more real Hollywood glam kind of style. It's all about the chill. You know, we don't want a too too curly. Of course, using a smaller curling iron will give you that very intense wave. I'm not a fan. If you are, go for it. I don't really like to, you know, make perfect sections when I'm curling hair because you're going to be stuck with that kind of sectioning in your hair for the remainder of how long you wear those curls for. I like to take random sections so you get kind of a random pattern and things aren't too perfect. It's all about that kind of effortless look while looking very much like you put a lot of effort in at the same time. Okay, perfect. So now that that has cooled down for a few minutes, we're going to brush it out. Same thing with the Mason Pearson brush I'm going to use. And we're going to gently brush this out to reveal the fabulous waves that are below us. Before I keep brushing, we're going to take some hair spray. I'm just using a Karestas one today. And we're going to really spray this. That way the wave doesn't come out too much because we are going for more of a wavy look. It's going to clump together a bit. You have to kind of form it. So we're going to add a little bit of teasing behind. You're going to see an awesome wave pattern come through. It's all about using your hands and looking in the mirror and just creating. That's what's so fun about hair. You see how we're getting that real S wave here before we got kind of like more of a blowout look. That's sort of the difference. I know it's not a huge difference, but to me it definitely is. You get the idea. It's a very S wave and it's very glamorous and it adds a lot of shine and depth to the hair. I always love a good wave like that. But now that we've done the kind of pretty wave, we're going to move on to more of a grunge style because I know that's very trendy and I happen to love that stuff. So let's do that. Okay. So one of my favorite techniques is what I like to call the curl and drop method. So what we're going to do is take a chunk of hair like this, curl it a bit just like one time around, leave that there for a second and drop it out gently and then move to the ends, curl it up once and make sure you get those ends in there and then drop it out and pull kind of because we are not going for a tight wave here. This is a very loose, fun moment. What that release is doing is giving you a flatter wave rather than a more volumous one. We can actually turn down the heat to about 345 here because we are trying to create a loose wave. We don't want the hair to heat up too much and form too much to the curling iron. We want it to be very natural and gentle. Now what I'm going to do here is alternate going back and forth. So if I did a wave going this way, I'm going to do one going this way the next time. So clockwise, counterclockwise, we're going to do that again and I'm going to go this way this time and I'm going to curl up once and drop out and leave it on there for like three seconds curl once drop out and you can do like three times down the hair. This is going to give you a more bohemian style look. This is definitely a look that I gravitate towards a lot and I do on a lot of people because it's just also so simple like you're just making these flat waves and they're so pretty and this stuff takes me no time because I'm not trying to make anything perfect here. I'm going to go in the opposite direction get a little hair wrapped around this thing curl once drop out curl once you can also curl under and set it to the side it'll give you kind of a variation of different kinds of waves. Now that that has cooled down we are going to rake it out with our hands at first see what we got and then maybe use a brush a little bit. So as you can see it's a very chill wave slash curl and it's going in different directions and now even right now I think it's a little bit too perfect so we're going to mess it up even more by going in and just taking some pieces and just making sure that they are curling in the opposite direction maybe add some tighter curls into that looser moment. Let's brush that out add a little bit of back combing I always love to back comb hair after it's been curled I just think it looks pretty yes yes yes messy fun all around gorgeous me as a girl not too wavy not too curly just right in between and it's a very loose sort of wave we got going on now we have this straight side to work with so we're gonna break out a couple of different other curling irons okay so now we have a one inch and a one and a quarter or I'll link this one below because I forget what it is exactly but I will find it on Amazon and I'll link it below so we're gonna use everything we just learned all on this entire side and I'll show you how to combine all those techniques into one to get an entirely bohemian fun styled look and you'll see what I mean when I'm finished but we're gonna also take two different sizes because this will give us variation between waves this will give you the most natural looking wave because naturally on a curly haired person all the waves are not the same size there's some smaller there are some larger there are some very large or some very small some very frizzy you get what I mean we're gonna be using this all around give it a little variation switch off between the two and just see what the hair needs let the hair speak to you let it tell you how it wants to be curled that day that's what I like to do is just look at it and just be like what darling what do you want from me today and that's when we end up with the best look possible just prime it with some hair spray all right let's start back here and we're gonna use the smaller iron this is what it's telling me to do it's telling me to just do some wrap around waves and kind of leave out the ends a little bit why not and I'm gonna pull that out just so it's not too wavy and that looks good okay so now we'll move on to our bigger iron and we'll do um you know a twist and drop and again I'm gonna rake it out as I go because I don't want it to be tight at all these are our first two ones we'll keep on working our way up here and give a little more variation we'll use the larger one and we will do like a horizontal wave and we'll drop that out quick maybe do a little bit bend see I'll just take the iron and I'll wrap it around the ends and I'll give it a little bend there oh and another way I didn't show you actually before is you can do a wrap around all right you can wrap it this way forward let that sit for a moment take that out don't drop it wrap it backwards at the ends so it's going in an s formation one way and then an s formation the other way so it's like a very confused type of wave it's like what direction am I going in forward or backward and you're like both that looks really pretty so far we can also use uh two different curling irons on the same strand of hair so I just used the smaller one on the top and now I'm using the larger one on the bottom and the secret to a chill looking curl is to not I repeat do not make these front pieces curly don't make them like this if you want to look chill and like you didn't curl your hair just make them very loosely curled in the front and this looks so good in my opinion I mean they're two definitely very different looks but I'm going to use one product just to finish this style off I'm going to use my bdsm bomb this is my favorite finishing product for literally any style I use it in my hair every day and it's actually an iridescent pink bomb when you see it in person you're going to be like wow that's so pretty smells incredible it's the x-mundo signature scent and I love to finish blow dries or curl sets with this I just use a little bit of it it's very hydrating very shiny um and adds just that perfect amount of gloss and separation to your look this is going to get rid of flyways lay down all those stray hairs and just add a piece of texture without making it look dry and just make sure you don't sit in one spot with this it really has to go all around the hair or else it'll make it a little bit greasy in that spot so just be careful with that but as you can see it's actually like chilling out the wave a lot and just adding that incredible like beachy texture that I am obsessed with get in the front hairline we'll finish this side a little bit with bdsm also I mean that to me looks incredible you can see how bdsm added a lot of shine and added that nice separation within the ends I mean it just looks so hydrated now so healthy and there's no more flyaways and a little that stuff goes a long way and this is where we started and this is where we ended up this is with all of the different techniques all in one and this is with just each technique on each section two very distinguished different looks it's so funny how short this side is and how long this side still is I don't know I love both sides I think they're great for two different occasions and I love the color mixture with this side too like how cool does that look it's like a lollipops swirl of hair color and then we have this really bohemian beautiful side I mean it's just so chill looks like she woke up with absolutely perfect hair style that I just so dig and love oh it's so pretty all right move out of my way miss time for our shorter haired mannequin to come in to the scene okay so we are here with my fabulous short hair mannequin I'm gonna show you how to do the same sort of curls we just did on long hair on the short hair now it's not that totally different I'll be honest you definitely don't want to put too much curl in short hair or else you'll get a very stacked kind of bob look and that's not very modern we want something a little more new fresh young cool normally I would recommend using a flat iron for hair this long but you can still use a curling iron and get these same sort of effects if you know the right ways to use the iron so let's take that same size iron we've been using our one and a quarter inch and let's start in the front on these beautiful yellow strands now the important thing when you are working with shorter hair is to always pull the hair after you curl it make sure there's not too much wave in there I also like to take the iron use it as a flat iron to actually release some of the curl see how I just made that into like a flatter curl than it was before I actually do want to add a little more at the root again so we're just working through here another thing I didn't really show you before which is also cool for short hair and long hair is to wrap the hair around the iron like that and then in the other direction this is awesome for short hair because it'll give you that very loose flat wave that doesn't really look like I use a curling iron here more like a flat iron I want to get this hair out of her face a little bit so we're gonna add a little more curl there I'm just gonna use the larger iron right now just to show you that even if you have shorter hair you don't necessarily need to use a smaller barrel people are always like how the hell did you do that and I'm like I swear it's not that hard just gonna take a deep breath give it some soft wave you see how I'm only doing like the surface of the hair I'm just really mixing in all those techniques and just giving it a really soft look and if you guys saw my flat iron video I did this exact same look with flat iron so it's possible either way and at this very short part in the back I'm literally just adding a bend to the hair I'm not actually curling it we don't want to curl back there or else it'll give you that stacking and that volume in the back that we definitely don't want and continue to alternate the curls backward and forward generally just leaving the top very flat and just styling as we go this takes no time at all if you know how to do it right my hands are turning blue cool fun we'll just add a little bit of hairspray and a little bit of our bdsm bomb and that will complete that side so freaking pretty dude you see how chill that curl is it really doesn't even look like we used a curling iron and it's just so relaxed and like fun and modern and just so pretty and just adding this bomb is just gonna give us that little bit of extra separation we love so much super easy super chill I'm just going to show you a full side of that sort of wrap wave if you don't know what I'm talking about I'll show you in a second we're just going to do all waves on this side and I'll just show you how relaxed you can make this look this is just going to give it kind of a bend it's very important with short hair to just not overdo it I'm taking very big sections just because I want a very loose style on this side and as you can see both sides super cute one side is a little bit more curly while the other side is a little bit more I'm just a wave isn't it cool how you can do that with a curling iron I mean it really does look like nearly her natural hair or was done with a flat iron but nope it was actually a curling iron and she looks amazing and it's not too curly it's just a very modern new style look oh my god my hands are so blue she looks incredible I love this color so much oh my god it's so pretty would you guys ever do this to your hair like come on okay so those are all my fabulous curling iron techniques for both long and short hair I hope you picked up a thing or two to try it home on your own hair let me know how it goes send me a picture I would love to see what you've done with everything I've taught you today I love curling irons I love flat irons I love hair tools in general I'm such a hair nerd and if there are any other hair tools you want me to talk about and make another video like this about let me know I would love to hear your suggestions thank you guys so much for watching don't forget to follow me on instagram twitter tiktok at bramondo nyc and follow my haircare brand x mondo hair or new product launches coming up soon and that is all for today thank you guys so much for watching 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