Hair help requested - the perfect wave?

[tamchronic]

Goodness, thank you so much for your replies, everyone! You're all so knowledgeable and helpful, I am overjoyed! Wahine, thank you for the diagram. C-dot and Grant Fan, your hairdos are both truly wonderful! I shall try my best to achieve a similarly perfect wave. Retro_GI_Jane, that tutorial link is a great resource, thank you so much for posting it. Runa, I imagine that I shall have to use setting lotion in order to be able to sculpt the curls and get them to stay, correct? At the moment I'm just using hairspray, and my hair is so heavy that it just flops into its own pattern...

The pivot set sounds remarkably simple, kamikat, but I'm afraid you'll have to forgive my cluelessness. Do you mean that the curls are all rolled downwards towards the face?

Next time I get a chance to set my hair, I will try some of your tips. Again, thank you all so much!

[kamikat]

No, the curls are rolled to the side. Typically, you would use smaller curlers for this type of wave, but this manniquin has extra long hair so I can practice updos.

[Runa]

.. I've also noticed on some YouTube videos and tutorials that some dont wrap the curl properly, kind of winding it randomly around their finger..? It's important to wrap it uniformly/in one direction, if that makes sense, not with random twists. That's getting off topic though !

[tamchronic]

kamikat, you are wonderful! Thank you so much for the diagram, I totally understand now. I think I'll go grab some hot rollers right now and give it a spin. Fingers crossed!

Runa, you're absolutely right. I've found that rolling the curl well makes a massive difference.

[Grant Fan]

tamchronic please post pictures of your results I can't wait to see what your results look like.

[tamchronic]

Here's a quick picture I snapped of the pivot set results. Please excuse the quality! It needs some work (and some setting lotion!), but this is definitely the general idea I was after. Thank you so much, everyone! I'll keep refining this when I get a chance, and check back soon.

[Runa]

Runa, I imagine that I shall have to use setting lotion in order to be able to sculpt the curls and get them to stay, correct? At the moment I'm just using hairspray, and my hair is so heavy that it just flops into its own pattern...

Yes any light gel or setting lotion will help with that

[Antje]

Hey that looks cool already