You love luscious curled hairstyles but any attempt to pull off the style at home finishes with old-fashioned baby doll ringlets? Do not despair. We have prepared an easy tutorial on how to curl hair that will help you create perfect natural curls with a straightener or a curling iron.

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What Hot Tool to Select?

You may curl your hair with a curling iron, a wand, or a straightener. As you might have seen from the video tutorial, each tool works fine for creating natural, trendy curls; it’s all about the technique that you use to curl your tresses. Thus, what we recommend is practicing with what you already have.

If you do not have any hot tools and you do sometimes straighten your hair, investing in a good flat iron for straightening and curling your hair would be a great idea. If curling is part of your regular styling routine, do investigate the best curling irons and wands, which are designed for curling hair in the first place.

Advertisement The difference between the curling iron and a wand is that the latter doesn’t have a clip. The wand is often easier to use and creates looser curls. However, you can achieve the same effect by not putting the clip of the iron down, as we did for the first two curling techniques. The size of the barrel is very important too. We are using a 32mm curling iron to create full clumps; smaller barrels will help you achieve tighter coils.

Hair Curling Techniques

Using a curling iron is meant to be a no-brainer task: you wrap the hair around the barrel, let it heat up, and release the strand. Still, you can achieve different results by twisting the strand, clipping the curled lock to let it cool, or rotating the iron. At the same time, it might be difficult to figure out how to use a straightener to curl your locks.