hi I'm T Cooper I'm a New York City makeup artist hairstylist and co-founder of beauty and grooming company Metro look today we're gonna talk about how to curl your hair with the curling iron without straightening it now one of you asked this question and it's kind of a catch-22 it can be done but it can't be done on all hair if you have very like wavy curly hair like hers is where the roots aren't really really tight and curly then you can curl your hair without straightening it but if you have hair that is very tight curly like how some african-american hair is or maybe some latina hair might be really really tight curls then you probably do have to straighten it but there are several instances where I come across curly hair and I can actually curl it and create a different curl pattern without straightening it so I'm going to show you how to do it on her so we're gonna use a bigger iron just to loosen up some of this curl being that she already has some natural wave in here which is fine we're just gonna create a different wave pattern so I don't have to straighten it all I'm gonna do is slide down the hair and as I slide down I'm just gonna roll it up I'm gonna hold the hair here for a few seconds until it's hot everybody's hair it gets hot at a different pace so just keep touching the hair and you can tell when it's getting hot her hair is almost hot and it's gonna be a different curl wave pattern than her natural wave once I take this out you see the difference do you see this is nice and big and much rounder and we achieved this without straightening it so it can be done but it cannot be done on all hair I'm tee Cooper and thank you so much for watching you