Crinkle Hair

Crinkling your hair can be a fun, exciting style to try! You can get casual crinkles no matter your hair texture, which is what makes this such a versatile look. Your crinkles can look more defined like crimps or looser like waves. To crinkle your hair, you can use a waver or flat iron, or get heatless crinkles through braiding.

Steps

Using a Waver or Crimping Iron

1. Apply a texturizing spray to damp hair.. One way to help give your hair stylish crinkles is to prime your hair with texturizing spray. This helps give your hair enough grip that the crinkles with hold. Cover your hair with texturizing spray when wet, and then blow it dry.
2. Use a heat waver to create loose crinkle waves. You can create loose crinkles by using a heat waver iron. You can also use a wider crimp tool. This tool will give your hair loose crinkle waves.
3. Use a small crimping iron for tight crinkles. You may not want loose crinkles. Instead, you may want tiny crinkles spread out through your hair. You can achieve this look with a crimping iron with small, narrow plates.
4. Divide your hair in sections. This makes it easier to use the waver or crimping iron. Divide your hair in half, and then section and style off one half before the other. Place your hair into small sections that are around one inch each.
5. Start at the back and move forward. Use the heat tool on the bottom, back sections first. This helps you get the harder to reach parts styled before you let more hair down.
6. Start the tool near the roots of your hair and move down. Move the waver or crimping iron down along your section of hair instead of up from the bottom. Hold the waver closed for a few seconds, long enough that the hair should be crinkled when released and it will be hot to the touch.
   • You can go all the way to the tips or leave the ends free for a bit of a casual, beach-vibe.
7. Break up the crinkles with your fingers. After you finish putting the waves over your entire hair, run your hands through it. This helps get rid of the “just crinkled” look and give your hair a more natural, casual look.

Creating Crinkles with Braids

1. Apply a texturizing product. After washing your hair, put a texturizing product in it. This can be a cream or a spray. You want to give your hair some grip and texture so the crinkles will hold on to the hair.
   • Depending on your hair’s texture, you can also add hair oil to wet hair before you braid it.
2. Braid your hair. To get crinkles in your hair, braid it. You can do a regular braid, french braid, or Do-Double-French-Braids. For more defined crinkles, use two braids on both sides of the head. Make each strand of the braid around one inch wide.
   • Braid your hair as tightly as possible.
   • You can leave a few inches at the end of the hair so the crinkles don’t go down all the hair.
3. Experiment with the size and number of braids. The number and size of the braids will determine how defined your crinkles are. Looser crinkles can be achieved from larger braids. Tighter crinkles can be attained with smaller, more numerous braids over your head.
4. Dry the braids. After your braids are secure, use a hair dryer to dry the hair. You probably won’t get all of the moisture out, but it helps you not go to sleep with super wet hair. The heat also helps set the crinkles in your hair.
5. Sleep on the braids. Sleep with the braids in your hair. This helps your hair have time to develop crinkles. Sleep on a satin pillowcase to protect the strands of your hair. In the morning, take down the braid and comb your fingers through it.
   • You can also leave the braids in for a few days to let it set even more.

Trying a Flat Iron

1. Separate your hair into smaller sections. To use the flat iron to create crinkles, you need to divide your hair into manageable sections. Divide your hair in half, and then separate one side into smaller sections. The sections of hair should be around one inch.
   • You will do the same thing with the other side when you finish styling the first side.
2. Create a crinkle by folding the hair. Hold the section of hair away from your head. Near your scalp, create a crinkle by bending your wrist down. You are almost folding the hair under itself. Hold for a few seconds.
3. Move down the strand to make the next crinkle. Move the flat iron down your hair to the next straight section. Right under the crinkle you just made, clamp the flat iron down. Bend the wrist the opposite way you did to begin with, like you are folding the hair over the crinkle you just made. This should make another crinkle.
4. Continue down the strand of hair. Go down the strand of hair bending the flat iron back and forth until you get to the ends. This should create a crinkled strand. Repeat this bending and folding for each part of your hair you sectioned off. Run your hands through your hair when finished.

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See also

• Ask for the Haircut You Want
• Wear Extensions with Short Hair
• Razor Cut Your Own Hair
• Style Your Hair for a Workout
• Man Braid
• Use Clip‐In Bangs
• Do Ruby Rose Hair
• Point Cut Hair
• Wear Your Hair with a Hat
• Create Corkscrew Curls

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