Crimping Hair

Crimping

Crimping is good to get texture in the hair. Especially if you do Elizabethan hairtsyles you can cover the padding with the crimped hair. Which I will show you later.

To crimp hair you will need

• a hair crimper 
• sectioning clips
• pin tail comb
• brush

Before you start crimping brush the hair. Again make sure you split the hair in clean sections. Start crimping as close to the root as possible but please don't burn yourself or the model. Don't panic if there is a lot of steam coming out of the crimper, that's absolutely normal. When we were crimping during lesson I saw that the waves in my crimped hair look rather soft then really defined. That has to to with the temperature of the hair crimper. So if you want nicely defined crimped hair put it on the highest temperature. I will show you some pictures so you can see the difference. But then again pay attention to the condition of the hair you are working with. If it is really damaged you shouldn't put the temperature too high. For my dolls head I used a temperature between 200°C and 230°C to get good defined crimped hair. I think it's enough to crimp the hair for about 10 seconds but then again I don't know if has anything to do with the crimper I used during lesson but I had to crimp it longer. after you are done with the crimping mess up the crimped hair to get more volume( that's optional of course, all depends on the look you want to create)

You can see the crimping is really soft and                               Using a temperature of 200°C-230°C 

not good defined. The temperature I used                                  you can see the crimping looks

was 150°C                                                                                   completely different. Very nice                                                                                                                 defined

The hair has a lot more volume after I went through the crimped hair with my fingers and messed it up.

Also, depending on the size of the crimper you will get smaller or bigger crimped hair.

 (source: http://www.pinterest.com/gillybunny/rockin-red-heads/)

You can clearly see they used a bigger crimper here as the crimped hair bits/parts/waves(I am not sure how to call them) are bigger than usual.

 (source: http://www.hairfinder.com/hairstyles3/evolution10.htm)

Here you can see that most of the crimped hair was brushed through to get softer curls and of top they layered some very defined crimped bits.

(source: http://www.blog.buyhaircaredirect.com/crimed-hair-80s-days/)

very soft crimped hair