easy breezy pinup curls + tutorial

I do my hair like this A LOT. It takes about 20 minutes and the curls stay in so much longer than when I just run an iron through them! I call this "pinup curls" because I use a 1" curling iron, but if you use a bigger iron and less curls you may just find that you have more of an old hollywood wave when you brush them out. You need a really, really hot iron, so put yours on turbo or something. You're also going to need some of these:



1. You're going to want to part your hair where you normally do. The deeper the part, the more curls you're going to create on the bigger side. Easy enough.
2. Take a square section of your hair closest to the part, mine is about 3 inches. Place it in the curling iron, be careful not to crease it (you ladies know what I'm talking about), and wrap your hair around it once while leaving it close to your head. You're going to be curling from root to end, until the ends are clamped in last and you have a roll of hair around your iron.
3. Now... I find it easiest to carefully open and close my iron as I shake the curl loose, because I want to keep my curl as intact as possible. I usually pull the curl out from the iron and onto my thumb.
4. Pin the curl in place, making sure you get the ends in there. The goal is to pin your curl while it's still hot. Spray with hairspray if you'd like.
5. Do that all around the crown of your head. You HAVE to make sure that your curls are all facing the same way, and your ends are being curled the same way, that way when you brush it out your curls / wave will be uniform. Mine also sit fairly far away from my part, you can put your curls right on top of your part if that's what you like, just make sure theyre all rolling in the same direction.
6. My bangs are fairly short so it only took 2 curls to pin them. You can play with it and decide how you want the facing - front, down the side of your part like mine, etc.
7. Give it a good dousing of hairspray while they cool.
8. Let them cool completely before taking the pins out. I know, it's difficult.
9. Once you pull the pins out you're going to look like shirley temple, hopefully. Take a soft bristle brush and run it through each curl. I spray with hair spray again and run a pea size amount of oil in my hair to calm them down.
10. Ta-da!