Curling your hair without heat! Four techniques

I've been asked a couple of times how I curl my hair so I thought I would blog about it! You can of course use straighteners, curlers or a curling wand but laying off the heat is good for your hair and weaves/extensions plus my straighteners are half broken lol (don't ask)

      Bantu knots        

Twirl and knot your hair Craig David style lol (excuse the tracks showing in pic 1 lol)

Braid out

Two cornrows on either side

Result!

When I done 4 smaller cornrows

Flexi rods!

I maaaay have cheated on the heat front with this technique lol my flexi rods are actually Nicky Clarke Heated Flexi Stylers but I promise I got the same results with my old non heat ones.

Picture does NOT belong to me but here's how they look

Flexi result!

                                            

Scrunching

I have been using this technique a lot more as this hair has a very pretty curl pattern when wet, I've been experimenting with different types of mousse and my favourite at the moment is Silvikrin Dual- Benefit 2 days Volume & Hold 

Aaaand that is how I curl my hair! Hope you enjoyed :) God Bless xx

Pin Curls VS Flexi Rods

I usually always run to flexi rods when I want to have curly hair but if you read my last post you will know that last night I fancied a change and tried some pin curls! I looked on YouTube for tutorials and found some great ones!

With the pin curls I curled each piece with a straighter (can use a curling iron) and then used my fingers to spiral the hair then pinned each piece on my head. The results in the morning were gorgeous! So it had me thinking.......  Pin curls or Flexi rods

Here's some pics.....


Before

Pin curls before bed

Flexi rods

After

Results!

• Pin curls give great volume and bouncy curls to your hair, flexi rods give bouncy curls too but not as voluminous.
• Flexi rods last all day! Like literally until the next day lol, but I'm not too sure if pin curls will as the curls have already dropped a tiny bit.
• Pin curls take longer to put in especially as you have to curl it first (you can probably skip the heat and use your fingers straight away but heat helps to keep them in longer)
• Pin curls are great for messy curls and waves where as flexi rod curls are more uniform and you can separate them to create huge Diana Ross hair! Haha!

So my verdict? Well...I like them both haha! If I knew I was going to be out allll day I would go for flexi's though and if I wanted bombshell hair for a night out pin curls would be where its at!

Pin curls!

Flexi Rod curls!

Which one do you like better?

God bless

Nay

xx