How to flat iron your hair with VOLUME! No flat hair here folks.

straight here doesn't have to be boring it can still have a lot of life and volume and move and shape but it doesn't have to be flat just because you use the flat iron today I'm walking you through the steps I take to ensure I have volume and lift to my hair I can get an extra day out of it but I'm using the flat iron to achieve this look so keep watching if you want to see how to get this style roughly a hundred thousand years ago give or take a couple thousand years I filmed a hair tutorial called very creatively how to apply aquage uplifting foam and flat iron your hair lower that mate I may have just done my bangs I can't remember but I don't even think the video is too I don't even think the video is still working but I'm here today to redo it so I've gotten a lot of questions about how I style my hair straight and still have volume in it I wore my hair straight for so many years and then I've just been on this curly kind of beachy wave kick for the past couple but now that it's getting a little longer I've been doing a straight more often anyway what's the point of telling you this I'm back to doing it straight I'm getting more questions about it so I have in front of me here for products that I always use no matter what I try a lot of products these are my four that I go to so let's start with the blow-dry spray this is the L'Oreal blow-dry it quick dry primer I just lift my hair spray this kind of mid-shaft tends all over I see a big difference today's that I use a blow dry primer and days that I skip it then next up aquage uplifting foam I discovered this root lifter at a hair show 15 14 years ago and it has been an unbeatable root lifter for me so what I do is divide my hair into rough sections and then spray it right at my root area and then I go to the back and then once I've applied it you can see it's all in there take your fingers rub it in so then I'll dry it I'm using the t3 blow dryer this blow dryer has worked wonderfully for me for the past year or so and then I have here a wet brush full of my hair sorry this is a vented wet brush you always want to use vented brush when you're blow-drying your hair because that helps the air flow through it makes your blow dry maybe 30 seconds faster but it helps every second helps right so always do medium heat never put your blow dryer on the highest heat it's too hot you don't need it instead use a blow dry primer let's get blow drying I'm not even lying when I say I let my hair cool like this for a couple minutes I even knew this in the gym locker room I'm okay with it so once it cools down a little bit start to expose myself by letting that hair cool forward hang on it creates a really nice swoop later when you actually style it you also get tons of little hairs stuck to your eyelashes and lipstick who doesn't love that another trick is since I know this hair is gonna go that way I'll let it cool the opposite direction just add a little more bump so my tried-and-true all-time favorite flatiron is the GHD one-inch I believe this is the classic it might be the professional I've had this for so long no this is the classic I thought I had worn away it just says D now but I know it's a GH D so it does not have a heat setting it just has an on/off button you can tell it's on by that blinking light I prefer tools with the heat setting but I find that I can work pretty fast with this Flatiron so I'm not just burning sections of my hair so at this point I'll grab this top part using a duckbill clip and separate this up flat iron in the bottom and then I'll do the top layer this is pretty easy for me because my hair is naturally straight if your hair is curly wavy frizzy if you have any problems flat ironing your hair you want to divide it into at least three sections I know that may sound like a lot of work but I'm telling you if you take smaller sections you can move fast and you will be much happier with the result you may be able to get an extra day out of your hair if you have spent time doing it right the first time I'll get off my soapbox let's start flat ironing so I'll grab a section over here come through it it always helps to come through it to make sure you don't you're not pressing any tangles and then I just run the iron over my hair I have my wrist bent the whole time you can see the iron is bent so I can get a little bend right at the end of there I'm not a stick straight hair kind of gal which is why I'm using the flat iron to bend the ends a little bit around your face and it helps to pull that hair forward just to create a nice C shape because my hair is naturally straight it's not vital for me to go very close to my root area but if you have curly hair wavy hair frizzy hair you should really start closer to your root for flat ironing if you're just looking to bend the ends like I am today you're okay starting mid-shaft especially on this bottom layer that you can count on from here to here being covered by your top layers all I'm doing is just grabbing sections from the back coming them out putting the iron in turning my wrist about 45 degrees and then pulling the section through so this left side flat iron with a little bend under this right side nothing's been done to it except a blow-dry you can see why use the flat iron to bend the ends the smaller sections you take the more effective result you'll have this would depends on on your hair thickness and what issues you're battling with the flat iron but if you take a really thick section through the iron and it doesn't get straight it's because that heat is not getting to the middle of your hair it's just kind of pancaking or sandwiching the outside so that's why taking thinner sections more of them allows you to be a little bit faster because you don't have to go over a section you just knit my hairs I'd say medium to fine it Flatirons really easily because it's straight so I can take semi big sections bigger sections then I would take if I was curling if that makes sense so all I'm doing is running that flat iron over I've got my wrist bent a little bit and I'm pulling it down so I'm done with the bottom part now I'll let down that top section establish my part flip that hair to this right side and we'll start working on that if you have trouble determining what has been flat iron and what you just drop down for your section it's okay to use the duckbill clip should have done this before I let that section down and just clip that hair off so you know you don't have to flat iron it again I can pretty much tell but if you can't tell just before you let that top section down slip a duckbill clip in there to keep it separated so working on the top section I will be putting the flat iron in a little bit closer to the root to encourage some lift so I've got a section here holding it straight out from where it grows not down here not over here straight up putting the flat iron in lifting it up and then still following that same C shape I'm using my other hand to hold that section can you see that and then when you comment and drop it down you have this beautiful section going towards your face and tons of lift right there at the crown if you don't use a root lifter you won't get that same hold you could spray a little bit of a like a working hair spray a lower number than say number 25 which is my favorite by camera if you're using Kenwright save number eight or twelve to give a little bit of hold so again flat iron is at the root lifting it up and just bending those ends under the section taken care of no move on to the back so lots of volume over here I haven't even put my texture spray or teased it so you just do the same thing as you work your way around your head putting the Flatiron close and bending it up you so once the sides are flat ironed grab the front section if you have bangs this is my tip for bangs I don't have bangs they just kind of have a shorter face frame on this side hold it lightly and pull it forward and do the same thing put the flat iron in at the root bend it down so you've got this nice C shape sort of bending under your chin and then you push it to the side get a little hairspray in there you'll have a nice swoop going away so that this trick works also for shorter hair if you have proper bedding so you could do this on both sides so you kind of get that swoop going back but because you let the hair cool after your blow dry going forward it's not just gonna be kind of plastered back from your face so whenever I stay on my hair straight I know I'm going to not wash it the next day I'll either read Flatiron it or put a little wave in it but I like adding a mica I'm done texture spray this has been a longtime favorite of mine I'll just lift section of my hair spray a little texture in there for me because my hair is pretty straight on its own and then I've just flat ironed it it wants to just be really lifeless and straight and I like a lot of volume with my hair which is typically why I curl it so the texture spray gives it a little lift it keeps it from being super silky and kind of just hanging there it gives it a little structure if that makes sense it kind of gives it that day to feeling so you can see even that I mean I flushed it up with my fingers but even that gives it a little bit of shape then I'll use my comb and add a little bit of teasing again this part the optional depends on your hair type mine naturally wants to fall flat would be really smooth and silky which many people want for their hair I want the opposite I want texture and volume so I'm just lifting up a section using the fine toothed part of my comb combing the hair toward my scalp to add a little volume a little just a little a lot of this will come down you'll see so then after I tease I use my fingers to smooth it all make sure you can't see any teasing but try and leave a little bit of that cushion underneath just for the fullness so then to finish all time favorite camera volume 25 I like to pinch a little bit at the root area just to add a touch of volume up there and then for the bang area if I didn't use hairspray this is where it would be all day so hairspray is my friend I push it to the side especially because you styled it to do that so it's just paying attention to what you told it to do so you can get that nice little swoop there for just a little hairspray I don't want that to be too stiff I find what works for me here is to spray it and let it dry and kind of set in that place for a minute and then I'll usually run my fingers over it a couple times just so it isn't too stiff we're not going for the newscaster look want your hair to move okay so most of that hairspray was concentrated here and up just to see your hair just to make sure my kids keep some volume up at my root area because of my hair to go flat your hair does not go flat you can skip the hairspray altogether or you can choose a softer hold hairspray but this is the final look smooth soft this I could easily get another day out of just my hair texture but these products help a lot for volume if you found that flat ironing your hair meant really flat hair it doesn't have to be you can see that you can get volume out of it you just have to make sure you're lifting the section away when you get to this crown area using a texture spray using a root lifter before you even blow-dry and then use some hairspray so you can hold in place but you get nice sleek ends and it's just a nice polished look

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Published: Wed Oct 25 2017