How to: No Heat Curls

Here we have another simple trick to make your hair look nice without you having to fry it with a flat iron (guilty) or a curling iron.  I first found this trick on pinterest last year and have been doing it ever since if I want to have curly hair without all of the muss and fuss.

All you have to do is put a sweat band around your head, so it looks like it could be a really bad fashion statement, and then you take a section of hair and loop it around the band once.  Then you add a little bit more hair to that firs section and wrap it again.  You keep doing this until all of your hair is wrapped around your head on this sweat band.  You should do this when your hair is still slightly damp but not completely soaked, nor totally dry.  If it's totally wet, your hair will never dry then you just have a damp mess on your hands and if you do it when it's completely dry the hair will not stay on the band.  Each person's hair is different though, so I suggest trying a few different versions of dampness to see what works best for you.  This is what the finished product should look like:

The curls that come out of this are pretty messy, so it's a good style to do half up half down in my opinion.  It does give your hair a good amount of volume as well, especially if you use a volumizing mouse.  I hope you enjoyed this how to :) XOXO

No Heat Wavy Hair with Volume

Firstly, this is my 100th post on this blog! In honor of this momentous occasion, I will be showing you how to get wavy/ volumized hair without using any heat or styling tools. I am going to try and do a series of either picture or video tutorials of different, simple, ways to do your hair as by request of the lovely Kat at Matte Kat.
First, wash your hair because you will get the best results with damp hair.  I let my hair dry almost completely before doing this because otherwise my hair will never dry completely, and then I've really got a mess on my hands.  Then split your hair as if you were to be putting them into pigtails, then take one section and start twisting and twirling it, and make a mini bun.  Then tie it off with a hair tie wrapped around the base of the mini bun a few times.  Repeat with the other side.  This is what it should look like when you're done:

I left my hair like this practically all day, from about 11 AM this morning to about 9:30PM.  I mainly left it in that long because I was doing other things, and this kept my hair out of my face and out of the way.  This is what the finished product looked like: 

As you can see, it doesn't necessarily curl your hair but it does give it some wave, body, and volume.  It was a lot more poofy, for lack of a better term, before I brushed it out.  If doing this for a look at night or during the day, I would definitely finish it off with a light spritzing of hair spray to be sure that the body and whatnot holds throughout your daily or nightly activities.  I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial as to one of the ways I do my hair, I would love your feedback and suggestions for what else you would like to see! XOXO