How To Do Rag Curls In Hair

Rag Curl Tutorial — This Offbeat Helpmate correspondent Roxy, showing off her cutie beautiful rag curls.

Long time coming on this post, because that I have been giving rag curls to anyone who will let me all summer long.

Roxy is the creator of the FREE YOUR HAIR castor.

Now information technology is time for me to impart my tried and truthful DIY rag curls technique to yous all, in the simplest terms possible.

The affair that I really love about rag curls is that people have been doing them for centuries every bit a way to set directly hair in curls without curlers or heat, or really anything but a rummage and an old rag.

They are easy to practice and, depending on how you practice them, you can achieve anything from Greta Garbo to Veronica Lake to Lucille Ball-looking curls, without frying your hair.

They are too first-class for lazy-hair people and kids because all you have to practise is throw 'em in your damp hair, sleep comfortably (without big rollers or poke-y pins) and castor them out in the morning time for curls that will literally concluding weeks if yous want them to.

A couple years back I made a video tutorial of rag curls on my daughter Marley, earlier I had experimented much with them. Marley has that kind of fine hair that "won't concord a roll" but by golly her hair will hold a rag curl:

No-heat curls are then peachy for that slippery fine "won't concord a curlicue" hair, but let's get to the meat of this post…

The ultimate DIY tutorial for rag curls

Become an old rag or towel and cut or tear information technology into strips lengthwise. They should be at to the lowest degree three inches wide and ix inches long. You will need vi of them.
Start by dampening your hair with a spray canteen, or let information technology dry out one-half-way after wetting it fully. I recommend using a ocean salt setting spray — they give the hair some extra texture if you have scroll-resistant hair. It will assistance yous keep the scroll even longer!
Office your hair down the center, all the fashion back. Take your comb and make a parting from the top of the caput, directly down to behind 1 ear.
Comb all the pilus in that first section direct down, and grip the ends tightly.
Take a rag and centre information technology correct over the ends of the hair. Brainstorm rolling the ends around the rag, making sure to secure them downward. The trick is to ringlet them effectually once, then roll correct over them again so that they are rolled in tightly.
Keep rolling the hair around the rag until you can't curl any farther. Now, take the ends of the rag and tie them together in one case to secure the curlicue. If you are having a hard time visualizing this, delight lookout the video in this post carefully! It shows you how to do the roll itself, but with a unlike sectioning pattern that will requite you lot a unlike looking curl.
At present it is time to make your 2d curl. You will make another parting that is parallel to the first one, and it will bisect the residual of that half of the head. Basically, information technology volition run from the top of the back of the head, directly down the side to the side of the nape of the neck. Echo the curlicue in that section.
The leftover hair from the same side of the head in the back will brand your third curl.
Repeat these sections and curls on the other side of the head.
Wrap your head gently in a silk headscarf to sleep in and slumber soundly! (The silk headscarf part is optional, but will help yous sleep more comfortably, and will help keep your curls smoother)

When you wake up, castor out your curls with a boar bristle brush

Now, tin can we talk about this brushing process?

A good hair brush is a tool for life!

For years, I advised every hair client who sat in my chair, regardless of their pilus texture, to work in a weekly/bi-weekly brush session with a mixed bristle castor instead of their normal shampoo routine. I encouraged them to make it a ritual, and telephone call information technology a mechanical wash instead of your chemical launder.

Merely the only groovy brush out their was so expensive that most people I knew couldn't afford it. So I created the Gratuitous Your Hair castor…

This brush is smooth, effective, just burly enough for all hair types, and is consciously designed and created with all the sweet details……complete with a beautifully engraved keepsake, and pre-oiled to perfection.

Pure and simple: The FREE YOUR Pilus Brush is my favorite tool for optimal good for you hair.

I designed the FREE YOUR HAIR Brush and then that instead of stripping their hair and scalp of vital oils which are there to protect and residual the best interests of each person's unique mane, we can move oil from the scalp where it often gets trapped into the ends which are thirsty for it, stimulating blood flow to bring salubrious new hair growth and cellular function and returning vitality one stroke at a time

I invite you lot to get a FYH castor and wash your pilus in a new style.

Only back to the rag curls…

Subsequently you brush them, your rag curls are likely to be really big and fuzzy, so get in with a lite smoothing oil, and piece of work it into your curls, gently twisting random ones to define them a flake.

I love to do a deep side part with these curls, because it gives them a very vintage look and makes me feel less clown-hair-ish, initially.

The clown hair will subside quickly, and your curls will relax into themselves throughout the day so. REMEMBER: If you feel way too curly at commencement, just exist patient. Everything volition work itself out.

By the end of the day, you volition desire your hair to stay this way forever.

To brand it final, keep your curls dry, slumber with your silk scarf on, and then use some hair powder when your roots start feeling greasy subsequently a couple'a days. That's how ladies did information technology in the golden days.

Just make sure you exercise it with a skilful brush…

Invitee Post Past: Roxie Jane Hunt

My name is Roxie Jane Chase and I am a hair stylist, business owner, mama, and blogger. I started doing hair at a very young age in my home town of Seattle, WA.