wave irons

[pumpkincat210]

I actually did my hair like this tonight! it came out really cute, sorry i don't have a picture. My hair is a little shorter than my shoulder's and it ended up looking excellent, i got lots of compliments on it. I left my bangs straight and swept them to the side. I have the cheap-o vidal sassoon one, but it works just fine.

 

[Christina983]

Sorry another Q, how long did it take to do your whole head?

 

[xsnowwhite]

It takes me an hour but I do have very thick long hair.

 

[tiramisu]

Bumping up this thread...

I also have the cheap-o vidal sassoon triple barrel waver and it works okay so far, I am still getting used to the technique, especially b/c I have very long hair.

Anyone want to add what kind of styling products they use with this??

 

[xsnowwhite]

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Originally Posted by tiramisu Anyone want to add what kind of styling products they use with this??

I spray hair spray and scrunch in some gel. Both of that is applied to DRY hair and for me I need to straighten it first. Putting gel in dry hair sounds gross but your waves will last so much longer.

 

[Cherrie]

I have straight hair that wont hold curls that long so I use vidal sassoon wave iron to give me the volume and curl. Its not that great of a curl more like almost a crimp depends how you use it and it take forever!!! to do my whole head about an hour an half because you have to do each section one at a time. Heres a pic of me a few months ago.

 

[TonyaB]

I have this one. I think it's the same one Cherrie is talking about.

I got it from Wal-Mart for 15$ I think.
I have short hair shoulder length hair, I also have thick coarse hair but I straighten it first before I use this so It's very thin after I straighten it and it waves well. The waves stay in my hair all day & I use hair spray on each part that I do.
I used it on my clip in extensions too before and they're thin, so with hair spray they stayed in all day.

not a very good picture but you can see how it worked. This was at the end of the day

 

[Blueeyesangel18]

You can get this same effect using a hair straightner/flat iron especially if its ghd a high heat one will probably work too. Take a strand and place flat iron horizontly as if about to straighten, use one hand to hold iron at handle and the other to hold the top of the iron with thumb and index finger, move the iron downwards slowly towards the ends alternately flipping the iron upside down and back again as you continue gliding down the section. Do this all over to create those sexy waves. hope i helped

 

[xsnowwhite]

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Originally Posted by Blueeyesangel18 You can get this same effect using a hair straightner/flat iron especially if its ghd a high heat one will probably work too. Take a strand and place flat iron horizontly as if about to straighten, use one hand to hold iron at handle and the other to hold the top of the iron with thumb and index finger, move the iron downwards slowly towards the ends alternately flipping the iron upside down and back again as you continue gliding down the section. Do this all over to create those sexy waves. hope i helped

Ohh yeah I forgot about this method! I tried this with my flatiron it worked great and it's faster than my waving iron.