Makeup tutorial | Photography: Sasphotos
I love, love, love big poofy hair! It’s so much fun walking around, feeling it bouncing all around you! I often feel envious of those who have it like that naturally and no stories of hellish maintenance will convince me that it’s anything less than awesome. I was asked on many occasions about my famous afro look, so I put together this quick tutorial. Enjoy!
What you’ll need:
- A set of small plastic curlers from a beauty supplies store
- Water spray bottle
- End wrap paper (also can be found at beauty supplies)
- Shoulder-length hair
Step 1
Use the smallest curler size you can find. Remember: the tighter the curl, the bigger the ‘fro! Separate the lowest part of your hair and clip up the rest. Starting from the back, take a strand and spray it lightly with water – you want it slightly damp.
Step 2
Take a piece of the end wrapping paper and fold it in half. Trap the hair in between and slide it down to the ends (be sure to cover the ends with the paper). It’s a little tricky so don’t be discouraged if you don’t get it right away! I promise you’ll get better with practice.
Step 3
Wrap the paper (with hair inside) around the curler. Wrapping the ends helps make this process easier. In addition, paper absorbs the water so your hair will dry faster.
Step 4
Roll as far up to the root as you can and fasten the elastic to the other end of the curler. Let dry for 2 hours or blow-dry to speed up the process.
When you take out the curlers, you should have a head full of very tight curls sitting close to your head. Run your fingers through it, breaking up the curls until it’s nice and fluffy. I don’t recommend using a brush unless you’re going for the all-out Jackson 5 look! You can create pretty much any shape – high or flat on top, big sides or small sides… When you’re done, don’t forget to freeze your creation with hairspray. Voila!
Afro not for you? Try larger curls instead!
Oh, Doe, I wish I had hair as beautiful as yours! I love the colour! Plus, to me, curly hair just has this magical quality to it – straight hair is b o r i n g ! :) xo
Unfortunately- My hair can’t hold a curl.
I think it’s funny, though, how all the girls that I know who have curly or wavy hair wish (or wished at one point) that they had straight hair- and all the girls I know with straight hair (myself included) wish that they had curly or wavy hair.
Ahh, I love it! I’m currently growing out my hair, I can’t wait to try this style…I’ve often done the “enhanced wave” look, even gone to “slightly large ringlets”, but I haven’t tried this before!
You can pull off an afro really well. I wish I could do an afro, but, my hair is nearly waist-length. Their’s no way it will hold a tight curl and bounce up like that.
Oh I love curls!!! Unfortunatly, I can’t have them. One side of my hair is dead straight, but the other side has some natural waviness to it. As a result, one side will hold a curl, and the other side drops out like 10 seconds after I do it… It’s not pretty mi friends.
You look great with afro hair! :D I’d love to try, but atm I’m too lazy..
This looks great especially with your red hair. I think I will try this sometime!
Kitty, do you happen to sleep on the side that is straight?
and I love the tutorial! I will definitely have to give this a shot ;D
Hello! you have a lovely hair! My hair can’t hold a curl, unfortunately :( it is so straight! I never get it, and I want!! btw, your make up is great, love the blue in it and all the colours, great, as usual! Have a nice day! greetings.
I’m gonna try that, I love to curl my hair but I can never get it that pretty. I think I have some old perming rollers that are that size :) I’ll give it a try xx
Ivy, I have very curly hair and I’d never wish for straight hair! Guess I’m an exception to the rule :P
Pff, Soraya just slams all of us into the ground:
“Ivy, I have very curly hair and I’d never wish for straight hair!”
CLEARLY now, curly hair truly is superior to straight hair! At least before we girls we naturally straight/so-slightly-wavey-its-pathetic hair had some hope in the fact that you envied us as much as we envied you…lol, not so much apparently.
Oh well, C’est la vie!
My hair is very curly, long and red, lolol..like Julia Roberts but curlier,
i love my curls even tho at times i do my hair straight, but there is nothing like just waking up , getting dress and do nothing with ur hair because its already curly, lol..aww love ur afro tho, its cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
and P.s i never wish for straight hair, just like i have light brown eyes and never wish for blue or green.
I love big poofy hair so much but I have wavy/curly hair and its so poofy and thick that its just uncontrolable unless its flat ironed or its just so long that the pure weight of it makes it straight (looks like a bird’s nets or a lions main once its dry after i wash it!) But once my hair gets longer I’m so going to try this!!
So I’m not the only one totally jealous of girls with curly hair!
my boyfriend despises his curly hair.. he gets perfect tight ringlets just by washing it and ignoring it! its sooooooo sickening.. its all bouncy and thick and happy and he refuses to really do anything to it. lol.. he just complains about having to try to brush it out.
i keep my hair in a bob usually.. plus i wear awesome hats a lot (namely my purple/black pawstar cat eared hat).. so straight hair is what i aim for.. but this is an awesome tutorial for doing curls!.. if my hair is ever long enough ill have to try it.
Curly hair rocks. Straight hair is boring, that’s why I love adding curls to mine.. when I’m not lazy. I’ve done the fro thing, just like that, once, but my hair wasn’t really long enough and it was quite a long time ago, and it came out more like Hyde from That 70′s Show. But I am definitely willing to try again if I can get results like yours. And if it doesn’t come out, then oh well, I’ll just wash it. lol
In my younger days, my hair was SOOOOOOOOO curly, and i hated it! But these days it just seems to have lost it’s curl, and wish I could get it back! We always want what we don’t have!
You look super cute like this :) Unfortunately my hair is way too short atm to try this,but when it grows, I’ll give it a go!
My hair doesn’t hold curls very well either, and it’s too long and thick for me to easily do stuff with it. I need to hire a live-in stylist =P
Still, this looks like a great tutorial, Doe. It really wouldn’t work on my hair and it would take far too long for me to even try, but hopefully it will work for other people here :)
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Yay! I was hoping you would do a tutorial for this look! :)
My hair is just the perfect length for this! As soon as i can find some of those curlers, i’m trying this out :D
Do you always curl/wrap the hair under (as pictured) and not over? Just wondering!!!
This is off topic, but do you trace your natural lip shape or draw it over your lip? Because you either have the most gorgeous shaped lips *among everything else on your face* or I can have that shape too!!
Shanns, you CAN have that shape too :]
wow you can really rock that afro! looks uniquely stunning on you
i happen to wear my hair like this naturally everyday but its a bit longer and its funny how people make a big deal out of it and stare (i live in a remote location) but i’ve grown to accept and love my natural hair
I don’t think i can grow enough hair! Or enough patience for the back of my head. I don’t get it i’m the most flexible person i know but reaching back there always ends in a disaster i ignore because i can’t see it anyway. Then I demand everyone else pretends they can’t see either.
This was exactly what I wanted you to post! It’s so exciting. I was hoping it wasn’t that way with the rollers, because I had gotten rid of mine. I’ll just have to get new ones. :) Anyway, the other way that you can wrap the curlers could be doing them spiraly, so they’re not flat to the head. Try anyone? If I get the curlers, then I’ll do it and post it! Thanks Doe!
Well I have straight hair and I would never change it for curly hair. It’s all about the way you cut it. I had the most edgy haircuts which would never be possible with curly hair!
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Cute! :D I love afros on girls/women. I wish I could pull off short hair so that I can do something like this to my hair.
As for the straight vs. curly hair debate, the grass is always greener on the other side. My straight haired friends would kill for my naturally 80s hair, but I would trade my big, wavy hair for straight hair in a heartbeat! Oh well. :P
I wish I had red hair! I think yours is so amazing. I love the Afro, it’s so neat. I do not think I could pull off that look though. Maybe one day I will have to try it.
that’s not really an afro…but it still looks cute~
I’m with Soraya. If I woke up to find that my hair was straight (or even wavy), I would be devastated. That’s not to say that straight hair is worse than curly hair; there are pros and cons to having any type of hair. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
yayyyyy!
thank you for posting this
Oh my! This looks so cute! I can not stop staring at your lips in this picture! What lipstick did you use? And the eye tutoral – i’m so buying those shadows after lent’s over (I gave up shopping :( ) I have to say- I’m completely addicted to your website. I think you’re amazing and all the make up, pictures, and everything you have is breath taking. It’s very inspiring. Xoxo- Zaneta
[...] ♥ I’m probably too excited about this, but I can’t WAIT to try out Doe Deere’s tutorial on making your hair Afro-licious. [...]
so I tried it out. I didn’t leave the perm rods in for 2 hours. just 45 mins. and I didn’t really do my bangs. My hair reaches the bottom of my shoulder blades. Here was my results. http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/109/l_aeaefc5595be49e19500121e9044609b.jpg
That is not an afro. That is just curly hair (it’s pretty don’t get me wrong) but it’s not an afro. An Afro is African/coily hair styled a certain way.
I tried it and it worked perfectly for me, a tip, if the rollers get stuck in your hair like they did mine, the cap pops off the rubberband, and it comes out super easy, all you have to do is reattach the cap afterward, its not hard at all.
I have semi-thick, shoulder length hair. Would you rec. any styling products that might help the curl stay?
Yeah I’m with Anna on this one. Definitely not an Afro. This is white woman curly hair.