gel placement can DRASTICALLY change your hair / face shape.

[Music] [Applause] [Music] what's up guys so today we are going to get into the wonderful magic of gel placement or heavy product placement um over the many years of doing wash and go's i realized that almost every wash my hair kind of looked different than the wash before and i couldn't really understand why that was until very recently uh sometimes my hair wound up looking like this and sometimes it wound up looking like this and it really upset me when i couldn't really get the shape that i wanted and i realized that the way i apply my gel or heaviest sealing cream at the end of my wash and go either makes or breaks the shape of my hair when it dries so in today's video i'm going to show you guys how to be in control of your hair shape now before we get into it i would like to mention that this video is sponsored by a cool company named chirp chirp is a company that specializes in back relief and they actually have these really cool back wheels that really work out any stress and tension from the day and the wheel is actually one of the leading products in the back health and wellness community i personally have the 10 inch medium trip wheel which has been really cool just to roll out after the gym since i have the back and spine of an 86 year old doorman if you like to get your hands on your very own trip wheel i highly recommend it i'll have a link in my description box for you guys and a nice discount code for you to use thank you so much sherp for being so cool to sponsor this video and for helping me pay some not so cool bills let's get into it all right guys so to start off i just want to show you what my hair looks like free of product or anything like that um i just popped in the shower washed it as usual air dried it as usual and this is what it's looking like it's pretty voluminous it is pretty layered um and you know if you've never washed your hair and let it dry in its natural state i highly recommend that you try it time to time um it's a pain right because it gets really frizzy and naughty i'm not gonna lie but it's cool just to see what your hair needs without you know the help of any product band-aids or anything like that so definitely try it i love my hair this way just as much as i love it defined this is my rock star here man and it's really cool so yeah i just wanted to show you guys our starting point and let's get into the gel styles [Music] so for every demonstration i will be using a light cream conditioner just as a leave-in for some extra moisture and all that and obviously a gel i'll be using the og eco styler crystal gel the first gel placement style we'll be discussing is the triangle style now this just means a lot less volume at the roots and a lot more volume towards the bottom resulting in this really pretty triangular shape this hair shape is a lot different than my regular hair shape because um you know my roots tend to be very very voluminous and my hair shape is a lot more rounded this style frames the face so well and it's so cute for that tuck behind the air style i love wearing it with some cute hair pins and barrettes and stuff like that so i will get into how i achieve this with gel starting off with some freshly washed hair i'm just going to go ahead and part it into a smaller section just to make things a lot more easier taking that cream conditioner we talked about and using it as a leave-in and just putting it throughout each section evenly really focusing on my ends making sure they're nice and moisturized before we ever put gel now i'm going to take that eco styler take about a quarter size amount to start off i'm not applying pasta's point you guys i'm applying to about eyebrow length so now i'm just taking the gel and i'm applying it evenly making sure i get the back the sides again not spreading it throughout all of the hair just to my eyebrow arch make sure you get underneath by your edges and this is what your hair should look like again not applying past the point we talked about so we can get that nice triangle effect this is what it looks like from the back um don't worry that you know your hair is in two different parts that's just from sectioning it won't look like that after it dries um it kind of looks like i was wearing a hat and i took it off that's what you want and i will show you guys what it looks like once it dries so after a few hours if they're drying here we are so kind of looks like i've been wearing a helmet so we're going to break apart this gel cast with some hair oil and i'm just really working that in especially in to my roots and focusing a little bit on the bottom and this is what it looks like it's so cute amazing to wear with hats or beanies love this style so so so much this is what it looks like up close from the top and as you can see it has a really nice triangular shape for reference this is what my hair looks like with absolutely no product and this is what it looks like using the triangle method with gel way flatter roots but still lots of nice volume towards the bottom [Music] so the second hair shape we will be discussing is the rounded hair shape now there's a lot more harmony with this hair shape the top matches the bottom and the middle section of the hair is the widest part resulting in this really pretty rounded shape this is kind of how i usually um like my wash and goes to look for the most part and how they turn out on you know on a regular basis but i'm going to show you guys how to fake this with using gel once again so starting off with our leave-in once again we're just going to apply that evenly throughout all sections making sure our hair is nice and moisturized then we're going to take our gel and take a quarter size amount once again but really focus it towards the ends of right here we're going to move it up a little bit but not quite to the middle just really pack the gel on the end it's okay if it looks straggly we're going to take care of that after it dries next you're going to want to move towards your bang area that part is super duper important because you want everything to look super cohesive and this is what it looks like once i am done applying it is very scraggly looking as you can see from the back but you can see that there's a lot more volume at the top which is what we want so after it dries this is what it looks like as you can see it's still very stringy looking but the shape is there so we're going to take our oil one more time and just really really scrunch out that gel cast towards the bottom and this is what it looks like a super pretty rounded hair shape i love for my wash and goes turn out this way and just for reference once again this is what my hair looks like with the triangle method and this is what my hair looks like with the rounded method on the left [Music] so the final look we'll be discussing is the elongated wet look i've been doing this look all summer long it is so cute so feminine and it really brings out your features so nicely um i feel like this is something everyone should try at least once i didn't like it for a very long time because i thought you know i looked goofy with this style but over time it really grew on me okay so we're splitting our hair down the middle as always and then we're gonna take our leave-in conditioner and apply it very very very generously then we're gonna take our gel and also apply our gel very generously and instead of applying it as a hole we're going to apply it into each section always get your roots as well to make sure they're nice and weighed down this is what one side looks like and this is what it looks like after i'm done with both sides then i just like to push my hair out of my face [Music] then i take my hair scarf and i tie it around my head and i kind of just let it sit like that um until it is done drying and after it's done drying this is what it looks like when it is dry well like 80 dry but it still came out very very nice i actually didn't do my edges for this video i'm trying to not you know put too much product on my edges anymore when i don't have to so boom comparing contrasting time on the left is the rounded look and on the right is the elongated but look my hair does look a lot longer a lot shinier but i personally like my volume so this is probably going to stay a summer style if you happen to make it to the end of this video thank you so much for watching i hope you can take one style from this vid and incorporate it into your daily routine i appreciate you guys so so much i will never stop saying that thank you for all of your love and support through the years man can't wait for the next one and until then signing off i'll see you guys later [Music]

Channel: Laurscurls

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Rating: 4.9862862 out of 5

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Id: qREsW0_ieyQ

Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 27 2021