new videos every day hello and welcome i'm kurt and this is star and we are going to be curling the hair today with a flat iron so if you don't have a curling iron at home but you do have a flat iron this is a one inch flat iron which we'll get to in a moment let's start by sectioning the hair simply dividing it in half that'll be the first step and then we'll divide it in half again on the right side so i'll take this hair away in any way that you might like to bring this over and get it out of your way star's hair is fantastically thick and so it is better if we can do this in in two sections so that is the first thing dividing the hair in half and then half again and we'll start through the section right here so we're going to start off with a section right in the nape here and maybe just a few inches away we'll wrap the hair around the iron and then turn the iron full circle and start to pull slowly through to the ends so just by wrapping it full circle through to the ends and then we can see it starts to fall into this really cool almost like a ringletty type of effect but what you may be noticing is is that it has this flat sort of zigzag quality about it which is quite natural it's not the perfect cylindrical curls that you get from a typical curling iron so this is quite fun it's very quick once you get the hang of it as well so i'm just working naturally with my hands pull this out a few inches away wrapping that around and then twisting the iron full circle starting to come away you can leave the ends out if you like you know you don't have to curl so much the ends this is a flatter look toward the root area it's not to get the voluminous curls from the root it's more of a natural look and then you get this flatter kind of zigzag wave through the sides so as i do this i'll share this with star and she can actually give it a go herself so coming away wrapping around turning that full circle it's quite amazing it's really just pulling it once around the iron like that that in the end gives you this really cool curl okay so this is the last section of the side so you can see this is incredibly fast one of the other things i like about it is the ends are typically the driest area of the hair so you're not binding those into an iron starting off high wrapping around once voila okay so now it's your turn and you can start by sectioning your hair in half from the parietal bone area across toward the occipital bone will be good give that little hair just a twist pull it across to the side of the head and then with the section clip we can see this clip toward the camera nice big clip there we go just clipping that away so now you can draw your index finger sort of vertically across the nape to section your first piece see if we just section that vertically across and then with the flat iron should place it in now she'll wrap the section around the iron once wrapping over the top and then turning the iron 360 degrees turning it once turning it twice all the way around there you go until the tail comes out and now gently pulling that downward just gently pulling that down now you see the tip it's getting a little close to the tip so we can slide that back a little bit ease off on the tension for a second there you go and then continue down that's it that way it doesn't come sliding out of the end keep going a nice nice rhythm there and then as you get through to the bottom you can then see that beautiful spiral zigzaggy type of curl that's forming so once again it's a vertically drawn section across the ear you can see this is very very quick indeed and so it's a it's a fast technique you should be able to do this in just about five minutes now it's wrapped around go ahead and turn one more time 360. so we see that tail coming through the middle that's right and start to slide down that's it and we just want to ensure that you can see that the the tail that's coming through is right on the metal there so that's working for us very nice and so then with that you can just sort of twirl that section a little bit back and flip it back over your shoulder and that's it exactly lovely okay so there's really only a couple of more sections i'm going to turn the chair just a little bit to help you see i think star is a pro i must say you've never done this particular technique have you before star no this is brand new no rehearsals i've actually failed at this so look at that so she winds that around 360. starts to pull that through and then we'll just pull your hand down a little bit so it stays straight that's it and then you'll catch that section before it falls out of the iron bringing your hand in there catching it twirling it flipping it back lovely and then moving forward and if you want a little less curl around the face it's up to you the faster you pull the iron the less curl you're going to get so wrapping it around once and then twirling the iron careful not to pull the tail back too much that's it yeah keep it down and turn it around all the way there you go and then straight down straight down nice and quick and it's good to go a little bit quicker on this section too the steam that you see is from the serum that i put in the hair that's actually protecting the hair that's not burning the hair but the hair is a little finer in this area and so it's nice to not uh drag it out too long you know because the hair is a little bit more vulnerable so there we have a perfect set of curls in just a few minutes so she can go ahead and clip the the top section out and we'll continue on with the other side i can hold that for you if you have an assistant in your bathroom he can he can hold the iron for you at this point otherwise you could just set it on the table and same type of thing you can kind of work from the back with vertical sections across the crown and we will continue there we go voila so first section wrapping that tail around the iron and then twisting the iron 360 degrees full circle until the tail appears that's it and then we start to go down and keep that tail straight and then just go straight on down that's right wonderful and as you get toward the bottom get ready to catch that little piece of hair and curl it you can just kind of twirl it on back out of your way there you go just kind of flick it back just throw it over your shoulder lovely and then you'll just draw your next section there you go just drawing down like that exactly so sometimes you might see someone curling their hair on youtube and these professionals really know what they're doing they do it all the time and i'm here to say that stars never tried this technique before and this is something that she's able to do just by watching one time and she's getting the effect so i know that you can do this yourself that's right one of the exciting things about this is is that a flat iron is a very serviceable tool you've already used it to create straight hair and now you're seeing that you can create these really uncontrolled uncontrived kind of almost a zigzag type of wave that takes out go ahead and keep turning that full circle there you go and then you come down that's it and so the waves that you're getting are almost like a flatter zigzag sort of beachy type of wave i think this is really a a neat look because it's natural tip and it's really fun because star actually has a ton of hair and uh and she's actually able to achieve this result very quickly indeed i would say that the entire side of her head here even at her first time is done in probably just like seven minutes or so yeah turning that all the way around exposing the tail holding that tail down and then we just go straight down with the iron awesome and you just start to catch that as it starts to fall out you can kind of twirl that back a little bit out of the way throw it over the shoulder last section is right at the front that's it so again the hair around the face is a little bit finer so you just want to be a little bit quicker about it don't squeeze too tight with the iron you're wrapping it around turn full circle keep turning and there we go and then we'll go down rapidly coming down and that concludes good job star right on so now what we have is a complete head of curled hair but this is not where you just stop this hair does need some finishing so what we have is like a set what we have is a foundation but how do we get this hair to have that kind of hollywood finish that you see in magazines and red carpets and so forth that's what i'd like to share with you next so you have the basics of the technique and now we need to go into step two which is finishing so star and i have created curls with a flat iron today it was a lot of fun and i think that star showed how easily how this can be achieved after just watching it one time so i hope that you try this yourself this is the finished look and what we have is sort of a almost like a very natural flat beachy kind of wave that i just think looks really amazing on star's incredible long head of hair so tune in because i'm going to be sharing some finishing tips for curly hair a little bit later on in another segment and it was great to have you today if you like what you've seen do give us a thumbs up let us know what else you'd like to see on this channel i've enjoyed being with you and you can also find me on kurtdialing.com you