How To Curl Your Hair With A Flat Iron – 2 Ways
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Learn how to curl your hair with a flat iron in two easy ways. Flat iron curls are a great way to curl your hair without a curling iron.
Today, I want to share with you this super awesome way to curl your hair with a straightener that’s much easier than other ways. Although I’m also including the traditional way towards the bottom.
Every time I do my hair like this people compliment me and I have to tell them how I did it, it’s just that fun!
The old way I was doing it with a straightener was a pain in the butt and I don’t own a curling iron which makes curling my hair really difficult!
Unless of course I used the no heat curls technique, but that has to be planned out the day before! This is great if you feel like being spontaneous and it doesn’t take a ton of time!
Here you go….
How To Curl Your Hair With A Flat Iron Tips
- Don’t take use too much hair for each curl because the hair will take a long time to heat up and the curls may be too lose.
- Use two fingers for looser curls and one finger for tighter curls.
- Using a good flat iron will do wonders.
- Don’t leave the flat iron on too long or you run the risk of burning your hair.
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Tools you will need:
Flat iron – like this one.
Comb
Blow dryer
Do you need a special flat iron to curl your hair?
You need a thin straightener that is around 1-2 inch thick like the one pictured below.
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How To Curl Your Hair With A Flat Iron
This version of flat iron curls, gives your hair a beautiful curl that looks like it was styled with a curling wand and is more like beachy curls.
Step 1: Dry Hair
Blow dry or air dry your hair! Yes that is what I look like letting my hair dry naturally. Crazy with a hint of unruly. Spray a little hair spray and heat protectant. Brush through.
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Heat up flat iron
Step 2: Wrap Your Hair Around Your fingers.
Take a piece of hair and wrap around fingers. Two fingers for loose curls and one for tight “Taylor Swift” Curls {don’t wrap too tight or you won’t be able to pull the hair from around your fingers}.
Step 3: Create Loop
Pull hair off your fingers leaving a loop. Try to tuck in any lose ends.
Step 4: Clamp Flat Iron
Clamp a hot flat iron on the loop of hair, wait around 10-15 seconds {maybe longer if you have really thick hair}, release, and repeat until you got all your hair!
Step 5: Add Hairspray And Done
Look at these beautiful loose curls that look awesome!
I was slightly rushed for this “photo shoot”! Here’s another picture that I took for another future post that I did with the same technique!
How To Curl Your Hair With A Flat Iron – The Traditional Way
- Heat up curling iron. I usually set mine between 375 and 400 degrees.
- Start with dry hair, and seperate into sections. I usually separate the crown of my hair from the bottom.
- Separate into two sections if necessary using a clip or a hair tie.
- Take about a 1 inch section of hair and clamp the flat iron near the root. Pull the flat iron about an inch or two down and turn the flat iron at least a half of a flip to a whole flip while pulling the flat iron through.
- Continue doing this until all the hair is curled. I like to flip the curling iron in different directions so the curls are not all going in the same direction.
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Instructions
- Blow dry or air dry your hair! Yes that is what I look like letting my hair dry naturally. Crazy with a hint of unruly. Spray a little hair spray and heat protectant. Brush through.Heat up flat iron and section hair if needed.Take a piece of hair and wrap around fingers. Two fingers for loose curls and one for tight curls {don't wrap too tight or you won't be able to pull the hair from around your fingers}.Pull hair off your fingers leaving a loop. Try to tuck in any lose ends.Clamp a hot flat iron on the loop of hair, wait around 10-15 seconds {maybe longer if you have really thick hair}, release, and repeat until you got all your hair!Look at these beautiful loose curls that look awesome!
Notes
How do you curl your hair?
This post was updated October 2019
There’s nothing wrong with your natural texture, I think you’d find it’s a gorgeous beachy sort of wave. The problem really is the amount of heat damage the length of your hair has.
I unfortunately had the same issues as Tori, but made it work on a few strands. Also I have a hard time grabbing the loop with the straightener without burning my fingers. Not a fast method until I get better at it I suppose. The ones that did work came out great. Probably not possible since this is an old post, but a video would help me understand the part of transferring the loop to the straightener.
With that said, great idea! Thanks!
tht’s very cutee love it…
I had a really hard time with this. Whenever I pulled my finger out of the hair and tried to grab the loop, the whole curl fell apart. No luck for me 🙁
O no I’m sorry Tori! I grab the loop with the opposite hand and pull it out. Try to do the hair looser around your finger so its easier to pull out!
What a great idea! I’ve seen other tutorials on flat iron curls, but they were more complicated. This is totally more my style. Thanks for sharing. I found you from Mop it up Monday.
Thanks Jelli! I used to do it the other way and it was kind of annoying and wouldn’t always turn out right! This way is much easier! Good luck trying this!
I TOTALLY pinned this 🙂
Great tip…can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing!
nice, thank you so much for the tips , are very helpful, I will try this with my karmin g3. 😀
those curls are gorgeous! I’ll try your technique with my karmin g3 straightener :))) so excited!
i use hot rollers religiously. i really can’t see living without them!
but this is definitely something i want to try with my little flat iron, thanks!
I’ve never tried hot rollers before but I’ve seen how awesome they work!
I have a curling iron that I use. I have used it once in 2 years. I have an awesome flat iron that I got for Christmas that I use a lot more. I prefer to straighten my crazy hair.
I dont blame you I straightened my hair for a long time especially when it was really curly… Now that my hair is confused and only has a slight wave I like to do this more when its not up in a bun!
Cute! I really like this idea. I am going to have to try it soon!
I just got a new flat iron for Christmas and I always wondered how curls could come out of a flat iron! Kinda ironic 🙂 Thanks for showing this tip–I’m going to pin it and use when my hair grows longer.
I bet it would be cute with short hair! I couldn’t tell you right now but maybe in the next month or so! ;(