Hair scrunch fail :( any tips?

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Christina C.

Apr 5, 2014

Christina C.

My hair is quite stubborn when it come to changing its shaping. When curling my hair I have to use high heat and hold for longer then most (of corse I always protect my hair). Any way what I did was get out of the shower and threw my hair up in a towel for 5 minutes. Took it down and it was 50% wet. Then I flipped my head and used moose and started scrunching. Once I was "done" I put the defuser on my blow dryer (still my head is upside down) and blow dried scrunched my hair, after all of that this is what I got. Barley scrunchie. Any tips?

Christina C.

Apr 5, 2014

Christina C.

^well thats after scrunching, my hair is naturally pin straight (don't mind my face, weekends is when I really don't care ;P.

Catarina C.

Apr 5, 2014

Catarina C.

It won't turn out super curly because your hair just isn't naturally tightly curled or curled at all.

Catarina C.

Apr 5, 2014

Catarina C.

It looks nice with the wavyness, though. Like beachy waves.

Christina C.

Apr 6, 2014

Christina C.

Thanks Hollie and Catarina

Faith F.

Apr 6, 2014

Faith F.

I agree with Catarina.

Hannah P.

Apr 6, 2014

Hannah P.

No matter how much you scrunch it it is never going to get it very wavy because you as you said have pin strait hair naturally. However, coming from a girl with naturally wavy hair there are a couple of things you can do to improve your wave when you scrunch.

First add your mousse to wet hair and scrunch it in. Then use a towel (preferably microfibre) or a t-shirt to "plop" your hair for the amount of time you would usually towel dry it. When you towel dry your hair like this it concertinas the hairs as it drys and because you've already put the mouse in it it will help to hold the wave put in by plopping. when you take your hair down add more mousse if needed and diffuse as you did before.

Plopping is a technique used to enhance the natural curls patten and works very well on wavy and curly hair. I don't know how well it will work on straight hair but it worth giving it a try.

Just found a tutorial of someone with straight hair plopping which might be quite usedfull : http://absewlutelychrissycouture.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hair-plopping.html

Christina C.

Apr 6, 2014

Christina C.

Thanks, I will try that next time.

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