Life as a Hairstylist’s Apprentice – curling hair

Marina is still practicing her braids, and is now looking for Models! I have volunteered my hair, and I’ll definitely post the results. Let’s see if she can get me a date tonight! Now Marina has moved onto hair curling. All this clicking and clacking of the curling iron is making me feel lucky that I’ve got natural curls. Lucky for you straight haired ladies out there Marina’s skills are gonna be up to par soon.

Today I learned how to curl spiral curls with a Marcel professional curling iron. It’s the kind with no spring. This kind of iron is completely different that one that you would buy in a store. A curling iron with a spring is one where you would use your thumb to control the clamp on the iron to hold the hair in place. With the Marcel curling iron I can set the hair in place and roll the iron so it will never move from the hair, but the hair will spin around it at the same time. The control of the clamp and iron are all done with your hand …you have to wrap and click back twice and wrap again…wrap click, click wrap…wraaap click, click wraaap.. And again and again. As tedious as it sounds, it’s actually fun. I was fortunate to have used these irons on my own hair before, which was extremely challenging, and my hands were wounded in the battle of curling my own hair. I picked up the technique quickly. When I started curling Suzy’s hair it was so much, much easier and safer. I still need a lot of practice but def moving along quickly.

Next I will learn to use the comb with the iron. The purpose of the comb is so I don’t accidentally set the iron too close to the scalp and burn someone. How you do this is by placing the comb between the scalp and the iron. I’m a little nervous, but I’m sure once I get the hang of it I’ll gain some confidence and be able to try this on a model. It’s difficult to judge heat sensitivity since my perfect client, Miss Suzy, is very tolerant of pain!;)

Above are the results of my Spiral curls. What do you think?

This curl actually looks more like a spiral than the spiral does but it’s not!! Haha, it’s a figure 8 ..they kind of do look like 8’s! Essentially, they are all curls in the end just with fancy names, and fancy ways to wrap them around the iron.. I’m still wrapping and clicking btw in case you were wondering;)

Until next time…

Much Love,

Marina