You pick up your flat iron, close your eyes, pray to the Instagrammable hair goals, and lift that first section. You slowly set it on your FLAT IRON WAVES and twist the wrist. Everything goes well on the first bend, but then you start on the second one, and you have a moment of panic! “Am I supposed to turn it forward or backwards!?” UGH. So you pull the FLAT IRON WAVES out, and there it is, THE CREASE. No matter how many times you smooth over it, it will be there. Right in the front of your hair for everyone to see. Well, guess what… times they are a changin’!
I had a client in my chair this past week with hair that begged for flat iron waves, so I busted out this new FLAT IRON WAVES I just got. Figured there’s no better time than now to test drive it since I always use the same iron (which you might remember from HERE), and sometimes you need to try new things. I immediately noticed how round the outside of the iron is. There are beveled-edged flat irons, and then there’s this. It helps get that bend. If you give the iron a good twist, it will do much of the work for you.
PRO TIPS:
- Don’t spray your hair with hairspray before you flat iron. It will cause the iron to stick, which can easily cause creases.
- Try getting the motion down with the FLAT IRON WAVES off before you turn it on. It is essential to practice and get a feel for the wave pattern you’re trying to create so that it’s not unfamiliar and confusing when the iron is hot.
- Never stop the iron. The secret to a sound FLAT IRON WAVES is continuous movement. When you stop, you get a crease (and you can burn your hair!)
- Don’t use a flat iron that doesn’t have a bevelled edge. It’s virtually impossible to get nice waves if you’re not using a rounded edge.
- You can mix curl and flatiron waves! Sometimes, I like to curl the top of a piece and flat iron it to wave the middle and bottom. It’s nice and changes up the pattern. Plus, it’s 1000 times more manageable. Many people don’t know where to start a flat iron wave, which cracks the case.
- Lightly straighten the ends for a more relaxed-looking wave.
- As I mentioned in the last FLAT IRON WAVES tutorial, if you fail hard and want to abort the mission, just wet that piece of hair down (at least damp) to restore the moisture inside before moving on to curls or straightening with your flatiron. Otherwise, you could burn the hair by changing its shape too many times with no moisture inside.
Is this helpful to you? What kind of flat iron do you use now? Do you feel like it works well for waves?