The "No Heat" Curl (and my alterations)

 So, being a busy busy stay at home Momma, I CANNOT take forever in the bathroom curling, straightening, let alone even blow dry my hair.  Not unless I want to get up really early before the kids wake up.  And let's get real...like that's gonna happen.  Not like I leave the house everyday anyway. 

So when I came across this "no heat", "curls in minutes (overnight)" easy tutorial, I jumped on it.  I end up pulling my hair back out of my face into a messy bun and it stays like that pretty much all day.  I wanted something EASY and fast (or no effort). 

Plus, Tyler's always hinting that he really loves it when I wear my hair down. I had to do something.  "Wear your hair, just for him....Do the things, that he likes to do...(Best Friend's Wedding...anyone?)" 

Here's the gal's tutorial.  It's actually super easy and even easier than I thought it looked in the video.  Took me like 5 minutes to get all of my hair up.



Since I showered super late last night, I ended up just putting my hair into the headband when it was still pretty wet (not dripping), and it really didn't dry very well overnight.  (DUH, Brigitte...that happens when your hair is all bunched up).  When I pulled the band out this morning, it looked like this.

Ah! Brigitte "No-Makeup Zombie!"

Flat, dull waves.  I was not impressed.  But I suppose it was my own fault.  (Refer to wet hair realization). 

Then I thought a little bit about it, and decided that since I have SO MUCH stinkin' hair and it's very thick , I'd try splitting my hair into two parts (top/bottom) and use the same technique with two headbands.  Immediately, I put my hair back up.

I kinda think it's cute all pulled up haha.  I'd totally run to the store like that.  Not like I'm wearing curlers or hair rags.  

Then, as my sister in law suggested to me, I pulled out my hair dryer (sorry, this curl DOES have some heat), and dried my hair completely in the headbands.  I let it sit that way while I baked some cookies and played with the kids and all that.  So my hair was up like this for a few hours.  Then Erica finally decided to take a nap.  I went back to the bathroom, put some more blow dryer heat on the curls one last time and then let it down.  (Hair might get kind of caught in the bands - so there on the left side of the picture, it got a little foofy). 

Bottom half down

All down

Then, I just used a little bit of mousse, and some curly hair lotion, and tamed the flyaways - I didn't really run my fingers through the curls; I liked how they already were.

And voila!
"This IS my happy face."

Teehee, oh...inside jokes.

My assessment?  It's a decent enough looking wave. 

Here's the rundown of how I would do this from start to finish, especially if you have thick hair, or shorter hair (since short hair might no reach all the way down to the neckline, breaking it up into two parts might be a good idea)...

1. Dry your hair until it's pretty much mostly dry.
2. Separate hair into two sections, top and bottom.  Pull the top section into a bun on the top of your head so it's out of the way.  Put bottom section into hairband (watch tutorial).
3.  Do top section.
4.  Sleep on it (if you want to, obviously I was able to put my hair back up this morning and redo this whole process).  I did find it a little difficult to sleep with my hair like this, but that's most likely because I'm just used to sleeping with my hair completely down.
5.  In the morning, use the hair drying to set the curls a little better and dry out any leftover moisture.
6. Take out the bands and apply any hair product you want.  

This takes so little time overall that I think this technique is at least worth a try, especially if you're a very busy person!  I will be doing this again for sure.

Hope this helped someone :)