How to Use a Curling Wand on Medium Length Hair

if you have been wondering how to get those on trend beachy waves for medium length hair then this video is for you this video is sponsored by hair care shop beauty and in this video i'll be featuring their prism five in one curling wand set some of the benefits of these irons is that it has five different heads that you can put on there that are interchangeable it also has a glove on there to prevent you from burning yourself with the wand each of them are ceramic coated which means you have even consistent heat and it all comes in a styling tote the wand also has an automatic one hour shut off time in addition to that it also has a swivel cord on there to keep you from getting a jumbled up cord while you're working it does have a digital thermostat on there as well and all that makes for a really easy to use iron that is nice and convenient for at-home use so i'm going to be showing you how to do this on this medium-length mannequin here and i'll put some links to affordable mannequins down the description box below if you are wanting to learn how to style other people's hair or if you're a cosmetology student or an aspiring cosmetology student and i'll give you some tips and pointers along the way now before we dive into that because this iron has five different heads i want to talk to you about the different types of curls you can get out of the different head sizes or the different wand or barrel sizes that you'll see so let's discuss that really briefly of course for a smaller curl you're going to use a smaller iron like this one here this one is a little bit above a half inch so this one here is a significantly smaller curl this is going to give you a much tighter curl that's more drawn up so if you're one that likes tight curls this one here may work pretty well for you but i find usually longer-haired individuals prefer the smaller ones like this now you've also got a one-inch barrel like this here and by the way all these attach i just haven't decided which one i'm going to use yet but the one inch barrel is going to give you a little bit more especially on medium length here a little bit more of that beachy wave it depends on the length of the hair and the amount of rounds around there so for longer length hair the bigger barrels will give you a looser wave whereas for medium length hair a medium barrel will often give you a looser wave this one's about one and a quarter to one and a half inches you can see here the amount of rounds around that is just past one time so we're going to have a much looser wave in there as a result of that as well you also have the ones that taper down like this here the benefit of using this type of wand here is that the top portion of it on the top part of the hair you can easily get a good size wand or a good size wave because the top of this is about the size of the last one i showed you but the bottom of this is smaller than the first one i showed you here so we're actually a little bit thinner than that first wand that i showed you there so the benefit to that especially with medium length hair is that a lot of times in the nape area the hair tends to be shorter just because the fact it's cut straight across so you've got one wand that will serve for the shorter lengths down here and the longer links up here so if you're looking for a one wand that does everything there that was a great one for medium length hair if you're looking to be able to do the whole head and get a pretty consistent curl and then you have this type of wand here this is more of a beaded effect now this one here is going to give a much more organic type of look because your curls aren't just going to be the same size all the way down if they catch in here they'll be smaller they catch around here they'll be a little larger so it gives you a little bit more of a natural looking wave that just gives you a nice beachiness to it i probably shouldn't be propping my arm on her head but that's okay so for this tutorial i'm going to be using the one inch iron here and we're just going to pop that in place and get moving so this one came on at 4 10. i'm going to turn that down to about three let's do 370 to start i'm just going to let that warm up now i can feel it's already getting warm if you are newbie to using a curling wand this one here does come with a protective glove that you can use so i'm going to go ahead and toss that on just so you can use it and whether you're righty or lefty it works either way and let's say you have finer hair that doesn't hold curls really well and you want to ensure that your hair is holding curls a bit longer just take a light hairspray this one here is a firm hold but i'm going to show you how to use it so what we're going to do and let me just move her back some so you can more easily see i'm just going to lightly mist over the hair while lifting and separating out this is going to help to give the hair a little bit of texture and memory when we curl and that way your curls stay in longer all day especially because if you're doing a beachy wave this isn't a tight curl it has a lot of space to fall so with waves we really want to make sure that we have prepped that hair ahead of time to give it enough memory to hold this style all day long wow and it's already hot enough so that's an excellent time on there i will say this glove does let some heat go through so you can't get crazy with it within a shower exfoliating glove like one of those in the shower i feel like they get a little bit better heat protection so that's a benefit even though this is sponsored video i still always give my honest opinion and i will save this glove while it's sun protection it's not the best protection there but i will say for the price of this whole set i can't really complain so for the five and one set with this it was 41 currently and on top of that there's a 15 off discount code in the description box down below okay so as you can see i've got this hair parted out in the nape area and i'm just going to take about a one inch by one inch section now of course if you want even looser waves take bigger sections for smaller waves you can also take smaller sections and it does it depends on your density as well so if you have quite a bit of hair take smaller sections it'll make sure you get a more consistent curl so i'm going to comb through that and we'll place that comb right on up here and then you see these little nibs here i'm going to not only are those to set down on a surface that way your iron doesn't burn up your surface but they can also be placed directly onto the scalp and that way you're not burning up your scalp another nice thing about these is they all have protective tips on them to prevent you from burning yourself so badly there and i'm just going to go ahead and bring that all the way around holding that end here now if i wanted to get a little bit more of a curled look on the ends i can go ahead and press down against the iron with ends but that straight look is more in right now so from there don't run your fingers through this curl let it cool okay i'm going to go ahead and do these in alternating directions just to kind of give more of a beachy disheveled type of look so we're going to go ahead and go around here and notice i'm not so concerned about getting everything just perfect this is about a beachy wave now uh the look to this right now is more about kind of giving you that organic natural looking texture so i will say a common mistake that i see people doing when they're using a curling wand that doesn't make it look like it was a curling wand is they take the hair and they want to wrap it around like this here and it gives you like this perfect curl you can even see on there this looks like i'm curling on a curling iron the curl that it gives you notice is totally different from those other two curls so it's not going to be quite so beachy with that style there this is a regular curling iron type of curl whereas these two are giving you more of that beachy look where it goes wider thinner or wider it just gives you a different look so if you're looking for this type of curl use a curling iron if you want that beachy look use the curling wand but use it in the manner that it's going to give you the best outcome now of course you can do this on long hair as well but i'm showing this on medium hair because i feel like majority of people on youtube are showing this on long hair and i understand everybody doesn't have super long hair so i want to make sure that people with medium length hair are able to get this too if you have shorter hand you want me to do tutorial for that let me know and i will film a video for that as well now styling tip here for medium length hair in order to make it look like uh the cheeks are not so full is to go ahead and under this underneath portion curl that towards the face so what we're gonna do here is i'm gonna take this and i'm gonna split it into two and this first portion here i'm gonna go ahead and curl it down towards the face so just like this here okay now what this is going to do is it's going to make sure that when this curl is brushed out it just grazes see how it just grazes the cheek instead of flowing back and away from the cheeks this is going to help to trim the look of the jawline and the cheek some and then on the upper portion because it's not so popular for it to go into the face we're going to go ahead and curl away from the face that way we can still stay on trend but still trim in the facial shape some so that's just a little stylist secret to help you out look how beautifully those curls are turning out with that one inch iron so i just want you guys to kind of see here even though yes it's a one inch that sounds fairly small on medium length hair this is going to give you a nice loose wave so i just can't wait until we kind of drag our fingers through this our large comb so that way you guys can see that finished look now just so you know when you are working on this hair and you're selecting let's say a temperature for your iron i would highly recommend selecting your temperature based on your fabric of hair you don't want to just throw it on and try to put it on a hot temperature just because the fact you feel like it's going to do it faster notice when i turn this iron on it came on at 410 degrees that was a little too hot for this hair this hair is a medium texture now 410 degrees for a coarse texture meaning the diameter of the strand is larger is going to be pretty good now it's still a little high because honestly i don't really care to go higher than 400 degrees on most fabrics of hair but for let's say fine hair i really don't recommend going above 360 degrees fahrenheit so that's just something that you want to keep in mind and consider i would not just throw 400 degrees on there so keep in mind when you're doing this you want to use temperatures responsibly and if you don't know the texture of your hair i do have a video to help you determine the texture of your hair and to explain what the difference in textures is so that way you can get a better understanding because everyone thinks it's based off of curl pattern and has nothing to do with your curl pattern whatsoever so if you feel like your hair is a tight curl therefore it is coarse hair that's not true it's dealing with the diameter of the strands so that's just something for you to consider and keep in mind and also keep in mind i mean some of these temperatures these irons are coming out at these days 450 degrees it's more more than enough heat for most heads of hair keep in mind you don't make bread at that temperature you don't make pot roast at that temperature you don't bake cookies at that temperature don't bake your hair at that temperature okay so once we've completed those curls they're still a bit warm in a couple places so i'm just gonna go ahead and take my hairspray again and lightly mist now this doesn't have to be for every texture of hair but especially if you have that fine hair that is difficult to hold curls layering your products is going to help to give you a lot more memory so we're just going to lightly mist throughout this now the number one thing that i notice when people are using hairspray is they have a tendency to use it too close or to mist really close to the hair where the hair is getting wet you just want it to lightly dust the hair that way the alcohol and it's not drying the hair out you're getting the hold and the memory to it and you're not messing up your curls because they're getting wet all over again so you want to layer it with a light mist again this is because we're giving it some memory and then that way when we comb through it or finger comb through it we are allowing it to remember the shape that it was in so it feels like we're pretty cool so i'm going to go ahead on this side here i'm going to just finger comb because i want you guys to see if we are doing more of a loose beachy finger comb wave this is how it looks versus how it looks when you finish it now on the other side i'm going to go ahead and take a large tooth comb like this and we're going to comb through it this way so you guys can kind of see the difference i personally like the comb through look you may prefer more of that finger comb through look so you can kind of see the difference in what it gives you here versus when it is freshly curled here so i'm just going to go ahead and comb through that and check out those curls so we're just going to go ahead and take that now toss a little bit if you wanted to put a little bit of a serum or shine spray in here at this point this is a great time to do it and the reason why i like to tossle it some is just because it gives you that a bit more lived in look uh not so perfect because keep in mind these are your beachy waves that are not meant to look perfect it's meant to look lived in and effortless even if it took you quite a bit of effort so i don't it's crazy to put so much work into looking effortless but that way you guys can kind of see the difference that you get in those curls okay so let me know what you think down in the comments below if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you'd like to see more videos like this on a regular basis make sure to subscribe and turn on your post notifications so you can learn more about hair and how to care for it this girl's driving crazy uh until next time you guys take care god bless and stay glam and don't forget if you're interested in getting this iron check out the links in the description box down below thank you so much hair care shop beauty for sponsoring this video and for sending your prism five in one curling wand for me to utilize for this tutorial until next time you guys take care god bless and stay glam you know i love you boo bye

Channel: GlamFam Hair & Beauty

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Length: 13min 36sec (816 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 27 2020