Curly Hair & Pinterest

So I'm about to show you some fug pictures of me before I got to bed and when I wake up. So just be warned peeps, aight?

So last week I saw a few people pinning away on Pinterest (Seriously if you aren't on Pinterest yet or we just aren't following each other find mine HERE) about a no heat curl tutorial. Decided to check it out and it looked too simple for me not to try it. Here is the picture I kept seeing pop up on Pinterest...

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And here is the video tutorial on how to get some no heat curls in a very quick way...


Honestly the video is 15 minutes but I seriously fast forwarded a lot of it just to get the idea and it took me maybe around 2-3 minutes. I currently have a little bit shorter hair though but it is thick, so time can vary. Here is kinda some quick steps with pictures of the process.

Let your hair air dry, I completely forgot to put any product in it but from what I read, some spray in gel, moose, or something like that might help a bit. I went au naturel. Once your hair is pretty much dry you grab one of the sport type headbands and wear it like this:

Once that is done you start wrapping the chunks of hair over the band like shown in the video. I went for larger chunks (probably 8-10 total?) so I could have a lot looser curls then what she ends up with in the video. I would even go thicker next time like 6-8 because they shockingly still turned out very curly. Once you are done with the wrapping your hair should look like this:

Please excuse my burn mark on the forehead.
Don't drink and flat iron. My only Vegas battle wound this trip.

Here is an example what the back should look like once it's done being wrapped up.

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So I did it right before bed and went right to sleep. It's very loose and very comfortable, I didn't feel like it hurt at all and I never noticed it throughout the night. Actually had forgotten about it until I walked in the bathroom and saw myself in the mirror.

When I first pulled them out of the headband and removed it it looked something like this. Much tighter then I was expecting but still not too bad...


This is the picture I hate showing (gah!) but here it was after a little playing around with it. I really should have done my make-up before taking these. I just didn't want to forget.


Honestly I was really happy with the results. Especially the thicker side that had the majority of my hair. Curls tended to be larger and more flowy while the other side had some tweaked parts. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a brush or curling iron though. Honestly I'm going to continue trying to perfect the best way to do this because in the time it takes it's a great hair style to have for mornings that you don't want to have to wake up so early to do your hair because in the morning you kinda just fluff and go.

Anybody else find any fun tutorials or recipes they've found through Pinterest that they ended up loving? I've been getting so many recipes through Pinterest lately, I will have to share some with you sometime!